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Mending Wall
Number of Words: 732 / Number of Pages: 3
... they are staying one on a side of the wall. It seems that Frost enjoys working with his neighbor separately when he says “Oh, just another kind of outdoor game, one on a side”. However Frost also gives us a feeling that there is other meaning to it. A game very often symbolizes a competition, or a fight. We can see it in Frost expression that he doesn’t want to compete with his neighbor. He was somewhat being sarcastic. He wants to work along with his neighbor, and maybe even get to know more about him. This could be an implication that Frost dislikes a wall between him and his neighbor.
Whi ...
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Persuasion In Patrick Henry's Speech To The Virginia Convention
Number of Words: 814 / Number of Pages: 3
... substantial proof
endorsing his position. While an appeal to their emotions would rouse them
against the British for the moment, emotions are short-lived and their
endurance would depend on proof. Henry asks, "are fleets and armies
necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?" "what means this martial
array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission?" By using the
literary device of the rhetorical question, Henry attempts to pull his
audience into his speech and show how obvious the need for the colonists to
arm themselves against the British was. Not only did Henry have to provide
evid ...
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Macbeth-Gloomy Indeed
Number of Words: 782 / Number of Pages: 3
... ... shipwracking storms and direful thunders
break.”(Act1,sc2), tells of one such storm during the battle in the beginning of the play. Storms, battles, that’ll make anyone a “gloomy Gus”. Lightning is a very gloomy sort of deal because with lightning there is rain and dark clouds and its scary. In this play there are
a lot of scenes where lightning and thunder is the weather of choice by Shakespeare (Act1,sc1 & Act1, sc3 & Act3, sc5 & Act4,sc1). The lightning is always present when the witches are involved in a scene.
“Macbeth” comes complete with rather gloomy looking roles like the witches. Ban ...
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Langston Hughes
Number of Words: 642 / Number of Pages: 3
... figure of hope in the black race's eyes, his poem inspired pride and strngth in most african americans who also struggle with the plight of racism and segregation.
He was very influential, famed authors such as Lorraine Hansberry derived the title to her award winning play A Raisin in the Sun (1959), from one of Hughes poems. He in turn was very influenced by Walt Whitman, and honored him in one of his poems.
"Old Walt Whitman
Went finding and seeking
Finding less than sought
Seeking more then found" (Lines 1 - 4)
Hughes was a very tale ...
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Describe The Elements Of Death
Number of Words: 600 / Number of Pages: 3
... through minute detail(WAH 643). As he moves back henry
sees a line of injured soldiers including his friend Jim
Conklin,who is badly wounded and another friend called “the
tattered man”. Trying to make up for deserting his friends, Henry
tries to help Jim Conklin who is dying.After Conklin dies, the
tattered man probes deeply into Henry’s conscience by repeatedly
asking “where ya hit”(Bowers 132). Henry deserts the tattered
man.
When Henry stops another soldier he asks him the novels most
important question which is “why” The soldier hits henry on t ...
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Humor Helps
Number of Words: 703 / Number of Pages: 3
... friend in a very humorous manner. Bottom is a very humorous character utilised to his full potential in this play.
A second, possibly even more humorous character in this play, is the fairy – Puck. One farcical example of Puck’s sense of jocularity is when the fairy and Puck are discussing Puck’s ludicrous pranks: “…sometime for a three-foot stool mistaketh me; then slip I from her and down topples she…” (II, i, 52-53). Here Puck explains one of his many witty pranks. Another demonstration of Puck’s facetiousness is when he shows his relationship ...
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Casablanca
Number of Words: 804 / Number of Pages: 3
... was together with Ilsa in Paris he was very ambitious with his political beliefs. He was visualizing resistance and freedom for the French people. After tragically losing the love of his life, Rick ceased to show any political involvement or any strong political beliefs and began to worry only about his own well-being. On the other hand, Victor Lazlo is the type of character that is involved in politics for the love of politics. He is not dependent on the love of a woman to give him the strength he needed to be actively involved in politically divided situations. An example of his love for po ...
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Romeo And Juliet
Number of Words: 766 / Number of Pages: 3
... way the "strife" could be ended was by the deaths of . "Doth with their death bury their parent's strife". (Romeo & Juliet, Prologue, l.8) Neither the Montagues or the Capulets would have accepted the marriage. Keeping the marriage a secret caused to turn to other people for help. Sometimes these people gave them the wrong advice or just betrayed them.
The Nurse was one of these characters who betrayed the young couple. The Nurse who was also Juliet's friend turned against her at a very crucial time. The Nurse told Juliet that it would be best if she married Paris. "I think it best you married with ...
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Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 435 / Number of Pages: 2
... ultimately ended their marriage.
Gatsby's goals are also based on this poem. After he had come back from the war, and found Daisy married to Tom, he dedicated his life towards his dream of having Daisy again. Everything he did from that point on was for her.
After making as much money as possible, Gatsby bought an elaborate house across the water from Daisy and Tom's dock, for the sole purpose of gazing upon the green light at the end of the dock. He through extravagant parties hoping she would someday show up. All of this is wearing the "gold hat" and "bouncing high."
When Daisy realizes he has ...
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1920s And 1930s With Reference
Number of Words: 3437 / Number of Pages: 13
... into a population where self-love was rampant, and the morals that America had been so tediously grasping to, fell away. Through the novels of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, the attitudes of disillusionment and isolation are seen in Americans are a direct outcome of the weakening of societies moral codes, and the death of the “American Dream.” The effect of the war on the general population was one of discontent and isolationary feelings towards the countries that had caused them to see the cracks within their dream of a peaceful existence. Foll ...
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