Antony And Cleopatra
.... with Cleopatra. After all, it would be hard to come up with such flowery language if a person were not inspired. Enobarbus may be lamenting his own passions vicariously through the eyes of Antony. This would be convenient in questioning Enobarbus' loyalty, which becomes very important later on in the play (considering he kills himself over grief from fearing he betrayed his leader). The loyalty of Enobarbus is indeed questionable. Even though we never hear him utter a single disparaging remark against .....
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A Friend Who Wants Revenge
.... The one quote that explains Fortunato fully is," Come we will go back; your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed…Besides there is Luchresi" (749).
Unlike Fortunato Montresor is not loved, respected, or will be missed. Montresor at one point in time seemed to be similar to that of Fortunato. Montresor had lots of family and just as many friends as Fortunato. Unfortunately something happened. "The thousand injuries .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities
.... and left nothing else with it to be looked after" (62). This negative light that the ruthless use of capital punishment casts upon the rulers of France is exactly what Dickens had intended.
When the revolution actually takes place, the Jacques become drunk with bloodlust. Their methods of restoring order and peace are exactly the same as those they opposed: send anyone to the guillotine who disagrees with them. "They are murdering the prisoners," says Mr. Lorry to Darnay after arriving in France (2 .....
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A Clockwork Orange
.... that since it is a coerced goodness, against Alex's will, total goodness is not achieved.
Although Burgess considers one kind of clockwork orange inhuman, he does allow for another kind of clockwork orange that is human. Burgess's little Alex is a clockwork orange until he reaches maturity in the twenty-first chapter. Stanley Hyman, a literary critic, provided an afterward for the original American edition of A Clockwork Orange. In it he states that "Alex always was a clockwork orange, a machine for .....
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ANIMAL FARM IN COMPARISON TO T
.... so they will not starve. Mr. Jones tries to stop them but he can not overpower the animals, and soon Mr. Jones, his wife, and all his men are driven right out of the farm.
Mr. Jones is representing Czar Nicholas II. Believing firmly in his duty to preserve absolute power in the Russian monarchy, Nicholas opposed any compromise to those favoring more democracy in government, and had little talent for leadership himself. Nicholas was forced to abdicate the throne after the Russian Revolution.
After O .....
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Animal Farm
.... the family that lived on the farm, the Jones’, and the Pilkingtons. The Jones’ owed money to the Pilkingtons and they were taunted throughout the movie about it.
On the other hand, the animals had personalities of their own and were holding meetings in the barn. They would discuss such things as how bad they were being treated by Mr. Jones. He was an alcoholic and drank all the time. He treated the animals poorly and put his drinking and fun before taking care of them. Sometimes they wou .....
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Antigone Vs. Socrates
.... proper burial, therefore Antigone promised to her sister Ismene that she would be the one to defy Creon and bury her brother; and she didn’t care if the whole city knew of her plans. After being caught in the act, she was taken to the palace and when asked by Creon why she did it. Knowing the punishment that would come from it, she replied by saying that she didn’t think Creon had the power to overrule the unwritten laws or the Gods and that there are actually many more citizens who agree wit .....
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Analytical Essay - The Ruum An
.... that is very suspenseful and exciting.
'The Pedestrian' is a totally different type of story, which brings up social issues that can be debated. The point of these issues is to make the people of today think about whether what they are doing is right or wrong. Ray Bradbury's story is about a man named Leonard Mead in a city, in America who goes walking at night. In this city all the other citizens stay and watch their 'viewing screens'.
The main issue that this story brings up is that as the ye .....
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Analysis Of THE CRUCIBLE
.... mistake your duty as I mistook my own. I came into the village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion: the very crowns of Holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died…." This speech shows the fear and forgiveness he wanted expressed. He knew he made a lot of bad decisions and came back to try and fix his wrongdoing. Unfortunately, he was too late and the lives he came to save were already gone.
Reverend John Hale's job in Salem was one that no pe .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities - Suspens
.... we’re supposed to believe that he’s good and really noble because he didn’t want to kill people and he married the other “good” character. Please. Do you think that Charles would have given Lucie a chance is she looked like the rest of us even though she was so good-hearted? Of course not, but that’s what we are supposed to believe. Lucie and Charles are so stereotyped and boring that Dickens’s should have named them “Snore” and “Snooze.” Dickens’s under developed characters lets readers wonder about .....
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Across Five Aprils- Summary
.... the farm alone.
Not long after the last of the older men leave, Jethro's father, Matt, has a heart attack and is bed ridden. Jethro now has to become the man of the house. With the help of his sister, Jethro farms the fields and provides for his family and his brother John's wife and two children. After receiving a few letters from Tom, the family is notified of his death. Eb comes back after a while because he abandoned his post and was being hunted by the government for desertion. Jethro .....
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Analisis Of Oedipus Rex
.... Oedipus recalls memories of his own childhood in Corinth when the oracle warns him that he will one day slay his father, and defile the bed of his mother. Oedipus tried to change his destiny, by running away from his adoptive parents, but instead, he runs into the very person, who he was trying so desperately to avoid in the first place, King Laios, his father. At the crossroads in Phokis, Laios' chariot driver tried to push Oedipus off the road. The driver pushed him to make him get out of the way, a .....
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Antigone: Gender Conflict
.... Marriages were conducted with these
words, “I give this women for the procreation of legitimate
children...I accept...And I give a certain amount as dowry...I am
content.” Clearly the purpose of the women was to bear children.
The role of the husband is vague and seems as though he doesn’t play
much of a role in the household. Contact with other men was not
allowed for the wives, yet for the husband it was common to pursue
adulterous relationships. An Athenian male state .....
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A
.... Stephen was reared in a strict Catholic family. The demand for compliance placed on Stephen shapes his life early at Clongowes, a preparatory school run by the Jesuit order. Even as he is adhering to the principles of his Catholic school upbringing, he becomes increasingly disillusioned. Even though Joyce spoke warmly of his own experiences at Clongowes he portrays a different, almost opposite experience for Stephen (Kershner 4). Formerly above reproach or distrust, the priests become symbols of narro .....
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Animal Farm By George Orwell
.... needs. The pigeons acted as message carriers spreading propaganda between farms, spreading Napoleon’s words from farm to farm, or in the actual Russian Revolution, country to country. Although all these animals are very different, they all shared one common trait. They were all weak. They all let Napoleon take over without much resistance. Just like Stalin took over Russia. These animals were too weak, too scared, or just lacked the intelligence required to do something about it. This is where it is the f .....
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