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Midsummer Nights Dream: Humor
Words: 597 / Pages: 3 .... A simple mistake by someone that is low in the society, but totally changes the meaning of the sentence. This humor is obvious to everybody watching that Bottom had made a mistake. This type of humor, while obvious, sometimes doesn't portray the meaning correctly. Inferred humor is sometimes more suited for this.
Shakespeare used something like inferred humor to get across some other meanings that added to the play. One good example is the character of Puck. Puck is a hyperactive child that gets into a lot of mischief. His attitude toward his tasks is sort of a light and airy one. He does not take life seriously, he only does what i .....
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Silas Marner: Characters In The Novel
Words: 215 / Pages: 1 .... people that
would do negative things.
Molly was a girl who was addicted to opium. She was secretly
married to Godfrey. Godfrey would give her money and instead of using it
on their child she would use that money to buy more drugs. Molly died as a
result of her addiction to drugs.
Dunston was another character in this book that was not a class
citizen. Dunstun committed the second robbery. He was also the person
that got wildfire killed. On page 67 Godfrey said of Dunston " He'll
never be hurt, he was made to hurt other people. The robbery occurred
because of the death of the horse.
Godfrey was a man that did not ever want to acknowledge t .....
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Far From The Madding Crowd: Love Is Love Is Love
Words: 1263 / Pages: 5 .... she doesn’t always seem to enjoy being courted by her numerous suitors. Most importantly, though, Bathsheba’s character grows and evolves because of, or in spite of, the situations she encounters and eventually overcomes throughout her romantic escapades.
Initially, Bathsheba’s character was high-spirited, feminine, naïve and self-centered. This is the first impression she gives Gabriel Oak, who eventually becomes a suitor, when she encounters him at the beginning of the story. The first time Gabriel laid eyes on Bathsheba, she was gazing admiringly at her own reflection in her pocket mirror. Gabriel realized immediately that her greate .....
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The Outsiders: Theme
Words: 524 / Pages: 2 .... Socs with his
switchblade. Johnny and Ponyboy run to a fellow Greaser, Dally, who is always
in trouble with the law. Dally helps them by giving them some money, a gun,
and a place to hide. They hide in a church outside of town for a week until
Dally says it's okay to come out. They go out to eat and when they get back to
the church they find it burning. When they see that there are kids inside and
the fire could have been started by their cigarettes, they run inside to save
the kids. Johnny and Dally are hurt in the fire and taken to the hospital.
They are hailed as heroes in the local paper. Dally breaks out of the hospital
to fight in a rumb .....
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The Effect Of Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird
Words: 1188 / Pages: 5 .... on his pants, and resumed his
activity"(Lee, 11). Boo just sat there after stabbing his father. He did
not apologize or feel remorse for his actions.
Boo Radley isolates himself from the people of Maycomb. Boo stays
inside his home all day and nobody ever sees him. After some trouble with
the law, "Mr. Radley's boy was not seen again for fifteen years"(10). If
Boo chooses to go outside, he will be unfairly viewed as a visitor from
abroad because of his mysterious ways. Boo stays inside his home because
he knows that his society will ridicule him. After being isolated for so
many years, Boo is developmentally challenged. Boo has lo .....
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Les Miserables-the Grand Spiri
Words: 636 / Pages: 3 .... adolescent with but two paths open to him. He could choose either to be a policeman or a criminal. He chose to be on the right side of the law. Valjean, a peasant, spent time in jail as a young man and came out of it hating society. He believed himself to be apart from it, and chose to live in hatred and crime. Fortunately, the action of a kindly old bishop prevented him from wasting the rest of his life. Valjean switched to tread the path of life on a more morally upright road. He became mayor, protector of society.
When certain events occured in Montreuil, both of them took similar actions. Javert, thinking he had unfairly denounced the may .....
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Frankenstein: The Creator's Faults In The Creation
Words: 1323 / Pages: 5 .... and loving, it is loathsome
and unloved" (64). Clearly it is Frankenstein's lack of foresight in the
creation process to allow for a creature that Frankenstein "had selected his
features as beautiful," (56) to become something which the very sight of causes
its creator to say "breathless horror and disgust filled my heart"(56). He
overlooks the seemingly obvious fact that ugliness is the natural result when
something is made from parts of different corpses and put together. Were he
thinking more clearly he would have noticed monster's hideousness.
Another physical aspect of the monster which shows a fault in Frankenstein is
its immense size. The re .....
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Lord Of The Flies: The Personification Of Evil
Words: 801 / Pages: 3 .... them don’t use them efficiently. Another example of man wounding earth is the scar that the plane left when it crashed, “All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat” (7). Golding calls it a “scar” to demonstrate that the island, or on a greater level, the earth, is a living thing. The personification shows how man has no regard for his surroundings and will, for example, cut down hundreds of acres of rain forest to make a neighborhood. While exploring the island, Ralph says, “’this belongs to us’” (29). This statement epitomizes mans attitude towards our planet. People believe that because it’s n .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Atticus' Determination, Persistence, And Intelligence
Words: 602 / Pages: 3 .... and tells them many things that may help them in the future. This shows that Atticus is determined to raise his children with good manners and morals and also to have no prejudices against anyone that is different than them. He also spends a lot of time with them to help them with their schoolwork and any troubles that they maybe facing.
In addition another heroic quality is Atticus’ persistence. For instance, Atticus is very persistent with the children to have them do their homework and to succeed in whatever they do. This shows that he deeply cares about the children and wants them to grow up to be the best that they can be. Atticus also .....
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Juror
Words: 490 / Pages: 2 .... it can be seen that he has a certain unfounded prejudice towards the defendant, viewing him as a liar and a piece of trash, with no supporting evidence. This prejudice most surely influences his verdict of ‘guilty’ without view of any evidence. If that is not enough, starting on page 62 10 begins a speech lasting 2 pages in which he spews out his views of people like the defendant: “Human life doesn’t mean as much to them as it does to us…And they are-wild animals.”
10 is an impatient and uncaring/unconcerned person. It is made clear by viewing his lines that 10 does not take his part on the jury seriously and only wants to reach a c .....
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