AGONY OF OLD AGE Old age is the last phase of life as William Shakespeare has put it‚ “Last scene of all‚ Sans teeth‚ sans eyes‚ sans taste‚ sans everything.” We see in our surroundings‚ these elderly figures that often spend time in tranquility‚ who feel helpless and lonely as they are detached from other strata of society. In old age physical strength deteriorates‚ mental stability diminishes‚ and lack of
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Introduction “What happens to parents when space is limited in the heart and homes of their children? Old-age homes have become popular in Bangladesh. The traditional structure of a family of Bangladesh is turning into a fast‚ racy lifestyle‚ where ambitious youth are discarding the old values and in turn‚ their parents. The parents are forced to live out their old age alone. An old man‚ once the head of the family is now a subdued member of a house of strangers. The woman who once happily cooked
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the Order that Jugan had created in France set up its first home for the aged. On October 11‚ after the television channels had brought home images of their own mother being conferred sainthood in Rome‚ the old and poor of St. Joseph’s Home gave themselves over to some joy. Ninety-year-olds danced to "We have got a saint‚ after all". Television crews and reporters repeatedly asked Mother Jean‚ Mother Superior of the Little Sisters of the Poor‚ Saint Jeanne’s Order which runs the St. Joseph’s Home
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In ’King Lear’‚ the Fool is a character of dramatic importance in the play. The Fool helps the reader‚ and in Shakespeare’s time would help the audience‚ to understand what lies beneath the surface of certain actions or verses. He equally strives to make Lear ’see’. The Fool may be a very intriguing character and very often a complicated one but his role is necessary in ’King Lear’. The Fool plays three major roles; one of these roles is that of an ’inner-conscience’ of Lear. The Fool provides basic
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“Beautiful Old Age” is a free verse poem written by D.H. Lawrence about the beauty and satisfaction of growing old. The author’s theme describes old age as something peaceful‚ satisfying‚ and wonderful. Lawrence uses apples as imagery and peaceful descriptions through the use of color and the images of the outdoors throughout the poem to explain how he believes old age is beautiful. He provides the reader with a beautiful depiction of how growing old age should be; however‚ his depiction does
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So much about how Kierkegaard inspires Lear to give such a great importance to irony. Let us now turn at how he concretely conceives the experience of irony. In this regard‚ the rest of Kierkegaard’s journal entry has once again particular relevance. There‚ Kierkegaard asks himself in what did Socrates’ irony really lie. His answer is that Socratic irony does not lie in virtuous talking. Instead‚ ’[…][Socrates] whole existence is and was irony; whereas the entire contemporary population of farm hands
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2 IVAN ARGUELLO PROFESSOR T. WARE English 1301 DATE @ "MMMM D‚ Y" NOVEMBER 4‚ 2014 Live Long Enough A beginning always has to have a finish and surely does life. We all know that age considers; youth ventures. There’s always a constant battle between the elderly and the youth. It’s like a never ending battle with similarities‚ yet have differences of their own as well. Since the day we are born brought upon this world changes start to happen. In between birth and death the body is the most
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Old Age Homes and Retirement Township in India Life expectancy is steadily increasing‚ but cities are no longer safe nor friendly neighbors a certainty. Alternative housing for the aged is a practical lifestyle solution that developers are now ready to provide. The fading joint family system in India and other innumerable factors have given rise to west-inspired phenomena of old age homes. Surprising cost of living and scanty return on savings have almost pushed these senior citizens on roads. Such
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King Lear—A Man More Sinned Against Than Sinning? A King is supposed to have all that he needs without having to worry about anything in his late years. Yet King Lear‚ in Act 3‚ Scene 2‚ cried out in pitifully: “I am a man / More sinned against than sinning.” Although Lear has made a huge mistake in the first scene of the play in dividing up his kingdom and banishing his two dearest people‚ the sins his two other ungrateful daughters have done him is far greater than the
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Amelia Weidemann “If the heavens do not their visible spirits/Send quickly down to tame these vile offenses/...humanity must perforce prey on itself‚”(IV.ii.48-50). This quote comes from the fourth act in King Lear written by William Shakespeare. In the process to amend the social uproar that ensues after the first act‚ Cordelia later on in the play tries to reestablish the aristocratic ideal of service to one’s lord by waging war on the betrayal of her sisters. Shakespeare wants to illuminate that
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