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Tragedy In Genesis
Number of Words: 4987 / Number of Pages: 19
... minds our own forgotten and repressed sorrows as well as those of our kin and humanity (5) releasing us with some sense (a) that suffering is universal- not a mere accident in our experience, (b) that courage and endurance in suffering or nobility in despair are admirable- not ridiculous- and usually also ( c) that fates worse than our own can be experienced as exhilarating
Kaufmann=s definition precludes seeing the notion of tragedy through a wider lens. His definition is all encompassing and requires many factors in order to be considered a tragedy. To him, very few writings are true tragedies. ...
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Beloved
Number of Words: 1610 / Number of Pages: 6
... herself from her guilt. She removes herself so completely that her neighbors, already upset at her crime, isolated her because she seemed to feel no remorse for the awful deed. Sethe's stoic resolve continues until Denver loses her hearing, which was caused by Denver not being able to deal with hearing what her mother had done. Only when her mother's conscience manifests itself as the ghost of the baby does Denver's hearing return.
Denver, having as a child suckled her sister's blood with her mother's milk, attaches herself to this ghost, the manifestation of her mother's guilt. She m ...
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Mama Day
Number of Words: 1024 / Number of Pages: 4
... the outside? On page one she starts with Cocoa telling her side of things and on twenty-two; here comes George’s side. And it continues on like this, back and forth, telling both sides of certain events through the fog that is each character’s own perception of things. This is a brilliant manipulation of point of views and one of the saving features of the book. The reader’s attention is caught when they have to re-associate themselves to a new point of view. In the ultimate representation of what love is this point of view switch is used to show likeness of thought between O ...
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Comparison Between The Book Of Exodus And The Movie Prince Of Egypt
Number of Words: 805 / Number of Pages: 3
... it from the water. She then contacts with the baby's sister, Miriam who had followed the baby down the river, and tells her to get a woman to nurse it until he gets a little older. Miriam brings back the baby to their mother. As in the movie, Pharaohs wife finds the baby herself while playing with Ramses in the river. In the book of exodus it says the Moses fled from Egypt because he was afraid that Pharaoh would have him killed because he killed an Egyptian because he was fighting with a Hebrew. The movie, on the other hand, shows Moses being forgiven for killing the Egyptian. He fled because ...
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Bridge Of San Luis Rey
Number of Words: 734 / Number of Pages: 3
... Marquesa. The Marquesa was a crazy woman who made Pepita's life even worse then it already was. As her companion Pepita was ignored constantly and lived a life of solitude.
Pepita is that life in the novel, she is the only good love that exist in a world of those who either love too much or those who love too little. The Marquesa drove her daughter away, because she loved too much. Although she was able to realize this before she died, it was too late. She was not able to show this newfound love to anyone. In the case of Esteban, he was not able to love anyone else except for Manuel. While Manu ...
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To Tame A Shrew
Number of Words: 2009 / Number of Pages: 8
... thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
And craves no other tribute at thy hands
But love, fair looks and true obedience;
Too little payment for so great a debt. (5.2.146-154)
In looking at this outtake of Katharina's speech, it can be seen that she has been tamed by Petruchio's actions throughout the first four acts. It is difficult to take Katharina's message here and say, "She is still the same person." Her monologue reveals that she now sees it is her duty to respect her husband and to be submissive to him. Her speech leads the audience to see that this duty of the wife is one that is a re ...
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Andrew Jackson
Number of Words: 599 / Number of Pages: 3
... It is believed that if he or she is to dance, he is controlled by the devil. The subject of dancing is what gets the girls into trouble in the first place. The girls are seen by Parris dancing and conjuring evil spirits in the woods. “Witches” are what the girls are called by the people of the town. After they were caught, Parris goes upstairs to call Betty, his daughter, and Abagail, his niece, but Betty will not wake. This is when the
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townspeople cry witch against her (Betty). Abagail says to her Uncle Parris, “The rumor of witchcraft is all about.” They think the devil h ...
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First Impressions May Be Deceiving
Number of Words: 724 / Number of Pages: 3
... a modern bank. The concrete support pillars not
only add strength but also give the library this impressive look of a bank.
These light white-grayish, square pillars are 2 by 2 ft. and almost half
the way up them there are two engraved lines that run all the way around
them about 6 in. from the other. Concrete, a sign of strength, is also
used in the patio around the tower entrance. This grayish colored concrete
was poured in slabs of 3 by 3 ft. sections. Concrete was also used as
dividers between floors. Between each floor, the redish-brown, 4 by 8 in.
bricks are split up by a light grayish hor ...
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Lord Jim
Number of Words: 621 / Number of Pages: 3
... were shattered. A man named Marlow went to Jim and spoke with him about his future and even offered him a job. Jim accepted, but soon after ran away because people remembered his history and he was scared. Eventually, Marlow got in touch with Jim and had a job for him on a trading post in Africa where he could be by himself and no one would bother him. On the way there, he was captured by Rajah Allang and his people. He escaped and made it to a tribe of Malays, headed by Doramin, a friend of Jim's acquaintance Herr Stein. He felt safe around these people, and even fell in love with one of thei ...
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The Little Prince
Number of Words: 784 / Number of Pages: 3
... Later, he relates a story about the Turkish astronomer who discovers 's home, Asteroid B-612. When he presents his findings to the International Congress of Astronomy, dressed in his comical Turkish outfit, he is not believed . Because adults never look inside, they will never know themselves or others. All his life, has thought that grown-ups care only about insignificant matters, such as golf and neckties, and are very dull when talking about important matters. He has never met anyone whom he could talk to about what is really important. Throughout his book, Saint-Exupéry teaches the impor ...
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