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Shakespeare's Cymbeline
Words: 770 - Pages: 3.... But her plan did not come to fruition and instead ended up hurting everyone around her including herself. Her plot got Posthumus banished and imogen Locked up in the dungeon. It got her son killed and almost killed imogen (the Tonic, that was supposed to be poison). But after she realized what her arogant scheme had done to her son, she went mad and died as a result. So in the end she got what was coming to her.
Cloten-The Queens son, he’s a character you kinda feel sorry for, because he probably wasn’t arrogant by choice, he probably inherited it from his mother. Cloten was the simple minded son of the Queen who wanted to marry Imogen, .....
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Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" And Desai's "Clear Light Of Day": Tension And Conflict Between Traditional And Modern Views
Words: 945 - Pages: 4.... is already taking place. "…in the past a man who
broke the peace was dragged on the ground throughout the village until he
died. But after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the
peace which it was meant to preserve." But traditions continued on,
including ritual killing and banishment of one of the village leaders. But
then things begin to change more rapidly with the coming of the
missionaries. When they gave them the "evil forest" to build their
churches on there was no turning back. Many of the abused and outcast were
converted when they saw that these new people prospered in the evil lands.
The people started t .....
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Romeo And Juliet
Words: 392 - Pages: 2.... marriage a secret. If their parents
discovered their secret, they would have made their children's lives
miserable. Romeo and Juliet would not have been able to see each
other. Both of these families were very stubborn and there was hardly
any thing that would have made them become friends. In the prologue
we learn that the only way the "strife" could be ended was by the
deaths of Romeo and Juliet. "Doth with their death bury their
parent's strife". (Romeo & Juliet, Prologue, l.8) Neither the
Montagues or the Capulets would have accepted the marriage. Keeping
the marriage a secret caused Romeo and Juliet to tur .....
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Alice In Wonderland
Words: 547 - Pages: 2.... bottle, this time there was no table,
"There was no label this time with the words `Drink Me' ... `I know
something interesting is going to happen' ... ` I'll just see what it
does',". Alice is like a little girl that is still exploring the world
around her, but she finds that she is more mature than the creatures in
Wonderland.
Alice is very well mannered in Victorian ways to the creatures of
Wonderland. Alice shows her good manners when she enters the white rabbits
house and the rabbit tells Alice to go fetch his gloves and fan, "I'd
better take his fan and gloves- that is if I can find them", since Alice is
a guest, uninvited, she foll .....
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Summary Of Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife
Words: 377 - Pages: 2.... I wouldn't care!" (pg.336). A couple of
minutes passed and the situation was getting worse. Therefore, Winnie
brought Yiku, the baby, to show Wen Fu that she was really sick. She
thought that maybe this way his husband was going to react to the problem
and help for the baby to live. When he saw his daughter he said; " Why
didn't you tell me she was this way?" (pg.337). One day Wen Fu went to a
restaurant with some friends. There, he became friends with the waitress
and the relation between them became much stronger than only a simple
friendship. Later on, they had intimate relations and she got pregnant.
When Wen Fu found out that sh .....
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Pride In The Iliad
Words: 561 - Pages: 3.... are marks of glory." If Hector had salvaged his pride
and retreated to safety, he would have lived to defend Troy. Therefore, the
possibility arises that he could have stopped the onslaught of the Acheans
altogether, and won the war for the Trojans. The result of Hectors pride
was his death and the betrayment of his fellow warriors and friends.
Another person within the Iliad whose pride was the downfall of his
character, was Patrocleus. Patrocleus was a great warrior, friend, and
asset to the Achiens. But, he made foolish choices on account of his pride.
For instance he chose to wear Achille's armor into battle when Achilles
refus .....
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Joy Luck Club
Words: 1487 - Pages: 6.... to honor one's parents, one's husband and to try to please him and his family. Ying-Ying was not expected to have her own will and make her own way through life.
The result of this education was a disaster. She was married to a bad man who left her after a short time to follow other women. Her love for him turned to hate, and she killed her unborn baby. This act gave her remorse for all her life since she considered it a murder. Tortured by this incident, she had a mental breakdown, for a period of time, when her second son -- with her second husband, St. Clair -- died at birth. She saw it as a punishment for her previous behavior.
After lea .....
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The Yellow Wall Paper
Words: 1819 - Pages: 7.... place in a house in the countryside. John’s plan was to get his wife away from all the hustle and bustle and have her relax. John, a doctor, along with another doctor, gave John’s wife a prescription of exercise, rest and absolutely no writing. They believed (along with society) that this was the best thing for people suffering from insanity. John never came out and said she was going insane. He just said she was stressed and needed rest. He actually told her not to think about her condition; it would only make things worse. So for the few weeks they were on vacation, she tried to follow his prescription except for whe .....
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Comparison Of Macbeth And Jack (of Lord Of The Flies)
Words: 528 - Pages: 2.... with the three witches.
Fourthly, they both became more cruel as they gained more power. After
Jack formed his own group and set up a camp on Castle Rock, he became more
cruel than before. For Macbeth, he hesitated six times before killing
Duncan. But when he planned to kill Banquo and Macduff's family, he didn't
hesitated and killed them without regret. Lastly, they were both
superstitious. Jack was superstitious, he worshipped the Lord of the Flies
and held a ritual dance around the camp fire after sacrificing the pig. For
Macbeth, he believed in the fortune telling of the three witches. (Quote:
All hail Macbeth, hail to thee .....
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Frankenstein: Reflects Of Mary Shelley's Life
Words: 1118 - Pages: 5.... of a family structure..." (Ellis 125). Since Mary Shelley grew up in a home with family struggles and tragedies, she writes in her novel about the broken family structure. She includes everything from "...the relation between the sexes..." to "...the relationship between parents and children" (Ellis 125). In her book however, the relationship between parent and child becomes creator and creation. "I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness" (Shelley 70). One can now see how the characters from the novel reflect Shelley's own life.
The .....
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