Essays Tagged: "untimely death"

Caesar: A Man of Power. History essay proving why Julius Caesar was a great leader and so successful in his political rise in Rome.

Gaius Julius Caesar was a superior leader who stood above the rest even after his untimely death. He was both an intellectual and courageous. These characteristics gave him an early ...

(3 pages) 151 0 4.3 Dec/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Macbeth, by william shakespeare, in this essay i discuss the role of the witches and the supernatural in the play

King Duncan. The malicious and diabolical prophecies of the witches eventually lead Macbeth to his untimely death.In present day, the idea of witchcraft and the supernatural is often confined to fict ...

(5 pages) 110 2 4.6 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as tragic heroes in Shakespeare's "Macbeth."

bition, as well as moral weakness and selective perception, which all eventually contributed to his untimely death. In Lady Macbeth's case, the main fault that brought about her destruction and final ...

(6 pages) 173 1 4.7 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

The following essay will introduce you to pros and cons of drinking.

y (about one drink a day) have a lower mortality rate than their non-drinking peers, their risk for untimely death increases with heavier drinking.Alcohol may not cause cancer, but it probably does in ...

(4 pages) 90 0 4.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

The West as a wild and untamed frontier

ne of the best. In his brief career as a Western artist, which began around 1885 and ended with his untimely death in 1909, Remington left a number of messages about the West in his work, but here we ... ne of the best. In his brief career as a Western artist, which began around 1885 and ended with his untimely death in 1909, Remington left a number of messages about the West in his work, but here we ...

(11 pages) 59 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Romeo and Juliet the star crossed lovers are doomed from the start, not by fate but by their own personalities and the people that surround them. Discuss

y.Following this quote, is one that is said through the dialogue of Romeo, 'By some vile forfeit of untimely death.' This quote suggests that something out side of his control, will act upon him, resu ...

(3 pages) 59 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

Fate in Romeo and Juliet

example, 1.4.115-120, he says, Some consequence yet hanging in the stars...by some vile forfeit of untimely death. But he that hath the steerage over my course Direct my sail. He's basically saying t ... an not be explained. Romeo was looking to this power, asking of this power to direct him, not to an untimely death as he foresaw in his dream, but to just steer him, because that is the control which ...

(7 pages) 42 0 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Alexander Pushkin,

guage and outstanding gift for Africa, and his pretty wife's frivolous social life which led to his untimely death was a catastrophe for the poetic world.Alexander sergyevic pushkin was born on 16th m ... to every ball at the palace. Her frivolous social life led Pushkin into debt and eventurally to his untimely death. The gossip of an affair between his wife and young French Émigré noble ...

(1 pages) 38 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Seeing All and Seeing None - an essay on the use of sight and blindness in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex

Early in the play we learn how it came to be that Oedipus is King of Thebes. We are informed of the untimely death of his predecessor, Laius. The people of Thebes turn to Oedipus to solve the murder o ...

(3 pages) 82 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Causes of World War I

Ferdinand in 1914 (Baldwin, 1962). He was heir to the Hapsburg or Austro-Hungarian Empire until his untimely death at the hands of a Serbian nationalist by the name of Gavrilo Princip. However, prior ...

(1 pages) 70 2 1.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

The Causes of World War I

Ferdinand in 1914 (Baldwin, 1962). He was heir to the Hapsburg or Austro-Hungarian Empire until his untimely death at the hands of a Serbian nationalist by the name of Gavrilo Princip. However, prior ...

(3 pages) 62 1 3.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

The Biography of Robert Frost

ablishing a career in California, and in 1873 he and his wife moved to San Francisco. Her husband's untimely death from tuberculosis in 1885 prompted Isabelle Moodie Frost to take her two children, Ro ...

(7 pages) 143 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Daisy Miller, by Henry James: (I) To what extent is Daisy Miller's character a reflection of the American character? (II) Was Henry James' ending artistically necessary?

y's self-indulgent, pleasure-seeking lifestyle is typical of the American capitalist world, and her untimely death is a literary and symbolic necessity--- Daisy's death signifies the short-lived natur ...

(2 pages) 69 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Romeo and Juliet Essay

ause of the misfortune in this play, and causes Juliet to engage in a deception which ends with her untimely death, and that of her young lover, Romeo.The Capulets and Montagues have had a long-standi ...

(2 pages) 30 0 3.9 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

Romeo & Juliet: Role of Fate.

m. For example, Romeo says "Some consequence yet hanging in the stars" and "By some vile forfeit of untimely death. But he that hath the steerage over my course direct my sail!" He is basically saying ... r above himself to direct him."Some consequence yet hanging in the stars... by some vile forfeit of untimely death. But he hath the steerage over my course direct my sail!"- 1/4/107, 111, 112 & 11 ...

(5 pages) 50 1 4.6 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams Analysis

important for the doctor to be persistent for the girls own good. Other wise she may have faced and untimely death. Because of these heroic qualities the doctor possesses, the girl sir comes to the do ...

(2 pages) 29256 0 3.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Bible.

are able to rationalize the killings of Americans as not being evil whereas in America, almost any untimely death can be viewed as evil. The Taliban also takes it so far to the extreme that the killi ...

(2 pages) 22 0 2.5 Nov/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Compare and Contrast: "The Masque of the Red Death [by Edgar Allen Poe]" vs. "A Rose for Emily [by William Faulkner]"

f the Red Death," the country had been exposed to the bubonic plague. Victims of the plague died an untimely death. Prince Prospero, in an attempt to defend himself from the epidemic, locked the gates ...

(2 pages) 31 0 0.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Is "Hamlet" primarily a tragedy of revenge

Hamlet's pursuit to revenge his father's death blinded his morals and intelligence and lead to his untimely death. It can be argued that Hamlet is the most complex character Shakespeare has ever writ ...

(4 pages) 69 0 5.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

"On My First son" by Ben Jonson

ith with the word "lent to me". The third line also shows the mental struggle Jonson faces with the untimely death of his son.In the second stanza Jonson tries to control his raging emotions by ju ...

(2 pages) 21 0 5.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry