A Man Lay Dead

King Xerxes "conquers everything he lay his eyes on." King Xerxes wants an offering of "Earth and Water" from King Leonidas. King Leonidas says…

and grotesque aspects. Traits of this genre include Race/Class/ Social Structure, Unrequited love, Good Versus Evil, Being an outsider, and Violence. In class, we learned about three important Short stories including Possibility of Evil, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and A Rose for Emily. All three of these stories portray the traits of Southern Gothic. This essay will explain how each of these short stories classify into the different traits of the Southern Gothic genre. The author Flannery…

The tone in “Trifle” is very dull because there is a case of murder, a dead bird, a dirty and dis-organized kitchen showing incomplete work and unappreciated women. The description of the scene gives the audience an imagination of what kind of a play this is going to be. The abandoned farmhouse, gloomy kitchen with no order…

Beowulf did what he said he came to heorot to do. Grendel was dead as promised and he had also killed the monsters mother who 'd unexpectedly spring up for revenge. I thought about all the innocent soldiers who were killed by Grendel over the years and everyone who suffered the wrath of his mother. The price that…

They feel it is their duty to preserve their country’s history and honor the memory of the soldiers who died for the freedom of their fellow man. History comes alive on the battlefield, and when the cannons fire, and gun smoke fills the air, the reenactor is transported back in history. Spectators come along for the ride, and although the bullets may not be real, the feeling of being on a battlefield…

The Gothic Duo Two Different authors, two different styles, yet two of the best gothic short stories. William Faulkner an American writer and Nobel Prize winner is one of the most well known authors to date. Like Faulkner, Edgar Allen Poe an American writer is also one of the most well known for his poetry and short stories. Despite the years apart and many differences both of these authors created two of the best short stories. Although “A Rose for Emily” and “The Cask of Amontillado” are both…

H2O by Virginia Bergin, is a book about poisonous, bacteria-filled rain. This book is the fictional story of a girl named Ruby Morris’ life. In the beginning of the book, Ruby is at a party. While at this party, the weather man forecasted a thunderstorm, and the mother of the boy who was having the party, ran outside and made everyone come in. Now everything would have been fine, because everyone was inside, or so you’d think. A boy named Casper McCloud left his phone outside, where the party…

the ghost then gives Hamlet the responsibility of avenging his death. “[r]evenge his foul and most unnatural murder.”(Act 1, Scene 5) Up till this point, there is no sign of Hamlet being truly insane except for the fact that he saw the ghost of his dead father. But then again his sanity is evident since Hamlet is extremely hesitant to act on the words of this ghost. Hamlet believes what the ghost tells him“, It is an honest ghost let me tell you,”(Act 1, Scene 5) but he needs to be…

God is Real Famous scientist Isaac Newton once said “In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.” It is safe to say that some people need more convincing than Isaac Newton to believe in God. There have been countless movies made to convince the existence of the existence of God. An example is Heaven is For Real; unfortunately, there was controversy as to whether it was made up in order to become wealthy. There always seems to be a reason as to why the…

The verbs depict the grass as dominant and dynamic. “Pile” and “shovel” appear more grotesque in the context of this poem causing the grass to appear as relentless and careless as if it feels no sympathy for the amount of bodies it lays over. Humans are incapable of learning from their mistakes to ensure they do not happen again. Due to this, grass will always grow covering those atrocities. This inevitability is a consistency that humans do not think about when planning where to…