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The Odyssey Report
Number of Words: 1354 / Number of Pages: 5
... shelter during a wedding. Menelaos also does not pressure Telemachos
into answering any questions before he eats and enjoys the festivities; nor does
he give any indication that he wants Telemachos to leave. He says "stay here in
my mansion for ten or twelve days and then I will give you a good send off and a
handsome gift, three horses and a chariot: I will give you a fine chalice too,
that when you pour your drop to the immortal gods you may think of me all your
days". This statement shows that not only does he wish Telemachos to stay but
that he is a very generous man indeed. Due to kindness of ...
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A Farewell To Arms 3
Number of Words: 879 / Number of Pages: 4
... self-esteem" or to
escape, is one Hemingway exploits extraordinarily well in A
Farewell to Arms and therefore it "is his richest and most
successful handling of human beings trying to come to terms
with their vulnerability."
As far as Stubbs is concerned, Hemingway is quite blatant in
letting us know that role-playing is what is occurring. He
tells that the role-playing begins during Henry and
Catherine's third encounter, when Catherine directly
dictates what is spoken by Henry. After this meeting the two
become increasingly comfortable with their roles and easily ...
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Number of Words: 409 / Number of Pages: 2
... it one on one
and killed it. In Gawain's bedroom, Bercilak's wife made another pass at him.
This time she was more aggressive. The hunters used the same tactic on the boar
as Bercilak's wife used on Gawain. She tried to wear him down, but it had no
used because Gawain still put out. She gave him two kisses before she left his
room.
For the third hunt Bercilak tracked a fox. The fox was sly and clever
and he chased it all over. Bercilak swung at it and it swerved and ran into the
dogs. The dogs killed it. Bercilak's wife tried to be sly like a fox on her
third attempt to seduce Gawain. After f ...
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of Words: 976 / Number of Pages: 4
... Western Front, Arch of Triumph, and The Black Obelisk.
(contd.)
Plot Summery Of: All Quiet On The Western Front
All Quiet On The Western Front is a record of seven school chums that all enlist in the German Army after being urged by their school master Kantorek. These poor youth are forced to endure the debilitating effects of World War I, and represent the generation of men that were torn from youthfulness and serenity to face a world of survival horror. They become remnants of Europe’s degenerate youth from that time period. Over the period of years, they are slowly killed off, their once br ...
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Analysis Of Poem Woman To Man
Number of Words: 1590 / Number of Pages: 6
... audience is every woman and every man, as an expression of something from every woman to every man. The title Woman To Man makes the poem universal, more than just a poem from Judith Wright to her husband. There are no names given to the woman and the man within the world of the poem. The experience of 'the Woman' becomes the experience of 'every woman'. The third audience for this text is the literati – the world of literature. Judith Wright is a well-known Australian poet; this poem has been published many times; this poem obviously did not stay between Wright and her husband. The poem display ...
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Fifth Business
Number of Words: 1046 / Number of Pages: 4
... active participant. When he goes ice skating in the beginning of the story, there are a lot of people who are skating, but he can blend right in. He hs a few friends, but they are very similar to Fenstad. They like the same things and have the same attitudes about life. Fenstad does not want to seem to deviate from his own normal way of life.
Fenstad’s mother, Clara, is a character quite opposite from her son. She is older and does not get out of her house much. She used to be very active in politics and loves to be around people. She has a kindness and generosity that instantly at ...
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The Crucible
Number of Words: 1060 / Number of Pages: 4
... society which ‘defined’ who was good and who was evil. The people who followed the ‘rules’ were in turn deemed ‘good’, the nature of their true character being basically irrelevant. This is relevant to our time because history has shown us that it has happened before, for example, McCarthyist America where all communists were bad, all capitalists good, or in Nazi Germany - Jews were evil and were to be persecuted while all Aryans were good. In fact, McCarthyism was an underlying factor behind Miller writing the play. In those cases, evil was not the people who comm ...
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King Lear
Number of Words: 419 / Number of Pages: 2
... Albany, that is is difficult to separate them. Gloucester, like Lear, suffers from filial ingratitude. It is in his
castle that Lear is humiliated by his daughters and flees into the storm. Gloucester's sympathy helps Lear to Dover to meet
Cordelia, yet leads to his own blindness and his going to Dover for suicide.
Edgar becomes embroiled in the main plot when, disguised as a madman, he meets Lear on the heath. His destruction of
Oswald, Goneril's steward and his defeat of Edmund in the duel leading to Edmund admitting he has given secret orders for
the execution of Lear and Cordelia, togethe ...
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Julius Caesar
Number of Words: 772 / Number of Pages: 3
... says, “we are blest that Rome is rid of him,” referring to Caesar which statement is supported by the rest of the crowd. Once again, the hearts of the commoners quickly changes again once Antony gives his speech. After he finishes, the commoners run through the streets noting and searching to kill the once glorified conspirators. This still applies today. For example; Bill Clinton was a fairly respected and admired president, until the world discovered about his mistress. Because of this, voters and people in office have changed their views so quickly, we have lost sight that, disregarding his ...
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London
Number of Words: 606 / Number of Pages: 3
... thoughts, in turn imprison the people whom the speaker sees on the street. When the speaker says that he can hear the "mind-forged manacles" he doesn't mean that he can literally hear the mind forged manacles but that he can hear the cries of the people which show their mind-forged manacles. In the second stanza, the speaker focuses on two specific occupations, the chimney sweeper and the soldier. The word blackening in the second line of the 3rd stanza is used in an interesting context. Why would a church be blackening? Blackening can mean getting dirty, but I don't think that the speaker is u ...
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