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Thomas More's Ideal Society
Words: 713 / Pages: 3 .... Then and only then would the people be allowed to learn another trade such as carpentry or sewing. Also, the person could only practice that trade in their spare time. This idea does not seem reasonable to me. Why does someone have to be a farmer? This would mean that whoever did not want to farm was forced to. That is slavery. What about all the other things that a community needs to survive? Are those needs going to be put on a hold until farming was finished? Will ill people have to wait for a doctor until he has spare time to help? It seems that farming to provide food for the community is Moore’s main concern. However, if he was real .....
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Owl Creek Bridge
Words: 1909 / Pages: 7 .... The third paragraph tells us that man is being hanged if we didn’t already gather that from the first paragraph. It tells us more about the civilian and makes us wonder why he is at the bridge about to be hanged. ‘The liberal military code makes provision for hanging many kinds of people, and gentlemen are not excluded.’ However we are also told that this man is a kind-hearted man and he is no vulgar assassin. Now we feel a touch of sympathy for the man, as we know he is either innocent or does not deserve such a penalty.
By now Bierce’s tone is established; dry, ironic, exact, almost pedantic and - the voice of a satirist. I say t .....
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Antigone Individual Vs. Laws O
Words: 875 / Pages: 4 .... towns. These city states were founded on the principles of freedom, optimism, secularism, rationalism and the glorification of the body and mind. Accompanying these principles was an obligation of fierce loyalty to the city state and a willingness to shed blood on it's behalf. Within this atmosphere of extreme loyalty, freedom was only enjoyed with the assumption that when the time came, every able bodied man would be willing to fight for his people. Indeed political leaders and local authority figures were usually heroes of war. Creon, the king in "Antigone", states that "Alive or dead, the faithful servant of his country shall be rewarded." Th .....
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Thornton Wilder's Our Town
Words: 418 / Pages: 2 .... speak a little slow, and relaxed. This does reflect the language of any small town. (The playwright wrote "hull" instead of "whole") Central theme: We don't understand life until it is over with. I'm not good at symbolism. It wasn't boring. To me that is a sign of an above average book. The end was a interesting how the portrayed the dead.
Wilder, Isabel. The foreword in The Alcestiad by Thornton Wilder. New York
City. N.Y.: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1955.
Summary:
This Essay has a lot about the life of Thornton Wilder, and about some of his works. Wilder had three Pulitzer Prize winning plays and they all came around World War II times. In O .....
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The Untold Story Of Theseus
Words: 702 / Pages: 3 .... "These men that shone their fire sticks at me were dressed
strangely; all in blue. They spoke in an unfamiliar tong and shoved myself
into what I could only describe at the time as a horseless chariot."
"After many days there slow minds concluded that I was a stranger
in this land, and sent me to this house with many other young men my age."
(Timé Pasá)
"Many moons have passed. Over this time I was taught their
language and concepts. I found that they call themselves Americans, more
specifically "Michiganders". I have always been quick to learn and they
labeled me as an adequate student. Me. Theseus. Son of Poseido .....
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Analyzing King Lears Tragic Fl
Words: 885 / Pages: 4 .... bad decisions. He expects his favorite, youngest daughter to be the most worthy of his love. His pride makes him expect that Cordelia’s speech to be the one filled with the most love. Unfortunately for King Lear’s pride, Cordelia replies to his inquisition by saying, “I love your majesty/According to my bond and nothing less”(1.1.100-101). Out of pride and anger, Lear banishes Cordelia and splits the kingdom in half to the two evil sisters, Goneril and Regan. This tragic flaw prevents King Lear from seeing the truth because his arrogance overrides his judgement. Lear’s arrogance also causes him to lose his most .....
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Heart Of Darkness
Words: 1498 / Pages: 6 .... had to overcome the sexist attitude that her culture held. This sexist attitude continued after she got married to Francis. Francis is a typical Ibo male. He held the view that the males should go and get educated and the female should stay home, or in Francis’ case, work to support his education. Adah knew his attitude, "The sharpness seemed to say to her: ‘It is allowed for African males to come and get civilsed in England. But that privileged has not been extended to females yet’" (Emecheta 36). Francis is a pure reflection of the values held by the Ibos. All Francis wanted from Adah was money, to pay for his education, and sex: & .....
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Lysistrata -
Words: 1051 / Pages: 4 .... seems highly unlikely that women would talk with such a crude sexual tone. Instead Lysistrata is strictly a satirical play written maybe even to make men doubt the innocence of a woman.
If women were such beasts as Euripides stated then would women have managed to seize the Acropolis, and prevented the men from squandering them further on the war. Euripides might have referred to the vulgarity of the women’s thoughts and language:
“It’s a sair thing, the dear knows, for a woman
tae sleep alone wi’oot a prick – but we maun do
it, for the sake of peace”
The language of the women is, as mentioned earlier, strictl .....
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The Theme Of Evil In Literature
Words: 840 / Pages: 4 .... chance.
Macbeth's selfishness was opitimized when he dealt with Banquo and his son,
whom the witches said will be king after Macbeth. He had Banquo murdered,
and his son's "absence is no less material" (Shakespeare III.1) to Macbeth.
Of course Macbeth wasn't the only one who began his reign of evil with
selfishness. Jack, in Lord of the Flies also begins tearing the island
apart when he becomes extremely selfish. "I'm not going to play any
longer...not with you" (Golding 127) is what he said to the group, right
before he broke away and formed his own clan, where he was the unchecked
ruler, and could perform any task he pleased. One of Jack's othe .....
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To Tame A Shrew
Words: 2009 / Pages: 8 .... Petruchio, leading up to her greatest speech in the dialogue of the play:
Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
And for thy maintenance commits his body
To painful labour both by sea and land,
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
And craves no other tribute at thy hands
But love, fair looks and true obedience;
Too little payment for so great a debt. (5.2.146-154)
In looking at this outtake of Katharina's speech, it can be seen that she has been tamed by Petruchio's actions throughout the first four acts. It is difficult to take Kathar .....
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