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Antigone: Summary
Number of Words: 716 / Number of Pages: 3
... live without Antigone so he killed himself. Haimon's mother, Eurydice, learns of his death and she too kills herself, leaving Creon alone and unhappy.
Characters -
Antigone - Haimon's fiancé and daughter of the former king.
Ismene - Antigone's sister.
Creon - King of Thebes and Antigone's uncle.
Eurydice - Haimon's mother and Creon's wife
Haimon - Antigone's fiancé and the son of Creon and Eurydice.
Setting -
Antigone mostly takes place in Creon's castle in Thebes.
Conflict -
In the play Antigone two main types of conflict occur, internal and external.
An internal conflict occurs w ...
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Advice I Often Receive From Pa
Number of Words: 351 / Number of Pages: 2
... annoying when I second guess myself about what I could have done. However, when I know I did the work as well as I could and it isn't a good mark, I don't worry about it as much as some people might.
In conclusion, the piece of advice that I receive most often from my parents is basically a good one, and often it keeps me motivated in the things I do. It also shows me that my parents will support most of my decisions and treat me like a responsible person. I believe that somewhere along the line. I will probably pass along the advice "as long as you did your best" to my children. ...
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Night, Mother
Number of Words: 1308 / Number of Pages: 5
... basic as the entire play takes place in the living room and the kitchen of the house that the mother and daughter both share. An interesting part of the play is that it is meant to take place over a ninety minute period in the story, and also in ninety minutes of real time when the play is done live for an audience.
In the play, we learn that Jessie is a woman who has been left by her husband, and that she also has a teenage son who has been caught on the wrong side of the law. She has had a need to have people around her to keep her life functioning and to keep her occupied. Her brother Dawson has p ...
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The Cask Of Amontillado
Number of Words: 1588 / Number of Pages: 6
... atmosphere cause a feeling of terror to escalate for the reader. The descent down into the vaults is reminiscent of Dante's "Inferno," going down into the depths of hell. Through Poe's descriptions, the reader can feel the dripping dampness, smell the "foulness" of the air" (Poe, 114), see the eerie glow of the flambeaux, touch the crusty nitre which "hangs like moss upon the vaults (Poe, 1148), and hear the "loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form" (Poe, 1150). Through the setting, Poe is very successful in thrusting the reader into the realm of a nightmare. ...
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Usage Of Elements Of Fiction I
Number of Words: 539 / Number of Pages: 2
... combined together to form one story. Faulkner flashes back to the time when a deputation tried to collect on her taxes. This flashback is used to describe the lifestyle Emily has been living for the past years and also the appearance that Emily has taken on as a result of staying in the house. Emily's hereditary obligations that she had to the town are shown in the flashback of her buying arsenic from the druggist. The druggist tells Emily that by law she must say what the poison is for. Emily only gives him a stern look and is given the poison. Emily’s influence of the townspeople and the ...
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Knights In Shining Armour
Number of Words: 830 / Number of Pages: 4
... and the Green Knight the fact that The Green Knight went to Camelot and challenged the Knight of the round table by saying to them…
You haven’t a man that could match me, your might is so feeble … This ax, as heavy as he’ll need, to handle as he like, And I will abide the first blow, bare-necked as I sit…
Any man who walk up to the most powerful Knight in the world insult them right before you give them promise to cut your head off, has more balls than he needs. Sir Gawain also get bravery points for excepting his offer and going up against this intimidating creature when no other Knight woul ...
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My Antonia
Number of Words: 541 / Number of Pages: 2
... a strong personality. Molly would show her personality by the way she presented herself. Jim the narrator said "Mrs. Gardener was admittedly the best-dressed woman in Black Hawk, drove the best horse, and had a smart trap and a little white-and-gold sleigh."(Page 117) Molly liked to have the best meterial goods in the town, and she liked to show them off. Mollys personality was the reason that her husband’s and her business did so well. Jim also said "…he knew that without her he would hardly be more that a clerk in some other man’s hotel."(Page 122) Molly would also go on all the business trips ...
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Because I Could Not Stop For Death
Number of Words: 952 / Number of Pages: 4
... eyes beside had wrung them dry, and breaths were gathering sure for that last onset, when the king be witnessed in his power." This stanza deals with how God is brought upon by the speaker’s death. Onlookers surround the dead body and seem to be looking for clues to what may eventually await them when it is their turn to pass onto another possible world. In stanza three the speaker is preparing for a journey into an afterlife that may lie ahead. Dickinson writes, "I willed my keepsakes, signed away what portion of me I could make assignable, - and then there interposed a fly." ...
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The Odyssey 5
Number of Words: 479 / Number of Pages: 2
... Like Monet, Renoir had a very rough and bumpy start in the early stages of his career, but by the 1870’s Renoir had already received success as a portraitist.
In 1881 he was freed from his financial problems as an art dealer named Paul Durand- Ruel began buying his work on a regular basis. By this time Renoir’s style had changed dramatically. He used a crisper and drier style with duller coloring, opposed to his earlier works using light and fresh colors.
In the mid 1880’s Renoir thought that he should take his art more seriously. In this time period he concentrated on nudes a ...
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Cry The Beloved Country
Number of Words: 765 / Number of Pages: 3
... jesus and lincoln on his wall, james discovered the admiration arthur had for these two men. These were men of action, who showed love for their friends, and at the same time, their enemies. These two men suffered and died for their beliefs, as did arthur in a way, this is showing arthurs' father what a great man his son was by comparison, and similarity to others. This revelation shows arthurs concern for humanity.
After the discovery of his sons views through all of his writings, james begins to realize the problem, and starts to think of the problems of others before his own. In this aspect, james ...
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