In "A Hanging," by George Orwell, he writes about the accounts of one prisoner's hanging at the gallows and the emotions and feelings towards the death of that prisoner. The essay takes place mostly around the gallows and jail. The jail alone is described to be a place of “brown” prisoners wrapped in blankets among their empty metal barred cells. The superintendent was moody and in a hurry to get the job done as he wanted the death to happen as soon as possible so the other prisoners might get their breakfast soon. A dog, who had came and interrupted the process, was rather happy because so many humans were together at one place. Orwell, the author himself, had a realization of how evil it is to kill a man who is just as much as a conscious and real person as everyone else and did not deserve to die. This realization came from the action of the prisoner stepping around a puddle as he was being walked to the gallows. The whole process of the hanging is tense and quiet as the prisoner cries out, “Ram!” repeatedly. Finally, he is hung and dies. After this hanging there is a sigh of relief from the superintendent and several other man, including the author. The men all began to laugh and converse over the facts of the hangings. Joking, casually, about pulling some prisoner's legs to make sure they die. An interesting jovial mood comes about as the story ends with the account of all the men drinking together. A jovial mood, fun activities, and laughter can lift stress, remove the mind from focusing on negativity, and create a better outlook on a situation.
When focusing on something negative, or in Orwell's case something he believes is wrong, a quick offer of a cigarette and a joke cracked sparks laughter and changes the way he f...
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...uation. The hospital tries to create a positive, jovial, and fun atmosphere when being diagnosed because of the way a child can feel when being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at such a young age.
Orwell, when first taken aback by discovering how wrong it is to kill a fully alive and conscious man is then transformed into a laughing, drinking, happy man conversing friendly with other men. I was first taken aback by my diagnosis with type one diabetes at age 9, but after the laughter, activities, and positive atmosphere transformed me into a strong kid ready to take on my new disease and keep myself healthy to live a long life. You could take almost any situation and apply it to the process of positivity, laughter, and fun activities to turning negative connotations in life around. If you just add a little sugar to that bitter tea, it all becomes easier to drink.
My patient Hannah is a 10 year old 4th grade student who loves volleyball and was just diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus. I’m going to explain to you what her disorder is, the signs and symptoms, causes of this disorder, body changes, economic impact, and how she will manage this disorder especially at such a young age.
Case study: Carol is 17 years old and was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of 7 years. Carol has had a recent hospital admission for dehydration and high blood glucose. During the admission Carol was found to be 6 weeks pregnant. Prior to the admission she had been experiencing weight loss and changes in mood.
In the poem "The Hangman," by Maurice Ogden, the poet explained that a person could resolve a situation by showing acts of courage. One day, a hangman came to a town and built a scaffold on the courthouse square. The townspeople asked him which criminal would be hanged and he replied with a mischievous grin and a glint in his eye that it would be the person who will continually make his job easier. When the hangman spotted a foreign person, he chose him to be the first victim. The townsfolk were relieved that they weren't picked to be hanged, and that the gallows frame would be gone the next day. However, after they saw that it was still there, the hangman said that the foreigner was used to determine how strong the hemp was. When a man cri...
Award-winning author Mandy Hale once stated, “Without negativity, life would be amazing.” However, this statement does not always prove to be true. Today’s modern community generates a judgement that negative experiences will ruin your life, but studies show that negativity can actually result in positive change. For example, negativity can positively change teenagers actions, introduce teenager’s to more supportive environments, and help fix broken relationships.
In conclusion, George Orwell and James McTeigue demonstrate how the anti-hero’s personality and behaviour can be used in accomplishing their goal.
This essay is distinctly about how life experiences alter the way in which your writings travel. The ups and downs of life will determine the perspective you see of your life, in turn, determining how you feel or express yourself. Orwell states, “his subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in – at least this is true in tumultuous, revolutionary ages like our own” (265). This statement proves how writing develops with age and how through different time periods, has evolved. Orwell's essay focuses on the indirect wants.
Ever hear one say, “Sometimes I’m busy making others happy, that I forget to make sure I’m okay.”? After reading Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided I have learned that balancing both positive and negative thinking is the single most important life lesson shown throughout the book. Ehrenreich tells readers that the power of positive thinking Is undermining America and how being too positive and too optimistic, can lead to trouble. One that knows how to balance the amount of positivity and negativity will create a proper outcome for their future.
The pleasure of relieving stress in George Orwell's essay "A Hanging" was detailed by his thoughts written as one of the executioners. This character drank alcohol to relieve the painful memories of escorting the prisoner to the gallows. The character would have rather saved the man from hanging when the author wrote "It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man" (pg 89). Orwell describes in detail how the condemned man "was not dying, he was alive just as we are alive all the organs of his body were working, bowels digesting food, skin renewing itself, nails growing, tissues forming, all toiling away in solemn foolery." (pg 89). The author continues to illustrate the character's mental anguish when he says "he and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world, and in two minutes with a sudden snap, one o...
