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death Literature offers insights into death, dying and mortality in multiple ways. One could argue that death is very useful to literature. While providing fictional encounters with death to its readers, the stories also use death in their narrations to create emotional effects, plot twists, suspense and mysteries.
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Oct 22, 2019 · This chapter explains why humans create literary depictions of death, describes how imaginative meaning works in literature, characterizes the emotions evoked in literary depictions of death, and...
- Joseph Carroll
the meaning of death? Two of the studies that offer answers to this question are focused rather on theoretical aspects of what it means to represent death in literature. Devaleena Kundu seeks to see if the concept of “death denial” is valid in literature and how the concept of “paradox of mortality” is literary
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King Hamlet dies off-stage, poisoned by his ambitious brother. Polonius dies at the threshold between the front- and back-stage, stabbed by a vengeful Prince Hamlet, who mistakenly thinks Polonius is Claudius. Ophelia dies off-stage, committing suicide by drowning herself.
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Death, or avoiding death, is the natural end of a survival story. When people are threatened by natural forces, enemies, predators, hunger, or illness, survival becomes an urgent motive. A protagonist’s mind often becomes concentrated with painful intensity on the details of his physical environment and his efforts to control that environment. Most...
When a child dies in real life, what is lost is the whole potential future life of the child (Baumeister, 1991a). The magnitude of the loss evokes a special pathos. For most people, the death of the elderly can scarcely matter so much. Old people have had their lives, as much as could be expected. For most adults, sorrow at a child’s death combines...
Pair bonding and dual parenting are core features of the human adaptive complex (Chapais, 2013, 2017; Fisher, 2016; Low, 2015). Erotic romance or romantic love is a motivator for pair bonding. Though not officially approved in all cultures, it appears to be a human universal (Gottschall & Nordlund, 2006; Nordlund, 2007). Romantic comedies—whether i...
- Joseph Carroll
- jcarroll@umsl.edu
- 2019
This chapter explains why humans create literary depictions of death, describes how imaginative meaning works in literature, characterizes the emotions evoked in literary depictions of death, and characterizes the attitudes toward death adopted by authors and characters.
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This essay has systematically explored the symbolic meaning of the death of the three major characters by analyzing the symbolic meaning of them. Emily and her father died of natural causes, implying that the old traditions are inevitably to fade away. The old values are bound to withdraw from the stage of history.
