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Lord Of The Flies - Comparison
Number of Words: 555 / Number of Pages: 3
... they may puzzle viewers because the movie fails to distinguish their role. The cinema is unsuccessful in establishing Simon as a "Christ" figure and Roger's murderous nature. On the other hand, the novel installs all these ideas and allows the reader to use their creativity. Therefore, due to the film's inability to give audiences more information about the characters, their role and their emotions, the novel is much more informative.
Secondly, the novel is capable of giving readers more insight into the story with the use of symbols and hidden meanings. The novel is able to do this because it depicts ...
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A Doll's House And Tess Of The D'Urbevilles
Number of Words: 487 / Number of Pages: 2
... with his misconception of honor. In actuality when a man sacrifices himself for the one he loves it brings him honor. Torvald is viewed as a true hypocrite. Torvald also believes the most important thing is to "save the . . . appearance."(65)
He follows his mind, only interested in what is best for society. Ibsen illustrates him as a truly weak human. In contrast to Ibsen, Hardy takes an intellectually free thinker, Angel, who shows a very close minded perspective on events instead of opening himself to his true inner feelings. When Angel’s bride reveals to him that she has committed the sin of pre- ...
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Death Of A Salesman
Number of Words: 1201 / Number of Pages: 5
... the play, Charley mentions, "… He was a happy man with a batch of cement … so wonderful with his hands … he had the wrong dreams, all wrong.". It has been often said that the play emphasize the path not taken may have been the right one, still Willy holds the inability to see who and what he is. Miller has created Willy’s wife Linda in such a way, that it is difficult to confirm whether she is a positive or destructive force upon him. It is hard to understand why she allows this deception to rise to the level that it does. The love Linda holds for Willy is relentless. She sees herself as hi ...
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Macbeth: Independence And Fail
Number of Words: 1875 / Number of Pages: 7
... that occurs in Macbeth as both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth try to separate. Macbeth is a eighteenth century play written by William Shakespeare. Using these two metaphors, the breakdown in the relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth and between the king and the thanes and how they perfectly parallel each other because each is caused by Macbeth's will to be independent.
According to Webster's dictionary, the archaic definition of independence is "competence" (1148). To be independent is not to be "subject to control by others" (Gove 1148). This means that independence is to be in control of ...
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A Rose For Emily
Number of Words: 593 / Number of Pages: 3
... among eyesores". Through lack of attention, the house has deteriorated from a beautiful estate, to an ugly uninviting shack.
Similarly, Miss Emily has also become an eyesore. For example, she is first described as a "fallen monument" to symbolize her former beauty and her later ugliness. Like the house, she has lost her beauty. Once she had been a beautiful woman, who later became obese and bloated. Both house and occupant have suffered the ravages of time and neglect.
The interior of the house also symbolizes Miss Emily's increasing degeneration and the growing sense of sadness that accompanies ...
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Kindred
Number of Words: 1444 / Number of Pages: 6
... history, and centers itself on her counteraction. This gives the "fish out of water" quality of life. To this, the majority of us can sympathize. Most have been in a situation where things around are unfamiliar, thus forcing an adjustment in behavior. The adjustment that the main character Dana makes, though, is one that is very extreme. Clearly the time spent in the past made Dana much harder than she had been, she says, "If I’d had my knife, I would surely
have killed someone. As it was, I managed to leave scratches and bruises on Rufus, his father, and Edwards who was called ...
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Antigone-Higher Law Vs. Laws O
Number of Words: 930 / Number of Pages: 4
... the king's wishes and allow his body to be desecrated. She chooses to bury him, citing the will of the gods. "I will bury my brother, and if I die for it…convicted of reverance-I shall be content" , she remarks to her sister in defiance. Later, when captured and brought before Creon himself, Antigone continues to push her holy defense, "I do not think your edicts strong enough to overrule the unwritten unalterable laws of God and heaven, you being only a man." Her opinion is routed in the belief that a proper burial will secure her brother's place in the after-life, regardless of his loyalty to t ...
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Communism And Socialism In Ani
Number of Words: 669 / Number of Pages: 3
... though they were underfed because they knew they were doing this for themselves. Napoleon and his other pigs were the government and let their power get to them. They said that all the animals would work together yet in fact the pigs were just ordering them around. They worked the other animals relentlessly and with little food. They told all the animals what they should make and how long it would take. Also they said that the thinking they do is hard and they need the beds. The pigs were without a doubt the leaders of Animal Farm. They could do anything to you, they could make you live and could make ...
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Canterbury Tales -- Role Of Wo
Number of Words: 1602 / Number of Pages: 6
... her grace,
Unless I at least see her day by day,
I am but dead, there is no more to say."
(p. 49, l. 24-28).
The knights believe that one man may love and worship Emily from afar and each vehemently contends that he should be this man. The knights' emotions for a woman of whom they know absolutely nothing, save that she is beautiful, reduces her to an object to be won and an occasion for adventure and courtship.
Years later, after Palamon and Arcite are no longer in prison, they meet and agree to fight to the death for the right to love Emily. She still does not know that the ...
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Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"
Number of Words: 2129 / Number of Pages: 8
... 143). The second book
portrays the virtue of Temperance through the knight Sir Guyon. The Fairy
Queen ordered him to locate and destroy Acrasia's seductive Bower of Bliss.
With his companion and guide, the Palmer, Sir Guyon completes his mission
successfully, and after his encounters along the way, he becomes the virtue
of Temperance.
II. Body Section
In order for the reader to recognize the maturation of Sir Guyon,
Spenser leads him on a path of temptation. Thus, after conquering all of
his encounters, Sir Guyon will be a symbol of Temperance. The first test
Sir Guyon faces involves charac ...
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