Just as any other creation myth, “Woman Chooses Death” by Blackfoot tribe, can be interpreted on what it insinuates about life and death, through its symbolism. Symbols such as the concept of the number four, the woman, and the buffalo chip are all important factors that create its symbolism. Old Man made the woman and the child not knowing what to expect. It takes him four days to complete them both, and he specifically chose four , because life can be represented in four different phases in various ways. From the weather seasons to human growth; Babies and toddlers go to teenagers , and progressively to adulthood and finally being elderly. Once there it is predictable that the end is near. Or in other words death. Old Man knew that his humans would approach their end just like they reached creation. In four different stages. The woman ,in “Woman Chooses Death”, tries to outsmart Old man by attempting to make rightful decision for her own benefit. Although she has only “been walking on earth for just a few hours.”Women are always interpreted to be the ones who bring the malice to the occasion, or what ever the occurrence may be. In this case the destiny between immortality and mortality. But why does the woman’s decision through so many off? …show more content…
It is implied to be gross for that matter. Yet it withholds the power to light up fire and allow it to burn for long periods of time. Fire is the knowledge behind Old Man, he knew the buffalo chip would float. He made it seem as if he had no idea of whether it would or not. He desired a woman and child in his world, yet he set their life and death on a simple buffalo chip. Making it seem as he saw life was nothing more ,but a game to him. After all he is God, and humans come and go as long as he creates them, but then again those four days , as stated before , had already destined the woman and child’s fate way before they had even acknowledged their
She no longer has a will to repress any untold secrets from the past, or perhaps the past. Since she has strayed far from her Christian beliefs, she has given in to the evil that has worked to overcome her. She believes she is finally achieving her freedom when she is only confining herself to one single choice, death. In taking her own life, she for the last time falls into an extremely low mood, disregards anyone but herself, and disobeys the church.
The speaker introduces the idea of the natural cycle of life, where something becomes born and eventually dies. This reflects back to the Native culture where the cycle of life was much celebrated. The idea of "death and birth" symbolizes the speaker 's love that was once born to die in the end. It also symbolizes the pleasure and pain that comes with falling in love. She was born again with the new knowledge and pleasure the love had to offer. However, it is an undeniable fact that the same love that gave her so much joy at one point, gave her just as much pain. A part of her past- self had to die in order for the speaker to be reborn.
... seeing and feeling it’s renewed sense of spring due to all the work she has done, she was not renewed, there she lies died and reader’s find the child basking in her last act of domestication. “Look, Mommy is sleeping, said the boy. She’s tired from doing all out things again. He dawdled in a stream of the last sun for that day and watched his father roll tenderly back her eyelids, lay his ear softly to her breast, test the delicate bones of her wrist. The father put down his face into her fresh-washed hair” (Meyer 43). They both choose death for the life style that they could no longer endure. They both could not look forward to another day leading the life they did not desire and felt that they could not change. The duration of their lifestyles was so pain-staking long and routine they could only seek the option death for their ultimate change of lifestyle.
No matter how hard we fight, death always wins. Like the moth in the story, people struggle with something all their life long, but at the end they all are facing the death. It’s an inevitable fact: “death is stronger than I am” (196), Woolf states. Basically, she says that we are choosing how to live – fighting or not, with someone’s help or without – the end is the same. It is pessimistic, but it’s the sad truth of life.
As Edna St. Vincent Millay begins her second paragraph of Renascence, she describes herself as joyous of her coming death. Millay has been telling the reader of her frustration and anguish as she lies on the ground burdened by the sin of her life. She cries out in sheer pain, "Ah, awful weight!" She actually describes herself as "craving" death. The dying experience was becoming so painful for Millay, that she just wanted the process to be finished. The second paragraph welcomes Millay into her eternity and in turn she becomes relaxed and satisfied about her passing from life. Millay takes on a very difficult task of not only describing the final stage of death as a joyous thing, but also attempting to persuade her audience into believing the same thing.
...ould lead to a greater outcome in hopes that the ends would justify the means. The hope that his son would be a good person rather than an intelligent one with no soul pushed him to be harsh and cruel but overall, left his son with empathy, strength, a relationship with his father, and a connection with God and the world around him.
For the first time, “I felt as if I understood,” not only the imminence of death, but the intentions of his mother (122). Mersault feels a human connection: a novel idea after all of his experiences with Raymond, Salamano, and Marie. Therefore, as Mersault faces death, he “opened [him]self to the gentle indifference of the world” (122). He recognizes that man has no control over his fate: he would still be facing the “dark wind” (122) whether or not “the sentence had been read at eight o’clock at night and not at five o’clock” (109). Thus, in the face of death, Mersault reaches his enlightened state.
