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Escaping The Fog Of Pride And Prejudice
Number of Words: 1054 / Number of Pages: 4
... ball, Darcy is very reserved. He refuses to dance with
Elizabeth when Bingley asks him to, saying that Elizabeth is not handsome enough
to tempt him. Elizabeth's pride is hurt and she characterizes Darcy as
disagreeable and proud. When Elizabeth first meets Wikham, she is blinded by
her prejudice of Darcy as she accepts everything harmful Wikham has to say of
Darcy. The plot of the rest of the book revolves around Elizabeth discovering
the true nature of both Darcy and Wikham. At the Netherfield ball, it seems
this will never happen. From the beginning of the night, when Elizabeth
discover ...
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The Awakening: Edna
Number of Words: 528 / Number of Pages: 2
... seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be dead or alive; when life
appeared to her like a grotesque
Pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable
annihilation. (Chopin, 588)
Edna struggled to make her life more fulfilling. Edna wanted what?
Passion, excitement? She states to the Doctor, "But I don't want anything but
my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample
upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others--but no matter--still, I
shouldn't want to trample upon the little lives." (Chopin, 629).
In the title of "The Awakening" ...
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The Pearl Book Report
Number of Words: 1423 / Number of Pages: 6
... She could stand fatigue and hunger almost better than Kino himself. In the canoe she was like a strong man.
She always took Coyotito out of his hanging box and cleaned him and hammocked him in her shawl in a loop that placed him close to her breast. She sang softly an ancient song that had only three notes though endless variety of interval.
Coyotito: their baby -son , slept in a hanging box , was stung by a scorpion one morning.
Juan Toma's: Kino´s brother
Apolonia: His fat wife. They both had four children.
The doctor: he never came to the cluster of brush houses. Why should he, when he had ...
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Hamlet
Number of Words: 769 / Number of Pages: 3
... and honor, ’s maturity level for his time is low, especially for being a prince. Today ’s age group is more immature than during his own time so he relates to the youth of the 1990’s better than he does with the adolescents of his own time. Sarcasm, and blunt rudeness is often used by in order to offend people that, during his time, he should not have offended. often used the hasty marriage of his mother to offend Claudius. The first time that offends Claudius in the company of another person is when Claudius is supposed to be helping cheer up. “A little more than kin, and less than kind.” (. I, i ...
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Human Nature: Exposed
Number of Words: 1420 / Number of Pages: 6
... the
thematic idea of the human race being hypocritical. For instance, take the
scene in Chapter 20 where a group of people in Arkansas are listening to the
sermon of a preacher. In this descriptive passage, it can be inferred through
Twain's writing that the average person of this time was in fact "blinded" by
religious influences. The significance of this event can be observed later on
in Chapter 21 where Twain describes the horrific abuse of animals. "There
couldn't anything wake them up all over, and make them happy all over, like a
dog-fight--unless it might be putting turpentine on a stra ...
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A Review Of Lord Of The Flies
Number of Words: 3443 / Number of Pages: 13
... kids on an deserted island can't make peace. The happenings on
the island are something that the author uses as an image of the world war
2, were Jack symbols Adolf Hitler, a dictator. Ralph and Piggy symbols the
judes - the hunted ones.
The Plot
A group of boys has been dropped on a tropical island somewhere in the
Pacific Ocean, their plane having been shot down. A nuclear war has taken
place; civilisation has been destroyed.
Ralph, a strong and likeable blond, delights in the fact that there are "no
grownups" around to supervise them. The boys have the entire island to
themselves. Piggy, who is f ...
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The Canterbury Tales: Analysis
Number of Words: 244 / Number of Pages: 1
... five miles south of London. The cathedral was a special place. It was a
shrine where the archbishop Thomas A. Becket was murdered in 1170. This was the
pilgrimage the twenty nine characters would make. They would start at the
Tabard Inn in Southwark, which is near London.
The characters in this story tell the stories themselves. This style of
writing is called framework. There are twenty-four different stories told by
the characters who interact with each other throughout the entire tale. The
stories are mostly old familiar ones revamped and retold with the Chaucer style.
Most of the stori ...
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Pride And Prejudice
Number of Words: 589 / Number of Pages: 3
... into wealthy families she knows she will not continue in her present comfortable lifestyle.
Mr. Collins has a completely different reason for marriage than simple financial. While proposing to Elizabeth for the first time he states that "...I think it a right for every clergyman in easy circumstances ... to set the example of matrimony in his parish."(p. 91). Further offending Elizabeth he continues to say that "...that it is the particular advice and recommendation of the very noble lady whom I have the honor of calling patroness.". Mr. Collins is referring to Lady Catherine De Bourgh whom Elizab ...
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Crane's "The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky": The Marriage Of The End
Number of Words: 259 / Number of Pages: 1
... may not accept what he has done.
The sheriff is coming home on a train, not horses but a train with
a wife he did not ask the town permission for. The entire train ride home
consists of him telling his new wife everything about everything on the
train which shows his anxiety in going home to his town. Every thing on
the train symbolizes how the east is coming to the west and how the west is
slowly fading out. Everyone on the train keeps referring to time as if
time were running out for everybody.
The other main character of this story is Scratchy Wilson.
Scratchy is the only trace of the traditio ...
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Stoker's Dragula: Devices
Number of Words: 927 / Number of Pages: 4
... were placed here where sling, or bow, or culverin could not reach,
and consequently light and comfort, impossible to a position which had to
be guarded, were secured." This description could also be an example of
foreshadowing, as I will explain later. Another example of imagery can be
found on page 54. This is when Jonathan was trying to escape and he ran
across the Count's coffin. Stoker creates the horrifying image of the
devilish antagonist by writing, "... looking as if his youth had been half
renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey;
the cheeks were fuller, a ...
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