In the first short story, 'the bloody chamber', it appears that the Marquis is definitely obsessed with death as we as the readers along with the narrator discover his 'chamber' of dead wives. ... The narrator being the Marquis's new wife discovers the forbidden chamber of women's dead bodies whilst he is away. The narrator states that the worst thing she saw was the 'dead lips smile'. This firstly shows that the death of the woman is characterized as a dead person cannot actually 'smile'. ... Following this, as the young child dies, his ...

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Particularly at the end of the book, O'Brien explains that in Vietnam, the soldiers created ways to make the people they were close to that died seem less dead – they kept those people alive in their head with stories, like those O'Brien wrote of his friends Ted Lavender, Curt Lemon, Kiowa, and Linda. ... O'Brien comes to the conclusion that in stories, the dead live again. ... You make the dead talk" (O'Brien 231). ... The ending of The Things They Carried was effective at finishing the novel to me, as it gave a sense of finality to all of the stories, the fina...

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The rose might be compared to the idea that the beauty of tradition is dead. Based how Emily is described in the story when she was dead as pale, drowned, small and skeletal. ... The author, William Faulkner simple reminds the reader that tradition is dead; thus, we created that amongst ourselves. Today, humanity is constantly developing new traditions and ignoring the old; therefore, old beautiful traditions are actually dead. ...

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Finally, "The Dead" snow strangely falls in Dublin and Gabriel conveys his hope that the "qualities of humanity, of hospitality, [and] of kindly humour" (Joyce, 204) of those who came before are not lost with the new, "hyper-educated" (Joyce, 204) generation succeeding them. ... Similarly, in "The Dead," this motif of ever-changing societal oppression is depicted through the snow covering all of Dublin, and how Gabriel fears that the "New Generation" (Joyce, 204) of the world will lose the values that were once so cherished by the one that pre...

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Here, the grandmother specifically chose her fancy clothes so that "in case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady.... Also, she is willing to use her innocent grandchildren to get her way; even when she is facing death, she is still only worried about her own survival and does not even care for her dead family. ...

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In many of the stories we have read in class, the theme of mental illness has been present. We see a man who kills another man for seemingly no reason, a victim of depression becoming infatuated and obsessed over a supposed woman in a wall, and we witness an elderly woman having a mental break from ...

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Many times, we try to separate ourselves from the world around us; we distance ourselves from the society. For most of us, this delibarate isolation is temporary, but for Willa Cather's protagonist in the short story Paul's Case, this seclusion is permanent. In fact, many researches show that Paul'...

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In the short stories "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," by Ambrose Bierce and "The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson, the authors left their audience in shock and awe. These authors were successful in their surprise endings because of the unique arrangement of the story; they carefully set up subtle clues...

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It also gives preparation for A Way You"ll Never Be, a story that provides many graphic details of the dead that litter the roads as a sort of highway carpet; or perhaps even for In Another Country, where the horribly injured are being cared for---many with injuries that will impair them for the rest of their lives. ...

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When the essay "Why the Novel Matters" is approached as rhetorical systems rather than statements of doctrine, it is, I think, significant as critical conceptions of the novel as those of a writer defining his genre in his own terms - dialogically, rhetorically, and artistically, as a novelist would...

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If ever there are two opposite themes offered in the telling of one tale, it is in Herman Melville's short story, "Bartleby the Scrivener". As his perspective swings between the objective and subjective, so swings the theme from comedy to tragedy. Regardless of the two perspectives from which...

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After all, they are probably most widely known for a single practice: the way they dispose of their dead by leaving them in a tower for vultures to feast on. ... She is long dead, assassinated, and her sons are dead as well. ...

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After all, they are probably most widely known for a single practice: the way they dispose of their dead by leaving them in a tower for vultures to feast on. ... She is long dead, assassinated, and her sons are dead as well. ...

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There was a low angle shot of Ridjimiraril as he rose to "begin his death dance" accompanied by mournful singing and clapsticks, signifying the great respect indigenous people had for their leaders and the dead. ...

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