Doom

In consideration of the Intended and her destructive naïveté, it is salient to also examine the presence of Kurtz’s “barbarous and superb” mistress (Conrad 175). For, as Chinua Achebe argues in the essay “An Image of Africa,” the Congolese woman is the “savage counterpart to the refined, European” Intended (6). While the white woman exists to represent civilization and its idealistic ignorance, the novel’s only female racial “other” symbolizes the wilderness and its dark truths. Via Marlow’s…

Capital punishment has been going on for centuries and in today 's society, people will question if it is unjust or morally wrong. To classify it as cruel and unusual punishment, would it be against our own constitution to continue these atrocities. The government should not have power over who gets to live and who gets to die. All humans are equal and have the right to live; it is immoral for someone to choose to end someone 's life, thus, I argue that the capital punishment is unjust and…

One of his best techniques which also gave him his bad reputation and barbaric like appearance, was to slaughter entire populations but let a few live. These people became “harbingers of doom” and spread the word to nearby cities , this installed fear amongst entire populations which in some cases would even surrender hearing such stories. The Mongols were skilled archers and horsemen , allowing them to shoot arrows on horseback , this…

Jesus is portrayed as a man who is partly divine, often emphasizing his humanity. In John, Jesus is portrayed as a divine being who is partly human, often emphasizing his divinity. This is shown by the differing ways that Jesus reacts to his imminent doom throughout the Passion story. In this essay I will demonstrate how Jesus’ attitude towards his sacrifice displays whether the reader sees him as more human or more divine. In Matthew, Jesus is very reluctant to die, which is demonstrated…

Mental health disorders affect many of us in this day and time. An anxiety disorder is almost like an epidemic among many of us in today’s society. It is an illness several of us are very well familiar with. Living with anxiety can be not only scary but overwhelmingly frustrating as well. “Living with Anxiety Disorders” written by Carol Hand, published in 2014, by ABDO Publishing Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this book the authors objective is to educate what anxiety is along with…

realizes that “the [pendulum] was designed to cross the region of [his] heart” (52). The author juxtaposes the tone of inevitable death that is just moments away. Furthermore, an internal conflict arises while the protagonist “could no longer doubt the doom prepared for me by monkish ingenuity in torture” (51). The narrator must be mentally terrorized by the verification of his death…

space with the Overlook Hotel into a confined setting where abnormal acts of nature occur. The unnatural brash white light emanating from its windows to the river of blood that floods the hallway to delineate Jack’s degrading mental state and impending doom of his…

will surely be punished by the destruction of the entire demon race. Even after Ravana refuses to heed Maareecha’s warning, he is confronted again by Sita, Hanuman, and even his own wife Mandodari with similar warnings and prophesies foretelling the doom of his kingdom and people. In both texts, the message that lust and sexual sin bears consequences whose implications are not tied solely to the perpetrator is quite evident; in Abrahamic religions especially, divine judgement which targets…

In this world, people become so blinded that they cannot see the truth or they make such foolish mistakes that they shudder when they realize the harsh repercussions. Lance Armstrong was blinded by his need to win, that he forgot that doping was unjustified, Hitler was so foolish in his war tactics that he led to the downfall of his regime, and people adore Gandhi for his freedom fighting but they forget he is the cause of the deaths and displacement of millions. The same applies to King Lear…

Control. The power to influence or direct people 's behavior or the course of events. In the novel Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, a primary question that arises in the mind of readers is the scale of control one has on the actions of their lives. Aristotle believed human actions to be led by seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion or desire, of which three causes are not in the control of a being. For one, Sophocles explains the element of compulsion in relation to his pride…