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The True Evil - Frankenstein
Words: 1052 - Pages: 4.... all beasts of the world. At a more detailed level, the word represents a sharp contrast from the softness and goodness of "the Lamb."
"Tyger! Tyger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" (Lines 1-4) Blake calls the "Tyger" twice in the beginning stanza to gain the creature's attention. The poem then offers a brief view of the creature and its setting. This view tells of the evil of this creature. "Burning bright" creates a picture of a fire and a symbol of hell. "The night" adds to the portrayal of evil. Blake then asks the "Tyger," What "immortal hand" (God) c .....
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Jack London
Words: 1000 - Pages: 4.... In his spare time, he attempted to further his education by reading the works of Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Rudyard Kipling, Friedrich Nietzche, and others. He joined the Klondike gold rush or 1898, returning to San Francisco penniless, but with a wealth of memories which provided the raw material for his first stories. Jack London fought his way up out of the factories and waterfront dives of West Oakland to become the highest paid, most popular novelist and short story writer of his day. He wrote passionately and prolifically about the great questions of life and death, the struggle to survive with dignity and integrity, and he .....
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Everyday Heroes, On To Kill A
Words: 1495 - Pages: 6.... ideas of change, and people begin to admire his will power. They finally begin to admit to themselves that their consciences agree with him. The populace shows its unrest as they see he will take up the case in the quote, "Yea but Atticus aims to defend him that's what I don't like about it" (163). His town is used to the common defense lawyers taking the cases of defending Negroes, and putting on a sham trial. Therefore, when a champion of human rights like Atticus actually does his job, he is looked upon with scorn. They are so used to the accepted ways of everyday life, that no lawyer would dare go against them all, and risk .....
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An American Tragedy: Comparing "The Crucible" And "The Scarlet Letter"
Words: 734 - Pages: 3.... written by an American.
Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter was written in the eighteen hundreds,
with no other purpose but for Hawthorne to write a novel. Hawthorne
perhaps chose this dark subject to convey his contempt for Puritanism. He
was a man preoccupied with the hidden sin which is illustrated in not only
the Scarlet Letter, but also in The Minister's Black Veil. One might even
say that Hawthorne's ancestry (Hathorne) is what he might consider his own
"Pearl", and this is why he changed his name.
Like Miller's the Crucible, The Scarlet Letter takes place in
Puritan Salem and has a tragic hero, but these are the only .....
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Familial Themes With Shakespea
Words: 1663 - Pages: 7.... being praised blinded him to the child who was really the only one who loved him, Cordelia. The same with the Earl of Gloucester, he was blinded by his illegitimate child, Edmund, who set out to turn him away from his heir, Edgar. Within the story, these two children and a few loyal servants try to help and eventually try to save the King and Gloucester, but they are both too stubborn to recognize the goodness and true bond in these people. The story of King Lear deals with the turmoil of a chaotic world began by the boundaries of family and personal relationships being turn upside down.
The story opens with King Lear, ready to retire .....
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Why Hamlet Is Not Fit To Rule
Words: 948 - Pages: 4.... life, the
deep love for his parents and an overpowering encountering
with the supernatural.
The play shows no intimation of Hamlet either waiting
or longing to be king. By all accounts he appears content as
Prince. Likewise, one can venture his childhood balanced and
happy. Hamlet laments the skull of Yorick, "Alas, poor /
Yorick! I knew him, Horatio--a fellow of infinite / jest, of
most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand
times,.." (5.1.190-193). Also, he speaks highly of his
father and possesses a profound closeness to his mother.
This shows remarkable parenting, producing an eminently
loving, respectful .....
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Grendel Vs. Beowulf
Words: 943 - Pages: 4.... and other undesirable beings, all of which were rejected from society. Beowulf and Grendel both speak of Grendel’s ancestor Cain, almost as if using it as an excuse for his rash and murderous actions. Beowulf told of a Grendel that mercilessly attacked Hrothgar’s meadhall killing men without reason. Grendel also speaks of this evil monster, but in a more sympathetic and excusable manner. Grendel is thought of as “the guardian of sins” and is the physical equivalent to a man that has been shunned by God. He is described as a hideous bear like ogre in human like shape. Both literary pieces tell of his extraordin .....
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The Glass Menagerie -x
Words: 588 - Pages: 3.... Caller awaits her in the livingroom. Unable to deal with those difficulties, Laura goes to the zoo and walks aimlessly around the city to waste time. Frightened of interacting with people, she looks to her collection of glass animals as a place of secure acceptance. Laura clings to the fear that she is strange and crippled though she herself exagerates the reality of that. Magnifying her illness, denying her inner beauty to come forth, is the way Laura hides from a world lit by 'lightning."
Tom, on the other hand, relies on self-denial to justify his concerns and feelings of insecurity. By making himself believe that he is a good man, .....
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Merchant Of Venice - Antonio A
Words: 559 - Pages: 3.... Shylock almost got him killed, and Shylock's prejudice against Antonio converted him to Christianity and robbed him of all his possessions.
Perhaps the play is neither pro-Jewish, nor pro-Christian, since neither the Jew or the Christian are perfect, they both have faults. After reading The Merchant of Venice and seeing how unjustly poor Shylock was treated by his Christian contemporaries, I can't help but wonder if Shakespeare was actually trying to show the world how hypocritical members of any religion could be, be it Jewish, Christian, or anything else. For, although these two disliked each other based mainly on differences of rel .....
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A Literary Analysis Of East Of
Words: 1237 - Pages: 5.... not let her, she shot him. Even though Adam survived he was demoralized for most of his life because he still loved her. Through Adam’s experiences of love in the novel, John Steinbeck shows that Adam Trask has an inability to handle love.
When he first appears in the novel, Adam Trask is a young man who is not loved by his brother or mother but only by his father. Cyrus had punished Adam before and had tried to teach him to be a soldier and so Adam hated him for that and when Cyrus told him he loved him, Adam did not accept his love. Cyrus tells Adam, “I think you’re a weakling who will never amount to a dog turd. Does that answer you .....
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