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Death is inevitable. People try to cheat death, some are scared of death, and some people even worship death. The elderly die of old age, children die due to sickness and middle aged people in their prime die due to accidents. Naturally, cheating death is never going to happen. In “Godfather Death” by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, and in “Do not go gentle into that good night,” by Dylan Thomas both present death in the overall theme. The comparison of the theme of death presented in “Godfather Death,” and “Do not go gentle into that good night,” is it shows they both use symbolic features to represent death, and they both use the fight against death, or outsmarting death as the main point in their texts. “Godfather Death,” is a short story by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm and it is about a poor father trying to find a fitting godfather for his son. The father is presented with three options: God, the Devil, and Death. When God approaches the father he is mad at him for making him poor and the father turned away from God. When the devil approaches the father the father turned him down because he knows the devil plays tricks and he knows that the devil would not be a good …show more content…
BBC News. BBC, n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2017. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/poetry_wjec/relationships/donotgogentle/revision/1/ Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. Eds., X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 5th ed. New York: Pearson, 2016. 12, 506. Print Grimm, Jakob and Wilhelm. “Godfather Death.” Kennedy 12. Lefler, Heinrich. "Godfather Death: Death in Fairy Tales by Terri Windling." JoMA Archives: Nonfiction. Berger & Wirth, Leipzig, n.d. Web. 01 May 2017. http://www.endicott-studio.com/articleslist/godfather-death-death-in-fairy-tales-by-terri-windling.html Thomas, Dylan. “Do not go gentle into that good night.” Kennedy
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Death is part of the circle of life and it's the end of your time on earth; the end of your time with your family and loved ones. Nobody wants to die, leaving their family and missing the good times your loved ones will have once you pass on. In the Mercury Reader, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross “On the Fear of Death” and Joan Didion “Afterlife” from The Year of Magical Thinking” both share common theses on death and grieving. Didion and Kübler-Ross both explain grieving and dealing with death. Steve Jobs commencement speech for Stanford’s graduation ceremony and through personal experience jumps further into death and how I feel about it. Your time is on earth is limited one day you will die and there are many ways of grieving at the death of a loved one. I believe that the fear of death and the death of a loved one will hold you back from living your own life and the fear of your own death is selfish.
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At the end of “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Poe’s fascination with death is apparent when the narrator ruthlessly killed an old man with a disturbing eye, but felt so guilty that he confessed to the police. The narrator dismembered the old man’s body and hid them in the floor, confident that they were concealed. However, when the police came to investigate, the narrator heard a heart beating and began to crack under the pressure. Overcome with guilt, he confessed that he murdered him and pulled up the floorboards. The narrator exclaimed, “But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision!” (“Heart” 4). Although the narrator was calm and confident at first, the guilt he experienced drove him mad, causing...
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Death is the one great certainty in life. Some of us will die in ways out of our control, and most of us will be unaware of the moment of death itself. Still, death and dying well can be approached in a healthy way. Understanding that people differ in how they think about death and dying, and respecting those differences, can promote a peaceful death and a healthy manner of dying.
Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Tell-Tale Heart." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 7th ed. New York: Longman, 1999. 33-37.