Lament

Miss Piggy probably complains about how difficult it is to be so fabulous all of the time. Fozzie undoubtedly detests his large size and Gonzo most likely dislikes his nose and yearns to have a smaller one. Beaker presumably laments about the struggle of his inability to articulate real sentences. Everyone wants what they cannot have and complains about what they do have to people who cannot possibly understand. It’s part of human... er Muppet nature. Kermit’s catch phrase, “It’s not easy…

Indian is nostalgic and wants to regain the greatness of the “good old days.” They tell stories of their adventures and greatness but most of all, they get drunk together. Tayo and his friends are not much different. Tayo and his drinking buddies lament over the “good old days” all the same, they even tell similar stories about killing in the war and bedding beautiful white women. Our main characters also both come close to killing another member of the group. It’s strange how each of them…

of Lancaster, the wife of his friend, patron and employer John of Gaunt. The poem is organized as a dream vision and as such is build in circles that are closed and interlinked with around each other. At the core of the poem is the Man in Black’s lament for his queen and on the most outer circle is the poet, tormented by a personal loss, that remains unexplained within the text. While the Knight is entirely overcome with his grief and unable, even refusing to perceive consolation, we see the…

Two core principles create the foundation for the OneState in Zamyatin’s We: the idea that humans are machines that need to be perfected, and the idea that rationality is the only correct way of thinking about the world. Both of these principles are not inherently evil or irrational, however, as the OneState takes their ideals to the extreme, their principles become less understandable and increasingly unreasonable. D-503’s use of mathematical language and the way he punctuates his record…

Specifically, Vegetius never describes exactly what the legion is doing wrong. Certainly, he laments the lack of discipline throughout the army but he does not describe they ways tactics may have been misused or how often the legions encountered significant organizational problems. Without knowing more about how the Roman Legions were behaving in…

inventions of the prehistoric age such as the wheel and the knife while relating it to the fact that the status of women has not changed in society. In the first two stanzas, Boland juxtaposes the inventions of the past with modern day when the speaker laments on the fact that even though technology has improved, women are still stuck in the past regarding equality. This blatantly reveals the fact that woman are still in a position in which they are viewed as inferior. By contrasting the past…

In his 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom makes the case for what he describes as higher education failing democracy through an emphasis on historicism and relativism. This academic emphasis, for Bloom, creates a paradoxical restrictive freedom in the minds and hearts of students, leaving them without a moral compass, and creating a void that can easily be filled with demagoguery. Along the way, Bloom staunchly defends elitism and ethnocentrism, attacks feminism, and lays…

In conclusion, the different literary works show all different types of struggles teaching one lesson to overcome it. Beginning with social struggle: Beowulf, "The wife's Lament”, "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and Sir Gawain and the Green Night. Each one faces a social struggle to play their role in society. Everyone role in society is crucial, if not taken seriously it impacts the whole community. Gawain and Beowulf as great warrior, teach one to follow their duty as to defend the…

In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare alludes to Aurora the Greek Goddess to enhance the imagery of light and dark and depict moods. In scene I, act i, lines 143-144, Romeo laments, "Should in the farthest East begin to draw, the shady curtains from Aurora's bed..." Romeo speaks of Aurora, the Greek Goddess of the dawn, and blocking out her light with bed curtains. Shakespeare includes Romeo's reference to display that since Rosaline doesn't love Romeo back, Romeo wants to…

The purpose of this research is to identify some events that caused such instability within the Roman Republic and reasons that led to the demise of the dominant Roman Empire. Was Julius Caesar singlehandedly at fault for the transformation of the Republic? Maybe it was the Senate, the citizens of Rome, or could it have been something completely different? What army was responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire? Could a dose of political corruptness have also been a reason for the fall? There…