Rage

“Do not go gentle into that good night/Old age should burn and rave at close of day/Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.” This is to say that, essentially, one should not go down without a fight. The first and last lines of the stanza are the lines that get repeated throughout the poem, and they summarize Thomas’s message well. Additionally…

The pause firstly makes the reader notice that particular part more than the rest so rage is evidently what he feels at this point in the poem. It creates a focus on the word rage and therefore it is a significant point in the poem as it is more memorable. Depending on how the reader looks at his poem, this part can now be taken in two ways because of the caesura, they can either…

his vacillates between extreme moments of elatedness and rage to the typically depressive symptoms, including thoughts of suicide. In the recent two months, Hamlet’s home life has had a drastic turn. His father, with whom he was relatively close with, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly, causing emotional turmoil. After the death of his father, his mother married his uncle, who was then crowned the king of Denmark, which eludes to the rage he feels, as he has stated. The persistent feelings…

his bars of rage” (Angelou 8-11). As said here, the caged bird, having accepted the entrapment he endures every day, twists his yearning for freedom into a blind rage, knowing that freedom is near impossible. This “blind” animosity is conceived by the caged bird as he can “seldom see through his bars of rage” (Angelou 10-11), by which meaning that one's rage can come to darken their image of the world, since their once strongest feeling of longing has now been replaced with a cohesive rage. This…

to his skewed set of values, to hand over his power and land to his oldest and most superficial daughters already sets forth in motion his descent into a path of madness. Soon Lear finds himself roaming the heath, shouting at the tumultuous storm in rage, then begging and even accusing it through despondency, only to end up babbling nonsense and talking to a mouse out of pure psychological madness. This pivotal point in the play characterizes Lear’s state of mental turmoil, as it mirrors the…

The cell-surface ligands of RAGE interact and result in sustained cellular activation via multiple signaling pathways that lead to propagation of inflammatory responses. Among RAGE ligands, S100B suggested to mediate the significant role of RAGE in the pathogenesis of certain human diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and cancer. However, RAGE has been poorly investigated in the epileptogenesis (E. Leclerc, et al. 2009…

William Shakespeare Othello was a brilliant tragedy of a man’s fall from grace and another man’s jealousy. Othello was a victim of Iago’s deceit, his own insecurities, and his own trusting nature. Othello was aware of the disapproval of Desdemona and himself getting married, which is why he and Desdemona decided to elope privately and discreetly. According to the play “Othello trusts Iago because he has a noble spirit and assumes that other people are like himself (Othello). Due to Othello’s…

driving while drunk,and speeding can all lead to horrible consequences. Although all of these violations can cause serious damage,the worst violation is aggressive driving. Aggressive not only is speeding and tailgating,it also is the gateway to road rage which leads to homicides and serious complications. Aggressive driving not only are a huge risk to drivers and a violation of a responsible driver but it is also a traffic violation. Racing and tailing gating are…

When female characters enter the storyline, themes of rage and fury encompass and hover over them. Instead of being stereotypical Roman women, women in The Aeneid are opinionated and emotional, as they react quick and feed off of rage. Nevertheless, these women play vital roles during the epic, as they extinguish the orthodox view of women throughout Roman society. So, what is Virgil’s angle and why does he depict women as carriers of rage? I would argue Virgil is bringing forth the notion of…

persistence, ambition, and compassion. He is even referred to as godlike many times throughout the epic. All these attributes that make him a hero are all trumped throughout the Iliad because of one downfall: his rage. Achilles’ rage births devious traits such as pride, greed and selfishness. His rage also influences making choices without thinking. These malicious traits…