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Imagery In John Donnes The Bro
Words: 568 / Pages: 3 .... “had the plague a year,” by writing this Donne has been deathly ill for what he thinks is a year. Love, to Donne is something that you think about for a long time so, therefore, it seems that you have loved someone for that long but in reality it is only a short period of time. According to Donne, love is very powerful and causes the widespread destruction to thousands.
Donne also uses the image of despair and depression. In the second stanza, he says “Ah, what a trifle is a heart, if once into love’s hands it come!” In these lines Donne gives us the image of a hand of love and a big heart touching it. Once the hea .....
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Cry The Beloved Country
Words: 592 / Pages: 3 .... of us. What will the poor devils do in the rain?
Pg. 72 Murder in ParkwoldASSAILENT THOUGHT TO BE NATIVES.
Pg. 75 I say we shall always have native crime **** until the native people of this counrty have worthy purposes to inspire and worthy goals to work for.
Pg. 77 We went to Zoo lake dear. But its quite impossible. I really don't see why they can't have separate days for natives. Where can these poor creatues go?
Pg. 78-79 and others say there is a danger for better paid laor will not , but will also read more, think more, ask more, and will not be content to be forever voiceless and inferior.
Pg. 79 Who knows how we shall fashion such a land? W .....
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Dadis Family
Words: 536 / Pages: 2 .... that when it is a boy they celebrate and when it is a girl there is no celebration. For Dadi's family having a male child is like to have a child forever, without sharing them later. All of the males stay and pool the income, but women do not, they must go and be married. I found it sad that the birth of a daughter is not exciting. But Davis-Floyd's analysis seems correct in this situation. Depending on the number of sons that one has the more wealth they will have. There is security in having boys, but then at the same time, I noticed at points, the women sang and talked of the wonders of being a daughter. It also was different from what .....
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Antigone
Words: 788 / Pages: 3 .... mistake and to retract this decision before it is too late for no man should conflict with the will of the God's. Creon refuses to believe that there is any higher authority. Haemon, Creon's son and Creon's advisor, Tiresias both fail to redeem Creon of his pride.
Haemon fails to change his father's mind for many different reasons. Even before Haemon presented himself as weak and inferior to his father, "Far be it from me -I haven't the shill, and certainly no desire, to tell you when, if ever, you make a slip in speech… though someone else might have a good suggestion."(766-69) Haemon uses words like if, might, and suggestion; which give the im .....
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Why Hester Is A Whore
Words: 749 / Pages: 3 .... husband. Wronging is universal in its presentation. The act which juxtaposes the wrong remain unimportant, it’s the simple wronging which exists most corporeal. Hester wronged. She wronged more than her husband, but deeper, she wronged herself, and because of her times she wronged her god. Wronging deserves punishment. "Before the ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass plot, much overgrown with burdock, pigweed, apple peru, and such unsightly nail in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison." Almost parallel to Hester’s deserving of pain stands a prison. B .....
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Macbeth - Kingship
Words: 1627 / Pages: 6 .... so much that he and his wife plot to murder the well-respected King Duncan. Under Macbeth’s reign, Scotland becomes a country of turmoil because of the wicked leadership. Macbeth murders his best friend and another friend’s family and because of this Tyranny, paranoia sets in on Macbeth who sees many ghostly visions of people he sent out to be murdered. Scotland greatly suffers under his reign, this turns Lady Macbeth mad, and she eventually commits suicide. Macduff, eventually goes to England to ask for the help of the noble king Edward, who is highly respected for help to overthrow the leadership of Macbeth, and so the Anglo-Scottish revolt see .....
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Crime In The Great Gatsby .
Words: 347 / Pages: 2 .... Daisy! Daisy!" shouted Mrs. Wilson , " I'll say it whenever
I want to! Daisy! Dai---
Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with
is open hand. (41)
Tom was a spoiled brat who is used to getting everything he wants. This could have been a factor when he told Nick:
That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your
eyes just like he did Daisy's but he was a tough one. He ran
over Myrtle just like you'd a dog and never ever stopped his
car. (187)
Tom only wanted Daisy back because she wasn't interested in him any more. So in the end he threw Gatsby to the lions, Gatsby's death was Tom's fault, he .....
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Passage To Manhood - Comparing
Words: 1212 / Pages: 5 .... David, the boy in “The Altar of the Family” is under constant pressure from his father to become “more manly”. His father constantly demoralises him and on one occasion brands him a “lily-livered poofter”. The symbolism of using such words is evident in this text as lilies are something that David admires yet are extremely “girlish” in the eyes of his father, a man. In an effort to please his father David took it upon himself to kill a possum that had become a menace to his father, this would make him a man, this would grant him his “rite of passage”. The possum eventually appeared and was described as David would describe his m .....
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Crime And Punishment
Words: 610 / Pages: 3 .... Ivanovna. The senseless beating of the mare by Mikolka is similar to
the brutal attack on Alyona by Rodion. (It should be noted that both
Alyona and the mare were female.) These heartless attacks foreshadow
the crime that Raskolnikov is contemplating. Dostoevsky unveils
Raskolnikov's cruel side during this dream, if it is to be interpreted
in this way.
On the same token, Raskolnikov's compassionate side could be
represented by the little boy. The child, watching the beating,
realizes the absurdity of it. He even rushes to Mikolka, ready to
punish him for killing the mare. This illustrate s Rodion's internal
struggle w .....
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Women In Hamlet
Words: 1172 / Pages: 5 .... truest touches of tenderness and pathos. It is a character which nobody but Shakespeare could have drawn in the way that he has done, and to the conception of which there is not even the smallest approach, except in some of the old romantic ballads” (http://www.bga.com/~melissab/ophelia_charshakplay.html).
Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius, chief advisor to the Claudius and the sister of Laertes. Ophelia is generally agreed to be somewhere between the ages of sisteen and nineteen and most others agree that she is an older teenager.
Hamlet, has been courting her and there has been much debate of whether Hamlet and Ophelia were ever in love. W .....
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