![]() Finally, I ask them to group the films’ adversaries into one of three possible categories: natural, paranormal, or supernatural. Again, this is usually a quick and easy task. Then, I ask them to identify the monster, or threat-the antagonist, to use the proper terminology-that appears in each of the films they have named. Pullman Sometimes, in demonstrating how to brainstorm about an essay topic, selecting horror movies, I ask students to name the titles of as many such movies as spring to mind (seldom a difficult feat for them, as the genre remains quite popular among young adults). Matter how great our accomplishments might have been during ourĬopyright 2009 by Gary L. Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre characterized as “absurd.” We liveĪnd we die, and centuries later, it is as if we never existed, no To suggest a pessimistic answer, ending not only as a cautionary taleĬoncerning the vanity of human pride and the futility of memorials asĪ means of attaining immortality, but also a declaration that humanĮxistence is, when all is said and done, what the existential What shall it mean that a man or a woman ever lived at all? The poem seems If this king’s life has been forgotten, certainly those of ordinary Sand, but also half buried in the lonely desert, “boundless andīare,” that stretches away from the ruined monument on every hand. It were, not only dismembered and decapitated by the wind and the His long-ago existence is a crumbling “wreck,” which has been, as ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, his hopes were all in vain. His person had been commemorated with a gigantic statue of He was “king of kings” who had accomplished peerlessĭeeds. Ozymandias, it seems, was more than a mere warriorĬhieftain. Ozymandias’ by virtue of his having performed great deeds ofĬourage. In which the hero Beowulf hopes to attain an immortality similar to We see this impulse as late as the Anglo-Saxon period, Immortality by being remembered and honored by succeeding Than those of the vanished Egypt of centuries ago, people aspired to
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