Death Literature Reviews Samples For Students

1. Holocaust is the story of Nazi atrocities going way beyond mere extermination of Jews. Doris L. Bergen, historian and an author gives new insights and nerve-chilling details using several survivor and eyewitness testimonies. Bergen has uncovered hitherto unknown photographs. The systematic extermination of Afro-Germans, non-Jewish Poles, the Soviets, and homo-sexual men, among others is far gruesome than what was thought earlier. Hitler’s men, police, and even his doctors were trained to be killers. Hitler’s regime created a sense of legitimacy to these vicious acts of genocide. Timothy Snyder describes in gross detail of how Jews on their ...

Dubliners is a novel in the loosest of senses, much in the same way that The Martian Chronicles is a novel. Both books contain vignettes that can stand alone as separate short stories, although they contain characters and a sort of story arc that holds the whole entity together. One of the main elements that holds the story together is the plight of the poor in Dublin; despite the fact that most of the characters are poor, the truth of their poverty comes to the reader indirectly, through such details as the fact that Lenehan has not eaten all day, while he ...

Non-conformity

“Too many people in the society conform to what the government says is right and moral, when the true meaning of right or moral comes from what each individual holds to be what is right” Henry David Thoreau. (Nina et al, 983)
In this quote, David Thoreau acknowledges there are many things in the contemporary society that can change the character of an individual. Notably, people do not question directives from the government regardless of the morality or the correctness of the issue at hand. Thoreau states that people should examine the morality of an issue depending on ...

The Lottery is a short fiction written by Shirley Jackson. It is a story about a shocking tradition practiced by the people in a certain town. Shirley ironically gives the lottery a bad the ceremony of public stoning, contrary to what it originally means; winning a lot of money. The story focuses around a village during a ceremony they call the lottery that ensures there is enough rain for their crops. In the story, a number of literary devices are used by the author, for example, irony, symbolism, foreshadowing, only to mention but a few. The author uses these literary devices to make her story interesting and to keep ...

The story A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor is about a family that goes out to vacation. The Grandmother gives direction on the road to follow and then they find themselves in Tennessee and not Florida as planned. The family is set to perish at the end of it all and clues are given throughout the story that foreshadows the violent ending that is in store for the family.
They had gone too far when they realized they had taken the wrong road. The family is set to perish not because of natural mishaps ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Short fictions have various elements such as plot, theme, imagery, dialogues, setting and characters, each used in a specific way to express the views of the author, about the society in which he/she or the characters of their story is a part of. Using these elements an author drives home his/her point of view on worldly affairs. This essay is an attempt to explore the theme of loneliness and love, as portrayed in William Faulkner’s most anthologized short story ‘A Rose for Emily’.
‘A Rose for Emily’ is the most famous, at the same time, most shocking of the ...

Background and Setting

“Trifles” is a one-act play written by Susan Glaspell in 1916. Glaspell brought base for her play from a real murder story of a former John Hossack, the case that she had covered when she was a journalist with Des Moines Daily News Paper. In that case, the victim’s wife, Mrs. Margaret, was suspected as a murderer. Based on this story, she built a story for her one-act play, “Trifles.” The action of the play revolves around a murder of a farmer Mr. John Wright. Someone put him to death by strangling him by a rope. His wife was sleeping next to him when he was murdered, ...

1. I support the reading that Kipling is critical of the empire and the practices because Kipling was able to stop Dravot and Carnehan from blackmailing a rajah despite the fact that he liked them.
2. Dravot and Carnehan are able to conqueor the inhabitants of Kafiristan by making use of weapons and also by deceiving them. They used rifles to conquer each and every village. Furthermore, when the people in Kafiristan thought Davot was a “God” decided to deceive them that he was indeed a “God” in order to make it easier to conquer Kafiristan. Technology is used where the ...

