Antigone's actions were driven by her desire to serve the gods. ... There is no point in Ismene dying too as she did nothing against the law. Seeing as she is the last family member, there is no need for her to die as well. ... She simply was acting in desire to serve the gods and earn respect from them. ... Making a stand against any unjust situation is worth fighting for, for Antigone it was worth dying for....

• Word Count: 965
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The Desire of Knowledge The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall. The desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall, Francis Bacon. ... He falls in love with her, but soon realizes something not quite right about the girl because everything she touches dies. When Geovani finally figures out the truth, Patricia's life revolved around poison, she has already died. ...

• Word Count: 507
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

As I Lay Dying "I would look forward to the times when they faltered, so I could whip them-, quoted Addie. ... Never truly having the desire for a family this lonely woman was driven insane and chose to believe there wasn't anything after death for her, she believed in a created concept of nothing ness. ... Addie never truly had the desire to have a family, what she desired most was to be alone. ... You live and you die nothing more. ... Kurtz's realization came to him before he died that there's nothing after death. ...

• Word Count: 1163
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

A Destructive Desire Cheesecake. ... Her desire for something sweet vanquished all other thoughts from her mind. ... Her desire for anything to eat had driven away all her reason again. ... When her panic finally died down, she started driving home. ... Her overwhelming desire to eat had beaten her that day. ...

• Word Count: 864
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"A Streetcar Named Desire" William Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, in an essence, contains what good literature should. ... Three of these in particular, are reflected in, "A Streetcar Named Desire". ... Everyone pities Mitch because of his dying mother. ... I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!" ...

• Word Count: 715
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"The Burial at Thebes," by Seamus Heany, and, "A Streetcar Named Desire," by Tennessee Williams, both feature second tier women playing important roles, struggling against dominant male power. ... It is a lose-lose situation for Ismene, as she might see only two options; losing Antigone with shame and regret for putting her fear of Creon over supporting her sister, or dying together for the right reasons with dignity. ... Let me die with you and act right by the dead," (p. 35). ... Stella tells Eunice, her upstairs neighbor, "I couldn't believe her story and go on living with St...

• Word Count: 822
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Dying to be Thin In recent history, the idea of feminine beauty has been shifting toward a less healthy, overly thin model. ... Their desire for the perfect figure is so strong they are willing to risk their lives. Too many teenage girls are dying to be thin. ...

• Word Count: 868
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Tennessee Williams uses symbols to help communicate his ideas in A Streetcar Named Desire. ... Blanche is a "southern gentlewoman, the last representative of a dying culture too delicate to withstand the crudeness and decay surrounding her." (2) Symbols help present Blanche as a southern gentlewoman. ... Clothing is a recurring symbol in A Streetcar Named Desire. ... Death, as told by Blanche, is the opposite of Desire, and Blanche wishes to be desired. ... Without this desire, this play would be completely different and have less meaning. ...

• Word Count: 1053
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The purest language of plays" - just by studying 'A streetcar named Desire" the reader can identity the numerous symbols Williams' uses to add depth to the plot as well as unveil his characters' personalities, strengths and weaknesses. ... Light, animal characteristics, music and the streetcars Desire and Cemeteries are symbols that Kazan puts emphasis on in the film just as Williams does in the play to lead up to the climax of Blanche's disintegration into insanity and Stanley's brutal triumph over her. ... "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then tr...

• Word Count: 1210
• Approx Pages: 5

Many notable authors have had different feelings towards pastoral and wilderness settings; Henry David Thoreau was a die hard enthusiast for the wild where the Bible prefers pastoral settings. ... How can it pervade every corner; as they were driven there by misfortunes, necessity of beginnings, desire of acquiring large tracts of land, idleness, frequent want of economy, ancient debts; the reunion of suck peoples dose not afford a very pleasuring spectacle... ...

• Word Count: 1210
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Socrates states that philosophy is actually the practice for dying. ... If all mankind took the time to do this also then when their time to die came along also, then they would be ready and would accept the fact. However, who is to say that the soul will live after the body dies? ... He says that the body "fills us with wants, desires, fears, all sorts of illusions and much nonsense," and this is what stops man from learning true knowledge and from being prepared for death (66 c). ... This way a person can still gain knowledge before dying and not be afraid of death when it does come. ...

• Word Count: 1027
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

William Faulkner: The Dying Rose of Emily In "A Rose for Emily", William Faulkner's use of imagery sets a tone for the general theme of the story, death. ... In this story, we see Emily much like the rose, an object of beauty and desire that soon begins to wither and die. Faulkner, through great use of imagery, paints a vivid of a dying rose, Miss Emily. ...

• Word Count: 606
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Death with dignity is a way for people who know they will die a way to do it on their terms, however they see fit. ... Watching someone you love and care about actively die is devastating and painful. ... "There is not a cell in my body that is suicidal or that wants to die," she said, "I want to live. ... In the end the greatest human freedom is to live, and die, according to one's own desires and beliefs. Death with dignity is a movement to provide options for the dying to control their own end-of-life care. ...

