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Don Quixote And Le Morte D Art
Number of Words: 679 / Number of Pages: 3
... with an individual focus on one central character. Don Quixote is one story written around one character, Don Quixote. Malory’s work is filled murder, death, and violence, while in Cervantes’ piece, no one is killed, all injuries are recoverable, and all the violence is mitigated by a touch of absurdity.
But these two pieces are very similar in that they both are about multi-faceted characters who succumb to temptation, act rashly, and make bad decisions. These types of realistic characters aren’t very often seen in genuine tales of chivalry. The stories Malory used as a basis ...
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Good Vs. Evil - Analytical Sentence Outline
Number of Words: 589 / Number of Pages: 3
... views have changed over time.
Common stories portray good and evil through a protagonist and antagonist view. The first thing I think of when I hear "good vs. evil" would be a fairy tale. As in most fairy tales, there is always a good guy and a bad guy. An example of this kind of story would be Beowulf, where as Beowulf is the protagonist and Grendel is the antagonist. Grendel would come into the town and cause chaos every night, until Beowulf came along and had the courage to stand up to the beast. He killed Grendel bare handedly and saved the city from losing any more lives. People hav ...
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Don Quixote: The Misadventures Of A Lunatic
Number of Words: 2232 / Number of Pages: 9
... scientific manner. He retreats to a world that holds meaning for him. When he first departs, he stops at an inn and his eyes make it a beautiful castle with blushing maids and noble sirs. The wench Aldonza is turned into Dulcinea, his one true love, who he swears by in his battles and contemplates when he is idle. Another example of his point-of-view is the famous windmill incident. Quixote sees "’thirty monstrous giants... with... long arms... the length of two leagues.’" such is the demented mind of Don Quixote. He went down into a legendary pit to behold its wonders. Once inside, h ...
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Iliad/Odyssey Summary
Number of Words: 1581 / Number of Pages: 6
... and son-Astyanax. He said his farewells to them as he went back to battle.
As the Greeks fought the Trojans, they realized they were no match, and knew that without godlike Achilles, they would be defeated. So Agamemnon’s advisers counseled him to apologize to Achilles. Gifts of land, gold, and women were offered to Achilles but he refused. He believed he was dishonored to greatly to rejoin the Greeks.
Achilles’ friend Patroclus convinced Achilles to let him wear his armor and lead the Myrmidons into battle. The armor intimidated the Trojans because they thought it was godlike Achilles they ...
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Illusion And Disillusion In He
Number of Words: 1838 / Number of Pages: 7
... through this journey that he establishes limits and boundaries on the illusions he holds onto ritualistically, and yet opens himself up to the larger possibilities of life at the same time. He goes through very obvious and specific stages in his struggle, in a world of illusion, through the sacrifice and pain of the journey and into disillusionment.
Santiago is a proud man, and the world of illusion which captivates him is the only thing that keeps him going, day after day. Sadly, Santiago does not truly have confidence in himself. He attributes much of his success and failure to luck: “R ...
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Number of Words: 1103 / Number of Pages: 5
... not the major theme of the play. It also has the most relevance to the way in which Blanche, Stanley and Stella are living in their own fantasy world. Perhaps the reason Blanche chose illusion rather than reality is because of her somewhat troubled past. When Blanche was 16 she married Alan who was 17. The impression we get of Alan is that of an attractive, gentle and kind young man. However, he had a somewhat feminine quality about him. Blanche soon finds out that he is involved in a homosexual relationship by catching him in the act. Blanche expresses her disgust and soon after Alan commits suicide b ...
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A Worn Path
Number of Words: 515 / Number of Pages: 2
... and it was fate that got her across safely. She came across a scarecrow that momentarily brought happiness to her. When she was walking down the road a black dog suddenly jumped up on her and pushed her to the ground. "A white man finally came along and found her - a hunter, a young man, with his dog on a chain. I think that this shows that fate had brought a person to help lift her up just when she needed it. It also brought an opportunity for her to pocket a nickel she saw. Kindness is very important in the story because it showed that there are many people who are willing to lend a hand to help ...
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Number of Words: 572 / Number of Pages: 3
... of instances in which Gawain was forced to face difficult decisions. Gawain could have simply left Camelot never to return. He instead chose the option of keeping his word and searching for the Green Knight, even though he knew he had to take what was coming to him. "Now, liege lord of my life, my leave I take; / The terms of this task too well you know / to count the cost over concerns me nothing. But I am bound forth betimes to bear a stroke / From the grim man in green, as God may direct." (Gawain, lines 545-549). During his travels he had every opportunity to turn around. Gawain, however, s ...
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The Transcendentalist
Number of Words: 519 / Number of Pages: 2
... that live in the country, the kind of berries he could eat…" (Krakauer 5). The philosophy requires the use of minimal technology; but in the wild, will prove fatal. Jon Krakauer describes Chris's gear going into the Alaskan interior, "His gear seemed exceedingly minimal for the harsh conditions of the interior…" (5). It calls for a follower to be an individualist but at the same time it says the follower is part of ...
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She Works Hard For Her Money
Number of Words: 949 / Number of Pages: 4
... broke up, she started waiting tables because she needed fast money and didn't want to work an office job (Terkel 294). She feels that she learns a lot about people in her line of work, and enjoys talking to her customers. She invents ways to keep her job interesting, and likes to converse with her customers about a great number of topics. Dante says that giving service and being servile are two different things (Terkel 294).
Delores Dante takes pride in her work, and aims to please all of her customers. She says that she does certain things to make her customers' experience more enjoyable, like ...
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