The novel At Fault, published in 1890, brought its author, Kate Chopin, a great deal of attention and appreciation from critics, especially for the impressive realism with which she built her characters. Some were extremely powerful and bold, too bold for that time, like the protagonist, and others were very straightforward, uniquely American, like the half-black half-Native American, half-black Joçint.
The mythical and historical association of Native Americans to nature is livelier than ever in Chopin's character, who has no desire of following the path set for him by his father and is drawn to the woods. He ...

What Hamlet Has Changed and What We Learn From Hamlet and Hamlet the Play by William Shakespeare

Information Hamlet Learns Concerning Events in Denmark
Hamlet learns about various events in Denmark and finds out more information concerning his family, friends, reality, and appearances, balancing thoughts, loyalty, polities, and love. The new information that Hamlet learns becomes essential in his life and influences his perception and conception about various aspects in life. Hamlet realizes that Denmark is filled with corruption and is on the verge of destruction. He finds out that ruthless scheming by many people starting with the palace, and royal treason troubles Denmark.

Family

Hamlet learns significant information concerning his family. First, he finds out ...

Resentment is at the centre of the fiction. Most characters in play are resentful of others. George’s refusal to accept the marriage between Ann and Chris shows resentment. He claims that the family of Chris is responsible for their problem. The keller’s, according to George made their father to be arrested. George opposes the marriage between Ann and Chris because he believes that it is Joe who had destroyed their family. Joe’s father hates Joes according to the story told by George.
Sue is resentful of Chris. She blames Chris of Harming a bad influence on ...

Philosophy Journal

“Burnt Norton” by T.S. Eliot
This poem is told through a narrator speaking directly to an audience. He warns of living in the present and not to suffer the past or worry about the future, “If all time is eternally” present. To worry about what one has already done in the past, “Down the passage which we did not takeTowards the door we never opened will not help to live well in the present.” (Eliot) To spend one’s time think and planning for the future is also a waste, “Here is a place of disaffection Time before and time after”. ( ...

Throughout Clarice Lispector’s novella, The Hour of the Star, colors and sounds are used to convey a feeling or message. The story is a very sad story about a young misfortunate girl from North-east Brazil who is suffering from tuberculosis. The story is told through the perspective of a male writer who is struggling with the young girl’s suffering. Lispector used an array of colors and sounds to entice emotion from the reader. This use of colors and sounds were both well-developed elements in the book, and these elements will be discussed throughout this essay.
The primary sound “bang” was ...

Theme

The Vacuum is a poem by Howard Nemerov that focuses on the central theme of loneliness caused by the death of a loved one. However, Nemerov took a very different twist in writing the poem, mainly because its entire structure is composed of puns that tend to reference the word “vacuum” in two ways – the space the wife of the speaker left when she died and the appliance, the vacuum cleaner, she once frequently used when she was living. Given such a rather sad yet creative expression, Nemerov was able to vividly embody the emotions of the speaker, who is missing his wife ...

Violence of colors in “The Raven” and “Lenore”

In the poems “The Raven”, “Lenore” Poe inquires the loss of ideal beauty and the difficulty in getting it back. These two poems are narrated by a young man crying over the untimely death of his beloved.
In “The Raven,” Poe successfully unites his philosophical and aesthetic ideals. In this piece, a young scholar who is emotionally exhausted of the phrase “Nevermore” repeated by a raven in answer to his question about the probability of an afterlife with his deceased lover.
“Lenore” shows different ways in which the dead are best remembered, either by mourning or celebrating life beyond earthly ...

Introduction

Euthanasia is the act of providing assisted, voluntary or involuntary death to a patient, mostly terminally ill patients (ANA, 2013). Euthanasia can be administered by the physicians and nurses on request of either the patient, the relatives of a patient who is not in a position to make a request or by the physicians and the nurses depending on the condition of the patient. Euthanasia is an issue that has raised questions not only in the health care system but also in the legal system (ANA, 2013). It is surrounded by moral, social, cultural and religious challenges and finding a common ground to accommodate ...

