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Quotes from Sophocles’ Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Sophocles. I am not afraid of the danger; if it means death, It will not be the worst of deaths ―death without honor. ― Antigone. Antigone pays no heed to Ismene’s requests, and bluntly tells her that she does not care about death overpowering her.
- Inspirational Ending…
- Summary
- Theme and Symbolism
- Mount Kilimanjaro
- Leopard
- Vulture & Hyena
- Snow
- Plane
- Character Analysis
- Helen
The ending of the story is quite inspired by Ambrose Bierce’s An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge which was published in 1890. In this story, the main protagonist Peyton Farquhar dreams about escaping his death sentence and illusions himself to find his way back home just before his imminent death. How often does a writer parallel his own life throug...
The prologue begins like an epitaph describing Mount Kilimanjaro as the ‘Abode of Gods’ and on those white snow peaks lies the carcass of a leopard who seems to have wandered to those heights to meet his ultimate death. It remains a mystery as to why the leopard must have scaled the great mountain. The story commences with Harry, an unaccomplished ...
The story runs on an autobiographical element, it talks about the lavish, wasted life of a brilliant writer who loves to devote his time on money, women, and the desires of an opulent life. In this process, he has failed to document the beautiful memories of his life and abandoned his talent of writing. This, of course in the end causes him regret....
In most of the ancient civilizations, it was believed that God’s promise of peaceful afterlife reposes on the highest mountain tops. For the Greeks it was Mount Olympus, for the Hebrews it was Mount Sinai, and for the Japanese it was Mount Fuji. When Harry looks at Kilimanjaro, he sees it as a symbol of truth, noble-mindedness, paradise, and purity...
Leopard is a noble animal associated with great speed and agility. It’s landing on the mountain peaks symbolizes that it has reached its goal of attaining immortality on the Abode of Gods. It is also symbolic to the person Harry desired to be in his life. The dead, frozen leopard can be seen as a symbol of immortality who attains the reward for tak...
Vultures and Hyena are animal symbolism of death. Both circle around dead rotten things and consume dead bodies, hence they are considered unclean. In this story, they are the harbingers of death for Harry, they surround him as if intentionally gathering around his rotten soul.
Snow is significant to loneliness, loss, and abandonment. The bleak harsh days of winter are dark and dull which so perfectly symbolize the moments before death.
The flight is symbolic to the final flight of the soul as it leaves the body and worldly woes to attain its final resting place. The plane symbolically represents his ascension to Kilimanjaro (which is symbolic for Heaven). He trusts that he is in the plane with Compton and that he is flying over the peaks of Kilimanjaro. Harry believes his soul ha...
Harry Harry has lived a colorful life, well traveled in Europe, having various women at various points in life. Even though he pursued a career in writing, he is not well accomplished because he is drawn towards living a lazy luxurious life. On his death bed, he is full of regrets especially regarding his wasted talent, he repents for his alcoholic...
Helen is a very realistic women, she is like a nurturing figure in Harry’s life. The author gives her a well rounded background of being a wealthy widow with grownup children who seeks a perfect companion. When she meets Harry she is impressed with his writing skills and marries him, however Harry loves only her wealth. Helen genuinely cares for hi...
It will not only tell you how to say the word, but also how to write it in different languages. Just next to the words you may find few abbreviations like pl. (plural), sing. (singular), formal, or informal as per its use. AFRIKAANS – Welkom. ALBANIAN – Mirë se vini. ALSATIAN – Welkomma. ARABIC – Ahlan wa sahlan.
List of Metaphors. ~ A laugh in a sea of sadness. ~ He has a voice of a crow. ~ He has a voice of a wolf. ~ He has the heart of a lion. ~ He is the sun of my sky. ~ He swam in the sea of diamonds. ~ He tried to help but his legs were rubber. ~ Her hair was bone white.
For the enthusiasts of Middle-earth languages, given below is a list of websites that provide tools that will assist in online elvish translations. Council of Elrond. This website provides one of the most exhaustive databases about elvish languages. A few examples for elvish translations have been provided here.
Given below are some simple, yet effective exercises that you can use to better yourself at descriptive writing. Exercise 1. Decide on an everyday action, say ‘making a pot of coffee’ and write about it in a descriptive manner. Give yourself 3 words that you’re not allowed to use while writing about it.
While a motif and theme are closely related, they are not synonymous. A theme is an idea reckoned valuable by the writer to share it with the readers, while a motif is that recurrent element, which helps the writer to set up the theme. A writer may elect to convey more than one idea through his writing; hence, a story can be multiple-themed.
