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Fahrenheit 451
Words: 771 - Pages: 3.... find all of them requires several readings. The main plot, following Montag, illustrates the importance of making mistakes in order to grow. For example, at the very end of the book Granger (an outspoken rebel to the book-banning laws) compares mankind to a phoenix that burns itself up and then rises out of its ashes over and over again. Man\'s advantage is his ability to recognize when he has made an error, so that eventually he will learn not to make that mistake anymore. Remembering the faults of the past is the task Granger and his group have set for themselves. They believe that individuals are not as important as the collective .....
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Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Words: 502 - Pages: 2.... of his immortal soul, he charges off into the unknown.
However, chargin off without being prepared, usually brings trouble.
And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
Was tyrannous and strong;
He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
And chased us south along.
With sloping masts and dipping prow,
As who pursued with yell and blow
Still treads the shadow of his foe,
And forward bends his head,
The ship drove fas .....
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The Masque Of Red Death: The Masque Of Poe
Words: 546 - Pages: 2.... died of tuberculoses. At the age of twenty-six
Poe married his cousin Virginia. She later died of tuberculoses. His
brother died of tuberculoses also.
In "The Masque of Red Death," Poe uses color as a symbol. He used
the colors red, blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and black. In
the story red stand for the death that comes over everyone in the story.
In Poe's life it stands for the diseases that has killed everyone important
to him, tuberculoses. Blue is the color of the first room, in Poe's life
it is supposed to be him. The second room in the story is the color purple,
this color is for Poe's mother. Then there .....
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The Enlightenment Writers
Words: 301 - Pages: 2.... pushed forward their ideas and beliefs
that all men should be educated and have the ability to read so that they
might learn more and rise higher, socially and politically which would lead
to self betterment.
Enlightenment writers and pre-Enlightenment writers were similar in
the way that they tried to convey reason and learning. They differed of
the premise of the techniques of writing. The pre-Enlightenment writers
were mostly made up of the educated class of clergy and the upper class,
who would afford to go to school. The clergy wrote mainly for the purposes
of the church, such as transcribing books or writing works on God or
religi .....
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The Iliad
Words: 1554 - Pages: 6.... of Paris; on the Trojans'
side
Athena daughter of Zeus; goddess of wisdom; on
the Achaian side
Ares son of Zeus; god of prophecy, light, poetry,
and music; on the Trojans' side
Zeus supreme god and king of Olympos
Poseidon younger brother of Zeus; god of sea
Chryseis and Briseis who were captured during a raid in Troy are awarded
as ‘war prizes' to Agamemnon and Achilles. Chryseis for Agamemnon and Briseis
for Achilles. Chryseis is the daughter of Chryses which prays Apollo .....
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Analysis Of The Love Song Of J
Words: 851 - Pages: 4.... and I."(l, 1 Eliot) The poem started off with this illusion to the Inferno as a way to symbolize Prufrock's journey, and his fear of death. Prufrock could be looked upon as Virgil. In the poem he guided the reader through his tangled world of existentialism. When Eliot said, "Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets…"(ll 3-4 Eliot) it showed that Prufrock was numb. He had no feeling for anyone or his surroundings. J. Alfred Prufrock only felt one thing. He felt the fear of life and death. In some ways, he spent his entire life preparing for his death. Prufrock knew that his life had n .....
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Analysis Of The Machine That W
Words: 461 - Pages: 2.... have been unreliable.
This conflict, as you will note later, helped win the war.
The great computer was capable of creating a direct battle plan which
Earth forces could use to attack their enemies. However, with Henderson
inputting faulty data, this caused some of the battle plans to be unreliable. His
internal conflict between himself losing his job and wanting to keep it made
him jingle with the programming until it seemed right.
This foreshadowing helps the reader to see that someone is going to
have to act upon Henderson’s faults if the war is to be won. Swift, the
military commander, received these battle plans that Henders .....
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Othello
Words: 1394 - Pages: 6.... of deception. He lies to everyone taking great care to disguise his own thoughts. For example, in Act 1 scene 2, when he is speaking to about his feelings toward Cassio, he uses very strong language, while at the same time, he lies throughout the whole speech faking loyalty to a fellow soldier and all the while implying that he is reluctantly holding back the full truth: "I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth. Than it should do offense to Michael Cassio" (I.ii.21-22). This deception impresses and convinces that his officer is a good and loyal soldier. Iago also succeeds in deceiving Cassio. After Cassio's drunken fig .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird 2 ---
Words: 369 - Pages: 2.... of a mockingbird beacuse he
was killed just simply for the color of his skin.
Another character who was symbolized by the mockingbird
was Boo Radley. Boo was a man who was seen by society to be
dangerous. Actually, Boo was kind and gentle. Children played
games making fun of him because he never came out of his house.
Boo came to Jem and Scouts rescue when they were attcaked by
Bob Ewell going home from the Halloween Party. Its very easy to
make assumptions about other people who they do not know about.
People viewed him according to what they had heard. Its easy for
one false rumor to spread into something that hur .....
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Death Of A Salesman 2
Words: 537 - Pages: 2.... occasionally. The lies he tells entrap him. Howard ask's Willy,
"where are your sons? why don't your sons give you a hand?". Willy replies, "they're
working on a very big deal" Howard remarks, "this is no time for false pride, Willy
you go to your sons and you tell them that you're tired. You've got two great boys,
haven't you?". After willy is fired, he discovers that the only person he can borrow
money from is Charley his next door neighbour. Willy comes to realize that Charley
is his only friend and he says "Isn't that remarkable." It is Charley's success that annoys
Willy and which prevents him later .....
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