Edgar Allan Poe is a prominent American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, whose works are popular with the readers all over the globe. The timeless themes of Poe’s stories and the struggles of his characters are indeed remain relevant nowadays. His cocktail of death, love and suffer is of an undying combination. His short stories and poems are sodden with darkness, agony, mystery and obsession of inevitable death, they thrill and excite. The Pit And The Pendulum, The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall Of The House of Usher are only a few of his ...

Henry Charles Bukowski (1920 – 1994) was an original poet in that he could write very profound poetry without sounding pompous or condescending. Although best known for his humorous works, he mostly wrote on serious topics like love and death. One of his best poems encompassing both of these issues is “For Jane” which is widely assumed to be a lament about the death of his first love. Bukowski compresses his bewilderment, his fear, his rage and his new-found knowledge in the final stanza of the poem.
The stanza begins “what you were” and that’s basically an apt summary ...

While I was reading the story I expected Mrs. Mallard to be sad because of the worsening illness, however, she expressed the different feeling of freedom and independence from her husband’s death. As per the story’s title, the story of changing her feeling about her husband’s death happened within only an hour. She enjoyed freedom right after the storm of grief. Her attitude towards his death clearly showed that she has been waiting a long time for her husband’s death during the married life.
Although it is a short fiction that does not provide a detailed information ...

Loss is an inevitable experience that may arise from the demise of a loved one as well as other life events. In most cases, individuals respond through grief, a normal process that leads to acceptance of loss. Normal or uncomplicated grief typically does not require formal treatment although grieving persons need to find the support and information they need (Zisook & Shear, 2013). However, there are individuals who experience prolonged and debilitating grief, referred to as complicated grief. Social workers play an integral role in helping individuals through the grief process by assessing for related needs as well as providing or bridging ...

Possible Causes of the Problem

Grieving among nurses is a common emotion. By grieving, nurses demonstrate empathy that each human being goes through in life whenever a friend or family member is in a dilemma. However, there has been a misconception that nurses are not meant to demonstrate any feelings towards the patients that they serve. It is important to understand that most nurses develop relationships and bonds with the patients that surpass professional ethics. By spending much time with the patients, nurses develop relationships that affect them when the patients succumb to the problems that they are facing. The main problem that will be shown in this ...

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is a short story that begins and ends with heartbreak. The story begins with the news that Mrs. Louise Mallard's husband, Mr. Brently Mallard has died. Mrs. Mallard, who suffers from heart trouble, reacts to this news rather unusually, unlike how a normal woman would, and secludes herself in her room. What follows are some vague descriptions and Mrs. Mallard’s frequently joyful exclamations of finally being free and being able to live herself for herself. Naturally, this makes readers wonder whether Mrs. Mallard was even happy with her marriage. However, before they ...

Analysis of the Poem Do Not Get Gentle into That Good Night

Dylan Thomas wrote the poem titled Do Not Get Gentle into That Good Night in 1951. It is one of the most popular and well-known poems by Thomas. It is dedicated it to his dying father. Therefore, the main theme of the poem is death. Yet the poem goes beyond the classical understanding of death. It is full of feelings, full of energy and even “gives a sense of rising hysteria” (Kendry).Thomas uses a special poetic form of villanelle for his work. This form contains two repeating rhymes (night/light/right and so on) and this repetition helps the author to create ...

Poetry is a genre in literature that concerns itself with presenting and communicating ideas and moral teachings in a way that evoke feelings and conscience of readers to aspects of society addressed by the poet. To understand and appreciate a poets work one need to appreciate the setting and language used to deliver the theme and teachings. These literary elements include themes, poetic use of language and character traits of the persona in deliverance of the literary work (Rath, 2003).
The poet also uses themes in the poem to convey his message. A theme can be defined as the focus of ...

Dear Jannette:

Living in America it is easy to become overweight, there is temptation on every block and cheap fast food is everywhere. No one can really say that he or she has never succumbed to the lure of sweet, delicious, tantalizing food.
You and I have been friends for many years and you have stayed close to me as a sister; sometimes even more than a sister. Over the years I have watched you gain more and more weight and I fear for you because diabetes runs in your family. If you continue to gain weight and become diabetic without doubt ...

