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The Canterbury Tales: Wife Of Bath
Words: 862 / Pages: 4 .... four of five husbands for “of five housbodes scoleying” (P50) is
she. She holds not her tongue, and says exactly what she thinks, even if
she contradicts others, even Jesus. For in the Bible it states that Jesus “
Spak in repreve of the Samaritan:/‘Thou hast yhad five housbondes,' quod
he,/‘And that ilke man that now hath thee/Is nat thyn housbonde'” (P16).
Despite this quote from the holy writ, the Wife states that ther are no
other arguments “Eek wel I woot he [Jesus] saide that myn housbonde/Sholde
lete fader and moder and take me,/But of no nombre mencion made he [Jesus]-
-/Of bigamye or of octagamye” (P30). She maintains .....
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1984: Summary
Words: 1282 / Pages: 5 .... would even think
"criminal" thoughts to begin with since they had no knowledge of any crime
from personal experience or history.
The main character of this book is Winston Smith. Even though he is
portrayed as a criminal, I believe that he is a victim of a system that is
criminal. All through this book Winston's convictions lead us to believe
that he is ethical and the Party is unjust but it is left up to the readers
discretion to decide whether he is the criminal or just a victim of a
totalitarian society. The first instance of Winstons "criminal" nature was
when he bought an illegal journal, quill and bottle of ink to record his
thoughts. Althou .....
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On The Road
Words: 274 / Pages: 1 .... realistic. Jack Kerovac, who is the author of the book, places himself as the narrator. Sal paradise (jack Kervac) and his best companion dean Morioty start of in New York and travels ton California to live life to its fullest. While in California Sal and Dean encounter some people that they knew. The hopes and aspirations of these guys are to find the ultimate type of euphoria. The one thing they do encounter on their road trip is the lack of responsibility that Dean had for life. He had numerous sexual partners that at one time and ended up getting them pregnant because of it. Sal Paradise is a man who likes to do things spontaneous. Just .....
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Seeing Futher Through Tears Th
Words: 526 / Pages: 2 .... "If that thy bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow. . . And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay, and follow thee my lord throughout the world" (Lines 142-143, 146-147, Scene 2, Act 2). After he marriage she is told by her nurse she is to marry Paris. In a blind fury she runs to Friar Lawrence with a knife to her body, thinking that her only option was to dye or hear a plan presented by Friar Lawrence to get her out of a second marriage. "If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help, do thou but call my resolution wise, and with this knife I'll help it presently. . .'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife shall play um .....
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Macbeths Character
Words: 831 / Pages: 4 .... mean.
At the start of the play the audience hail Macbeth as a hero but as he begins to think about murdering the king the audience feel he isn't so heroic after all, and they begin to dislike him.
We learn from Lady Macbeth, the person who knows him best that he is too nice to be able to kill anyone especially the present king: "is too full o' th' milk of human kindness, "says Lady Macbeth. She then devises a plan to kill Duncan while he is staying with them.
Duncan has arrived and is having dinner. Macbeth leaves and decides not to murder Duncan. Lady Macbeth accuses him of being less than a man for not killing him. Macbeth is not a natural born .....
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The Glass Menagerie
Words: 563 / Pages: 3 .... the fact that Tom's mother sells magazine subscriptions over the phone.
The character is played well by, Chris Hendrix. He is fitted in what seems to be typical factory workers' uniforms. The actual acting of Tom is amazing. He looks as if he really gets into the part. In some of the narrative scenes, Tom actually leaves the stage and walks up and down the aisle of the theatre. No matter how unconventional his action, it was very effective. That action brought the play to the audience and made the audience feel as if they were active members of the play. Given the fact that the play has the confining effect of a small St. Louis apartment, it .....
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Death Of A Salesman - Example Of Character Analysis: Problems Of The Loman Family
Words: 558 / Pages: 3 .... jail. He encouraged Biff to cheat off Bernard on the math final exam. Willy believed that socializing, practicing, and being well liked weighed much more in Biff's life than grades. Biff's stealing led to lying. Biff lied when he said that he had wandered the country for the past three months; actually, he stayed in prison for stealing a suit. Biff's impatience led to stealing. After waiting for a long time to see Oliver for an interview, he took off down the stairs taking Oliver's expensive fountain pen with him. After admitting to himself that he robbed himself of every job he had, he tried to explain it to his father. As a result, Biff's stealing .....
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Edna's Suicide In The Awakening
Words: 1707 / Pages: 7 .... and unsuitable woman figures. Mademoiselle Ratignolle
is the ideal Grand Isle woman, a home-loving mother and a good wife, and
Mademoiselle Reisz as the old, unmarried, childless, musician who devoted
her life to music, rather than a man. Feeling that neither of their
lifestyles were suitable and lacking the ability to create a model of her
own, Edna in the closing of The Awakening commits suicide by walking into
the ocean. Perhaps if there had been a more well rounded woman figure in
Edna’s life, she wouldn’t have felt the life she craved was, “...an
undefined, unexpressed, ineffable life that she cannot articulate or shape”
(Spangler). In .....
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God V. Man In Antigone
Words: 1977 / Pages: 8 .... of Thebes’ observations about Kreon’s decisions.
Antigone has the most direct struggles with human law and a higher law in the drama, for it is the application of this theme that decides her fate. Faced with the decision to defy the King and properly bury her brother, Polyneices, or leave his body unprepared for death as Kreon wished, she chose to obey the wishes of the gods and bury him. At the time of the drama, the Greeks believed that a decent burial was essential for the soul to be at rest. Kreon accused Polyneices of fighting against his own country and forbade all citizens of Thebes to prepare his body. Instead, it was left .....
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Beowulf - Significance Of Scyl
Words: 809 / Pages: 3 .... the reader learns soon enough that the seemingly digressive poet had in truth, slyly and with all intention inserted some indirect indications in the tale of Scefing. As the poem reaches its finale, the reader recognizes in an epiphany the sophisticated construction employed by the poet in the weaving of Scefing as foreshadowing of Beowulf.
In retrospect, Scefing is essentially Beowulf himself. It is stated that Scefing is a warrior, a conqueror, gifted the spoils of his enemies as he defeated them. Beowulf was interested in the spoils and trophies of war in a similar fashion, always mindful to bring a piece or two of any recently dominated monsters .....
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