.... also an honest man. He refuses to take a bribe in lines 75-78 of Act 4, Scene 3. “By any indirection: I did send to you for gold to pay my legions, which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?� This is an honesty that gained him the respect of the people. Brutus was a naive man as well. Sincerity is often misconstrued as being naive; however, I will treat each as a separate characteristic. Brutus's naive spirit is mostly shown not in one single action, but in the overall willingness he has to believe that those around him are essentially good. “Only be patient till we have appeased the multitude, beside themselves with fear, and then .....

.... with her father. When her father died and left her alone Miss Emily did not want to face reality and tried to keep the body. This proves her inability to let go of her first true male figure. Miss Emily’s next male figure is one that helped her earlier in her life. Colonel Sartoris was able to remit Emily’s taxes under the impression that the town owed her money. This act of kindness by the Colonel caused Emily’s dependence upon him and what he did for her. Later in the story, the Board of Alderman approached Miss Emily at her house in the attempt to get her to pay her taxes. When the Board started questioning Miss E .....

.... compassionate towards others. Although she was miserable in the concentration camps, she was respectful towards the other inmates.(220-221, Another example of this was when she was living in the ghetto with the Krengiels'. It took all her strength to be nice to them, and inspite of her kindness, they were hostile to Chana and her family.(80-83) A noticeable trait shown in Chana as her character developed throughout the book was her religious and spiritual self. In the beginning it was only her grandmother, Bubbe who had total faith in God, and who tried to encourage Chana to have faith also. Chana did not believe Bubbe, she th .....

.... Ballroom". It was best described by a character in the movie when she said " half lived." To live your life in conformity is to keep yourself from your full potential. The main character in this movie was a dancer who wanted to show the world what he could do, but was told since he was a child to do what the world said he should. Had he given in to his fear of going against what was considered the correct way, he never would have made a difference. The woman in the film helped him to realize that he could be more then what others wanted for him. By doing things his way he made his mark on the world of ballroom dancing and achieved his dream .....

.... Marianne kept on nagging Elinor for not sharing her feelings. Finally, Elinor shows her emotions by telling her that she did have a broken heart after she found out that Edward had a fiancee - Lucy. Elinor would definitely represent sense. She keeps her thoughts to herself. Maybe it is because she thinks she will not end up hurting so bad as Marianne did. Marianne, on the other hand, represents sensibility. She follows her heart. She does not let anything come in the way of showing her emotions. When she first met Colonel Brandon, it is obvious that he was in love with her at first sight. Marianne, shows very clear that she was not interested in .....

.... shows his colors other then committing the murders and his relationship with Sonia. His first dream along with, revisiting the crime sight contrasted with his reaction to finding Marmelodov run over in the street, both showcase his different sides. Raskolnikov can also be compared to a current event, that being the happenings in Littleton, Colorado. You would think that a swing in attitude and emotion that Raskolnikov has would follow a deep impacting event, like the murders of the Ivanovna sisters. This is not the case though, even before the horrendous crimes he commits, you can see him sway from one side to the other. This is prevalent duri .....

.... child Pearl, doing their shopping, buying their bread, but one can feel the eyes turn and burn upon the two when they pass, for no one has put to rest the case of Hester Prynne. There I was minding my own nevermind when like a bolt of lightning from the heavens I saw Mistress Hester Prynne with her daughter. Mistress Prynne sticks out like a sore thumb. She is an odd one. She walked with the child holding her hand, slowly, as heads to turned. She stood so clear of everyone else that I saw the brand clearly. It was a work of art. Never have I seen such good stitching. Standing in the light, her hair taken back, looking without expression. A pic .....

.... of the eighth century and Geoffrey 's Canterbury Tales of the fourteenth century. The time in which lived was "one of the most disagreeable periods of our national history" (Legouis 80). The Black Death destroyed a third of the population and many people turned to the church for help. Goeffery , being "the great poetical observer of men, who in every age is born to record and eternize" (Blake 51), wrote The Canterbury Tales in the late fourteenth century in England. Religion dominated this time period in history; and therefore, it played a huge role in literary work. The Tale's plot is based on a very religious practice, a pilgrimage. The narrat .....

.... Gilgamesh was troubled for not having his companion around, like the human beings, Gilgamesh search for eternal life to bring his friend back to life. I believed the most significant differences in both pieces is the search for immortality. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, when Gilgamesh found the miraculous plant that gives immortality to anyone who eats it, a great snake steals from him. Like in the Old Testament, God ordered Adam and Eve not to eat the Is there really an eternal life like what everyone is searching for? In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the people considered natural catastrophes to be work of the gods. The gods, they believed, even used natur .....

.... a turn and the reader realizes that the main character has begun to entirely rely on self-image in order to build confidence. This leads to the question of how significant are the "Blue eyes" to society and how does the theme of beauty and ugliness linger throughout the story. With this in mind, how does this make Pecola a victim of society and a victim in herself? If any person can be credited for creating the obsession of beauty that Pecola builds it is Pauline (Pecola’s mother). Pecola experiences many insecurities and it can definitely be said that many of these are because of the way that Pauline acts in society and around .....