Death Becomes Death

Death becomes Death
In reality all we can expect in life as the living is that one day we will all die. Even if we are Oprah Winfrey with all her chartable giving’s or Adolf Hitler and his many victims who faced death, having their race nearly annulated, we all die someday. We do not have the means to speak, plead, trick, and or even bargain with this indestructible force. We cannot touch, feel, see, fight, wrestle, or even make love to death. However in many fictional stories, drama, parables, comedies and other styles literature death is brought to life and becomes “Death”. “During the times that Death has manifested itself on the physical plane, it often takes the form of a skeletal female; however, the body Death chooses to manifest as can be in any form or size.”(marvel) These various forms and sizes consist of many different characteristics such in Darren Shan’s The Demonata Death is characterized as being known as the Shadow which is a large octopus, kraken like creature sown together by the shadows of the dead that it had collected through out all time. Other forms consist of female lover to the immortal marvel character Deadpool, also female character in Neil Gamins story The Sandman, or the other very common form the cruel, dark, lifeless; man only made of bone the Grim Reaper. Either way all these faces of death can believed to given a body weather then just being a force is to interpret in fiction how we as humans in reality try to manipulate, trick, fight and make various means of contact with death as if it were a living being but it is unstoppable; fiction can proves by always seeming to make Death as a character stronger, immortal, cunning, and or bigger then any human can face; simply no matter what shape form or...

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...t ourselves to and bring some sort of understanding to its power and ability to overwhelm us or to even show how some can conquer death by accepting it and many other ways. The two ideas that, We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast. But when we say this, we imagine that the hour is placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun, or that death could arrive this same afternoon - this afternoon which is so certain, and which has every hour filled in advance.(Final Destination) and “You only live twice: Once when you're born And once when you look death in the face.”(Fleming) Both those quotes work together in understand why we should respect death and how we should face it because no one can run away from, so rather you take it as a force or personify it, respect it because we all must die.