Thoughtful laughter is a technique used frequently in satirical pieces in literature. It allows for the audience to enjoy the wittiness of a work, later ponder on the meaning, and then apply the message to reality. Thoughtful laughter is often an inner experience that can only be achieved by authors who write meticulously. Two examples of satirical works in literature that display this concept explicitly are Voltaire’s Candide and C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. Both authors explore the depths of satire and simultaneously deliver an important message to readers through skillful technique.
Within a short story, there is usually an obstacle that the main character has to persevere through. Between the characters of the guard from George Orwell’s “A Hanging” and the servant from Edgar Allen Poe’s “A Tell-Tale Heart”, they both experience the act of taking another person’s life. The guard from “A Hanging” works at a prison in Burma where felons await execution. His job is to lead the convicted men to their doom and makes sure everything goes routinely and swift. While the servant from “A Tell-Tale Heart” is a psychopathic man who lets his obsession over his boss’s glasseye lead him to plot and carry out his death. Throughout both stories, the protagonists reach a moment when they need to take part in the organized killings though, their different views on life and responses to the deaths set them apart. As a result, even through the prison guard and the servant both played key roles in the executions of the victims, they both have different outlooks and reactions towards their deeds. When it comes to the obstacle that the prison guard and the servant face, they are both in the position of ending the lives of their victims on pre-determined dates. The guard for starters works at a prison where “cell[s] measured about 10 feet and was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot for drinking water” (Orwell 32) and “brown, silent men” (Orwell 32) within them. The guard mentions that they “were the condemned men, due to be hanged within the next week or two” (Orwell 32). Once the prisoner is introduced, the clock strikes eight o’clock and the army doctor states ““For God’s sake hurry up, Francis,” he said irritably. “The man ought to have been dead by this time. Aren’t you ready yet?” (Orwell 32). This shows that ther...
Edward Blake, aptly named The Comedian viewed twentieth century life through a darkly tinted humorous lens. He viewed life as an absurd and meaningless notion, where all actions were ultimately driven by an innately selfish nature. Through his experiences in war, he becomes a “ruthless, cynical and nihilistic” man who is “capable of deeper insights than the others” in the room (Reynolds, 106). The Comedian's derives his power from a complete an utter disregard for humanity. Though he fights crime and has been conjured by the press into a patriotic symbol of war and victory, he thrives on chaos and destruction. He claims t...
He points out that the philosophical study of humor is focused on determining “what has to be true of something in order for it to count as assuming” (Morreall 7). The study has shifted from identifying the theories to now explaining the psychological reasoning behind humor and laughter. Philosophers want to know what does a situation have to satisfy to cause laughter. Over the years, three theories have emerged, the Superiority, Incongruity, and Relief Theory. Morreall particularly focuses on the Superiority Theory. Combining the philosophical ideas of Plato, Thomas Hobbes, and Roger Scruton, this theory claims that “laughter expresses feelings of superiority” (Morreall 6). Laughter comes from feeling better than someone else, like neighbors laughing at the man tripping on the sidewalk in the earlier story. His neighbors could laugh because they are not in his position. The man embarrassed himself in front the whole neighborhood and got a scraped-up knee from doing so. On the other hand, his neighbors are happily sitting on their porches, free from embarrassment in front of fellow peers and have no bruises from a fall. Since they are socially and physically superior to this man, they find the situation
The author’s purpose is to also allow the audience to understand the way the guards and superintendent felt towards the prisoners. We see this when the superintendent is upset because the execution is running late, and says, “For God’s sake hurry up, Francis.” And “The man ought to have been dead by this time.” This allows the reader to see the disrespect the authority has towards the prisoners.
In The Story of an Hour when Mrs. Mallard walks down the stairs she sees someone opening the door. “It was Brently Mallard who entered.” At the sight of seeing her husband she dies instantly and the doctors claim it was “a joy that kills.” This is an example of situational irony in that the doctors believe it was it was happiness that killed her while in reality Mrs. Mallard was feeling anything from happiness when she saw her husband. It was the thought of returning to the limitations and loss of freedom that comes with marriage that led to her death. In Emancipation: A Life Fable when the animal had the choice between going back to the cage and facing the dangers that come with freedom he chose the latter. And “So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering. The door which accident had opened is opened still, but the cage remains forever empty!” While the animal is hesitant at first he eventually choses freedom even though he faces great dangers and suffering. Both texts display the theme through irony that no matter how difficult freedom is, people have a natural tendency to gravitate towards it in opposition to the limitations and repression of
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