At the Mountains of Madness

Romanticism is often associated with positive emotions. When one hears of a “romantic,” he or she would imagine a young lover viewing the world through rose-tinted lenses or a young man waxing poetic about mountain landscapes. One would rarely think of insane asylums, straightjackets, and hallucinations. However, as Tim Blanning suggests in his book The Romantic Revolution, the Romantic literary movement was just as preoccupied with the darker aspects of the human subconscious. As well as…

top of Mount Everest endangered herself as well as many others. Because Sandy Hill Pittman was going to make the first satellite call from the Mount Everest Summit, Scott Fischer saw her as a ticket to fame and an advertisement for Mountain Madness. He did whatever he could to get her to the Mount Everest Summit to make that call. “The previous afternoon, Lopsang had exhausted himself carrying a satellite phone for Pittman, in addition to the rest of his load, from Camp Three to…

and a burial “larded all with sweet flowers” points out the fondness Ophelia felt for her father as her mind puts a bittersweet spin on the situation (40). It is in these lines that the audience can see her humanity and mourning come through the madness. Further into this speech, Ophelia’s songs shift from a tale of an innocent man’s death to bitterly angry stories of a lover and his broken promise. A man charmed a young woman into his bed by promising her sweet thoughts of marriage and…

feeling under my feet of the well-manicured pitch, and the loud energy of the staunch, raucous crowd made this a place I will never forget. The panoramic view of the Rio Tinto stadium is enhanced by the terrain of the immense, frost-tipped Wasatch mountain…

“Who are you?” I’ve always felt that this question is nearly impossible to answer. There's so much material buried deep in our subconscious and unconscious minds and sometimes those aspects of ourselves that we conceal or repress have a greater sway over our identities than we think they do. The unconscious mind is also the source of our dreams, hence the title of my piece, Je Rêve (I Dream). When I was assigned this project, I had a difficult time figuring out exactly what medium I should use…

orphanage was not an easy one. There were numerous times when he was mistreated and neglected. There were times when he had to steal to feed himself. When he had to run away from the people he stole from, he would go to the mountain of Asgard to hide. There were rumors that the mountain was cursed and nobody…

absence of it, is a catalyst for the end result of the tragedy. Two very important mortal characters in this play, King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agave, are both stripped of their free will and are manipulated by Dionysus, the god of wine and madness. In Euripides’s Bacchae, the characters’ loss of their free will suggests that the absence of free will would eventually lead to the downfall of the royal family. Firstly, Agave’s lack of free will propels the tragedy forward, which leads…

There are three majors areas that are visited in the book. The Shire, Valley of the Elves, and of course The Lonely Mountain. These areas are encompassed by middle earth, also the story begins in 2941 and ended in 2942. The Shire is a peaceful land with lushest green hilly terrain as far as the eye can see, with wonderful Hobbits enjoying each other's time as well as minding their own business and sticking to very usual lives. These lands are so beautiful and peaceful I’m certain you wouldn’t…

gradually made my way to the top of Copper Mountain on a midsummer day. It was afternoon when I finally reached the top of the humongous mountain. I hopped off the lift that had brought me all this way and I snatched my bike off the next chair coming by, scared I would miss it. My twin sister Abby, my older brother Dylan, my dad, and my Uncle Tim all came along on this adventure on the monstrous mountain. We hopped on our bikes and headed down the rugged, steep mountain like four years olds…

we see in Act II, Hamlet plays to Ophelia a man in desperation, with the sole purpose of using her to get this madness reported to Claudius. Hamlet’s change is due to the exposure to the truth about his father’s death. His thirst for revenge drove him into using Ophelia as a tool for his revenge. Taking the whole play into consideration, we can say this contributed to Ophelia's own madness because she believed he went mad due to her rejection bringing her emotions of overwhelming guilt. No…