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Macbeth
Number of Words: 861 / Number of Pages: 4
... theme of treachery and treason.
Lady Macbeth starts this off when she asks the spirits to" make thick my blood,”
What she is saying by this is that she wants to make herself insensitive for what she is about to do. Lady Macbeth knows that the evidence of blood is a treacherous symbol, and knows it will deflect the guilt from her and Macbeth to the servants when she says "smear the sleepy grooms with blood.” and "If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, for it must seem their guilt." When Banquo states "and question this most bloody piece of work,” and Ross says "isn’t known wh ...
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“Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl”
Number of Words: 1556 / Number of Pages: 6
... of her troubles. Linda didn’t have to worry about being yelled at or
getting whipped. Linda’s mistress was almost a second mother to her. She
cared for Linda and taught her the essence of learning, which was how to
read and write. Linda didn’t take anything for granted while living with
her mistress.
Staying with her mistress was the happiest time in Linda’s young
life. Nothing was the same after her mistress died. It was a depressing
moment for Linda and it was then when she realized that living with her
mistress was too good to last. Linda’s life was ugly and bitter after she
was turne ...
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Analysis Of Platos Simile Of T
Number of Words: 631 / Number of Pages: 3
... Citizens of our nation today are often “blinded” from the truths 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 go ...
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The Bluest Eye 2
Number of Words: 1202 / Number of Pages: 5
... in mind, how does this make Pecola a victim of society and a victim in herself?
If any person can be credited for creating the obsession of beauty that Pecola builds it is Pauline (Pecola’s mother). Pecola experiences many insecurities and it can definitely be said that many of these are because of the way that Pauline acts in society and around Pecola. It was stated in the story that Pauline would always go to the movies and rate the characters on their beauty. This is one example that shows the obsession that Pauline has with beauty and looks. This rubbed off on to her daughter and that i ...
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The Surprising Aspect Of Sex I
Number of Words: 882 / Number of Pages: 4
... I first opened it was not expecting. This level is almost in a way more humanistic than the level I thought it would reach. The typical war story of courage and bravery seem to have disappeared from Heller's depiction. It shows that while there is a traumatic World War, and these soldiers are fighting for their country and more importantly to them, their lives, these soldiers have a life outside of the war to which they want to keep. Most of the soldiers are not there by choice. To be considered sane is to save your life and prevent yourself from having to fight. In a way, the excess of sex takes thei ...
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A Rose For Emily
Number of Words: 533 / Number of Pages: 2
... the impression that the town owed her
money. This act of kindness by the Colonel caused Emily’s
dependence upon him and what he did for her. Later in the
story, the Board of Alderman approached Miss Emily at her
house in the attempt to get her to pay her taxes. When the
Board started questioning Miss Emily about why she would not
pay she told them to talk to Colonel Sartoris. Even though
the Colonel had been dead for almost ten years the old women
insisted they see him and leave her alone. Emily’s
dependency on Colonel Sartoris caused her to believe he was
still alive, showing again how she i ...
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The Hollow Men
Number of Words: 475 / Number of Pages: 2
... echo and repeat itself until it quietly dies off. This example of emptiness is expressed in the very last stanza of the poem, “This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang, but a whimper.”
“” starts out with two allusions, the first being “Mistah Kurtz-he dead,” which alludes to a quotation from Joseph Conrad’s novel The Heart of Darkness. In the novel, Mr. Kurtz travels to the African jungle and realizes that he cannot handle the uncivilized society of Africa, and becomes depressed and emotionally devolved. Mr. Kurtz was hollow due ...
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Thomas Vs. Moore
Number of Words: 524 / Number of Pages: 2
... the ideal society contains three classes, the ruling class, the auxiliary class, and the rest of the society as they are compared to gold, silver and bronze. They aren't said to be of less importance from each other, although they do have their different significance in the society. Plato's ideal city also includes the abolition of the family. "That our men and women guardians should be forbidden by law to live together in separate households, and all the women should be common to all the men; similarly, children should be held in common, and no parents should know its child, or child its pa ...
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Obasan - Book Report
Number of Words: 741 / Number of Pages: 3
... Emily wanted to head east to Toronto, but was unable to get the documentation for the entire family which included her sister children, who she was taking care of. The novel discuses the camps that the Japanese families were sent to in Hastings Park during the war. It described the treatment the families received while there, including the lack of food and the smell of manure. Naomi during this time was being sexually molested by her next door neighbor and did not tell anybody about this. Naomi seems resentful during the novel, as she comes across as a quiet little girl, who does not seem to in ...
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An Analysis Of British Literature
Number of Words: 2732 / Number of Pages: 10
... as it must." When
Grendel died, the soldiers "had no semse of sorrow, felt no regret for his
sufferings," because they believed Grendel was destined to die, and there
was no way to defy destiny. They also did not pity Grendel because they
considered him to be entirely evil because it was his fate. The Anglo-
Saxon's strong belief in fate led to them not fearing death as much as
during other times periods in British Literature. Beowulf's strong belief
in fate was a reflection in the society's pagan belief in fate. Due to the
fact that the society at the time of Beowulf was pagan, they did not
beli ...
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