Doom

By analysing the language used in ‘The Last Judgement’ I will endeavour to explore the pageant’s intended effect on the audience, looking specifically at the significance of place and the pageant’s structure. The York Corpus Christi play is structured so that within one day the audience are told the story of Christianity from the creation of the world to judgement day, which, if viewed from an Aristotelian perspective, could be seen as having a tragic plot structure (a fall from good to bad).…

It was a beautiful warm, sunny day in June. In the story “The Lottery,” it was anything but a typical day. The villagers gathered in the center of town, the grass was green and the flowers were blooming. All seemed fair while the townsfolk gathered to prepare for the yearly tradition of the lottery. In “The Story of an Hour,” Louise Mallard relates that the sky is blue, there are people singing in the distance, and the birds were twittering. Consequently, she too was unaware of what was…

The story The Masque of the Red Death as it is written by Edgar Allan Poe holds meanings relating to doom that stretches far beyond oneself tuberculosis, and these themes are made apparent because of the figure in the red mask. One idea that commonly pops into the heads of the readers of this story is that the figure in the red mask embodies and represents the Red Death itself, and I believe this is true. The narrator read "...Now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death" (Poe). Though it…

has for the death of Lady Macbeth and thus he speaks of the poem “...to-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow…”(Act V, Scene V). However, he also demonstrates that he has moved on and shows no care for the death of the Lady as he slowly realises his doom. The death of Lady Macbeth has demonstrated the inner conflict of Macbeth and showed how he really felt. There are many themes in the play Macbeth, however his internal conflict is the strongest of all themes and it’s what led to his downfall.…

The Lost Colony To me the lost colony basically set up for doom all the way from the beginning, they were already struggling settling in a new place with barley any resources. Something was going to eventually happen to them. Even though no one really knows what really happen to them somehow they all disappeared or there was no trace of what happened to the Lost colony. The lost colony was made up men, women, and children that came to Roanoke island with the permission from the queen at that…

Did you know that the representation of the American Dream was not always positive within songs in the Roaring Twenties, a time of success and culture advancement. Throughout the time of America the Declaration of Independence has been looked at being an essential document as it brought upon the term; The American Dream, the pursuit of happiness, success and contempt that was looked on everyone in America. The poems “America” by Claude McKay and “I too Sing America” by Langston Hughes relate…

“The Greek philosopher Aristotle defined ‘tragedy’ as a dramatization of a serious happening,” however in adding to the definition, a tragedy is “showing a struggle that rends the protagonist’s whole being,” (Barnet, Burto, and Cain, p. 1014). “Oedipus the King” is an example of one such tragedy, which we will show examples of. We will also determine if Oedipus is a hero in this story and if Oedipus deserved the fate that was decided. “Oedipus the King” is a complex story with twists and turns…

haunting and depressing” (414). Basically, she is saying that old sci-fi films reflect the surprising lack of caring that people show toward the apocalypse. While Sontag is probably wrong when she claims that people do not care at all about impending doom, she is right that individuals do not show the necessary level of concern that they should have when it comes to the future of mankind. Any person, including the author, can look at the insouciance toward disaster and become disheartened by it…

Merriam-Webster defines avarice as “excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain” (Avarice, n.d.). While that definition is fairly straight forward, a few synonyms including greed, covetousness, and cupidity provide a vivid picture of why this word has rightfully earned its place among the seven capital vices. It is noteworthy to mention a few near antonyms of avarice, for instance, are charity, generosity, and selflessness. This presentation will first look at how avarice is defined in…

power to essentially brainwash the populace for his own devious goals. Censorship is even more dangerous when it is disguised with the words only during political crisis. Who would decide what a political crisis is, censorship can lead a country to its doom, and history has shown us how dangerous it is. Censorship is extremely dangerous because it is unknown who it would be that decides what is censored. That person could be working to further their…