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Lady Lazarus
Number of Words: 2502 / Number of Pages: 10
... than vindictive malice, lack of character development and especially the role of social status. The sensational novel is usually a tale of our own times. Proximity is indeed one great element of sensation. A tale which aims to electrify the nerves of the reader is never thoroughly effective unless the scene be laid out in our own days and among the people we are in the habit of meeting. In keeping with mid-Victorian themes, Lady Audley’s Secret is closely connected to the street literature and newspaper accounts of real crimes. The crimes in Braddon’s novel are concealed and secret. Like the crim ...
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Women In The Odyssey
Number of Words: 781 / Number of Pages: 3
... twenty years of absence, Penelope still praises of her husband. At any time Penelope could have married one of the suitors and provided a father figure for her son. This fact demonstrate
Penelopes loylaty to her husband. . Standing before the suitors, Penelope announces that whoever among them can string the bow and shoot an arrow through the twelve axes will win her hand. At first reading, one may be surprised that Penelope will give up hope for
the return of her husband, however, Penelope knows that Odysseus's bow was a gift from a god, and Odysseus's strength was unmatched by any mortal. Altho ...
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Macbeth - Charting His Downfall
Number of Words: 1349 / Number of Pages: 5
... ambition, even though it is dismissed.
"My thought ……. // Shakes so my single state of man."
The second soliloquy is in Act I, Scene IV, when the Thane of Cawdor has been killed. Duncan describes him as ‘a man on whom I built an absolute trust’. This parallels Macbeth, who he trusts, when he betrays him. Duncan pronounces his son as the prince of Cumberland and the heir to the throne. This throws Macbeth’s mind into even more confusion, as this is a ‘step which (he) must o’er-leap. He also, in the soliloquy, knows that his thoughts are evil, and he does not want good to see them.
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Canterbury Tales - Courtly Love In Chaucer
Number of Words: 1784 / Number of Pages: 7
... as the knight who is of noted "heigh kinrede" (63) ceremoniously completes the "many a labor" (60) of a courtly lover. The description of the duties that must be undertaken by a classic courtly lover seeking a wife for social fulfillment corruptss the image of courtship being motivated by the existence of true love. The emphasis on the inconvenience with which Arveragus, "dide his payne" (57) suggests he performs "many a greet empryse" (59) out of obligation and convention rather than as a part of a genuine amorous pursuit. The weakly disguised presence of the "ye" in each of these words announces A ...
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Ezra Pound, Imagism, And The Influence Of The Orient
Number of Words: 1411 / Number of Pages: 6
... with will be done so directly, whether subjectively or objectively (Spirit of Romance p.219). Pound insisted that the poem must present to the reader an active image, not a mere description of events or setting. Pound’s model for his directness was the prose of nineteenth century French authors such as Flaubert and DeMaupassant (Hakatuni p.48-49).
The second tenet of Imagism is to “use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation” of the image in question. Pound elaborates by saying: “The true poet is most easily distinguished from the false, when he trusts himself to the simpl ...
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Similarities In "Miss Jean Brodie", "Dead Poets Society", And "The Trial And Death Of Socrates"
Number of Words: 461 / Number of Pages: 2
... no more evident than with the Dead Poets Society.
He knew that if it were ever uncovered by the faculty higher-ups his job
would be, at least, in serious jeopardy. This is another case of needless
persecution of someone with the best of intentions. It is ridiculous to
think that he could have been implicated in any way to the suicide of one
of his students. Firing Professor Keating was the biggest disservice that
the administration could have done to the student body.
The most extreme case of this senseless persecution is that of
Socrates. Here is a man of little means. His only desire was to try ...
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Eleanor Rigby
Number of Words: 382 / Number of Pages: 2
... has no point to his life if he reaches no one through his sermons. Father McKenzie is “darning his socks in the night when there’s nobody there,” which implies he is ashamed. He tries to hide not only the fact that he cannot afford new socks, but he is also hiding his self just as Eleanor did.
The seventh stanza brings the two characters together. They are both brought together for Eleanor’s funeral because Father McKenzie is reading her eulogy, but they are brought together in a different way that is more important to the theme. The stanza ends as Father McKenzie come ...
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Love Lessons
Number of Words: 618 / Number of Pages: 3
... he did not push me. I was able to develop a part of me I had never gotten to explore before. I find it easier to say hello to a person on the street now, or tell a friend how I am really feeling, or share a joke with someone. In opening up, the loneliness as faded and it has been replaced by happiness.
For most of my childhood, I was told how ordinary I looked. I grew to accept the fact that I would never be a beauty, and in fact, I tried to be plain. It was better not being noticed than being called names. Michael was the first person who ever told me that I was beautiful and really meant it. ...
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Kurt Vonnegut And Slaughter-Ho
Number of Words: 3915 / Number of Pages: 15
... huge funeral pyres in the city."
Freed from his captivity by the Red Army's final onslaught against Nazi Germany and returned to America, the soldier - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - tried for many years to put into words what he had experienced during that horrific event. At first, it seemed to be a simple task. "I thought it would be easy for me to write about the destruction of Dresden, since all I would have to do would be to report what I had seen," Vonnegut noted. It took him more than twenty years, however, to produce Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death. The book was wo ...
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Iagos Self Perception
Number of Words: 1103 / Number of Pages: 5
... group that he desired to belong. We know Iago, is an outsider because of Cassio, when he speaks of Iago's kindness. " I never knew/ A Florentine more kind and honest."(III,i,39-40) A possible reason for Iago's severe actions against Othello in Cyprus was because he was an outsider and did not feel like he belonged. He may have felt that he had no reason to fight for Venice. (A. Kavanagh) Iago can be compared to a young child who is new in town and feels left out. Or even the child who was part of the group and feels left out because his or her friends have found someone new to play with. A dislike for ...
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