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Fallstaff Friend Of Fatherfigu
Number of Words: 1030 / Number of Pages: 4
... braggart; a flatterer to the face, and a satirist behind the backs of his friends; - and yet we are never disgusted with him." (cited in Hemingway 418) Falstaff's underlying purpose of the play is to act as a father figure to Hal, Henry IV. So, how does a man of such a personality attract noble followers such as Hal? In order for us to answer this question we must first observe the character of Hal. Hal can be compared to a chameleon. At the beginning of the play, the audience witnesses Hal's constant indulgence in drink and pranks. But, as the play progresses the audience begins to realize tha ...
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Satire Or Tragedy - Macbeth
Number of Words: 2067 / Number of Pages: 8
... to Aristotle, a tragedy must have six parts: plot,
character, diction, thought, spectacle, and song. Most important is
the plot, the structure of the incidents. Tragedy is not an imitation
of men, but of action and life. It is by men's actions that they
acquire happiness or sadness. Aristotle stated, in response to Plato,
that tragedy produces a healthful effect on the human character
through a katharsis, a "proper purgation" of "pity and terror." A
successful tragedy, then, exploits and appeals at the start to two
basic emotions: fear and pity. Tragedy deals with the element of evil, ...
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Macbeth - How The Magnitude And Horror Of His Actions Are Un
Number of Words: 2994 / Number of Pages: 11
... of God at the events in Scotland. The "Dark night strangles" (Act Two, Scene Four, Line Seven) the earth, showing God’s, overall grip on the world. The King at this time had an absolute monarchy (power of life and death over everyone in his kingdom). The belief was that God had passed special powers to all Kings, such as that for healing, which Malcolm identifies in Edward the Confessor (the King of England) in Act Four, Scene Three – "He cures…the healing benediction…he hath a heavenly gift of prophecy" (L.152-157). Shakespeare later uses Edward to compare a great King to Macb ...
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The Rainman
Number of Words: 1718 / Number of Pages: 7
... is going to a beneficiary. Charlie is mad at what his father did. He tries to find out who get everything else, because it is worth about three million dollars. Charlie finds out the name and location of the beneficiary, but does not know anything else. So Charlie goes to Wallbrook institution to find out who this guy is. While he is inside a man comes up to Charlies’ car and hops in. He says he drove it just last week. After Charlie asks him a couple of questions he finds out that they are brothers. Charlie’s first impression of Raymon is that he is retarded. Charlie decides in ord ...
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Personal Writing: James Marcia's Identity Status Of Moratorium
Number of Words: 458 / Number of Pages: 2
... am
dead one year from now. Will I have wasted my present life worrying about
how happy and successful I can make my future?
As you can tell I am overflowing with worries and questions. In a
way I almost wish I had the identity staus of forclosure pushed on me so
that my future is already planned for me and I could focus on one day at a
time. Then my egotism strikes again and I think to myself "I can go
farther than that." "Do not take the easy way out." The decisions I have
to make are helping to build character., I know, I know.
I need to be in the identity staus of identity achievement. To ...
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General Prologue: Human Dishonesty, Stupidity And Virtue
Number of Words: 849 / Number of Pages: 4
... things out the goodness of their hearts, but others had done it for
other reasons. Those reasons included making money from people's suffering and
giving to charity because someone told them to do so, rather than from the
goodness of their hearts or to ease the suffering of others. Chaucer plays off
both of these parts of charity in his portraits to show how they can be combined
differently in different people and to distinguish "true" charity from "false"
charity.
Parson exemplifies Chaucer's idea of true charity. Even though Parson
does not have any money, he considers himself rich spiritu ...
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A Farewell To Arms
Number of Words: 740 / Number of Pages: 3
... many people see that the unfairness of life and the insignificance of our free will are apparently the most important themes in the book, but I don't agree. I also don't agree that it is a war story or a love story. Exactly what it is, though, is not clear to me. Can't art exist without being anything? "There isn't always an explanation for everything." War and love are obviously important themes in the book, and the relationship between the two is explored by Hemingway and, somewhat, by Henry. In the first two Books we are in the war and the war is overwhelming. In the last two Books we are in love. A ...
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Anthony Burgesss View That A L
Number of Words: 2212 / Number of Pages: 9
... artificial conscience. This part of the novel "presents the reader with a new, reformed Alex, an Alex without free will or freedom of choice, an Alex who has become a victim" Burgess considers this lack of freedom to be spiritually murderous and terribly wrong. Burgess knows that it is better to choose to be evil, than to be forced to be good. Alex is tormented by his new state of oppression. He is incapable of making any choice; he must always do what is good. Alex is then taken under the wing of a writer who is fighting the oppressive government. The writer greatly publicizes the oppressive rehabil ...
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The Difference Between W.E.B DuBois And Booker T. Washington's Philosophies
Number of Words: 312 / Number of Pages: 2
... in favor of economic progress and distrusted his reliance on wealthy white Northerners for assistance. Leaders such as DuBois resented Washington's willingness to use his political and economic influence in controlling ways that led them to refer to the "Tuskegee Machine".
W.E.B. DuBois died on August 27,1963 on the eve of the march on Washington. DuBois died in Accra, Ghana. His role as a pioneering Pan-Africanist was memorialized by the few who understood the genius of the man neglected by the many who are afraid that his loquacious espousals would unite the oppressed throughout the world into re ...
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A Rose For Emily - In Memory Of Emily Grierson
Number of Words: 1198 / Number of Pages: 5
... The story¡¦s disjointed time frame not only reflects a puzzled memory but it also suggests Miss Emily¡¦s unwillingness to move along with time. While the reader reads through time and expects the story to be in sequence, Faulkner deliberately switches the time back and forth to emphasize Miss Emily¡¦s desire to stay in past.
After the author introduces the character of Miss Emily, he goes back even further into the past to explain why Miss Emily possesses her unique personality. He also contributes to the development of Miss Emily¡¦s personality through the introduction of her father, Homer B ...
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