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Macbeth - The Masks Of Lady Ma
Words: 1084 - Pages: 4.... entrance" (1.5.35). "Unsex me here" (1.5.37) and "make thick my blood" (1.5.39) Lady Macbeth would say, wanting to have the courage and strength of a man. To have power, she must win the "golden round" (1.5.24) and become queen of Scotland. Lady Macbeth craves for her husband's success so much that she would "dash the brains out" (1.7.58) of her own child in order to achieve her goal. The strong ambition within her makes it seem as if she had no conscience or human feeling. Supernatural incidents are what mainly motivates her desire for power. Lady Macbeth would not have wanted to commit murder if the three weird sisters had not said .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences On Huckleberry Finn
Words: 1065 - Pages: 4.... into what they believe will
be a better boy. Specifically, they attempt, as Huck says, to "sivilize"
him. This process includes making Huck go to school, teaching him various
religious facts, and making him act in a way that the women find socially
acceptable. Huck, who has never had to follow many rules in his life,
finds the demands the women place upon him constraining and the life with
them lonely. As a result, soon after he first moves in with them, he runs
away. He soon comes back, but, even though he becomes somewhat comfortable
with his new life as the months go by, Huck never really enjoys the life of
manners, religion, and .....
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Book Report: Raptor Red
Words: 458 - Pages: 2.... a
mate. They cross the berring straight to a far away land where their
instinct does not provide any protection. These animals must learn of all
the dangers of the new land without being killed. Unfortunately Raptor
Reds mate is crushed by a 20 ton herbivore which they were hunting. Now
she is all alone. Raptor Red uses her brain, which is very capable of
learning, to solve problems by means of using things she knows and
applying them to things she does not know. Then all the information she
gathers is stored forever in her memory sorted by separate thoughts. Like a
tree diagram.
Utahraptors are so smart that they can feel emotio .....
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray: Evil
Words: 905 - Pages: 4.... the day that he would age slightly and start to form wrinkles and such
ugly (in Dorian's opinion) ugly things. He believed that that day would deprive
him of triumphs that would result in him being miserable.
The degree of evil within Dorian increases as the plot develops. By
trading his soul for his youth, Dorian rids of the good inside of himself. The
plot proves to us that evil does actually lie within an individual. From the
moment that he becomes forever young he begins to deteriorate. Even once he
reached his epiphany and saw his evil through the portrait he simply denied
seeing it and continued his malicious deeds.
The c .....
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Catcher In The Rye: How Holden Deals With Alcohol, Sex, And Violence
Words: 1041 - Pages: 4.... a drink of alcohol, and the kid doesn't want his friends to think he
is a coward so he does. Then the rest of them follow.”
In the book, Between Parent and Teenager, it states the substance
abuse is the number one cause of death amongst teenagers. Studies show
that among high school students age 14 - 17, 60% of the students use
alcohol once a week, 75% use it at least once a month, and 85% have used it
once in the year.
In the novel, Holden Caulfield has very easy access to alcoholic
beverages. Throughout the novel, it seems that every time Holden gets
depressed, he turns towards alcohol. in Chapter 12, Holden is at Ernie' .....
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The Most Effective Endings Lea
Words: 602 - Pages: 3.... and generally being tyrannical towards his family. Eventually losing their trust, enough so that eventually Charlie and his brother have to restrain their father and tie him up so he can no longer torment them. This leads to a shootout with the missionaries where Allie is shot and wounded.
Paddling with their father and husband downstream on the Patuca River, in a quadriplegic state, his limbs not working, Allie is only able to speak and scream. Due to Theroux’s guidance of Allies character throughout the novel, for the reader it seems likely that he could jump up and regain control over his family and the direction of the nove .....
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Death Of A Salesman: The Control Of Linda
Words: 465 - Pages: 2.... She also gives Willy undeserved compliments on his ideas of ambition when he has none. This causes Willy to believe he is a great man when he is just "… a dime a dozen" (132).
Willy isn’t the only one Linda affects throughout the play. Biff and Happy are also under her effects. Willy always told the boys that if you were handsome, opportunity would come to you. Even though she knows this is wrong, she never teaches the boys right. She simply agrees with everything Willy says. Another example of this is when Biff goes to Bill Oliver for a loan. The two men haven’t seen each other in twenty years but Willy thought Oliver would g .....
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The Mending Wall
Words: 758 - Pages: 3.... In "Mending Wall" the boundary line is useless:
There where it is we do not need the wall.
And, to stress the point, the speaker facetiously adds:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
One may find far-reaching connotations in this poem. As well as that it states one of the greatest difficulties of our time: whether national walls should be made stronger for our safety, or whether they should be let down, since they impede our progress toward understanding and eventual common humanity.
"Mending Wall" can also be considered a symbolic poem. In .....
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Black Elk Speaks
Words: 1311 - Pages: 5.... family was likewise acknowledged as a family of wise men,
with both his father and grandfather themselves being holy men bearing the name
Black Elk. The youngest Black Elk soon experienced a vision as a young boy, a
vision of the wisdom inherent in the earth that would direct him toward his true
calling of being a wichasha wakon or holy man like his predecessors. Black
Elk's childhood vision stayed with him throughout his life, and it offered him
aid and wisdom whenever he sought it. It is from the strength of this vision,
and the wisdom in his heart that Black Elk eventually realized his place as a
leader and wise man in the Ogalala ba .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Success Of Golding's Portrayal Of The Children
Words: 1529 - Pages: 6.... to other children for leadership. Finally, children stray
towards savagery when they are without adult authority. Therefore, Golding
succeeds in effectively portraying the interests and attitudes of young
children in this novel.
When children are given the opportunity, they would rather envelop
themselves in pleasure and play than in the stresses of work. The boys
show enmity towards building the shelters, even though this work is
important, to engage in trivial activities. Af ter one of the shelters
collapses while only Simon and Ralph are building it, Ralph clamours, "All
day I've been working with Simon. No one else. They're off b .....
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