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Hamlets Verse
Number of Words: 544 / Number of Pages: 2
... he can only be true to himself
The soliloquy that displays Hamlet's confusion is "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!" in act two scene two. This soliloquy takes place immediately after the first discussion between Hamlet and the travelling players. Here Hamlet is enraged, furious and rude. In this soliloquy Hamlet devises a plan which will lead the king to betray himself. His plan is for the players to put on "The Murder of Gonzago" for the court, which is similar to the murder of his father, King Hamlet. If King Claudius displays a negative reaction to the play, then Hamlet will know that the gh ...
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Drown: A Consideration
Number of Words: 1574 / Number of Pages: 6
... every other sentence. Diaz uses them to keep readers aware of Yunior’s culture and homeland, attempting to stop the "stifling" effect America often has on immigrants’ cultures. Also, Yunior’s rejection of the norms of English writing, evident in the phrases "got themselves" and "nothing to nobody" in the above quote, gives his narratives a certain rebellious quality. Not only does he rebel against America’s tendency to smother cultural values but rebelling against American rules in general, even the rules of grammar. Diaz continues his grammatical attack on the United Stat ...
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The Theme Of Inherit The Wind
Number of Words: 260 / Number of Pages: 1
... in front of Melinda, Howard remarks, "What're yuh skeered of" You was a worm once" (4). Melinda replies by exclaiming "that's sinful talk" and "I'm gonna tell my pa" (4). The two children ponder their beliefs and are influenced by the people around them. The thinking process begins when very young. Children constantly ask the question "Why?" Howard and Melinda begin to wonder what is the right belief. Another example of the theme occurs during the questioning in act two. During the questioning, Drummond desperately tries to establish that everyone "has the right to think (64). Drummond says th ...
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"Eveline" And "The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky": Impulse Of Marriage
Number of Words: 765 / Number of Pages: 3
... Evelines sudden need to marry Frank.
Eveline weighed questions of her decision up to the last minute. She struggled with her feelings toward her known life. As the time for her to leave with Frank approached, she realized that her current life was not all that bad. Marriage would not be the answer to her dilemma. She did not go with Frank.
The people of Yellow Sky knew Sheriff Jack Potter had gone to San Antonio, but did not know why he went nor when he was coming back. However, Potter had gone "to meet a girl he believed he loved, and there, after the usual prayers, h ...
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Love And Lust In Shakespeare’
Number of Words: 437 / Number of Pages: 2
... a woman, colored ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil. Tempteth my better angel...and would corrupt my saint to be a devil” ( Sonnet 144, page 821, red book).
The beuty of women is the cause of lust, as it is also pictured in sonnet 1, when it says:
“ From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beuty’s rose might never die”.
Another sonnet that express Shakespeare’s blame on women for being the symbol of passion is sonnet 29: “ A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion” (page 811).
Not only the beuty of women causes passion and ...
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Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, And Anne Bradstreet: Relationships With Others
Number of Words: 1723 / Number of Pages: 7
... best Clothes
being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my
journey; my pockets were stuff’d out with shirts
and stockings; I knew no Soul, nor where to look for
lodging. I was fatigu’dwith Traveling, Rowing and
Want of Rest. I was very hungry, and my whole stock
of cashconsisted of a Dutch Dollar and and about a
Shilling in Copper. The latter I gave the People of
the Boat for my Passage, who at first refused it on
Account of my Rowing; but I insisted on their taking
it, a Man being sometimes more generous when he has
but a little Money than when he has plenty, perhaps
thr ...
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Shakespeare - Tragic Heros
Number of Words: 640 / Number of Pages: 3
... may be guilty of harboring many flaws, like Othello. Among Othello’s wrongs are gullibility and stupidity. In either case, the character never realizes ones flaws until act five, however, by that time it is too late (Desjardens).
While the tragic flaw is the key element in a tragedy, the tragic hero’s social status is also of high importance. All tragic heroes are from a very noble class. Whether the heroes are Thanes or Generals in the army, like Macbeth, Othello, and Antony, or from royalty, like King Lear, Hamlet, or Cleopatra, each eventually fall from grace. This characteristic was used mostly ...
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The Ones Who Walk Away From Om
Number of Words: 1046 / Number of Pages: 4
... of Omelas implies that the reader should have doubts. Can the narrator be trusted by a reader who is being asked to approve the details of the story? Such questions raise doubts in the reader’s mind about what the narrator is conveying.
With the help of the reader, the narrator makes Omelas appealing to everyone. "Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time"(LeGuin 876). Omelas does sound too good to be true. While the narrator is saying all that Omelas has and does not have, she says "One thing I know there is none of in Omelas is gui ...
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Arthurian Romances
Number of Words: 758 / Number of Pages: 3
... named Erec, son of the King Lac. He
marries a girl named Enide, who is at his side throughout the story. Together
they adventure through the countryside and Erec fights his battles as they go on.
The knight will give up on nothing ever, it is his duty to serve his King and
God to the best of his ability. “Sire, I have no wound from which I am
suffering so much that I want to interrupt my journey. No one could detain me;
tomorrow- I shall tarry no more- I want to leave in the morning, when I see the
day is dawning.” (1) He is extremely fair when dealing with other knights, that
is he doesn't ta ...
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The Merchant Of Venice
Number of Words: 647 / Number of Pages: 3
... her own house, not letting her out, and not letting her hear the Christian music around her. He orders her to:
"Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum...
..But stop my house's ears-I mean casements.
Let not the sound of shallow fopp'ry enter
My sober house." 3
Jessica considers her home to be hell, and she calls Launcelot, a "merry little devil". She even states that her father is Satan. Shylock also mistreats his own daughter, by not loving her enough, even to the point where he complains about all of the money he's spending in a search to find her.
"Why, there, there, there, there! A d ...
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