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To His Coy Mistress 3
Number of Words: 690 / Number of Pages: 3
... to love her in such a manner: "But at my back I always hear / Time's wingéd chariot hurrying near; / And yonder all before us lie / Deserts of vast eternity" (21-24). This is another paradoxical quote that the speaker utilizes to effectively develop appreciation for this poem. The speaker argues that the mistress should not waste her youth like those before who are unable to taste new experiences because they are now dead.
In the second stanza, the speaker utilizes paradox to convince the mistress further: "Thy beauty shall no more be found, / Nor, in they marble vault, shall sound / My echoing song ...
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Sympathy
Number of Words: 626 / Number of Pages: 3
... to inflict pain unto itself in order to break the bars that surround his prison. The bird is beat up emotionally because his frustration and anger will never be satisfied by the freedom his wishes for. The longer the bird expends its energy to get out of the cage the more physically and emotionally beat up the bird will become. The bird does not cease to stop fighting "Till its blood is red on the cruel bars"(9). The blood on the bars of his cage marks both the bird and the African Americans strength in battle for freedom and success. Both are willing to inflict pain on themselves in or ...
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The Accidental Tourest
Number of Words: 996 / Number of Pages: 4
... a great deal of time using systems and finding other ways to organize and control the minor aspects of his life, however he has never put much thought, or attempted to take much control of the major aspects of his life. This realization prompts Macon to wonder "Is it to late now to begin." Macon decides that it isn't too late, and begins to take control by deciding to leave Sarah, and return to Muriel, who he really loves. For the first time Macon is doing something different from what everyone expects from him.
After leaving the hotel, Macon's bag begins to weigh him down, and is twisting his ba ...
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Tender Mercies
Number of Words: 1070 / Number of Pages: 4
... this theme provides the clearest reason why "" is neither a Tragedy nor Pathos.
As mentioned above, one of the centralized themes in "" is the theme of redemption and that it can be seen through many characters, of whom is Mac. In the beginning of this screenplay, Mac is viewed as a person with a drinking disorder. In other words, he was an alcoholic. He would drink continuously, being unaware of the hurt he caused to his loved ones. He drank more and more as he tried to run away from his problems; he believed that drinking was the only fa ...
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William Shakespeare
Number of Words: 2848 / Number of Pages: 11
... for London theaters between that year and 1642,
when the London theaters were closed by order of the Puritan Parliament. Like so much
nondramatic literature of the Renaissance, most of these plays were written in an
elaborate verse style and under the influence of classical examples, but the popular taste,
to which drama was especially susceptible, required a flamboyance and sensationalism
largely alien to the spirit of Greek and Roman literature. Only the Roman tragedian
Lucius Annaeus Seneca could provide a model for the earliest popular tragedy of blood
and revenge, The Spanish Tragedy (1 ...
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Great Expectations
Number of Words: 2163 / Number of Pages: 8
... Mrs. Nickleby in the Brothers Cheeryble (Constable 25). In 1814 John Dickens was transferred from the post in Portsworth to one in London. Three years later the family moved to Chatham to be closer to their father who was working steadily at the post. Charles Dickens's mother taught him to read when he was barely five and for the next few years Dickens lived wonderfully, reading every book he could get his hands on. He quickly read through his father's collection of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Defoe, Smollett, Fielding, and Goldsmith. Every one of these authors left a mark on the young mind of Charles Dic ...
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A Man For All Seasons- Every M
Number of Words: 2286 / Number of Pages: 9
... the Common Man's boat and the issue of payment comes up. He asks More to 'make it worth his while". This shows us how most would act in the same situation. It shows that all people have a price even if it is on a small scale. The Boatman also goes as far to hint about his 'young wife'. By mentioning her, he hopes that he will be tipped more money. He only wants enough money to get by with. This is relevant to us as we would bend or stretch the truth and his principles in order to benefit ourselves.
The Common Man will only go as far as he knows it safe to go. He won't get himself into any dangero ...
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The Story Of An Hour: Irony
Number of Words: 480 / Number of Pages: 2
... All these are beautiful images of life ,
the reader is quite confused by this most unusual foreshadowing until Louise's
reaction is explained.
The widow whispers "Free, free, free!" Louise realizes that her
husband had loved her, but she goes on to explain that as men and women often
inhibit eachother, even if it is done with the best of intentions, they exert
their own wills upon eachother. She realized that although at times she had
loved him, she has regained her freedom, a state of beeing that all of G-d's
creatures strive for.
Although this reaction is completely unexpected, the reader quick ...
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Thornton Wilder's Our Town
Number of Words: 418 / Number of Pages: 2
... a interesting how the portrayed the dead.
Wilder, Isabel. The foreword in The Alcestiad by Thornton Wilder. New York
City. N.Y.: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1955.
Summary:
This Essay has a lot about the life of Thornton Wilder, and about some of his works. Wilder had three Pulitzer Prize winning plays and they all came around World War II times. In Our Town there is one comment about a boy going off and getting killed in France. So it shows that he wasn't the fondest about war.
Thornton Wilder lives in the New England Area. You can see how he knows so much about the Culture of the little town ...
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The Awakening
Number of Words: 862 / Number of Pages: 4
... and different ideas and feelings prevent her from communicating. The only person in society that begins to understand her, Robert, eventually decides that he must remain a member of society instead of staying with her. He says that "you [Edna] were not free; you were Leonce Pontellier's wife" and that "[Robert] was demented, dreaming of wild, impossible things...[such as] men who had set their wives free" (108). Robert does not want to do something wild and unacceptable to society. In a situation parallel to that of Edna's, the only bird that understands the parrot is the mockingbird (Reisz) ...
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