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Literature And Its Affect On S
Number of Words: 1151 / Number of Pages: 5
... has its roots in the mythology that was passed down through Greek and Roman culture. The myth is the primary language of historical memory (Bercovitch and Jehlen 70). The demonstration of the influence mythology has had on times gone by and the present is a perfect example of the powerful affect that fictitious words can have on a group of people.
As the new world was found and the nation was settled, literature has had an enormous impact on colonial style, which influenced the newly born Americans and the Europeans still living in the old world. Writers of the eighteenth century had two primary ...
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Young Goodman Brown 2
Number of Words: 718 / Number of Pages: 3
... bore the likeness of a great black snake…”(103). The traveler’s staff seems to symbolize the evilness of its keeper. Goodman Brown tries to stop his journey into the woods, but he is persuaded (by evil) to keep on going. Satan now starts to introduce the evil that is apparent in his family by talking about his father and grandfather and the things they did in the past. Goodman Brown is surprised at the tales that he is hearing. He does not want to believe that his relatives are not the good Puritans family he has always known them as. Goodman Brown gets is first exposed ...
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Medea
Number of Words: 1747 / Number of Pages: 7
... such as Medea/Jason's home, and the palace of the king and princess are also spoken of and used in the play. It has an ancient Greek setting as well.
Theme: "What goes around comes around."
The theme of revenge in the sense of Medea's strong desire to seek revenge on Jason.
Another possible theme of Medea may be that at times a punishment of revenge should justify the crime - no matter how severe. Only a person in such a situation (and greater beings) may know what to action to take in this position.
Characters:
Medea - The strong willed woman who would do anything for her husband is victimize ...
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Hamlet Vs. Laertes
Number of Words: 953 / Number of Pages: 4
... I, his sole son, do this same villain send
To heaven.
O, this is hire and salary, not revenge.
He took my father grossly, full of bread,
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;
And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?"
(Shakespeare, Hamlet, III, iii, 74-83)
Laertes on the other hand is the exact opposite of Hamlet, he does not think before he does things. Laertes acts out of anger and jumps to conclusions.
"Gentleman: Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeerin ...
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Jane Eyre Vs. Great Expectatio
Number of Words: 1860 / Number of Pages: 7
... (Chesterton, 102). Pip begins the novel in his village, innocent though oppressed. Moving to London, he becomes uncommon, but also loses his natural goodness. Paying his financial debts and living abroad after losing his “great expectations,” he regains his goodness, or at least pays for his sins, and can finally return to his childhood home. His physical traveling reflects his mental and emotional journeys. Only when he returns to his childhood place and childhood goodness can he begin to look for happiness again.
In contrast, the use of setting in Jane Eyre is linear (Martin, 154). Instead of r ...
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No Sugar
Number of Words: 380 / Number of Pages: 2
... them but really they were wiping out the culture the family already had and could have made them feel unsure about who they are, where they beong, but on the other hand with the Millimurra/ Munday family, it made them stronger going though all the hardship. The character’s strength as in dealing with choices can conclude how he or she will feel or express emotions when he or she is faced with a problem.
Language plays an immense part in determining a character’s emotion - the tone, content and how the character is saying the spoken body gives indication of his or her feelings. For example when ...
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Joy Luck Club
Number of Words: 1154 / Number of Pages: 5
... Suyuan lost two daughters in China, and her entire family was killed in the war, she leaves this place behind her and places all of her hopes in America and her family there. She wants the very best for her daughter June. Even her name, Suyuan, meaning "long-cherished wish," speaks of this hope for Jing-Mei, meaning "the pure, essential, best quality younger sister." Suyuan tells her daughter June that she can be anything she wants to be, and that she has great talent. At first June is excited and dreams about what she will become: "In all my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon bec ...
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Canterbury Tales Historical Si
Number of Words: 539 / Number of Pages: 2
... This shows how easily it was to get killed back then, one false accusation or claim that was believed by some would lead to death.
Also represented in the tale are the moral codes of conduct that were followed during the time. Since the main characters were drunken rioters, we would presume that almost all the moves they made were ‘evil’ in a sense. They were constantly drinking and cursing at each other, disrespecting their elders, being extremely greedy, and then eventually murdering each other in cold blood. The old man they had met, however, was a symbol of what was right, of the good in society. ...
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Sula
Number of Words: 1446 / Number of Pages: 6
... death. Nel's realization that they were only truly individuals when they were joined as one allows them to merge once again.
Morrison portrays and Nel as binary opposites at the beginning of the novel. In our first view of Nel she is as conventional and conforming as a young lady can be: Under Helene's hand the girl became obedient and polite. Her mother calmed any enthusiasms that Nel showed until she drove her daughter's imagination underground. (p.18) In this passage Nel is merely an extension of her mother with no autonomy of her own. Helene's hand is the iron fist of authority from under which ...
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The Longest Day
Number of Words: 850 / Number of Pages: 4
... interviews are those with Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, President Eisenhower, and General Simpson, all from 1963.
Doug McCabe
University Records Manager
Alden Library
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
E-Mail: mccabe@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
In 1976 Cornelius Ryan died from cancer.
The period covered in this book is a very short one, covering the building of the Atlantic wall in little detail, and in great detail, the few days before D-Day and the initial attacks on D-Day itself. On the German side Hitler has ordered the building of a massive Atlantic Wall to stop any Allied attackers from land ...
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