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Julius Caesar - Tragic Hero
Number of Words: 1052 / Number of Pages: 4
... will affect not only the single person but also society as a whole. Another reason for the tragic hero to be in high authority is to display that if a tragedy may happen to someone such as a king, it may just as easily happen to any other person. Julius Caesar fits the role of a tragic hero. Julius Caesar is a high standing senator that possesses hamartia, failings of human nature. Julius Caesar’s imperfections may be seen in three distinct aspects of Caesar, such as the following: his pride, his vacillation, and his ambition.
Julius Caesar has much pride, a hamartia, which brings him to not be ...
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Macbeth - Tragedy
Number of Words: 1246 / Number of Pages: 5
... elements that make up a tragedy; without them, there would be no play and no katharsis. Of the six, which include plot, character, thought, diction, song, and spectacle, the first two are the most important.
The most important aspect of tragedy is the plot, which is considered to be "the soul of a tragedy." The plot of Macbeth is complex, meaning that it contains Recognition and Reversal of the Situation. Macbeth believes that every man is of woman born, and thus he cannot be killed by anyone. "Thou losest labor./ As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air/ With thy keen sword impress as make ...
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To Kill A Mocking Bird 2
Number of Words: 672 / Number of Pages: 3
... they are really saying. For an example is when Scout is confused about why THIS LADY hates Hitler so much because he hated the Jews and had them killed, just for being Jews. Well if you thank about it she is doing the same thing with blacks and she thanks it is different. Why I don't know, but that is a good example in my Apennine.
One of the other prejudice things that happen in this book was sexual. Women were not aloud to sit on the jury because their place was in the home. In the book it shows that in early 1900, women did not have much rights. Their place was to raise the children and m ...
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Oedipus-concepts Of Sight
Number of Words: 1330 / Number of Pages: 5
... he truly believes that he can move without the Oracle’s prophecy following him. No matter what Oedipus does, he has no control over what the gods have predetermined. The gods also punish the people of Thebes with hard times since it is these people who brought Oedipus into the land as their king. The gods do this in order to make the people see through Oedipus’ extreme pride and quick temper. The gods apparently think that the only way to get them to see what Oedipus has done is by causing the city pain and suffering. The gods use their insight to affect Oedipus’ life, family ...
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Glass Menagerie 3
Number of Words: 721 / Number of Pages: 3
... constantly held back and she needed support just like Knox. Tom and Amanda constantly pushed Laura to not hold herself back. Once again, as in "Dead Poet’s Society," a coed is used to free the character from their confinement. In The Glass Menagerie Jim is used exactly like Chris. Jim is used to show the coming of Laura’s character. Not only were Knox’s character and the character of Laura similar in both the works, but Todd from "DPS" and Tom from The Glass Menagerie are also shown to be similar.
Todd kept a certain mystery about him throughout the work, as well as Tom. To ...
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Old Man And The Sea
Number of Words: 1291 / Number of Pages: 5
... you fish’, he said and shifted the line over the sacks
that covered his shoulders. He was comfortable, but suffering,
although he did not admit to the suffering at all. ‘ I am not
religious...but I will say Ten Hail Marys that I should catch this
fish’... ‘Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with thee. Blessed art
thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour
of death, Amen.’ Then he added. ‘ Blessed Virgin, pray for the
death of this fish, wonderful as he is.’ ̶ ...
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Sexuality And Gender Role
Number of Words: 633 / Number of Pages: 3
... the gender of X to X's parents, they said just "X'. No one could know X's gender except X's parents and some scientists. About 5 years later, X became the age for school. X's parents and scientists considered the appearance of X. They cut X's hair. It was little bit longer than other boys, but shorter than other girls. X put the girl's upper garment and the boy's pants. It was so hard to distinguish the X's gender by X's appearance. At school, X was adapted well. X could play the soccer as well as the other boys and could play the rope jumping as well as the other girls.
I don't remember the ...
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Two Short Stories Of Awareness
Number of Words: 1592 / Number of Pages: 6
... different attitudes and reactions to the initiation experience.In Araby, the reader learns of the boy’s initiation in the final sentence: "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; andmy eyes burned with anguish and anger."1 The character had a negative reaction to his new awareness. His realization caused him to have feelingsof shame, anguish and anger. He was possessed and controlled by his passion for Mangan’s older sister.His ideals of the girl were not realistic but were futile and vain. The girl drew out feelings in himand he discovered that ...
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Pragmatics Deixis And Conversa
Number of Words: 3318 / Number of Pages: 13
... and therefore lack context. If, for example, a person tells a story and forgets to give the essential information a deictic term refers to, we will grow aware of the weakness the deictic system features. Or if the fax machine just receives the second page of a letter, beginning with "Then he was quite embarrassed about it " - the adressee will never be able to guess what "then", "he" and "it" stands for. Similar gaps arise if we read about an utterance made in the past and lack information about the references. Although the adressee at that time could easily have understood the sense, we may not b ...
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On The Beach At Night Alone By
Number of Words: 359 / Number of Pages: 2
... barbarisms, civilizations languages.” (10) furthermore emphasize Whitman’s belief in the Over-Soul.
Although Whitman uses a great deal of structural ways to stress his ideas, he also uses many other ways of delivering his ideas. First of all, Whitman portrays himself as a public spokesman of the masses. The tone of the poem is a very loud, informative tone that grabs ones attention. The emphasis placed on the word “all” adds to the characterization of Whitman as a powerful speaker. Furthermore, Whitman takes part in his own poem. Participating in his own poem, Whitman moreover illustrates the connecti ...
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