He had witnessed deaths and cruel treatment. It became apparent to him that the social values of British society had been forgotten and replaced with the wild behavior of primitive man. "...Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart..." ... One would be tried and most likely sentence to death. ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh, the great tale of a Mesopotamian hero-king written in the Akkadian language during the first millennium BC, is full of dream accounts, many replete with divine omens of danger or victory; in one a nightmare creature leads the hero Enkidu to the "Land of Dust" where the souls of the dead live in perpetual darkness (Fontana). ... Dreams of the death of loved ones, so-called farewell dreams, are even more common. Abraham Lincoln dreamed of his own death in 1865. In his dream, he wandered around a "death-like" White House following the far off sounds of "pitiful sobbing"...
For example, to state that every person wants to have sex with their own mother and eliminate their father would be not too short of claiming that human nature is fundamentally evil and dark. ... A: Actually, I distinguished two driving forces: the sexual drive and the death drive. ...
