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Cyrano De Bergerac
Words: 573 - Pages: 3.... letters. He also confessed toRoxane, “My mother made it clear that she didn’t find me pleasant to look at. I had no sisters.Later, I dreaded the thought of seeing mockery in the eyes of a mistress. Thanks to you, I’ve atleast had a woman’s friendship, a gracious presence to soften the harsh loneliness of my life.”When he then admits, “My heart always timidly hides its self behind my mind”, the reader can instantly relate to this dilemma but it is the fact that Cyrano is able to overcome it, then thatmakes him the ideal “chevalier servant”.Not only is Cyrano filled with emotion, but he al .....
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Oedipus The King: Free Will Vs Fate
Words: 1128 - Pages: 5.... for the plague to end, but out of compassion for his suffering people, he had Creon go to Delphi. When he learned of Apollo's word, he could have calmly investigated the murder of the former King Laius, but in his hastiness, he passionately curses the murderer, and in so, unknowingly curses himself. "Upon the murderer I invoke this curse- whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out his life in misery or doom! If with my knowledge he lives at my hearth, I pray that I myself may feel my curse." (pg. 438; lines 266-271)
In order for Sophecles' Greek audience to relate to the tragic figure, he had to have some type .....
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Paralytic - Sylvia Plath
Words: 1654 - Pages: 7.... Talkers: "You all right?"
The starched, inaccessible breast.
Dead egg, I lie
Whole
On a whole world I cannot touch.
At the white, tight
Drum of my sleeping couch
Photographs visit me-
My wife, dead and flat, in 1920 furs,
Mouth full of pearls,
Two girls
As flat as she, who whisper "We're your daughters."
The still waters
Wrap my lips,
Eyes, nose and ears,
A clear
Cellophane I cannot crack.
On my bare back
I smile, a .....
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The Mafia
Words: 1149 - Pages: 5.... eliminate from its’ "control" of the underworld and its’ stranglehold on politicians and government. Under the fascist movement in the late 20’s and 30’s of Cesare Mori, Mori tried to eliminate in any way in which he could. This attempt at elimination was quite unsuccessful since ’s base was so far ranging. ""Arlachhi (1986 44-5) concluded in 1983 "there does not exist a centralized criminal organized called … The cosca mafiosa is a simple organism but a solid one, without formalism or bureaucracy. Within it are neither statutory ordinances, initiation rites nor courts of judgment"" (Fiorienti and Peltzman 38). This is .....
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Brave New World - The Conflict Between Mond And The Savage
Words: 1700 - Pages: 7.... Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of Identical twins. The principle of mass production at last applied to biology." Mass production of humans. This is one of the principle issues - treating humans like nothing, a "cell" in the "social body". Even as children they are spoken of in terms of mass production, when "the infants were unloaded".
If mass production of humans is harsh, their whole world is summed up in a few short sentences: "The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're .....
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The Things They Carried By Tim
Words: 1531 - Pages: 6.... the effects of war on its participants. One of the soldiers, "Norman Bowler, otherwise a very gentle person, carried a Thumb. . .The Thumb was dark brown, rubbery to touch. . . It had been cut from a VC corpse, a boy of fifteen or sixteen"(13). Bowler had been a very good-natured person in civilian life, yet war makes him into a very hard-mannered, emotionally devoid soldier, carrying about a severed finger as a trophy, proud of his kill. The transformation shown through Bowler is an excellent indicator of the psychological and emotional change that most of the soldiers undergo. To bring an innocent young man from sensitive to apathetic, f .....
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Jane Eyre 2
Words: 946 - Pages: 4.... a governess. She gets one reply, from Mrs. Fairfax at Thornfield Hall.
Jane becomes a governess there for Adele a little orphan and ward of Mr. Rochester, the master of the house. Mr. Rochester isn't home and there are strange things going on in the house. Many days pass away. One day when Jane goes out to the village to post a letter, she meets a horseman with his dog.
The horse falls and the man is hurt and Jane helps him on his feet. When she is back home she recognizes the dog and understands that the horseman is Mr. Rochester.
She meets Mr. Rochester many times and they have interesting conversations and she starts to like .....
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Marxist Analysis Of Thomas Cro
Words: 2590 - Pages: 10.... and proletariat" (Marx http://www.anu. edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html#Bourgoise). That was the initial statement of Karl Marx's Manifesto of the Communist party: the distinction of the main two classes, the upper or ruling class, the bourgeoisie, and the lower or working class, the proletariat. These two terms are used to classify a broad base of classes; however, for the movie, "The Thomas Crown Affair" these terms are not hard to infer. The main character, Thomas Crown is one of the most stereotypical characterized members of the bourgeoisie any movie. This multimillionaire is seen flaunting every aspect of the uppercl .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Fixed
Words: 411 - Pages: 2.... aspect of civilized humanity, those who represent human nature survive, those who are self-actualized, the leaders die. Even their names hold meaning, Ralph's name means counsel, Jack's means (one who supplants) reflecting his use of force, Piggy's name reflects is superior intellect, Simon's means listener and Rogers means spear. This gives a clue to who could be the leader and who might survive and why society on the island broke down.
While reading chapter one, the reader can discover one of the many themes of the story. The need for civilization is the most obvious one. With out civilization man tries to define himself. Maybe that's wh .....
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Odysseus: Character And Development
Words: 432 - Pages: 2.... would make him immortal, he politely refuses. But he didn't do it in a unprofessional mannor. He had to make sure he didn't upset her. Odysseus tells her that she is far more beautiful than Penelope, but he was in fact mortal and that he wanted to libe old and die old. His skills handling the situation was evidently sharpened to the tea.
Many othe journeys awaited Odysseus. In the height of his anger, he was unstoppable adn the amount of killing that takes place was undescribable. He also had a tendensy to boast profoundly of his accomplishments, such as the many killings. This changes later.
When Odysseus finally gets hime, he has hel .....
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