Theme Descriptions of As I Lay Dying William Faulkner portrays all of his themes in the actual human drama of the South, where William Faulkner grew up. ... In As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner explores the impermanence of existence and identity. ... (Magill Book Review) One of the most important main characters in the novel was Addie, who is the mother and central character in As I Lay Dying. ... At that moment when Addie dies, she has finally achieved the wholistic aspect of Self. ... God, I believe in God." ...

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This paper explores how Faulkner employs the minor character Whitfield in As I Lay Dying to belittle simplistic Christianity. ... Whitfield claims repentance: "all that night I wrestled with Satan, and I emerged victorious. ... Whitfield is crossing the river because, yes, he does not want Addie to tell of their fornication, but he also desires to make things right with her family before she dies: "I would say to her husband: "Anse, I have sinned. ... A single minor character like Reverend Whitfield has much to reveal about William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. ... Working toward a full u...

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Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Morrison's Beloved are similarly in the fact that both portray how community plays a key role in a families functionality in society. ... Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, while dealing with a situation almost polar opposite to Beloved, follows the same pattern of community playing a role in a family's functionality. ... Ultimately, "being outside the community leaves Sethe and her family open to assault by the enforcers of the system of oppression that created the situation" (Jesser 1) As the Bundrens continued their venture in As I Lay D...

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Death and fame are illuminated in the poem To an Athlete Dying Young. ... At the conclusion of World War I, deaths totaled roughly three hundred thousand (PBS) a disproportionate amount of which were under the age of 21. ... Housmans theme lives on. ... The historical criticism allows us a rare opportunity to glimpse the era of World War I. ... He uses the image of a young athlete dying and laying to rest with other people from the town who have passed away. ...

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The poet deepens the reader's appreciation of the theme by employing imagery, contrast and an ambiguous tone. ... There is a confusion of tenses, "the dead man lay moaning", however, the poet is using the dead man as a symbol for her own feelings of isolation; by just existing he embodies all she is trying to say and so is in effect "moaning" to her. This personal treatment of the theme helps us appreciate it more as it shows the poet has a deep understanding. ... The line "It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way" is ambiguous as it describes how he really died, the col...

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Ironies of the Bundren Journey As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner, is a novel set in the rural Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha in the early 1900's. ... In conclusion, As I Lay Dying would not be the novel it is today without its portrayal of the Bundren family's loyalty to one another, their misconceptions of true heroism and the irony of Darl realizing his true reality. Heroism, reality, and loyalty are three themes that William Faulkner continually uses throughout the novel. ... "As I Lay Dying Reconsidered." ... As I Lay Dying. ...

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In the drama script "Romeo and Juliet", by William Shakespeare one of the main themes shown throughout the play is conflict. ... "Two households, both alike kin dignity, In fair Verona where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny". There does not appear to be a reason for the grudge yet many people die as a result. ... "As I hate hell, all Montague's and thee"". ... Only when Romeo and Juliet died did the two families reunite. ...

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The dark and gloomy physical setting lays out the mood for Dostoevsky's novel, incorporating a feeling of utter desolation in the reader. ... I am sure it's quite half through your lodging you have become so melancholy" (216). ... It is also in his tomb where Porfiry Petrovitch, a detective, discloses that he knows Raskolnikov is indeed the murderer; Raskolnikov's insane personality then "dies" upon hearing that he has been revealed. ... After reading this novel, I realized that much of the world suffers in their physical environment, a theme clearly presented by Dostoevsky....

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The Silmarillion and Judeo-Christian Themes Tolkien disliked topical and allegorical readings of his mythology. ... In essence, the similarities to the Judeo-Christian creation myth are deliberate devices which depict Tolkien's understanding of his audience as well as lay the groundwork for a consistent thematic style throughout his mythology. ... When Sauron meets with Gorlim, he says to him, " I hear now that thou wouldst barter with me. ... These words recall the biblical account of Jesus's betrayal when Judas goes before the high priests and says, "What are you willing to gi...

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His brother Allie dies when Holden is younger. ... In the second verse of "The Boxer" there are the following lines: "When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy, /In the company of strangers,/In the quiet of a railway station, /Running scared, /Laying low," (Simmon and Garfunkel) This applies to Holden. ... /I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome /I took some comfort there." ... In verse five of "The Boxer" these are the lyrics : "Then I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone /Going home, Where the New York City winters aren't blee...

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The strict form of the villanelle emphasizes the melancholy the speaker feels for his father's condition, and also emphasizes the father's stubbornness to want to lay down and die. ... Not only are they a son's plea to his dying father, but they embody the theme of the poem as well. ... Both of these parts will die, one will not immortalize the other. ... They too "rage against the dying of the light." ... "Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray", (17) is the speaker begging his father to show some sort of passion for the life that is leaving him, he can even ye...

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One road looks better than the other, but both of them lay there before him looking like they both deserved to be traveled upon. ... His choice led him down the wrong road, maybe even the road traveled by everyone, and the person ended up dying because they chose that route. They made a choice, and they had to live or rather die by the results of that decision. ... For my poem, I chose a nature theme. ... I think that this animated collage will best show the central theme of the poem, to make the right decisions. ...

