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Analysis Of Three Of Hawthorne's Works: Solitude And Isolation
Number of Words: 1995 / Number of Pages: 8
... feelings. The themes of solitude and isolation are depicted in
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "Young Goodman Brown, "and
"Rappaccini's Daughter."
At the age of four, Nathaniel Hawthorne's father died, devastating his
mother and destroying his family forever. He later recalls how his mother and
sisters would "take their meals in their rooms, and my mother has eaten alone
ever since my father's death" (Martin 10). Naturally, Hawthorne's mother's
isolated life contributed to his personal solitude and to his stories of
solitude. Although he never reached the point she did, his ...
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Joy Williams The Killing Game
Number of Words: 480 / Number of Pages: 2
... study thier attitudes and listen to thier converstions.” That paints a vivid image of what be really going on with the animals. It gets the message across using a form of humor, which lets readers relax, and think about it subject. When she be talking about the hunter that shoots the racoons feet off, and lets his dogs get them, that paints an image of just how bad hunting could is. That be a good quote to use isacuse it will be rememisred. The gets a point of bad justice toward animals across to readers. Another good quote she used for imagry was, “The big pheasent folded in a classic fashion.” That ...
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Philistinism In England And America
Number of Words: 651 / Number of Pages: 3
... or ideas that would help them later in life, but to expand their minds, thus making them into ‘better people.’ There was no need for them to learn any job skills. Back then, if you came from a rich family, you were rich. Working at simple jobs was for the peasants and slaves. Today, life is different. Our society is completely unlike that of the ancient Greeks. We have no caste system limiting the wealth and prominence of any citizen, we have no slavery to handle all the manual labor, our army is proportionately smaller and much less honored, and religion is a part of one’s private life, not a do ...
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Knowledge VS Intelligence
Number of Words: 987 / Number of Pages: 4
... linked to Plato’s writing, The Allegory of the Cave, in which Plato declares, ‘let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened.” He goes on to discuss men in a world of darkness who can only guess what the shadows are. The truly intelligent would see these shadows and formulate an idea as to what they are. A somewhat intelligent person or a grade two thinker would be the man that is brought into the light and enlightened. He then goes back and applies what he has seen toe the shadows and determines where they come from. A person who functions entirely by fact is the one ...
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Macbeth - Ambition
Number of Words: 769 / Number of Pages: 3
... reality. (Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand! yet let that be, which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. Act 1, Scene 4, Lines 57-60) During the banquet held at Macbeth's castle at Inverness in honor of Duncan, Macbeth's ambition changes. He contemplates his wicked plan of executing Duncan and arrives at the conclusion of not allowing his plan to fall through. Lady Macbeth scorns Macbeth when she hears of his change of plans. She becomes successful in altering his ambition. Macbeth later slaughters Duncan, and inherits the throne of Scotlan ...
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Mastery Of Epigram And The Aud
Number of Words: 2064 / Number of Pages: 8
... ...
Could also group by subject : wordplay, truth, love/marriage, diary, death, education, illness, Society, ... (Maybe too many groups this way, could perhaps cut them down).
Examples: too many: to be winnowed:
Play on words:
Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
I.5:5 Algernon: "As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte." (Play on the word pianoforte.)
I.12:161 Algernon:"You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest looking person I ever saw in my life." (Play on Ernest and earnest)
II.67ish. Gwendolen: "Mamma, whose views on education are ...
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Minor Characters Influences On
Number of Words: 496 / Number of Pages: 2
... have shaped the destinies of Romeo and Juliet is Paris. In Act 3, Scene 5, Lady Capulet announces that Juliet is to marry Paris. "The County Paris, at Saint Peter's church, Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride." Juliet obviously refuses and goes to Friar Laurence for help. Friar Laurence devises a plan, which will prevent the marriage and reunite Romeo with Juliet. However, this plan goes horribly wrong, perhaps causing the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. If Paris had not wished to be with Juliet, none of the following would have occurred.
Friar Laurence gives a letter to Friar John to send to Ro ...
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Quest For Reformation
Number of Words: 779 / Number of Pages: 3
... really "arguing", he is documenting the costs of his house) and explains that having a shelter that is practical yet functional is an essential step to simplifying one's life, which in turn is an essential step in the process of becoming deified and enlightened.
In more detail Thoreau mentions, " [that] the necessaries of life for man in this climate may, accurately enough be distributed under the several heads of FOOD, SHELTER, CLOTHING, and FUEL" (Walden, 13). Food, one of the several heads mentioned in the statement above is also a necessity of life which "keeps up the internal combustion in ...
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West Side Story
Number of Words: 506 / Number of Pages: 2
... information. She had a haircut like a boy's and wore boy clothes. This could be a prejudice beyond having a girl in a gang, it could be that they have a prejudice against homosexuals, the fact that the stereotype of lesbians play a role in the character of Anybody's.
There were little prejudices passed around in . Some people saw through that, some people tried to stop that foolish behavior. Glad Hand, the administrator of the dance, he tried to get everybody to stop acting that way. Glad Hand made everybody split up across the room, and then whoever was directly across from each other danced tog ...
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Animal Farm
Number of Words: 756 / Number of Pages: 3
... not trust her memory and believes whatever is written on that wall. Squealer is passing by when Clover and Muriel are reading the Commandments, so without losing a chance he convince them that the pigs are not breaking any rule. He mentions that the pigs are sleeping in beds but they have removed sheets(p.80). He is intelligeny enough to say that there was never a rule against beds, and that the rule was against sheets. If Clover were intelligent she could have trusted her memory and questioned Squealer's words. More over, If the rest of the animals questioned Squealer speeches he would not see the ...
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