Beowulf And Grendel: Craving For The Queen
.... Hygd was offered to Hygelac under very similar circumstances as
told in Beowulf, and portrayed the same role in Hygelac's kingdom. There is
reference in both texts concerning this tradition, and it is evident to the
reader that this is not an unusual Anglo-Saxon custom.
Queen Wealhtheow and Queen Hygd served as excellent role models for the
courts in which they served. They exemplified the mannerisms and etiquette of
the noble people. Queen Wealhtheow showed excellent poise from the very
beginning o .....
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Critical Analysis Of "Identity Crisis" And "Oppositional Dress"
.... her point. She also mentions other movements
like the Gay Liberation Movement, the Punk movement, and the Skin Heads, who can
all be seen in some form today. In mainstream american culture some individual
sub cultures do get lost in the mainstream, but are not forgotten, however most
oppositional cultures resist assimilation into the main steam and continue to
define themselves on their own terms.
In Ibelema's essay, he says that the mainstream culture is so strong that
individual cultures assimil .....
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Waiting For Godot And Beowulf: Fate
.... able to experience the feelings that a
character is experiencing in the work. For example, in order for a reader to
feel how and understand why Vladimir and Estragon feel as though they do while
they wait, it is essential for that reader to either understand or experience
the same feelings that Vladimir and Estragon are experiencing. Vladimir and
Estragon are waiting; waiting for Godot, to be exact; and Beckett wants the
reader to feel as if he or she were waiting also. Along with the feeling of
waiting .....
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A Story Of An Hour: Feelings
.... She
did not deliberately want it but it had come anyway. Unmistakably, a joy over
took her. Not that she would not be sad again, but for now she was like a bird
let out of the cage.
Mrs. Mallard was a good example of Shakespeare's line “To Thine own self
be true." She did not allow guilt to rear it's ugly head but instead just felt
her feelings. She allowed no one to witness her self assertion. But, it was
the strongest impulse of her being.
As she was projecting spring and summer days to come .....
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Foucault And Truffaut: Power And Social Control In French Society
.... such as the modern prison system (versus the stocks, and
scaffolds) are technologies that are typical of the modern, painless, friendly,
and impersonal coercive tools of the modern world. In fact the success of these
technologies stems from their ability to appear unobtrusive and humane. These
prisons Foucault goes on to explain like many institutions in post 1700th
century society isolate those that society deems abnormal. This isolation seeks
to attack the souls of people in order to dominate t .....
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Araby: How The Setting Reinforces The Theme And Characters
.... boy's reality
more believable through more vivid, precise descriptions.
Bright light is used to create a fairy tale world of dreams and
illusions. James Joyce uses the bright light when describing Mangan's sister,
the boy's infatuation. The protagonist is infatuated with his neighbor's sister
and he imagines that he will heroically bring her something back from the bazaar.
Joyce refers to bright light when discussing Mangan's sister in order to give
her a heavenly presence. Light is used to create a .....
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Oedipa Has No Goal Just As The Hair Spray Can Has No Aim
.... is her curiosity. Her
curiosity in the meaning of the Tristero and the meaning of W.A.S.T.E. are what
sends her around San Narciso. She does not know where she is going but she will
go until her fuel runs out just like the can.
Oedipa travels around the city of San Narciso without a real destination.
She will get temporary destinations but no final destination. The can does not
have any real destination either. The can will get a temporary destination just
as Oedipa will. The can's temporary desti .....
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"I Heard The Owl Call My Name" And "The Black Robe": The Indians
.... The Owl Call My Name, and white
mans influence on the Indians in I Heard The Owl Call My Name was much greater.
Technology did not play an important role in the Indian's way of life.
Traditionally, the Indians lived off the land taking only what they needed, and
their hunting and building methods had served them well for centuries, therefore
their need to develop new technology would not have been great.
The Indians are not simple or barbaric people. Their complex belief
system and folklore .....
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Interpreting Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever"
.... of the perennial antagonisms
of human nature.
From the story's first sentence, upon the introduction of two women of
"ripe but well-cared-for middle age," it becomes clear that stereotypes are at
issue (Wharton 1116). This mild description evokes immediate images of demure
and supportive wives, their husbands' wards. Neither woman is without her
"handsomely mounted black handbag," and it is not until several paragraphs into
the piece that Mrs. Slade and Mrs. Ansley even acquire first names (1117). .....
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"Indians" By Jane Tompkins: How Bias Affect Ones Concept Of History
.... parallel to
education. The point is that you learn something you are subject to the
educator's opinion as well as your prejudices regarding the topic. This leads
me to one of Tompkins main points of discussion: "What really is the truth?"
As I have mentioned throughout the essay, everything is subject to the
opinions and prejudices of the observer. When trying to decipher a fact, or
"the truth" you must realize that people may see a particular instance in many
different points of view. Tompkin .....
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Juvenalian And Horatian Satire
.... a whole, and Horatian and Juvenalian satire in particular, these essays can
provide for further comprehension than a simple definition of the style alone.
Horatian satire is noted for its more pleasant and amusing nature.
Unlike Juvenalian satire, it serves to make us laugh at human folly as opposed
to holding our failures up for needling. In Steele's essay The Spectator's Club,
a pub gathering is used to point out the quirks of the fictitious Sir Robert de
Coverly and his friends. Roger de Cove .....
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The Story Of An Hour: Irony
.... of rain...the notes of a distant song...countless sparrows were
twittering...patches of blue sky...." All these are beautiful images of life ,
the reader is quite confused by this most unusual foreshadowing until Louise's
reaction is explained.
The widow whispers "Free, free, free!" Louise realizes that her
husband had loved her, but she goes on to explain that as men and women often
inhibit eachother, even if it is done with the best of intentions, they exert
their own wills upon eachother. She real .....
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Leggatt As An Independent Character In Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer"
.... captain. By no means are Leggatt's
decisions and actions exemplary. Murdering mutinous crew members is hardly an
acceptable practice, and avoiding justice, and one's punishment—all of which
Leggatt do—only worsen the issue. The captain claims that in swimming to the
island Koh-ring, his double had "lowered himself into the water to take his
punishment" (Conrad 193). However, as Cedric Watts argues, this is only true
because Leggatt, by escaping justice, will face an uncertain future marooned on
an isl .....
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The Elusive Form: The Use Of Female Characters In "Naked Nude"
.... of
thesis.
Bernard Malamud, a leading contemporary Jewish author, skirts between
fantasy and reality in his almost allegorical short fiction, teaching the reader
a lesson through coinciding elements of beauty and comedy. Venturing away from
his usual, inner-city Jewish element, Malamud tackles new challenges of subject
and setting in his novelistic collection of short stories, Pictures of Fidelman .
Malamud develops his protagonist through a series of six, interrelated short
works, .....
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Mastering The Short Story
.... views a sentence as a factor in a mathematical
equation. He also gets almost romantic about the sentence as a living, sentient
being. Once you shovel the pop-lit drivel where it belongs, you are free to
apply his suggestions to your own work.
It is a good idea to check your story for too much obvious meaning. Not
only will this make the story shorter and clearer, the hidden meanings imbedded
in the story will have a chance to be probed and discovered. As well, avoid
"signpost" sentences that could easi .....
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