Doomed relationships Essays

  • Vengeance in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

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    Vengeance in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights Love, betrayal and revenge play leading roles in both Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights.” Both works feature doomed relationships, a ghostly haunting, and death. The court at Elsinore, despite its luxurious setting, almost mirrors the seclusion of the Yorkshire moors of Wuthering Heights — making both settings almost prison like. But, it is not setting that makes both works interesting: it is the

  • A Comparison of Peace, Anthem for Doomed Youth and Dulce et Decorum Est

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    A Comparison of Peace, Anthem for Doomed Youth and Dulce et Decorum Est Works Cited Missing All three poems are about the First World War but Peace has a highly patriotic view and displays a positive feeling about war whereas Anthem and Dulce concentrate more on the fact that people were killed for no particular reason and they also look at the true horrors of war. I will mainly be looking at the content and form of the three poems and comparing them to each other. Anthem and Dulce both

  • Close Study Of Wilfred Owen

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    ~ Anthem For Doomed Youth What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? - Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayer nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, - The shrill demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires. What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes

  • Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen

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    Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen The sonnet ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, by Wilfred Owen, criticizes war. The speaker is Wilfred Owen, whose tone is first bitter, angry and ironic. Then it’s filled with intense sadness and an endless feeling of emptiness. The poet uses poetic techniques such as diction, imagery, and sound to convey his idea. The title, ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, gives the first impression of the poem. An ‘anthem’, is a song of praise, perhaps sacred, so we get the impression

  • Why Romeo and Juliet's Relationship was Doomed from the Outset

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    Why Romeo and Juliet's Relationship was Doomed from the Outset Romeo & Juliet is a story known around the world for its tragedy, and this tragedy is all to do with Romeos and Juliet’s relationship. As Romeo and Juliet get closer and closer more people are caught up in the relationship path and everyone is affected. The relationship is influenced by several different factors. Some of them being, the feud between The House of Montague’s and The House of Capulet, the role of fate, the Friar

  • Destructive Relationships in Wuthering Heights

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    Destructive Relationships in Wuthering Heights Many people in the world are trying to find a perfect companion. Some of these may marry and not know what their new husband or wife is like. This kind of situation often leads to separation or hostility. Other situations may develop between two friends that stem from jealousy, desire for revenge, uncaring parents, etc. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights displays several characteristics of destructive relationships. Three of these are uncaring

  • Relationships Between Mothers and Daughters in Tan's The Joy Luck Club

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    Relationships Between Mothers and Daughters in Tan's The Joy Luck Club “Now the woman was old.  And she had a daughter who grew up speaking only English and swallowing more Coca-Cola than sorrow.  For a long time now the woman had wanted to give her daughter the single swan feather and tell her, “This feather may look worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions.”  And she waited, year after year, for the day she could tell her daughter this in perfect American

  • Sarah Jeannette Duncan’s A Mother in India

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    create monstrous Victorian women. Relationships of any emotional worth are rendered impossible between Helena and her daughter Cecily because of a life long separation imposed by the father. It is impossible for Helena to be Cecily’s emotional or spiritual mother because Helena is not emotionally equipped to be anything else other than a servant to her husband. Her life has been pre-arranged by a series of male allowances and dictates. Helena and Cecily’s relationship must be emotionally void to work

  • Analysis Of Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants

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    in Spain (qtd. in Charters 416). Through short, often terse statements, the man and woman deliberate over the future of their relationship in the face of an impending abortion. Many view this story as an exploration of the difference between talking and communicating, however, this lens does not allow for deeper examination of the larger role of discussion in a relationship. While Hemingway does present a situation

  • Ahab and Una's Incestuous Relationship in Naslund's Novel, Ahab's Wife

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    Ahab and Una's Incestuous Relationship in Naslund's Novel, Ahab's Wife The incestuous nature of story telling which is featured in Ahab's wife is reminiscent of the Anne Sexton's poem, Briar Rose. Una is in a constant search for sustenance. Her mind as cannot exist without the hope of learning and engulfing knowledge. As a child, it was the occupation of her father to appease her insatiable appetite. This was done with stories and the boundless possibilities she was allowed to find within the

