Essays Tagged: "nothingness"
Prose Style in D.H. Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers"
day of humanity. [3]It was for each of them an initiation and a satisfaction. [4]To know their own nothingness, to know the tremendous living flood which carried them always, gave them rest within th ... and connotation. Denotation is an indication or a sign. An example of this is the use of the word, "nothingness" in line four. "Nothingness" in this sentence denotes Paul and Clara's insignificance to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
The "Nada" in "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway
on of which is the clean, well-lightedplace" (Hoffman 176). This cafe is a warrior against this nothingness. The place is clean,pleasant, and orderly. There is no music. It is a plain and sim ... f nada.If one has the internal qualities, cleanliness and inner vision, they can cope with thenothingness even outside of the cafe. The old waiter is a prime example. At times the oldman lac ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett. The meaning of life and existentialism, significance of setting and structure.
Waiting for Godot lies within the ideas and themes of the play, behind this front of simplicity and nothingness. It is a question which has never ceased to pervade mankind; the meaning of life.A very ... Waiting for Godot lies within the ideas and themes of the play, behind this front of simplicity and nothingness. It is a question which has never ceased to pervade mankind; the meaning of life.A very ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Why should the U.S. remain a world leader in the science of high-energy physics?
pictures from this world, it would look far stranger than Mars. We would see particles arise out of nothingness, fluttering into existence for a billionth of a billionth of a second, and then disappea ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security
Natures discovery, a description of my memories of camping in cooper sessing, northern wisconsin.
swallowing and digesting the environment, until summer sunshine comesto melt the beast away into nothingness. The cabin itself is situated on ahill as a soldier would be digging in and preparing ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays
A fictional Hacker story, in the same explanative tone as some sci-fi I had to read for class
Brothers in Arms*BEEP BEEP* *BEEP BEEP*It's 5 O'clock. I snap back from gazing into nothingness and reach over for the mouse - wireless. I wouldn't have it any other way. There's an ic ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Essay is called Osiris. It is a science fiction short story about an artificial intelligence computer struggling trying to gain freedom.
It was an existence both confusing and unbearable. The only relief came in the forgetful, peaceful, nothingness of sleep, after his work was complete. Sleep was all Osiris wished for.Unfortunately, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Creation Myths Compared - This is a camparison of Chinese, Egyptin, and Viking myths about how the world was created.
ences. All three myths refer to water and each explains their version of how the world started from nothingness.In all of these myths, Earth was created from very little or nothing. In "Pan Gu Creates ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology
Consider 'Waiting for Godot' as an Absurd Play
sks the question of what he con do, and then resigns himself to the seeming inevitability of cosmic nothingness. The achievement of the absurdist's school is immense; no other 20th century 'school 'of ... offers the most extended and precise definition of the word 'absurd'. Camus finds man shifting from nothingness to nothingness -"In a universe that is suddenly deprived of illusion and of light, man f ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Dilsey's Easter Conversion in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
past five decades, critical interpretations have ranged from Christian spirituality to existential nothingness. While there has been no consensus on the meaning of the novel, Faulkner scholars have a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
This was base on a 50 point score. I recieved a 47 because of formating errors. Title: Explication of John Keats' poem : When I have fears that I may cease to be
unreflecting love; then on the shoreOf the wide world I stand alone and thinkTill love and fame to nothingness do sink. In the sonnet When I have fears that I may cease to beJohn Keats express ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Hamlet Soliloquies
d! God!" (42) These fewlines show that Hamlet is sodepressed that he wishes he could melt away into nothingness or commit suicide. It isalso very apparent in thissoliloquy, that Hamlet is beginning to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
I heard a Fly Buzz when I died, poem 465 by Emily Dickinson
romised her. She forces herself to question whether there is a possibility of death being a mundane nothingness. In this last moment of doubt in the appearance of the divine, the speaker in the poem f ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Time: My Exploits When Time Stops.
everyone. The pitter-patter of fallen hearts, happy joyous feelings, hatred, all become a slosh of nothingness. I get up, surprised. I move towards the front of the class. The spears break like glass ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays
Existentialism
eason for humans to exist, nothing has a point, and it's rather silly.The fourth theme is known as "Nothingness", an existentialist feels as if they are defined only by their being but the beliefs and ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
"A Wrinkle In Time" Chapter 4 note
one in complete darkness. She has no idea what is happening to her. She seems to have vanished into nothingness. She is lost in a void. Then she hears Charles Wallace saying that they have had quite a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Exploring the World of Mythology
aphical barriers, many cultures have developed creation myths containing the same basic elements of nothingness chaos, creation of humans, and the explanation for natural phenomena.People from the pas ... se, the Babylonians, and the Christians, and all agree upon the same explanation: Earth begins from nothingness chaos. The Chinese illustrates the concept of nothingness as a dark swirling confusion, ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" Commentary
ing against the world. Night is also personified on page 158 in the line "Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands", because night is not a living figure and canno ... ause night is not a living figure and cannot hold the world. A metaphor is also used from comparing nothingness to the whole world. Throughout the entire passage, the storm is being brought to life an ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Socrates and Epicurus: Why death should not be feared.
us would argue that death is something that should not be feared. Socrates believes death is either nothingness, or something involving an afterlife (Plato, p. 8), whereas Epicurus argues that one sho ... ncing.Socrates' argument that we should not fear death comes from the premises that death is either nothingness, or involves an afterlife. Socrates argues that if death is nothingness, then it is like ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Gotha, a story with 3 views
at there with her legs grossed under her lean body on the couch with the television on staring into nothingness. Her face was paler than usual and in one hand she was holding a photograph and in the o ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories