Death Essays

Death is presented to the audience as a form of punishment, in both The Outsider and Antigone. But the protagonists in the two texts develop different attitudes towards death. Antigone anticipates her own death from the opening scene and faces it bravely, but her confidence wanes after she is sentenced …

Religion has been a vital part of society throughout history, it is therefore not surprising that it is major in the in throughout the novels One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Religion plays a fundamental role in both novels, however also a …

Paying particular attention to Shakespeare’s use of dramatic devices, compare the murder scenes of Duncan, Banquo and the Macduff family. ‘Macbeth’ is a classical tragedy, which follows the rise and fall of a once great man. Shakespeare’s tragedy is about Macbeth’s bloody rise to power, including the murder of the …

In many cases, murders have only one sole guilty party onto whom the responsibility for their crimes must be placed. Quite often, this is bestowed upon the character who administers the fatal blow. However in the case of plays, such as Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, the actions leading up …

The Lord of the Flies and Julius Caesar both contain a futile killing. In The Lord of the Flies, Simon is brutally killed. In Julius Caesar, Cinna the Poet is irrationally slayed. Both these killings are done because of a fervent mob. When Simon is killed, the scene is very …

Both ‘Death of a Naturalist’ and ‘The Early Purges’ are poems written by Seamus Heaney. Each begins by explaining a child’s enthusiasm for nature, and goes on to describe how this fascination is somehow changed. Both poems put across the idea that childhood is a time of innocence before the …

After looking at the two poems, Requiescat and Mid-term break, I have seen a poetic way of expressing the feelings shown in the mourning of a death. However, these two poems are quite different even though they are both built around the theme of death. Requiescat uses an ABAB rhyme …

It is 1946 the Second World War has just finished and the world is reeling from 70 million deaths. The world has changed and Priestley is presenting a play about how everything was before in 1912. Priestley is about to bring to light the shocking truth of Britain’s class divide, …

No matter from which angle it is looked at, Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’ is fundamentally a battle of good against evil. Throughout her lifetime, Rossetti insisted that this poem should be treated as nothing more than a harmless fairytale. If one look’s at the poem from its intended angle, a …

Charles Dickens was one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. He wrote all his books to educate people but also for entertainment. He published Great Expectations in 1861; the book was set in the 1830s. The main character in ‘Great Expectations’ is a boy called Pip. In the …