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Woman To Man
Number of Words: 1584 / Number of Pages: 6
... man, as an expression of something from every woman to every man. The title makes the poem universal, more than just a poem from Judith Wright to her husband. There are no names given to the woman and the man within the world of the poem. The experience of 'the Woman' becomes the experience of 'every woman'. The third audience for this text is the literati – the world of literature. Judith Wright is a well-known Australian poet; this poem has been published many times; this poem obviously did not stay between Wright and her husband. The poem displays the poet's highly technical and sophisticated ...
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APrice Above Rubies
Number of Words: 2206 / Number of Pages: 9
... loves him more than God. Yossi tells her she is a sinner and will end up just like the woman in the story, wandering the earth for eternity, like Cain. Yossi then gives her a fake ruby, which she immediately recognizes and rejects. Perhaps the jewel symbolizes her soul, what makes her complete, and she won’t accept a fraud, something in place of the real thing, even at that young age.
The film goes forward a number of years, to when Sonia and her husband Mendel have just had their first child. Mendel is the perfect example of the devout Hasidic Jew. He is a scholar, and respected by everyone in the ...
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How Does Shakespeare Use Hamle
Number of Words: 1201 / Number of Pages: 5
... Clearly, Hamlet is unhappy, but it may be because he has too little to do (He is briefly happy when things take his mind off his problems - e.g. when the players arrive - but even this, on reflection, leads to more soul searching in a soliloquy). Other aspects of Hamlet’s character for the most part get swallowed up by this consuming depression, but certainly he is oppressed by the hypocrisy of his uncle.
‘O villain, villain, smiling damned villain!’
and
‘That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain’
are two fine examples, which do not bring out ...
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Spoon River
Number of Words: 366 / Number of Pages: 2
... because of what other people say and end up doing something they regret so badly, they begin to fall apart emotionally and financially. "While we seekers of earth's treasure, getters and hoarders of gold are self-contained, compact and harmonized." That quote is a metaphor for people who are always trying to find news ways to make more money and those who don't like to spend their money. They are cool, calm, and always prepared for a rainy day. This poem has no rhyming or rhythmic words. It tells how Thomas Rhodes feels about money. The poem is the exact way Thomas would talk if he was alive today. ...
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A Dolls House - Norma As A Dol
Number of Words: 512 / Number of Pages: 2
... not trust Nora with money, which exemplifies Torvald's treating Nora as a child. On the rare occasion when Torvald gives Nora some money, he is concerned that she will waste it on candy and pastry. Nora's duties, in general, are restricted to caring for the children, doing housework, and working on her needlepoint. A problem with her responsibilities is that her most important obligation is to please Torvald, making her role similar to that of a slave.
When Torvald does not immediately offer to help Nora after Krogstad threatens to expose her, Nora realizes that there is a problem. By waiting until af ...
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Indian Camp
Number of Words: 738 / Number of Pages: 3
... out that the Indian womans husband had committed suicide. The quotes, “ Take Nick out of the shanty, George” and “I’m terribly sorry I brought you along, Nickie. It was an awful mess to put you through.” also help show how in some senses Nick’s father has compassion for his son. The fact that he feels bad that his son had to witness the dead man means that he is sensitive towards his sons’ feelings. Also under extreme situations, the mans death, his father reefers to him as Nickie not Nick as in the rest of the story. This also shows compassion.
On the other hand, Nick’s father can be seen as in ...
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The Awakening 3
Number of Words: 822 / Number of Pages: 3
... is fulfilled through loving and caring for her children, Edna is "fond of her children in an uneven, impulsive way" (Chopin, p. 18). They are not enough to justify her life. Adele could not understand how Edna could say that she "would never sacrifice herself for her children, or for anyone" (Chopin, p. 47). Edna's being is taking on a new importance in her life. She is starting to realize just how important it is to be true to herself. She has never done that before. She went along with the way things were supposed to be, holding her socials and tending to her house until she became aware that s ...
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All The Kings Men
Number of Words: 1409 / Number of Pages: 6
... (Warren 99). An individual wants these cards because in a certain circumstance -a card game- they have a purpose. Without a game however, there is no need for these cards. While in a Great Sleep, Jack does not need material things, because there is no life. Like cards, the things you want have to be a part of a great complex to have a purpose. The reader can hypothesize that Jack really does not live while in a Great Sleep. He simply wishes to cease to exist.
The first Great Sleep that occurs in the novel is a preview to the reader that shows how Jack handles the situations in his life th ...
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Don Giovanni, Critique Of The
Number of Words: 648 / Number of Pages: 3
... to the point that it is sinful to the religious community. Even if a person is not active in religion, s/he usually has a set of morals that frown upon the “life of a player.”
“The Don’s” second downfall is his sexual habits. Any person who shares his/her bed with different partners, including the occasional married one, each night of the week, walks with a black cloud over his/her head. At one point in the story “The Don” tells Figaro that “Some men should have two lovers, some three; it depends on the man…I am selfish, Figaro, because I hav ...
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Doped Up Or Deep Thinker
Number of Words: 768 / Number of Pages: 3
... than the majority of people around him. Whether he was demented or a genius depends on the reader's point of view.
In "Moonlight Drive" Morrison speaks of taking a girl on a moonlight drive and the images he uses takes the reader to the moon, different worlds, and the ocean.
Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb thru the tide
Penetrate the evenin'
That the city sleeps to hide
Let's swim out tonight, love
It's our turn to try
Parked beside the ocean
On our moonlight drive.
Morrison also uses repetition throughout this poem, ending each strophe, save the ...
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