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Analysis Of Nathaniel Hawthorn
Number of Words: 449 / Number of Pages: 2
... a week’s sunshine" (246) symbolizes the hellish powers of the devil.
Young Goodman Brown plays the middle man within the story. He is married to a beautiful wife and is urged to become bad in the hellish forest. He also finds that his religion teacher, Goody Cloyse, and the church minister, Deacon Gookin, was in this forest. Young Goodman Brown faces an internal conflict with good and evil. Hawthorne writes, "With Heaven above, and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the devil" lets you know that Young Goodman Brown is strongly against evil (247). Also within the story Hawthorne wr ...
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The Scarlet Letter
Number of Words: 481 / Number of Pages: 2
... be. Also the
townspeople, the magistrates, and Chillingworth, Hester's
true husband, can be seen in both lights. Either they can
be perceived as just upholding the law -she committed a
crime, they enforce the law. On the other hand are they
going to extreme measures such as wanting to take Pearl,
Hester's daughter, away just because Hester has deviated
from the norm, all to enforce an unjust law that does not
even apply to this situation?
Although the subjects of the novel do apply to
important issues in history and could have had influences on
the time perio ...
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Macbeth 5
Number of Words: 794 / Number of Pages: 3
... by his peers. The captain returning from battle reports of this saying, "But all's too weak; for brave Macbeth (he deserves that name)" (1.2. 17-18) Duncan later confers his title as king of Scotland, claiming, "No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive our bosom interest. Go, pronounce his present death, and with his former title, greet Macbeth". (1.3.73-76) These people trust in his strength and depend on him. However, as the play continues, Macbeth becomes ineffective as a general. He becomes fearful at the sight of Banquo's ghost. He pretends to appear brave by saying, "Thou canst say I did it. N ...
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The Outcasts Of Poker Flat - J
Number of Words: 399 / Number of Pages: 2
... would have just told him to stop laughing. But not Mr. Oakhurst, he just gave him a swift kick in the stomach. That to me shows the utmost courage in the world.
Another one of John’s traits is that he is overwhelmingly modest. Mr. Oakhurst’s modesty is proven numerous times in this short story by Brett Harte. One of those times is when John puts the death card on the tree, he doesn’t boast about dying while trying to save a life. He simply states that he ran out of luck on a certain day. Another time in which John displayed modesty is when he never boasts of winning all that money during card games. ...
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Ah, Woe Is Me
Number of Words: 1575 / Number of Pages: 6
... this story is South Africa in the
1950's. Apartheid and segregation are words that describe the conditions under
which the blacks (the native Africans) live perfectly. The blacks nearly have no
rights and must accept being oppressed by the whites. Sarah is only one of many
poor blacks who only just manages to earn a living by working as a servant for a
rich white family (the narrator). Slavery does not exist anymore, but it can be
difficult to distuingish the life of a slave from that of a native African in
the 50's except from the fact that they do after all get paid for their work.
Sarah is very co ...
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Thoreau, Henry David
Number of Words: 580 / Number of Pages: 3
... and poor, young and old, fritter
their lives away with detail, instead of being concerned with the big picture.
The important thing to Thoreau was having time to think about how man fits in
with nature and what his place on earth is. Thoreau believed that man only
needed the basics of food, clothing and shelter. Everything else was a luxury
that took time to obtain. Thoreau thought that time spent getting anymore
than the basics was not time well spent.
Thoreau couldn't understand why people in his time would waste energy on
things that could become very stressful. For example, the ...
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A Description Of Winter
Number of Words: 288 / Number of Pages: 2
... in the fall; their beauty gone. Dirt covers
the wet snow that lays uneven over the yard, or piled on the side of the driveway.
Yet, there are the days of magic, when fresh, fluffy snow bursts through the
clouds and surrounds everything. The flakes lightly touch your face, attaching to your
lashes and tickling your nose. The snow covers the dirt, and piles upon the ground. The
bare driveway made of dirt and rocks is covered with a blanket of cold, smooth white.
These fluffy flakes grasp onto the branches of the bare trees, giving them back their
beauty. This surrounding snow brings silence, enchant ...
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Henrik Ibsen
Number of Words: 2071 / Number of Pages: 8
... is his own daughter. Lieutenant Ekdal, Werle’s former partner, is now a broken old man. He does odd jobs for Werle. He is now living with Hialmar and Gina. Gregers Werle comes to Hialmar and explains the claim of the ideal and tries to make Hialmar see that his marriage is based on a lie. But rather than making Hialmar happy by understanding the true nature of his marriage, Gregers only succeeds in turning Halmar against his daughter, Hedvig. The daughter, in order to prove her love for her father who is rejecting her, takes a pistol and kills herself.
The Wild Duck is a play in which reality versu ...
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Canterbury Tales - Medieval Ch
Number of Words: 3101 / Number of Pages: 12
... ambivalence which shows in the number of people who
hedged their bets by practicing both Christian and Pagan rites at the
same time, and in the number of people who promptly apostatized when a
Christian king died. There is certainly no evidence for a large-scale
conversion of the common people to Christianity at this time.
Augustine was not the most diplomatic of men, and managed to
antagonize many people of power and influence in Britain, not least
among them the native British churchmen, who had never been
particularly eager to save the souls of the Anglo-Saxons who ha ...
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Symbolism In Dreams, From The
Number of Words: 1311 / Number of Pages: 5
... just as wind kicks up dust and blurs the view. Another element of storms is thunder and lightning. In Tony’s dream he sees, “.....a flash of lightning struck and out of the thunder a dark figure stepped forth. It was Ultima......I sought more answers, but she was gone, evaporated into a loud noise.”(Anaya 71) Lightning can offer glimpses of illumination, but then darkness returns, and the noise of the thunder that follows deafens the ears. This represents the moments of good that can occur within the midst of conflict. Ultima’s appearance gives Tony a glimpse of where he nee ...
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