Euphemism

makes himself out to be, to being “something of a ladies’ man” (McGrath), although that most likely manifests only in Holden’s inner imagination that he himself rejects as a phony movie fantasy, to being “hospitalized for ‘battle fatigue’—often a euphemism for a breakdown” (McGrath), essentially the inspiration behind the glue of Holden’s narrative, that of a hospitalized boy trapped in a changing, horrifying modern world. Salinger actually “checked himself into a mental hospital. Not long after…

outside. She traveled downwards to a lake, where a fisherman was doing just that; the fisherman was watching the fish below, as a nearby swan pushed itself by on the lake. So far, the author has produced an air of mystery and wonder using objects and euphemisms that would inspire such feelings. The poem continues on to be observational, watching the things around the woman and commenting on how they affect the mood. This seems to be a recurring theme in Keats’ work, as he seems to be an…

As revealed by his speech immediately following Macduff’s flight to England, Macbeth, the newly crowned King of the Scots, acts spontaneously, without serious rational thought. In the “Castle of Macduff” speech (Act IV.i 144-156, Macbeth decides to fully discharge any previous ability to reason. Immediately, he challenges “Time” (allegorical figure), which he sees as an adversary, trying to stop him from ever acting on his thoughts. Furthermore, he uses the specific diction of “dread” and…

But what was the alternative? If they did not use euphemisms and keep the true nature of donations a secret, then it would only frighten them. If one was to know that their life would end in a gruesome way, would anyone want to know, or would it be better to just enjoy life till then? Hailsham allows the…

The shift from home to actual war occurs and the tone is more serious that the previous lines. The poem shifts from discussing men at home to the actions of men in war. “Retire” thus serves a euphemism for withdrawal, an idea impossible to a man in the actual act of war. Further pushing this thought, Sassoon writes “Hell’s last horror...trampling the terrible corpses” making the image of war more real and not as sugar-coated as before. It is no…

sharing with strangers” (Proverbs 5:17). Out of context, this sounds like it would be about self prosperity and selfishly keeping one’s water one’s self. In reality, according to the commentary found in The New Oxford Annotated Bible, water is a euphemism for sexual activity between husband and wife and is about faithfulness in marriage. Because being faithful to a spouse does not correlate to selfish…

What is average, or even above average? Who has the right to determine whether we are average, or have the potential to be more than that? How is our social class determined at the end of the day...is it based on our knowledge, motivation, and want? Or is it based off of what someone thinks we are capable of due to our test taking strategies? There are many concerns this day in age of education and its practices, Mike Rose highlights many of them in his article "I JUST WANNA BE AVERAGE".…

A large portion of educated persons in the medieval era were clergy, and as such the majority of surviving manuscripts are religious texts, manuals, or letters. Secular works were written, but even non-religious texts contained elements of religion. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales revolves around a religious pilgrimage and contains church men and women, but the text itself is not considered religious. In fact, parts of Chaucer’s work are often labeled as obscene, which is not overly common in…

Political culture within the United States is dramatically varied from one state to another due to the origins of each regions’ source of affluence and immigrating communities. Political scientist, Daniel Elazar, categorizes these political cultures in his publication American Federalism: A View from the States as moralistic, individualistic, and traditionalistic. Moralistic regions like the New England states grew from a Puritan culture that now views the government’s role is to work at public…

Genocide is believed to be an exceptional and rare phenomena; yet, this is not the case. Gregory Stanton (2013) estimated that since the foundation of genocide watch started there has been around 70 million deaths across 45 genocides (Stokes and Gabriel, 2010). One of the most well-known being the Rwandan genocide. The nature of the Hutu and Tutsi’s historical pastoral or agricultural roles, suggest that the Tutsis were more commonly found to be landowners. Whereas, Hutus worked on the land,…