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Mrs Dalloway By Virginia Woolf
Number of Words: 537 / Number of Pages: 2
... will work out, eventually. Mrs. Dalloway before the party remarks that, 'If it were now to die, 'twere now be most happy.'"(p. 184) Clarissa portrays her sense of happiness as something not monstrumental or grandiose, but rather quite simple. She can be happy in throwing a party. Clarissa has friends. Her parties are to unite the people, who would otherwise never speak to each other. Clarissa communicates ycan, "say things you couldn't say anyhow else." She can her..." Clarissa Dalloway has a sense of optimism mixed with despair, in this she defines her character. sorrow in living within his societ ...
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To My Dear And Loving Husband
Number of Words: 1752 / Number of Pages: 7
... poem is interpreted only on the surface level, a very literal meaning of her love comes across. It is inferred that she was writing a sincere love poem to her husband. After reading the poem, the reader will have an initial impression that Bradstreet thinks that the love she shared with her husband was bigger than life itself. The general perception from the initial reading is that Bradstreet values her love greatly. An example of this significance occurs in the opening of the poem when she writes "If ever two were one, then surely we." (Line one) This line conveys to the reader that Bradstree ...
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Suspenseful
Number of Words: 849 / Number of Pages: 4
... tried to decide whether she would avoid finding out his purpose by going to her neighbour's house and stay there the night, or ignore her fear and go home. "Look at yourself, pull yourself together" she muttered to herself in a voice that seemed to rebuild her confidence. Then she smiled at herself amused at the fact that she was talking to herself. And in that sudden spur of reassurance, she passed her neighbour's house and quickly walked up her driveway, trying to ignore the figure, which seemed to be watching her every move. As she reached the front door, she dug clumsily into her handbag in se ...
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Great Expectations
Number of Words: 1659 / Number of Pages: 7
... an un-named benefactor that should be used to go to London and become a gentleman. Pip assumed that Ms. Havisham, Estella's adoptive mother, was the benefactress. "My dream was out; my wild fancy was surpassed by sober reality; Miss Havisham was going to make my fortune on a grand scale." (154) This was the reality that Pip had invented for himself, although it was really just a misimpression that his mind had created for himself. Because he thought that Ms. Havisham was his benefactress, Pip anticipated that Estella was meant for him. "I was painting brilliant pictures of her plans for me. She had ad ...
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Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 779 / Number of Pages: 3
... are attended by much of New York's high society. However, he never seems to enjoy these parties, because he rarely attends them himself, and when he sees that Daisy does not like them, he calls them off. This shows that although he is wealthy, he is not making himself happy. A direct analogy to the withering, or death of the American dream is that Gatsby is murdered in the end of the book. In the story, when Gatsby dies, the glamour and appeal of the American dream dies with him.
Like Gatsby, Tom Buchanan embodies the American dream because he is wealthy and can do whatever he wants. Also like Gatsby ...
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Beloved
Number of Words: 1448 / Number of Pages: 6
... her guilt, Sethe has learned that when a branch of her tree has weltered a little, which means that her family bond is not as strong, the tree does not die, because it has a strong root. A root that represents all of the sorrow’s of her life, but she is still strong and is willing to fight to get rid of the weltering branches and sprout new ones, which represents new hope, new life and new beginning.
In comparison with Sethe, many of us could probably relate to Sethe and the tragedies and devastations she has had to face. Like her, we and the people around us have had to face death, neglect, uncertai ...
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The North And The South: Rivals Or Friends?
Number of Words: 1006 / Number of Pages: 4
... way of life.
If you were to take a drive from Michigan to North Carolina there would be a noticable difference in the way that the people talk and the mannerisms that they have. For example, the people from the south talk in slow, sweet, tangy voice that seems to draw out with every word that they say. The people from the north talk as though they are talking through their nose, very nasaly. This is the first aspect as to where the norht and the south differ, or as where they contrast. The mannerisms are also very different from each other, what also might be reffered to as attitudes. People m ...
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Philosophy - Davide Hume
Number of Words: 2817 / Number of Pages: 11
... are the cause of the sensation. In other words, an impression is part of a temporary feeling, but an idea is the permanent impact of this feeling. Hume believed that ideas were just dull imitations of impressons.
Hume also attacked the idea of casualty. This idea states that for all effects there is a cause. Hume said that even though the cause preceded the effect, there is no proof that the cause is responsible for the effect's occurence.
Mr. Hume was a firm believer that the human mind invented nothing. Instead, he claimed, the human mind takes simple ideas, and turns them into complex i ...
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A Jury Of Her Peers
Number of Words: 955 / Number of Pages: 4
... narrates they are introduced, "Grant Bello aka Cherry" (41). Throughout the entire novel all black people have a nickname in which they only allow the "inner world" to refer to them. When Yank is confessing the crime of killing Beau Griffin begins to take down the name "Yank. Y-a-n-" and is corrected "Sylvester J. Battly . Be sure to spell Sylvester and Battly right, if you can" (99). The name he wants printed to the outside world is his real name, not the silly nickname his inner ring of friends refer to him as. These nicknames they find harmless by their peers, are offensive by others. W ...
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Narrative Of The Captivity Of
Number of Words: 1367 / Number of Pages: 5
... Before the captivity, Mary Rowlandson was an innocent housewife that knew nothing of what suffering was like. She has always had plenty of food, shelter, and clothing. As a reader, you can see how her views towards the Indian’s choice of food gradually changes throughout her journey, and how it is related to the change in her own self. After tragically losing all of her family and her home, she had to repress her feelings to move on with the Indians to survive. She described the Wampanoag Indians at “Ravenous beasts” when she was captivated, which shows the anger that she felt towards the Ind ...
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