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The Farming Of The Bones
Words: 750 / Pages: 3 .... in her story they do have names and faces.
The Farming of Bones is a term the Haitian field workers use to describe their life of cutting cane. While Amabelle is fortunate enough to be working as a household servant to a wealthy Dominican family, most of her friends toil for the sugar mill owners. They have left Haiti and come to the Dominican Republic because their job prospects at home are even bleaker than in their adopted country. And so this book is very much about exile, what it means to live in one place and yearn for another.
Amabelle's lover Sebastian says, "Sometimes the people in the fields, when they're tired and angry, they say we're an .....
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Essay On Caesar
Words: 410 / Pages: 2 .... of men, the sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse-If these motives be weak, break off betimes, and every men hence to his idle bed; So let high sighted tyranny rage on, till each man drop by lottery" (Shakespeare 399). Brutus said that if the conspirators do not join for a common cause, then there is no need for an oath because the conspirators are self-righteous, and they are serving the romans. If the conspirators don't bind together, then each man will go his own way, become a weakling, and die when it suits the tyrants caprice. Brutus is advocates peace, freedom and liberty, for all romans, which shows that Brutus is an altruistic as well as .....
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Oedipus
Words: 1141 / Pages: 5 .... as a "good" man? accuses Tiresias and Creon, two innocent men, of conspiring to d! ethrone him and take over the country. Would a "good" man do this, lacking any evidence but his own suspicions? Would a "good" man wish his own brother-in-law dead when no one could even testify to his guilt? Would a "good" man threaten a timid shepherd with pain and death merely because he was hesitant to reveal the harsh realities of ' life? ' tale of meeting Laius is another troubling point. In Colonus he states in plain terms that King Laius would have murdered him had he not killed Laius. In his initial speech to Jocasta on Laius' death he tells a di .....
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Words: 1103 / Pages: 5 .... through exploring the major themes of this play and their relation to the characters in regards to “living an unreal existence”. These themes which will be discussed later on include reality versus illusion, confronting reality, male domination and truth versus lies.
Reality versus illusion is one of, if not the major theme of the play. It also has the most relevance to the way in which Blanche, Stanley and Stella are living in their own fantasy world. Perhaps the reason Blanche chose illusion rather than reality is because of her somewhat troubled past. When Blanche was 16 she married Alan who was 17. The impression we get of Alan is that o .....
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The Natural Film Vs Novel
Words: 1157 / Pages: 5 .... different. In the book Roy is not very attracted to her and in addition she is a grandmother which does not appeal to Roy at all. This also comments on Roy's personality in the book because he ends up sleeping with her anyway, even though he has no real feelings for her. The following quote illustrates Roy's actual feelings for Iris; " 'Darling,' whispered Iris, 'win for our boy.' He stared at her. 'What boy?' 'I am pregnant.' There were tears in her eyes. Her belly was slender . . . then the impact hit him. 'Holy Jesus.' " This displays how Roy really does not want to be stuck with Iris and a child. However, in the movie Iris is a romantic .....
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Canterbury Tales - Humour
Words: 875 / Pages: 4 .... Chaucer uses a contrasting humor. The rooster acts as a noble knight or prince when in reality he is only a barnyard animal. The description of the barnyard animals brings an undercut from the courtly love that occurs throughout the tale. The reminds you to think that Chaunticleer and Pertelote are only animals which brings about a hilarious effect. With Nicholas, a lowly clerk, portraying a higher class gentleman when in essence he just wants a sexual pursuit and the meaning of his name uses an ironic humor to show he is an idiot. With John, the carpenter, Alison, his wife, and Absalom, the priest, in "The Miller's Tale" they also put on "air .....
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Of Mice And Men 2
Words: 1933 / Pages: 8 .... and Lennie.
The scene I am going to describe is at the end of chapter 3 of the
book. It mostly involves Lennie, Curly and George, but Slim, Candy and
Carlson were there too. The setting of this scene was in the bunkhouse in the
ranch where all the workers slept and lived. Steinbeck described the
bunkhouse being, " a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were
whitewashed and the floor unpainted." Later he says, " Against the walls
were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three
showing their burlap ticking." So far we get the idea that the bunkhouse was
not the most beautiful place to live in, one of the .....
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Charley Skedaddle
Words: 725 / Pages: 3 .... those responsible for his
brother’s death. He had admired Johnny greatly and felt the
only answer was to sneak into the army. Charley could not
enlist because he was only 12 years old. He was determined
to be a hero like his brother.
Since Charley was too young to be a soldier he became a
drummer-boy for the army. He trained and worked hard to be a
good one. He may have been physically ready for his first
battle, but emotionally he was not. I don’t think he really
knew what killing a person involved. All of his life he
watched the people he cared about be taken away from him.
First, it was his parents, then Johnny, then Noreen .....
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The Joy Luck Club
Words: 5044 / Pages: 19 .... and ambiguous resolutions. Taoism as a tradition is concerned with conflicts and ambiguities, asserting that ambiguities themselves are significant and may point to the invisible core of life. Tan may weave elements of Taoism into the narrative to locate the "invisible core" of Chinese women's culture, of the immigrant family--and of the novel itself--within apparent conflicts or ambiguities. Tan's use of Confucianism may reveal her hypothesis of how a women's version of that patriarchal ethico-moral-ritual tradition might be passed down from mother to daughter and carried to America. Just as in the Confucian ritual system, very little of the mother-t .....
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Macbeth 4
Words: 716 / Pages: 3 .... that Scotland’s fate, the people’s lives, his own, were cradled in the vast courage of this warrior’s breast” represents the picture painted of Macbeth early in the piece.
The fact that Macbeth was chosen as Thane of Cowdor is another representation of the confidence that the king and the people of the time had in Macbeth’s character. When King Duncan announced Macbeth’s rise to Thane, he referred to him as “noble Macbeth”(Line 69)
The first flaw we see in the character of Macbeth and the first signs of the evil power Lady Macbeth has over her husband, come late in the first act. In this part of the .....
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