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The Crucible 2
Number of Words: 1875 / Number of Pages: 7
... admits this in his lecture to Reverend Hale, "Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now." (Miller, P.124) He also follows through in his position of power in admitting he was just in his actions of punishment, "While I speak God's law, I will not crack its voice with whimpering." (Miller, P124) Judge Danforth backs up his cause with a biblical reference demonstrating his utter belief in his cause, "Mr. Hale, as God have not empowered me like Joshua to stop this sun from rising, so I cannot withhold them from th ...
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Huckleberry Finn: Good Vs. Evil
Number of Words: 438 / Number of Pages: 2
... sick and needed help and asked the slave hunters for help. They immediately
assumed that his father had smallpox, and he wanted nothing to do with Huck or
his father. Thus, he had saved Jim, and actually felt good about it. Further
along in the book, Jim becomes a slave again. Huckleberry, with the aid of Tom
Sawyer, free's Jim. Once again, Jim's escape and freedom are more important to
Huck than societies viewpoint.
The river is also important. The river is symbolic of freedom. It is
also symbolic of good. When Jim and Huck are rafting down the river, they are
free of society. They have ...
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Nick Carraway’s Role In The Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 726 / Number of Pages: 3
... he is our eyes as well as our ears in this fictitious world.
In telling us his story about the “great man,” Jay Gatsby, he goes to quite a length in establishing a credibility which is essential for the story. His reflection on his upbringing, particularly his “advantages,” as his father called them, those being his spiritual and moral values only work to build upon his credibility. For example, by saying that his upbringing provided him with the moral fibre and that consequently he is, “inclined to reserve all judgments,” about other people provides us with the impression that Nick with give us ...
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Summary Of Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
Number of Words: 1471 / Number of Pages: 6
... the descendants of a royal family known as
D'Urberville. Motivated by greed of becoming part of a higher class, with
no thought for Tess, her mother and father made the conscious choice to
send Tess to the D'Urberville mansion to acquire work and marry a wealthy
man.
While employed at the D'Urberville mansion, Tess was confronted
with her first major social dilemma whose name is Alec D'Urberville. The
young Alec is portrayed as a spoiled, almost evil person; a high class snob.
From the first time he laid eyes on Tess, he begins to seduce her. Hardy's
use of Alec D'Urberville and his relationship to ...
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The Life Of Edward Albee
Number of Words: 998 / Number of Pages: 4
... Edward was packed off to the first of
three boarding schools at age 11.
At Trinity, "I discovered that the required courses were not the
ones I required." So he cut the classes that bored him and audited the ones
that didn't.
"It tells you something about the management of Trinity at the time
that they didn't catch up with me until the middle of the sophomore year,"
he recalls. "That ended my formal education, and I suppose it didn't matter
much. I'd figured out how to educate myself, and keep on doing it. To be
fair to Trinity, I would have been unhappy at any college or university."
Albee was ...
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The Street Lawyer
Number of Words: 304 / Number of Pages: 2
... Micheal filed a suit against his ex-firm, with the help, of Mordecai Green, and they were representing the evictees. The partners of Drake & Sweeney, knowing that they were wrong, met with Mordecai Green to settle on an agreement without a jury. They were offering Mordecai and Michael $770,000 and two-year suspension for Michael for stealing the file. Mordecai made an offer of $5 million and a one-year suspension for Michael. If Drake & Sweeney agreed everything would be over without the public hearing about it but if they disagreed, Mordecai would bring in a jury and was confident of winning a ...
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Things Fall Apart A Tragedy
Number of Words: 1112 / Number of Pages: 5
... to speak to Enzima, we wonder (also due to Ekwefi’s fear)
C. Fear is aroused when the conflict develops between Okonkwo and Nwoye over the argument of Nwoye’s desire to be a Christian
V. Conclusion
A. Restatement of Thesis
B. Concluding Remarks
Things Fall Apart: A Tragedy
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, is book about a man named Okonkwo, who is part of the Ibo culture of the mid-first millennium of AD. Aristotle defines a tragedy as a work that provides catharsis by the use of a tragic hero who is within a tragic setting or environment. Achebe reveals Things Falls Apart a ...
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The Odyssey And Its Themes
Number of Words: 709 / Number of Pages: 3
... duration of the story Odysseus has to make several sacrifices in order to get to the home he longs for so much. In Book 12, Circe foresees that Odysseus will have to let some of his men die. “The Ithacans set off. But Odysseus never reveals to them Circe’s last prophecy – that he will be the only survivor…” This shows how much he’s willing to do and sacrifice in order to get home.
There are many obstacles that stand in Odysseus’s way of getting home. Some of the obstacles included the Lotus-Eaters, Cyclops, Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis. In many ways these cre ...
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The Men We Carry In Our Minds And Why I Want A Wife: Gender Roles
Number of Words: 742 / Number of Pages: 3
... tasks around the house and if the time were to come men would be the first to join the military and go die for their country. These are not expectations of men these are obligations! It is our job as men to see to it that the family is always provided for, the labor is always done and if there is a fight that needs fighting men are the first to volunteer.
In the essay Why I Want A Wife, by Judy Brady, the expectations of women are discussed and the male reader is supposed to be left with a feeling of guilt. “Women are expected to take care of their children, keep track of appointments, cook a ...
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Huck As Hero
Number of Words: 1255 / Number of Pages: 5
... too the greatest amount of corruption, Huck is the purest character in the book.
From the beginning of the novel, one can observe the inner strength of young Huck. Huck was a “beaten and bruised” child, coming from a family where the only guidance that the boy had was from his drunken Pap (Dynos 13). Due to a lack of leadership to follow in, Huck was forced to raise himself. It takes a strong character to raise oneself (18), and Huck did one hell of a job doing it. Children gain much of who they are from how they were brought up, during this critical period children can be made or broken. Huck is ...
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