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The Divine Comedy
Number of Words: 732 / Number of Pages: 3
... the woods, and he is in the middle of his life. The reason he gives for being lost is that he had become inattentive and was not paying attention to where he was going. This symbolizes how he has lost his quest for salvation. His laziness, a sin, caused him to stray from the road of salvation. He can’t go back the way he came because that is the way of sin. He is lost. As he realizes this, he knows he needs to go experience the seven sacraments to cleanse himself of his sins. Only then will he join God in Paradise, rather then spend eternity in Inferno.
Most people imagine hell as an evil, dark, ...
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Life Of Ma Parker
Number of Words: 1525 / Number of Pages: 6
... previous day her loving grandson, Lennie, who was the only ray of light in her dreary life. According to Irigaray, "all the systems of exchange that organize patriarchal societies and all the modalities of productive work that are recognized, values, and rewarded in these societies are men’s business….[t]he work force is this always assumed to be masculine, and ‘products’ are objects to be used, objects of transaction among men alone" (171). Ma Parker has to play the role of an object circulated among masculine employers as she has to support her children and herself. Ma begins working as e ...
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Frankenstein - Every One Needs A Family
Number of Words: 1481 / Number of Pages: 6
... beloved as I have been, is it not hard . . . a hope of meeting you in another world" (42). Elizabeth is expected to fill in as the role of the mother by taking care of and protecting the young children. Although she replaces the role of the mother, there is still the fact that a family member is missing. A mother is impossible to replace; you can’t have a stepmother because she will never be a replacement for an original mother. Nor can a mother be bought, but Victor uses his knowledge from Ingolstadt to create a being to fill in that missing figure.
In the later part of the novel, the mons ...
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The Wierd Sisters In Macbeth
Number of Words: 685 / Number of Pages: 3
... Macbeth appeared very perturbed at the mention of this because the only way he could be king would be if Duncan died. To think of such blasphemy was punishable by death. So he held his peace. Then, Ross came by and delivered the good news. Now the witches had Macbeth's trust.
The important thing to realize is that the witches had very carefully planned out their actions. The witches knew Macbeth was ambitious and they played on it. They guessed that Macbeth would not be able to resist telling his wife about their predictions. The witches knew Lady Macbeth was ambitious for herself and for her husba ...
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Reader Response Theory And The
Number of Words: 1196 / Number of Pages: 5
... work in any way he/she likes. Jean-Paul Sartre, in his essay entitled "Why Write?", describes this best when he says "the writer appeals to the reader's freedom to collaborate in the production of his work" (627). Wolfgang Iser echoes this belief in the need for readers' freedom in his essay, "The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach": "No author worth his salt will ever attempt to set the whole picture before his reader's eyes ... it is only by activating the reader's imagination that the author can hope to involve him and so realize the intentions of his text" (961). Sartre and Iser appe ...
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King Lear - Disruption Of Order In King Lear And The Causes
Number of Words: 902 / Number of Pages: 4
... start of the play, Lear decides to divide his Kingdom into three.
Give me the map there. Know we have divided
In three our Kingdom and ‘tis our fast intent to
Shake all cares and business from our age.
(I,i,37-39)
This is the first indication that order is disrupted. Dividing up a Kingdom politically has many disadvantages that Lear does not realize. A Kingdom divided mens there will be more than one ruler and a difference of opinion will occur. There will always be disagreements and arguments which may end in haste, creating tension between the rulers. Also, the pieces of land will eventual ...
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Goodbye Chicken Little
Number of Words: 422 / Number of Pages: 2
... of the novel. Jimmies uncle is well known for his jokes and pranks. On a cold wintry day, while visiting the bar, Pete, while drunk, was dared to walk across the river which ran through town. As usual, Pete accepted the dare and wasn’t fortunate enough to make it across without falling in and being killed. Because Jimmie was at the river side when Uncle Pete began to cross the river and did nothing more than he did to stop him he feels worse than ever. This terrible feeling of guilt Jimmie has last only until a special party with his relative which provides him with the understanding ...
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Bless Me Ultima
Number of Words: 1399 / Number of Pages: 6
... heritage. He witnesses three deaths and numerous conflicts between his friends. Ultima teaches him that he has to learn to make his own choices and take responsibility for them.
4) Some minor characters in the story are The Vitamin Kid, Red, Father Byrnes, Cico, Florence, Gabriel, Lupito, Narcisco, Ms Maestas, Samuel.
The vitamin kid is one of Antonio’s friends and is the fastest runner in Guadalupe and constantly races Antonio across the bridge to school every morning. Red is a friend of Antonio and receives criticism from the other boys because he is a protestant. Father Byrnes is a priest and giv ...
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Mac Beth
Number of Words: 933 / Number of Pages: 4
... prophecies that, if true, may change her title queen of Scotland. Lady Macbeth then started to plan to kill Duncan to make her title true. Macbeth had a lot of trouble with the idea of killing the king. Macbeth really wanted to be king, but did not want to have to kill for the title. Macbeth went through all the consequences that killing Duncan would result in and came to the conclusion not to do it at first. His thoughts changed after Lady Macbeth gave him answers to all his questions of judgment after death, or during life, his duties as a subject to the king, Duncan's virtues and how the peop ...
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The Stranger: Quote Analysis Expansion
Number of Words: 1197 / Number of Pages: 5
... only honest man in a society that says more than it feels and much more than it believes. In direct parry to this social thrust, Meursault’s lawyer is given an extremely difficult role in this novel; he is forced to attempt to not only understand Meursault, which he cannot, but he also has to portray Meursault to the world as a creature of normal society, which is impossible, since the idea that Meursault is representative of the whole of society, falls no where near the reality of the situation. Meursault’s faceless lawyer, crippled by Meursault’s honesty and chastised by his own floundering in the ...
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