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Odysseus: Metis Is His Most Important Quality
Words: 1145 - Pages: 5.... would stand and look down with eyes fixed upon the ground,
And his staff he would move neither backwards or forwards,
But would hold it stiff, just like a man of no understanding;
You would have thought him a nasty man and nothing but a fool.
But when his great voice arose from his chest,
And his words fell like the snowflakes on a winter’s day,
Then could no other mortal man rival Odysseus. (III, ll. 210-220).
In addition, Agamemnon expresses his anger towards Odysseus’ deceptive nature during a battle by addressing Odysseus as “you crafty-minded Odysseus, excellent in civil tricks” (IV, ll. 339).
Odysseus’ polymetis can .....
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Lit. Crit. Jaws
Words: 2232 - Pages: 9.... Benchley has been a novelist, a reporter, an editor, staff assistance to the president, and has worked in the White House doing other various things. There is a particular interesting moment in Benchley's life. When he was working in the White House, the president picked up some of his work to read it and said something along the lines of “Bull shit”. The president basically called it trash. The majority of his novels are closely related to the ocean if not in the ocean. An example of some of these are The Beast or White Shark. Both of those of which were made into screen plays. He also wrote a childrens book called Jonat .....
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Why Animal Farm Is A Great Pie
Words: 498 - Pages: 2.... of the farm. That symbolizes the Russian Revolution. The title of the book makes you think that it’s only about animals, but instead it’s really about Communist Russia. Each of the animals represents the Russian leaders and the Russian people.
“Trotsky and Stalin's relationship was very much like Snowball's and Napoleons. Trotsky organized the Red Army and gave speeches and everyone in Russia thought he would win power over Stalin. After Lenin's death Trotsky lost all his power to Stalin and was expelled from the communist party.”(Bignerds.com, unsure/unclear)
Boxer the horse represents how people can be used for .....
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The Storm 3
Words: 509 - Pages: 2.... Alcee relate to a storm that had started almost as soon as Alcee rode up on his horse. As Alcee stands on the porch, (the actual text notes that he had no intention of walking inside the house), the water beat through the boards forcing Alcee to enter the house. The water even went so far as to actually follow Alcee into the house, to the point where it was necessary to put something beneath the door to keep the water out. More instances where the storm relates with the characters is when Calixta is looking out the window, and a lightning bolt strikes a tree, and causes Calixta to fall into the arms of Alcee, foreshadowing the passion th .....
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Franny And Zooey: Franny
Words: 529 - Pages: 2.... else.”(Salinger, 149) Instead of looking for the positive qualities in others, she made a generalization that all people are egotistical and self-seeking. Additionally, she “raved and bitched about the stupidity of [her] audiences [and their] unskilled laughter.”(Salinger, 199) Despite the fact that the audiences were supporting Franny by watching her perform, she insists all audiences are stupid. Franny’s religious quest caused her to view her surroundings pessimistically.
Franny was worried by her questions concerning religion. These questions caused her to be extremely bitter. “[She] picked on professo .....
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Scarlet Letter 8
Words: 2960 - Pages: 11.... had numerous opportunities to confess the truth of his sin to his church, he chose to hold the black secret inside himself. On the other hand, Hester Prynne could not hide the truth because Pearl and the scarlet letter “A” were open confessions of her sin. Hester had committed adultery and she felt that “God, as a direct consequence of the sin, had given her a child, whose place was on that same dishonored bosom.”(82) Pearl was sent from God as a reminder to Hester and the Puritan community of her sin each and every day. However, Hester chose not to tell who Pearl's father was. “Pearl was the scarlet let .....
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A Rose For Emily
Words: 761 - Pages: 3.... because she dominated the neighbors, who want her to clean up her court. Of course, the town members, who are perhaps represented by the unnamed narrator, were ready to get rid of this burden ; but in some indescribable way they were tied by the last remnants of mystique that surrounded her. They found it impossible to directly confront her - to evict her for not paying taxes - to approach her about the awful stench coming from her house. Moreover, when she went to the drugstore and requested the best poison that exist, arsenic, the druggist asked her why she wanted this poison because " the law requires you to tell what you are goi .....
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Elephant Man
Words: 797 - Pages: 3.... screams of horror and looks of disgust greeted him. As a young child, his mother passed away leaving him a homeless orphan. So, because of his hideous looks, being displayed as half-man and half-elephant at a freak-show became normal. His life consisted of torment and torture for the next twenty years of his life, until Sir Frederick Treeves asked him to come and be studied at the London hospital. Soon, Treeves arranged with the head of the hospital for Merrick to live in an extra room at the hospital. After twenty years of loneliness and disrespect, John Merrick finally had a place to call home. He began to ignore his monstrous .....
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The Crucible: Personal Turmoil
Words: 909 - Pages: 4.... her mind, as shown when Proctor sends her home and she responds with "I'm just going home" (Miller, 21). As the play continues and as Abigail, the antagonist, influences her, Mary begins to break this self-induced mold. Mary Warren, along with many other girls, gets caught up in all the attention and power of initiating and adamantly continuing these "Witch Trials". Finally, John Proctor, the rationalist farmer, shows Mary that when people like Rebecca Nurse and Elizabeth Proctor, who are the saintliest of people, are accused of being witches, something must be wrong. Thus, Mary Warren is faced with a difficult decision to make. She has rea .....
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Happiness In Brave New World
Words: 728 - Pages: 3.... After many repetitions of one phrase, the idea is hardened within the human mind, proving most difficult to undo. Evidence of this method to provide artificial happiness surfaces in both Lenina and Bernard’s actions. Huxley states this coldly during Lenina’s trip home with Henry Foster, “‘What a hideous color khaki is,’ remarked Lenina, voicing the hypnopædic prejudices of her caste” (62). Khaki is a color worn by lower castes in the society and the higher castes are taught not to associate with them. Bernard’s hypnopædic lessons did not work as well as most. He sees everything in this art .....
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