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In novels, setting often contributes to the action and themes of a play. ... Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream lays out how the setting of Athens shows the harsher side of the play. ... Shakespeare shows the unforgivingness by, "Either to die the death or to abjure Forever the society of men.... Shakespeare displays the mischievous by, "Forsook his scene and entered in a brake, When I did him at this advantage take, An ass's nole I fixèd on his head.... To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?...

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Resurrection is perhaps the theme of A Tale of Two Cities. There are several themes of resurrection in this book. ... By dying, and saving Charles Darnay for Lucie Manette, Sydney Carton is "resurrected." ... Resurrection was a very clever theme for Dickens to use because if the characters in A Tale of Two Cities couldn't be recalled back to life, they would simply die off." ... He died for Charles Darnay, his wife (Lucie Manette), and their child little Lucie. ...

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The theme Welty is trying to get across is live life to the fullest. Welty shows the theme through the character, setting, and symbols. ... Solomon is dying and Livvie is ready to go out and see what the world has to offer. Welty uses great symbols to support the theme. ... Now I lay eyes on young man and it come to be somebody I know all the time, and been knowing since we were born in a cotton patch, and watched grow up year to year, Cash McCord growed to size growed up to come in my house in the end ragged and barefoot" (522). ...

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Challenging authority is a main theme which emphasizes the justifications of many actions that are made in the plays "Oedipus the king" and "Antigone" and show how both make moral choices and suffer the consequences. ... "These laws-I was not about to break them, not out of fear of some man's wounded pride, and face retribution of the gods. Die I must" (Antigone, page 82, lines 509-512).For Antigone her choice to bury her brother was with purposeful intentions as she was aware of the consequences in which results in her death .Her justification for her brothers burial is that only the la...

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From the time of the Greeks, tragedy has been one of the main themes of writers. ... So, thinking Juliet dead he returned, went to where she lay and killed himself. ... Thus with a kiss I die." ... This is thy sheath, there rust and let me die." so when the died they were next to each I think that was fate that they were to die next to each other. ... From the time of the Greeks, tragedy has been one of the main themes of writers. ...

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Tolkien was Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa on January 2, 1892 and died on September 3, 1973. ... The theme of the book applied the idea that man is man's greatest enemy and we are yet to over come our own twisted nature. ... In actuality the themes that were implied in the book can be applied to any time period. We seem to believe that we are supreme and modernized individuals, but many don't realize the problems that lay within and beyond our own back yard. ... I also feel that the theme expresses man's unwillingness to overtly lay down our own freedom at the fee...

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We can never know when it will consume us but when it does happen, we can die either in the dark or in the light of God like the grandmother. ... I acquired that idea from the website Big C Catholics since the website has a same view I did of the Misfit and the reasoning behind his killing and why Flannery wrote her short story this way. ... Another theme that I found interesting is the morals that both the Grandmother and the Misfit have towards everyone. ... She only does this due to the fact she is about to die in a few moments and she was grasping at straws to save her life. ... The s...

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Although a lot of people die, they are dying for their love or to help a loved one in need. There is a lot of hatred in the play, but I feel that love is really the main focus. ... A lot of people die for love. ... He was guarding the burial ground where Juliet lay and Romeo, who loved Juliet more, came along and killed Paris so he could see his wife. So the theme of the play is love and most of the play is based around love. ...

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There is no doubt an emotional scarring took place when Vonnegut exited the slaughterhouse, only to lay his eyes upon the incinerated corpses of over 100,000 civilians. ... Many died for a cause they didn't truly understand. ... Billy becomes insane trying to make sense of the death he experiences, "The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. ... Vonnegut's acceptance of events is shown through stating the phrase, "So it goes," as the people around him die. ... As a major anti-war author of the time, Vonnegut's ant...

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And stint thou too, I pray thee, Nurse, say I Ill look to like if looking liking move, But no more deep will I end art mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly (1.3.68-101) This scene occurs when Lady Capulet and the Nurse are discussing Juliet's marriage. ... She develops mature views on marriage, coming to believe it to be a serious commitment for life, and would rather die than cheat on her husband. ... I long to die If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy. (4.1.68) She brings up the theme among herself, as she contradicts herself by giving in to passion and u...

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It was later, in 1971, that the idiom "the day the music died" was coined about that fateful night. ... The last line of the chorus is repeated twice and is a direct reference to a Buddy Holly song called "That"ll be the Day that I Die." ... Though puns, metonymy, irony, and imagery are represented all through the tune, the first and second stanzas embody one central theme. The first verse lays the foundation for the premise of the song. ... Though music did not literally "die," it did change. ...

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In all these versions, the theme of the story is about struggles, suffering, love, and good winning over evil. ... The spot where the fish bones lay becomes magical for her. ... (Ashliman) Tam tells her sister to jump in a pan of boiling water; she does and dies. Tam's stepmother goes blind from crying over the loss of her daughter as a result of her sorrow, she dies. ... Cam, the wicked sister, dies in boiling water. ...

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They talk about Bob, a boy Soc who Johnny kills, wanting for somebody to lay down the laws and tell him to stop bullying people. ... Being a loyal friend is not only a theme in the book, but also related to our society today. ... Once Johnny dies, it is incomprehensible to Dally. ... So Winston loses it when one thing he loved dies. ... I don't want that to happen to you. ...

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