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Oedipus The King
Words: 3320 / Pages: 13 .... This riddle is a metaphor for the life of Oedipus. As a child man crawls on his hands and knees this is the four feet to which the Sphinx refers. Also man is at his weakest as a small child. He depends solely on others for his nourishment and well being.
Oedipus was the child of Jocasta and King Laius who was taken to the mountain by a shepard to be killed so the omen of the god apollo that Laius’ son would kill him and lay with Jocasta would not come true. Oedipus was the weakest of his life at this point. If it has not been for the shepard spairing his life and giving him to Polybus to raise as his own Oedipus would have died.
Man walks on 2 .....
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The Challenges Faced In Jane E
Words: 1016 / Pages: 4 .... out on her own after her best friend leaves. She takes a position at Thornfield Hall as a tutor, and makes some new friendships and even a romance. Yet her newfound happiness is taken away from her and she once again must start over. Then finally, after enduring so much, during the course of the book, Jane finally finds a true family and love, in rather unexpected places.
At the start of Jane Eyre, Jane is living with her widowed aunt, Mrs. Reed, and her family after being orphaned. Jane is bitterly unhappy there because she is constantly tormented by her cousins, John, Eliza, and Georgiana. After reading the entire book you realize that Jane w .....
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The Diary Of Anne Frank
Words: 1506 / Pages: 6 .... camps where they were either put to work or killed. Others, who were more fortunate, remained hidden from the Nazis with the assistance of sympathetic and courageous people. Anne Frank and her family were among the fortunate few that went into hiding but were, unfortunately, later found. The cruelty of the Nazis not only affected those in Germany but people everywhere felt its impact.
In addition to changes in the lives of Jewish people, normal existence changed for others as well. Everyone, Jewish or not, had to register to record their name and address. Those who were Jewish could then be singled out. In order to separate them, they were .....
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Play It Again Rita
Words: 961 / Pages: 4 .... deals with the basic elements of a
typical screenplay, and explains what it actually is that an audience
craves. Many of the principles can and should be applied to any story
whether a screenplay, theatric play, novel or short story.
The play is much more predictable in the sense that a great many things
are bound not to happen on stage. In fact nothing taking place outside
Frank's office can be seen by the audience. All action is inevitably
confined within these four walls. When Frank invites Rita to his home for
dinner in the play the audience are not set up for suspension as to how it
will turn out since they already know that whatever happens .....
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Tale Of Two Cities: Roots Of Revolution
Words: 299 / Pages: 2 .... the same tortured forms. Sow the
same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely
yield the same fruit according to its kind" - P347, Book III, Ch15. Dickens,
who lived in England where there were many unjust punishments and immoral
actions by high ranking officials, was basically saying that the things that
fueled the revolution in France, the crushing of humanity and rapacious license
and oppression, if used in a similar manner somewhere else would have the same
result. In this case he was probably thinking of his native country of England,
but in truth it could happen in any country that practiced the same methods tha .....
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Frankenstein : Morality
Words: 773 / Pages: 3 .... the good doctor does create a companion
for his first creation he may be endangering others. "The miserable monster
whom I had created," (pg.152) says Victor upon looking back at his work. If
there is another monster there will be twice the power and possibly twice
the evil, which could hurt or kill his family. When and if Frankenstein
commits the moral sin of creating another monster he may be rid of both
monsters forever. "With the companion you bestow I will quit the
neighbourhood of man,"(pg 142) promises the morally corrupt monster to the
doctor upon the completion of his partner. When the doctor, if and when he,
finished his first creation's mat .....
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The Trial By Kafka And The Stranger By Camus: Flaws And Failures Of The Judicial System
Words: 1578 / Pages: 6 .... they are much more likely to agree with the authors views.
The plot of the two novels is very similar. Both men are on trial
and are sentenced to death because of flaws in the judicial systems. The
specifics about each trial and the different flaws are entirely different,
however.
The purpose of the plot in The Trial is to show the downfalls of a
judicial system that is run without the public’s knowledge or input. Kafka
wants the reader see the flaws in their judicial system and to become
actively involved in the judicial reforms. He wants the reader to see that
these flaws should not just be brushed off as mere inconveniences. He use .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities 2
Words: 584 / Pages: 3 .... anything. She had a large heavily ringed hand, a steady face, strong features and was very well composed. She has a look, which informs much self-confidence in herself. She also has an extensive habit of knitting, which will become a significant theme in the novel.
Madame Defarge spends most of her days, weeks, and years before the revolution sitting in her wine shop, knitting a list of names. This list of names is a register of those she's marked for death, come the revolution. This hobby links her closely with the reoccurring theme of fate, while all she knits is death into her list. These names are mainly the ones of the French aristocracy who s .....
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The Wages Of Whiteness: Race And The Making Of The American Working Class
Words: 1009 / Pages: 4 .... workers
involved in mobbing encouraged the riots with claims of “protecting their
women, from amalgamation with blacks” (page 108). The quote expresses in a
basic sense; whites were not to mix with blacks. Associating with Blacks
was considered inappropriate, and the whites had to protect themselves from
Blacks. Clearly, we can acknowledge of hatred towards Blacks. In Columbia,
Pennsylvania 1834, skilled workers went on riots hysterically fueled by the
threat of inter-racial sex. Again, we see that society did not
want Blacks to mix with white. This was more emphasized with white women
mixing with black men, because the white working class d .....
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The Sun Also Rises: A Hero
Words: 545 / Pages: 2 .... Hero, because only a real man would like to watch a bullfight. Jake Barnes doesn't consider Cohn his best friend and can be found crasking jokes at Robert Cohn. Cohn is the kind of person that intrudes on people. He doesn't see thar he is sometimes unwanted at times.
Antoher reason that Robert Cohn is not considered a hero is because he doesn't understand the art of sports. Cohn doesn't really like to box, but learns to, so that he can defend himself. Robert is Jewwish and therefore feels that he will have to defend himself when people start to make accusations of him. He is afraid of what people have to say to him. After Cohn learned to bo .....
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