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Alice In Wonderland: Summary
Words: 926 - Pages: 4.... yelling; “Oh my ears and whiskers, im late, im late, im late!” Alice looks around in the hall that is paneled by “strange doors.” How curious she is, she does not open them.
At the end of the hall she finds a glass table. On top of the table she sees a little bottle and a gold key. The bottle is marked “drink me”, being as thirsty as she was she took a sip of it. The room seemed to be getting bigger to her all of the sudden, but that wasn’t the case, she was getting smaller. She tried the little door that the rabbit had gone through but it was locked. She had forgotten the key that was on the table.
Alice starts to cr .....
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The Dead
Words: 452 - Pages: 2.... than the rest, he is arrogant and vain. b. Page 14 When the aunts and Gretta are discussing the goloshes which Gabriel insisted Gretta wear, they are pleasantly mocking him and making light of the situation. But Gabriel takes it personally, because everything deals with him, and he gets angry/heated. c. Page 12 Gabriel gives a coin to Lily, the caretaker’s daughter, and she tried to refuse but he just keeps on walking. After leaving he was disappointed that a person would refuse his offers. He offered the coin to Lily to boost his ego. d. Pages 21-23 while dancing with Miss Ivors, she mentions to him that she has noticed his article in .....
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The Scarlet Letter Essay
Words: 1210 - Pages: 5.... to unburden himself of his sin by revealing it to his congregation, but somehow can never quite manage this. He is a typical diagnosis of a "wuss".
To some extent, Dimmesdale's story is one of a single man tempted into the depths of the hormonal world. This world, however, is a place where the society treats sexuality with ill grace. But his problem is enormously complicated by the fact of Hester's marriage (for him no technicality), and by his own image of himself as a cleric devoted to higher things. Unlike other young men, Dimmesdale cannot accept his loss of innocence and go on from there. He must struggle futilely to get back to w .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Dimmesdale As The Greatest Sinner
Words: 370 - Pages: 2.... see him. Even in the end of the novel when he confesses he is about to leave the country, still running away from his problems, never facing the consequence of his sin. The townspeople dont want to believe his sin anyway because they think to highly of him. He neglected his parental responsibilities as a father by not keeping in touch with Pearl and Hester. This was a very sinful thing to do. When Pearl asks him if he will stand with them on the scaffold he says no, just crushing the child. And Hester does nothing cut encourage this behavior by saying that one day he will stand with them. The last reason that Dimmesdale is the greate .....
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A Midsummer Nights Dream
Words: 739 - Pages: 3.... returned, There to remain." This proves he is a fool, because he is not aware of his changing love for Helena.
Helena is a fool because Demetrius does not love her but she still persists in chasing him. Demetrius shows no love for Helena. (II i,line 227-228) Demetrius says, "I'll run from thee, and hide me in the brakes, And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts." (II i,line 199-201) "Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair? Or rather do I not in plainest truth Tell you I do not, nor I cannot love you?" Demetrius clearly illustrates to Helena that he has no interest, but Helena persists. (II i,line 202-204) Helena says, "And even for that do .....
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Evil In Human Nature
Words: 356 - Pages: 2.... was thinking of only himself because he felt that he might be questioned and accused of things. His actions may not have been violent but they were still evil. Another story where evil and human nature bind together is in "A Rose for Emily". This story and also a town's ability to pry and gossip. Emily was so in love with her lover that even after he died she slept with his corpse. Her actions did not allow the young man to rest in peace. Her actions were turned from love to evil without even realizing it. the townspeople were extremely worried about Emily literally locking herself up in the house but their actions also portrayed evil. Man .....
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Interview With The Vampire
Words: 354 - Pages: 2.... or attracted by each other, both the mortals and the immortals. Their love and hate and struggles go to such degrees, and yet limited by their nature, it was almost impossible to understand it at all. I believe Anne Rice had used those characters to express humanity, the whole plot was some kind of an irony. Something like a metaphor, though she exaggerated everything to make it poignant enough.
Not only were the characters a success, the time and place details were incredible. The costumes, ways of manner, history and every background changes as the years passed, and she made the backgrounds so realistic that I could almost feel .....
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A Sword In The Stone
Words: 868 - Pages: 4.... to Arthur is when Merlyn turns him into a fish in order to let him explore. From this experience with the fish, Arthur learns that size and physical strength didn't really matter and instead, it was more important to have intelligence and to know how and when to use it. Merlyn had a very interesting philosophy, which I agree with, he told Arthur "The way to learn it's by listening to the experts." This quote leads to another of the many experiences Arthur had, the one with the hawks. This one was only so that Arthur had a chance to see other's point of view and to see what these experts (the hawks) did different.
What Merlyn tried t .....
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Jurrasic Park
Words: 518 - Pages: 2.... embryos. This all takes place while the visitors are out in the park touring, and in the mist of a terrible storm. After Nedry has executed a virus in order to steal the embryos the storm hits, and the park power goes out. As the power goes out the visitors to the island are stuck in the middle of nowhere, with an escaped T-Rex. Everyone flees and is scattered through the park. The animals begin attacking the control building, while they are search for food. Since all the power is out there is no way to stop them, or containing them. In the hysteria a scientist , Wu, discovers that the dinosaurs have been mating, which they thought wasn't po .....
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Thomas More's Utopia
Words: 986 - Pages: 4.... the evolution of a society is held back due to fear of change. Bribery was common because greed was a problem within the upper class. These are problems on which the Utopian society wished to focus on improving.
Economically the problems were widespread. A large gap between the rich and the poor became the cause of other societal problems such as poverty, vagrancy and theft. This problem was worsened by the ruling class. The tendency of the upper class was to "keep bleeding them (lower class) white by constantly raising their rents." The economically sound Kings had outrageous spending habits and brought in money by "raising the va .....
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