Mourning

CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF FUNERAL AND DEATH RITUALS This chapter explored the theoretical foundation of funeral and death rituals. In other words, the purpose was to gain a basic knowledge about how funeral and death rituals were treated in the past. Only with such understanding of funeral and death rituals background, the graveness of the issue would be appreciated. Therefore, this chapter started with exploring its Biblical perception that is, as told in the Old and New…

Everyone strives to accomplish a goal, and for most people, that goal is prosperity. In Pearl S. Buck’s novel, The Good Earth, wealth is a common aspiration, though very few achieve it. The main character, Wang Lung, is initially depicted as being a hopeless candidate of being affluent. Eventually reaching his objective, he is faced with problems that he couldn’t have seen coming. Wang Lung’s conflicts before and even after he becomes wealthy can be associated with the problems that people face…

In the poem, The Seafarer and in the epic poem, Beowulf, there is one crucial and outstanding tone that represents the mourning and death of a person, which is called an elegy. Both, Beowulf and The Seafarer are Anglo-Saxon poems, where a significant mood seems to be elegiac. In The Seafarer, he begins the poem by explaining his many adventures and how the times that he was at sea were difficult, but through perseverance he was able to overcome them. Similar to Beowulf, the epic hero who faced…

let Loma and Mary keep their house, and gave all three of them a thousand dollars each. In the will it says Will would receive four hundred dollars for college after working at the store for ten years. Grandpa Blakeslee also says he was a short mourning, which is how Will thinks as well. “Now then, the funeral party. In case you aint noticed, the first three letters of the word funeral spells fun. So a week or two after I die, you all have a dinner on the grounds at one of the churches, or if…

fashion and gorgeous and sleek. Within the African indigenous community, black has quite a few definitions. Generally, black is used in funerals. Most times, black symbolizes that the individual that has died was young and it was truly a time of mourning and sorrow. Because, within the tribal community, when a person dies young, they have not reached their full life’s potential (Isiguzo, nd). They have not had a chance to make their mark within their community and fulfill the purpose that their…

seventeenth century. Donne often wrote sensuous and spiritual poetry, while Wroth had written Petrarchan (in nature) sonnets concerning love from a woman’s (practically unheard of for that time) perspective. In both Donne’s “A Valediction: forbidding Mourning” and Wroth’s “Sonnet 22” (in the sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus) the issue of separation between lovers is explored by means of nature, metaphysical conceits, and complex metaphors. Additionally, the form of either of these…

In Sherman Alexie and Chris Eyre’s Smoke Signals, the theme of mourning and guilt comes into play when a male decides to cut his hair. In the scene after the fire, Arnold is shown with his hair cut short resulting from Thomas’ parents death. In this scene Arnold is said to never grow out his hair long again due to the fact that he never got over the sadness, and as we later learn, the guilt of the deaths from the fire he created. With Arnold showing the grief and guilt after losing Thomas’…

All individuals have different feelings of grief, but there are some particular stages to the process of mourning experienced by the individual. The process of mourning first starts with the step of recognizing the loss and it continues until the individual eventually accepts the loss. The response of the individual to grief will vary in dependence upon the circumstances of the loss.…

himself through his clothes is Hamlet. Unlike many characters throughout the play, Shakespeare conveys that Hamlet is everything he appears to be. His feelings are genuinely felt, without any pretense otherwise, an idea conveyed through Hamlet 's mourning clothes. Many other characters, however, put on a show in an attempt to create an appearance of themselves that does not exist. Laertes, for example, believes that the outward appearance is above all else, and matters far more than the reality…

Poetry Console a Grieving Public,” Doty describes an event after 9/11 that demonstrates duality in groups. He recalls a gathering at Union Square a week after 9/11 in which people came together spontaneously in an unorganized event to offer some mourning. Doty describes his experience when he says, “We attempted to sing. But either because the crowd was so big that we couldn’t hear each other, or because we could not agree on a song, there was never any totalized, communal singing. One group…