Bryant is joined by Shakespeare when he states that we "bare the whips and scorns of time." ... He says that when thoughts of death come "over thy spirit" and makes you "grow sick at heart" you should go out "under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings, while from all around...comes a still voice." ... Bryant finishes his poem by stating that one should "approach thy grave like on who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." ... All three writings make death seem like something pleasant by linking them to dreams and good nights. ... Shakespe...

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern wander through Tom Stoppard's play like a virgin on their way to the lake in a modern day slasher film. ... This goes along the same vein of the virgin being asked plot setting questions you know she should reply no to but instead answers yes every time. ... Guildenstern is the virgin in this instance as he says "Nononot for us, no like that. ... Just like the virgin in the boat house, death has finally chased Rosencrantz and Guildenstern upon a boat where they find themselves in a dark confined space. ... The play portrays awareness of death as the ever-...

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Do you agree? ... From the start of the play to the finish the author (William Shakespeare) gives away little hints about Romeo and Juliet and how they are destined to die tragically. ... That just shows that William Shakespeare didn't waste much time before telling us that the two lovers take their lives. ... It is like they are waiting to die, or at least for something bad to happen. ... There are plenty more signs of fate through the play which William Shakespeare has written. ...

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We all know that most, if not all, of William Shakespeare's tragedies, are, well, tragic. ... Iago then foreshadows his plans for Othello to Roderigo, "O, sir, content you. ... I pray you, in your letters, when you shall these unlucky deeds relate, speak of me as I am. ... Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely, but too well. ... Of one whose hand, like the base Indian, threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe. ...

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HAMLET In play, Hamlet, William Shakespeare uses Hamlet's dynamic character in order to justify his procrastinate behavior. ... Shakespeare purposely makes Hamlet out to be a procrastinator for one very important reason, if Hamlet would have quickly pursued this revenge, Gertrude, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Laertes, and of course Hamlet himself would have survived and Shakespeare would not have achieved tragedy in this play. ... Yet at the same time Hamlet makes it sound almost like a fear; But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country ...

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The second poem however is written by William Shakespeare and is a secular poem, and deals with "Death" as a physical reality, which is unavoidable. ... Humans have always been like slaves to Death, running from it, and trying to prevent it. ... This clearly expressing the fact that once Death delivers us through a short sleep to eternal life, Death itself is rendered useless and will "die" as it can never take you again. ... It is extremely positive and secular, giving great hope in that death is powerless and one day will be destroyed, making him like us, "mortal." William Shakespeare...

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In William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, the title character's fight for revenge ultimately results in his downfall, and even though he succeeded in avenging his father's death, does not survive himself. ... It can be said that while Hamlet's fate is predictable and perhaps even fitting, it was not entirely expected, particularly when you consider his suicidal ruminations and that famous soliloquy beginning with "To be or not to be?" However, like 'In The End,' nothing really matters, because Hamlet's ultimate downfall is at the hand of Laertes, a ma...

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Graham Greene once said, "Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. ... A superficial reading of this memoir concludes that the work is beautifully, emotionally, and honestly written; even so, Didion's hollow tone in the memoir and the ornate and subdued dictions make the work looks rather like a reference book about grief rather than a memoir. ... The lines are excerpts from Ariel's Song, a verse passage from William Shakespeare's The Tempest. ... Just like what psychiatrist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross said, "You will heal and y...

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