a summary and analysis on "a happy death" by albert camus?
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I agree with another reviewer in that one has got to be prepared for Camus. I have only read The Stranger and The Plague in addition to this one, but found A Happy Death much better than The Plague. Also note that A Happy Death was not published by Camus during his lifetime and likely not intended to be, since much of A Happy Death is taken and used in The Stranger. For fans existentialism (which I am one) this book is a pretty fun and easy read, due to its very short length. I recommended it to a cousin I was vacationing with who had almost no philosophical background, and he read it in one day and enjoyed it well enough. But again, as I have written in my review of The Plague, one cannot help but wonder what gets lost in each translation. Giving the benefit of the doubt to Camus, this translator (Richard Howard) appears to have a better grip on the English side of the ball than does the translator of The Plague (Stuart Gilbert). Since this is (unofficially) Camus' first work, A Happy Death is a logical place to start, although note another reviewer's remarks that The Stranger and The Fall are both more enjoyable (but not The Plague according to me). A first-timer to Camus may be better served by trying The Stranger first - I'm positive Camus would prefer that starting point as well.
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In-Depth Analysis of A Long Fatal Love Chase\nhttp://www.mimersbrunn.se/arbeten/5510.asp\nliterary criticism\nhttp://www.amazon.ca/Long-Fatal-Love-Chase/dp/0786206233/sr=1-3/qid=1164414472/ref=sr_1_3/702-0296501-8412079?ie=UTF8&s=books
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We are talking Ibsen here, right? OK, how about this.\n\nIn A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen raises the question of happiness still relevant in our time. The author presents a situation where one of the female protagonists is forced by society to sacrifice her personal fulfilment on the altar of social conventions.\n\nThat was so far the formulation of the question. Now we proceed with the analysis. \n\nFrom the first pages of the book, the reader witnesses the efforts of the female character to follow her duty. Yet no matter how hard she tries, she fails. At the end, she finally comes to the realization that her misery stems from misapplication of her talents. Expected to be a mother and a wife, the woman forgets about her own happiness. This is not the way, the author seems to tell us. The young woman's depression creates an unpleasant atmosphere in the house which affects even the well being of the little children.\nThis is essentially the reason for the mother leaving her children at the end. Only by declaring her independence from the patriarchal society, can she find her own happiness. And only then, will she be able to give her offspring what they deserve, a peaceful atmosphere in the house, genarated by the contedness of each individual.\nAs Ibsen  unequivocally shows us, one has to follow his won dreams and raise the new generation according to similar ideals of self fulfillment and independence. This, according to the author, is the key to happy society in general, and family life in particular.\n\nOk, this is the gist of it. You can change what doesn't fit your thoughts, and add, to present your own opinion.\nHope this helps.
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Talk about dark!\n\nIt starts with a Hamlet's father's ghost claiming he was murdered and just gets darker from there.\n\nIts an exploration of madness and suicide.  Ophelia goes crazy and drowns herself.  Hamlet's "to be or not to be" is a direct contemplation of suicide.\n\nHamlet finds his old best friend's skull in the graveyard.\n\n"Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, Horation, a man of infintite jest and most powerful fancy" a skull\n\nMurder most foul!\n\nbetrayal, incest, murder\n\ngreat stuff! ! !
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He had spent so much time reading and been isolated from other people for so long that it dulled his sense of reality. Money was no longer meaningful to him, nor was life.\n\nEDIT: The young lawyer renounced the money because it symbolized everthing he had come to despise during his self-imposed captivity. Separated from the world with no human contact, he had forgotten the reasons most people choose to live. Instead, he saw the world and the human race through the warped lense of isolation. He saw all the things humans strived to gain---money, happiness, power, love, etc.---and came to his own conclusion that none of it really mattered, since death is the inevitable end to all things.\n\nThis short story is also a thinly-veiled commentary on death vs. imprisonment for life. This may not be the way Chekhov originally intended that his story be interpreted, but it certainly makes an interesting argument for capital punishment, or at least against life in jail. I believe many people would rather die than experience what the young lawyer subjected himself to. In my eyes, to die would be far better than to continue living but to have lost all interest in life. \n\nIs that the elaboration you were looking for? =)
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Try "The Poet" and "The Poet's Mind" by Lord Alfred Tennyson.  One is funny and bright while the other is dark and dismal.  Good luck!
