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Imagery Words And Their Role In Literature
Number of Words: 1519 / Number of Pages: 6
... pleasure, thinking of nothing, but the moment, in the triumph of her beauty, in the glory of her success, on cloud nine with happiness made up of all the admiration, of all the aroused desire, of this victory so complete and so sweet to the heart of any woman.” After the party, she discovered her necklace was lost. Since then, things change. There are no more beautiful words to describe Mrs. Loisel, no more daydream and no more fantasy worlds. She struggles for ten years just to pay off the necklace. Mrs. Loisel now turns to be an old woman and her dream leaves unfinished. Mrs. Loisel longs f ...
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Sense And Sensibility: A Summary
Number of Words: 1137 / Number of Pages: 5
... of good manners, and
well brought up. Marianne is impulsive, outspoken, full of a vibrant love
of life and playful. To fully understand the girls, it is important to see
how other character viewed them.
Edward Ferrars, the object of Elinor's affection (though she would
never show it) is quoted as saying Miss Dashwoods friendship the most
important of his life. This is a considerable compliment (even if it isn't
what Elinor wants to hear at the time) coming from a man as highly esteemed
as Mr. Ferrars . Elinor is viewed by her mother and her two sisters as a
saving grace, someone to depend on. ...
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The Canterbury Tales: A Character Sketch Of Chaucer's Knight
Number of Words: 542 / Number of Pages: 2
... busy life as his fighting career has taken
him to a great many places. He has seen military service in Egypt, Lithuania,
Prussia, Russia, Spain, North Africa, and Asia Minor where he "was of [great]
value in all eyes (l. 63). Even though he has had a very successful and busy
career, he is extremely humble: Chaucer maintains that he is "modest as a maid"
(l. 65). Moreover, he has never said a rude thing to anyone in his entire life
(cf., ll. 66-7).
Clearly, the knight possesses an outstanding character. Chaucer
gives to the knight one of the more flattering descriptions in the General ...
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Night
Number of Words: 839 / Number of Pages: 4
... how many children's mothers will hang? Or how much pain the families of the victims will have to endur? I'm telling you as a friend and a villager, Please stop all these murders! These people do not have to die. I know that in some of these cases the evidence was leading towards witch craft, and I agree that those girls were very believable, but if you would have looked very closely, you could tell it was staged. Did you even notice that whenever Abby would collapse or scream that the other girls would start to scream shortly after? For instance, do you remember when we had just convicted Mr ...
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The Color Purple
Number of Words: 513 / Number of Pages: 2
... herself that show the conflict of man Vs him/herself. She can't win over herself and that is why she doesn't have enough courage to stand up and be in command for her own life. Thirdly, the tradition of men had high social status then women. That shows the conflict of man Vs society. At the end of the book Celie eventually fight over the tradition. Men are no longer in charge for her life. In the book, , Alice Walker used several symbols and personifications to describe Celie's insecure and painful life. From the view of a reader, the title of the book, "" represents the pain and the bruises that had ...
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The Many Faces Of Love In Arth
Number of Words: 5113 / Number of Pages: 19
... love’s definition to the point where the only true love is the love and service of God. In order to clarify this development of the concept of love from simple human desire to a sublime commitment to the almighty, let us examine in detail the works of these perpetuators of Arthurian Legend.
Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain contains an account of the events that lead up to the birth and reign of King Arthur. Geoffrey tells of Uther, the King of Britain whose longing for Queen Igerna culminates in Arthur’s conception. When Uther sees Igerna at his Easter festival, an overwhelming ...
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Northanger Abbey: Reader's Response To Heroine
Number of Words: 2639 / Number of Pages: 10
... about in her description of Catherine in the title above come from Catherine's extreme innocence. Jane Austen's heroine arrives in Bath as a young debutante and, entirely inexperienced in the ways of the world, is immediately impressed by the more sophisticated Isabella. After their first meeting this is clear as she watches her leave; "(she) admired the graceful spirit of her walk, the fashionable air of her figure and dress, and felt grateful, as well she might, for the chance which had procured her such a friend." Jane Austen's interjection here, ("as well she might"), expresses the reader's fee ...
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The Odyssey: Summary
Number of Words: 1780 / Number of Pages: 7
... his father. Athena accompanies him disguised as an
old family friend, Mentor. Nestor tells Telemachos stories about Odysseus.
Telemachos continues his search on horseback with Nestor's son Megapenthes.
Telemachos and Megapenthes arrive at and are welcomed into the home
of Menelaos and Helen. Menelaos tells Telemachos of his travels with
Odysseus and that Odysseus is trapped on an island by Calypso. Meanwhile,
Antinoos has learned that Telemachos has e mbarked on his journey and plots
with the other suitors to kill him upon his return to Ithaca. Penelopeia
learns of Telemachos's leaving and is ...
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Compare Rosencrantz And Guilde
Number of Words: 1365 / Number of Pages: 5
... is worthy of discussion.
Stoppard gives Rosencrantz and Guildenstern an existence outside ‘Hamlet’, although it is one of little significance and they idle away their time only having a purpose to their lives when the play rejoins the ‘Hamlet’ plot, after they have been called by the King’s messenger: “There was a messenger...that’s right. We were sent for.” Their lives end tragically due to this connection with ‘Hamlet’, predetermined by the title, but the role provided them with a purpose to their otherwise futile lives, making them ...
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The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires
Number of Words: 728 / Number of Pages: 3
... all westerners and and
perhaps we possessed some deficiency
in common which made us subtly
unadaptable to eastern life.
In other words, after finding out what the east was really like, Nick lost
his interest in being in the east and returned to the west.
Gatsby came east looking for another type of money - Daisy.
Gatsby and Daisy had last seen each other about five years before, when
they were dating. Then Gatsby had to go to war. While he was away in war,
Daisy met Tom and then married Tom. Daisy had always been rich and
thought that in order to get Daisy back, he need to hav ...
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