The Wife (canterbury Tales)
.... his attempts to prove her unfaithful. The clerk didn't understand "the need of heaping trial on her more and more?"(333). He felt the testing went too far and that Griselda endured more suffering than any individual should, woman or man. The clerk thought it was good to test a woman's patience but only to a certain extent. In his tale the woman didn't benefit or learn anything from the test of loyalty. However in the "Wife of Bath" the knight learned to respect women, and that they had more control i .....
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The Writing Style Of Charles D
.... the uniqueness of his characters involves describing them connected to their surroundings. He creates landscapes and residences that parallel the essence of the character found within. Dickens also uses the past and future to create a vivid picture in the readers mind. Colors are another very critical part in Dickens writings. He uses colors contrasting the light with the dark to create a mood for his character.
Charles Dickens uses the Victorian Era to describe the enviornment that his stories take pl .....
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The Yellow Wall-paper
.... oppression, she continues to decline. "I don't feel as if it was worthwhile to turn my hand over for anythingˇK(164). It seems that her husband is oblivious to her declining condition, since he never admits she has a real problem until the end of the story -- at which time he fainted. John could have obtained council from someone less personally involved in her case, but the only help he seeks was for the house and baby. He obtains a nanny to watch over the children while he was away at work each day .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper 2
.... abuse that is being laid upon this woman who is suppressed.
By continuously staring at the yellow wallpaper within her room, the narrator begins to view shapes and images that eventually fill her head. "There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down. I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and everlastingness. Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd unblinking eyes are everywhere." This within itself .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper 3
.... of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back.”
She completely disconnects from “Jane” and disconnected, simply becomes a free woman. She destroys her sanity along with the wallpaper, and like the wallpaper her sanity cannot be restored. Her detachment from sanity frees her from obligations, logical thoughts, and normal life restraints. And through the progression from mild lunacy to complete insanity, she finally finds her salv .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper
.... woman." She becomes obsessed with discovering what is behind that pattern and what it is doing. "I don't want to leave now until I have found it out". The narrator with absolutely nothing else to do is reduced to staring endlessly at a pattern in wallpaper, thus creating some image that she feels is necessary to find out. Perhaps to save her own sanity?
Once the narrator determines that the image is in fact a woman struggling to become free, she somehow aligns herself with the woman. In the story she m .....
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They Came From Outerspace
.... human. Unfortunately, the human portion kept him from enjoying the long life of the gods. It was Gilgamesh's mortality that tormented him and sent him on a quest to find the eternal life he felt he deserved.
To accomplish this task, Gilgamesh set out on a venture to find the place where the gods went to the heavens. His intentions were to travel to the heavens like the gods. Although it is commonly believed that the Sumerian word "shem" means name, it is also deciphered as "ship". Now, when Gi .....
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Things Fall Apart
.... then, native Africans were judged as primitive. The most common adjective for the natives, as described by Joseph Conrad on behalf of western Europeans was "black." For example, in his novel, "Heart of Darkness," he writes, "A black figure stood up, strode on long black legs, waving long black arms...." In Achebe's essay, "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness," he writes that, " Heart of Darkness projects the image of Africa as 'the other world,' the antithesis of Europe and the .....
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Themes Of Tennessee Williams
.... is unlike Laura in the aspect that he overcame his problems and Laura does not. She had a small disability years ago, that has healed, and she exaggerates it so much that her life is being held up. This example just shows you that you have to cope with your problems or they can hold you up from progressing in life.
In the next play, The Long Goodbye, there is one character who is obviously the supporter of the universal theme that you can always beat the odds and come out on top of your prob .....
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Things Fall Apart 3
.... itself has been destroyed, and therefore 'anarchy' prevails. Thus, from the very outset, Achebe introduces the idea of desolation.
Before the coming of the 'white man', the Ibo culture greatly inculcated the virtues of kinship and unity among the people, as well as the 'will to fight for one's rights'. These values, along with the continuation of the beliefs and practices of ancestors, acted as a cohesive force for the tribes and villages. This was mainly due to the absence of any foreign inf .....
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Things Fall Apart 2
.... virtually everyone, including the gods. Okonkwo insulted a man with fewer titles than himself, which was in very poor taste according to the warriors of Umuofia. By making the derogatory claims on him, Okonkwo shows his conceitedness and how he considers himself better than the others.
Okonkwo’s actions lead to his downfall. Creon of Antigone had sentenced Antigone to death, instigating the tragic results of his family. Creon had abandoned and rejected his religious tradition and decided to not b .....
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Thoreau, Henry David
.... because it applies to all people, in
Thoreau's time and in modern times.
Thoreau is saying that all people, rich and poor, young and old, fritter
their lives away with detail, instead of being concerned with the big picture.
The important thing to Thoreau was having time to think about how man fits in
with nature and what his place on earth is. Thoreau believed that man only
needed the basics of food, clothing and shelter. Everything else was a luxury
that took time to obtain. T .....
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Things Fall Apart 4
.... before a furious Okonkwo assassinates him. This brings the ultimate suffering to Okonkwo, who hangs himself, as well as suffering for the rest of the tribe, who may not bury him and some of whom are brought to the court where Okonkwo and the others suffered earlier.
In conclusion, Okonkwo's tragic flaw was his constantly flared temper, which was a result of a fear of being considered weak, or womanly. It was this temper that was constantly bringing problems to Okonkwo and others around him. In t .....
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To An Athlete Dying Young
.... to an exciting happy occasion. The second time it is used in line 6, it refers to a casket being carried on the shoulders of others, a sad and mournful time.
Rather than join the others in mourning, however, in the third stanza the speaker is instead reflecting on how lucky the young athlete was to have died when he did:
Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.
Dying was better than lingeri .....
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To Kill A Mocking Bird
.... Scout Finch the daughter of Atticus Finch. While in school, a fresh young new school teacher known as Miss Caroline did not know the reputations of the predecessors of these two children. In what looked like a good day for the rookie teacher quickly turned into complete disarray and a total adversity trip for the teacher. Walter Cunningham being raised in a very hard working environment was taught not to take what he could not pay back. The teacher obviously did not know about his background in the most mi .....
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