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Poe wrote this poem in the autograph album of Lucy Holmes, later Lucy Holmes Balderston. Initially, Ingram rejected the poem, but later admitted it to his edition of Poe's Works. In interpreting the manuscript, Ingram made a number of changes in punctuation, mostly replacing dashes with commas, semicolons or periods.] \n\nI find lines 1-8 to be a statement of remorseful acceptance in his adult life of his inability to appreciate "the sunny side of life" as most others claim to do. \nThe words "I could not awaken" would indicate his failed attempts to do so.\nIn his adult life, he accepts his perceived great "difference" from others; he is not referring to the everyday differences which make us all unique but rather, a chasm which separates him. \nThe remaining lines are a retrospective view of his early life, beginning when he first realized that he had a fascination with the morose and morbid.\n\nThen- in my childhood, in the dawn\nOf a most stormy life- was drawn\nFrom every depth of good and ill\nThe mystery which binds me still\n\nThe "mystery" is simply put, his "darkness".\n\nThe remaining lines build to the climax of the poem, which I feel is the last line.\n\n"From the torrent, or the fountain" tells us he sees darkness in both good and "bad" things equally. "From the red cliff of the mountain" paints a sanguine picture of foreboding power, "From the sun that round me rolled, In its autumn tint of gold" paints a picture of the fall, a time of impending death before the cold of winter - it's no coincidence that Halloween is celebrated then. "From the lightning in the sky" introduces the climax, \n\n"From the thunder and the storm,\nAnd the cloud that took the form\n(When the rest of Heaven was blue)\nOf a demon in my view."\n\nIn the final two line, he illustrates fully his propensity to find the morbid in even the most beautiful of things where others do not, and brings us full circle to the beginning of the poem.\n\nI feel the word demon is perhaps the most important in the entire poem. It indicates the level of his darkness of vision, and gives scale to the chasm that he feels separates him from others.
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"Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother."\n\nAuthor: Jane Welsh Carlyle\nSource: None\n\nhttp://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/Death-_-Immortality/2/index.html
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go to sparknotes.com or pinkmonkey.com\n\nyou will be able to get a summary of the story. These are college level websites to help you.
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Try searching sparknotes.com, they have actual text and summary
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The poem is talking about the futility and uselessness of war.  The bitter irony is that comrades and the enemy are for the most part ordinary people, not that different from each other.  If he met one of each on the street, he could not tell which is which.  The soldier chose to fight, no one forced him to, and in his last moments he is questioning the sense of that decision.   He realizes that in the end this fighting and sacrifice is not going to change much for the ordinary person, so in many ways it is a waste, a waste of life.  He can't turn back the clock, and his destiny awaits him in "the clouds", heaven, the afterlife.\n\nI hope this helps.
