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Matthew Arnold S Devolpment Of
Number of Words: 1086 / Number of Pages: 4
... the choice of words with special care for their expressiveness.
Thought- the ideas expressed in a work of art.
Spectacle- the visual ingredients of work of art.
Music- music itself that reflects or embodies the action of the drama.
Given these facts, we now understand what a drama is and what elements are essential to making it successful. So, it is quite easy to say that no, a tragedy, a type of drama, cannot exist without all of these elements. According to “The American Heritage Dictionary,” a tragedy is-a dramatic work depicting a protagonist engaged in a significant struggle endi ...
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An Example Of Good Writing: Zinsser's "Simplicity"
Number of Words: 460 / Number of Pages: 2
... words not dictionary words. No one wants to read an essay
that every other word they have to stop and go look it up because they do
not know the meaning. This causes the reader to become frustrated and they
also tend to loose interest. There are too many other options presented to
people today that already stray them away from reading.
By asking questions in the essay it keeps the readers attention.
In the essay Zinsser asks, "Who is this elusive creature, the reader?"
That question causes the people reading to stop and think, could he be
talking about me? Now he has captured the readers ful ...
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The Absence Of Truth Leads To
Number of Words: 2359 / Number of Pages: 9
... country and the god as well, / And not as though it were for some distant friend, / But for my own sake, to be rid of evil." (Sophocles, 138-141). Oedipus desires the best future for his kingdom and is willing to fight to eliminate the problem causing the disruption in order. Upon the will of the gods, he is determined to seek the murderer of Laios and bring him to justice. He does not realize that he is the chaotic figure, whose unpunished act of regicide has angered the gods. Although he pledges to seek out the truth, others deceive him. The king and queen who raised him do not tell him that he is a ...
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Looking For Alibrandi
Number of Words: 2853 / Number of Pages: 11
... old days, Jozzie."
Through the discovery of her Grandmother's past Josephine also discovers how lucky she really is to live in the time she did. Although she has her own trials because of her ethnicity, Josephine realises that these are nothing compared to the loneliness and uncertainty that Nonna Katia would have felt. She says on page 117, "I just sat there, glad that I live in these times.. I don't think I could ever handle the quiet world she lived in."
Another important discovery which is threaded throughout the book is Josephine's discovery on the whole issue of sexual relationships. We can see ...
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Psycho 2
Number of Words: 870 / Number of Pages: 4
... as any other people. He explained to Marion his loyalty to his mother which if her mother really is like described, he is the best boy a mother can have. In comparison to Marion, the psycho has actually even more logically than she is - a normal person, as he point out she can’t hide from the traps once she choose to step on them. ‘I think that we’re all in our private traps-clamped in them. And none of us can ever get out. We- we scratch for all of it but we never budge an inch.’ The logic of his mind can even explain and redirect a normal person, and therefore, the ...
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Beowulf 12
Number of Words: 1007 / Number of Pages: 4
... instead as
his ability to "[lead] the Danes to such glory." and as his tendency to "In
battle, [leave] the common pasture untouched, and taking no lives."
Through this display of compassion for the commoner who doesn't fight in
battles, Hrothgar proves the full extent of his honor and therefore the extent
of his wealth and status. Beowulf, the hero-prince, also proves his true
wealth and status through his deeds as defender of the Danes.. As he fights
and defeats Grendel, Beowulf Earns Fame and wealth from his companions,
and from the Danes, but more importantly, he earns honor raising ...
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Much Ado About Nothing
Number of Words: 770 / Number of Pages: 3
... for her. Beatrice then decides to allow herself to be tamed by Benedick's "loving hand," and return his love. Beatrice and Benedick re made to fall in love through the deception of those around them, and ironically find happiness more readily than Claudio and Hero.
The relationship between Claudio and Hero is a seemingly pure and happy one at the start of the play, but as the play goes on we witness the emergence of deception into their relationship as well. The deception starts as Borachio reports to Don John of a conversation he overheard between Claudio and Don Pedro. At the ball, whi ...
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A Farwell To Arms- Book Report
Number of Words: 1175 / Number of Pages: 5
... wrote the book A Farewell to Arms, he was already regarded as a good literary writer, but after the publication of this book he was considered a great one. A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's first commercial success, selling over 80,000 copies in the first four months.
In this story there are only two main characters, Frederick Henry and Catherine
Barkley. Frederick Henry acts as both the narrator and central character in the novel. The reader is not told so much about Catherine, only what is understood from Frederick's point of view. Catherine acts as a static character in the novel. She ...
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Comparison Of The Views Of Bonaventure, Beauvoir, And Marx In Their Works
Number of Words: 1259 / Number of Pages: 5
... more by society than they are by God. In a sense, humans are being led
astray by all the ongoing imperfections, which bombard our society today.
We tend to immerse ourselves into the problems of the world and forget
about God. Bonaventre says we cannot allow ourselves to shut out our Lord
out of our lives. He notes, "when one has fallen, he must lie where he is
unless another is at hand to raise him up". Bonaventure is saying that
when we do shut God out of our lives and is affected by it, we must let God
pick us up and show us the light. We cannot let ourselves be distracted by
the claws o ...
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Robert Frost - Nature In His Works
Number of Words: 613 / Number of Pages: 3
... into the woods that night. He doesn’t know the owner of the land but is still drawn to the beauty of the scene. Frost gives a scene that is taken into the reader and digested for a time in the speaker’s mind. It shows us that it is all right to take a minute out of a hurried hour and reflect upon what is around you, whether it is a snowy wood or a quite room.
Frost’s use of nature gives the reader an immense selection of symbolism to contemplate. The poem Nothing Gold Can Stay is a potent dose of symbolic nature.
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower ...
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