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Lord Of The Flies 7
Number of Words: 636 / Number of Pages: 3
... to the people of his society. He let them have freedom and liberties which was not go for his society because they abused their freedom and became lazy and irresponsible. His society did not have their priorities in order because Ralph did not stress that the rescue fire and the shelters were necessary. Ralph was passive and did not keep his society in line. The were too unruly to control. Another factor in the demise of Ralph’s society was the other members. Piggy, like Ralph, was not aggressive enough. He let himself be pushed around when he knew he was doing the right thing. Piggy di ...
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Sigmund Freud
Number of Words: 4792 / Number of Pages: 18
... might have lost feeling in his foot with no evidence to any sensory nerve damage. Freud wondered if the problem could be psychological rather than physiological.
Dr. Freud evolved as he treated patients and analyzed himself. He recorded his assessment and expounded his theories in 24 volumes published between 1888 and 1939. Although his first book, The Interpretation of Dreams, sold only 600 copies in its first eight years of publication, his ideas gradually began to attract faithful followers and students - along with a great number of critics.
While exploring the possible psychological roots of ...
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Themes In Medea
Number of Words: 673 / Number of Pages: 3
... kill children in retribution for death of Creon
Crossing of Gender Boundaries
1. Medea as female
1. Incorporates forces of chaos
2. Represents the non-human and non-Greek
2. Medea as male
1. Successfully avenges slighted honor
2. Punishes breaker of oaths and so acts as agent of divine justice--classic patriarchal role
3. Contrast with Penelope's failure to protect household: why does Penelope fail in the masculine role and Medea succeed?
4. Gender = power (dominance vs. submission)
Medea was a devotee of the goddess Hecate, and one of the great sorceresses of the a ...
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The Hamlet In Me
Number of Words: 650 / Number of Pages: 3
... And now I'll do't and so he goes to heave…When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in th' incestuous pleasure of his bed…Then trip him…And that his soul may be as damned and black As hell, whereto it goes" (3.4.77-100). Hamlet finally gains the nerve to kill his uncle, but sheaths his sword when he realizes that if he kills him while he is praying, his uncle will ascend to heaven. He ultimately decides to kill his uncle when he commits a sin, so that his soul "may be as damned and black as hell." He goes through a meticulous thought process, which shows him both his options and when to act t ...
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Brave New World - Compared To Fahrenheit 451
Number of Words: 1548 / Number of Pages: 6
... of this conditioning, the director said, "Books and loud noises...already in the infant mind these couples are compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. What man has jointed, nature is powerless to put asunder," (Huxley 21-22). We come to learn that the basic reasoning behind this conditioning against reading in Brave New World was because "you couldn't have lower-caste people wasting the Community's time over books, and there was always the risk of their reading something which might undesirably decondition one ...
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Crime And Punishment
Number of Words: 592 / Number of Pages: 3
... clash between the two sides helps Raskolnikov commit the murders. His intellectual, emotionless side was able to murder without remorse. It should be noted that he had two victims, one was planned the other was not. The murder of Alyona, the cold detestable old pawnbroker, was planned. However, there was also an unexpected murder of her kind, gentle, sister-in-law, Lizaveta. It should be noted that the dual murders represent his dual personality. Raskolnikov was able to block his emtional side and used his intellect to commit the murder. This does not happen, for his emotional side ...
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William Shakespeare And The Globe Theatre
Number of Words: 289 / Number of Pages: 2
... was build up in a octagonal shape: “Better yet, the walls give back the voices as the innes cannot” (White 36). The octagonally shaped outer wall of the theatre enclosed a roofless inner pit into which the stage projected. Around the pit were three galleries, one above the other, the topmost of which was roofed thatch. “The seeing´s better” (White 36).
Most of the plays Shakespeare wrote, like A Midsummer Night´s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth or Othello, had their premiere in the Globe Theatre. James Burbage, actor and owner of the theatre helped Shakespeare to bring his plays on stage. S ...
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The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlo
Number of Words: 574 / Number of Pages: 3
... Significantly, the maternal instincts of Jane remain enslaved due to her surroundings. The nursery, containing windows “barred for little children,” represents the suppression of Jane’s motherly duties (1150). Jane is unable to take care of her own baby. The garden which Jane can view through her barred windows, stands for her fertility which she is incapable of obtaining (1149). Intentionally, Jane’s intellectual prowess remains held back. Beginning to “write for a while” in a journal against the wishes of those around her, represents the suppression of Jane’s attempt at creative stimulus (1149) ...
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Macbeth - Supernatural And Spirits
Number of Words: 1505 / Number of Pages: 6
... of his soul. The prophecies that revealed by the witches bring a broad temptation to Macbeth that had been in his secret all along for being a king, "My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical". This shows that Macbeth ambition is present before the prophecies. He would never have thought seriously about killing Duncan without the witches. His temptation makes him doing whatever he can to gain power of the throne as prophesied by witches because he thinks the only way to gain the power of the throne is by killing Duncan, which is an easier plan and the ways he makes to the throne show evilne ...
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Analysis Of Mark Strand’s “Kee
Number of Words: 524 / Number of Pages: 2
... see it. Where he writes, “In a field / I am the absence / of field.” (ll. 1-3) instead of acknowledging his existence as something, he regards it as a lack of something. This negativity towards himself is what the entire poem is focused on.
He uses the idea that when his body enters an area the parts of that area are momentarily interrupted and are forced around him, just waiting to return back to normal once he leaves: “When I walk / I part the air / and always / the air moves in / to fill the spaces / where my body’s been.” (ll. 8-13) The “air” in that line symbolizes the existence of other pe ...
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