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A Street Car Named Desire
Number of Words: 970 / Number of Pages: 4
... her disappointment in him. This prompts him to commit suicide. Blanche cannot get over this. She holds herself responsible for his untimely death. His death is soon followed by long vigils at the bedside of her dying relatives. She is forced to sell
Belle Reve, the family mansion, to pay for the many funeral expenses. She finds herself living at the second-rate Flamingo Hotel.
In an effort to escape the misery of her life in Laurel, Blanche drinks heavily and has meaningless affairs. She needs alcohol to stop the polka music, symbolic of Allan's death, from running on in her head and to avoid the tru ...
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Short Stories By Hemingway: Nick Adams
Number of Words: 705 / Number of Pages: 3
... "Is dying hard,
Daddy? Nick learns that giving birth to a child is a very grueling task
and that death can come very easy to any man or woman without much effort.
Another experience of death that Nick encounters is in the story of
The Killers. Nick decided to go into a local café to get something to eat,
and before he knew it he was caught up in a deadly affair that threatened
his life. Two thugs came into the cafeteria and wanted to kill a man by
the name of Ole Anderson, a Swedish man. Nick was soon part of the crime.
The thugs kept him there because he was a witness to the scene. The thugs
ju ...
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Macbeth - Blood Imagery In Macbeth
Number of Words: 964 / Number of Pages: 4
... Macbeth and his friend Banquo fought, "For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name- / Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel / Which smok’d with bloody execution, / Like valor’s minion carv’d out his passage…" (Act I, Scene 2, Lines 19-21)
Blood is symbolic of bravery and courage in this passage. Blood shed for a noble cause is good blood. However, Macbeth’s character changes throughout the play are characterized by the symbolism in the blood he sheds.
Before Duncan’s murder, Macbeth imagines seeing a dagger floating in the air before him. He describes it, "And on thy blade and d ...
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Perfect Day For A Bananafish
Number of Words: 1353 / Number of Pages: 5
... emotional web. The horrors of the war have left him reeling from post traumatic stress disorder. Once a strong, spiritual man who thrived on innocence and tradionional Jewish values, Seymour returns to a materialistc post-war society that does not understand the emotional trauma of a veteran. He finds himself in an emotional whirlwind of which he cannot escape. The Holocaust defied every sense of reason that Seymour had, and he now questions his beliefs and values. He is confused by all of the horrible experiences he faced in Germany, and is unable to reconnect with anything that he used to ...
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Oedipus Rex As The Tragic Hero
Number of Words: 559 / Number of Pages: 3
... them all!"(29). Another mistake might have been his decision to marry Jocasta. Had he never married, he could have avoided his misery, "And how can I help dreading my mother's bed?"(35). But where would the story be then? "Declared that I should one day marry my own mother and with my own hands shed my father's blood"(36), as a so-called prophecy and decree carved in granite by Apollo himself.
Throughout the story, there were circumstances that led you to believe that there was no possible way that Oedipus could have killed his father and married his mother such as, "What, did Polybus not beg ...
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Plato Vs. Nietzsche: The Nature Of Good
Number of Words: 431 / Number of Pages: 2
... Good man or of a
bad." From his writings in "The Cave" and the "Apology," Plato shows his
belief in an absolute, unalterable Good which man should prize above all
else.
Conversely, Nietzsche feels that there are two different sets of
morality dependent on class, meaning that the nature of good is relative.
Nietzsche outlines these two systems of morality in "Good and Evil
Reconsidered." The noble man, according to Nietzsche, follows a master
morality and "…is the arbiter of values." He determines what is good,
honoring "…everything that he finds in himself." He believes that the good
man inspires fea ...
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Beowulf Vs. Grendal
Number of Words: 562 / Number of Pages: 3
... the night Beowulf lies in wait for him, he assumes that his bloody feasts will continue and Grendal gives no attention to his method of attack. Grendal is then killed.
Beowulf, the heroic figure in the poem, is known throughout the land as a courageous man who performs great deeds of valor. He is a Geat, who later becomes the king of the Geats. Beowulf’s strength seems to be a gift from God. As a noble and kind man, Beowulf comes to Herot to save them from God’s foe. Before Beowulf initiates battle with Grendal he exhibits a sense of fairness in not using a weapon against the monster.
This demonstra ...
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LES MISERABLES
Number of Words: 506 / Number of Pages: 2
... theme can be related to the blacks. In the beginning of the twentieth century they did not have as much rights and oppurtunities as the whites. Another example of how this theme can be related to America is how a person with a southern accent is perceived as less intelligent, which is a false misconception.
The theme -how criminals are viewed by society- can be seen by how Jean Valjean is treated after he is released by prison. Although, he has served a sentence of nineteen years, he is still chased and wanted. In that period of time when a person commited theft it was viewed as a crime against t ...
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Short Story Essay On Poe
Number of Words: 1080 / Number of Pages: 4
... in the story is the dreaded house.
(University of Texas) Poe uses life-like characteristics of an otherwise decaying house as a device for giving the house a supernatural atmosphere. At the beginning you can sense that the supernatural characteristics are present. Upon entrance the narrator sees inside the house as well as the peculiar behavior that dwells inside of it. The narrator seems to be very superstitious and wonders why there are certain things on the walls. He describes; "Upon meeting Usher… The physique of the gray walls the turrets and of the tarn into which they all look down, had at ...
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Kantian Philosophy
Number of Words: 493 / Number of Pages: 2
... a maxim be universally applicable to all rational
beings. The next logical step is then to apply the second stage of the test.
The second requirement is that a rational being would will this maxim to
become a universal law. In testing this part, you must decide whether in
every case, a rational being would believe that the morally correct action
is to tell the truth. To decide whether rational being would will a maxim
to become a law, the maxim itself must be examined rationally and not its
consequences.
I agree with the morality based on Kantian principles because it is
strict in its applicat ...
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