Rage

When we think of a tragedy we usually think of a real disaster or a life where someone loses someone that they are close to or love. Williams Shakespeare’s play “Othello, the Moor of Venice” is a perfect drama play that gives you a little bit of tragedy. Shakespeare wrote the play during the renaissance in Venice and Cyprus. It was believed to be written around 1603. There were many details in this play to make it such a perfect drama. The play is about the story of Othello. Who was a Moorish…

Dylan Thomas’s 1951 poem “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” explores the inevitable mortality that plagues mankind. Throughout the villanelle structure, the speaker leads the reader through his pleas of fighting against “that good night,” while the repeated refrains in alternating stanzas help to reinforce the ideas of not going “gentle” and “raging against” the dying light, instituting the idea that death is not something to succumb to. Not only does the poem explore how to face the…

Color has many different meanings in our everyday lives, from a simple go at a green traffic light to stop and pull over to a flashing blue light. Everywhere you look you see simple colors that mean different things. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby Nick Carraway is bombarded with colorful people and their very colorful array of possessions and places as he adapts to the New York way of life in the 1920’s. Nick meets a man named Gatsby and helps him get the girl of his dreams…

In Aeschylus’ The Oresteia and Sophocles’ The Oedipus Cycles, the division between public and private life is related to the distinctions between man and woman and reason and emotion. Tragedy attempts to deal with these binaries by discussing the relationship between the state in combination and traditional gender divisions. In The Oresteia and The Oedipus Cycles, women have seemingly contradictory roles of power and influence, only to be marginalized by the dominant men of law and reason. These…

What Is The Problem Behind Mass Shootings? Canadians and Americans are similar, but mass shooting in the U.S. has become a frequent trend that sets us apart. Not everyone reaches for a gun, yet we live in a world of rage and to a certain extent can push someone off the edge. Everyone has dark moments, but does not allow you to kill innocent people. There are plenty of leading causes that combine to create the devastation that mass shooting bring on, but the three most important are to achieve,…

The movie American History X although depicting both sociological and psychological perspectives of life, dramatically portrays the impact that hate can have on individuals, families and even the society as a whole. It is imperative to note that, although the elements of racism seem to take a center part in the movie with the way they are passed down through generations, the movie undeniably proves that individuals should not fall prey to their surroundings. Importantly, the movie shows how…

for being with Verloc was Stevie, the reader can foreshadow that after Stevie’s death Winnie will leave and possibility kill Verloc because of her for Stevie and it being Verloc’s fault he is dead. After Stevie’s death, Winnie becomes distraught with rage. The only thing that was keeping her with Verloc was Stevie. Stevie was not only seen as a brother but also as something of a project for her to work on. Once she learns of Stevie’s death, Winnie becomes free for the first time allowing her to…

is he to be hung? He has a past of animal abuse due to hit beat and mistreating many animals and his wife. One of the cats he had was a black cat named pluto. The author and pluto had a great bond but one night in a drunken rage he thought pluto was avoiding him. In his rage he gouges one of the cats eyes out. Being done with this animal that he had hurt and made utterly scary with its missing eye, he fashions a noose and hangs the animal from the tree…

similarities when a parent abandons their child or children because they are not ready for the responsibilities. Then as the child grow up whether with relatives or in foster care it can be noted that some have that feeling of loneliness, anger, and rage. In other words, just like in Frankenstein if you throw a child out into the world and they survive you can sometime create a monster. Frankenstein created t monster with good intentions, but after the creation he threw the monster out the…

He can not simply accept that his daughters would betray him voluntarily and instead desires that they were forced to be disloyal by a transcendent force. In his rage, Lear cries that “I will have such revenge on you both… they shall be the terrors of the earth. You think I’ll weep / No I’ll not weep.” (Shakespeare 2.4 279-282) At that moment, the storm breaks forth, signifying Lear’s inner confusion and motivation…