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Wutherinng Heights
Number of Words: 2535 / Number of Pages: 10
... Linton searches for the enigmatic truth behind the family secrets. Knowledge for the players is one of construction and deconstruction of character. I will thus prove that, while Catherine Earnshaw gains knowledge toward perdition of mind and soul, Catherine Linton undergoes a deconstructive process necessary for the attainment of peace and happiness in life.
Catherine Earnshaw's quest for knowledge does not start with her discovery of Thrushcross Grange, but with the discovery of Heathcliff himself. As a young girl, she is cloistered in a very secluded but happy family circle. The arrival of an ext ...
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Cask Of Amontillado
Number of Words: 1444 / Number of Pages: 6
... believe that the insult changed Montresor’s social status. Montresor says to Fortunato "You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was." This leads the reader to believe that Montresor once had high social status, but that status has changed due to the insult by Fortunato. Fortunato, entering the scene wearing a jesters costume, is unaware of Montesors’ evil intentions of murder. Montresor persuades Fortunato, who prides "himself on his connoisseurship in wine," to go into the family vaults so he can taste and identify some "Amontillado" (Lowell ...
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The Red Badge Of Courage Liter
Number of Words: 473 / Number of Pages: 2
... he might do and not the things he would do. For instance, on page 34, he questions others in hope that their answers would comfort him. He feels disassociated from others, "The Youth, considering himself separated from the others..." (p29). Page 35 quotes, "He was a mental outcast." He lacked self confidence and "continually tried to measure himself by his comrades." (p22). Despite his sorrow, the Youth was creative and compared ideas and objects to other ideas and objects. "The battle was like the grinding of an immense and terrible machine."
I believe that the Youth brought the book to lif ...
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Huckleberry Finn - Racism Deba
Number of Words: 720 / Number of Pages: 3
... time the reader meets Jim he is given a very negative
description of Jim. The reader is told that Jim is illiterate,
childlike, not very bright and extremely superstitious. However, it is
important not to lose sight of who is giving this description and of
whom it is being given. Although Huck is not a racist child, he has
been raised by extremely racist individuals who have, even if only
subconsciously, ingrained some feelings of bigotry into his mind. It
is also important to remember that this description, although it is
quite saddening, was probably accurate. Jim and ...
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Compare And Contrast
Number of Words: 430 / Number of Pages: 2
... like a hero, to make people come to the new world. In John Smith's work he always made fun of the Indians like he was the greatest one then everybody. William Bradford's purpose in writing was to teach people. He directed them how to set their corn, where to take fish, and to procure other commodities, and was also their pilot to bring them to unknown places for their profit, and never left them till he died.
John Smith and William Bradford were very mean to the Indians and hated them all together, but towards the end William Bradford started liking them. "All this while the Indians came shulking ...
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Beowulf - A Noble
Number of Words: 433 / Number of Pages: 2
... a sword and eight horses with golden cheek plates.
The second act of Beowolf's conflict with grendel showing his nobility
is not with Gredel himself but with Grendels mother. After Grendel was killed
his mother was very angry and killed a knight in king Hrothgar's court the same
way her son had. King Hrothgar was very disturbed by this and didn't know what
to do. He called for Beowolf and told him of a dangerous swamp where Grendel and
his mother lived. The king also said that no one would go into the swamp to kill
Grendel's mother. The noble Beowolf answered Quickly "sorow not O King! I will
persue ...
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Lonliness In Of Mice And Men -
Number of Words: 345 / Number of Pages: 2
... One character, Crooks has to live in an isolated shack next to the barn because he is black, his only companions are his books. He shows his loneliness when Lennie and Candy comes into his room and even if he says he does not want them in his room he cannot conceal his pleasure with anger. Curly’s wife is another character that shows loneliness because she is stuck in the house often and alone. She shows loneliness when she pretends to look for Curly so she can talk to someone. She is resorted to doing this because Curly does not want her to talk to other men.
Loneliness is one of the m ...
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Tragic Heroes In King Lear, Ha
Number of Words: 2958 / Number of Pages: 11
... it and it puts him in a jam. In tragedy, usually the truth is what will cause the downfall of the tragic hero. In every tragedy, there is always more and more complication that adds on to the problem for the tragic hero. All these problems keep adding on until the end when the tragic hero has to accept them all and deal with them. As George Lukas said, “Tragedy can extend only in one direction: upward, it begins at the moment when enigmatic forces have distilled the essence from a man have forced him to become essential: and the progress of tragedy consists in his essential, true nature becom ...
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John Betjemin Poetry
Number of Words: 649 / Number of Pages: 3
... triplet instead of a rhyming couplet. Betjeman stresses the PRO's contradictory character and adds some sarcasm when he says that the PRO 'kindly' gave him a 'free' colour booklet. Betjeman is also showing that the PRO constantly puts on a façade by saying that he was kind. The PRO wouldn't be expected to be mean which makes you realise that they are always extremely kind and friendly. One means the PRO uses to fool the public is to feed them a deluge of information. This way the public does not have a chance to respond to what they are being told and become overwhelmed with facts and figures. Be ...
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