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Irony Moll Flanders
Number of Words: 2958 / Number of Pages: 11
... the second her life as a thief, her imprisonment, and her transportation to America. The difference here, however, is that Defoe has effected an organic rather than a merely schematic relationship between the two halves. The episode of the two brothers, an episode which is crucial to our understanding of the novel's irony. Moll is seduced by the elder brother of the family in which she is a maid, then is persuaded by him to marry Robin, the younger brother, who loves her and proposed to her. She is a bewildered, passive object in the centre of the family dispute: her position is no sooner es ...
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Supernatural Elements In Macbe
Number of Words: 574 / Number of Pages: 3
... alternative than to murder King Duncan. Due to the witches’ forecasts Macbeth thought he deserved the throne, almost like it was meant to be. Macbeth’s clear thought of reasoning became clouded as his ego increased. He no longer knew the difference between right and wrong. He was being guided by supernatural powers.
It was the witches’ power that persuaded Macbeth to kill Duncan. They enabled him to see a floating dagger that lead him directly into Duncan’s chamber, where he committed the murder. As the play progresses, Macbeth became more dependent on the witches’ ...
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A Rose Of The South
Number of Words: 582 / Number of Pages: 3
... wife called Miss Emily's cousins to come visit Miss Emily.
When Miss Emily 's cousins arrived, people thought that her cousins had convinced her to get married, since Miss Emily had ordered a "complete out fit of men's clothing, including a nightshirt"3. Mean while Miss Emily had gone to see the druggist for some poison. She never told the druggist what the poison was for, though he assumed that it was for rats. A few days after her cousins had left, Homer was seen coming into the Miss Emily's house. Neither one of them would be seen for quite some time afterwards. When Miss Emily was final ...
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Paradise Lost 2
Number of Words: 4762 / Number of Pages: 18
... is upon it, but in a free scope it has a liberty upon all. And in this liberty is the excellence of the mind; in this power and composition of the mind is perfection of a man... Man is an absolute master of himself; his own safety, and tranquillity by God... are made dependent on himself.'1
In this short example of Puritanism text as it stands, alone contains a number of various references to the process of colonization, of expanding, perceiving all geographically and manipulating, making man or perhaps more specifically the colonisers omniscient and God-like. The crusader self-reliant a ...
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Oedipus Rex 3
Number of Words: 715 / Number of Pages: 3
... him to the king. The king falls in love with the baby and takes him in as one of his own.
Oedipus left Corinth to avoid his foretold fate, he went to Thebes. On his journey he ran into a caravan at the crossroads before entering Thebes. This caravan was of the present King of Thebes, Laius, but Oedipus did not know that. The people on the caravan started insulting Oedipus. Oedipus lost his temper and in a rage he killed them all, except for one servant who escaped "... I found myself upon the self-same spot where, you say, the king perished ... When in my travels I wa come near this place where three ...
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In Romeo And Juliet Who Is To
Number of Words: 2013 / Number of Pages: 8
... the play he says "Scourge is laid upon your hate That heaven finds mean to kill your joys with love". In that extract, the prince refers to heaven as a means of fate. The fact is that the two families do not know what the feud is about because it has gone on so long. The families have forgotten what the feud is about, yet this does not stop the rivalry between the whole families.
Fate is a major contributor to the deaths in the play. The future is predestined from the stars, at the beginning in the prologue some characters are destined to die. "Doth with their death" their death however ends ...
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Heart Of Darkness 7
Number of Words: 1915 / Number of Pages: 7
... Here, human's evil side provides one of the scariest occurrences of this century. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi counterparts conducted raids of the ghettos to locate and often exterminate any Jews they found. Although Jews are the most widely known victims of the Holocaust, they were not the only
targets. When the war ended, 6 million Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists, and others targeted by the Nazis, had died in the Holocaust. Most of these deaths occurred in gas chambers and mass shootings. This gruesome attack was motivated mainly by the fear
of cultural intermixing w ...
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Pudd’nhead Wilson
Number of Words: 724 / Number of Pages: 3
... and thanking him, Tom said that “anybody but a blockheaded nigger would have known he was funning and left him [Tom] alone” (23). Furthermore, after Tom had gone to college (Yale) and returned back to Dawson’s Landing, he still carried this trait. This was evident when he was having a conversation with . At the time, Mr. Wilson was hosting guests, two of which were from out-of-town. Regardless of the obvious company, Tom kept his rude manor and made fun of Wilson’s law career. Although it was true that ’s law career was all but successful, Tom had no right to embarrass him so, especially in front ...
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O'Brien's "If I Die In A Combat Zone", Hasford's "The Short-Timers", Moore's "The Green Berets", And O'Brien's "Going After Cacciato": Parallels
Number of Words: 1062 / Number of Pages: 4
... (Combat, 29),
and crippled by, "Doubts...hedged all this: I had neither the expertise nor
the wisdom to synthesize answers..." (Combat, 29), the character simply is
paralyzed by fear, and because of this, gets on the draftee bus without
really having made a decision.
It was an intellectual and physical stand-off, and I did not have the
energy to see it to an end. I did not want to be a soldier, not even a
observer to war. But neither did I want to upset a peculiar balance
between the order I knew, the people I knew, and my own private world. It
was not that I valued that order. But I fea ...
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The Grapes Of Wrath 6
Number of Words: 1484 / Number of Pages: 6
... and were gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an' a
cow and some pigs." (Roberts, 187). George's dream ran deeper than a love
for farming and independence. The motivation for this dream was not just a
product of the poor state of the country and widespread unemployment,
but it was a dream that could ensure a happy ending for Lennie. George is
anxious to secure his own place so that Lennie can live the type of life where
he can be happy and not be hurt by people who do not understand his simple
ways. George would run the farm; Lennie would tend the rabbits. This was
Lennies drea ...
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