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Big Game
Number of Words: 591 / Number of Pages: 3
... learned the hard way, and seam to involve similar events and characters. A definite change in Boyle’s plot over the course of the two stories however, is the loss in significance and importance of the plot and the take over by setting and character instead.
A well-defined thread connecting the two stories are the plot similarities. In both stories, the characters attempt to be what they are not. The plot revolves around this central theme and shows them doing things they aren’t fit to do. Whether it is shooting a lion or fighting a tough guy, the series of characters do several things in the cours ...
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Hamlet - Revenge A Chain Reaction
Number of Words: 883 / Number of Pages: 4
... for a thousand pound."
Hamlet declares Claudius' guilt to Horatio and now realizes that he must
continue on with his revenge plot. The conflict between Hamlet and Claudius
is delayed by Hamlet but does eventually occur in the last scene. Hamlet's
mother has just died, Hamlet has been sliced by Laertes' poison sword, and
Hamlet has just struck Laertes with a fatal blow when Laertes says that this
was all brought on by Claudius. Hamlet, now realizing that there is no more
time for him to delay his revenge, stabs Claudus and kills him. Revenge was
the motive for the conflict between Ha ...
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King Lear
Number of Words: 1998 / Number of Pages: 8
... throne. He goes on further to offer pieces
of his kingdom to his daughters as a form of reward to his
test of love.
"Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love,
Long in our court have made their amorous
sojourn,
And here are to be answered. Tell me, my
daughters
(Since now we will divest us both of rule,
Interest of territory, cares of state),
Which of you shall we say doth love us most?
That we our largest bounty may extend
where nature doth with merit challenge."
(Act I, Sc i, Ln 47-53)
This is the first and most significant of the many sins that
he makes in this play. By abdicating his thr ...
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Symbolism In Young Goodman Bro
Number of Words: 742 / Number of Pages: 3
... 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 remarkable, was his staff, which b ...
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Cry, The Beloved Country
Number of Words: 831 / Number of Pages: 4
... back?(act 2, scene 1, ll.24,26). As the quote says, Brutus would not allow Caesar to rise to power and then turn his back onto the people of Rome. After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Brutus talks to Antony about Caesar? death. "Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful; and pity to the general wrong of Rome?(act 3, scene 1, ll.185-186). Brutus says that Antony cannot see their(members of the conspiracy) hearts, which are full of pity. Again, this shows how Brutus loved Caesar but cared for the life of Rome and its people more. This is the only reason Brutus would conspire against Caesar. For Brut ...
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Simile Of The Cave
Number of Words: 637 / Number of Pages: 3
... that are presented before them. They live their lives from day to day just knowing and accepting what is being presented to them blindly and have no concept of the reality that lies behind what they are presented. Unless these people are freed and allowed to find the truth for themselves, this is the way that they will always live their life. Plato symbolizes this by suggesting that one of these men is freed and ventures out of the cave into the light, or the world above, and sees the sun, symbolizing "the form of the good". Plato’s object in this work was not of personal enlightenment; ...
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Mother 2
Number of Words: 892 / Number of Pages: 4
... that it was just a title, not a person. "Father", who symbolize her own father, is presented as an unaffectionate father and husband who saw her wife "as immovable to him as one of the rocks in his pasture-land, bound to the earth with generations of blackberry vines (244)." This quote reflects the idea that "father" saw mother as simply an object, like a horse, plow, or grain of wheat; in general, to him, she was as much a part of the farm as any of these objects. She was not his dear wife whom he adored and loved. "Mother" was the person who fed him and kept the house tidy. In the opening of the sto ...
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Hunger Of Memory
Number of Words: 1131 / Number of Pages: 5
... distrust” with which his father
described English speaking Americans. This evidence made it
apparent to the reader that definite animosity existed
between his parents and the society around them.
Resultingly, assimilation into the American culture was not
a very comfortable process for his parents. Despite this,
the authors parents created a comfortable haven for him and
his siblings in their adopted country. The author shares
with the reader how close and tightly-knit his family was.
He describes in numerous instances the “special feeling of
closeness” that he shared ...
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The Crucible By Arthur Miller
Number of Words: 1685 / Number of Pages: 7
... Proctor, has come to regard himself as a fraud.” (2036) It is known in the play that John Proctor had an affair with Abigail, the accuser. Elizabeth knew all along that this was the case, and was very resentful towards John. But, she forgave him and took the blame on herself, that she was the cause because she was sick. “Your Honor, I—in that time I were sick. And I—My husband is a good and righteous man. He is never drunk as some are, nor wastin’ his time at the shovelboard, but always at his work. But in my sickness—you see, sir, I were a long time sick aft ...
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Early American Writers
Number of Words: 515 / Number of Pages: 2
... god, "leading me to sweet
contemplations of my great and glorious God." Jonathan was also a puritan
from the early America, however, he was a preacher.
Like Anne Bradstreet, he did not believe in material things. In
his sermon entitle Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he states "now they
see that those things on which they depended for peace and safety were
nothing but thin air and empty shadows." This statement agrees with what
Bradstreet believed in, that nothing (possessions) is important on Earth.
If a person has depended on those things for all your life and then they
are suddenly ta ...
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