Introduction

This paper seeks to evaluate the play Bengal Tiger in Baghdad presenting different angles from which the play write presents his case on human interaction and reaction to circumstance. Themes in the play are of sin and redemption that arise due to continuous violence unto its conclusion.

Body

The play is set in the year 2003 in Baghdad backdrop of the Iraq war. It aims to explore themes that are universal in nature. This are themes to do with sin and redemption caught up in a sequence of unending violence that is realized from the beginning of the play set to ...

The Odyssey is a novel by Homer. It is based on a love story which describes the adventures of Odysseus. It tells of Odysseus encounter of hardships as he struggles to get back home after the war to the people he loved and his family who thought he died during the war. One of the major themes in the Odyssey is the theme of love. The theme of love is very strong and powerful as it becomes a major driving force for Odysseus as he embarks on his journey through hardships back home to his family after the Trojan War.
In the ...

The Girl with Bangs

When I read this story, the type of love that I see reflected is Ludus, which considers love as a game. In this love style, one or both the partners have self-oriented approach to love as they minimize dependency and commitment. In this love style, the partners rarely become involved with one partner and often have more than one partner. These partners fail to reveal their true feelings to their each other, especially if they realize that by doing so; they can gain some advantage from them (Smith, 2004). They usually want pleasure from each other and whenever they are ...

Literature Review

Nearly 260,000 patients pass on in the National Health Service hospital facilities in the United Kingdom. This is approximately 56% of the total number of patient deaths recorded in the year 2008 and is in total contrast to 16% of patients who pass on at home, 9% that die in hospices and 18% that die in community health facilities(Office for National Statistics,2010).
It is acknowledged that the demise of someone familiar or known to someone has a great psychological effect on the person experiencing bereavement. There have been numerous studies that have been carried out over ...

Fences

Story explores the lives of two African American friends, Troy and Bono and their families illustrating their struggles as they face discrimination and racism. ‘Fences’ is an educative story that story highlights the problems and struggles of a typical African American family under biased ideologies of racism. “Fences” is a good comical story that is engaging, but has a sad ending.
Wilson presents an interesting play that explores and gives equal advantage to all the characters by developing their roles through their struggles. Lyons, Troy’s son before getting married to Rose had never experienced the fatherly side of Troy. This ...

“The things they carried” is a uniquely put together story by Tim O’Brien that is partially fiction and non-fictitious. This is a work that narrates events from the Vietnam War according to Tim O’Brien. Tim O’Brien is the writer of this work. Since he went and fought in the Vietnam War, it is evident that he used his own experiences as inspirations for this book. However, O’Brien maintains that the story is a fictions account of what actually happened at Vietnam (Bloom, 20).
O’Brien uses the Alpha Company as the focus of his story. The story ...

Introduction

Dead Men’s Path by Chinua Achebe is a story of a young and modern headmaster, Michael Obi who has been recently promoted as the headmaster of a small village school in Africa. He has excelled in the education in colonialism and is hence entrusted to rescue a backward school. The story deals with culture clash that is vividly represented in the contrast thought process of the main protagonist, Obi and the villagers. The story is set in the year 1949 in Nigeria and depicts the clash between traditional values and rituals and world views. This is especially true as Nigeria was a British ...

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Introduction

Marriage is an essential component of many societies, as it involves the union between two people in love with one another who would eventually create a family. As a form of social organization, marriage has become the subject of several controversies, with some outside of the purpose of romantic union. Notable pieces of literature attest to that fact, and this study aims to construct an analysis between two literary works – The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and A Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov. This study uses both literary works to establish ...

Hamlet, written by the legendary William Shakespeare, is a play which tells of the tragedy of the Prince of Denmark. In the play, the Prince attempts to exact revenge on Claudius, his uncle, for murdering his father, King Hamlet. Set in the Danish Kingdom, the play explores the themes of incest, moral corruption and revenge. As odd as it may appear, it is quite ironical that Claudius decides to kill his own brother, King Hamlet, and take his wife, Queen Gertrude. When the Prince realizes the real cause of his father’s death, he is overcome with seething rage, and ...

