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Scarlet Letter, Sin In
Number of Words: 633 / Number of Pages: 3
... could not confess to the sin and was forced to hold all his guilt in his heart, where with the help of the flaming touch of Mr. Roger Chillingworth, it burned in his chest slowly destroying the Reverend Master Dimmesdale's health to the point of his death.
Mr. Roger Chillingworth, husband of Hester Prynne, was also effected in a great way by the sin committed by Hester Prynne and the Master Reverend Dimmesdale. Mr. Roger
Chillingworth was not completely surprised to find out his wife had cheated on him. She had made it known before their marriage that she felt no love for him. However he wa ...
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One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Number of Words: 1556 / Number of Pages: 6
... main character, Randle Patrick McMurphy, fights to change the system in a mental hospital. McMurphy is outgoing, a leader and a rebel. There was a constant power struggle in the novel between the patient's new found savior McMurphy, and the evil Nurse Ratched who rules their wing of the hospital with an iron fist. McMurphy fights to change the system to try to win back the patients' rights and in the process gain more privileges for the patients and himself. McMurphy also seems to get pleasure out of fighting the system. His motives are simple, he wants to help out his fellow patients, his friends, to ...
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Julius Ceaser 2
Number of Words: 701 / Number of Pages: 3
... I had been! Tears come to my eyes, as I see the dead corpse of the most exquisite man that had ever existed.
It was after all of this, that the crowd of Roman citizens is truly enraged. We chant: "...Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay! Let not a traitor live!". I am not going to let any of the conspirators get away. They killed the best thing that had ever happened to Rome, and for that they deserve to suffer! Antony says that were he an able speaker, he would move "The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny." I am not a highly educated man, but nor I am totally ignorant. I see what Antony is tying to tell us. I supp ...
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Comparing Edgar Allan Poe And Ralph Waldo Emerson
Number of Words: 337 / Number of Pages: 2
... effects of terror, evil and greif on the human soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, however, had a somewhat different outlook. He was an optimistic Transcendentalist. Emerson saw the good in religion, nature, and philosophy. He, like most other Transcendentalists, felt that God was not to be feared but instead to be looked to for guidence. Ralph Waldo Emerson also thought humans should be at peace and in tune with nature. He also had optimistic outlooks about philosophy. He believed in intuition, individuality, and self-reliance. He also believed that humans were naturally good.
Edgar Allan Poe and ...
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Comparison Of The Film Beloved
Number of Words: 731 / Number of Pages: 3
... sadness than if he had been told a stranger had died. Unfortunately, we don’t have the benefit of his mother’s memories of her affections towards her son. We only have one child’s point of view.
In Beloved, Sethe also remembers seeing her mother only a few times. The difference between Sethe and Frederick Douglass is, Sethe talked of having a genuine affection for her mother.
Sethe gets to play the roles of both child and mother. The audience gets to see her love for her own children and her distress of being separated from them. She loves her children so much she would rather kill ...
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Six Characters In Search Of An Author
Number of Words: 572 / Number of Pages: 3
... non-union wages), shouts "Reality! Fantasy! Who needs this! What does this mean?" and the audience, in unison, shouts back, "It's us! We're here!" The moment immediately after that, when the whole cast laughs directly at the audience, pointing at them in glee, is nearly unbearable for an audience, as shown by the riot after the first performance, when the audience not only ripped the seats out of the theater, but stole the popcorn.
Pirandello also used a technique he inherited from the "Cirque de Soleil," involving a trapeze hung from the catwalk. But though the trapeze was not in itself h ...
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The Invisible Man 3
Number of Words: 1363 / Number of Pages: 5
... Hall saw that the man had unpacked his bags and had some strange apparatus put together. The man also had his glasses off and his eyes looked sunken.
During the next couple of weeks, the townspeople were making up stories of the mysterious man. Some thought he had some kind of disease. Other weird things were happening in town as well. One night in one of the houses in town they heard something in their study, but when they went to check to see what it was they only saw a lit candle. They did however hear a sneeze. Meanwhile Mr. Hall was snooping around in the mans room and found bandages all ar ...
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Turn Of The Screw
Number of Words: 1479 / Number of Pages: 6
... the young lady's despair, and Miss Jessel.) The rest of the novel is dedicated to showing the young lady's despair, how she convinces herself that the children are aware of the apparitions, and how they all together are forming a conspiracy against her. At the climax of the novel, Flora becomes deathly ill and is taken away by Mrs. Grose, and Miles dies due to the shock of "seeing" Peter's ghost. In actuality, however, none ever sees, or at least claims to see, these apparitions that the young lady is so uneasy about. The young lady is the narrator of the story, and her narration and viewpoint are b ...
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Inexcusable Acts In Literature
Number of Words: 2130 / Number of Pages: 8
... and so shall I have only myself to blame if things turn out badly, I want to be the one who chooses her, and I tell you now that if she is not honored by you as your lady...you will learn to your displeasure how serious a matter it was to compel me with your requests..." (Boccaccio 135).
From this statement Gualtieri is portrayed as a compassionate man. He says he will blame no one but himself if things do not work out and once his wife is chosen he orders his people to respect her, no matter what. This is ironic for him to say, due to the actions he takes later in the story. As the play proceeds ...
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