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A Murderer's Journey Through The Works Of Dostoyevsky And Poe
Number of Words: 1697 / Number of Pages: 7
... the letter to his lips and kissed it; then he spent
a long time poring over the handwriting on the envelope, over the small,
slanting handwriting, so familiar and dear to him, of his mother who had once
taught him to read and write. (Crime and Punishment, pg.47)
Raskolnikov's mother, who taught him how to read and write did this job quite
well. This resulted in a very gifted and brilliant university student. This
point is illustrated throughout the novel from the planning and carrying out of
the murder, to interactions with the police.
The narrator from the short story "The Black Cat" describes ...
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Novel Outline Of The Pearl
Number of Words: 1813 / Number of Pages: 7
... long novels which take a whole chapter to introduce characters, the introductions only take about three to four pages. Also, in the first chapter, the background is set: a poverty stricken village on the shore of an island and a wealthier town in the mainland. The conflict, which starts the plot of the story, is also present here: a scorpion has stung Coyotito, Kino’s son, and Kino need to find a pearl to pay the doctor to help them. This leads to the discovery of the great pearl.
The story starts on a beach where a poor village lies. Kino and his Family are living happily together and living ...
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Othello: Not Wisely But Too Well
Number of Words: 1210 / Number of Pages: 5
... first to attack himself for his horrible deed; certainly this is the first reaction of anyone who has wrongly killed his beloved. He delivers condemnation upon himself with eloquence and anguish. The latter speech he gives in his final role as a leader, directing the men who remain about how to deal with what has happened and showing them he has purged the evil.
In his initial self-loathing and remorse at realizing the truth of Desdemona's innocence, Othello is genuinely anguished. "This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven, / And fiends will snatch at it." (V.2.325-326) It is clear that h ...
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Number of Words: 744 / Number of Pages: 3
... Their lovers quarrels provide much of the comedy in the play.
The other four characters caught in love triangles are Lysander and Hermia, who are in love with each other, Demetrius who loves Hermia, and Helena who loves Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia wish to marry each other but Hermia’s father, Egeus, will not allow it. Egeus wishes his daughter to marry Demetrius so he brings the matter to the attention of the king in hope that the law will be enforced. The law states that Hermia must marry whomever her father chooses or be put to death or live the rest of her life as a nun. She is given until ...
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A Lesson Before Dying
Number of Words: 802 / Number of Pages: 3
... smashes his face into his food and begins eating it as if he were a hog. He does this, because of the attorney's rash, insensitive and cruel remarks. This event marks the beginning of Jefferson's decline of self-respect and gradually decreases his belief in heaven and God. With the help of Grant, his beliefs are slowly altered and his self-worth is steadily improved.
"For the Reverend Ambrose, what matters is not whether Jefferson affirms his human dignity but whether he finds salvation" (Kenny 683). The fact that the Reverend doesn't care about Jefferson's dignity makes Grant's task even more ...
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Ethan Frome
Number of Words: 1471 / Number of Pages: 6
... One night though, Amber went too far, and when she came home drunk and passed out on her bed, she scared her parents half to death. It was a rough patch in her life, and hurting her family like that made it even rougher.
Autumn never told anyone, but one of her greatest fears was losing all of her friends by getting too wrapped up in a boy. It seemed like it all just happened so fast, and in just one day Autumn’s friends decided that they were sick of being put second to Autumn’s relationship with her boyfriend. She was so upset and confused that her boyfriend decided he didn’ ...
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Educating Rita
Number of Words: 1336 / Number of Pages: 5
... story to attract the reader making one event crucial for the development of the story.
"He opens his umbrella and dashes off Strandwards, but comes into collision with a flower girl who is hurrying in for shelter, knocking her basket out of her hands. A blinding flash lightning, followed instantly by a rattling peal of thunder, orchestrates the incident"
A common example of a popular misconception is when two people accidentally meet in odd circumstances. In this case two people coincidentally bump into each other on the street: a flower girl and a man who is in a higher class than her. It is th ...
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Pardoners Tale
Number of Words: 676 / Number of Pages: 3
... go buy wine, the other two greedily plot to kill him so they can split the treasure only two ways. Even the youngest decides to "put it in his mind to buy poison, with which he might kill his two companions" (383, 384). The greed, which is evident in the character of the Pardoner, is also clearly seen in the tale. Another trait that is displayed by the Pardoner and a character in his tale is hypocrisy or insincerity. Although the Pardoner is extremely greedy, he continues to try and teach that "Avarice is the root of all evil" (6). As the tale begins, the friends all act very trustworthy and faithful t ...
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Hedda Gabler 2
Number of Words: 508 / Number of Pages: 2
... in which the internal motivations of the personalities in the play are explored within a specific social context. Other hallmarks of the realistic style include the
avoidance of devices such as soliloquies in favor of more natural exposition, causally related scenes leading logically to a denouement, and the creation of individual behavior directly attibutable to the heredity or environment of the character. All external stage details were authentic to the specific and current environment; all costumes, dialogue, and settings were carefully chosen to reveal the characters' more critical psychological ...
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Foreshadowing In A Tale Of Two
Number of Words: 631 / Number of Pages: 3
... knitting, counting dropping heads” to show that in the future, Madame Defarge and her women knit while counting the heads being severed by La Guillotine (187).
Another instance of foreshadowing is the revenge of the poor people against the aristocrats. When Dickens writes, “there [is] a flutter in the air that fan[s] Saint Antoine and his devouring hunger far away” he is referring to the poor people in Saint Antoine such as the Defarges and their death craving towards the aristocrats (113). The poor that crave the aristocrats’ deaths have such a strong aura that they are a part of a living ...
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