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Follow Your Heart
Words: 617 / Pages: 3 .... the quote "Why didn't I pack my bags and return to Trieste? Because at that time neither separation nor divorce existed" explains why she didn't leave. At that time marriages "could only be ended in the case of very serious ill treatment." Augusto never hurt Olga, so she had no decent reason to leave him, although her heart was against staying with him.
Another time where Olga didn't follow her heart was when she didn't go to University. Olga dearly wanted to go to University to receive a "classical education." Her father though, believed there was no point to it and felt that if she wanted to go study something, she should study languages. Aft .....
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The Glass Menagerie -x
Words: 588 / Pages: 3 .... sickness in her typing class and even as the Gentleman Caller awaits her in the livingroom. Unable to deal with those difficulties, Laura goes to the zoo and walks aimlessly around the city to waste time. Frightened of interacting with people, she looks to her collection of glass animals as a place of secure acceptance. Laura clings to the fear that she is strange and crippled though she herself exagerates the reality of that. Magnifying her illness, denying her inner beauty to come forth, is the way Laura hides from a world lit by 'lightning."
Tom, on the other hand, relies on self-denial to justify his concerns and feelings of insecurity. By makin .....
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Hamlet 9
Words: 988 / Pages: 4 .... to be a tragic figure as well as a sacrificial hero through his private thoughts and his determinations.
These major internal “events” begin with Hamlet’s reaction to meeting and speaking with his father’s ghost. This meeting was the catalyst for a lot of silent contemplation and turmoil for the young prince. The movement of ideas here is rapid– the Ghost gives a clear, incriminating account of Claudius’s involvement in his death, and Hamlet immediately vows to avenge him. His reaction was passionate, and suitably so. After all, no character of integrity and honor could have refused the task given to him by the .....
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Comparison Of Job And Odysseus
Words: 1578 / Pages: 6 .... the duration or intensity of his suffering. He is completely at the mercy of God.
There is nothing to give an indication of how much agency Job had before the wager. However the arguments Job makes in chapter three through thirty-seven suggest some agency, especially in his questioning of God: “Does it seem good to thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands and favor the designs of the wicked? Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man’s years, that thou dost seek out my iniquity and search for my sin, although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?” (Job, chapter 10, v .....
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Roaring Camp
Words: 730 / Pages: 3 .... nobody to impress, and nobody to tell them what to
do or how to act. "The assemblage numbered about one hundred men. One
or two of these were actual fugitives from justice, some were criminal, and all
were reckless"(2). The men of Roaring Camp were unruly and all it takes is
the love of an infant to change the rude into responsible. Roaring Camp will
go through a regeneration of a lifetime. All of the men at the mining camp
will strive to make Roaring Camp a suitable place for a baby to live. The
very first signs that the men are in the process of change is when they went to
see the baby for the first time. They walk .....
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Hamlet - Act 3 Summary
Words: 323 / Pages: 2 .... time comes, when the players shall act my new parts. Claudius jumps up and tells them to stop the play and turn on the lights. He acts as though he is appalled and completely confirms his guilt! Now, I feel that I should kill my mother, as she is requesting me. But I shall not, I shall do as my fathers spirit has told me and leave her for her conscience.
I went to Claudius' room, yet I could not bring myself to harm him-not yet. Later, when I went to my mother's room, I killed Polonius. It was not on purpose, I had thought that it might be Claudius hiding behind the curtain thing. Oh, how I hate my mother; for what she has done to me, to this country .....
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Hamlet Revenge A Chain Reactio
Words: 874 / Pages: 4 .... wants to insure that the ghost really was his dead father
before he kills Claudius. To do this Hamlet has people act out the death of
his father in front of Claudius and declares him guilty by his reaction to
the play. " O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand pound."
Hamlet declares Claudius' guilt to Horatio and now realizes that he must
continue on with his revenge plot. The conflict between Hamlet and Claudius
is delayed by Hamlet but does eventually occur in the last scene. Hamlet's
mother has just died, Hamlet has been sliced by Laertes' poison sword, and
Hamlet has just struck Laertes with a fatal blow when L .....
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William Shakespeare
Words: 915 / Pages: 4 .... The Shakespeare's were well respected prominent
people. When William Shakespeare was about seven years old, he
probably began attending the Stratford Grammar School with other
boys of his social class. Students went to school year round
attending school for nine hours a day. The teachers were strict
disciplinarians.
Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was
probably fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during
holidays, it was known to put on pageants and many popular shows. It
also held several large fairs during the year. Stratford was a
exciting place to live. Stratford also had fields and woods
surroundi .....
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Frankenstein 3
Words: 695 / Pages: 3 .... and told him of his survival and his knowledge. He requested Victor make him a companion and in return they would flee away never to be seen again. He eventually agrees to make the “bride,” but after much pondering destroys all the work he had done. The “monster” curses Frakenstein assuring revenge on his wedding night. Later another of his friends turns up dead. Victor still made plans to marry Elizabeth with whom he was raised. On their wedding night she is strangled by the monster. He follows the monster pledging to destroy it. The story leads to where he is taken aboard the ship. Soon after the story Victor dies. .....
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Relationships In King Lear
Words: 1412 / Pages: 6 .... my heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty according to my bond, no more no less."(I,i, ln 91-93) Lear becomes enraged and casts her off saying, "Here I disclaim all my paternal care, propinquity and property of blood, and as a stranger to my heart and me hold this from thee for ever."(I,i, ln 113-116). Some think that Cordelia was prideful, or even a fool in her response, but I believe she was simply being honest and true.
Another mistake that was made in the course of the play was by the Earl of Gloucester. After being tricked by his bastard son, Edmund, into believing that his other son, Edgar, was plotting to kill him, he put all his faith in Ed .....
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