Moth

Ernest Shackleton led his crew on the Endurance to attempt to be the first group of individuals to cross the Antarctic continent overland. One day away from land the crew became iced in and eventually the ship sank. Leaving the crew with limited supplies. Ernest being the leader made sure every man went home alive. His leadership skills were spectacular during the journey. Ernest Shackleton was left with moral decision making in the days and months that passed between the sinking of the…

Individual have a unique approach for dealing with conflict. As the conflict evolves, people alternate playing roles like the hero, the victim, and the villain in each situation. The protagonists in famous plays like Hamlet by William Shakespeare and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams encounter this role changes throughout the play and should be perceived as tragic figures considering their heroic virtues are insufficient to defend themselves from self-destruction contrary to simply…

a tarnished past. Blanche cannot fulfill that aspiration, though, for Stanley is always an obstacle in her attempts to forge a new path that she can travel on. As he has “something—ape-like about him” (83) and Blanche’s “uncertain manner…suggests a moth” (5), they are natural sworn enemies with warring desires. Blanche shies away from light as much as she can in order to seem demure and hide her reputation, but Stanley insists on people giving him unyielding truths and obsesses over the…

In Aristotle's virtue-based ethical theory, he claims that a polis, one’s surrounding community, installs basic values in an individual. Therefore, the polis has the greatest influence during an individual’s development. However, sometimes the polis can negatively impact a person, causing him or her to have a fluid, undeveloped identity. Throughout the works, The Great Gatsby, Invisible Man, and “Song of Myself,” the authors include the motifs of green and grass in the surroundings of the…

“Bennie and the Jets” about a young-adult male struggling with identity throughout different points in his teenage years. The very beginning of this short story turns its focus to Benny on the street, using the Victorian house, crumbling bread, and moths as symbols for being emotionally closed off and protected, and death. The meaning of these symbols may be well interpreted by young adult males because a big chunk of literary work about identity is directed towards the female population,…

multiple poisons to stay away from. He is both reflecting on their danger and the resurrection myth hidden in them. He describes the river Lethe, a mythic river of forgetfulness also associated with the ancient Greek path to reincarnation. The death-moth is named for the skull like coloring on the back of its head.…

Aristotle said that ‘the aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.’ The connection between art and design is often represented in the public. The relationship between these two mediums of creativity is clearly represented in the chairs that sit along the foreshore of the Jindabyne Lake. These seats use both mediums and show the spirit of the mountainous area and the environment that surrounds it. There are intelligible affiliations between…

impress Daisy enough to win her back. Gatsby buying his gigantic mansion just across the bay from her is a clear display of his intentions. Nick states on page 78, "He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths-so he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden." This quote is an example of Jay’s hope because despite the person he cares about most devoting herself to another man, he is willing to do whatever he sees necessary to accomplish…

state that “They are men… as course and direct and powerful as the primary colours” (1947). The men with their coloured shirts dominate over the pale colours that the women wear, like Blanche, whos name means white in french, wears her white dress with moth holes in. The men are playing poker under the bright lights while the women are in the dim lit bedroom, hidden behind a…

poor man "taking pride in his high position" and the rich man "taking pride in his low position" goes back to material goods. God does not care for greed or material wealth. James calls riches corrupt, " Your riches are corrupted, and your garments moth…