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Crying Of Lot 49
Number of Words: 1322 / Number of Pages: 5
... (p.105). Oedipaˇ¦s purpose in the novel, besides executing a will, is to find meaning in a life dominated by assaults on peopleˇ¦s perceptions through the use of drugs and the muting of communications. Entangled in this chaos, Oedipa has to do what the Maxwellˇ¦s Demon does: sort useful facts from useless ones. Pynchon involves his audience in that they also have to interpret countless symbols and metaphors to arrive at a meaning.
One of the most effective techniques that Pychon uses to involve the reader in his fictional world is his use of details. His mixing of the specific history of Thurn ...
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The Crucible - Inner Struggles
Number of Words: 750 / Number of Pages: 3
... struggle pulls him back to a more moderate stand. Hale then decides to persuade the wrongly accused to confess witchcraft. At least this will save them from death by hanging. He preaches perjury to the people, even though this is also against their religion. Hale’s principles were ridden with guilt and sadness because of his struggle with himself.
John Proctor a farmer and village commoner is similarly faced with an inner turmoil. He has committed adultery with Abigail while his wife was sick. He was fully aware of his immoral actions and the enormity of the problem. Once he though this problem has v ...
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Number of Words: 904 / Number of Pages: 4
... Coming, as it does, after the resolution of the lovers' dilemma, this monologue serves to dismiss most of the play a hallucinatory imaginings. Theseus is the voice of reason and authority but, he bows to the resulting change of affection brought about by the night's confused goings on, and allows Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius to marry where their hearts would have them. This place where the line between dream and reality blurs is an important theme of the play. Theseus is also a lover, but his affair with Hippolyta is based upon the cold reality of war, "Hippolyta, I wooed thee with my ...
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The Has Been And The Never Was
Number of Words: 1911 / Number of Pages: 7
... of the movie are almost the same scene. This nonlinear way of shooting, combined with the brilliant acting of Travolta, and Jackson make the film one that can be watched a dozen times, and every time the viewer will take something different away from it.
John Travolta is an actor whose career has seen as many downs as it has seen ups. An awe-inspiring Hollywood star of the late 70’s and early 80’s, Travolta was the youngest of six children born to tire salesman and former semi-pro football player Salvatore Travolta and high school drama teacher Helen Travolta on February 18, 1954 in ...
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Walt Whitmen
Number of Words: 2063 / Number of Pages: 8
... about love and
friendship. Poems in Calamus have been put in and taken out
through the years with the revisions of the book. Two poems
that can be found in Calamus today are “I Saw in Louisiana a
Live-Oak Growing” and “To a Stranger.” These two poems have
not been Calamus together since the beginning of the book,
but now they are together and very similar.
Since love and friendship are two major aspects that
Whitman was looking for in life. He wrote many poems on
those topics alone. Calamus is group of poems that explain
love and friendship. “I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak
Growing” and “To a Str ...
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Much Ado About Noting
Number of Words: 778 / Number of Pages: 3
... affection for her. Beatrice then decides to allow herself to be tamed by Benedick's "loving hand," and return his love. Beatrice and Benedick re made to fall in love through the deception of those around them, and ironically find happiness more readily than Claudio and Hero.
The relationship between Claudio and Hero is a seemingly pure and happy one at the start of the play, but as the play goes on we witness the emergence of deception into their relationship as well. The deception starts as Borachio reports to Don John of a conversation he overheard between Claudio and Don Pedro. At the ball, ...
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The Allegory Of The Cave
Number of Words: 428 / Number of Pages: 2
... they have ever known is a fuzzy shadow on a wall. They could not possibly comprehend another dimension without beholdin! g it themselves, therefore, they label the enlightened man mad. For instance, the exact thing happened to Charles Darwin. In 1837, Darwin was traveling aboard the H.M.S. Beagle in the Eastern Pacific and dropped anchor on the Galapagos Islands. Darwin found a wide array of animals. These differences in animals sparked Darwin on research, which lasted well up to his death, culminating in the publishing of The Origin of Species in 1858. He stated that had not just appeared out of th ...
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Understanding Interpretation Of Meaning
Number of Words: 547 / Number of Pages: 2
... to convey. An example of this would be “Meditation” by John Donne and “Arriving at moral Perfection” by Benjamin Franklin On one side Benjamin Franklin is more persistent, stubborn, self motivated, independent, and an individual. John Donne was more caring, respective, giving, and trusting. Each of them has different views which give us the chance to compare and contrast each author’s point of view. This is just one of the many examples that we have covered in this class. This type of exercise is great to use our mind and to express how we feel.
We also have writing assignments related to the reading ...
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The Siginificance Of The Openi
Number of Words: 1320 / Number of Pages: 5
... Egdon Heath's unchangeable place in time (as will be discussed later), this early arrival of darkness is well in tune with the overall atmosphere of tragedy. Dominance of darkness is clearly ominous and Hardy also says of the heath that it could 'retard the dawn, sadden noon…and intensify the opacity of a moonless midnight to a cause of shaking and dread'. The images conjured are explicitly ominous and suggesting tragedy. It is also inferred that the Heath itself creates the darkness - 'the heath exhaling darkness as rapidly as the heavens precipitated it'. This description of the Heath gives ...
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Love 2
Number of Words: 753 / Number of Pages: 3
... spouse and therefore did not appreciate nor respect her. This was demonstrated through his unfaithfulness. His wife both carried and raised their children and therefore did not deserve the treatment she received. The narrator records Dmitri’s feelings for her, “He secretly considered her unintelligent, narrow, inelegant, was afraid of her, and did not like to be at home” (175). This same disregard for a spouse with whom you are lacking truly love is also present in the marriage of Anna. She does not love her husband and subsequently criticizes him as well, “…but he is a f ...
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