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Wuthering Heights Summary
Number of Words: 1119 / Number of Pages: 5
... is dying, and Cathy doesn’t leave his side until the day of
her appointment with Linton. Edgar tells her to go, even though she doesn’
t want to leave him. Linton once again acts cold and ignores her, and
Cathy demands to be told why he keeps begging her to come if he doesn’t
really want to see her. He confesses that he is a traitor, and that
Heathcliff will kill him if she leaves. He refuses to tell her anything
more, in fear of what his father will do to him. Heathcliff comes into the
room, and asks Nelly about Edgar’s condition. She tells him that he is
dying, and Heathcliff hopes that Edga ...
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Othello - The Ambivalence Of H
Number of Words: 1112 / Number of Pages: 5
... evil of Iago and how he fools the other characters into believing he is an honorable man. His false displays begin with him and Roderego informing Brabantio of Desedemona's marriage to Othello, a Moor. The reader knows from the conversation between Iago and Roderego in Act I scene 1 that the two men are upset that Iago is not Lieutenant and Roderego cannot have Desedemona and they are acting out of Malice and retaliation. But, to Brabantio, their acts appear to be out of concern for the well being of Desedemona and respect for Brabantio.
The second instance in which the ambivalence is shown is after ...
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Red Badge Of Courage
Number of Words: 1267 / Number of Pages: 5
... more about themselves than they ever believed possible. The young soldier becomes a man with plenty of courage by the end of this book.
Stephen Crane brings the reader into his book, first with his power of describing details so eloquently, and second by telling us very little of the young soldiers' life, leaving him a mystery. Crane might have generalized all the young soldiers into one. Although Crane tells the reader his characters’ name (Henry Flemming), he usually refers to the boy as “The soldier.” Crane also tells the reader parts of Flemming’s life up until present, but most of the character ...
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Critical Analysis Of Steinbeck
Number of Words: 549 / Number of Pages: 2
... used to shoot Candy's dog in the back of the head, is also used by George to shoot Lennie in the back of the head. Slim had said earlier that he wished "somebody'd shoot [him] if [he] got old an' a cripple" (p. 45) and he also acknowledges that George has to shoot Lennie, telling him that he "hadda" (p.107). Both Candy's dog and Lennie are killed out of love. Candy feels that his dog no longer needs to suffer and George never wants Lennie to suffer for a crime he did not mean to commit.
The parallels that exist between the outcasts and Lennie emphasize the harsh pain of loneliness. Crooks tries t ...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Friendship Is The Key
Number of Words: 1055 / Number of Pages: 4
... was ignorance towards others and the way they feel. Many times Huck could be found causing trouble for others. One situation was when Tom and Huck decided to play a trick on Jim by putting his hat above a tree he was lying by, leading Jim to think he was "bewitched" by witches.
Tom said he slipped Jim’s hat off his head and hung it on a limb right over him, and Jim stirred a little, but he didn’t wake. Afterward Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance… (15).
Ignorance was a tool for Huck in the beginning of the story to survive. He used the ignorance in himself to look past t ...
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1984 2
Number of Words: 753 / Number of Pages: 3
... his sexual frustration lead him to the wrong conclusion. That he still thinks that he can get away with this and that the thought police will never catch him. This is where Winston unconsciously seals his fate of being caught but he feels the adventure is well worth the risk. Later in the relationship, they both are aware that the end to them is near.
There were a couple of things that Winston owned that were deemed illegal but ironically the glass paperweight seemed to be the most important. First of all, the paperweight serves no purpose in the world that Winston lives in. Another thing about i ...
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The Scarlet Letter Essay
Number of Words: 1210 / Number of Pages: 5
... world. This world, however, is a place where the society treats sexuality with ill grace. But his problem is enormously complicated by the fact of Hester's marriage (for him no technicality), and by his own image of himself as a cleric devoted to higher things. Unlike other young men, Dimmesdale cannot accept his loss of innocence and go on from there. He must struggle futilely to get back to where he was. Torn between the desire to confess and atone the cowardice which holds him back, Dimmesdale goes slightly mad. He takes up some morbid forms of penance-fasts and scourgings-but he can neither whip ...
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The Minister Black Veil
Number of Words: 501 / Number of Pages: 2
... you do not express your secret sin you would be keeping stress and tension locked up inside you, but if you express it, the stress and tension will be relieved.
Another reason behind the veil might be sorrow. Deep, dark sorrow for someone or yourself might be expressed and shown with the help of a black veil. By wearing the black veil for eternity, you are exhibiting great love and sorrow for someone or yourself. If the black veil was removed, the sorrow and love would be dead. This might be how Reverend Hooper expresses the veil.
Father Hooper might have also used the veil as a friend and a device ...
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Chrsanthemums
Number of Words: 1634 / Number of Pages: 6
... more in her life than a neat house and a good garden. Their marriage is childless and conventional and she has begun to sense that an important part of her is dying and that her future will be predictable and mundane. Elisa is a barren woman who has transferred her maternal impulses to her garden, a garden full of unborn seedlings. On the other hand, Elisa would never consider a lurid affair, when a dark mysterious stranger appears at their quiet farm dwelling looking for work. A complete contrast from her husband, an adventurer who lives spontaneously, a man of the road not bound by standard meas ...
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All Quiet On The Western Front: An Analysis
Number of Words: 1020 / Number of Pages: 4
... permanently, if not physically then mentally. After the war the soldiers usually never recovered from the war. Two of the most common side affects of the war were shell shock and stir crazy. When suffering from shell shock a soldier’s brain doesn’t function properly and the man is a “vegetable”. This means the man is alive but he can’t do anything because he is in a state of shock because of the war. Stir crazy is a mental illness caused by the firing of so many bullets that when no bullets are heard by the victim he goes insane. Everyone was scared to go to war when it started. Young recruits ...
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