It's very hard to look at the beauty of something when you can't get past the bad. It is hard to think that something so horrible could have a sincere purpose in this life. Too often we focus on the negative and can never overcome that to see the positive.
Beauty and grace come in all forms and Dillard sees this when she witnesses a Mocking bird taking a death defying fall towards the ground. Just as the bird was about to hit the ground he opened up his wings in an elegant matter and softly floated towards the ground. When the bird did this he thought no one was watching he was not conscious of what was happening around him. Yet Dillard watched it all. No matter what the atmosphere or surrounding the bird still would have been graceful. It didn't matter whether or not anyone was watching him he is graceful and beautiful always. That was the way he was created and the way he will always be. Dillard says "I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there."(225) She is telling us to try and witness the natural beauty of things that are around us everyday. Beauty and grace are everywhere but not everyone is aware of that and that doesn't mean just because you don't witness something being beautiful or graceful that it is not. Dillard uses the example of the old saying "If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one around to here it would it still make a sound." Of course it would it is natural that it would make the same noise as any other tree that falls in a forest whether or not there is someone to hear it.
Sharks are one of the most common feared animals because of the violent behavior. Dillard views these animals in a different way, she gets to see them in a way many others do not. She witnesses the sharks swimming beautifully in the water. Just as eating other animals in the water is of there nature so is swimming in a beautiful and graceful manner.
There is ample evidence for the success of Frogs; it was awarded first prize at the Lenaia in 405BC and was performed again in the following year. This restaging was an unprecedented event, even more so after the Athenian State, historically "well able to look after itself both in peace and in war' ...
In "On the Life of Man" Ralegh portrays life as a play with many changes of scene, in its last act it also conveys a tragic earnestness imposed by the inevitability of death : What is our life a play of passion ; Our mirth the music of division ; Our mother's wombs the tiring-houses be Where we are dressed for this short comedy. ... Thus march we, playing, to our latest rest, Only we die in earnest --- that's no jest. ...
The Cheese and the Worms was a story written about a sixteenth-century miller, named Domenico Scandell, who went by the name of Menocchio. He was denounced to the Holy office being accused of speaking heretical and most pious words about Christ. Carlo Ginzburg uses trial records as his primary sou...
, Belinda asks her beau to retrieve the lock: "With earnest Eyes, and round unthinking Face, He first the Snuff-box open'd, then the Case, And thus broke out--- "My Lord, why, what the Devil? ... 'tis past a Jest---nay prithee, Pox! ...
In the parados of The Frogs, there is also another quote which represents the desire of Aristophanes of winning the competition- the chorus sings to Demeter, "Part in earnest, part in jest, we may shine above the rest, and our play in all men's eyes favour find, and win the prize." ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare, probably one of the most or the most well-known dramatist that has ever lived. But many people still find his work boring. Why? Maybe they don't know much about him, or were forced to learn about him and they didn't want to. So, why should people today study Shakespeare? ...
1. Introduction The living conditions of the lower class in Victorian England, under the effects of industrialization, is one of the most frequently depicted issues in nineteenth century British literature. Elizabeth Gaskell, a prominent novelist from that era wrote about these conditions and was a ...
