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Scottsboro Trials And To Kill
Number of Words: 1163 / Number of Pages: 5
... were to be moved. In this essay the bias and racism in both trials are going to be clarified and compared to each other.
Several groups of white and black men rode the trains in the thirties for transportation. One night a group of white men started a fight with the black men in the train, which led to them getting kicked off. Later on in the case it is proved that the white men start the fight because both of the men have different stories and one of them admits to starting it all. After the white men were kicked off of the train it was ridden to the next stop somewhere in Alabama. Upon arriving at ...
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Oedipa Has No Goal Just As The Hair Spray Can Has No Aim
Number of Words: 318 / Number of Pages: 2
... her around San Narciso. She does not know where she is going but she will
go until her fuel runs out just like the can.
Oedipa travels around the city of San Narciso without a real destination.
She will get temporary destinations but no final destination. The can does not
have any real destination either. The can will get a temporary destination just
as Oedipa will. The can's temporary destination changes each time it hits its
destination (e.g., a wall or other object). Oedipa's temporary destination
changes when she reaches it (e.g., a store or other location) just like the
can's does ...
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Twelfth Night - Analysis Of Fo
Number of Words: 1321 / Number of Pages: 5
... & wit to make the comedy work.
Clowns, jesters, and Buffoons are usually regarded as fools. Their differences could be of how they dress, act or portrayed in society. A clown for example, "was understood to be a country bumpkin or 'cloun'". In Elizabethan usage, the word 'clown' is ambiguous "meaning both countryman and principal comedian". Another meaning given to it in the 1600 is "a fool or jester". As for a buffoon, it is defined as "a man whose profession is to make low jests and antics postures; a clown, jester, fool". The buffoon is a fool because "although he exploits his own weaknesses instea ...
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Hermia - Midnight Summers Drea
Number of Words: 733 / Number of Pages: 3
... not to helen is it home returned , there to reamain.” This proves how fickle he is , for he is not aware of his changing love once for Helena then for Hermia then returning to Helena with the help of the mystical father Oberon.
Helena is a fool because Demetrius does not love her but still persists in chasing him. Demetrius shows no love for Helena to the point of wishing her harm.(2.1 234-235) Demetrius says “ I’ll run from thee , and hide me in the brakes , And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.” ( 2.1 206-208 ) “ Do I entice you ? Do I speak you fair ? or rather ...
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Huckleberry Finn 19th Century
Number of Words: 1691 / Number of Pages: 7
... concerning Jim’s life are the moral and proper choices, Huck is pounded by his society’s teachings the black men are property. When Huck first escapes from Pap and sets up camp on Jackson Island, he finds Jim has also found refuge there from the widow and Mrs. Watson. Huck is stunned at first when Jim tells him he escaped, because Huck knows that Jim is Miss Watson’s rightful property. “People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum,”(pg.43) Huck knows that if he helped Jim that would make him an Abolitionist, which was not exactly an accept ...
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Symbolism In The Scarlet Latte
Number of Words: 1532 / Number of Pages: 6
... as a symbol of the devil. The letter also puts Hester through torture: "Of an impulse and passionate nature. She had fortified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely wreaking itself in every variety of insult but there was a quality so much more terrible in the solemn mood of popular mind, that she longed rather to behold all those rigid countenances contorted with scornful merriment and herself the object" (54). This implies that Hester's sin of bearing a child without the presence of a husband will always be remembered.
In the middle of the novel there is a transit ...
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The Crucible - A Harsh Reality
Number of Words: 448 / Number of Pages: 2
... Abigail's snobbish character is apparent through her statements to John Proctor about his wife Elizabeth. She says, "Oh, I marval how such a strong man [can be with] such a sickly wife" (23). Abigail obviously thinks highly of herself: she is worthy of Proctor's love, but Elizabeth is not. Abigail shows a character of superiority by her authoritative, prejudiced, and snobbish remarks.
Abigail Williams also shows a tinge of resentment in the play. When Mary Warren confesses that the witchcraft is only pretend, Abigail is angry. She accuses Mary of being a witch, too. Abigail's resentment o ...
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Franny And Zooey: Franny
Number of Words: 529 / Number of Pages: 2
... [and their] unskilled laughter.”(Salinger, 199) Despite the fact that the audiences were supporting Franny by watching her perform, she insists all audiences are stupid. Franny’s religious quest caused her to view her surroundings pessimistically.
Franny was worried by her questions concerning religion. These questions caused her to be extremely bitter. “[She] picked on professor Fallon…, Lane…, and her roommate.”(Salinger, 145) Although “[she] knew what a bore [she] was being and that she was depressing people, even hurting their feelings, [she] just [did] not ...
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Catcher In The Rye - Fall Of Innocence
Number of Words: 969 / Number of Pages: 4
... Allie and James Castle and since they're both dead he feels, in the back of his mind, that he should also be dead which makes him depressed.
Another example of a fall for Holden is when he realizes he can't erase even half the "fuck you's" in the world. This doesn't sound very important, but it is symbolic because he realizes that he can not be the catcher in the rye. His dream of shielding all the innocent children from society's harsh elements has been ruined by this one statement. Now because of this realization he comes to the conclusion that he can not shield everybody, not even half of everybo ...
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War And Peace By Leo Tolstoy
Number of Words: 1133 / Number of Pages: 5
... had on their lives. In the beginning of the novel, the Russian aristocratic class, which was in the czar’s circle, wanted Russia to participate in the war. They wanted a quick victory and pride for the Russian nobility. They did not anticipate that the war would destroy homes, agriculture, and take many Russian lives. This class is shown in Anna Pavlova Sharer’s salon, with it’s upper class aristocracy, who talk only in French, viewing the Russian language as uncivilized and useful only for peasants. They adopted French culture and wear French style clothing, and at the same time they want to fight N ...
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