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Romance In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Number of Words: 1101 / Number of Pages: 5
... which is a blow for a blow by the strange Green Knight. He strikes the head off the Green Knight, and therefore it is the Green Knight's turn to strike Sir Gawain's head off. This is when the magical or supernatural part of the story comes. After Sir Gawain cuts off the Green Knight's head, the Green Knight picks up his head and puts it back on, which of course is impossible. Most romances will have a supernatural part to make a story more interesting to the listener or reader. Since the Green Knight is still alive, Sir Gawain must keep his promise of a stroke for a stroke, but the Green Kni ...
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Development Of Shakespeare
Number of Words: 2209 / Number of Pages: 9
... fit in quite well. However, in his early tragedies, there are many drawn out speeches in which he tries to portray some deep passion of his character. Disappointingly though, these hyped up speeches turn out to be just a load of pretty words used to sway the audience's feelings one way or another rather than actually portraying the message that Shakespeare had intended (Harrison 121). The end result of this was that his characters did not have deep passions or even likes and dislikes; they did not have personalities.
He used other techniques of wording poorly also. The rhymes were quite common, b ...
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Macbeth - Responsibility
Number of Words: 2372 / Number of Pages: 9
... were positive.
Macbeth's meeting with the witches brings a prediction which symbolises the beginning of Macbeth's downfall.
FIRST WITCH: All hail Macbeth, hail to thee Thane of Glamis
SECOND WITCH: All hail Macbeth, hail to thee Thane of Cawdor.
THIRD WITCH: All hail Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter.
Macbeth is startled when he hears this prophecy. He believes that his title is still Thane of Glamis; yet here he has just been told that he shall be King. He does not know Macdonwald who has been sentenced to death for betraying his country. The witches plant the idea of being King into ...
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"I Heard The Owl Call My Name" And "The Black Robe": The Indians
Number of Words: 356 / Number of Pages: 2
... greater.
Technology did not play an important role in the Indian's way of life.
Traditionally, the Indians lived off the land taking only what they needed, and
their hunting and building methods had served them well for centuries, therefore
their need to develop new technology would not have been great.
The Indians are not simple or barbaric people. Their complex belief
system and folklore related strongly to the environment and gave reasons for the
existence of everything. In my opinion this often communicates a quality of
wisdom about the Indians.
Although the Indians lead a s ...
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A Comparison Of Two Classic Fi
Number of Words: 2574 / Number of Pages: 10
... because it is like someone sitting down to tell you a story. The flashbacks to him sitting there, smoking his cigarette as he knows he has been sucked into doing something he wouldn't ordinarily do capture the true mood of what's to come. What he also can't come to grips with is the fact that all this was over a woman. Both men in the movies, though you only see them after one particular girl, seem to be quite fickle. Walter sees Phyllis at the top of the stares, and almost immediately is at her mercy. The scenes where the men in both movies meet the girls that they think are the women of thei ...
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Analysis If Homeward Bound
Number of Words: 564 / Number of Pages: 3
... class society (or at least not that I have heard of). The family’s reaction to this newfound information is very humorous because they act almost opposite as to what is expected. Hayes is almost ridiculing the middle class’ mentality and their views on life. Hayes also satirizes when Bonnie reveals Donna’s little secret of her indecent behavior when she was a little child. This was totally unexpected and it revealed Donna’s character as being loose.
Even though the characters did the opposite of what was expected and were quite amusing, the audience could relate to them becaus ...
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Gilgamesh 3
Number of Words: 2968 / Number of Pages: 11
... sensitivity to color," Watts writes, "is impaired by the fixed idea that there are just five true colors. There is an infinite continuity of shading, and breaking it down into divisions with names distracts the attention from its subtlety" . Similarly, the mind's sensitivity to the meaning of life is
impaired by fixed notions or perspectives on what it means to be human. There is an infinite continuity of meaning that can be comprehended only by seeing again, for ourselves. We read stories -- and reading is a kind of re-telling -- not to learn what is known but to know what cannot be known, for it ...
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The Use Of The Supernatural In
Number of Words: 618 / Number of Pages: 3
... Duncan without feeling guilty. The three sisters are capable of leading people into danger resulting in death, such as the sailor who never slept.
Lady Macbeth has convinced her husband Macbeth to murder King Duncan. On the night they planned to kill Duncan, Macbeth is waiting for Lady Macbeth to ring the signal bell to go up the stairs to Duncan’s chamber. He sees the vision of the floating dagger. The interest of the dagger is that it leads Macbeth towards the chamber by the presence of evil of the dagger begin covered with blood. Then the bell rings and Macbeth goes up the staircase to Du ...
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Lots Wife, Akhmatovas Version
Number of Words: 1650 / Number of Pages: 6
... Akhmatova’s version leaves an abundant amount of information to figure out for ourselves while Szymborska’s uses connotation in a manner which gives us more detail as to what is going on. Although there are many differences in the two different versions of the same poem, several things contribute to the similarities among them. One of the most noticeable similarities is of course the general theme the story line, and tone. All of the elements of poetry are prevalent in both pieces. They bring the reader through different emotions taking them to different endings of the same story, yet they ...
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Critique Of My Reverend
Number of Words: 442 / Number of Pages: 2
... Delivery
His voice was not loud enough you had to listen hard to hear what he was saying. And his very heavy accent made it very hard to understand him if you hadn't been to this church. You would have had to cone a few times to be able to under stand his accent voice didn't show much variety only in a few spots for great importance.
Physical Delivery
He didn't use much body language or formal hand motions hardly at all. He sometimes leaned on the podium to show sincerity and emotion with a small amount of hand motions. And he kept good eye contact with the audience.
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