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Antigone 4
Number of Words: 760 / Number of Pages: 3
... to challenge Creon's love for power and accepts the punishment given to her. She bows to death because she is aware that she has done a good deed and she will inhale her last breath in honor. Whether Creon thinks of her as a traitor or not, Antigone knew the gods would reserve their judgment in favor of her. She never once regrets burying her brother which makes her character all the more admirable.
Although their personalities drifts down opposite paths, Creon's background is much like Antigone's. In the beginning of the play Creon characterizes himself as a loyal king, who wants to prove his wor ...
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Summary Of Kidnapped
Number of Words: 808 / Number of Pages: 3
... a place called Essendean. He has never been out of there. Having both his parents die was truly a tragedy. Only now has the minister of the town (Mr. Campbell, who was friends with David’s father) told David that his father left him a will. The will stated, “To the hands of Ebenezer Balfour, Esq., of Shaws, in his house of Shaws, these will e delivered by my son, David Balfour.” David was to travel to another town, and seek a place called “The House Of Shaws.” David then finds out that the man living in the gruesome house (where he thought was a palace before he laid ...
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The Canterbury Tales: The Friar Outwits The Summoner
Number of Words: 987 / Number of Pages: 4
... was a thief, a summoner, a pimp.” By doing so, the friar implies that a summoner must indeed know the deceitful arts of theft and embezzlement: “He knew so much of bribery and blackmail I should be two years telling you the tale.” By giving so many portraits of a summoner, the friar is sketching what he thinks of summoners in general. Having gathered all this, “A summoner isn’t much to be commended.” The summoner however, resorts to vulgarity due to anger: “…when my turn’s to come I’ll pay him back by God! I’ll strike him dumb!” The summoner begins the tale by noting that friars are found only in ...
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Brave New World: The Use Of Distortion
Number of Words: 732 / Number of Pages: 3
... people were viviparous, and were disgusted and outraged.
Huxley is trying to warn society that its lack of commitment and endurance
will eventually be its downfall. Lack of the experience of pregnancy
severs the emotional ties of the woman and her child. An emotionless
society feels no guilt. In addition, Lenina, when accused of lack of
promiscuity by Fanny while in the locker room, religiously denies it.
Monogamy requires commitment, pain, and work. Huxley is predicting humans
progressing to a society of people who are unable to focus on anything but
pleasure; unable to handle the work of a co ...
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Pride And Prejudice (a Contemp
Number of Words: 1367 / Number of Pages: 5
... in The Shop Around the Corner in a quote from Klara, who says to Kralik, "Why, I could show you letters that would open your eyes. No, I guess you probably wouldn't understand what's in them. They're written by a type of man so far superior to you it isn't even funny." The same basic statement is made by Kathleen to Joe in You've Got Mail, where she remarks, "The man who is coming here tonight is completely unlike you. There is not a cruel or ungenerous bone in his body." This, the fact that Klara reveals that there were times Kralik could have "swept her off her feet", and the obvious notion t ...
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Common Human Experiences In To Kill A Mockingbird
Number of Words: 420 / Number of Pages: 2
... Boo, he was not seen outside of his house and
people did not know what to think. They made up their own ideas of what
he was like and made him out to be some sort of monster. They pre-judged
him because he was different than they were. Scout later met Boo and
discovered that there judgements of him were false.
The second common human experience is courage. Atticus displays two
different types of courage in the novel. the first is a mental courage
when he defends Tom Robinson even though the chances of winning are almost
hopeless. This act is also couragous because he knows by defending Tom he ...
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Summary Of The Scarlet Pimpernel
Number of Words: 1662 / Number of Pages: 7
... Scarlet Pimpernel or known
as Sir Percy Blakeney. He is the man of courage who with his crew has
saved many lives. In his everyday lives he acts as though he was a dull
but rich gentleman. While his business are daringly dangerous. His rival
fiend Chauvelin a French spy. He use many ways to try to find the identity
of the Scarlet Pimpernel. He even use his old friend Lady Blakeney. She
is Sir Percy wife and he love her very much. But due to her past. He has
hesitate to tell her his secret. Chauvelin asked her to help him find out
who is the Scarlet Pimpernel and capture him for French. But ...
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Fahrenheit 451
Number of Words: 763 / Number of Pages: 3
... definition of a Fireman is today does not match the definition of a Fireman in this novel. Firemen in are employed with the sole purpose of starting fires as opposed to putting them out and saving lives. The fires started by these Firemen are provoked by reports that the owners of the building that is to be destroyed are hiding illegal books in the establishment. Guy Montag is a Fireman in this novel. He lives his whole life never thinking about what a book is or why it was so important for people to risk their lives to have them. His whole mindset on life changes when he meets an amazing girl nam ...
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The Story Of An Hour
Number of Words: 725 / Number of Pages: 3
... this person, this
“friend”, had passed away. “She did not hear the story as
many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability
to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden
wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms.”(12) The irony had
finally creeped through into her life, her inexplicable and
“sometimes” loving marriage had finally come to a sudden
halt; Louise Mallard no longer had her dreadful job.
The feeling of freedom, the feeling Louise Mallard
never knew still existed warmed her body from head to toe.
Although the news of s ...
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Madame Bovary: The Theme Of Fantasy
Number of Words: 217 / Number of Pages: 1
... exitement, and bliss. She was blind to the world around her,
she longed for the romantic fantasy life she had dreamed about since she
was a child. She found her life dull and unfullfilling and was constantly
trying to change reality.
Emma wanted a dreamlover. She wanted a man to fullfill all her
fantasys, a man to rescue her from the life she was living and to take her
into her fantasy world. Emma went through many lovers, searching for the
one love that would last always. She wanted to live through her dreams,
never realizing that she would never find her dreamlover. Emma died
because ...
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