Abyss

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche encapsulates the paradox of humankind — a desperate desire to save the world coupled with a dangerous susceptibility to becoming the very monster to be slain. Man’s ability to rationalize allows him to rebuff the guilt over his most treacherous decisions, but the guilt remains, pilfering away at his faith in…

them? For an ephemeral moment, I am able to enjoy a certain radiance they emit, a radiance that is nonexistent in my lackluster life. So when I have just finished reviving their colors, the tempest swirls and the memories eventually cascade into an abyss of nothingness and I am condemned to a stagnancy where sulk in the dim crypt of my mind. Whenever I undergo this tedious cycle, I find no comfort in reviewing those memories sleeping in the mausoleum. I wish they could just rest in peace; but it…

Huckleberry Finn Experienced many rough low points during his journey by choosing to help a slave; the most painful lesson that he faced were the powerful views that society had shown him about racism. Though society has changed in many significant ways since the early 1800’s, there still unfortunately lies issues between the color of a person’s skin.Huck also goes through a major personality change by the time he finally grows up and matures. Huckleberry Finn undergoes a…

A Monster or Not Friedrich Nietzsche, a famous German philosopher and Latin scholar, once said “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you”(goodreads). This quote shows how people turn into the exact thing that they are fighting if the do it long enough and hard enough.This is seen in Grendel when Hrothgar and his men keep attacking Grendel and are acting like the…

when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people(265) King is simply putting segregation in the eyes of a child and showing the audience how it’s tearing the younger generation apart by teaching them how to hate those who are different from them. Through this scene the audience feels the…

Hillary, it is time to disappear in the dark abyss never to return again. Because your political career is dead, just as much as your political machine. But to start the year with a bang let me finish by saying this. Let's talk about feminism. Hillary Clinton is crowned the fighter for women and the person who has broken the most glass-ceiling for women. But Hillary didn't start her career by herself. She needed a man, Bill Clinton, to start her career. She would have never been a political…

In translating Baudelaire 's “Le Crépuscule du soir,” I primarily focussed on meaning, as opposed to meter, grammar, or rhyme scheme. To this purpose, the translation attempts to stay as close to the original text as possible, with a few subjective decisions made to preserve some of the connections which are made in the french. The first of these decisions actually occurs in the title itself, “Le Crépuscule du soir”. “Crépuscule” is literally “twilight”, and both words contain the ambiguity…

A fragile soul walks into his first grade class, fearful of the outside world. This is where he says goodbye, goodbye to his parents, goodbye to his old life, and starts anew. This is where the new world opens up new possibilities, new experiences, and new learning. There is no longer a necessity for childlike wonder; this is supposed to be the place where every child goes to create a name for themselves. The name I was trying to create for myself was Tyler Vold, a unique individual who desired…

In literature there tend to be many stories where a hero goes on a journey to save his beloved home and become the hero that he/she wants to be, but only in a few of those stories does the hero truly find out what kind of hero he/she really is. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain gets thrust into several daunting tasks and challenges and gets pushed to his edge with trying to preserve his life and uphold the honor of Camelot.A number of archetypal situations occur in Sir Gawain and the…

1. Describe the Initiate's life before the Call Before the Call, the initiate, Ponyboy, is a 14 year old boy who lives with his two brothers Sodapop and Darry. He lives in a society where the population is separated into two different gangs : the Socs (the rich kids from the West-side) and the Greasers (the kids from the East-side). The Socs are a very brutal gang that enjoy bullying and attaking the Greasers : "Not like the Socs [..] for kicks" (page 3). 2. The Call, where conflict is…