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Aristotle On Ridicule
Number of Words: 891 / Number of Pages: 4
... since there is a time and a place for everything. The paragraph begins with indirect definitions of two extremes of humor, the buffoon and the humorless person. A buffoon would rather be a fool and hurt people’s feelings than “fail to raise a laugh”. A man who never cracks a joke is also falling short of the appropriate behavior, which is the gentleman’s ability to give and take gentle humor in a conversation. A “wit” is someone “whose pleasantries do not go too far,” and is always ready with a witty remark or a pleasant joke:
...as to the middle state in dealing with the humorous,
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Foreshadowing
Number of Words: 583 / Number of Pages: 3
... what seemed to be in her Sunday best. A stronger foreshadowing is when O’Connor states the reason for the grandmother’s beautiful dress, "In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady." (11). She herself predicts her own death. Unfortunately, she does not know this yet. Not only does O’Connor foreshadow the grandmother’s death, she foreshadows the deaths of the rest of the family. The foreshadowing of the family’s death is very evident when they "passed by a cotton field with five or six graves fenced in the middle of it, like a small island." (1 ...
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Epic Of Gilgamesh 2
Number of Words: 498 / Number of Pages: 2
... did not posses such super-human strength as Achilles did but is still classified as a hero. Arjuna was stuck with the choice of fighting ones in which he respected. What he wanted was to not fight, "how can I fight against Bhishma and Drona with arrows when they deserve my worship?" Krishna, Arjuna's charioteer who is really a god tries to convince Arjuna to fight. Arjuna tells Krishna that he will not fight. By doing this it shows that although he is a hero he still contains his human feelings of compassion toward others.
On the other hand in The Epic of Gilamesh, Gilgamesh's characteristic is ...
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Two Books By Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Number of Words: 811 / Number of Pages: 3
... Pilgrim (Vonnnegut himself), a soldier for the Allies during World War II and just like Vonnegut, is captured by the Nazis and held captive in Dresden where he witnesses the same tragedy as Vonnegut did. Pilgrim, however, comes out of the war a crazed lunatic. He has the hallucination that aliens (tralfamadores) abduct him and make him a exhibit in zoo. He greatly admires these trafalmadores because they have no sense of time, the see things from beginning to end, and therefore have the power of seeing destiny and of time travel. According to Pilgrim, they grant him the power to travel through time a ...
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Dead Poets Society 2
Number of Words: 431 / Number of Pages: 2
... later, we will never be able to do the things that we have an urge for. Life is short, and time passes by quickly; so as every minute passes we should make the best out of it. In the movie the teacher Mr. Keating tells the students that the Dead Poets met in order to suck the marrow out of life. We have to do everything that is possible in order to suck the marrow out of life, as long as we are making wise decisions.
To me conformity means to do what others are doing. In other words if you conform to something, you are just going along to that thing you are conforming to. I think conforming can ...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes: Perfect Love Casts Out All
Number of Words: 671 / Number of Pages: 3
... life as well as his own. Meanwhile, a carnival comes into Green Tree, Illinois, offering eternal youth while at the same time threatening with fear in the form of death. When Mr. Halloway is lost in the carnival's Mirror Maze, the mirrors show him aging and slowly dying as they "bled him lifeless (and) mouthed him dry." His will is weakened by that image and he is at the point of near surrender when his son cries out to him, proving his "perfect love" for him. "Oh, Dad, I don't care how old you are, ever...Oh Dad, I love you!" With those words, Halloway realizes that he is! not a failure and that des ...
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Crime And Punishment - Style
Number of Words: 1407 / Number of Pages: 6
... reasoning for and consequent execution of the crime. He knows that his theory is wrong, but he has been created by the society in which he lives, which allows him to conjure up wild fantasies and delusions of grandeur. The sympathy Dostoyevsky enforces upon the reader for Raskolnikov is held by the overwhelming signs pointing towards the notion that he knows that he is wrong in his doings.
The first indication of Raskolnikov’s need for punishment for his crime appears in his preparation for the crime itself. It is by no means meticulous. To be sure no one will suspect him, he rehearses the crime, ...
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The Great Gatsby 13
Number of Words: 1495 / Number of Pages: 6
... to their homes on Long Island, Daisy, while driving Gatsby’s car, accidentally runs over Tom’s mistress, Myrtle Wilson. Her deranged husband George Wilson discovers that it was Gatsby’s car that hit his wife; as a result, he seeks out Gatsby and kills him. Consequently, The Great Gatsby represents mankind’s feebleness by illustrating its blind struggle to find acceptance within society, its materialism, and its naturally sinful disposition through the characterization of Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, and Tom Buchanan.
First of all, the depiction of Nick Carraway represents ...
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Theme Of Beowulf
Number of Words: 669 / Number of Pages: 3
... older and wiser heads warned you not to, but no one could check such pride."(p.39, Beowulf). This quote best describes Beowulf as a child, full of pride and not that good at hiding it. "I fought that beast’s last battle, left it floating lifeless in the sea." (p.40 Beowulf). Another quote that showed that in his older age, he had no problem expressing how good he was. A Knight , a hero in the near future, was not one to be as outspoken of his capabilities as Beowulf, even though they did both have the same roles in society and honor towards chivalry. Two qualities that did make Beowulf look a ...
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Rumpelstiltskin
Number of Words: 744 / Number of Pages: 3
... the interpretations of this story that I read. The miller, The king and
Rumpelstiltskin all exploit the girl (Esmeralda) in different ways for
personal gain. She too uses them, as well as others around her to gain what
she wants.
The miller, in both versions tells people that his daughter has a
wonderful ability to make gold from straw so that he can become a rich man.
"It happened one day that that he came to speak with the king, and, to give
himself consequence, he told him that he had a daughter who could spin gold
out of straw" (Grimm). " ‘If only I could get my daughter to marry a rich
ma ...
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