  • Education as a Relationship

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    Education as a Relationship In what ways do the teacher and the student become united in the average classroom? The teacher might often be biased towards this or that group or individual. The students might be unmotivated and lazy, belligerent to the teacher no matter how much effort is expended on their behalf. So why then, do we try? Why is education the fundamental building block of any successful society? Education is the viaduct of understanding, and without understanding, society quickly

  • Virginia Woolf's Orlando and the Relationship between Virginia and Vita

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    Virginia Woolf's Orlando and the Relationship between Virginia and Vita It has been said the novel Orlando is the longest love-letter ever written; a celebration of the bond between women. The relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West is well documented and known to have been intimate. That Virginia was passionate and giddy about her relationship with Vita is also known and displayed in Orlando. But Orlando also offers a rare intimate glimpse into the mind of Virginia Woolf

  • Catcher in the Rye: Holdens Relationships

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    state of being. He thinks that all adults are phonies. One of the first relationships that is mentioned in the story, is Holden’s relationship with D.B., his brother. Throughout his childhood, it is obvious that Holden has idolized his older brother. Now that D.B. is a writer for Hollywood, Holden considers him a phony, and accuses him of prostituting himself by agreeing to work for the film industry. Holden has a close relationship with his younger sister, Phobe. They are total opposites. She has a

  • Frankenstein Relationships

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    Frankenstein Relationships Many stories have progressed enough to be the topic of conversation from time to time. The novel, Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus has different relationships to many other topics. The author of the story, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley who was born almost 200 years ago bringing with her the age of horror (Edison 5), used biographical strategies to write Frankenstein. Also, as time progressed, Frankenstein became a well-known story. It was turned into many different

  • RainyDay Relationships Use of Weather in Wuthering Heights

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    RainyDay Relationships Use of Weather in Wuthering Heights In Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, numerous references are made to different conditions of weather. Even the title of the novel suggests the storminess present in nearly the entire book. The often-changing weather serves to signify the characters’ personalities, as well as the changes that they go through during the course of their lives. In fact, the first incidence of a reference being made to the weather occurs with a thought

  • Reassemblage: Challenging the Relationship between Women and Visual Pleasure

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    Reassemblage: Challenging the Relationship between Women and Visual Pleasure Visual pleasure, derived from images on film, is dominated by sexual imbalance. The pleasure in looking is split between active/male and passive/female. In her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" Laura Mulvey asserts the fact that in mainstream films, women are simultaneously looked at and displayed. That is to say, the woman is both an object of desire and a spectacle for the male voyeuristic gaze. The male's

  • Relationships between Asthma and Air Pollution

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    Relationships between Asthma and Air Pollution Professor’s comment: This student’s research paper synthesizes the results of a well-selected group of articles that explore relationships between asthma and air pollution. That laboratory science is at base a social enterprise is nicely exemplified by the focus of the studies she reviews. In drawing from the articles she reviews and in organizing her paper, the student maintains a good balance between discussing air-borne pollutants themselves

  • Labor - Management Relationship

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    LABOR - MANAGEMENT RELATIONSHIP Every year in this country, there are major labor disputes that result in strikes or work stoppages. In each case, the organization, the labor union, and the public are negatively affected. Why can't there be a better way of resolving disputes between the management and labor unions to avert unnecessary strikes? Why does the relationship between the labor unions and management have to be adversarial in nature? Does anybody benefit from strikes and work stoppages

  • Familial and Marital Relationships in Beowulf

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    Familial and Marital Relationships in Beowulf Two Works Cited    To the reader of Old English Beowulf the familial and marital relationships are not so very obvious, especially when one is concentrating all of one’s mental energies on translating the thousand-year-old vocabulary of the poem. The following essay is intended to clarify those relationships while proceeding sequentially through the poem. First of all, Scyld Scefing, historic king of the Danes (Scyldings), had a son Beow(ulf) to

  • The Relationship between Hamlet and the Bible.

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    The Relationship between Hamlet and the Bible. It may appear that anything could be twisted into a typological pattern. Such interpretations appear to suffer from the structuralist faults of skating too lightly over actual texts, ignoring details that cannot be forced into a preconceived mold, and robbing narratives of their concrete shapes through abstraction. I would stress that there is more to Shakespeare than typology, but I would also insist that typology is often an important part of