Cutting the Rope In Touching the Void by Joe Simpson two friends Joe Simpson and Simon Yates are climbing a mountain that had never been climbed before On the way down Joe falls off of a cornice and breaks his leg While Simon is lowering Joe down the mountain Joe goes off an ice cliff and is hanging in mid air After what seemed like an eternity Simon had to make a decision to keep trying to rescue Joe and kill both of them in the process or to take out his pocket knife and cut the rope He chose
In his Divine Comedy Dantes punishment directly parallels to the sinners state of mind during his or her time spent on Earth Dante uses symbolisms to explain and reflect the penalties for each circle with the lives of the sinners For example the second circle of hell if full of lustful individuals who were not able to exercise their God given reason and allowed the desires of their flesh guide their actions and emotions Because of their inability to maintain control of their passions they are f
To what extent can Willy Loman be considered a tragic hero according to Aristotles rules Arthur Miller presents his play Death of a Salesman in the ancient form of a tragedy Aristotle has defined his idea of the perfect tragedy in his text Poetics 350 BC Here he suggests that the protagonist must fall from an elevated social standing as a result of a fatal flaw within the character the fall from the main character creates resolution to the play which is seen as just finally Aristotle identified
In the book Night Elie and his father are sent to a concentration camp called Auschwitz and then Buna At both of these camps the Nazis were unfair to all of the Jews and treated them horribly In other words the Nazis dehumanized the Jews Dehumanization is to treat people as if they are not human To dehumanize a person is to be cruel to them until they no longer act human In the book Night the most disturbing form of dehumanization is that the Nazis barely fed the Jews One way that the Nazis deh
Alone In this poem Desert Places Robert Frost uses aspects of nature such as a desert the title of the poem so to express the ambiguity and the solitude of the surroundings In beginning in the first three stanzas we see how nature can give a sense of death and aloneness but in the fourth stanza we really see how Frost relates all this to himself and his state of mind that gives the poem a depressive tone Therefore this poem is trying to say that isolation and loneliness can give a human a fear
The discourse of power and control is evident in George Orwells novel Animal Farm through the character representations of the pigs in particular the totalitarian dictator Napoleon The basic principle of the revolution all animals are equal is slowly transformed into some animals are more equal than others through the strategies of Napoleon and the pigs in order to gain and maintain their power and control over the other animals These strategies include establishing a power base using terror an
Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeares most famous plays and even though it was written many years ago it is still very popular today Many people can relate to the play as it still covers popular issues in modern society such as young love and violence between different groups of people It is one of Shakespeares earlier tragedies and we can tell this because the protagonist is not completely to blame for his downfall because there are external influences such as fate and the family feud This i
DREAM DEFERRED Langston Hughess poem Dream Deferred is basically about what happens to dreams when they are put on hold Hughes probably intended for the poem to focus on the dreams of African Americans in particular because he originally entitled the poem Harlem which is the capital of African American life in the United States however it is just as easy to read the poem as being about dreams in general and what happens when people postpone making them come true Ultimately Hughes uses a careful
Dunstable Ramsay Character Analysis In the novel Fifth Business by Robertson Davies the character Dunstable Ramsay is effected by his relationships with women He experiences guilt social isolation and love due to the interaction and relationships with his mother and Mrs Dempster The relationships that Dunstable has with these women change the way he acts feels and is treated by others Dunstable faces guilt when he ultimately causes the birth of Paul Dempster by jumping in front of a pregnant Ma
Gabriel Garcia Marquez creates a magical world in his novel of eighteenth century South America Of Love and Other Demons The central character in this world is Sierva Maria a twelve year old girl daughter to a Marquis but raised in the world of slaves Her copper hair has never been cut and she can dance with more grace and fire than the Africans sing in voices different than her own in the various languages of AfricaHer movements are so stealthy that she seems an invisible creature 12 She is in