My Last Duchess 2
.... that made the duke jealous. Everyone who passed the duchess received “much the same smile” as the duke (line 44). The duke expected to be the only man to receive a smile from his wife.
Another aspect of the duke’s character addressed in the poem is his condescending attitude. Two times in the poem the duke needlessly told the names of the artists who created the masterpieces that he owned (lines 3 & 56). He felt superiority over the emissary he was speaking to by dropping these .....
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My Last Duchess By Robert Brow
.... her to be too childish and naive. He probably felt that she did not love him very much because fo the fact that she put his favor at her breast in the same category as other people's gifts. He said that when she passed him she alway smiled, but to him it was nothing because "who passed without much the same smile?" She was a woman of obvious beauty for in the poem it started that there was depth and passion in her earnest glance. People would ask the Duke the origin of the glance and he would irate .....
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My Left Foot
.... but his father is reluctant to even touch the child. The father calls him "a cripple" and other degrating names. Christie endures life in a neighborhood where all the children seem to shy away from his condition. Little by little, Christie is accepted into the group of friends and begins to feel more accepted. After scraping chalk on the floor to spell "Mother", Christie now has a method of communication to the outside world. In order to better communicate with his family, Christie takes up painting a .....
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Macbeth 4
.... come late in the first act. In this part of the story (Act 1, Scene 5) Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are discussing the murder of King Duncan planned for that night. We hear of Macbeth’s uncertainty of committing the crime, however lady Macbeth taunts him until she convinces him to commit the murder. This shows the mental weakness in Macbeth’s character.
The famous quote in Act 1 Scene 5 Line 42, where Lady Macbeth calls on the spirits to “fill me from crown to toe top-full of direst c .....
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Mary Shelleys Frankenstein
.... Frankenstein, the younger brother of his creator and also a young and hopefully unprejudiced child, proves to see him the way any adult would, with disgust and horror. After completing the act of killing the child, he resolves to "carry despair to [Victor Frankenstein], and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him" (p. 137). According to the monster, the function of appearance is to make society react to you. Whether the reaction is appropriate or not is beside the point; all that matters i .....
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Macbeth By William Shakespear
.... and this leads him to kill Duncan the King of Scotland. He becomes more and more involved in murder and terrible deeds. He arranges for his friend Banquo to be murdered because he is afraid that Banquo’s after sons will become Kings. Macbeth goes back to the witches who tell him that "no man of woman born will harm him”and until Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane (his castle) he will not be harmed. Macbeth gets so obsessed with this prophecy that he has Macduff’s wife and children murder. L .....
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Macbeth A Story Of Our Time
.... in 1623, wove these separate histories into a coherent whole. No doubt Shakespeare pleaded poetic license. The result is timeless.
Macbeth, is a story of a man who's ambitions have brought him to commit treason and murder. Visions of power grew within his head until his thirst for power causes him to lose that very source of his ambition to the blade of Macduff's sword. It is the ironic and symbolic elements such as this in the play which contribute to much of the acceptance the work has enjoyed for .....
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Mastery Of Epigram And The Aud
.... is "a brief witty saying". ...
Could also group by subject : wordplay, truth, love/marriage, diary, death, education, illness, Society, ... (Maybe too many groups this way, could perhaps cut them down).
Examples: too many: to be winnowed:
Play on words:
Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
I.5:5 Algernon: "As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte." (Play on the word pianoforte.)
I.12:161 Algernon:"You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most ear .....
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Macbeth And Hamlet
.... death of his father - by suffering the ills of this world or taking resolute action against them.
Both stories carry with a great amount of deceit. With Macbeth, the witches explain that no one born of a woman will ever kill him. Macduff, his slayer, was born by a Cesarean section. Of all the things that the witches tell him, all are true, but are spoken in confusing riddles that are misleading. The witches trick him into believing that he and his descendants will rule the land forever. Ham .....
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Master And Slave In The Tempes
.... and whoever inhabits the island. This trend is also seen in the numerous accounts of European settlers voyaging to the New World and capturing the natives to use them as slaves. Antonio Vieira, a Jesuit father, condemned this and believed that it was God’s will for slaves to be free and anyone who takes away one’s freedom should go to hell. He quotes, “Any man who deprives others of their freedom and being able to restore that freedom does not do so is condemned” (from R .....
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Macbeth An Expose
.... a man who dares do more is none." His wife argues that by being more daring, he will become more of a man: (Act 1, Sc 7 49-51) " When you durst do it, then you were a man and, to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man." Later that night, Macbeth is executing his beloved monarch. In Act Three, Macbeth sees an appartion of the dear friend he had sentenced to death, Lady Macbeth cuts into him again with the vicious speech that asks again, "Are you a man?" This is not Macbeth as a .....
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Macbeth-blood
.... the evidence of blood is a treacherous symbol, and knows it will deflect the guilt from her and Macbeth. Macbeth knows this too, as he try's to put the blame on the Donaldbain and Malcolm by referring to them as the "Bloody cousins". (Act 3 Sc 1 line 30) Both characters commit several treacherous crimes which is represented with blood to let the audience know of their wrongdoing and to show that eventually this will be their undoing.
A final way, and perhaps the most vivid use of the symbol bloo .....
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Macbeth And Lord Jim
.... destiny itself” (Conrad 302). He decided that he would put everything that he had happened in his past and face his fate. He faced the fact that his life had been filled with situations where he avoided adversity and never became the hero that he wanted to be. Jim accepted what he had done in the past and was willing to submit to his fate and hoped to regain some dignity before he died. For a majority of Jim’s life, he was engulfed in personal shame for jumping from the Patna and leavin .....
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Madame Bovary 5
.... the head. That’s the archetypal nineteenth-century woman saying “yes” and meaning “you revolt me you pig.”
Emma at the beginning of the novel was someone who made active decisions about what she wanted. She saw herself as the master of her destiny. Her affair with Rudolphe was made after her decision to live out her fantasies and escape the ordinariness of her life and her marriage to Charles. Emma's active decisions though were based increasingly as the novel progresses .....
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Mans Inhumanity To Man
.... dream up of that night was definitely going to have 'The Pharmacist' as the guest of honour.
She continued using the shampoo for a week but gradually the irritating itch in her head returned. Again she called to the pharmacy to seek further advive from the friendly pharmacist.
"Good evening, can I help you",asked the pharmacist with a warm smile. Miss Cambell explained her terrible situation and again the pharmacist examined her scalp. He scratched her head gently and then licked his finger. .....
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