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Great Expectations Portrays In
Number of Words: 1356 / Number of Pages: 5
... Through colorful narrations and descriptions, these characters come to life and guide us through the many social guises of ninteenth century England.
Miss Havisham's lazy and indulgent nature is seen through Pip's many vivid descriptions of her as he became progressively more embroiled in Miss Havisham's games. Miss Havisham personified the idle rich as she sat in her mansion, brooding over the past, while still wearing her disintegrating wedding dress. Miss Havisham was obsessed with her failed marriage and created another doomed relationship by manufacturing Estella to break Pip's heart. Miss Havi ...
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Romeo And Juliet 2 +
Number of Words: 858 / Number of Pages: 4
... to kill Tybalt, but when the time comes for him to stand up for what it he has done he turns and flees. This is a very cowardly ill-advisable action. Romeo also presents to us the fact that he is a quitter. "Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say "death." This is just one example to prove that Romeo likes to find scapegoats to solve his problems. Rather than stick around and face his problems, Romeo wants to just kill himself and get it over with. That is a definite lack of mental strength. Suicide is never a rational decision. It is already fairly clear who the stronger person is.
Romeo has his mo ...
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The Time Is Night By Luidmila
Number of Words: 779 / Number of Pages: 3
... this cross through her entire life. There are only two roles she has: a poet and a woman defending a child from misery and starvation. I assume she is not a really good poet, she never gets published and gets very little money but that is not the point. She says that she writes for herself, if she stops, she will die. This is very true. The two main themes of the novel seem to be loneliness and misery.
Several times in the diary Anna says that she writes it for her daughter, the one who later sent the notes to Petrushevskaya. But it seems to me that what she has written represents the dialo ...
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An Occurance At Owl Creek Brid
Number of Words: 836 / Number of Pages: 4
... it dragged pieces of driftwood downstream. Even the sound of his watch ticking was driving him insane. Soon enough he was thinking of ways to escape, which ran through his mind, but were not acted out. He knew if he could just get his hands untied, and the noose off of his neck he could dive into the water. By diving he would be able to dodge the bullets that the soldiers would shoot at him, but he would have to swim very fast. Once he swam to shore he would be safe and go home.
Part II tells all about how Farquhar got himself into the trouble he was in. It all started when a solider dressed in ...
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Pride And Prejudice
Number of Words: 761 / Number of Pages: 3
... went no further.
Elizabeth is the first woman in the story to be proposed to, and she did a very peculiar thing. She is proposed to by Mr. Collins, the very man who is going to inherit her father's estate. She refuses his offer even though his "situation in life...[his] connections....and [his] relationship to [Elizabeth], are circumstances highly in [his] favor." Elizabeth simply says that "[he] could never make [her]happy...and [she] is the last woman in the world that could make [him] so." What makes her decision so peculiar is that in marrying this man she could keep her father's estate ...
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Expanation Of A Rose For Emily
Number of Words: 688 / Number of Pages: 3
... upon the town”(414). The town had no chose but to deal with Emily. When the town started to change Emily refused to do so and it was apparent that the town saw her house as “an eyesore among eyesores”(414). The town was very interested in her relationship with Homer Barron a foreman that was working on the contract for paving the sidewalks in the town. They were pleased at first but later they kind of had mixed feelings saying that she as “a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer”(417).
Emily is the antagonist in the story, she is stuck ...
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Hamlet - Soliloquies
Number of Words: 1456 / Number of Pages: 6
... fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world (I, ii, 135-140). Through these lines it is obvious that Hamlet is in the midst of a deep depression. He has no control over the "uses of the world." Hamlet compares Denmark to an "unweeded garden" to symbolize the corruption within his country, that is seeded within Claudius and his incestuous marriage to Gertrude. Hamlet goes on to compare his father to Claudius and comment on the relationship between King Hamlet and Gertrude. So excellent a King that was to this ...
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Fahrenheit51 4
Number of Words: 668 / Number of Pages: 3
... encounters with the mechanical hound (a robotic dog that is programmed to find books). The dog growls, which are what Montag dislikes. The growling alerts him of his unhappiness. Montag thinks that the dog knows that he had snuck some books from the home of their last burning.
Montag doesn't talk to Mildred about his unhappiness with his job. But Beatty knows of Montag's unhappiness, and makes a visit to his house. He gives Montag a pep talk about his curiosity about books. He tells him that all firemen have a curiosity about books sometime. He says that books are merely stories, only fiction. He te ...
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An Analysis Of Orwell's "Shooting An Elephant"
Number of Words: 763 / Number of Pages: 3
... because of their race, ethnicity, or
heritage. In this case, Orwell was pictured as a leader because he was
British and he worked for the British Empire. Readers are able to relate
to the fact that he does not want to be humiliated in front of the Burmese.
He declares, “Every white man's life in the East, was one long struggle not
to be laughed at” (101). Orwell compares the elephant to the huge British
Empire, and just as the elephant has lost control, he feels that when the
white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys (100).
Secretly he hates the British Empire and is on ...
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The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky
Number of Words: 1038 / Number of Pages: 4
... carrying Marshal Jack Potter and his Eastern bride back to Yellow Sky. The Marshall's role in the affairs of his town has been affected and changed by his literal marriage to the East. The Marshall is only beginning to realize the effect his arrival on the town will have. The train car is the perfect symbol of the East moving toward and imposing itself on the west.
The second setting is "a world of complete contrast to the Eastern Pullman: the setting is Western, the bar of the Weary Gentleman Saloon" (Solomon 253). The saloon
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contains all the necessary Western elements-- whisky, ...
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