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The story opens with a description of North Richmond Street, a"blind," "cold ... .. silent" street where the houses "gazed at one an-other with brown imperturbable faces." It is a street of fixed, decaying conformity and false piety. The boy's house contains the samesense of a dead present and a lost past. The former tenant, a priest,died in the back room of the house, and his legacy-several old yel-lowed books, which the boy enjoys leafing through because they areold, and a bicycle pump rusting in the back yard-become symbolsof the intellectual and religious vitality of the past. The boy, in themidst of such decay and spiritual paralysis, experiences the confusedidealism and dreams of first love and his awakening becomes incom-patible with and in ironic contrast to the staid world about him.\n\nEvery morning before school the boy lies on the floor in thefront parlor peeking out through a crack in the blind of the door,watching and waiting for the girl next door to emerge from her houseand walk to school. He is shy and still boyish. He follows her, walkssilently past, not daring to speak, overcome with a confused sense ofsensual desire and religious adoration. In his mind she is both a saintto be worshipped and a woman to be desired. His eyes are "often fullof tears," and one evening he goes to the back room where the priesthad died. Clasping the palms of his hands together, he murmurs, "0love! 0 love!" in a prayer not to God, but to the concept of love andperhaps even to the girl, his love. Walking with his aunt to shop onSaturday evenings he imagines that the girl's image accompanies him,and that he protects her in "places the most hostile to romance." Inthe mixed symbolism of the Christian and the Romantic or Orientalmyths Joyce reveals the epiphany in the story: "These noises con-verged in a single sensation of life for me: I imagined that I bore mychalice safely through a throng of foes." He is unable to talk to thegirl. Drifting away from his schoolmates' boyish games, the boy hasfantasies in his isolation, in the ecstasy and pain of first love.\n\nFinally the girl speaks to the boy. She asks him if he is going toAraby. He replies that if he does he will bring her a gift, and fromthat moment, his thoughts upon the mixed imagery of the saintly lightupon her hair and the potential sensuality of "the white border of apetticoat," the boy cannot sleep or study. The word Araby "cast anEastern enchantment" over him, and then on the night he is to go tothe bazaar his uncle neglects to return home. Neither the aunt noruncle understands the boy's need and anguish, and thus his isolationis deepened. We begin to see that the story is not so much a story oflove as it is a rendition of the world in which the boy lives.\n\nThe second part of the story depicts the boy's inevitable disap-pointment and realization. In such an atmosphere of "blindness"-the aunt and uncle unaware of the boy's anguish, the girl not con-scious of the boy's love, and the boy himself blind to the true natureof his love-the words "hostile to romance" take on ironic overtones.These overtones deepen when the boy arrives too late at the bazaar.It is closing and the hall is "in darkness." He recognizes "a silencelike that which prevades a church after a service" but the bazaar isdirty and disappointing. Two men are "counting money on a salver"and he listens "to the fall of the coins." A young lady, bored withhim and interested in two men who are flirting with her, cheapensand destroys the boy's sense of an "Eastern enchantment." His love,like his quest for a gift to draw the girl to him in an unfriendly world,ends with his realizing that his love existed only in his mind. Thus\n\nthe theme of the story-the discrepancy between the real and theideal-is made final in the bazaar, a
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It's a great book and you should read it.\n\nhttp://www.annefrank.com/1_life.htm\nHere's a summary of it and I'm not going to answer all those questions.\n\nhttp://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/frank/fullsumm.html\n\nhttp://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/annefran.htm
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This link should help.\nhttp://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/philosophy.html
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Go to Sparknotes.com! They have chapter summaries along with character analysis, themes and other information.
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Umm i read that book last year.... but maybe this can help \n\nWilliam Golding presented numerous themes and basic ideas that give the reader something to think about. One of the most basic and obvious themes is that society holds everyone together, and without these conditions, our ideals, values, and the basics of right and wrong are lost. Without society's rigid rules, anarchy and savagery can come to light.\n\nGolding is also showing that morals come directly from our surroundings, and if there is no civilization around us, we will lose these values.\n\nOther secondary themes include the following:\n\nPeople will abuse power when it's not earned. \n*When given a chance, people often single out another to degrade to improve their own security. \n*You can only cover up inner savagery so long before it breaks out, given the right situation. \n*It's better to examine the consequences of a decision before you make it than to discover them afterward. \n*The fear of the unknown can be a powerful force, which can turn you to either insight or hysteria. \n\n\nummm this is yahoo india, they read that book in india?
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I've posted a couple of URLs for your reference, and while I was looking found that it is the subject fiction for several Honors English classes and college level thesis themes.  You might try searching on the author,  Susan Carol McCarthy, for additional analysis. \n  To discuss chapter themes it looks like you are really going to have to use your imagination and deductive reasoning, which is a great way to exercise your brain!