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Great Expectations - Mrs. Joe
Number of Words: 1118 / Number of Pages: 5
... candlestick at Joe, burst into a loud sobbing, got out the dustpan -- which was always a very bad sign -- put on her coarse apron, and began cleaning up to a terrible extent. Not satisfied with a dry cleaning, she took to a pail and scrubbing-brush, and cleaned us out of house and home,..." Truly, a frightening creature is that that may destroy a household by cleaning when anger besets her. Third, the comedy also has a serious side, though, as we remember our mothers exerting their great frustrations upon the household tasks of cleanliness. So, Mrs. Joe serves very well as a mother to Pip. Besides the ...
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Hamlet - The Character Of Hamlet
Number of Words: 818 / Number of Pages: 3
... collected an army to fight for his uncle’s land and honor, Hamlet’s maturity level for his time is low, especially for being a prince. Today Hamlet’s age group is more immature than during his own time so he relates to the youth of the 1990’s better than he does with the adolescents of his own time.
Sarcasm, and blunt rudeness is often used by Hamlet in order to offend people that, during his time, he should not have offended. Hamlet often used the hasty marriage of his mother to offend Claudius. The first time that Hamlet offends Claudius in the company of another person is when Claudius is supposed t ...
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Capybara
Number of Words: 700 / Number of Pages: 3
... consisting of twenty or more s, live on the grasslands and near riverbanks, or in swamps and marshes. s are herbivores whose main diet is water plants and grasses. Occasionally a will also eat leaves, seeds and the bark of young trees. Because they are herbivores, they do not have any distinctive hunting habits.
s are shy creatures that don’t interact with other animals on a frequent basis. They are intelligent but quiet and they rarely fight each other, or their enemies. Within a herd of s, there is one dominant male who keeps the herd in order. He also defends the herd from intruding animals. ...
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A Portrait Of The Artist
Number of Words: 1346 / Number of Pages: 5
... finally to the representation of freedom itself. As a child, the image of the mother figure is strong. It is nurturing and supportive, that of "a woman standing at the half-door of a cottage with a child in her arms . . ." (10) who shelters and protects and makes Stephen afraid to "think of how it was" to be without a mother. As Stephen grows, however, like any child his dependency of him mother begins to dwindle, as does his awe for her. He begins to question his relationship with her and she is suddenly seen as a dirty figure, beginning the transformation of Stephen's image of women; from that of ...
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Into The Wild
Number of Words: 489 / Number of Pages: 2
... philosophers and nature writers. He particularly enjoyed Tolstoy, adopting his principles of severity, living a life of desolation and poverty. He abandoned his name and former life, introducing himself as Alexander Supertramp to the people he met during the two years before his death. His adverntures are fragmented together from letters and interviews with the people McCandless encountered, along with the occasional journal entry by
McCandles most likely knew that he may not survive his adventure, and to him it was probably what he believed in. It was because of his high education that he decided ...
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The Sacrifice
Number of Words: 560 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the family, because what it eventually did was break up the family so that it was sort of dysfunctional. The family suffered severely from the change in religion.
Racism, another important factor in the novel, which lead to the actual aspect of death. This was portrayed at the start of the novel when it talks about how Abraham’s two sons got hung in the Town Square for the same fact of being a different race/religion. This was hard for that family to deal with and for a long while it was also killing the family members inside to know that they had loss loved ones. Especially Abraham w ...
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Hamlet 6
Number of Words: 948 / Number of Pages: 4
... be murdered and his mother
to be married so soon after his father's death to his uncle. This shows us
that he is pitying himself and is putting himself down. Yet another example
of his emotions running wild are seen in his first soliloquy:
...She married. O, most wicked speed, to post with such
dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to
good. But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue! 3
He is telling us that his mother has married right away and did not mourn
for his father's death. He tells us that the marriage is not good and nor ...
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Frankenstein Rejection By Soci
Number of Words: 640 / Number of Pages: 3
... monster's repulsive characteristics. But fate was against him and the "wretched" had barely conversed with the old man before his children returned from their journey and saw a monstrous creature at the feet of their father attempting to do harm to the helpless elder. "Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore [the creature] from his father, to whose knees [he] clung..." Felix's action caused great inner pain to the monster. He knew that his dream of living with them "happily ever after" would not happen and with the encounter still fresh in his mind along with his first encounter of human ...
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The Client
Number of Words: 1220 / Number of Pages: 5
... Reggie at first, knowing that a woman was not capable of fullfilling his needs, like a man could. Then something happened where Reggie grew on him, he got more used too her, and he found himself telling her personal things, spending tons of time with her, and starting to care for her. She was like the mother figure he never had. Mark and Reggie were in the tangle of mess together. Mark realized through the whole ordeal he could not do everything by himself, he also realized how vulnerable he was by being independent. Mark and Reggie became bestest friends, right up to the point where he would have ...
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Oedipus Rex - Plot
Number of Words: 990 / Number of Pages: 4
... Teiresias does not want to tell Oedipus about the murder, but tells Oedipus to leave things as they are. Oedipus accuses Teiresias of being the murderer and that is why he won't reveal the truth. Teiresias then tells that Oedipus is the one that killed Laios. Oedipus is shocked and angered by such an accusation. He accuses Teiresias that he is lying. Oedipus then figures that Kreon wants to be made king. He accuses Kreon of bribing Teiresias with favors once he is king. Teiresias rebuts this with that fact that he is Apollo's and accuses Oedipus of being blind to the truth. Teiresias tells Oedipus t ...
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