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Othello
Number of Words: 960 / Number of Pages: 4
... Brabantio`s comment tells us that everything is not all right: (I.iii.293-4) "Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:/She has deceived her father and may thee." By disobeying her faher Desdemona has shown herself able to betray the person she is supposed to love and--according to Venetian norms--obey. The phrase "look to her" suggests several things: that Desdemona needs to be watched closely, in other words; she cannot be trusted, or that should notice what a deceiver looks like and lastly, if looks at her he may find that she is not as fair as he thought--the opposite of fair being black. ...
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Sister Carrie
Number of Words: 939 / Number of Pages: 4
... of lies, fall, impersonal isolation of "walled city where surviving is much more difficult than in Chicago. In New York, Hurstwood means nothing. The setting creates different expectations to people. During the reading of "", I was interested in searching and revealing the different kinds of desire. Generally we can say that Dreiser deals with the desire of wealth, social status, material things which are represented by money. Within this generalization, we can find and identify many other faces and forms of lust and longing. Carrie, as an ambitious and strong woman embodies the social ...
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Wars Of The Roses
Number of Words: 956 / Number of Pages: 4
... search stated that in the play Clarence was a good guy who loved everybody, but in real life Clarence was
jailed and executed for committing treason. www.altavista.com search engine said that in the play, Shakespeare said that Richard
had Clarence killed so that he could have an uncontested line to the throne. Shakespeare also said that Richard killed young
Edward V and his brother so that he could be next in line for the crown. But that is not true for Richard really didn’t do it.
There is a lot of speculation about rather Richard did it or not. There is more evidence support ...
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A Rose For Emily
Number of Words: 761 / Number of Pages: 3
... the last remnants of mystique that surrounded her. They found it impossible to directly confront her - to evict her for not paying taxes - to approach her about the awful stench coming from her house. Moreover, when she went to the drugstore and requested the best poison that exist, arsenic, the druggist asked her why she wanted this poison because " the law requires you to tell what you are going to use it for "(417). She did not answer to his question, but the druggist let her go even so because she dominated him. Once again she succeeded in confronting people in the town, the authorities. They were ...
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Hamlet 16
Number of Words: 845 / Number of Pages: 4
... 4-5). This lack of restraint leads to Hamlet's unpredictable mood swings throughout the play. Hamlet's relationship with Ophelia easily spawns such dramatic alterations in the prince's attitude. For example, when Hamlet first suspects Ophelia acting only as a pawn for her father Polonius's benefit, he reacts rashly, bitterly denying that he ever loved her. Hamlet said to Ophelia in a very firm and rude manner "You should not have believed me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock, but we shall relish of it. I loved you not"(3.1 lines 117-119). This massive reversal in disposition is la ...
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Fahrenheit 451 - Similarities To Our Society
Number of Words: 600 / Number of Pages: 3
... meet each other. Before Clarisse runs into her house, they notice how fast drivers go that they "'don't know what grass is, or flowers because they never see them slowly,' she said. 'If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he'd say, that's grass! A pink blur! That's a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days'"(9). Their speed limit is so high that everything that they see seems like blurs. They never see objects; they only see colors. Our speed limit isn’t as high as theirs ...
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Pride And Prejudice Austen’s M
Number of Words: 2130 / Number of Pages: 8
... and Elizabeth’s to Mr.Darcy. Through these marriages, Austen will explain what makes a good marriage and what one must posses in
order to fulfill the requirements of the age.
Mr. Collins will be the inheritor of the Bennet family’s home when Mr. Bennet dies. When Mrs.Bennet hears Mr.Collins may be interested in one of the daughters she is ecstatic because this will ensure that the home stays with one of her girls. Mr. Collins hears that Jane is involved with Mr. Bingley, so he moves on to Elizabeth. Lizzy flat out declines his proposal of marriage. Mr. Collins can not accept no as an answer. Mr ...
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Night
Number of Words: 1932 / Number of Pages: 8
... even the death of his own innocence and his faith in G-d. He saw his family, friends and fellow Jews first severely degraded and then sadistically murdered. He enters the camp a child and leaves a man. At the book’s end, Elie bears little resemblance to the teenage boy who left Sighet almost a year earlier.
is a memoir exquisitely written. Wiesel’s eloquence makes his descriptions seem terrifyingly real and repulsive. It is a book about what the Holocaust did, not just to the Jews, but to humanity. People all over the world found themselves affected by this atrocious act. Even today, ...
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Prejudice Of A Bigot
Number of Words: 674 / Number of Pages: 3
... of class.
They know the very real danger that other students might dismiss them as
second class citizens if they just wore comfortable clothing such as jeans
and a T-shirt.
Everyone knows the problem with prejudgment because everyone has
been a receiver of such. One such occurrence may be if a couple would be
repainting their house when they realized they had an appointment with a
loan officer at their bank. They arrived with just minutes to spare only by
not changing clothes but by going as they were, paint-splattered and in
work clothes. The appointment lasted ten minutes, and the loan office ...
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Cloudstreet, Tim Winton
Number of Words: 1176 / Number of Pages: 5
... a fishing accident. The reader can relate these events it to the biblical story of ‘Samson,’ and how he gained his strength through his hair. Meaning that by losing some of their strengths, (like Samson’s hair cut,) both Sam’s where able to gain new insights and opportunities. For Sam Pickles, this meant the move into the city from the outback, brought him his own home and a steady job at the mint. A rather large irony, as Sam is a compulsive gambler, more often than not short of cash. Although for Fish, losing his mental faculties and the ability to communicate to others, in his near drowning experi ...
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