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Symbolism In The Scarlet Lette
Words: 1776 - Pages: 7.... and reminded her of her sin. Hester*s penalization was a prime example where deception led to negative consequences in that she would have been spared the entire encumbrance of the crime if she did not deceive the townspeople. Although seemingly, her paramour did not escape punishment. In fact, the father of her bastard child took a more severe sentence. Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale seemed to be an upstanding, young priest. The whole town liked him and respected him as a holy man. Thus, his deception was much more direct and extreme when he did not confess that he impregnated Hester Prynne. Unlike Hester, he was not publicly punished. So alt .....
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Did Odyssues Bring The Trouble
Words: 478 - Pages: 2.... cost them friends and shipmates, and made their attempt to get home, even more difficult.
After stabbing Polyphemus in his eye and blinding him, Odysseus provoked and harassed the Cyclops, which angered him immensely. “ Cyclops, if ever mortal man inquire how you were put to shame and blinded, tell him Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye: Laertes’ son whose home’s on Ithaca”, shouted Odysseus to the crippled Polyphemus, which was not very smart. If Odysseus had not told the Cyclops this incriminating information, he would have had a much safer journey. Polyphemus begged his father Poseidon, god of eart .....
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Bioethics In A Brave New World
Words: 878 - Pages: 4.... immoral values (McCormick, 21). More and more doctors forget the gift of life and make inhumane decisions. As in the medical procedures of euthanasia and abortion. As Richard A. McCormick stated, "The most basic value in the practice of medicine is obviously the sanctity of live." (21)
Alodus Huxley’s novel, A Brave New World deals with many controversial moral conflicts. From the beginning of
the novel when Huxley introduces us to his world with ectogenesis (test tube babies) which is one of the most controversial religious and ethical dilemmas (Huxley, 1-17). Among the many other issues in A Brave New World are the Anthrax bomb ( .....
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Explication Of Ezra Pound S In
Words: 344 - Pages: 2.... few form, hence, “Petals on a wet, black bough”(2).
The author uses “Petals” to relate to the faces that he notices in the amorphous crowd from the “bough” which he relates to the train. Pound uses “Petals” which signify beauty and delicacy, an object spawned from the sun and places them in the “wet, black bough” which relates to subjects of a subterranean plane, a place that is void of sun which is indicative of a subway station. The word “black” used by Pound describes the conditions of the subway. Words associated with black used in this context are indicative .....
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Herman Melville
Words: 1733 - Pages: 7.... Melvilles were somewhat less successful materially, possessing an unpredictable. erratic, mercurial strain. (Edinger 6). This difference between the Melvilles and Gansevoorts was the beginning of the trouble for the Melville family. Hermans mother tried to work her way up the social ladder by moving into bigger and better homes. While borrowing money from the bank, her husband was spending more than he was earning. It is my conclusion that Maria Melville never committed herself emotionally to her husband, but remained primarily attached to the well off Gansevoort family. (Humford 23) Allan Melville was also attached financially to the Gans .....
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Bloods Importance In Macbeth
Words: 1297 - Pages: 5.... and it was thought that poison made blood thick. Lady Macbeth wants to poison her own soul, so that she can kill without remorse. Just before Macbeth kills King Duncan he stares at the dagger that his mind imagines. He stares at the dagger and sees thick drops of blood appear at the hilt and blade. Then Macbeth says to the dagger “I see thee still, /And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of
blood, / Which was not so before” (320). However, Macbeth didn’t lose it all yet and he says, "There's no such thing. / It is the bloody business which informs / Thus to mine eyes” (320). The bloody business he is referring to .....
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Bridge Of San Luis Rey
Words: 734 - Pages: 3.... a kind of companion for the Abbess, accompaning her on her trips, on which she was educated in the management of women, wards, and how to beg for money. Yet the strangest part of her education was the Abbess's decision to send her to live with the Marquesa. The Marquesa was a crazy woman who made Pepita's life even worse then it already was. As her companion Pepita was ignored constantly and lived a life of solitude.
Pepita is that life in the novel, she is the only good love that exist in a world of those who either love too much or those who love too little. The Marquesa drove her daughter away, because she loved too much. Although .....
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Awakening Concepts Of Morality
Words: 520 - Pages: 2.... at Mrs. Pontellier. A quote to help one picture the ill-willed persistence carried by Mrs. Pontellier was mentioned when the book summarizes her emotions: “She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant. She could not at that moment have done other than denied and resisted (P.31).” Her insistent attitude also made her self-righteous and neglectful of other persons.
In other ways, Mrs. Pontellier’s morality led to a dreadful deceit of her own children. Her self-righteous mindset was damaging to her children’s vitality. The ways that she treated the children were full of neglect. As in a certain night, Mr. .....
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King Henry IV Part 1 - Hal
Words: 1441 - Pages: 6.... and slips of the tongue which he makes throughout the play. The first indication of this comes at his soliloquy in Act 2, Scene 1. It would be impossible for a reasonable man to have boozed and bummed all of his teen years and suddenly renounce his life and become reborn. There is an amoral quality to Hal that allows him to change allegiances as political winds would call it wise. But it is not just amorality that makes Hal a politician - he desires power as well. His amorality culminates in his eulogies for Hotspur and Falstaff with the greatest grasp of power he makes in the play. After he gives them and Falstaff is found alive, he r .....
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A Midsummer Nights Dream
Words: 739 - Pages: 3.... now to Helen is it home
returned, There to remain." This proves he is a fool, because he is
not aware of his changing love for Helena.
Helena is a fool because Demetrius does not love her but she
still persists in chasing him. Demetrius shows no love for Helena.
(II i,line 227-228) Demetrius says, "I'll run from thee, and hide me
in the brakes, And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts."
(II i,line 199-201) "Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair? Or rather
do I not in plainest truth Tell you I do not, nor I cannot love you?"
Demetrius clearly illustrates to Helena that he has no interest, but
Helena persists. (II i, .....
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