The Loved One

Throughout the entire story, there is death imagery. At the beginning, as the Grandmother gets ready to go on the trip, she dresses in a way that is foreshadowing of her own death. She says she dresses so that "anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady (O’Connor)." While on the highway, they pass five or six graves fenced in on the side of the road indicative of the deaths of the six passengers in the car. Finally, as they see the Misfit's car, it is described as a hearse - a vehicle in which the dead are carried. These images all foreshadow the death of the grandmother and her

As gloomy as death may seem, in the two stories mentioned, characters whom are close to the deceased family members don’t really feel much except for indifference. In “The Veldt”, Peter and Wendy Hadley both work together to set their parents up for impending death, essentially murdering their parents.

The critical loss of an extremely close family member is detrimental to most. Individuals cannot evade death and reality always catches up to them. However, everyone has their own methods of subduing the weight of the inevitable loss within our lifetimes. Within George Bernard Shaw’s letter “She Would Have Enjoyed it”, regarding his mother and her cremation, his attitude shifts from ominous to light-hearted and nostalgic using key details, imagery, and diction in order to convey his feelings and cope with his loss.

When deconstructing the text ‘W;t’, by Margaret Edson, a comparative study of the poetry of John Donne is necessary for a better conceptual understanding of the values and ideas presented in Edson’s ‘W;t’. Through this comparative study, the audience is able to develop an extended understanding of the ideas surrounding death. This is achieved through the use of the semi-colon in the dramas title, ‘W;t’. Edson also uses juxtapositions and the literary device, wit, to shape and

Robert Frost and William Shakespeare have been celebrated by many people because of their ability to express themselves through the written word. Here we are years after their deaths analyzing these fascinating poems about life and death. It’s clear they had similar thoughts about this subject at the time of these writings, even though their characters could not have been more opposite. For both poets, life is too

The theme death has always played a crucial role in literature. Death surrounds us and our everyday life, something that we must adapt and accept. Whether its on television or newpaper, you'll probobly hear about the death of an individual or even a group. Most people have their own ideas and attitude towards it, but many consider this to be a tragic event due to many reasons. For those who suffered greatly from despair, living their life miserably and hopelessly, it could actually be a relief to them. Death effects not only you, but also those around you, while some people may stay unaffected depending on how they perceive it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Thou famished grave” and “Mindful of you” both include the themes of death, however, “Thou famished grave” uses the personification of a grave as a starving beast, diction to add imagery of starvation, and an image of a strong will to live to show the resentfulness and bitterness that the speaker has towards death, while, “Mindful of you” uses the imagery and personification of the four seasons to remember someone close who has died, to express that although death may take people physically, but they live and are remembered through memories.

The widow grieves for him while hugging her sister Josephine in a painful way. She cries like a baby in a harsh way. But then she goes to her room, where she tries to hide her "forbidden joy" of freedom and liberty. She was going to be independent and the only one commanding her life decisions. The scene shows that she sits in the chair with her physical exhaustion which also reflects that she was tired of life and hard days and nights with no joy to look forward to. Watching the arrival of spring and a vast sky, she says "free" again and again. She cries in an anxious way as if it is just unbelievable like a real dream and she will wake up again. It happens when Richard returns home, and the story ends with these critical lines, “She had died of heart disease, a joy that kills.". Both the stories show death and fear in a different way. Where, one family is afraid of living and exploring, and they ultimately fall prey to the danger and die a meaningless death at the hands of a criminal. While in this, death seems to be liberating. She wanted to be free and empowered, but it came after dying. The endless joy of freedom took her life away. The symbolism in heart attack shows that how life takes away everything from us and at the end, it means nothing. The anticipation of grandmother finally leads to the death of all family and explains how they came to the web of death. While the anticipation in this particular story shows the escape to get freedom from unhappy

In his moving article, Dr. Gawande also shows his major respect for Peg, someone who was a part of his life, but passed away due to her illness. “Gathered in her living room, they played Brahms, Chopin and Beethoven for their adored teacher. A week later, she fell into delirium and, a short time after that, died peacefully in her bed” (Gawande 25). There is no doubt that this piece applies to Pathos after reading how a passionate person lived out the their final days because death, for many, is quite saddening. Gawande’s purpose, however, is to get his audience not to fear mortality, but to accept it, and he does this by showing how Peg was successfully able to die well by proceeding to teach piano lessons until her life came to its end. “My final remembrance of Peg is from the end of her last recital with the children” (Gawande

In Tim’s first up-close and personal encounter with death, Linda, his girlfriend, dies of cancer before turning ten. When Tim attends her wake and sees her body, he is unable to cope with the reality of her death. Instead, he imagines that she is awake and normal and having a conversation with him. Through this conversation with a dead person, Tim comes to realize that his imagination - the stories that he makes up - can keep people alive after their deaths. If he remembers Linda’s corpse, that is all she can ever be, but if he continues to have conversations with her, to imagine her alive, to tell stories about her, then she remains alive as he portrays her. Though told at the end of the book, this vignette becomes a lens through which Tim views death throughout and explains why Tim, the character, and O’brien, the author, tell stories about dead friends. Tim tells stories about death - the death of his friend Kiowa, the postwar suicide of Norman Bowker, the corpse of the man he killed, the tragic accident that killed Ted Lavender, and Linda’s battle with cancer - to preserve the life of people he

The play Everyman may have been written many years ago, but its lessons are still relevant today. Generally, the facts of death are very traumatizing and in fact unthinkable. This leads the modern day Everyman to ignore its significance, dying without acknowledging or reflecting on their lives here on earth. It is based on this fact that this paper aims to show the position of the author of the play “Everyman” regarding death.

In the last three paragraphs of the short story “The Dead” by James Joyce, Gabriel and Gretta Conroy attend a family function which ends in a marital dispute. Gabriel experiences a tense evening arguing with various family members and ends the evening realizing his marriage has been a facade. In “The Dead,” Joyce reveals the universal truth that what creates meaning in life and death is love not only feeling true love, but being loved.

W.H. Auden’s “The More Loving One” is an intriguing poem that touches on the topics of love and humanity in the form of astrology. Auden uses a number of poetic devices to portray this message clearly to his audience. He doesn’t however write a direct translation of what he thinks of love but instead uses metaphors in order to challenge the readers’ imagination.

Although a scene of a funeral home might come to mind when a reader first hears a short story aptly named “The Dead,” the tale actually takes place in the festive setting of a winter dance at the home of the two aunts of the main character, Gabriel Conroy. James Joyce’s short story “The Dead” has a literal title, because its main concept is death – both physical death and spiritual death.

Poetry is an art form that has often been highly regarded. It brings together some of the most complex forms of writing in the English language. Two poems that focus on the same topic may sometimes, have completely different views and provide perspectives that may not have been considered by the other. Two of these Poems are Let Me Die A Youngman’s Death by Roger McGough and On Death by Anne Killigrew. The former poem by Roger McGough talks of how the speaker does not wish to die the peaceful death of an elderly person but rather the chaotic death of a young man. In death is nothing at all the speaker proposes that all should be as happy as before his death, and not view it in such a negative and secretive light.