Men Should Weep

wonder how muc lower we can degrade ourselves. The Chimney Sweeper is a poem speaking of such inhumanity. As I read the words, "à I was very young, And my Father sold me while yet my tongue could scarcely cry weep! weep! weep! weepà" I wonder if there is any God left in the hearts of men. Blake points out our faults, our inhumanity. He is telling us to look at ourselves, and stop this pain we cause. Just as God told us to love one another, Blake tells us the same. "This is my commandment, that

“The war to end all wars” was a common phrase used to sardonically describe World War I. There were approximately eleven million deaths of military personnel in the first world war. Most wars were so distressing and emotionally traumatizing that a bulk of the remaining soldiers came back home with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Authors like Wilfred Owen and Kevin Powers took to writing poems to alleviate the memories of the grotesque nature of war. The authors would use imagery, structure

According to Kratcoski & Baker (1991), senseless killings includes groups of killers that have been named as a thrill, hate, revenge, cult, romantic murder-suicides, and homicides committed by juveniles who are mentally disturbed. If seen through the eyes of the youth killer, no doubt there is a purpose or reason for killing. On the other hand, some youths get involved in cults or Satanism or become obsessed with fantasy games that end with killings. Although such occurrences are rare, youth disappointed

Kurapika wasn't in the habit of picking up strange men in bars. He wasn't in the habit of picking up anyone, period. But tonight had found him a little emptier than usual, and for once, he hadn't been able to fill up that emptiness with more work, more plans, more books -- all his usual distractions had irritated rather than soothed him. Under the circumstances, Kurapika should have gone to bed -- when all else failed, there was always sleep -- but the thought of lying in the dark with cold sheets

divers histories, at which good-natured gentlemen might smile, and sentimental souls might weep.” (Melville’s). In this he means that many persons might choose to smile as they find pleasure in reading “Bartleby” as much as those who might weep because they find the short story to be discouraging. In the 1970’s adaptation is one of those sentimental souls that the narrator is talking about in that it weeps for Bartleby, however the narrator brings the humor to life as he becomes speechless to Bartleby

fact, her aggression successfully conceals her sensitivity. Not many of the other characters are aware of Kate’s sensitive side because it’s so subtly presented through her use of third-person speech, verbal irony, and in her fast-paced dialogue. The men in the play describe Kate as a woman who only displays negative emotions, a “shrew”.

be on one side. Jem asks Atticus a question revolving his concern for the case Atticus replies with “I don’t know, but they did it. they've done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it-seems that only children weep.”(285) Repeating history is caused by maturation, when we are young we see the world how we

they would do. “Be careful whom you trust,” is shown greatly throughout Shakespeare’s work. One example would be in (Act 3, Scene 1) where Julius Caesar trusted Brutus and the conspirators. Caesar trusted these Roman men to be loyal to him. Because he was so easily to trust these men, it ultimately led to his death. The conspirators had an endeavor to kill Caesar so he would not be able to

The murder of thousands can not only impact the universe, but the ones that live in it. For instance, victims of the Happiest had to deal with, not only losing all of their loved ones but the deaths of others around them. In “Night”, Elie is expiring death, of not only his loved ones, also other Jews who were taken by Hitler. The loss of your family is petrifying. But watching others have their lives slipped away from their fingertips, is indubitably scary. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie

struggles to arrive home safely, his son Telemachus and wife Penelope are left to fend off suitors competing for the throne of Ithaca and Penelope’s hand in marriage. In The Odyssey, Homer portrays women as weak and in need of a husband while he portrays men as dominant and independent; his portrayal was a common perspective in Greek society, however, it furthered