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Great Expectations 3
Words: 1075 - Pages: 4.... like Huck Finn. Nevertheless, they attempt to make Huck into what they believe will be a better boy. Specifically, they attempt, as Huck says, to "sivilize" him. This process includes making Huck go to school, teaching him various religious facts, and making him act in a way that the women find socially acceptable. Huck, who has never had to follow many rules in his life, finds the demands the women place upon him constraining and the life with them lonely. As a result, soon after he first moves in with them, he runs away. He soon comes back, but, even though he becomes somewhat comfortable with his new life as the months go by, Huck neve .....
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Tale Of Two Cities
Words: 442 - Pages: 2.... because his life was going nowhere. In fact, if his life was moving in any direction it was down. He was a sad excuse for a lawyer. Lucie was married and had a child. The woman he loved pitied him. Yet Carton had a pathetic need to be around Lucie. For example, he swore that he would come visit Lucie and her kids frequently.
The major reasons for Sidney Carton’s death revolved around Lucie Manette. Chances are Sidney would have given up alcohol if he could have married Lucie. He most likely would have become a prosperous lawyer if he needed to support a family. Carton would not have been the “jackal” anymore, as described b .....
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The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kr
Words: 1752 - Pages: 7.... a young Jewish boy, unaware of himself. The reader gains the lessons and
morals learned throughout Duddy’s life, and also attains a better sense of knowledge
itself with the many obstacles that we as society must go through.
Duddy is a young Jewish boy, who lives in Montreal with his father Max and his brother Lennie. As a young boy Duddy Kravitz reveals to the reader that he is a rebellious character, however, he is also a young boy who cannot distinguish between right from wrong as well. Lennie Duddy’s brother was the favored sibling because he had a successful career ahead of him as he was studying to become a doctor. Max .....
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Huckleberry Finn Internal Conf
Words: 872 - Pages: 4.... seems to be some what of a play toy to Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Their respect for him as a person is scarce. The two are first portrayed in the book playing a practical joke on Jim. Although Huck mildly protests such antics, he still persists with the trickery. As a result of their pranks, Jim creates an elaborated version of the event, claiming to have seen witches and the devil. According to Huck, this gives Jim a great arrogance when around other blacks. Jim is "most ruined for a servant" (page 16). Consequently, Huck continues to view Jim as a slave, but a slave at the higher end of the spectrum. Jim may be a slave, but to Huc .....
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Hamlet 7
Words: 698 - Pages: 3.... crown, of queen, at once
dispatch’d.”(1) The meaning of the ghost’s quote is that he is telling Hamlet that Claudius killed
him when he was asleep and that he took his crown and his queen. This is the first time the reader
really knows that Claudius is cold-hearted and ruthless.
After Hamlet heard this, he held a play where the murder of his father is reacted in a scene,
that Hamlet himself designed. The purpose of this was to see Claudius’s reaction to the scene to
prove if Claudius is the real murderer or not. After Claudius sees the play he storms out of the stage
scared and surprised. Claudius t .....
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A Rose Of The South
Words: 582 - Pages: 3.... in the yellowed-wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays from the livery stable"2. The ladies in the town thought that this was a disgrace and called a meeting to have the minister talk to Miss Emily. After this attempt did not work, the minister's wife called Miss Emily's cousins to come visit Miss Emily.
When Miss Emily 's cousins arrived, people thought that her cousins had convinced her to get married, since Miss Emily had ordered a "complete out fit of men's clothing, including a nightshirt"3. Mean while Miss Emily had gone to see the druggist for some poison. She never told the druggist what the poison was for, though he ass .....
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The Independence Of Women, The
Words: 883 - Pages: 4.... to the central theme of male dominance and the societal oppression of women during this time period.
The narrator sets up the story to convey a certain opinion on the repercussions that a woman faces in the care of a man. The wife loves her husband, but she has an underlying feeling that maybe his prescription of total bed rest is not working for her. The story mentions that she has an older brother who is also a physician and concurs with her husband's theory, thus leaving her no choice but to subject herself to the torment of being alone in the room with the yellow wallpaper.
The young woman stares at this wallpaper for hours on end an .....
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The Tempest: Caliban
Words: 1667 - Pages: 7.... dam" who is Sycorax, a which). This is contrasted with Ariel whose very name associates him with the air, and being a spirit he is also seen as a positive embodiment of the super-natural.
Caliban’s lust for Miranda in "seeking to violate the honour" of her, is contrasted with Ferdinand’s true love.
Miranda: Do you love me?
Ferdinand: ...I...do love, prize, honour you.
There are many suggestions in ‘The Tempest’ that give us clues into the character of Caliban such as being referred to continuously as a tortoise, fish, cat, monster and a misshapen knave, his very name has similarities to Cannibalism.
His m .....
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Romeo And Juliet - Fate, Traits, And Choices
Words: 1236 - Pages: 5.... Lord Capulet has given County Paris Juliet’s hand in marriage if he can wait until she is sixteen. The Capulets have a party so that Juliet and the Count can meet and he can then woo her. When Romeo and Juliet first meet they are at the Capulet party, which Romeo sneaks into. They fall in love at first sight without realizing that they are enemies. Fate brings them together and it is fate that they are enemies. Thought the play, these lovers go through many obstacles that range from arranging a wedding and finding a time to meet to Juliet trying to get out of marrying Paris. The entire time fate is tossing them around. Romeo realizes th .....
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Norway
Words: 1241 - Pages: 5.... m is Glittertind and the lowest at0 m is the Norwegian Sea.
About two-thirds of are mountainous and about 50000 small islands lying around its coast. has always depended on its relations with foreign countries.
Glaciation and many other forces in time have worn down the surface to create thick sandstone, conglomerate, and limestone deposits known as sparagmite, as well as other numerous extensive areas called peneplains whose relief has been largely eroded. Remains of the latter include the Hardanger Plateau, which is the largest mountain plateau covering 4600 square miles of southern .
The climate of is an interesting one, it shares alm .....
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