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King Lear
Words: 478 - Pages: 2.... their wickedness behind a mask of kind words, and Lear allows the secret to remain a secret, by his unwillingness to accept the fact that his daughters do not love him.
What follows plunges Lear into the depths of hell, and then through his eventual realization of this secret, he is able to redeem himself. Shakespeare writes this story in a manner that the reader understands the cause of Lear's problems, but Lear himself does not. This draws the reader into the story because the reader knows that Lear's actions will lead to his downfall. As the story progresses the reader begins feeling very sympathetic towards Lear, because they underst .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Relationship Between Brother And Sister
Words: 965 - Pages: 4.... to Scout
Calpurnia's minor position. For Aunt Alexandra, Cal will not do as a role
model for Scout. Aunt Alexandra from the beginning shows Scout who posses
the power. “Put my bag in the front bedroom, Calpurnia, was the first
thing Aunt Alexandra said.” The first time Aunt Alexandra appears in the
novel, she instantly shows the lack of respect she has for Cal.
Alexandra does not say “please” or “thank you”, just a simple command
forcing Cal into a servitude. Cal has symbolized strength and authority
throughout Scout's childhood, by acting as a mother figure in the Finch
household. Scout has never seen Cal in .....
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Dracula
Words: 1104 - Pages: 5.... can be considered the Anti-Christ, mostly because of the showing of Anti-Christian values and perversions of the Christian religion. In chapter one as Jonathan Harker is traveling to Castle he is met by several people. When he meets these people he tells them where he is going. They cross themselves along with doing other superstitious actions. What Harker doesn't realize is that it was the eve of Saint George's Day, a night when "all the evil things in the world will have full sway"[12]. So, one of the women concerned for his safety gives him a rosary to protect him on his journey. A superstition of most is that a rosary will protect .....
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The Diary Of Anne Frank
Words: 629 - Pages: 3.... to have. Anne’s Mother was a woman who was more traditional than anything else and wanted Anne to be more like a lady. One such person was Margot. As Anne’s sister, she was very nice and didn’t speak out and was very proper. The Frank’s weren’t the only ones in this attic, there were other people such as the Van Daans. Mr. Frank let them stay because they needed a place to hide and since they had helped him out so much in the past by actually teaching Mr. Frank German, he felt it was the least he could do. The Van Daans had a son which Anne later became interested in. Peter was the only person who Anne could understand and knew th .....
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Stephen Crane's "The Open Book": Determinism, Objectivity, And Pessimism
Words: 643 - Pages: 3.... no control
over their boat, rather nature was totally in control. “She seemed just a
wee thing wallowing, miraculously top up, at the mercy of the five oceans.
Occasionally a great spread of water, like white flames, swarmed into her.”
(pg.145) There is also a sense that man is totally not important to the
natural forces controlling his fate. “When it occurs to man that nature
does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the
universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the
temple, and he hates deeply that there are no bricks and no temples.”
(pg156) The one character who perishes, t .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Forms Of Punishment
Words: 238 - Pages: 1.... level. The punishment given
can take many forms. In the book The Scarlet Letter, By Nathaniele
Hawthorne, The protagonist, Hester Prynne, is punished for an act of
adultery. Her sentence was to bear a scarlet letter of "A" upon her
bosom. This punishment is a form of public humiliation. In the 1620's
this form of punishment was one of the severest sentences given. The
people would want the guilty to suffer in front of his fellow man. To
keep the person from hiding himself from his humiliation, they produced a
device that would hold the hands and the head of the culprit in front of
everyones view. According to Hawthorne,"There is no .....
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Importance Of The Concept Of H
Words: 980 - Pages: 4.... loss. Winter on the sea is presented as an "exile" or "wræcan"1 , a form of punishment where someone is forced to leave their homeland, the place where they belong. It seems that in the early stages of the poem the seafarer identifies his life with his kinsmen on land as his home, the place that he belongs.
At first he does not seem content with his seafaring life. During the early descriptions of his time there, it is painted as a life of hardship and penance. Images and adjectives of the sea and life there are harsh and foreboding-"ice cold", "hung round with icicles" , "fettered with frost". The sea is seen as cold, and not just in the .....
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Animal Farm
Words: 1029 - Pages: 4.... the rebellion
was not a good idea. One day however, the rebellion did happen. After the animals had the farm
secure, they made laws called the Seven Commandments. They were like our ten commandments.
Then they renamed the farm from Manor Farm to Animal Farm.
The pigs learned to read and write by looking at books in the farmhouse. They also learned
many other things. The animals had to work even harder than before. They had to harvest the
fields without any tools. The animals were still happy anyway because they were free from the
farmers rule. An old donkey named Benjamin was unchanged after the rebellion. They had sort of
what was like c .....
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As I Lay Dying By William Faul
Words: 662 - Pages: 3.... never sent for you" (37) he repeats trying to avoid a doctor's fee. Before she dies Addie requests to be buried in Jefferson. When she does, Anse appears obsessed with burying her there. Even after Addie had been dead over a week, and all of the bridges to Jefferson are washed out, he is still determined to get to Jefferson. Is Anse sincere in wanting to fulfill his promise to Addie, or is he driven by another motive? Anse plays "to perfection the role of the grief-stricken widower" (Bleikasten 84) while secretly thinking only of getting another wife and false teeth in Jefferson. When it becomes necessary to drive the wagon across the river, .....
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The Stone Angel - Character An
Words: 587 - Pages: 3.... son John. That night she was “transformed to stone and never wept at all (Laurence 243)”. During Marvin’s childhood, she would impatiently dismiss him due to his slowness of speech. Once when an ecstatic Marvin told Hagar that he finished his chores, Hagar bluntly sends him away saying, “I can see you’ve finished. I’ve got eyes. Get along now … (Laurence 112)”. Even as a child she was lacked emotion when she could not provide comfort to her dying brother, Daniel. Daniel needed the comfort of his mother, but for Hagar, “to play at being her – it was beyond me (Laurence 25).& .....
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