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Araby: How The Setting Reinforces The Theme And Characters
Number of Words: 423 / Number of Pages: 2
... tale world of dreams and
illusions. James Joyce uses the bright light when describing Mangan's sister,
the boy's infatuation. The protagonist is infatuated with his neighbor's sister
and he imagines that he will heroically bring her something back from the bazaar.
Joyce refers to bright light when discussing Mangan's sister in order to give
her a heavenly presence. Light is used to create a joyful atmosphere.
The ending of the story is filled with images of darkness and light.
James Joyce uses the lights of the bazaar to illustrate the boy's confrontation
with reality. The bazaar lights are alm ...
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The Taming Of The Shrew - Humo
Number of Words: 819 / Number of Pages: 3
... saddle
(Act III Scene II)
This depiction of Petruchio conforms to Shakespeare’s technique of using false realities, in order to create humour. This can also be seen in the false identity that Petruchio puts forth in his quest for dominion over Kate (that of the eccentric egomaniac). However, these false realities are not enough by themselves, as the audience has nothing to go by but what they see before them, and so they are not to know that this is not Petruchio’s true personality, and so Shakespeare employs another essential element of humour: he lets the audience know what is truly transpiring, w ...
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A Man For All Seasons - 16th Century
Number of Words: 1923 / Number of Pages: 7
... thinks is necessary to be a hero and this is exactly the type of man that Thomas More is. More saw in himself something that was his only and he was that it was something that allowed him to live life with confidence in himself. Only when he was denied that way of life was he able to accept his fate of death. Robert Bolt comments on this on page 13 of the preface. "…who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him, he was able to grasp his death." This shows that Thomas knew that he had a sense of identity that no one else and he knew h ...
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The Cathedral
Number of Words: 1295 / Number of Pages: 5
... labels abnormal, which stops him from seeing the blind man as an individual.
The narrator’s reaction to Robert’s individuality shows his stereotypical views. The narrator assumed Robert did not do certain things, just because he was blind. When he first saw Robert his reaction was simple: "This blind man, feature this, he was wearing a full beard! A beard on a blind man! Too much, I say." When Robert sat down on the couch, he thinks, "I…read somewhere that the blind didn’t smoke because, as speculation had it, they couldn’t see the smoke they exhaled…But this blind man smoked h ...
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The Pearl 3
Number of Words: 792 / Number of Pages: 3
... But Kino discovers otherwise. The pearl stirs envy in the
villagers, and that night Kino is attacked in his hut by a thief. The
following day, he tries to sell the pearl to buyers in town, but he is
offered only a small amount of money for it. The buyers all work for
the same man. They know the pearl is worth a fortune but hope to buy
it cheaply by pretending that it is worth little.
Kino says he will sell his pearl in the capital city, where he
believes he will get a fair price. This amazes the villagers because
Kino has never traveled so far. After dark that eveni ...
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The Development Of The Warrior
Number of Words: 763 / Number of Pages: 3
... their commander. So, as the epic starts to unwind, Achilles is described as a strong-willed, though a bit hot tempered, man.
It is in the following books that Achilles shows some of his not to desirable qualities, yet in these qualities the character of Achilles is ultimately developed. Homer describes the plot of Achilles to avenge his disgrace at the hand of Agamemnon. He has his mother, the goddess Thetis, ask Zeus to punish the Achaeans on behalf of her and Achilles. Zeus reluctantly agrees to this, and Achilles success in having the whole of his people subjected to a brutal and costly war to ...
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Death In Venice: A Tragic Vision Of A Flawed Artist?
Number of Words: 1037 / Number of Pages: 4
... watch him play, the young child that, in his point of view, looked like the god Apollo. Slowly but surely, he became obsessed with Tadzio, with his youth, beauty, effortlessness and his idleness.
Whilst being obsessed with this young boy with whom Aschenbach has no connection or relation, around him disease broods. The plague is sweeping over Venice, unnoticed at first and denied by the Venitians. They are all lying, denying and acting as to make sure the tourist business will continue to thrive through this period of silent turmoil. People are dying around Aschenbach, while he is alive in the mids ...
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Jane Eyre - Violence
Number of Words: 360 / Number of Pages: 2
... it.
Finally, there is the characterization of Bertha. From the way Rochester talks about Bertha at first she seems pretty normal, but he says how she become after they get married. She turned into someone he did not know, a crazy psychopath, mad woman. Rochester wanted to hide this from everyone even Jane, Bertha cares for no one but herself. She does not care who she hurts, she proved this when she hurt Mr. Mason her own brother.
At last, the end of the novel, The suspense, mystery, and characterization are all told. The person that this all revolved around was Bertha. It was Charlotte Bronte s c ...
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Number of Words: 802 / Number of Pages: 3
... be a conductorette and sling a full money changer from my belt. I would." With these words and the determination to change the incredible backwardness of the white people she heads to the railway office. She eventually convinces them to back down and she gets a job working as a conductorette for the railways. Despite the maliciously chosen hours, she shows them that she will not back down. Soon after getting her job she becomes pregnant. Through her months of pregnancy she tells no one and no one helps her. She teaches herself how to deal with being an expectant mother and stay in school, and ...
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Short Story Analysis Of Edgar
Number of Words: 3423 / Number of Pages: 13
... spoof, a literary Bronx cheer to writers of moralistic fiction, and to critics who expressed disapprobation at finding no discernible moral in his works. The tale "Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Tale with a Moral" presents Poe's "way of staying execution" (Poe 487) for his transgressions against the didactics. The story's main character is Toby Dammit, who from infanthood, had been flogged left-handed, which since the world revolves right to left, causes evil propensities to be driven home rather than driven out. The narrator relates that by the age of seven months, Toby was chasing down and kissing ...
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