Dr. Faustus, Pride And Gree
.... was Icarus' pride which led him to fly so high in the sky that his wax wings melted and he fell to his death. Second this could be a comparison to Lucifer who, due to his pride also fell, but not to his death, but from Heaven. Either comparison shows perfect foreshadowing of what will happen to Faustus, due to his deadly sin of pride.
Greed, the other characteristic of Faustus becomes apparent in the first scene. He has already gained all that he can materially and intellectually, being very wealth .....
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Kreutzer Sonata
.... to prevent affairs from occurring. He says dryly, "Don't trust your horse in the field, or your wife in the house" (p.528). This distrust in a relationship leads to the man taking drastic measures to prevent his greatest fear from becoming reality. Once in a marriage, Pozdnyshev feels that it is the man's job to instill fear in the woman. "Yes, the female sex must be curbed in time or else all is lost!" (p.528). This fear would be the means of molding the woman into the man's ideal shape and character .....
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Dulce Est Decrum Est By Wilfre
.... words like
writhing and froth-corrupted say precisely how the man is being
tormented. Moreover, the phrase "blood shod" shows how the troops
have been on their feet for days, never resting. Also, the fact that
the gassed man was "flung" into the wagon reveals the urgency and
occupation with fighting. The only thing they can do is toss him into
a wagon. The fact one word can add to the meaning so much shows how
the diction of this poem adds greatly to its effectiveness.
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Matthew Arnold S Devolpment Of
.... would represent the character element and the plot element is represented by the significant struggle ending in ruin. In the drama Antigone, the plot, character, and diction are not only the key elements, but they are all dependent upon one another.
In Antigone the plot is quite obvious. After Antigone’s father passed away, her two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, had agreed to share the kingdom between them and reign alternately year-by-year. This obviously didn’t work out because those .....
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King Lear
.... was disowned by her father and banned from her homeland. This decision made by Lear was foolish, Cordelia was the only daughter that was pure and loyal to him. She shows this by admitting her true amount of love for him, she did not follow he sister's and lie. Even though if she exaggerated her love she would still be with her father, but it seems that Cordelia did not want her father's love and wealth under false pretenses.
Lear's other weakness is that his actions originate from his emotions .....
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Kubla Khan
.... Khan’s kingdom as paradise-like. This paradise-kingdom consists of ten miles of “fertile ground” surrounded securely by walls that are “girdled” around. Its gardens are bright, and “blossoming with many an incense bearing tree” and are watered by wandering streams.
The location of the palace is important, it is built “where Alph, the sacred river, ran.” The name Alph is an allusion to the mythical Greek river that flows under ground and rises in fountains. The river is described as sacre .....
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Kate Chopin A Style Of Her Own
.... would never go when the sun was high in the sky. Then, Robert would walk Edna back to her house and they would talk for hours. Everyone at Grand Isle could see the attractions between Edna and Robert, even Robert. Edna, on the other hand, did not see this attraction immediately. When Robert leaves for the Rio Grande, Edna is left feeling depressed and lonely. She decides that Robert wants nothing more to do with her, since he has written everyone letters of his journey except her. At this time Edna .....
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E E Cummings
.... dismounted. Finally, '(im' on the last line should bring the reader's eyes back to the top of the poem, where he finds 'mortals)'. Placing '(im' at the end of the poem shows that the performers attain a special type of immortality for risking their lives to create a show of beauty, they attain a special type of immortality (36-7). The circularity of the poem causes a feeling of wholeness or completeness, and may represent the Circle of Life, eternal motion (Fri 26). Cummings first tightly written ideogram .....
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King And Thoreau
.... and would rather end up in jail than go against his will. A certain passage shows how strong he felt when he said "Your money is your life, why should I haste to give it my money?" (Thoreau 538). It was important to Thoreau to get the public informed about the War, and make people think why it was wrong to support it. Thoreau didn’t rally hundreds and thousands of people together to get reactions. Instead he went to jail to protest and wrote his essay "Civil Disobedience". His statements were to ge .....
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E. E. Cummings
.... sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes.
Women and men(both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain
up into the silence the green
up into the silence the green
silence with a white earth in it
you will (kiss me) go
out into the morning the young
morning with a warm world in it
(kiss me) you will go
on into the sunlight the fine
sunlight with a firm day in it
you .....
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Killer Angels
.... and asleep late in the rain, and there's a marvelous excitement to it, a joy to wake in the morning, and feel the army all around you and see the campfires in the morning and smell the coffee…"[pg.125] Leadership in those days, was all about character, and conducting your self as a gentlemen. Shaara wrote of Gen. Armistead, "He was one of the men who would hold ground if it could be held; he would die for a word. He was a man to depend on, and there was this truth about war to taught you the men you co .....
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East Of Eden
.... fooled many; she had
golden blond hair, hazel eyes, a thin and delicate nose, and a small
chin to make her face look heart shaped. According to the town Cathy
lived, Cathy had a scent of sweetness, but that is just what Cathy
wanted
the town to see and think when Cathy planned her kill. On page
114-115, "The fire broke out... the Ames house went up like a
rocket... Enough remained of Mr. and Mrs. Ames to make sure there were
two bodies." Cathy had set the house on fire and .....
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King Solomon
.... he doesn’t achieve it. He is given wisdom; he is not given an education. Solomon receives knowledge; he doesn’t earn it. He under goes no youthful learning experience.”
This means that without God giving the blessing of wisdom unto Solomon he may not have been the great leader that he was today. This gift made Solomon loved by all people of his kingdom. Solomon used his wisdom to make a decision about two women and a dead baby. This story in the bible shows how two prostitutes who both have given b .....
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King Lear As A Tragic Hero
.... divided the land in two and gave Reagan and
Goneril each half. Cordelia on the other hand received nothing as her
dowry and in turn no none would marry her except the King of France.
Giving the land to the two daughters was the first of Lear's mistakes,
for the daughters did not love him as much as Cordelia did, but they
wished to have his riches. When Goneril and Reagan are in power
they try to make Lear appear to be incompetent. They refer to him as
"The Idle Old Man" in fron .....
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Eaters Of The Dead By Michael
.... the world before that day, since he does not care for adventure. Having no experience with the world and having no knowledge, Ibn Fadlan slowly learns the Northmen’s way of life. In the end, felt he “had been born a Northman” (p. 152), having spent much time in their company and is no longer the coward he was when he started the trip. His lack of knowledge causes him to be a coward in battle, since he will be battling frightening, mysterious creatures. A better proof of this is that .....
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