The Crucible 7
.... in The Crucible, Giles Corey and Thomas Putnam, argue early on about a plot of land. Corey claims that he bought it from Goody Nurse but Putnam says he owns it, and Goody Nurse had no right to sell it. Later, when Putnam's daughter accuses George Jacobs of witchery, Corey claims that Putnam only wants Jacobs' land. Giles says, "If Jacobs hangs for a witch he forfeit up his property - that's law! And there is none but Putnam with the coin to buy so great a piece. This man is killing his neighbors for .....
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The Crucibles Verbal Irony
.... Of the Ten Commandments he was reciting, the single one he forgot was the single one he had broken. Add to this, to have the primary person it affected other than him remind him of it is great irony. The Guilt that the irony brings on here is amazing work on the part of Miller. To harness the already blackened ties between John and Elizabeth to produce such a powerful line is genius.
Miller, in Act III shows another wonderful example of irony. The verbal irony portrayed earlier by th .....
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The Cry Of The Wild
.... and the Human Spirit, Vice President Al Gore writes:
“The disharmony in our relationship to the earth, which stems in part from our addiction to a pattern of consuming ever-larger quantities of the resources of the earth, is now manifest in successive crises, each marking a more destructive clash between our civilization and the natural world: whereas all threats to the environment used to be local and regional, several are now strategic . The loss of one and a half acres of rain fore .....
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The Crying Of Lot 49
.... king, marrying the former king's wife, who of course is his mother. When Oedipus finds out what he has done, he blinds himself and becomes a wandering beggar.
Sigmund Freud took the legend of Oedipus as a metaphor for the wish of every small boy to get his father out of the way so he could have his mother all to himself. Most men resolve this dilemma by the time they reach adulthood; some do not, and are therefore unable to cope with the stresses of adult life. Men do not want to recognize this tend .....
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The Dead By James Joyce
.... was a possibility that she could visit west Ireland, Michael’s home. Ms. Ivors, a friend of the Conroys, offered the trip to Gabriel as a friendly gesture. When Gabriel said that he would not go on the trip, Gretta showed that she was upset by pleading, “O, do go, Gabriel, I’d love to see Galway again.” (144) The urgency that Gretta expressed was further revealed when she begged that Ms. Ivors stay at the party being hosted by Gabriel’s sisters for “only ten minut .....
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The Death Ivan Ilyich
.... he didn’t want to be at home. They never got divorced but he did have affairs.
When death is upon Ivan his wife pays very little attention to him when he needs it the most. She remembers all the things he did to her when she was pregnant. Not only did his wife turned her back on him, his whole family did except his son. His family felt that he was not there when they needed him, so they are going to do the dame thing to him. It is sad that he could not be there for his wife so she could hav .....
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The Death Of Ivan Illych
.... Praskovya Fedorovna Mikhel. Ivan saw her as a “…well connected, and was a sweet, pretty, and thoroughly correct young woman.” The view that she was so within the lines of propriety was the most attractive feature which this young woman possessed in Ivan’s view. At first the marriage which Ivan thought couldn’t hurt his pleasure-seeking life didn’t, then according to Ivan she began to disturb the pleasure and propriety of his life. This ordeal only worsened when .....
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The Devil Of Tom Walker And Th
.... his belly, and an apple in his mouth; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie, and tucked in with a coverlet of crust;." And he goes on for a full paragraph daydreaming of the wonderful food he would get. Also while Ichabod is dreaming of his life if he were to marry Katrina he thought of all the wealth he could have. As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow-lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and indian cor .....
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The Devils Of Loudun, By Aldou
.... not at all surprising that Huxley chose to write about this particular episode in French history, as many of the events described exemplify themes that dominated his polemical novels and celebrated essays: present is the issue of man’s ‘ongoing obsession’ with self-transcendence which was so pertinent in the excellent, infamous ‘Doors of perception’; the dilemma that recurs throughout his fiction, that of the cloistered and suppressed mind dealing with passionate human emot .....
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The Display Of Peer Pressures
.... and intelligence. When they light the signal fire and loose one of the younger boys Piggy hollers at them for their carelessness. Jack starts out as the leader of the choir boys but eventually becomes the chief of the savage hunters. He and Ralph compete for the attention of the boys and for the right to lead them.
The littl'uns are slightly faced with pressures because they do not know what is happening. All their lives they had been supported by their families and did not have to worry if they .....
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The Essence Of Hamlet
.... the marriage of Gertrude to Claudius. He deems his mother worse than "a beast that wants discourse of reason" (I.ii.150).
While Hamlet felt he had a specific reason in calling Gertrude worse than a beast, it is clear that Hamlet has taken this imagery from the specific to the general by declaring that if it is true that man's purpose is nothing more than to "sleep and feed," then man is a beast and nothing more. Indeed, the conditions for man's bestial nature are well met; after Claudius and Ge .....
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The Evils In The Chrysalids
.... in a sand pile. They soon became best friends and enjoyed playing together for endless hours. One day as they were playing Sophie's foot became caught between two stones. When David helped her free her foot he saw that she had six toes on each foot. Her toes really did not bother David in fact it made their friendship grow deeper in trust. They enjoyed going down to the stream to go catch little creatures. Sophie now felt quite comfortable around David and often took off her shoes to reveal her six toe .....
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The Evolution Of Modern Englis
.... for themselves.
The use of pretentious diction is probably the most prevalent mental vice used in writings today. Author feel the need to dress up simple statements with unnecessary words to make their sentences appear more intelligent. " The deserted house of worship now serves as a memorial to futile efforts." The author of this work used pretentious words such a "futile" in an attempt to dress up his sentence, but end up increasing the vagueness of his work. Another example of pretentious dicti .....
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The Eyes Of Dr. T.j. Eckleburg
.... and heavens with God in them. The lack of a full face also gives you idea of Godliness because in society we are never really given a good description of what God looks like. Also, the color yellow in the glasses of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg gives the idea of sun, which brings us back to the idea of the sky. Only this time, we get a sense of hopefulness from the eyes to combat the sense of despair from the land surrounding them. The eyes being described as dimming over time gives the illusion of loss of hope .....
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The Goddess Remembered
.... remember their dead, and the continuity of life. The original celebration can be traced to the festivities held during the Aztec month of Miccailhuitontli ritually presided by the goddess Mictecacihuatl ("Lady of the Dead"), and dedicated to children and the dead. The rituals during this month also featured a festivity dedicated to the major Aztec war deity, Huitzilopochtli ("Sinister Hummingbird"). In the Aztec calendar, this ritual fell roughly at the end of the Gregorian month of July and the beginning .....
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