• Word Count: 1057
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Socrates faced a life ending death penalty, and although he had a well-prepared opportunity to escape and save himself, he chose to die. ... A consequentialistic view of that ilk leaves no range for adjustment and indirectly judges the most human desire to stay alive as weak and inferior compared to society's rules and values....

• Word Count: 560
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Socrates clearly didn't wish to die. ... Socrates' acceptance of death is not the same as a desire for death. One would not say that a terminally ill person who accepts the fact that they are going to die wants to die. Acceptance and desire are two separate concepts and, as the case with Socrates, it is entirely possible for one to accept death without desiring it. ... Socrates' acceptance of death stems not from a desire to die, but from the fact that his integrity and his pursuit of wisdom were worth more to him than his life....

• Word Count: 578
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In Tennessee William's play "A Streetcar Named Desire", the more Blanch Dubois tries to fit in with the new aged America, the more she is setting herself up as a victim to society. ... She is introduced as a woman who seems to be defeated because her husband has died, her family fortune is gone and she has drinking problems. ... Blanche had a drinking problem, she had lost the family fortune and estate, her husband had died of suicide years earlier, and she was fired from her teaching job for having an affair with a student. ...

• Word Count: 551
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Title Street Car Named Desire Author Tennessee Williams SETTING A Streetcar Named Desire is set in the home of the Kowalskis located in a poor, but charming neighborhood of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... Blanche describes her long vigils at the bedside of the dying members of the family and how the house had to be mortgaged to pay for the funeral expenses. ...

• Word Count: 943
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Blanch and Stella talk in a sisterly way about Mitch and we realise that she is does have true feelings for Mitch but we also realise that these feelings are not true they are one that are for security rather than the true love that she desperately desires and constituently seeks. ... Perhaps because he lives with his dying mother, Mitch is noticeably more sensitive than Stanley's other poker friends. ... Mitch appears to be a kind, basically decent human being who, it becomes apparent in Scene Six, hopes to marry so that he will have a woman to bring home to his dying mother. ... Though ...

• Word Count: 943
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

He says in this speech, flat out: "To die, to sleep-..'... We see here for the first time why he wants to die. ... Even in his desire for death he will speak but not act. ... He is too afraid of the unknown, of the "undiscovered country" (3.1.80) to act on his desire. ... It shows us why he wants to die and also why he chooses to remain alive. ...

• Word Count: 777
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

As he puts it "from what I have tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire"(3-4). What he is saying is that he does not fear dying in fire because fire is equated with desire. He feels that dying in desire is not too bad of a way to die. As most people now when something is done with desire there is always a "fire" that is burning inside. ... Frost is saying that he could stand dying through the coldness of hate. ...

• Word Count: 534
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

His actions warped the minds of others; likewise, the teenage Stella in Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl" is motivated by a desire for power. ... These factors combine to make the teenage girl desire to vent all her pent up feelings of anger and betrayal on the baby, no matter how innocent Magda may be. ... The shawl represents Magda's own figurative baby, her sister, her everything, keeping her safe and alive, without which she will die. ... Thus, the baby dies quickly, brutally, and tragically, leaving her sister with the short and fleeting sense of power she craved so desperately. Magd...

• Word Count: 491
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Alliance begins to separate because of the desire of Edmund. ... Mortally wounded by Edgar, sees that Goneril and Regan died for him. ... Dies in the end. ... Later dies because of the stab wound. ... Several questions are raised; What if Cornwall didn't die? ...

• Word Count: 873
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

While he was still a boy his father died. ... According to this doctrine, moral virtues are desire regulating character traits, which are at a mean between more extreme character traits. ... When it comes to the purpose or will of morality, Aristotle mentions two factors: reason stimulated to act by desire, or desire guided and controlled by understanding. ... Moral weakness of the will then results in someone doing wrong, knowing it is right, and yet follows his desire against his reason. So basically ones reason is what motivates a willful action, and ones desire motivates an action of moral...

• Word Count: 341
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

For instance, it may be that the non-fulfillment of a desire constitutes a harm only if the person still has that desire "perhaps, past desires don't count. ... That is, I had always hoped that my desire to write the book would persist. ... For if someone can't be harmed by the non-fulfillment of a past desire (a desire that they once had but don't have anymore), then the dead cannot be harmed by the non-fulfillment of the desires they had while alive, e.g., the desire to be respected after one's death. And the question also bears on whether we should respect a deme...

• Word Count: 1048
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Some others claim love is a feeling, which is over sexual desire and it contains deeper attachment increasing time by time. ... People who believe love is sexual desire claim that there is no love and the feeling which people suppose as love won't last long and will die after a while. Agreeing with this aspect partly, if the feeling will die after a while, then that feeling can't be called as love. ... (Freud, p 227) Since love is a feeling over sexual desire it requires making sacrifices for the beloved person. ... Love is a feeling over sexual desire. ...

• Word Count: 842
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School