Hesitation

imprisonment of him and his men (Homer, Odyssey 9.170-306). Book X presents Odysseus with the same curiosity in his encounters with Hermes and Circe (Odyssey 10.261-347). He subtly changes from an overconfident man to one who shows patience and hesitation.

combined with lighter and positive words, “mud-luscious” and “puddle-wonderful” portrays how excited the children are at growing up—at first (lines 2-3 and 10). As the poem progresses less words are used. The progression of simpler words expresses the hesitation of the children.

In Emily Dickenson’s “We grow accustomed to the Dark” and Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night” distinct views of hesitation in life are explained, and are manifested with each authors different point of views, structure, sound, imagery, and metaphors. Each author’s different points of views plays a roles in their experience. Dickenson assimilates the hesitation darkness brings to walking down a dark unfamiliar road. No light in this poem shows the novice nature of the explorer. “And sometimes

still loves her as a son. Throughout the play, Hamlet struggles with getting revenge and shows much hesitation

and is invited to have some hesitation. We don't ken what type of testing they're going to do and we do not ken the side effects it will have on your unborn child. Not to mention the integrated cost factor in doing certain type of genetic testing. Some of them are not covered through indemnification mean and may curve a hectic cost. One must additionally take into consideration their religious backgrounds and credences that may be playing a factor in Tony's hesitation. One way or another this decision

had to face a problem that he never thought he would have to do or even think about. He had to shoot Lennie so that he wouldn’t go to jail and suffer even more. In the book George showed so much hesitation to the point where Slim showed up and comfort him. At the end of the movie George showed no hesitation to what he had to do. These differences between the movie and the book are very clear, but if a reader never saw that movie they would think that these important

behavior in society to show how although rules, laws or traditions do not make sense, people follow them. Throughout the story the three main symbols of how people blindly follow senseless traditions were the lottery itself, the color black, and the hesitation that people had towards the prize. The lottery in the story was the game in which the prize was death. In reality this lottery symbolized the game of life, and how our behavior as human beings influences our choices in life and therefore our destiny

but he hesitated so much. In act 3 hamlet showed his hesitation a lot in his “to be or not to be” soliloquy. In his soliloquy hamlet says “thus conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, and enterprises of great pitch and moment with this regard their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action,” (Act 3 scene 1 64-98) basically his reasoning for the hesitation. He knows his actions make him a coward because he had

In the first line of the stanza he hesitates in his reasoning for killing the man. Hardy writes, "I shot him dead because —/ Because he was my foe” (9-10). The use of a dash to separate the lines shows his hesitation. He does not know why he killed the man, so in line seven, he resorts to the explanation he has been trained to use. This is crucial to the theme of the poem as it shows that there is no correct reason to kill another man; the expectation is for

his morals and his need to complete his goal. However, as the plot unfolds, Hamlet begins to realize that his own religion contradicts the acts of revenge. This is clear in his hesitation to kill the King when he is praying, saying that he would not kill King Claudius unless he was sent to hell. Hamlet’s constant hesitation for action is indicated by his belief in religion, which hinders him from completing his tasks. As a result of this religion, Hamlet believes that he himself will be harmed in