Pyre

Ray Bradbury’s use of vivid and extreme imagery in The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, and There Will Come Soft Rains clearly illustrates the urgency to act on social issues and calls attention to the value of preserving life, hope, and freedom. He uses intense examples of dystopian futures to strike fear into the reader; some examples are even are based on the past, which makes it all the more real. By showing the worst possible outcomes, Bradbury encourages readers to work towards…

Aeneas and Dido: Love, Lust, and Loss Virgil’s The Aeneid Book IV, begins with a conversation between Dido, the queen of Carthage, and her sister Anna. Topic Dido is torn between her love for Sychaeus, her beloved, deceased husband, and this Trojan warrior, Aeneas. He has entered her life, and Cupid has kindled the flames of love within her towards him. Dido explains to her sister Anna that she feels betrayed by her heart and mind. Argument Dido states, “If my mind was not set, fixedly and…

to her death. “I shall die. I must die. I cannot be so unhappy, and live”(83). Armand no longer loved or accepted his wife and child because he believed they had brought shame upon him and his name. He took all their belongings and burned them on a pyre in the yard. “In the centre of the smoothly swept back yard was a great bonfire. Armand Aubigny sat in the…

Brendon Burke proclaimed once that "The British Empire must be governed on a plan of freedom, for it will be governed by no other." This is what many British thought at the time of the empire, but to which extent was this really complied? At the beginning of the nineteenth century the British Empire became world´s naval and economic power, which they used in order to expand their empire to be larger than ever (Samson, 2001). The nature of this colonial rule was not homogeneous within the…

The Epic Beowulf The epic story Beowulf is an allegory. An allegory is a story with one or more hidden meaning. Beowulf is an allegory because he has several levels to his personality. Between his fight with humanity and his humble ways makes him have several levels. Beowulf is a story about one man’s bravery, humbleness, and the struggle to fight his humanity. Throughout the story, Beowulf fights monsters and receives glory and treasures. Although Beowulf receives all of these treasures from…

In Virgil’s "The Aeneid" there were two main tragic figures, Dido and Turnus. Even though these characters may seem vastly different they are also similar in many ways. For example, both characters are driven by emotional gains and self empowerment. Dido’s actions much like Turnus’s actions are derived from emotions towards/about Aeneas which ultimately lead to their demise (Fagles). Unlike Aeneas Dido and Turnus are crowded with the need to fulfill their own needs rather than duty, which…

Have you ever been to a funeral, and noticed that the body is looking young as if nothing had happened? According to Jessica Milford’s essay, it may be because the funerals are being over done by, dressing up in nice clothes and make up. In Jessica Milford’s essay she gives her opinion on what she thinks of it in America. With her opinion we will compare how the traditions relate and differ from funeral rituals in India. According to Jessica Mitford’s “Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain” she…

burning the offering, the fire, or Agni, carries the sacrifices to the gods (Agni the Hindu God of Fire). Though Agni is more commonly known for his role in sacrificial fires, he is also in charge of other fires, such as, lightning and “the funeral-pyre; [where] he leads the dead to their final judgement by Yama, ruler of the Underworld” (Cartwright). Sadly, the importance as a god that Agni had to the ancient Hindus started to diminish over time as Hinduism began to shift focus over time by…

pain that he did want to end it all and die. Before he made the decision he apparently had enough time and could tolerate the pain long enough to consult with the oracle before making his decision. The oracle and Heracles both decided to build funeral pyre for himself, from there he would become a god and join the other gods on Mount Olympus. This shows how self-confident he really was, he thought when I die I will just join all the other gods. Almost like when Hermes set out twelve offerings…

The process of decoding the myth-oriented text of Yayati gives back an image of the cultural signs and the psychological conflict between Yayati and Devayani, on the one hand, and Yayati and Chitralekha, on the other. The cultural tension and the psychogenic traits of human personality make it mandatory to analyse the contents of the myth even beyond the impossible range of human relationships, for the myth in its analysis of the native glosses and the myth in its psychological analysis bring…