Gertrudes Suicide
.... and shortly after married Gertrude. Prince Hamlet could not handle this and was disgusted by the entire situation. He then decided to put on an "Antic Disposition," meaning that he will pretend to be crazy in order to find out the details of what is going on. Gertrude observes that Hamlet is not his usual self, and she feels responsible because her remarriage is so soon after her old husbands death. This makes Gertrude feel absolutely terrible and could be a possible justification for suicide.
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Getting To Know The Caged Bird
.... visualize a giant female who is singing in a tone to hurt the audiences’ ears. The mental picture of this woman is intimidating to the naïve mind of a reader. As other characterizations suggest the same type of influence on the reader, one that enlightens their view on personalities. Angelou continually uses characterization to develop and expand upon the plot of the story, as well as the setting of characters.
A crucial part of this autobiography is the setting of the story, it allows for th .....
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Ghosts 2
.... leg; yet he says about his ethics he has “two good legs to stand on” (277). Society is very much like this. It seems to be solid and stable but has weak foundations. Society will never completely heal or lose its flaws, nor will Engstrand.
Religion plays a major role in the everyday lives of the townspeople. The members of this community do not have not have the same direct contact with their God as the members of the ancient Greek world, but reach their God through a divine person (Past .....
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Giants In The Earth
.... and peaceful prairie forever. He finds happiness in these thoughts and he continues to keep himself busy by working as hard as he possibly can to keep the property in the best possible shape it can be. The story was not quite the same for most female pioneers of that time. Most of the
female pioneers, shown by the character of Beret, feared the open plains, feared the desolation that stretched out infront of them. While the men were out working, the women stayed in the small huts or houses, all alone .....
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Gilgamesh
.... life eternal. Noah was blessed by God and was rewarded all earth’s flesh as meat for him and his family.
The differences between Hebrew and Babylonian cultures that these stories suggest is that what people want as a reward is different. In Babylon culture, immortality is considered a gift. In Hebrew culture, rewards of food and blessings is what Noah wanted.
If I had to Choose between being Noah, or Utnapishtim, I would be tempted to have eternal life, like Utnapishtim, but I wou .....
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Gilgamesh 3
.... is known but to know what cannot be known, for it is ongoing and we are in the
middle of it.
To see for ourselves the meaning of a story, we need, first of all, to look carefully at what happens in the story; that is, we need to look at it as if the actions and people it describes actually took place or existed. We can articulate the questions raised by a character's actions and discuss the implications of their consequences. But we
need to consider, too, how a story is put togethe .....
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Gilgamesh, The Epic Of
.... of Gilgamesh, as Gods usually carry no feeling. Gilgamesh and Enkidu conquered many battles together. Gilgamesh makes great reference to these conquests when he says "My friend, my younger brother who seized and killed the Bull of Heaven, and overthrew Humbaba in the cedar forest, my friend who was very dear to me, and who endured dangers beside me".(p.101) After the death of Enkidu, Gilgamesh begins to fear his fate of dying and journeys to find everlasting life. As Gilgamesh will soon find out, man c .....
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Girls Of Slender Means
.... was miserable about her fatness and
spent much of her time in eager dread of the next meal, and
in making resolutions what to eat of it and what to leave,
and in making counter-resolutions in view of the fact
that her work at the publisher’s was essentially mental,
which meant that her brain had to be fed more than most
people’s” (35-36). Unlike Joanna, Jane “...was on the
look-out for a husband,...” (32) since she was only twenty
two years old.
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Glass Menagerie
.... is the major symbol is the fire escape, which has a separate function for each characters. This fire escape provides a means of escape for Tom from his cramped apartment and nagging mother. Therefore the fire escape for him represents a path to the outside world where dreams are. For the gentleman caller Jim the fire escape provides the means through which Jim can enter the Wingfield's apartment an entrance to their lives. For Amanda, Tom's mom, the fire escape allows Jim to come into the apartment and .....
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Glass Menagerie 2
.... on the firescape. He does not desire to be part of an imaginary world, which only proves to be the downfall of Amanda and Laura. He realizes that the world is not what Amanda has made it seem inside the house. Also, during his reflections on the firescape he is not really separating himself from the imaginary world because that metal frame is still anchored to the apartment wall. This shows that no matter how hard Tom tries to escape he will always be 'bounded' to the apartment. His emotional attachm .....
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Glass Menagerie 3
.... Menagerie Jim is used exactly like Chris. Jim is used to show the coming of Laura’s character. Not only were Knox’s character and the character of Laura similar in both the works, but Todd from "DPS" and Tom from The Glass Menagerie are also shown to be similar.
Todd kept a certain mystery about him throughout the work, as well as Tom. Tom would go to the movies and keep to himself except for some outbursts of speech to either Amanda or Laura. On the other hand, Todd usually kept to h .....
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Go Ask Alice 2
.... her mother is constantly Peking at her. Alice gets to know Beth Baum. Beth is Jewish and her father is a doctor. Her mother nags a lot. Alice’s parents like Beth, because she is pretty nice. In the holidays Beth goes on a summer camp for six weeks and Alice stays at her grans.
One day she meets Jill Peters and she invites her for a party. Alice doesn’t like taking drugs. She wants to stop it and to go home, but her grandpa has a little heart - attack and Alice has to help her grandma. Alic .....
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Godlike Odysseus
.... his bed outside his room: " 'Now, Eurycleia, and make ready/ His firm-built bed. Make it outside/ The room he built himself. Aye, move/ His firm-built bedstead forth and strew/ Upon it bedding-fleeces, covers,/ And bright-hued rugs.' " Then, Odysseus shows more mortal characteristics: "All this she said/ To try her husband. But Odysseus/ Was angered at her words, and thus/ He spoke to his true wife: 'What woman!/ What words are these you now have said/ To pierce my heart!...' " These words from Pene .....
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Gods In The Iliad
.... humility and respect for the gods and immediately agreed to ransom the body to the Trojans, showing that all mortals, even godlike Achilles, were answerable to the gods. Although they seemed to have unlimited freedom, the gods could not always do as they pleased and eventually had to come before Zeus. Zeus acted as a balance of sorts. He had to keep the gods in order and make sure that what fate decreed would happen. For example, after Achilles re-enters the battle Zeus declared that if Achilles were .....
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Good News From Outer Space By
.... men-in 2985 a meltdown occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Soviet Union. ‘Chernobyl,’ in Russian means ‘Wormwood.’ The Roman Empire will be re-instituted in a ten-headed beast-in 1997 the European Community established a ten-person commission to fight the worldwide depression. The nation of Gog and Magog will come from the north to fight a war in the valley of Armageddon-we see the Soviet Army bogged down in a stalemate in the Middle East today where, among other terr .....
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