A Separate Peace
.... his mental metamorphosis. Gene in the first part of his quote seemed strong, but when he twisted it to make Finny, his best friend look bad, he still seemed to be morally weak, but in a more stronger moral state then before. “ Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he.” (Pg. 51) This quote showed a completely changed Gene. Gene became stronger by realizing the reality, he now had realized that there was no use in competing with a .....
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Apperance Vs. Realty In Hamlet
.... actually be good: "And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!" Act 1
Polonius gives his son Laertes his blessing to go away, he sends a spy to follow him and keep an eye on him. This shows his lack of trust for anyone, he gives the appearance of a confident father who trusts his son to go off on his own. In reality he lies about his tr .....
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Dante
.... have the background to give them the poetic power for such description. His reasoning is "the shallowness of both our speech and intellect cannot contain so much." (Lines 5-6) Once again the reader is intrigued. How could a man of Dante's stature criticize language, which is the very tool he uses to create the epic work of La Commedia? If we cannot take Dante seriously with these opening statements, we must pose the question of what Dante is trying to do, by teasing us with this artificial beginning to C .....
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Dante S Inferno 2
.... for hell could be all the people committing criminal acts, murder, vandalism, and heinous sin. Souls enter here and stay for eternity until the day comes where all the souls are rejoined with their bodies. This place would be guarded with hideous monsters that are big and frightening. Monsters that are half-human half animal, like the Minotaur, who has a body of a man and a head of a bull.
Heaven is the exact opposite of Hell. People who did righteous things are blessed and granted paradise, wh .....
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David And Hamlet
.... from the valley to the mountain. David is a deeply intellectual character and like Hamlet has a conflicted dichotomous nature.
One of his difficulties arise from the death of his girlfriend Effie. He feels guilty and responsible for. Also, when his friend Toby comes to the valley for the first time, David is torn between making Toby feel comfortable, while at the same time trying to avoid hurting his family’s feelings.
David also feels separate from Joseph, his father, and Chris, his .....
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A Show About Nothing
.... can provide such an interesting topic for the comedies of life. In life people care about details and worry about trouble, the little nothings made are soon forgotten. Thus, these “nothingnesses” are actually fragments of out real life. Seinfeld gathers the nothingness into a show, and it spreads out the idea that everything in the show that actually happens all around us. For example, losing the car in a parking garage, working for an eccentric boss and coping with the trials and tribulatio .....
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Dead Boy, By John Ransom
.... This was the mother's last child. The poem states "this was the old tree's late branch", this meaning the other children (branches) have already been ripped away. The mother is left with no one. The town's people who realize this tragedy should not be so easy to judge this child's death.
Ransom hopefully has but something into people's heads about a person's death. Whether that person be old, young, mean, or nice they should understand the circumstances of the death. Also people should not .....
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Arcadia As A Postmodern Text
.... researchers such as Bernard, others would say that was more about history and the fallacies of studying primary evidence. The play utilizes many theories concerning science and philosophies on life, and so many might say this play is about living life, an existential thought in the play as Thomasina fulfills her potential in life and burns on the eve of her seventeenth birthday.
Time is used in the play very cleverly and as we are transported back and forth, we learn information from both eras that .....
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Dead Poets Society 2
.... To me conformity means to do what others are doing. In other words if you conform to something, you are just going along to that thing you are conforming to. I think conforming can be good at times, especially if you are trying to adapt yourself into a new environment. But again, you should always be yourself, and do what you think is right, and not what others think is right. You should never go along with what the world around you does or says just to fit in, when you are really going against your pr .....
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Analysis Of Ted Hughes The Min
.... filled his grave.
Robbing Myself. Hughes begins the poem by detailing the cold; the environment symbolizing the lack of life and of emotional emptiness lived. The worst weather, the worst situation, like in much literature the weather reflects personal turmoil. "Fallen Heaven"- referring to the fallen snow and his own fallen heaven, the loss of his hove in live; for that is truly what heaven is, our hope for an uncertain future.
He comes to the house in this metaphorical cold and begin .....
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Dead Poets Society And Transce
.... takes “Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist” to a new level now. He declares conformity is the same as throwing one’s own ideas, identity, and soul away, which is the equivalent to ending one’s life. Henry David Thoreau has beliefs similar to Emerson on the topic of conformity. In “Walden” Thoreau states “If a man does not keep pace with his/companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer./ Let him step to the music which he hears, how .....
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Death And The Maiden - Film Vs
.... Polanski makes Paulina throw the car over the cliff-edge. In doing this she is not only destroying a phallic symbol, and thus undermining Roberto’s sexuality and any claims he has on sexual dominance or superiority, she is destroying a perfect symbol of the male thirst for power and control, and the pragmatic logic to which her need for revenge has been sacrificed, into the infinite, chaotic abyss that defies all these principles, and unquestionably swallows it up. In doing this she br .....
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Antigone Individual Vs. Laws O
.... also held the perspective that she was supporting the laws of the gods and the heavens. Her reasoning is set by her belief that if Polyneice's was not buried properly, he would not go to heaven. Another important ideal held in Ancient Greece was that the government should not have any control in matters concerning the gods and religion. This ideal brings about the conflict. Antigone wants respect for her brother and for the gods and Creon wants to protect the integrity of Thebes.
In today's wor .....
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Death Of A Saleman. Is Willy L
.... change in the way he looks at life and a reversal in fortune. He knows that his life is not what he had thought and he thinks of the only honorable way to get out of his troubles, he must kill himself and let all the insurance money go to his family. His decision to kill himself in order for Biff to benefit represents an awareness of how futile his own struggle has become.
There are many characteristics of Willy that would make him a tragic hero, but all of the characteristics are from interpretation. .....
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Death Of A Salesman -character
.... the insurance money that the family will get from Willy’s accident. Therefore, Ben is saying
that the only way Willy can get twenty thousand dollars in insurance money is to kill himself, or symbolically Ben is saying that
the only way to get the diamonds is to enter the jungle. Willy also talks to Ben how great Biff would do with all of that money.
Willy thinks one more time about Biff and how he was a great football player. This shows that Willy still thinks of Biff as a
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