The poem that one chose is “How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43). This poem was written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1845 while Robert Browning, an English poet, was courting her. It is part of the “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, which is a collection of 44 love poems written by Elizabeth, with Robert as his inspiration. Sonnet 43 is the most popular love poem of Elizabeth.
One is drawn to this poem because of its universal message, and that is love. Although, there are a plethora of love poems written, one thinks that this poem is one of the ...

Analysis of the poem, “For My Daughter”

The poem "For My Daughter" expresses a man's fear for her daughter. In this case, the author mentioned in his last line that “I have no daughter" and that "I desire to have none." What could drive a man to not want to have a daughter when a lot of men do desire to have one? The poem written by Weldon Kee’s during a time of extreme hardships in the 1940’s uses figures of speech, voice and imagery to reflect his reasons for not want to have a daughter.

“Looking into my daughter's eyes I readBeneath the innocence of morning fleshConcealed, hintings of ...

Tone

The tone of this piece is the author’s concern with life and death. Her voice is personal, describing the world she observes with wonder and interest. The tone is not introspective, but instead has an external focus, viewing the wider world with a tone that suggests its impersonal yet implacable nature. Although the Woolf attempts to describe with detachment, her tone cannot remain so as she witnesses the life and death of the moth. Whether or not she wants to be, her tone is one of captivation by this example of life and death. Additionally, there is a tone of ...

Death is the expression of life. It has a double sense and a double meaning in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”. The funeral ceremony, mourning, revenging, talking with ghosts or committing suicidal acts represent passages in the circularity of life, based on various cultural or religious beliefs.
The Christian tradition implies a funeral ceremony for the dead people. Hamlet’s father did not benefit of such a ceremony after he was murdered by his brother, Claudius, who later took his throne and his wife. Nevertheless, prince Hamlet is permanently mourning him through his acts, through his perceived madness, illusory estate, and mixed thoughts: revenging ...

‘Trifles’ is an interesting play as it reveals the mind-set of the American male towards the woman. He is condescending and in many ways rather savage and blunt in his disdain for womanhood. This is reflected in the attitude of the County Attorney and Hale who seem to be more interested in the fire to warm them or what they are going to eat instead of the poor woman’s plight. Mrs Wright is distraught and concerned due to John’s death whilst hale and the attorney discusses the issues as if nothing has happened and without much care ...

In the Zulu creation myth, the creator of the Earth was neither male or female, but a seed - Uthlanga is the source of all things, and man came from one of several reeds, sprouting into a man, Unkulunkulu. Once he grew into the First Man, he broke off from the reed and wandered to Earth. Breaking off other reeds growing from the earth, he formed the other men and women of society from them. In this case, the creation myth has the source of mankind coming from the earth and from nature; man, however, is the one to harness that ...

Analysis of "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin contains a most unique theme of freedom within death. However, the miraculous and graceful way in which the character Mrs. Mallard meets freedom within death is exquisite. A sense of sadness is expected of a widow. Upon hearing of her husband’s passing Mrs. Mallard “wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment” indicating that she was indeed mourning her husband. Yet, Chopin twists descriptive adjectives like new, delicious, joy, dream and free into the description of Mrs. Mallard’s experience to promote a sense of freedom within an event that should be sad.
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Franz Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis no so long after he had finished writing The Judgment. It must be noted that the two stories have a lot in common. After reading The Metamorphosis if a look is taken into the biographical and historical context of Kafka, it can be argued that this story that the author published in 1912 expresses not only his own sense of self-alienation but other various other aspects of his life. Like Kafka, the main character of the novel, Gregor Samsa is a German Jew living in seriously anti-Semitic times. Samsa’s metamorphosis into an abominable insect can be ...

