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The Scarlet Letter 2
Number of Words: 1080 / Number of Pages: 4
... is all about (86).
The red "A" clearly stands for adultery. Puritan society sees the "A" as a symbol of guilt, Hester's infraction of their moral code (HArt 95). Hester is given the punishment of wearing the letter instead of being put to death because she is young and comes from a prominent family. However, the pain and heartache that the "A" brings to her is far worse than being excuted. Children learn to detest Hester because shee wears the symbol of the moral outcast (Abel 171). The "A" is a sing of the community's ownership of Hester, and her "struggle to change the meaning of the letter is ...
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Double
Number of Words: 1157 / Number of Pages: 5
... cared about the school. He had the idea that if they got a student to run for president things would change.
Paul Abrams is a conniving teenager who causes trouble when he is around his best friend Sheldon. Since he was the new kid, he acted shy and quiet until he made some friends. Paul met a teen named Sheldon, he was Paul’s first friend in New York and they shared similar interests. When he arrived at Don Carey High he felt weird because it was a dump and know cares about what happened to it. Paul knew right from wrong but Sheldon did not, so Paul got in trouble when he was around Sheldon. Paul’s ...
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A Detailed Commentary On Act 3
Number of Words: 820 / Number of Pages: 3
... he is really trying to make Lear think it is the storm that is to blame for his discomfort, although Kent is fully aware of the true reasons for Lear’s pain.
In the play ‘King Lear’ grief reaches the utmost depths that any Shakespearean character has ever portrayed. In this particular extract the storm taking place on the heath symbolises and runs parallel with the storm in Lear’s soul. His mind is so wracked with the treachery of his two daughters that he actually finds comfort in nature’s cruel elements. This is conveyed when Lear says that the tempest̷ ...
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Cymbeline Essay
Number of Words: 716 / Number of Pages: 3
... should be the
rightful man for Imogen. Not only are they sold on the idea, but Cloten is
as well. He tries every second he can to, in some way, try and do
something to look great in front of her. His life, sadly, revolves around
trying to do what his mother thinks is right and winning Imogen's
affections. Much to his dismay she is not only annoyed, but uninterested.
Giacomo is the next in line to hurt Imogen. With the bet he made
with Posthumus in mind, he tries to woo his way into Imogen's heart and her
bedroom. He is a very sly and rude character who will do whatever he can ...
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A Violent Illumination Of Salvation
Number of Words: 1700 / Number of Pages: 7
... her characters, illuminates their shortcomings, and prepares them for
redemption as seen in: "A Good Man is Hard to Find," "Revelation," "The River,"
and "The Lame Shall Enter First."
Walters reasons, "The instruction of pride through lessons of humility is, in
each story, the means by which the soul is prepared for its necessary
illumination by the Holy Spirit" (73). The grandmother in "A Good Man is Hard to
Find" and Rudy Turpin in "Revelation" is each convinced that she is a lady of
elevated status. When threatened by superior beings, their self-imposed facades
fall. Inherent huma ...
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Bushed
Number of Words: 558 / Number of Pages: 3
... the characters evolution in his attitude towards the entire situation. At first our character is still unsure and alert at all that is happening around him, " At first he was out with the dawn." Yet he becomes more and more sure of himself and feels very secure, " A guard of goat before falling asleep on its feet at sundown." Earle Birney uses the goat as a metaphor for security because a goat does not slip of the rocky mountain tops that our character is reaching for.
In the last stanzas the poem changes tone. It goes from a happy survival to a loss of security. The life he t ...
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Into The Wild
Number of Words: 1673 / Number of Pages: 7
... F was something that was never on McCandless report card) or not listening to advice from his parents to the extreme of leaving society to go erness, McCandless definitely was not a follower. His parents were told by one of his teachers at an early age that Chris "marched to the beat of his own drummer". Chris never lost his ability to do things the way he wanted and when he wanted to do them. After receiving his diploma from Emory in 1990 he set off on a two-year escapade that would eventually end his life but in my opinion, if Chris could start over he would probably not do things muc ...
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Maestro By Peter Goldsworthy
Number of Words: 1545 / Number of Pages: 6
... ridiculed his methods. He felt that he was too good to be taught by Herr Keller, when in fact it was because he felt belittled by him. This arrogance is shown when herr Keller finally lets him play the piano on their 8th lesson.
"He fossicked among his own music for a few moments, finally emerging with a copy of "The Children's Bach".
"I played that years ago," I protested.
"You are too proud to play it again?"
"It's easy."
"...Bach is never easy."
The fact that Paul felt that Bach was "too easy" shos his arrogance, but with Herr Keller's response, he is put in his place and must re ...
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Romeo And Juliet - Fate
Number of Words: 1820 / Number of Pages: 7
... hath the steerage over my course Direct my sail." He's basically saying to his friends that he had a dream which leads him to believe that he will die young because of something in the stars, something that will happen. He ends with "...he that hath steerage over my course..." which implies that he does not have control over his life if he looks to another power above himself to direct him. He does not feel that he is the one who makes decisions, it is all a higher purpose, a different power. We're all sort of like the puppets below the puppeteer. He's asking for that puppeteer to direct his " ...
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