Lord Of The Flies - Symbols
.... place without order which they don't have. Piggy knew what the conch was at first and knew they should blow on it but all was taken credit for by Ralph. When they first found it Ralph thought it was a stone in the water but Piggy saw it as the shell and explained what he knew about it. "A stone." "No. A shell." Suddenly Piggy was a-bubble with decorous excitement. " S'right. It's a shell! I seen one like that before. On someone's back wall. A conch he called it. He used to blow it and then his mum woul .....
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Lord Of The Flies - The Beast
.... was no definite physical appearance to the beast because it was assumed to be the over-active imagination of little children at work. At the same time it is obvious that Golding uses the early chapters in the book to set the scene for the chaos and terror of the beast that follows. Soon it became evident that even the older boys had begun to wonder whether in fact some kind of beast did inhabit the island. It was also apparent that nobody was willing to admit this, but the fact that many boys now cried .....
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Lorraine Hansberry
.... majority of Lorraine’s works were about the black family of her time. She showed many important characteristics in each piece. Some of which were the importance of African roots, the equality of women, and the vulnerability of marriage (Draper 953). The play "The Crystal Stair," later changed to "A Raisin in the Sun", was about a man with a plea for racial tolerance over the incentive society in his time (Draper 950). This was merely based on Lorraine’s childhood experiences of the di .....
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Love And Acceptance
.... feelings she contributed to by her inability to balance the "hurts and needs" of the two. In Everyday Use we see Maggie "eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world would never say to her." Maggie's mother seems to have reinforced this by being unable to say no to Dee also. This is what makes the point in the story when she finally does say no (regarding the quilts) such an important moment in Maggi .....
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Loving April
.... threaten to engulf not just Tony and April, but also the whole village. April and Tony fall in love which each other and their love is objected to by the villagers.
"They had to be separated before more damage is done, that was much clear." Page 149
Evidently, April and Tony's relationship had to be stopped before matters got worse. April is forced to live in fear of persecution.
Throughout the story, April encounters two swines whom try to take advantage of her by forcing her to engage .....
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Lysistrata
.... powerful, heroic beings. Men are depicted as fighters, providers, and of course first class citizens. While woman on the other hand have always been perceived as weak, fainty, delicate homemakers, and unintelligent. Their main purpose in life is to cater for the men, and take care of the house and kids. And of course they were perceived as second class citizens.
The focus of this paper is to analyze the gender issues and differences that existed in all three plays. I would like to relate and .....
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Lysistrata
.... symbol of the passions raging in men's loins. Their attempt to batter through the gate is nothing else than a sexual penetration, and foreshadows the attempts of Cinesias later in the play.
Within Lysistrata, the pouring of water on the men to douse their sexual urges parallels the dampening of their husbands' passions to which the women have sworn. The Magistrate's allusions refer to the lustful invitations to adultery, which men offer. Amongst all this passion is Lysistrata, and in response .....
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Lysistrata Of Aristophanes
.... 413 BC, the entire army was defeated, captured and destroyed in the harbor of Syracuse. The disastrous Sicilian expedition left Athens almost completely powerless. By 412 BC, Athens was in distress politically. An oligarchy overthrew the democracy in 411 BC, and then was replaced by a moderate regime. Full democracy was restored in the summer of 410 BC after a significant Athenian victory over the Spartans. In 405 BC, Sparta’s Lysander took his navy northward to Hellespont. He made a surprise attack on A .....
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Obasan
.... her two aunts, Obasan and Emily, through their differing forms of communication, lifestyle traits and Nisei and Sansei traditions, as a result she forms her own lifestyle path and discovers her complete identity.
The differing forms of communication by the two aunts play a role in Naomi's lifestyle choice: Obasan with her use of Japanese silence and Emily through her straight forwardness. Obasan lives her life through a shell that traps her thoughts and feelings inside. She expresses her feelings .....
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Obasan - Book Report
.... not tell anybody about this. Naomi seems resentful during the novel, as she comes across as a quiet little girl, who does not seem to interact with many people. Aunt Emily finally finds a place in Slocan for the family to go live, but just before they leave finds out her and her immediate family could go to Toronto. This leaves Aunt Emily going to Toronto and everybody else moving to Toronto. In the end almost everybody ends up dying.
The novel had many strengths and weaknesses. One streng .....
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Ode On A Grecian Urn
.... back in history or literature. Authors and poets both use allusion to bring content and a realistic environment to the work. Keats tells of the dales of Arcady, adding to his work, another dimension of reality.
Irony is the discrepancy of what is expected to happen and what really does happen. "Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss," is ironic because generally one would think of lovers kissing ,but, these two will never be able to show their affection. Irony is a widely used technique be .....
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Ode To The West Wind
.... blown by the wind "like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing"(l.3) depends on the Inferno in Paradiso for the image to have an effect on the reader.
The various cycles of death and rebirth are examined with reference to the Maenads who were fabled to have destroyed Orpheus’s body and spread it around the world. This is the underlying theme to the poem with Shelley alluding to the breaking of Christ’s body on the cross and how that was essential for humanity to reach salvation. The onslaught of Au .....
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Oedipus - Fate
.... and talents, and his success and achievements greatly. If one of these happens to fail, then the catastrophe of a severe depression is near (Miller 34). Those actions happen when the Herdsman tells Oedipus who his mother is, and Oedipus replies "Oh, oh, then everything has come out true. Light, I shall not look on you Again. I have been born where I should not be born, I have been married where I should not marry, I have killed whom I should not kill; now all is clear" (Sophocles 1144).
Oedipus's de .....
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Oedipus Fate Vs Free Will
.... cursed the murderer, now the curse would effect him as well, because he was the one who killed Lauis.. "Now my cursed on the murderer,/Whoever he is, alone man unknown in his crime or one among many, let that man drag out his life in agony, step by painful step- I curse myself as well as... if by any chance he proves to be an intimate of our house, here at my hearth, with my full know ledge, may the curse I just called down on him strike me!" (606).
Oedipus doesn’t realize the personal conse .....
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Oedipus Rex
.... avoid it, he flees hi supposed homeland. As fate would have it, along the road, Oedipus meets Laios and kills him in a fit of rage. Thus, he has unwittingly fulfilled the first half of the prophecy. Traveling on to Thebes, Oedipus saves the city from the drought by solving the riddle of the sphinx. Declared the new King, he marries the widowed Queen (Locaste) - his mother. Thus, he has unknowingly fulfilled the second half of the prophecy. For the next two decades, Oedipus rules successfully in Thebes unti .....
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