According to the Exodus story and Gilgamesh Man is given free will, however they are rules to that freedom; his life is not a chance happening but choices he makes will determine his fate.
When a baby is born he has freedom but its ability to reason is limited, yet that baby can choose to cry or not to cry. I spent all my adult life around babies and whether or not it is a conscious decision after realizing that he or she will not be picked with excessive crying almost always that baby decides to entertain his or herself Adults, ...

Margaret Edson’s play, Wit is an incredibly moving and yet funny play. In the opening scene, we are introduced to Dr. Vivian Bearing. She is an English professor specializing in the works of John Donne, and she is diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer. Vivian tells the audience, “There is no stage five” (Edson 12). Vivian knows from the first moments of the play that she is going to die. In fact, she tells the audience as much within the first few pages: “It is not my intention to give away the plot; but I think I die ...

Classic English literature

The short story, The Things They Carried is a short story trying to describe vividly the soldiers’ experiences in the event of a war. He tries to describe the various dangers which the soldiers face and the difficult life they experience that almost always transform most of them into emotionless beings. It is so hard to tell a “true war story” (Bloom 47). Unless one is a soldier, it would be very difficult to imagine or to put one self into the shoes of a soldier and narrate a war story capturing all the experiences in the war. It is also difficult for the soldiers ...

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet tells the story of the prince of Denmark, who is much troubled by an encounter with his dead father, former king of Denmark, claiming he (the father) was murdered by his brother, the current king of Denmark. Because of the revelation, Hamlet became bothered. The event with his father’s “heavenly body” allowed Hamlet to think about and make a stand about certain dilemmas of life.
The story as previously mentioned is filled different topics and ideas that usually plague an individual or a nation at their time and age. Ideas of the fear of the ...

Religions have been a part of every nation’s history and tradition since the start of civilizations. They have played key roles in creating tradition and belief, even influencing the creation of suitable government and laws for people to follow. These religions try to satisfy the question of the existence of life, the idea of what is God and the concept of spirituality and human responsibility. While some of them have considered that there is only one God or a Supreme Being that watches the existence of man and the presence of life and death, they still differ in understanding the ...

Kate Chopin’s works usually portray a heroine who finds herself in a confusing state, on a path to self-discovery, and no other female protagonist is as out-spoken, as ready to take her new life head on, as passionate and as unconventional as Edna Pontellier. Once she acknowledges her existence not as society requires her to be, but rather as a person who exists to make herself happy and satisfied, she turns her back to everything that was once part of her identity and commences a new, rich life of an artist, who cares little for social roles. Still, this is not a happy-end story, ...

Given the fact that Charlie and Helen had had a fight that ended up with Helen locked out in the cold, and that this fight led to Helen's death, it is not self-righteous of Marion to be suspicious of Charlie. Her sister is the one who died as a result of this argument. To be fair, both Charlie and Helen were drunk when the fight took place, and they ran with a hard-partying crowd. The fact remains, though, that Charlie is still single, and while it seems that he has turned his back on his former days, the fact that his drunk ...

“The Story of an Hour” stands out to be Kate Chopin’s most famous stories. Different critics and scholars have written various subjects and themes addressed in Chopin’s work. The story portrays the inherent conflict between social norms and the need for personhood. The story bears a short yet interesting storyline.

The protagonist, Louise, is informed of her husband’s death but later discovers he is alive after all. The story describes of how she endures a series of emotions after hearing her husband’s death, who is believed to have succumbed to a railroad tragedy. Her sister, Josephine, strives to ...

Part I. The men in Trifles act like they are professional detectives who are on the track of a deadly killer. Unfortunately, in their haste to look impressive, they forget to check out items in the kitchen, such as the ruined preserves and the dead canary that is wrapped up in the quilting material. These “trifles” would have given them insight into the personality of the murderer, as well as some of the emotional influences she had been undergoing. Rather than look at the “kitchen things,” the men dismiss them, saying that “women are used to worrying over trifles” (10) ...

