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Beowulf: Themes
Number of Words: 1008 / Number of Pages: 4
... to “[lead] the Danes to
such glory.” and as his tendency to “In battle, [leave] the common pasture
untouched, and taking no lives.” Through this display of compassion for the
commoner who doesn't fight in battles, Hrothgar proves the full extent of his
honor and therefore the extent of his wealth and status. Beowulf, the hero-
prince, also proves his true wealth and status through his deeds as defender of
the Danes.. As he fights and defeats Grendel, Beowulf Earns Fame and wealth
from his companions, and from the Danes, but more importantly, he earns honor
raising him to the level of an archet ...
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Romeo And Juliet
Number of Words: 607 / Number of Pages: 3
... hither shall he come; and he and I shall watch thy waking, and that very night shall Romeo bear thee to Mantua.\" (Act 4, Scene 1), he tells Juliet how everything will be all right. Unfortunately, for all his good intentions the play still ends in tragedy.
Friar Lawrence is a man who is not afraid to take risks when he feels it is neccesary to help someone. For example in Act 2, Scene 6, when he marries , he is risking his reputation as a Friar so he can help the two lovers. Also, when he says \"Take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilled liquor drink though off;\" (Act 4, Sc ...
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Cry, The Beloved Country
Number of Words: 904 / Number of Pages: 4
... The poor black men were allured by the thought of being paid well and living happy lives, but they were wrong. They were only paid three shillings a day and lived in houses that were complete dumps. Many miners thought that if they found more gold they would be rewarded, but they were wrong. Countless miners had families who depended on them, and three shillings a day was not enough for food, shelter, and clothing. Almost all of these miners did not want to meet with adversity, so they resorted to other ways of getting food and clothing. A lot of these miners resorted to stealing and even murd ...
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Oedipus Rex
Number of Words: 1103 / Number of Pages: 5
... the first that his best efforts will fail.
Others would argue that because Oedipus was a tyrannical ruler and didn't make the best choices in life, he deserved to suffer. E. R. Dodds states that, "Oedipus' behavior on the stage reveals the man he always was: he was punished for his basically unsound character." It was unavoidable and was his destiny to suffer in life. It was certainly not his fault that he reacted to his circumstances as he did.
One of the most outstanding examples of the god's predetermination, is when Oedipus recalls memories of his own childhood in Corinth when the oracle war ...
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The Roles Of Domineering Heads
Number of Words: 1064 / Number of Pages: 4
... sexual freedom. She runs from the adversity and does not ever get to face her mother for she dies before Gertrudis returns home.
Esteban Trueba and Mama Elena are also developed in in the reader’s view to have similar character traits in much different manners. Each of the family leaders disowns their daughter for their rebellion and neither gives her a second chance. This first demonstrates the characters’ stubbornness and unwillingness to deal with a problem. They both seem to want only to ignore their children and hope they just disappear. Also developed through the their autocra ...
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The English Patient
Number of Words: 330 / Number of Pages: 2
... famous novel
by Michael Ondaatje circles down through layers of mystery until all of the puzzles in the
story have been solved, and only the great wound of a doomed love remains.
attention to fragments of memory that evoke feelings even before we understand what
they mean.
Also, as its grand contrapuntal themes of fidelity and betrayal, of death and
rebirth, play themselves out, a fierce longing for a moral order emerges as well. Michael
Ondaatje's novel amasses hypnotic power and tremendous cumulative impact, suggesting,
in its resolutely nonlinear way, fragments of ecstasy and pain breaking loose ...
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Prisoners Dilemma
Number of Words: 1048 / Number of Pages: 4
... look out for themselves.
This is a situation that can be used in every day living.. Any time there are peoples' interests that are affected not only by what they do but what other people do, a dilemma may occur. In some situations everyone will end up worse off if they individually pursue their own interests than if they simultaneously do what it not in their own individual interests.
(II). If I myself was in the prisoner’s dilemma, and my goal is to spend as little time in jail, I would act in an egotistic manner to maximize my freedom. My reasoning, as an egoist, would be to rat out the oth ...
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Brave New World Vs Reality
Number of Words: 631 / Number of Pages: 3
... world to transform into it. Some of us always look for the easy way out and drugs allow us that.
A further similarity of Brave New World to us, is when John is in the hospital after his mother's death due to soma abuse, and witnesses the workers receiving their soma rations. John begins to throw the soma out if the window, causing hysteria among the workers. For these workers soma is everything. They cannot imagine life without it. People addicted to cocaine, heroine and other drugs go through a similar stage called withdrawal. Living without the drugs seem unimaginable and frightening. If our world d ...
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Canterbury Tales Wife Of Bath
Number of Words: 426 / Number of Pages: 2
... husband will not have the same privileges as
her in the sense that he is like a 'slave' and she will 'command' over
him.. This quotation seems as if the Wife of Bath is leaning toward
the feministic opinion.
"Nevertheless, since I know your pleasure I'll satisfy your
physical pleasure." This was said by the Wife of Bath and supports
the non-feministic view. The reason this is considered non-feministic
is because the woman is giving in to the man's desire which goes
against feministic beliefs. The Wife of Bath has a choice of not
giving in to the man, but she ...
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American Dream
Number of Words: 771 / Number of Pages: 3
... went to many dances over the summer months. With all
of her beautiful dresses, many of the young men began to notice her as
they never had before. Soon Lena began to get a reputation that many
hired girls got, that of a brazen hussy. Everyone thought that she
would wind up marrying the wrong man and ruin her life, but Lena had
different plans. She did not listen to anything that they said about
her. As soon as she could, she got her own dress shop in Lincoln and
thrived with it. After a while she moved to San Francisco and did
even better. She did not let the stereotype of the hire ...
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