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The Great Gatsby 4
Words: 406 / Pages: 2 .... a way of life which is remote from Gatsby's and therefore more attractive because it is out of reach so he changes himself.
(Fitzgerald, -page 54-)
Myrtle and Gatsby both want to be part of the same elite crowd. They play a reflection of each other in the book by wanting the same thing but they have different methods of achieving it. Gatsby wants Daisy, and Myrtle just wants to be higher in society. Gatsby plays the god-like character in this book so his means are good but both him and Myrtle do bad things to get higher in a crowd that will never take them in. To make themselves appear better to the other crowd, they lose some of the moral fiber tha .....
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The Crazy Horse Electric Game
Words: 1861 / Pages: 7 .... his balance and Sal hits a good pitch. Then out of pure luck and talent, Willie stretches himself out and robs Sal of a sure triple. Willie becomes a minor legend.
On their way home from school Jenny and Willie hook up. Then on the weekend, Jenny, Johnny, Willie and his family decide to go to the lake. Willie and Jenny set the table for a picnic when Johnny is out skiing. Willies mom complains about him never being safe enough. Next it is Willie's turn to water-ski. As Willie was doing a 360° turn, he caught the tips of his skis under the water and he crashed. Willies dad was in shock, Jenny had to give Willie mouth to mouth, and sav .....
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Ethan Frome - Contrast Between Film And Novel
Words: 991 / Pages: 4 .... between the narrator and the people in the town. This is different from the detachment the narrator has which is prevalent in the novel.
The movie adequately captures the bleak and dreary mood in the novel. The camera shows the Frome household in the middle of nowhere, with no houses nearby, in the middle of winter. This, with the addition of appropriate music, creates a bleak atmosphere, and there is no doubt in the audience’s mind of an impending sense of gloom and tragedy. The darkness of the house amongst the pure white of the snow is a symbol of the darkness within the house. It shows that the people living in the house, the Fromes, .....
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Othello, Analysis Of Iago
Words: 923 / Pages: 4 .... make my fool my purse." [Act I, Scene
III, Line 355] By playing on his hopes, Iago is able to swindle money and jewels
from Roderigo, making himself a substantial profit, while using Roderigo to forward
his other goals. He also thinks quick on his feet and is able to improvise whenever
something unexpected occurs. When Cassio takes hold of Desdemona's hand
before the arrival of the Moor Othello, Iago says, "With as little a web as this will I
ensnare as great a fly as Cassio." [Act II, Scene I, Line 163] His cunning and .....
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Scottsboro Trials And To Kill
Words: 1163 / Pages: 5 .... who were accused. Judge Hornton tried many times to move the case to a different place so that a fair trial could take place and not be interrupted by the racist people. Finally was granted to move the case even though the lynch mobs threatened to kill everyone who was involved in the case if it were to be moved. In this essay the bias and racism in both trials are going to be clarified and compared to each other.
Several groups of white and black men rode the trains in the thirties for transportation. One night a group of white men started a fight with the black men in the train, which led to them getting kicked off. Later on in the case it is .....
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Julius Ceasar -mark Antony
Words: 1842 / Pages: 7 .... chase. Antony replies "When Caesar says 'Do this,' it is perform'd" this shows Antony is loyal, and obedient to Caesars will.
After Caesar's death Antony again shows his loyalty, and asks if he is to be killed, he would like to be killed by the side of the noble Caesar. "If I myself, there is no hour so fit As Caesar's death's hour" "No place will please me so, no mean of death, As here by Caesar" this shows that he holds Caesar as a very noble man, and that he loved him.
However, Antony then appears to make friends with the conspirators when he addresses them after Caesars death "Friends I am with you all, and love you all". Here Antony shows true d .....
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Romeo And Juliet - Human Actions
Words: 539 / Pages: 2 .... sure Romeo gets the message which is probably the most crucial human action in the play.
The other example of human actions controlling the plot is Juliet. In those scenes she acts in ways which seriously affect her life and the rest of the play. First, she comes to the Friar looking for help. "I long to die, if what thou speak'st speak not of remedy" (Act 4, sc i, ll 66-67) is her attitude towards her situation. She then accepts the friar's solution and decides to take the poison. "Give me, give me! Oh tell me not of fear" (Act 4, sc 1, ll 121) are her words spoken to the friar. Her actions here are to be brave and to rush into the plan. Her .....
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Tintern Abbey
Words: 997 / Pages: 4 .... of nature, his past experiences, and his present mature perception of life.
Wordsworth begins his poem by describing the landscape of the abbey as unchanged during the past five years. He emphasizes the lapse of time by stating, “ again I hear”, “again do I behold”, and “again I see”. He seemed to be overwhelmed with emotions that he, though up on a very far away cliff, was certain that a hermit was in his cave sitting by the fire alone. Wordsworth wanted so much to remember the place that he was allowing his perception of the past take over his present reality. More importantly he says, “I again repose he .....
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Tender Mercies
Words: 1070 / Pages: 4 .... characters or has been the redeemer of other characters. Thus, in the paragraphs to proceed, the reader will be introduced to these exact characters and to the situations from which these characters were redeemed from or whom they had redeemed. Alongside, the reader will also come to recognize how this theme provides the clearest reason why "" is neither a Tragedy nor Pathos.
As mentioned above, one of the centralized themes in "" is the theme of redemption and that it can be seen through many characters, of whom is Mac. In the beginning of this screenplay, Mac is viewed as a person with a drinking disorder. In other words .....
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General Prologue: Human Dishonesty, Stupidity And Virtue
Words: 849 / Pages: 4 .... one is. Thus Charity had two parts, one human, the other
divine. Two parts that mixed in different portions depending on a person.
Charity was a human virtue that the Church encouraged. People believed that if
one does something good, he will be rewarded by G-d. Many people did meaningful,
charitable things out the goodness of their hearts, but others had done it for
other reasons. Those reasons included making money from people's suffering and
giving to charity because someone told them to do so, rather than from the
goodness of their hearts or to ease the suffering of others. Chaucer plays off
both of these parts of charity in his portraits to .....
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