In Angela Carters 'The Bloody Chamber' death appears in most of the short stories, but in different ways both actually and metaphorically. ... Similarly, in "The Snow Child," the count appears to have an unhealthy fascination with death as an act of necrophilia arises at the climax of the short story. ... As the short story progresses, the narrator discovers more and more victims of the Marquis's murders. ... This event of graphic necrophilia is considered the most graphic image in the collection of short stories which explicitly portrays the Count's obsession with death ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Tragedy of Emily In sifting through many of the details in the story, it came to me as one of the main dramatic aspects that could be focused on Emily's emotional and traumatic responses surrounding the death of the closest member of her Family, which created the source of her misery. ... She did that for three days." but for almost six months she did not appear on the streets. " " we did not even know she was sick; we had long since given up trying to get information from the Negro. " ", she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people" "She was sick for a long time, Wh...

• Word Count: 700
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The earliest Gilgamesh stories seem to come from Sumerian texts which most likely reflect the crystallization of earlier epic traditions, and was probably one of the most well-known and influential poems available (West 65). The stories concerning Gilgamesh in Sumerian are short and episodic and present no unifying theme, but in the Akkadian versions it appears that the poet has unified these traditional stories into one larger eleven or twelve tablet epic with more unified themes (West 65, Noegel 240). ... Gilgamesh is described as two-thirds god and one-third human, which marks him out as a ...

• Word Count: 4256
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Hemingway's short story "A Clean Well-Lighted Place- presents a café in which two waiters converse about their sole patron late one evening as they await his departure and the end of their shift. ... Even though the story takes place during or near wartime as indicated by a soldier passing by on the street, the young man is indifferent to it as it does not affect him directly. ... There could be many causes for this characters depression but what is ultimately important is that this story is a revelation by Hemingway into his own personal consciousness and perspective on life. ...

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She shares the story of a young girl, Kara Tippetts, who resisted the need of assisted suicide despite her severe condition of cancer. ... Tippetts wrote to another patient in Oregon, a state where assisted suicide is legal, saying that "one day the story of my young daughter will be made beautiful in her living because she witnessed my dying.... This is the most effective way Lopez makes her appeals as she has to persuade the audience in a very short amount of writing due to article space restrictions. ... Lopez opens her article with the words of Tippetts open letter, "one day the ...

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• Has Bibliography
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A short story, which resonates the depressing tone of Fight Club is Graham Greene's 1954 "The Destructors," about a group of kids destroying an elderly's house, solely because they are resentful of the beautiful upper class' existence. ...

• Word Count: 892
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the novel 'The Fault in Our Stars', the author John Green depicts a story containing three protagonists who face the same concerns and controversies in their lives. ... During the novel the protagonists have to come to terms with the fact they have to make do with all the side effects of them dying and try to live their short lives as best as they can. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Literature as a way of representing humans thoughts and facts , it becomes people's interest ; they tend to read novels , short stories , and fictions .in accordance to this research topic "Immortality" , Shakespeare was one of the most famous writers to wrote about death , immortality , and existence of souls . ...

• Word Count: 2113
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate