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Pride And Prejudice
Words: 1404 / Pages: 6 .... discover their own foibles-- Elizabeth is indeed prejudiced and Darcy is indeed proud. Armed with this growth and heightened moral insight, the couple is rewarded with happiness and fulfillment at the end of the novel. But what if their initial beliefs were correct? Let’s say that Mr. Darcy’s pride and Elizabeth’s prejudice were switched within the context of Austen’s plot and narrative structure. Could a proud Elizabeth and a prejudice Darcy grow in self-awareness through the circumstances of the novel and gain a better understanding of human condition? Before Austen allows her characters to have a ‘fairy-tale .....
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Wife Of Bath
Words: 264 / Pages: 1 .... been married five times.
Only one of her husbands she married was because of true love. The reason why
she has gone through so many husbands is because her ideal husband is one who
permits her to do whatever she wants. Of course, in the 1990's and even back in
the 1500's, that kind of spouse is hard to find.
The Wife is a pragmatist, or one who is concerned with actual practice.
She is a very sexually active person, although is said to be "gap-toothed",
overweight, and foul smelling. In her prayer, she asks for meek, youthful,
sexually vigorous husband to fulfill her needs.
Due to the Wife's feministic views, she can fulfill h .....
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Zora Neale Hurston's: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Words: 1316 / Pages: 5 .... in which Logan
struggles to make Janie happy, turns into a relationship in which Janie is
expected to make Logan happy. She is often reprimanded for not doing enough
work or for not working in certain areas such as the fields.
It is during that unhappy marriage that Janie meets Jody Stark, who
comes along with dreams of power, wealth, and happiness. " De day you puts
yo' hand in mine, Ah wouldn't let de sun go down on us single. Ah'm a man
wid principles. You ain't never knowed what it was like to be treated lak a
lady and Ah wants to be de one tuh show yuh." (Pg.28) Janie is promised
that she will be treated quite well. So naturally, she l .....
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Foreshadowing And Flashback; Two Writing Techniques That Make Fitzgerald A Great Writer
Words: 1160 / Pages: 5 .... to know what happen the day
Gatsby was shot. Flashback in The Great Gatsby also helps to give the
reader background information about the characters. In The Great Gatsby,
the structure of the novel is influenced by foreshadowing an d flashback.
Fitzgerald utilizes foreshadowing to the best of its ability to help
organize the novel. "Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously
at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with
trembling fingers and set it back in place. 'I'm sorry about the clock,' he
said. 'It's an old clock,' I told him idiotically." (Fitzgerald, pg. 92)
This quote is the first use of foreshadowing .....
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The Scarlet Letter
Words: 404 / Pages: 2 .... and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, even startled to perceive how her beauty shone out and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped.
Hester receives many punishments for her adulteress affair. She has to spend time in jail as well as wearing the letter “A” and also raises her daughter without a father. This makes the punishments both private and public. Hester wishes she were dead but then changes her mind because she says to Chillingworth, “I have thought of death, have wished for it, would even had prayed for it, Yet if death be in this cup, I bid thee think again, ere thou beholdest me quaff .....
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The Glass Menagerie: Symbols
Words: 722 / Pages: 3 .... illusionary world. Laura, on the other hand, thinks of the fire escape as a way in and not a way out. This can be seen when Amanda sends Laura to go to the store: Laura trips on the fire escape. This also shows that Laura's fears and emotions greatly affect her physical condition, more so than normal people.
Another symbol presented deals more with Tom than any of the other characters: Tom's habit of going to the movies shows us his longing to leave the apartment and head out into the world of reality. A place where one can find adventure. And Tom, being a poet, can understand the needs of man to long for adventure and romance. But he is k .....
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Commentary On The Road Not Tak
Words: 881 / Pages: 4 .... the idea of many possibilities. The use of nature in the same line “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” gives an almost organic-like appeal. This helps us to integrate roads into the natural environment and it gives an impression that the decisions that we have to make are natural. The divergence of the two roads into the same place (a yellow wood) symbolises Frost’s departure into the real world (because of the singularity in “wood”). This could mean that the wood is being compared to the “unknown” world. Again, in the first stanza there is the start of the ambiguity in the very colour of the wood. A strong believer in the view .....
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Crucible Term Paper
Words: 1319 / Pages: 5 .... anger. In his presence a fool felt his foolishness instantly, consequently, a Proctor is always marked for slander and defamation(Miller, “The Crucible” 20). Although he may come across as a steady mannered individual, Proctor is not an untroubled man. His was a sinner against his wife, a sinner against his community, a sinner against his own morals, and a sinner against his Puritanical society. He was so troubled by this sin of adultery, that he came to regard himself as a kind of a fraud, although he does not show it on the surface for even a second.
Elizabeth Proctor, John’s wife, is a strong woman who knows about her hu .....
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Animal Farm Compare And Contra
Words: 1428 / Pages: 6 .... and after the revolution, George Orwell took great care in ensuring that the all the characters in the book could easily be identified with their Russian revolution counterpart. While reading the book, one should easily be able tell the parallel personality for each character because of George Orwell’s very accurate descriptions of the characters. As a result, a great deal of characterization is visible in most parts of the book, as he is constantly building upon the characters.
The movie Animal Farm on the other hand is quite different. In the movie, very little time (relative to the book) is spent on developing the characters. In some in .....
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