Essays on Immortality

In Hamlet Act I, Shakespeare wrote: “Thou know’st ’tis common; all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.” Time is relentless. Despite those are selfless or cynical acts, the person is a nonentity or monarch, time evanishes everything vestige as the waves sweep…

Death has for quite some time been surrounded by a cloud of mystery and suspense for me, my mind attempting to fill the huge gaps left by what knowledge we claim we possess of it. But, of course, there was a time when to me…

Offshore turbines are typically at least 10 km away from human habitation and, by definition, down at sea level. Birds and bats(seabirds) Birds can be killed by colliding with the rotating propellers of a wind turbine or they can suffer lethal injuries because of the…

Pagan Immorality In the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf, translated by Charles W. Kennedy, religious beliefs and ideals from various groups combine to create the story of an epic hero. During this time period, immortality and life after death were the most important achievements to those…

Why Should I be Moral? Gyges was a shepherd under the eyes and rule of the king of Lydia. When Gyges was feeding his flock one night, an earthquake started to shake the earth. When this happened, the ground in front of him opened up,…

In both Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” and Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality,” the concept of vanishing is discussed in the context of life and nature. While Wordsworth expresses the idea that a life before birth vanishes and Keats shares vanishing as a means to…

People across the globe have always told stories, and tales are the major symbol of the human struggle for eternity and immortality. Even though many take for granted that fairy tales have always been for children, in the 19th century tales were told and written…

In The Epic of Gilgamesh, the character Gilgamesh exemplifies the value of immortality in the Babylonian culture. Similarly, in Beowolf, Beowulf portrays a different idea regarding immortality and how immortality can be achieved. The only way that Gilgamesh can be able to achieve immortality is…