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Greek Gods
Number of Words: 533 / Number of Pages: 2
... interested in the workings of the mind than in the workings of the environment around them.
This was so because unlike us, the Greeks believed that they already had explanations for trivial questions such as, “Where the world came from?” “Who are we?” and “Who controls the world around us?” To them all these questions could simply be explained by looking at their own mythology. It is hard for us to really understand how deeply these beliefs were rooted into their personalities, to the Greeks if some natural phenomenon occurred it occurred because one of their god ...
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Brave New World
Number of Words: 464 / Number of Pages: 2
... and have been dating, but she starts dating Bernard Marx instead. Bernard is a deformed but highly intelligent man who takes Lenina to a savage restoration. At the reservation, they meet John and his mother Linda, whom was the girlfriend of the DHC and John is his son. Lenina and Bernard take, with permission, Linda and John out of the reservation. Bernard and a friend introduce John to the new world. Lenina tries to make advances toward John but his savage attitude doesn’t allow it.
The downfall of John begins with the death of his mother in the new world. John goes crazy and tries to in ...
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Mark Antony
Number of Words: 1007 / Number of Pages: 4
... (III i 220). This act symbolizes that
Antony has made a new friendship with the conspirators, but in reality, he is
plotting to seek revenge so he can take over Rome. Antony is also able to
flatter the vast angry crowd in order to get his way. He is first able to get the
crowd to feel sorry for him. This feeling is evident when the second plebeian
says, “Poor soul, his eyes are red as fire with weeping” (III ii 116). Antony is
then able to turn the people in the crowd against Brutus by teasing them with
Caesar’s will. Antony says, “And being men, hearing the will of Caesar, it
will in ...
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Characterization Of Araby
Number of Words: 441 / Number of Pages: 2
... "O Love! O Love!". The narrator's view of love is idealistic.
He has set Mangan's sister upon a pedestal, and his expectations of
love are too unrealistic.
At the end of the story, the narrator is bitter. He realizes thathis view of love is idealized and unrealistic. Sordid reality is
epitomized by the fair. The young boy goes to Araby with the
romantic goal of buying a gift for Mangan's sister, but the bazaar is
dismal and dreary; it fulfills none of the narrator's expectations. Hisdisappointment in Araby fills him with anger. Along with his
disappointment in Araby, the narrator's rom ...
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Scarlet Letter Chapter Summari
Number of Words: 5161 / Number of Pages: 19
... felt it necessary to build a prison and to set aside a cemetery as stern reminders of life and death. The gloomy building looks out on a grass plot covered with "unsightly vegetation" except for one, wild rose-bush which blossoms near the threshold of the prison. The "fragrance and fragile beauty" of this one simple flower is a "token" (a symbol) that Nature may pity man, even though men may be inhuman to other men. The author wonders about the origin of the rose-bush - as to whether it has perhaps survived the wilderness in which it originally grew, or whether it had "sprung up" in the footsteps of a ...
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Witches, Werewolves, And Vampires
Number of Words: 360 / Number of Pages: 2
... own actions. From such a vivid and evil picture that people have created of such creatures, people have come to fear and believe other fictional stories about werewolves.
Vampires are living people who have powers to change into a non-corporal spirit. They sleep in the day and they begin their killings after dark. They take other peoples lives by sucking their blood from their neck, and this turns a human into a vampire. For amusement they haunt graveyards in the mist of the dark. Vampires perform evil on others, but in return they gain nothing but blood, so evil provides you with nothing, bu ...
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Of Mice And Men
Number of Words: 752 / Number of Pages: 3
... he is jeopardizing his relationship with other men in order to defend Lennie’s actions. George is further discouraged when he realizes, based on Lennie’s behavior that he can never be left alone- even to go to the bathroom. Lennie can’t even be trusted not to kill puppies while petting them. Lennie, in fact, goes so far as to kill the owner’s daughter-in-law. By this point, George, a nice yet overly ambitious individual, could no longer control this growing contempt towards his once beloved Lennie.
As George’s feelings changed, he started vocalizing his frustrations towards Lennie. Before, George would ...
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Summary Of The Book Annie John
Number of Words: 289 / Number of Pages: 2
... happenings around her/him.
The story is set in and around the Dominican Republic, around the 1950-60’s.
The main character in this book is Annie John, she is a black girl in a English ruled and own colony. She is a smart tall girl of an inquisitive nature. She has always been smart in school, but her more ”wild” side has always driven her towards yearning other experiences. She is a slightly conceded girl and always wants to be the best in her circle of friends and in school. She enjoys being the center of attention and does everything she can to achieve this. She has changing relationships with a cou ...
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Great Expectations Charcters G
Number of Words: 606 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the novel, Miss. Havisham remains constant. Her hatred towards men is easily visible. She manipulates people to her advantage without a thought to their heart and feelings. Her treatment of those around her stays very much the same until before her death, when she shows extreme remorse and pain for her actions. It is at that moment in the novel when the reader begins to feel some sort of sympathy for her. Even though she was an villainous character, it's easy to sympathize with someone who is dying with so many unresolved issues. She expressed her good intentions towards Estella's upbringing, ...
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Beowulf 14
Number of Words: 501 / Number of Pages: 2
... king of how he was going to defeat the great Grendel with his bare hands. This miss leads Grendel into thinking that he will be easy to kill. Untold to Grendel Beowulf has taken half of his men with their weapons and hidden them. They attacked him in vain, his skin was too tough
to be pierced by a sword. Beowulf ended up ripping Grendel's shoulder and arm out of its socket, because he could not kill him with his sword. Grendel escaped back to his layer to slowly die of his mortal wound.
This proves that good will all ways overcome evil no matter what stands in its way. Like in the story of Beo ...
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