Cowardice

In the article “A Band of Brothers” by James McPherson, the purpose is to explain why ordinary men volunteered themselves into the army in the bloodiest war in American history. MacPherson's thesis explains that the main reason men enlisted themselves was due to honor. He uses primary source diaries from soldiers who fought in the ear to help explore this thesis. The first point that McPherson makes includes three sections: pride is self, community, and family. He explains that having pride…

fates: The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are underlings” (Act 1, Scene 2 Line 140-142.) In these lines Cassius is unwilling to accept the supremacy of Caesar and his power and has a belief that fate is a form of cowardice. He tells Brutus these lines and blames himself and Brutus for being submissive in front of Caesars power not because of destiny, but because of their failure to proclaim themselves. Fate and freedom seem to go hand in hand in this play. …

The intolerable amount of deaths displayed in the film was only one of many strategies which Spielberg utilized in the movie to increase its authenticities. The fact that Saving Private Ryan accurately imitated the European Theatre of the War on the TV screen made it an excellent representation of United States’s contribution to the war efforts in the Second World War. The script writer Robert Rodat, wrote the plot based on a true story of Sergeant Frederick Niland. Like Private Ryan, the army…

Jacob was possibly less desirable because of his deceitfulness with Isaac. He heard his call however after he had his dream and fought with the stranger. After accepting it, he was named Israel and was faithful to God. He married and had 12 sons. Jacob contributed to Salvation History by being faithful to God and leading Joseph on the right path. His cycle of sin appeared to be when he cheats, he is cheated. This happened when he cheated Esau but succumbed to Laben. Additionally, when he showed…

Throughout the tragic play of Othello, we see many elements portrayed. One of these elements is that some of the characters is that people do not seem to be what they appear to be. The biggest one who shows this element is Iago. In the play, he acts as if he is friends with everyone in the play. However this is not the case and he is a snake in the grass when it comes down to the end. He helps the downfall of all the characters in the play. Although he seems to be a friend to all of the people…

a major character within Hawthorne’s novel, clearly portrays this ideal. Arthur, a well respected pastor with whom Hester has committed adultery in the novel, suffers recurring emotional and mental pain due to his acts of hypocrisy, secrecy and cowardice. His sin, suffering and understanding represents the main theme…

mockery, indeed, but in which his soul trifled with itself!. . . He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere”(134). The deep regret, “Remorse,” is what brought Dimmesdale to the scaffold at midnight, but the cowardice inside of him holds him back from confessing his sin to the community. Instead of confessing, Dimmesdale lets the guilt and shame build up inside of him which eventually leads to his downfall. Dimmesdale knows that the right thing to do is…

Refusal (was) impelled/by cowardice” (III.50-51). In the same way that the clergy of the fourth circle were led astray because of their irrational avarice, Pope Celestine sinned because of his emotion-driven cowardice. There is a sharp juxtaposition between Celestine’s punishment in Limbo (like Virgil’s, of longing) with Boniface’s preordained fiery suffering—due to the rationality scale on which the two of them sinned considerably differently. Celestine’s irrational cowardice contrasts with…

Currently it is in the middle of the American Revolution and the Continental Army have suffered loss after loss. George Washington and his men are fighting at Saratoga and is the lowest part of war for them, but George then decided to have Patrick Paine’s “The Crisis” read out loud to his men constantly. It is the Pathos statements in Paine’s writing that motivates the Continental Army to keep fighting and win one of the first major battles of the war and this then lead to the aid of the French…

“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” contains many of the ideas that we have discussed about the American Frontier and the role it has played in shaping America. The movie illustrates the idea from Turner’s Frontier Thesis that as Americans settled past the frontier and into the “savage” west, society had to start over and go through the process of rebuilding itself. The movie’s plot depicts the death of the “Wild West” caused by Rance’s influence in the town. At the start of the movie, Ranse…