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A Man For All Seasons
Number of Words: 1047 / Number of Pages: 4
... squint; with just a little common
sense, you could have been a statesman. (Bolt 10)
More's non-committal response to Wolsey's question is also characteristic of
his desire to be silent for the remainder of the play and, despite Wolsey's
continuing plea that he should ignore his "own, private, conscience" (Bolt 12)
for state reasons, More is unable to approve of the King's divorce.
As More and King Henry talk during the King's visit to Chelsea in scene
six, More is once again pressured on the matter of the Henry's divorce, now by
Henry himself. More states to ...
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Antigone
Number of Words: 1499 / Number of Pages: 6
... in an unending struggle over right and wrong with her uncle, Creon, the King. All throughout "Oedipus Rex" Sophocles shows a powerful and righteous King who is on a determined search to find the truth and himself. The difference in key themes during these plays are significant. Sophocles took two different approaches towards these two plays. The structure in the way that these two plays are set up are also completely different. The themes that contrast in "" and "Oedipus Rex" are very different yet help bring the two plays to life. Besides these couple of themes that are different there are many ...
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Christian Elements In Beowulf
Number of Words: 2044 / Number of Pages: 8
... memorized long, dense lines of tedious verse. Later, when a written tradition was introduced they began to write the story down on tablets.
The old tale was not first told or invented by the commonly known, Beowulf poet. This is clear from investigations of the folk lore analogues. The manuscript was written by two scribes around AD 1000 in late West Saxon, the literary dialect of that period. It is believed that the scribes who put the old materials together into their present form were Christians and that his poem reflects a Christian tradition. The first scribe copied three prose pieces and the ...
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Watership Down 2
Number of Words: 357 / Number of Pages: 2
... bad idea and want to quit. Soon they start fighting with each other. In the midst of all this they are in a strange place of which they know nothing. They have no shelter from the weather or from their enemies and they unsure about some of the plants to eat. Soon they find a suitable place to live, but they have no female rabbits to reproduce. They lure does away from a neighboring warren, but the chief rabbit does not want them to leave. He sends his guards to fetch the does and they attack the new warren. The rabbits have to defend themselves and repel the attack.
Watership Down is good liter ...
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Pride And Prejudice
Number of Words: 549 / Number of Pages: 2
... in the inferiority of your connections? To congratulate myself on the hope of relations whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?" (Austen, 142-145). Unfortunately for Darcy, Elizabeth only gets slightly insulted. Her refusal of Darcy was initially because of his treatment of Wickham and his actions toward Jane and Bingley's relationship. Elizabeth's prejudice shows in her actions towards Darcy too. She says, " From the very beginning, from the first moment, I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners impressing me with the fullest brief of your arrogance, your conceit, ...
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Paradise Lost
Number of Words: 530 / Number of Pages: 2
... towering pillar of strength but only by despair. Moloch is seen as an extremist. “which if not victory is yet revenge.”
The next person to speak is Belial, a fair person but all that he says comes to nothing, the speech is “false and hollow”, it sounds impressive but means nothing.
Mammon gets up next to present his speech. Mammon is against war because he knows that war against God is impossible, “let us not then pursue by force impossible.” He knows that they would lose. Mammon tells the Devils that they should set up a place here in hell and make it into a great place, the same as or even better tha ...
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The Painted Door: Summary
Number of Words: 1090 / Number of Pages: 4
... her isolation, and the feelings of betrayal and guilt that she
experiences following the central act of the story.
A great deal of this story is spent describing Ann's environment,
both inside and outside her house. The story takes place in the past,
before automobiles or telephones. Ann and her husband are settlers in a
largely uninhabited and desolate area of North America (perhaps
Saskatchewan). The starkness of the land is described early in the story: “
Scattered across the face of so vast and bleak a wilderness it was
difficult to conceive [the distant farmsteads] as a testimony of human ...
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The Mafia
Number of Words: 1149 / Number of Pages: 5
... was quite unsuccessful since ’s base was so far ranging. ""Arlachhi (1986 44-5) concluded in 1983 "there does not exist a centralized criminal organized called … The cosca mafiosa is a simple organism but a solid one, without formalism or bureaucracy. Within it are neither statutory ordinances, initiation rites nor courts of judgment"" (Fiorienti and Peltzman 38). This is in contrast as to what others recognize as organized crime. In direct retrospect to his earlier writings, Arlacchi claims that, through interviews with Mafia members, there is a more formal organization within and that ...
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Greasy Lake
Number of Words: 591 / Number of Pages: 3
... the hard way, and seam to involve similar events and characters. A definite change in Boyle’s plot over the course of the two stories however, is the loss in significance and importance of the plot and the take over by setting and character instead.
A well-defined thread connecting the two stories are the plot similarities. In both stories, the characters attempt to be what they are not. The plot revolves around this central theme and shows them doing things they aren’t fit to do. Whether it is shooting a lion or fighting a tough guy, the series of characters do several things in the course of the ...
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Where Are You Going Where Have
Number of Words: 887 / Number of Pages: 4
... home with her family especially her with mother. Her mother was always comparing her to her older sister who could do no wrong. Her father was very seldom around. She felt that no one really understood her. The line "Connie wished her mother was dead and she herself was dead and it was all over," demonstrated her real feeling about her home life.
Connie was spending her summer break with friends at the local shopping mall. One night Connie was and her friends had planed on watching a movie but a boy ask her if she wanted something to eat instead and she agreed. She spent time with the boy thou ...
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