|
|
|
» Browse English Term Papers
Red Dress
Number of Words: 417 / Number of Pages: 2
... called up to the blackboard. Her "hands became slippery with sweat when they were required to work the blackboard compass." She would also envision the worst case scenario, that she had her period prior to being called to the front of the class, even when impossible. This shows that her self-esteem is really low, and she could not deal with the dance.
The dance was an experience in itself. Her attitudes towards the events in the dance also show her attitude. When she met Mary Fortune, she was "grateful for her attention, her company and her cigarette." This shows that not many people pay attention to h ...
|
|
Mark Twain 2
Number of Words: 501 / Number of Pages: 2
... tribulation and was in need of relief from the Civil war. Through humor he eased the pains of America and also made himself a popular literary figure of the time. In the story "Life on the Mississippi" he writes of the life in a small town on the Mississippi where steamboats passed and little boys dreamed. Written about a small average American town, yet there is so much truth revealed within it and how it is the American experience. He traveled through out America experiencing much of the country, the life and the people, and writing things down as he went along. He used these experiences as the ...
|
|
Oedipus The King 2
Number of Words: 635 / Number of Pages: 3
... can be justified. First of all, Teiresias’ allegation that Oedipus is the killer is absurd to him since he would
never murder a king. Also, it seems logical that Creon would be behind such a scheme since he would be next in line to the throne. Therefore, Oedipus’ bad temper cannot be considered his hamartia.
Another characteristic of Oedipus that some people tend to refer to as his hamartia is his murderous temperament. One can see this side of Oedipus when he recounts the story in which he killed the old man in the wagon as well as a few of the man’s servants. However, OedipusR ...
|
|
Hamlet - Act 3 Summary
Number of Words: 323 / Number of Pages: 2
... spirit has told me and leave her for her conscience.
I went to Claudius' room, yet I could not bring myself to harm him-not yet. Later, when I went to my mother's room, I killed Polonius. It was not on purpose, I had thought that it might be Claudius hiding behind the curtain thing. Oh, how I hate my mother; for what she has done to me, to this country, and to herself! I have vowed that if I do get sent to London, that I shall also kill my companions, for they are evil as well. ...
|
|
Life
Number of Words: 405 / Number of Pages: 2
... “We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will” (279). Her father robs her from many of ’s necessities. She misses out on having friends, being a normal “woman,” and her ability to be happy. Emily is not able to live a normal which she indirectly blames on her father. Emily is so used to having her father be there for her, she figures that by keeping his body he can still be part of her .
The Jungian archetype of this feminist struggle can be noted as: Emily is not able to live a nor ...
|
|
Sonnet 130
Number of Words: 825 / Number of Pages: 3
... that music
hath a far more pleasing sound, yet, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare." This shows his honesty in speaking about his object of affection, yet he achieves the same sense of
unconditional love that the poet in Marlowe’s poem tries to delineate without using embellishments. The speaker in Sonnet 130 doesn’t hyperbolize about his "rare" love using a plethora of exaggerations to portray his fondness for his "mistress" as the poet in Marlowe’s
poem did. Even though the two poems have the theme as unconditional love, the portrayals of ...
|
|
Different Changes In Different
Number of Words: 2304 / Number of Pages: 9
... of the cruelty possessed by some people. The ordeals of the three boys on the island made them more aware of the evil inside themselves and in some cases, made the false politeness that had clothed them dissipate. However, the changes experienced by one boy differed from those endured by another. This is attributable to the physical and mental dissimilarities between them.
Jack was first described with an ugly sense of cruelty that made him naturally unlikeable. As leader of the choir and one of the tallest boys on the island, Jack's physical height and authority matched his arrogant personali ...
|
|
Pride And Prejudice
Number of Words: 1383 / Number of Pages: 6
... anything but drawn to the man.
“Mr. Darcy walked off; and Elizabeth remained with no very cordial feelings towards him.(pg.12)”
The two seem destined to become worst enemies, in fact they seem to become anything but a couple in love, which is exactly what they end up to be.
Soon after their original meeting at the ball, Elizabeth and Darcy’s paths cross again. This time it is at the home of the Bingleys where Darcy is staying, and where Elizabeth comes to visit Jane, her ill sister. When Darcy see her this time, his reaction to her is quite different:
“he was forced to acknowledge her fig ...
|
|
Analysis Of Beloved By Toni Mo
Number of Words: 766 / Number of Pages: 3
... pieced together, the whole picture of slavery, Sethe's act, and its aftermath emerges.
A universal characteristic of the survivor's tale is the subjectivity and incompleteness of the survivor's knowledge. The author works to provide a more objective view of events by including several storytellers. Digression also provides a more complete picture by including minute details, such as the story of Miss Amy Denver and her love of velvet. Entwined with digression is regression. The story is told in the present, referring back to different points in the past. These references are interrupted, and jumbled ...
|
|
Young Goodman Brown - Symbolism
Number of Words: 742 / Number of Pages: 3
... story directly supports this point in the phrase "Faith, as the wife was aptly named . . . " (184). Faith is persistent in trying to keep goodman Brown off the path of sin in the first part of the story: " . . . pr'y thee, put off your journey until sunrise, and sleep in your own bed to-night" (184). Hawthorne does an excellent job of turning the main characters into symbols that are prominent throughout the story.
Nathaniel Hawthorne also uses different objects in the story as symbols. One of these is the staff of the devil : "But the only thing about him, that could be fixed upon as r ...
|
|
|