...alls a “moment of extreme maternal giving,” Stanton argued for women’s right to a public voice because “‘alone [woman] goes to the gates of death to give life to every man that is born into the world; no one can share her fears, no one can mitigate her pangs; and if her sorrow is greater than she can bear, alone she passes beyond the gates into the vast unknown’” (289). Chopin may have had a clearer grasp of the immense hold of the rhetoric of motherhood than Stange acknowledges. Edna at “the gates of death” may be a woman caught in an evolving conception of self-ownership, burdened by the sorrow of realizing that she can only really own what she no longer wants, because what she does want is yet beyond her grasp. Edna’s trap is indeed a historical reflection, a comment on the tumultuous, even violent, evolution of ideologies, expectations, choices, and realities.
She says, “To mourn over the miseries of others, the poverty of the poor, their hardships in jails, prisons, asylums, the horrors of war, cruelty, and brutality in every form, all this would be mere sentimentalizing.” This reflects the personality of women to be very kind, but also shows that men don’t show the mercy or affection needed in some areas. She also showed this in the quote from the first paragraph, “...while mercy has veiled her face and all hearts have been dead alike to love and hope!” She implied that men aren’t showing the love they must show in order to have peace, therefore bringing destruction. She then reminded us that mother nature is trying to repair all of the destruction in the world. She used the term “mother nature” because it causes the audience to connect the earth with the gender of the woman and how they are kind is
Death is not a lover.” (57). As it is shown the woman feels hopeless so she kills herself. Although she is not the only one who wishes to die. The little boy admits to his father that he no longer wants to live in such a cruel world. “After a while he said: You mean you wish that you were
In his paper “The Makropulos case: reflections on the tedium of immortality” Bernard Williams asserts his central claim that when immortality is feasible it is intolerable; further, it is reasonable to regard death as an evil. He argues his position by utilization of The Makropulos case, or the case of E.M. This character and circumstance is derived from a play by Karel Capek. E.M. is a woman of three hundred and forty two years. She has survived so long due to an immortality draught concocted by her father, a physician, long before the play’s action. E.M. explains her problem with immortality is that her unending life has become incredibly dull, her emotions have become cold and indifferent. She feels that in the end, everything has happened before and life has become unsatisfying. She stops taking the immortality draught and death overtakes her. This invokes the optimistic thought that immortality may be rewarding, if certain desires continue to be satisfied. Williams expands on the idea of these desires, called categorical desires and inherent motivation, but first we should confirm the views of death that make the conversation of immortality desirable.
Clearly, he sees the evils that he has suffered as part of a larger plan; furthermore, he attributes good fortune and punishment to the work of God and in my opinion, he sees God using him for a much greater purpose.
The speaker starts sadly with a little anger, but sooner after that she changes her tone to accept God’s will. She believes that he is not going to be alone because he will meet the other deceased in the eternal life. She proclaims: “ Three flowers, two scarcely blown, the last i’th’ bud, / Cropped by th’ Almighty’s hand; yet is He good” (3-4). She is happy because her grandchildren will be more secure in heaven under the grace of God. She begins to accept God’s will: “Such was His [God] will, but why, let’s not dispute” (6). She knows it is a sin to interfere and complain about God’s plan for the universe. Thus, she reforms her hypocrisy and dissatisfaction and considers God to be “merciful as well as just”
The speaker’s language towards the woman’s death in “The Last Night that she lived” portrays a yearning attitude that leads to disappointment; which reiterates human discontent with the imperfections of life. The description of woman’s death creates an image of tranquility that causes the speaker to aspire towards death. Her death compares to a reed floating in water without any struggle. The simile paradoxically juxtaposes nature and death because nature’s connotation living things, while death refers to dead things, but death becomes a part of nature. She consents to death, so she quietly dies while those around her refuse to accept her imminent death. The speaker’s description of death sounds like a peaceful experience, like going to sleep, but for eternity. These lines describe her tranquil death, “We waited while She passed—It was a narrow time—Too jostled were Our Souls to speak. At length the notice came. She mentioned, and forgot—Then lightly as a Reed Bent to the water, struggled scarce- Consented, and was dead-“ .Alliteration in “We waited”, emphasizes their impatience of the arrival of her death because of their curiosity about death. The woman’s suffering will be over soon. This is exhibited through the employment of dashes figuratively that form a narrow sentence to show the narrowing time remaining in her life, which creates suspense for the speaker, and also foreshadows that she dies quickly. The line also includes a pun because “notice” refers to the information of her death, and also announcement, which parallels to the soul’s inability to speak. “She mentioned, and forgot—“, refers to her attempt to announce her farewell to everyone, which connects to the previous line’s announcement. The dashes fig...
Now, in relation to the man’s murder DeLillo writes that the scene, “demonstrates an elemental truth, that every breath you take has two possible endings” (78). While this elemental truth is generally known, many people often overlook the realization of how easily someone is able to take away another’s life in an instant. With that being said, our final day living is uncertain, and the possibility that our final day could be shortened through actions that happen around us regardless of the