I Stand Here Ironing
.... at her internal self. This is why the reader is shown an internal conflict throughout the story. She cannot seem to deal with the life that she has given her daughter. While Emily’s mother always felt as if she had made many bad choices in raising Emily, she also showed that she cared for Emily in a strong sense. Ultimately, Emily’s mother wanted her to know that what she possessed on the inside was far more important than what she wore on the outside.
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I Too Sing America
.... that is what the laugh represents, The laugh also represents his thoughts of the future. Meaning that he’ll be able to look back on all this and laugh. The eating represents learning and knowledge. Without knowledge one cannot further themselves in life or make themselves better. Eating well means to learn well and retain the knowledge. Growing strong represents the retaining of the knowledge. Not only does this mean to grow strong with knowledge but for the voices of equality to grow stronger. The bigge .....
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Ibsen And Strindberg - Hedda Gabler And Miss Julie
.... important in the case of Strindberg. I was intrigued by Karen’s lecture on Strindberg, in particular the rise of his misogynist attitudes and his state of mental health. His attitudes are reflected in Miss Julie quite clearly. Strindberg believed that Women were a secondary form, which can be seen through reading his preface to the play. The translation of the play I examined was from the "Drama Classics" (D.C) Series. I found a very interesting piece of writing in this version of the play; In .....
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If I Should Die Before I Wake
.... took all her
strength to be nice to them, and inspite of her kindness, they were hostile to
Chana and her family.(80-83)
A noticeable trait shown in Chana as her character developed
throughout the book was her religious and spiritual self. In the beginning it
was only her grandmother, Bubbe who had total faith in God, and who tried
to encourage Chana to have faith also. Chana did not believe Bubbe, she
thought that God was not on her side and that he was nowhere.(34,196) She
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Iliad By Homer
.... to help the Argives." followed by a scene surrounding Diomedes where his men are "fighting like lions or wild boars." Both of these have their own respective importance. While lions and boars are notoriously vicious creatures, sure to raise a hackle or two on a Greek reader, and when exercised on Diomede sit brings their ferocity home. The interesting thing here is the contrast between the two. This is another example of how the Greeks are made to look like animals. In Book Ten Nestor comments on a .....
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Importance Of Being Earnest
.... order to come to town, but he doesn't believe Algernon has a somber personality to comprehend his reasons. Quote: "My dear Algy, I don't know whether you will be able to understand my real motives. You are hardly serious enough." "Martyr" [Jack to Algy 6] Algy has returned the cigarette case to Jack; now, he wishes to hear the reason Jack is Ernest in town and Jack in the country. Jack shows his bunbury to Algy. Jack is Cecily's guardian that is why he is Jack in the country. In order to come to town he h .....
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Importance Of Being Earnest
.... the idea of any man being allowed to vote as simply disgraceful. The Victorian era saw legislation concerning labour and industry, which began to intrude on the power of the Upper class over the working class labourers. In fact by the late 1880’s Lower classes were working less hours, while their wages continued to increase. This allowed many to enjoy luxuries that until then were considered only possible by the Upper Classes.
Women, even the ones of the Upper Class were still considered unequal of me .....
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In Cold Blood
.... in jail prior to the trial's verdict because he refused to be a witness. After being released from his short jail term, Capote's doctor said the book took a great toll on his physical condition, and he was extremely worried about his health (Reed 32). Another devastating event happened shortly there after. The murderer's, Perry and Dick were executed. this was such an awful thing for Capote, because Capote once said that while writing this book, he became best friends with the killers. Capote had one las .....
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In Cold Blood
.... subjects beyond the too-narrow personal world with which most writers concern themselves. The setting of "In Cold Blood" matters very much to the symbolism of the plot.
The novel begins on the day that the murders take place. The Clutter family is going about their daily chores. Nancy, the town sweetheart, is contemplating about how she is to get all of her chores finished. Her father, brother, and mother are carrying on as they usually would on a Saturday morning. They are an e .....
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In Dubious Battle
.... out of a tree, the workers no longer wish to work in concern of their health. The workers start to strike, and assemble on the land of Al’s father, in exchange for picking his crop for free. London is charismatic, and takes the ideas from Mac to lead the strike. What will be the fate of the strikers, and what will Jim accomplish with his newly acquired skills?
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Jim Nolan is a character who has always been angry at some type of institution throughout his life, which causes him to join the & .....
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In Flanders Fields
.... and self-reliance of second-generation pioneers in Canada. David McCrae instilled a strong sense of duty and healthy respect for military values in his two sons. John McCrae was offered a scholarship from the University of Toronto in 1888 where he went on to study physiology and pathology as well, McCrae wrote poetry for the school paper The Varsity. From there he graduated from medical school with a gold medal for his outstanding academic performance. In 1899 he moved to Montreal to accept a fellowsh .....
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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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In The Lake Of The Woods
.... -through his uniqueness- fails to satisfy his father. John's father teases and ridicules him throughout his childhood. John's mother sees this as the beginning of his need to escape from reality, the need to take on a different persona:
John had all kinds of different names. I remember his father used to call him Little Merlin or Little Houdini, and that Jiggling John one. Maybe he got used to it. Maybe he felt- maybe it sort of helped to call himself Sorcerer. I hope so. (p268)
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In The Skin Of A Lion
.... tumble of events.." and even "The first sentence of every novel should be…". Authors, painters, singers and actors all feature highly in a book about peoples’ creation of their lives and history. Ondaatje’s language in the novel borders on poetry. Imagery, figurative language and emotive words abound whenever he is being descriptive, or making a point. The second paragraph at the beginning of "Caravaggio", "by noon […] onto the blue metal", has a certain rhythm in t .....
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In The Skin Of The Lion
.... as those that "have seen this one lighted room and traveled towards it. A summer night's inquiry." (9). In the Garden of the Blind, Patrick observes the blind woman's remaining eye "darting", "moving with delight", "and alighting", all easily visualized. Later in the story, Carvaggio watches a woman in the boathouse. "In this light, and with all the small panes of glass around here, she was inside a diamond, mothlike on the edge of burning kerosene, caught in the center of all the facets" (198).
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