Slavery In The Tempest
.... and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, that deep and dreadful organ pipe, pronounced the name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded and with him there lie mudded." He is telling us that Prospero is in control of him.
Prospero, Trinculo, and Stephano are in control of Caliban, the deformed son of Sycorax, and therefore Caliban is their slave. "Monster lay-to your fingers; help to bear thi .....
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Sanity For Independence
.... “silly fantasies.” In saying this to her, he is treating her like a child who does not really know how she feels, thus making her doubt herself. When she tries to tell him what she needs, she is completely shut out and ignored. “I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus—but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad.” This statement has a two-fold mea .....
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Scarlet Letter - Pearl
.... existence and purpose asking God, "what is this being which I have brought into the world, evil?" or inquiring to Pearl, "Child, what art thou?" Hester sees Pearl as a reminder of her sin, especially since as an infant Pearl is acutely aware of the scarlet letter A on her mother’s chest. When still in her crib, Pearl reached up and grasped the letter, causing "Hester Prynne [to] clutch the fatal token so infinite was the torture inflicted by the intelligent touch of Pearl's baby-hand" (Hawthorne 66 .....
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Scarlet Letter- Guilty Heart
.... is dubious.
The engraving on Arthur's chest suggests that the burden of his sin had seeped so deeply within him, it has now forced its way outside. Although Hawthorne lets this aspect of the novel remain ambiguous, we as the reader now know that Arthur's sin has begun consuming him. His conscience was now stained with sin, and its weight will soon become too much to bear. When Chillingworth uncovers the secret Arthur had tried to keep intact, the scarlet letter A upon his chest is clearly visible (Haw .....
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Secrets In Scarlet Letter
.... days on end and even climbing the same platform on which Hester began her humiliation.
Walking in the shadow of a dream, as it were, and perhaps actually under the influence of a species of somnambulism (sleepwalk), Mr. Dimmesdale reached the spot where, now so long since, Hester Prynne had lived through her first hours of public ignominy. The same platform or scaffold, black and weather-stained with the storm or sunshine of seven long years, and footworn, too, with the tread of many culprits who h .....
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Satires In Huckleberry Finn
.... "Take up a collection for him, take up a collection," (Twain 128) somebody sang out and everyone fatuously accepted the statement as said, not taking the time to perceive the actual meaning. King took advantage of such gullibility, making people believe that he is a pirate, and getting the priest to help him find a path to God. Because nobody took the time to probe the absurdity in the speech given by King, he took advantage of the passiveness of people and got away with a significant amount of stolen mon .....
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Scarlet Letter Essay
.... a 20th century woman. She knew that true love was more important than a phony, love-less marriage. Hawthorne appeared to make Dimmesdale an incredibly weak man; he could not confess his sin to the people, until it had almost killed him: “I am a dying man. So let me [take] my [shame].” Chillingsworth was the “Black Man.” His quest for knowledge turned him into a rational monster. After Arthur Dimmesdale becomes his object of obsession, he changes his name to emphasize his new .....
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Scarlet Letter Proof Of Atroph
.... explains Chillingworth’s motives in becoming Dimmesdale’s physician. Hawthorne says that Chillingworth, being a man of skill, dove into the intellect of Dimmesdale looking for secrets and precious thoughts that might help him in the magnification of Dimmesdale’s guilt (114). The passage on 114 says nothing about Chillingworth wanting to kill Dimmesdale. Another part in the novel again suggests that Chillingworth had no intentions of poisoning Dimmesdale. During the last scaffold sc .....
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Scarlet Letter- Hester Prynne
.... was described by Reynolds as a feminist criminal bound in an iron link of mutual crime (Reynolds 183). According to Reynolds, Hawthorne was trying to have his culture's darkest stereotypes absorbed into the character of Hester and rescue them from noisy politics by reinterpreting them in Puritan terms and fusing them with the moral exemplar.
Kristin Herzog had a somewhat different view of Hester in The Scarlet A, Aboriginal and Awesome. She described Hester as both wild and passionate, and caring, co .....
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Self-delusion In Death Of A Sa
.... states in a conversation with his brother Ben at the end of the play; “Oh, Ben, I always knew one way or the other we were gonna make it, Biff and I!” (1704). In fact neither of them has made it. Willy takes his own life and dies never having realized his dreams. Biff accepts who he is, but has done little to change. Linda doesn’t understand why Willy took his life and why no one came to the funeral. Even after his death she is unable to realize that Willy’s entire life wa .....
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She Walks In Beauty
.... is given the image of darkness: "She walks in beauty, like the night," but then the line continues explaining that the night is cloudless and the stars are bright. So immediately the poem brings together its two opposing forces that are at work, darkness and light.
In lines three and four Byron emphasizes that the unique feature of the woman is her ability to contain opposites within her; "the nest of dark and bright/meet" in her. The joining together of the darkness and the light can be seen in .....
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Showing The Connection Between
.... life was based on cheating and lying. What he failed to realize was that although he would eventually possess the money and the objects he so heatedly yearned for, he would never be truly happy. Due to his obsession with the "American Dream" and his longing to forget his past, the reader is able to decipher that Gatsby was in fact, a fraud. His life was based on an unattainable goal, his past merely a figment in an unused imagination. He was not real in the sense that he never truly lived, and it could .....
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Simon, Lord Of The Flies
.... more to tell the boys what he knew, but they just thought he was weird. He told Ralph, “You’ll get back alright.”(111) Ralph’s response was only that he thought Simon was “batty.” In another instance, he went to tell the others that he found out what the beast really was (the parachutist), but got caught in their bestial dance. They heard him “crying something about a body on the hill,” (152) but it was too late. In the darkness, he had been mista .....
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Slaughterhouse Five
.... most autobiographical work to date, the action occurring in and around Slaughterhouse Five, the very hellhole in which he toiled for his captors. The former is no doubt less autobiographical, but the main character certainly has many things in common with his creator: an American artist within Nazi Germany, doing what he felt was necessary to stay alive and to further his work. The author himself tells us he had to write this book. His subtitle “A Duty-Dance with Death” also takes on .....
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Song Of Solomon
.... to the sea his wings would dampen and fall apart, or if he got too close to the sun, the wax in his wings would melt, and he would lose the ability to fly. Ignoring Daedalus' warnings, Icarus flew too high and the sun melted the wax that held his wings together. Icarus fell into the Aegean Sea and died.
Solomon, a slave, had been a leader when he worked in the cotton fields in the South. One day he decided to fly back to Africa with his youngest son, Jake, leaving behind his wife Ryna and their twent .....
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