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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Number of Words: 1857 / Number of Pages: 7
... lines throughout the entire first act, it shows that he can't stand up for himself, likewise, this lack of speech displays his lack of self-confidence and image: Relent, sweet Hermia, and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. (Demetrius, 1.1.93-94) Demetrius believes that since he has Egeus' approval, that Hermia should relinquish to him and states that Lysander is going against his privilege. B. Demetrius takes advantage of his stature by claiming Hermia as a right, which truly portrays his instability, but, at the same time shows that in true he loves Hermia. It is absolutely obvi ...
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Effectiveness Of Capital Punishment Essays Of Orwell, Mencken, And Parker?
Number of Words: 1023 / Number of Pages: 4
... by confidence about the subject in its entirety, including both opposing sides. Parker uses many statistics and facts to get his point across without hesitation or restriction as is well illustrated by his second paragraph starting off, “In recent years, few murderers have been executed. In 1957, when 65 executions took place, the nation witnessed 8, 060 murders. In 1981, when 1 execution occurred, there were 22,520 murders.” This type of reference, which Parker uses quite frequently throughout his paper, directly reinforces the idea that Parker is trying to convey to his readers which is ju ...
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The Demise Of Lady Macbeth, In
Number of Words: 1243 / Number of Pages: 5
... husband. One could say that Lady Macbeth was a devoted wife, and out of love, she wanted to help Macbeth become the king. She shows care and compassion when Macbeth returns to the bedchamber after killing the king. He is stunned by the act that he has committed and Lady Macbeth, with the tenderness of a mother, calms her husband. So, right from the start we see that Lady Macbeth has more than one face, and we learn in the play which one will prevail.
All through the play, Lady Macbeth shows a face of calmness, one that feels no guilt or remorse for the actions she is partly responsible for. S ...
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The Red Badge Of Courage 4
Number of Words: 882 / Number of Pages: 4
... finds his friend Jim. He walks and talks with Jim about the war until Jim dies. Henry, sad about losing one of his good friends, begins to wander around in the forest. While he is there, he meets up with another member of the Union army and begins to fight with him. During the battle, Henry gets hit with the but end of his opponents gun and starts to bleed. When it gets dark, he finds another soldier of the Union and that soldier helps him back to the rest of the regiment. Wilson comes in and helps take care of the gash on Henry's head. In the morning, Henry does not want to run away from any m ...
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Existentialism In No Exit
Number of Words: 649 / Number of Pages: 3
... its principles, he should not have to rely on others for confidence.
Inez is in Hell because she had seduced her cousin’s wife, then conspired to make his life miserable, until he finally stepped in front of a tram and was killed. Inez also brought a lot of guilt upon her lover, Florence, until she finally committed suicide and killed Inez by poisoning them with gas during the night. Inez does not refute or regret this, as she states, “…I was what some people down there called ‘a damned bitch (p. 25),’” and “You know, I don’t regret a thing (p. 25). ...
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Red Badge Of Courage
Number of Words: 750 / Number of Pages: 3
... the battles in a different way, a more experienced way, he started to become afraid that he might run from battle when duty calls. He felt like a slave, doing whatever his superiors told him.
When the regiment finally discovers a battle-taking place, Jim gives Henry a little packet in a yellow envelope, telling Henry that this will be his first and last battle. The regiment managed to hold off the rebels for the first charge, but then the rebels came back like men of steel with re-enforcements, driving the regiment back. One man started to flee, then another, and another. Henry was scared, conf ...
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Chrysalids
Number of Words: 813 / Number of Pages: 3
... as the story develops. Throughout his whole childhood, he has always been taught to honour the Repentances. After he meets Sophie, he thinks that there is nothing wrong with her and that she's harmless for she can definitely not be a mutant. However, in his society she is considered to be a deviation and a mutant, because of her extra toe. From this point on he begins to question the childhood beliefs he was taught to obey. He doesn't realize what their beliefs mean until he experiences them. After a while, he realizes he is in fact, a mutant, because of his ability to see thought shapes. He beg ...
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Tomorrow When The War Began
Number of Words: 835 / Number of Pages: 4
... into their camp site which is named “hell”. Issues from whom to take camping, to find out how to blow the towns main bridge apart. Issues were the main part for the book if it weren’t for the issues this look wouldn’t be as compelling
The book is written in an indirect way where you see it through a persons eyes by the name of Ellie. Ellie got chosen because she was known as the best writer even though this brought some controversy between Ellie and Chris “It's only half an hour since someone - Robyn I think - said we should write everything down, and it's only twenty-nine ...
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Secret Lion - Symbolism
Number of Words: 633 / Number of Pages: 3
... time as they realize that they cannot be children forever. But they want the ball to stay the way it was. That's why, they decide to bury the grinning ball. It appears they wanted to stop time, to keep the ball and to be children forever.
It was so perfect so they did not want to lose it. "We went back to the arroyo for the rest of that summer, and tried to have fun the best we could. We learned to be ready for finding the grinding ball. We loved it, and when we buried it we knew what would happen. We were two boys and twelve summers then, and not stupid. Things get taken away"(47). They knew the ...
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Critique Of Joseph Conrads Hea
Number of Words: 1142 / Number of Pages: 5
... is the transformation of Mr. Kurtz, the director of the Inner Station. In this essay, I will explain and analyze Kurtz’s “de-humanity”, and how effective it is in achieving Conrad’s goal. This “deconstruction” of Kurtz culminates with his utterance of the phrase, “The horror! The horror!”, as he lay dying. Yet, first we must explain what Kurtz was before he stepped over the edge.
From the moment Marlowe arrives on the coast of Africa, he hears tales of an incredible man, who runs a trading post deep in the Congo. The accountant at the first station s ...
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