The Wretched of the Earth

We could just send them to Earth to be ‘free’ for a little while, and them take them back for further experimentations. We could use them.” “They will expose us. They know the secrets of Letumosis and how to cure it. We can't let them get that information to the Earthens. We have a reason for exterminating them. We are going to inject them with a very strong version of Letumosis, and kill them then. They will be cremated and their ashes will be secretly sent to Earth on a ship delivering goods…

Dattani’s Seven Steps around the Fire ABSTRACT: Transgendered occupy a chunk of Indian population. Not only in India but in most of the countries they live like social outcasts. Mahesh Dattani is a playwright who takes up his pen for these wretched of the earth. Seven Steps around the Fire dramatizes the brutal murder of a hijra for her secret marriage with a son of a minister. Dattani delves deep into the problem and snobbish hypocritical face of those in the upper echelon of society is…

blindness throughout his own life, Oedipus causes his children to have a life full of insults and loneliness. Even before Oedipus learned the truth, or even was accused of anything, the ignorance of his parentage allowed him to have children with a wretched life ahead of them. He did not know that Jocasta was his mother either at the time of marriage or conception, he was blind to this fact. Being blind to the incest did not only hurt the partakers in the act but also the offspring it produced.…

appeared naked, shivering without their blanket of color. Cold air blew through their skinny, lifeless branches, tossing the trees around as though they were mere sticks rather than giants. She shuddered as the chilly wind kissed her brow, leaving a wretched disease of ice and sorrow in its wake. Within this wintry prison there was no joy, there was no warmth, and, above all, there was no diversity. A monotony of brown and black dotted the decrepit neighborhood as nature wallowed in misery at…

Most works of literature written throughout history reflect the time period and the events that were unfolding in that age. Beowulf is a sixth-century Scandinavian epic passed down by many generation of scops, and eventually written on paper by an unknown source. At the time in history when the epic was written, the Anglo-Saxons had already become Christianized in their faith, still, there was an undertone of Pagan elements in the religion. Since the Pagan influences had dominated Europe for…

thought to exist for a dead man, as much as for one who is alive but not aware of them” (Aristotle 5). He details his confusion, finally stating it odd but possible that “dead men were to share in these changes and become at one time happy, at another wretched” and “the fortunes of the descendants did not for some time have some effect on the happiness of their ancestors” (Aristotle 5). Therefore the only secure happiness on which Aristotle can confidently advise is an earthly one––a happiness…

In The Lais of Marie de France, love is a force that moves us completely against our will. Man is united in the fact that, given enough time on this earth, we each eventually succumb to the hazards of love. Whether these pursuits are successful or wretched and unrequited, man is weakened all the same. In this essay I will argue that it was the intention of Marie de France to illustrate the workings of love and as she does so she uncovers that the closest physical thing that can be related back…

mention going to the placement of words in sentences and the significance of certain aspects of the Christian mythos, which was quite popular back then. an example of the aforementioned language goes as such: “I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?” (-The Tell-Tale Heart pg 1.) The story progresses with the man relaying to us the information that he is in fact most definitely not mad, simply diseased, and of an idea of his that,…

The word “grief” shares many similarities to “sadness”, but just as both terms are used to describe a state of unhappiness, to be grieving carries with it connotations of a deeper-rooted pain stemming from the mourning of a loss, or an emotional loyalty to the subject of the grief. The characters in the Greek epic The Odyssey are no strangers to grief, as it is a word woven throughout the text both physically and as an underlying theme. Just as the heroes of the Trojan War long for home, the…

Throughout the story, Arthur Dimmesdale illustrates how putting on a false face results in physical and mental disintegration√. While dealing with the guilt of adultery, Arthur Dimmesdale uses his preaching to hide his shame<--ideally, you would connect your example explicitly to your thesis. You mention physical and mental degradation, but speak of D. hiding his shame. How do those things connect? . During one of his sermons, Dimmesdale claims that he is “altogether vile, a viler companion…