Breathless

She succeeds in her second escape attempt, and arrives, bleeding and breathless, at the Grange. She tells Nelly that she had “run the whole way from Wuthering Heights… except where [she had] flown,” (157). When Hindley and Heathcliff were fighting, the former told Isabella that “[Heathcliff]’ll be [her] death, unless [she]…

This letter may seem a bit long but Sony's wayward philippics cannot be adequately described in less than a long essay. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, Sony sees itself as a postmodern equivalent of Marx's proletariat, revolutionizing the world by wresting it from its oppressors (viz., those who develop an alternative community, a cohesive and comprehensive underground with a charter to draw an accurate portrait of its ideological alignment). This is not the same as saying…

Most individuals often take education and the pursuit of knowledge as positives in today’s society, and students learn everything from basic survival skills to advanced topics through some sort of education. Walton, Victor, and the Creature in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley all strive to explore further knowledge for various purposes, but the outcomes of their actions through that pursuit of knowledge all share negative consequences. Although the Creature, Victor, and Walton aspire to acquire…

The wise fool described by Erasmus is someone who can see past the chaos of the material world and find greater truths in their madness. Characters within King Lear that exhibit the qualities of the wise fool: selflessness and loyalty, in their search for the truth and the treatment of others, find greater clarity in their decision-making, a factor crucial to their standing at the climax of the work. The characters may be classified into two categories, those who stay loyal to Lear through his…

Believing the world will be fair to you because you are fair to the world is like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn’t eat him; it is naïve and unrealistic. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby was hopelessly in love with Daisy Buchanan after years of being separated from her. He expected her to still feel the same overwhelming love for him that he had for her, but that wasn’t exactly the case. Daisy lusted for Gatsby, but her intentions were…

It was a normal, spring morning, in the eastern part of Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts, home of the annual Boston Marathon. Thousands of people were getting ready for the run, devoted to the sport and excited to get started. Justin Jones was getting ready to run his 1st ever marathon. He has been training for this for almost a year, and his wife was preparing him. Eating healthy, running his first ever 10k in March, only a month before the worst day of his life, April 15, 2013. Officer…

placing him in the role of a villain and preventing him from achieving true atonement. Secondly, Shakespeare immediately poises Hotspur as a foil to Hal; the first time that Hotspur speaks, he describes himself as “dry with rage and extreme toil, / Breathless and faint, leaning upon [his] sword,” painting himself in the terms of a self-immolating leader that differ sharply from the epicurean ones used to describe Hal (1.3.31-32). As the play progresses, each of these traits become more…

Bores: “In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.” (Fitzgerald 1) Noun - a person whos talk whose talk or behavior is dull and uninteresting With Nick’s good manners and moral system, he feels like he should not make a snap judgment on people and listen to them which brought him to talk with many people with boring stories. Levity: “Most of the confidences were…

ominous doppelgänger, which only facilitates and catalyses his destruction. The fruition of Frankenstein’s ambitions does not offer transcendence or ‘pour a torrent of light into our dark world’ (p. 36) as he seems to have desired; instead, ‘a breathless horror and disgust filled [his] heart’ (p. 39) at the sight of the animated Creature. Constructed from death itself, the Creature adheres to the Kristevan idea that ‘[t]he corpse … is the utmost of abjection. It is death infecting life’.…

I will assess for dyspnea (feeling breathless), orthopnea, bradypnia, tachypnea, abnormal breathing pattern (e.g., rate, rhythm, depth), prolonged expiration phases, pursed-lip breathing, decrease in minute ventilation, vital capacity, decrease in inspiratory/expiratory pressure, use of accessory…