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Gentlemen Of The Night
Number of Words: 1441 / Number of Pages: 6
... conceptions and dilemmas, at once making them accessible while never diminishing their significance.
Dylan Thomas' emotion was at times erratic…He used to say, of his poems, that they could be read either softly or loudly, exercising both ends of the spectrum. Thomas' poems were a very real part of his being, expressed throughout the verse. He said of his work, "I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then apply to it what intellectual and critical forces I possess..."There is also conveyed what the poet himself described as his "individual struggle from darkness towards ...
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Hard Times
Number of Words: 747 / Number of Pages: 3
... he was not an unkind man at all. He believed absolutely that he was doing a good deed. He was affectionate in his way; but he studiously repressed all forms of spontaneous affection and as his children grew up, it came to be realized that he was not in sympathetic touch with them. This was especially apparent with Mr. Gradgrind's two older children, Louisa and Tom. Tom became morose and discontented, while Louisa stayed somber and hopeless and neither of them like their home, which in actuality, the Gradgrind school was based on and it's teachings were very similar.
The rigorous program tau ...
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Sappho (the Greek Poet)
Number of Words: 625 / Number of Pages: 3
... and most of it was burned. Most of them were lost, and Sappho was known only through quotations in other ancient writers until 1900, when considerable fragments of her work began to be found on papyrus in Egypt and so only a few hundred lines of her poetry remain. In her lifetime, she invented a 21-string lyre which she used to accompany herself when she sang her poems. She also founded a "thiasos", a society of women bound by religious and secular oaths. Her Sapphic stanza which consists of three long lines and one short one was greatly
emulated by later poets such as Horace and Catullus.
Sappho ...
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Artificial Nigger
Number of Words: 757 / Number of Pages: 3
... his own dependency needs. He’s content with the thought once Nelson has had the opportunity in experiencing the city he will “be content to stay at home for the rest of his life” (251). His only comforting thoughts, as he lay to sleep before the day of the trip, were not of turning Nelson into a racist, but “thinking how the boy would at last find out that he was not as smart as he thought he was.”
Degradation towards anyone, including his own grandson, is another way by which Mr.Head can feel minutely satisfied with himself. He welcomes and anticipates the poi ...
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Tragic Hero (media)
Number of Words: 499 / Number of Pages: 2
... afford to forgive my bad temper: after all there has been much love between us."(p.320) She continues to tell true lies to Jason. Also Medea is very crafted in poison. She sends gifts to the princess that poison her.
Medea had a tragic flaw that resulted in how she reacted to Jason's betrayal. Her tragic flaw was her self-will and excessive pride. Some quotes from the book reveal how Medea recognized this. " Now I see how my passion is stronger than my reason."(p.325) Her passion and self-will could not let Jason go unpunished. " Am I willing to let my enemies go unpunished? Am I willing to be ...
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Catcher In The Rye 4
Number of Words: 970 / Number of Pages: 4
... mind was how Holden thought about the many stories that D.B. would read him at night. When thinking of this it would remind Holden of the good times at home, this was a time when he felt comfortable and was a memory that made him feel good at almost anytime. And finally D.B. affected Holden by remembering there visits to the movies with Pheobe to watch old movies. "But I didn’t enjoy it much. I just don’t see what’s to marvellous about Sir Laurence Olivier, that’s all" (pg 117). They would go to the movie and spend the whole time critiquing it and saying what they woul ...
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Othello
Number of Words: 1394 / Number of Pages: 6
... speech faking loyalty to a fellow soldier and all the while implying that he is reluctantly holding back the full truth: "I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth. Than it should do offense to Michael Cassio" (I.ii.21-22). This deception impresses and convinces that his officer is a good and loyal soldier. Iago also succeeds in deceiving Cassio. After Cassio's drunken fight, Iago counsels him to speak to Desdemona about trying to convince to reinstate him as lieutenant, all the while knowing that this will only prove helpful to his plan of having see him with Desdemona. Cassio ...
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Growth Of A Chrysanthemum
Number of Words: 2527 / Number of Pages: 10
... man knows what he wants. He sees the scene of his story exactly. He has an authoritative mind. (Ford 257)
As a fiction editor, he is quite receptive to Lawrence’s descriptive gifts. He is impressed with Lawrence’s sense of purpose. But readers needn’t assess the short story by Ford’s methods alone. Modern readers have a very different perspective than Lawrence’s contemporaries, ensuring that many different analyses of "Odour of Chrysanthemums" are possible.
However, the plot itself is very simple. In the 1914 version, Elizabeth Bates spends most of the story waiting for her husband to return from ...
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Macbeth Remains A Shakespeare
Number of Words: 1173 / Number of Pages: 5
... earned: “he hath honoured me of late”. This respect Macbeth has for King Duncan is mentioned by Lady Macbeth: “Lady Macbeth: Yet do I fear thy nature/It is too full o' the milk of human kindness”.
His love and respect towards Lady Macbeth is an indication to one of several of Macbeth’s honourable character. He told Lady Macbeth that he was appointed as the Thane of Cawdor, and his address to her as a “dearest partner of greatness” in his letter deserves some merit, since it shows his love and devotion towards her. He listens to what she has to say about kil ...
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Comparing Prince Hal And Henry's Models Of Statescraft
Number of Words: 1047 / Number of Pages: 4
... of statecraft. He expresses
his ideas in his speech in Act I, scene ii when he says "If all the year were
playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom
come, they wish'd-for come,...My reformation glitt'ring o'er my fault, Shall
show more goodly and attract more eyes than that which hath no foil to set it
off." He is saying that he may be acting like a common ruffian now but when he
does take up his duties as heir to the throne and begin to act like a prince he
will shine more in the eyes of men because his actions now will provide a
contrast by which they can judge h ...
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