King Lear follows the story of the titular character Lear, an elderly king who wishes to give up his power, and attempts to divide his lands among his three daughters. However, a series of unfortunate and capricious events, brought on primarily by Lear's own vanity and anger, lead him to slowly descend into madness, pushing away his three daughters. The show turns into a bloodbath, with all three daughters and Lear dead at the end of it, with many deaths stemming from jealousy, capriciousness and futile competition among military leaders. The play, however, demonstrates Lear's journey as the end result of ...

“I found it strange that neither I nor the day seemed in a mourning mood and I felt even annoyed at discovering in myself a sensation of freedom as if I had been freed from something by his death” (Joyce 5).

Paraphrase:

This statement was from the first Chapter of Dubliners entitled “The Sisters”, written by James Joyce. Here, the narrator is a young boy who befriended the priest named Father Flynn, who had just died. The boy expressed his strange feelings when he learned that Father Flynn, his mentor had passed away after suffering from three strokes and paralysis. The boy felt ...

The first step in prioritizing healthcare resources is to estimate the burden of disease. High-income countries have reliable systems to assess the causes of death in the population; however, mid- and low-income countries do not have such systems in place, and mortality rates from a specific disease have to be extrapolated from incomplete data. Several studies have approached the problem of estimating the burden of disease by using a variety of methods to determine which diseases are responsible for the most deaths, which countries are carrying the highest burden of disease and death, and which populations are at the highest risk ...

The story begins with the death of the main character – Miss Emily Grierson.It is said how the whole town was curious to see the inside of her house. Miss Emily had not left it in 10 years. From the description of the big frame house, the story goes into the life of Miss Emily and how she got to where she is. The reasons for her isolation are explained. It was with her father’s death that everything started. He was very protecting and controlling of his daughter and it took her a couple of days to admit to the ...

Emotions. Both the plays invoke different kinds of emotions in a viewer with respect to their themes and underlying meanings. Both plays are about redemption and the value of good deeds in order to achieve it. In Shepherd’s Play, the shepherds’ spiritual side is veiled under their material burdens, but the general tone of complaint is something anyone can relate. It invokes feelings of self-pity, as Coll so deftly puts it in the beginning of the play

We are so hammed,
Fortaxed, and rammed,
We are made hand-tamed
With these gentlery-men. (Shepherds' Play 23-26)
While ...

Healthy Grief

The grieving process according to Kubler-Ross

Kubler-Ross defined the five stages of grieving which include Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. Even though he suggested that the stages occur in the proposed process, there is no definite order that an individual can take. It is however important for an individual to go through the stages which will enhance the healing process. In the denial stage, a person has not accepted the fact that they have lost a loved one. He will therefore try to live as if nothing happened with the hope that it is a dream that they will wake up ...

“The Burial of the Dead.”

Eliot begins “The Wasteland with the section named, “The Burial of the Dead.” The central theme has been declared, via the title, before the stanzas begin. There is a fine line between life and death; life can come from death, and life also forces death. This is particularly evident in the final stanza:

“That corpse you planted last year in your garden, / Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? / Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?” Eliot’s idea is of a dilapidated place occupied by people who suffer in an in-between condition, rather like a ...

Hamlet’s Antic Disposition: Real or Unreal

The young prince Hamlet decided to put on an “antic disposition” to find out if the supposed ghost of his father had been telling the truth about its death. But as the play progresses, there are moments when Hamlet’s insanity seems to become less and less of a pretense and seems to become more and more genuine. Most of his actions and thoughts are consistent of that of an insane person; however, some of his actions and thoughts also indicate that he is aware of this and that it is all part of his act.

Insanity is a very broad ...

Florence Smith was born in 1902 in Hull, England. However, she and her family moved to London in 1906 after her father left. Unusually, she stayed in the same house until she died in 1971. She went by the nick-name 'Stevie' for much of her life and, despite some romantic relationships, she never married. For 30 years, Smith earned a living working as a secretary, though she retired while still in her early fifties after attempting suicide while at work (BBC).

For Smith, getting her work published required great persistence. Her first published piece was a novel, called Novel on Yellow Paper. ...