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Oedipus Versus Creon
Number of Words: 1125 / Number of Pages: 5
... they share almost identical personalities and even fates.
In “Oedipus the King”, Oedipus is a brash and arrogant ruler while Creon is his patient, thoughtful right hand man. After Oedipus and his sons all die and Creon becomes king of Thebes, he begins to grow wilder and even more out of control than Oedipus was. In “Oedipus the King” Oedipus accused Creon of bribing Tiresias, the blind prophet, to make a prediction that will doom Oedipus. He accuses Creon of “plotting to kill the king” (189). He does this without any concrete evidence or proof. Oedipus rationalizes that because Creon induced him ...
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Ovid The Poet
Number of Words: 1815 / Number of Pages: 7
... studied philosophy. Ovid then came home to start a serious career.
"It did not work. Fathers of poets seem to have a penchant for trying to turn their male offspring into lawyers, doctors, or engineers. Usually this stratagem is effective because most sons are not poets. Most fathers confronted with the problem of a versifying son, therefore, turn out to be right; Ovid's father turned out to be wrong" (Luce 785).
Ovid sincerely attempted to satisfy the demands of his father, but failed horribly. He abandoned his law studies and he drifted off to book merchants and poetry readings. He also married, but ...
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Nick From The Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 1070 / Number of Pages: 4
... stays informed but uninvolved at first in order to analyze the people he comes across. He builds confidence and responsibility amidst his peers, does not become selfish, and begins to involve himself with the main characters in a positive way. He aspires to somewhat arrange the conflicts going on without showing his opinion to them and while keeping his honorable integrity. His thoughts and opinions are kept to himself, and this is effective because no character develops a hatred towards him at all, and the reader gets to know everything without someone in
the story getting offended.
Our narrator devel ...
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Canterbury Tales Critical Anal
Number of Words: 1249 / Number of Pages: 5
... his death in 1400. Still, through the twenty-two stories he did write, he managed to capture the culture and mind set of England's occupants during this transitional period between the medieval and Renaissance era. This marked change in times in which medieval man insisted upon being a member of the spiritual community and thought that the individual had no right to test the "truths" of time; conflicted with the Renaissance man who disputed the catholic norm and thought it right to form his own separate social groups.
Geoffrey Chaucer best illustrates this drastic change in times in one of his twenty-t ...
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Symbolism In Patterns By Amy L
Number of Words: 1060 / Number of Pages: 4
... in the breeze,” (23). This creates a sense of freedom and flexibility. The woman in the poem, presumably Amy, wishes to be like the moving flowers, carefree and jaunty. In the second stanza of the poem, the woman begins to describe the water in the marble fountain. The, “…plashing of waterdrops,” (28) and, “…plopping of the waterdrops,” (54) describe liquid in motion. The fact that she notices such little details in a fountain shows how intent the woman is on being free and able to move about as she pleases. The unconstrained movement of the ...
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of Words: 972 / Number of Pages: 4
... war the soldiers usually never recovered from the war. Two of the most common side affects of the war were shell shock and stir crazy. When suffering from shell shock a soldier’s brain doesn’t function properly and the man is a “vegetable”. This means the man is alive but he can’t do anything because he is in a state of shock because of the war. Stir crazy is a mental illness caused by the firing of so many bullets that when no bullets are heard by the victim he goes insane. Everyone was scared to go to war when it started. Young recruits were first sent because the veterans knew they were going to ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Number of Words: 1060 / Number of Pages: 4
... get an idea of how might have become such an inspiration to the people, some background on his life is essential. Can you imagine living a life with all your loved ones passing away one by one? A persons life could collapse into severe depression, lose hope, and lose meaning. He can build a morbid outlook on life. suffered these things. He was born on May 25, 1803 and entered into a new world, a new nation just beginning. Just about eight years later, his father would no longer be with him, as William Emerson died in 1811. The Emerson family was left to a life marked by poverty. Ralph's mother, Rut ...
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Jim As Hucks True Father
Number of Words: 734 / Number of Pages: 3
... alcoholism, which has a direct affect on Huck. When Pap drinks, he either physically or verbally abuses Huck. As a result of this household environment, Huck realizes he needs to escape, not just from his father, but from "sivilization".
Jim and Huck meet up and begin their adventure on Jackson's Island. Their encounter of one another is a coincidence, but Jim and Huck end up staying together for the remainder of the novel. In the beginning of their journey, the two appear to be very different. Jim, a runaway black slave, who according to society is not human and Huck, a young white boy who w ...
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Bad Luck In Love!
Number of Words: 3218 / Number of Pages: 12
... was, standing behind her mother looking bored. They told her to say hi to me, and that is about all she did. She acted very indifferent toward me. Oh, Well. At least I can watch her all night. My mother suggested I take Jenny out to the pool for a swim before dinner. Damn mom, you're all right after all! I ran up to my room to change into my trunks. Jenny went out and waited by the pool. I came running out to the deck and she was standing there waiting on me. She had worn her suit under her summer dress she had on. I stood there looking as she slowly raised the dress up over her head. She was wearing a ...
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Achilles
Number of Words: 1002 / Number of Pages: 4
... long ago was dragging the body of Hektor around the grave of Patroklos. This is the same corpse that vowed to feed to the dogs, the man who slew ’ dearest companion and led him to swallow his pride and return to the battlefield. I believe that this is not the same we saw prior to the death of his loving companion Patroklos. After Patroklos rode off into battle and was cut down by a mix of divine intervention and Hektor, grief and the desire to revenge the death of Patroklos consumed . Thus I feel his behaviour throughout these books where he is moved to battle is a function of his personality actin ...
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