Society Today Is Obsessed With The Ultimate Question, When

Samuel Beckett’s Endgame at first glance appears to be a peculiar play about four characters in an unusual and seemingly post-apocalyptic setting. Yet, upon further investigation, it is apparent that Beckett uses the play’s strange and isolated environment to expound upon and investigate humans’ will to live. Though the play is marked by a lack of significant plot development, Beckett employs the relationships between characters and certain reoccurring ideas to establish a seemingly bleak and depressing environment in which the characters fight for their existence. In particular, each character is stuck in a daily unchanging routine, which confirms their existence and gives their lives meaning. There is also a preoccupation with death by the

of their humanity. Furthermore, the references to “dead time” and the “night” foreshadow the great loss that pervades this play (2.3. 99).

Longfellow includes this information to let the reader know that today may be peaceful and well, and then tomorrow everyone could be dead. Another way Longfellow creates suspense within his poem is using repetition towards the end of the story. In stanzas 9-11, at

There is a common theme among all the stories that have been read so far in the year. When humanity becomes self-centered, a force shall end humanity as we know it while the rest of the world is oblivious to their utter demise.

One of the greatest fears of all time is uncertainty and fear of the unknown. As a result, Brooks and McCarthy frighten the reader by highlighting this common fear in The Road and World War Z. For instance, McCarthy chooses not to specify the cause of the cataclysm that destroyed most of the civilization. Instead, he illustrates the bleakness of the landscape by describing the “soft ash”(1), the implacable darkness, and the “days [being] more gray each one what had gone before”(1). Without a clear story of the cause of the apocalypse, McCarthy lets the reader imagine different possibilities as to what exactly led to this horrible disaster,

This collection of over ninty words is much more than just a poem. It’s a story of millions of people. It ties in rhymes, sadness, happiness, religion and anger though a broad spectrum of other ideas.

With the support of characterization and diction, O’Flaherty describes the setting in a way that gives off depressing, suspenseful and pessimistic images; showing that war is an awful thing. The author dedicates the entire first paragraph to describe the setting and to illustrate the atmosphere of the story. For example, “Dublin lay enveloped in darkness.” The word “darkness” instantly creates a sense of insecurity and mystery in the readers’ minds and as well as a suspenseful atmosphere. The sentence “The dim light of the moon shone through fleecy clouds, casting a pale light” transmits a feeling of loneliness and depression since moon is often thought as lonely in the high end of the sky. “Around the beleaguered Four Courts the heavy guns roared. Here and there through the city machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, spasmodically like dogs barking on lone farm.” In this sentence, the author identifies Dublin as a dangerous and insecure city, full of constant violence with the accompaniments of machine guns and rifles. In addition, when the Republican drops to the

The last two lines however still ask for a resistance against death. The last two lines are an enjambment, discussing wise men, whose blasphemous words never caused them to be struck down. They now fearing the apparently empty end. Even though these “wise men” (Meyer, 247) know death to be right, they still cannot bring themselves to accept it. The fear of the unknown, and empty end, keeps them holding on in their last hours.

the sibilance in this line forms a heavy and oppressive tones that make this line flow. then Owen continues by explaining the attack of nature., dawn massing in the east her melancholy army attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey. this metaphor shows that dawn is attacking the British soldiers, and the clouds could represent the lines of the German soldiers. the enjambment of the two lines creates a quickness which we can relate to the attack. moreover the violent sound in attacks ranks and again ranks make the war scenery sound more dramatic and emphasize a dying scene of natural dominance. the last stanza of the first half of the poem starts off with sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence. the sibilance sounds of the line evoke the speed and the sound of streaking bullets. the trembling air is then personality in the next line which says less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow. the air is shaking so much that it seems like it is shuddering like shock waves. the second part of the poem continues with pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our

Within the extract, the key theme of fear is shown through the setting in the narrative, 'the street shown out in contrast to its dingy neighbour-hood, like a fire in a forest' contribute to the element of fear as 'like a fire in a forest' uses a simile to show that the eery atmosphere is expanding and

Authors have an amazing ability, the ability to make words fly off the page of the book to stimulate the imagination of the reader. They add depth, emotion, perception, and voice to their works. Within the Modern novel, Cry the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton, he uses the literary devices: imagery, tone, detail, and parallel structure to convey one of the central themes of the scene, fear of death. Paton uses not only these four devices, but over twenty different types in his book. Each one of these devices shapes the way the reader looks at the text, it can emphasize, overlook, and make the text rhythmical or broken up. It is with these devices, that a book is made truly great.

The apocalypse is a common subject addressed in films and such Doomsday scenarios have become increasingly popular since the beginning of the Cold War. These films provide a different cause for the downfall of human kind and approach the subject with various degrees of despair and hope. Despite the obvious differences in approach that different directors take, these films all serve to highlight not only the negative qualities of human kind that led to and are represented by the agent of destruction but also to highlight the strength of the survivors who keep the will to fight for their lives despite the bleak circumstances. For the most part, The Mist, adapted from a Stephen King novella, sticks closely to the archetype. The Mist, a

Numerous individuals and groups have been suggesting that the end of the world is near for quite some time. Many think the world is going to end through some cataclysmic event while others think their deity is returning for them on a certain date. WALL-E, an animated film created by Pixar in 2008, suggests that the world will not end by such a deity’s return or cataclysmic event. Instead, the film offers the theory that our world will end from the actions and developments of the planet’s most influential inhabitants, humans.

Every single person is frightened of death, or has a fear of being left behind. Death of a person is very terrifying, yet the end of humanity and universe is not even imaginable. Humankind has been wondering how and when will the Earth end for thousands of years, to be prepared spiritually and religiously or just to decide whether to spend all the money that a person has or enjoy the life more.

The violence would be caused by mutual hatred which prevails between two different groups of the people. The poet goes about looking for the places where this violence might break out. Violence would lead to killings; and the poet looks for the possible places where death might raise its head.