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Iliad As A Dictate Of The Fath
Number of Words: 2272 / Number of Pages: 9
... for the first time. The fact that he is the son of Atreus provides enough information for the audience. Genealogy has the power to cease battle between enemies. Such is the case when Diomedes, challenged by Glaukos on the battlefield, questions him of his descent. After Glaukos has given the full story of his ancestry, Diomedes realizes that their grandfathers have been friends and proposes a truce.
"See now, you are my guest friend from far in the time of our fathers./ Brilliant Oineus once was host to Bellerophontes/ the blameless, in his halls, and twenty days he detained him,/ and these two ...
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A Raisin In The Sun
Number of Words: 1082 / Number of Pages: 4
... you. About Africa. You see, Mr. Aasagai, I am looking for my identity." Asagai became a link to Africa for Beneatha, a guide to her ancestry/roots. In Act II, Beneatha shows how she has connected with her African roots by doing a ceremonial dance and by cutting her hair so that it would "natural." In Act III, Beneatha has the opportunity to connect more with her roots when Asagai proposes to her. He wants her to go with him back to Africa so that she can practice medicine over there. This would be the fulfillment of Beneatha's quest, not only does she bring out her African culture, but she also will ...
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Similarities In "Miss Jean Brodie", "Dead Poets Society", And "The Trial And Death Of Socrates"
Number of Words: 461 / Number of Pages: 2
... no
more evident than with the Dead Poets Society. He knew that if it were ever
uncovered by the faculty higher-ups his job would be, at least, in serious
jeopardy. This is another case of needless persecution of someone with the best
of intentions. It is ridiculous to think that he could have been implicated in
any way to the suicide of one of his students. Firing Professor Keating was the
biggest disservice that the administration could have done to the student body.
The most extreme case of this senseless persecution is that of Socrates.
Here is a man of little means. His only desire was to tr ...
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Light In August By Faulkner
Number of Words: 1197 / Number of Pages: 5
... events leading up to this point, explaining her motives. One gets a definite feel for her character, and settles into her narrative, but as soon as this happens, the book switches gears, turning instead to a vague character, Joe Christmas. With little introduction, or warning, the book reels into Joe's past, catching the reader totally unaware and throwing off the entire continuity of the book. Faulkner's desire for unity and coherence in the pattern is not as strong as is his desire for truth to individual response (Reed, p.123). Thus Lena is a frame, she serves only to accentuate Christmas's story ...
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Women In The Odyssesy
Number of Words: 823 / Number of Pages: 3
... life was useless because she did not give Theseus pleasure. The only woman we hear of for a different reason is Klymene, and we only hear of her because she “betrayed her lord for gold.”(195) This is the only time we hear of a woman for something she did, and once we do, it is a negative remark.
Penelope, Odysseus’ queen, is paid attention to only because of her position. Because she has a kingdom, she has suitors crowding around her day and night. Being a woman, Penelope has no control over what the suitors do and cannot get rid of them. The suitors want her wealth and her kingdom. They do not respe ...
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Don Quxiote
Number of Words: 419 / Number of Pages: 2
... the harsh and abrasive nature of movies like the Matrix and Rambo are absorbed into the maturing mind of adolescence and are seen as fact. As is the case in Don Quixote where our chivalric hero takes arms after reading one to many romance novels. Every one sees the irony of Don Quixote, and enjoys it in its more obvious forms. This absurd old gentleman, who tries to put his antiquated ideas into action in a busy, selfish, prosy world, is a figure of fun even to the meanest intelligence. But, with more thought, there comes a check to our frivolity. Is it possible that the criticism is double-edged, ...
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Antigone And A Few Good Men: Doing What Is Right
Number of Words: 408 / Number of Pages: 2
... to death. Her fiancee Heamon, and Creon's son, then opposes Creon but doesn't succeed either.
In "A Few Good Men", Colonel Jessep also did what he believed even though he faced opposition. He ordered Dawson and Downey, two Marines who he knew would follow his orders without question, to do a Code Red on William Santiago, a mess-up Marine. A Code Red is a type of severe harassment in which something is do to toughen up the offending Marine. Such Code Reds were part of Marine tradition but were official forbidden by recent Marine Regulations. Dawson and Downey did the Code Red and Santiago died. ...
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Beowulfs Grendel
Number of Words: 1061 / Number of Pages: 4
... the opposing force of Herot, could not even stand anything that came from the hall. These two forces were on the opposite sides of their personalities.
In addition to the music, their overall beliefs contributed to Grendel’s complete hatred to the population of Herot. Grendel seemingly believed that pure carnage and destruction was his only way for communicating. Herot and its people expressed their thoughts, feelings, and personalities through music, laughter, and dance. However, Grendel, whom's hatred had known no other, had to express his thoughts in his own way. Lines 29-35 showed how ...
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18th Century Poem Analysis
Number of Words: 1288 / Number of Pages: 5
... century literature and
romantic poems, their descriptive natures and ideas they portray to
the reader through their writing.
Pope has written an eighteenth-century poem which he calls,
"An Hero-Comical Poem." This poem has exalted an over all sense of
worthlessness for common rules. The mentioning of Achilles and the
ever-popular Aeneas, are symbols of Pope's Gothic style. Pope speaks
(almost) G-D like throughout, "The Rape of Lock." Contrary to Keats,
who is more down-to-earth with his sense of realism in his writings.
In the beginning of Keats romantic premis ...
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Feminists And Fairy Tales
Number of Words: 760 / Number of Pages: 3
... their sadness can sometimes be more devastating than one thinks. It can put a person into a deep depression. The fairy tales could also have a positive affect on a person. If the person reading the fairy tale is one who takes constructive criticism well, than the fairy tales could have a positive influence on that person. That person would see that all the male characters are wealthy, and it would push him to strive to be as well off as the person in the story. Fairy tales also portray males as tricksters.
In the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk, the main character, Jack is a thief. In the stor ...
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