Ethan Frome
.... is emotionally weak, in that he allows Zeena to control him. Ethan was described, in the beginning of the book, as looking far older than he was in actuality. His work and torment made his physical appearance to match his inner suffering. Winter is typically seen as cold, dark, and lonely. These are reflective feelings succumbing Ethan.
Love mostly suites those who remain oblivious to the harsh reality of our duty. Duty binds but love sets people free. Ethan realizes his duty, the duty of .....
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Ethan Frome
.... much guilt because of Pearl. Dimmesdale’s guilt is filled with mental anguish, and serves as a constant reminder of his sin. Dimmesdale is a minister [who] commits adultery and is driven to public confession by remorse (Martin 108). He remains silent so that he can continue to do God’s work as a minister. It is said that he was a guilty character [who] finds empathy in connection with others (Peckham 92). Pearl brings him guilt when he would not stand with them on the scaffold; "Thou was not bold! – .....
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Ethan Frome
.... because he knew that Zeena would be tempted to buy a lot of fancy medicines because she was expecting him to have fifty dollars by the time she returned. He was turned down by the kind hearted man because he too was having financial trouble.
When he returned home, Mattie had cooked dinner and it was on the table. While they were eating the cat jumped up onto the table after the milk. Both Ethan and Mattie reached for the milk to get it away from the cat. Their hands met on the handle of the pitcher .....
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Ethan Frome - Contrast Between Film And Novel
.... of an impending sense of gloom and tragedy. The darkness of the house amongst the pure white of the snow is a symbol of the darkness within the house. It shows that the people living in the house, the Fromes, are not happy people. They have their burdens and a darkness in their lives that is further intensified by the joy of the people around them. The audience is perhaps more aware than readers of the book of the dreariness of the isolated town as they are shown visually, aspects of isolation and des .....
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Ethan Frome - Irony
.... Ethan and Mattie simply want to enjoy this amusement. The chance for a sledding ride does not come until the night Mattie is supposed to leave. Their sorrow over Mattie’s departure changes their motives concerning sledding. They see a collision with the elm as a way to avoid parting. Mattie suggests, "Right into the big elm…So ‘t we’d never have to leave each other any more" (71). The irony is that sledding, an innocent pastime, becomes a tool the lovers use to try to escape their situation.
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Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
.... the Fromes' farm. A year later she chooses to die rather than return to a world of solitude.
Edith Wharton uses characters such as Mattie, to express the theme of loneliness and isolation. Mattie Silver is unlike any of the other characters in Ethan Frome. The town of Starkfield is very colorless and dull. When Mattie enters she is wearing bright clothing and ribbons tied in her hair. From her first appearance, the reader becomes aware that Mattie is very different from Ethan's wife. Of all th .....
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Ethics Of St. Thomas
.... or belief, from knowledge and to assign distinct objects to each. Opinion, for Plato, was a form of apprehension that was shifting and unclear, similar to seeing things in a dream or only through their shadows; its objects were correspondingly unstable. Knowledge, by contrast, was wholly lucid; it carried its own guarantee against error, and the objects with which it was concerned were eternally what they were, and so were exempt from change and the deceptive power to appear to be what they were not. Pl .....
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Eveline
.... sick since a young child and died of malaria. This entire play can almost be considered an autobiography (146-147). Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night is intensely personal and directly autobiographical. Written in an agonizing attempt to understand himself, and no doubt primarily for his own sake, it is not only about himself, but about his father and his mother as well. Because O’Neill was so essentially a dramatist, self-examination and the attempt to lighten the burden of the past inevit .....
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Everyday Use
.... dreams she believes that Dee is perfect. In her dream, there are only three persons: Herself, Dee, and the TV guy. "Sometime I dream a dream in which De and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program…" those were the words of her mother. Maggie's name was never mentioned in the dream.
The descriptions that the mother makes of Maggie and Dee are completely different. " Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nice hair and fuller figure," said the mother. "Her feet was always neat looking…" again the .....
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Everyday Use
.... style, etc (Cultural Nationalism 1-2).
The central theme of the story concerns the way which an individual understands their present life in relation to the traditions of their people and culture. Dee tells her mother and Maggie that they do not understand their "heritage," because they plan to put "priceless" heirloom quilts to "everyday use" (Walker 78). The story makes clear that Dee is equally confused about the nature of her inheritance both from her immediate family and from .....
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Everyday Use
.... dynamic character round. She is dynamic when she returns home to the country. She had previously said she would not bring any of her friends home, but when she gets there she is accompanied by a gentleman. Other aspects of her dynamics are displayed when she changes her name to "Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo". She went from dyeing and hating her upbringing to wanting to take a piece of it with her back to the city. To show off where and what she comes from. Dee is truly a round character. Walker d .....
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Everyday Use
.... that of African Americans. When Dee informs her mother and Maggie she has changed her name she states, " I couldn’t stand it anymore, being named after the people that oppress me." (488) Dee’s mother is quick to point out that Dee is in fact named after her aunt, who was named after her grandmother. While Dee may not be an "African" name it is based on ancestors, tradition, and the heritage of the Johnson family. Dee discards this name in favor of an African name, Wangero, that, althou .....
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Everyman - Play Analysis
.... Everyman asks Death many various questions, trying to persuade him to allow him to stay on earth. Everyman wants to know if he can bring certain things with him. He also wants to know if he would be able to stay on Earth for a longer time. Death says that he will take no bribes. Should he go to Heaven or to hell?
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Everyman asks Fellowship to join him on his journey. Fellowship, being the friend that he was says "sure, I will go". When Everyman tells Fellowship that this journey is to eithe .....
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
.... by his mother." It is safe to assume Julian is a depressed son, who is perturbed with his mother and her old ways of life.
Complications begin to arise after the reader has a good feel on who the characters are, which then leads to the climax of the story. Tension first arrives between Julian and his mother when Julian moves from sitting next to his mother, to a Negro man on the bus. O’Conner uses a good example on page 208, " He stared at her, making his eyes the eyes of a strang .....
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
.... in which she implicates her kind, as the party responsible for the tension between black and whites. In fact, what she really means is that, "we dominated this race of people", and feels threatened by it. Also, Mrs. Chestney truly meets her match when the black woman who boards the bus with her son refuses her charity. Julian becomes overjoyed when he notices that the woman’s hat is identical to his mother’s. Thus, Mrs. Chestney fears materialize- she truly "meets herself coming and going&qu .....
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