The Parable Of The Cave
.... that drew me to the Parable of the Cave was the way it described our journey through life. It begins by telling us that the reality we initially see when we are chained down in the cave is nothing more than an illusion. This is true in my own life in that I was told by my parents what was right and what was wrong without questioning the reason behind it. They kept a chain of sorts around me so that I was not harmed by all of the realities of the world at once, but rather gradually introduced to them .....
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The Pelican Brief
.... was the largest contributor to his presidential campaign. Matece was entitled to a few favors. This statement accused the president of doing wrong and could have ended his entire political career. Her theory got into the wrong hands and soon those who read the file began to drop like flies. Darby Shaw only survived the ordeal through intelligent thinking, and the help of a newspaper reporter with whom she becomes a close friend. The name of Miss Shaw's file was the "The Pelican Brief," this title is a .....
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The Pencil Box
.... a normal childhood. It became quite normal for them to have these conversations while Jane sat outside the door wit ha garage sale, dog eared copy of Gone With the Wind—a five-hundred-page-long book! —swinging her patent leather Mary Jane shoes because they didn’t reach the ground and she had to do something to keep her attention through the first twenty pages, pages she always found sub-standard to an otherwise exhilarating book. Yes, supposedly teachers just loved Jane. That’ .....
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The Phantom Of The Opera
.... the set is the chandelier. It comes crashing down at the end of Act One with a powerful force which is not only visualized but is accompanied by a thunderous noise which echo's throughout the theatre.
The lighting is also masterfully used to enhance the magical yet mystical setting of the show. A large portion of the lighting is actually more like shaping the darkness. Unlike many other Broadway shows, the Phantom is a show which needs to use less lighting in order to establish the full character of .....
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray 2
.... give them a soul if they lived without one, create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly. Art has the power to bring people into a place where they have not been, or a place that they don・t have the opportunity to go to in the reality. Dorian has realized, ：I love acting. It is so much more real than life； (88). Real life is so limited as to in acting, a man can live any scene that he can possibly think of.
Dorian・s rejection of Sibyl came upon one night that Sibyl .....
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The Pigman
.... They are like the three monkeys that they see in the pet department at Beekman's, hugging each other to be loved, and all the while the cold, indifferent world goes about its business ignoring them.
One day during a game of rollerskate tag in his house, Mr. Pignati has a heart attack while chasing John up the stairs. He is taken to the hospital, and in his absence John and Lorraine use the house to throw a wild party. Mr. Pignati returns unexpectedly at the height of the commotion. John and Lorraine .....
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The Plague 3
.... suprises the audience. “In one
slightly altered form or another, ‘What’s the matter?’ springs to
the lips of all the chief characters in the play- Othello, Iago,
Desdemona, Brabantio, Cassio, Emilia- but only Iago, masterly
improviser of evil deeds, doesn’t need to ask the question; that
is because he already knows the answer and rarely takes the
trouble to pretend otherwise.”3 He appears to be the shrewd
character which thinks himself to be wonderful .....
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The Rainman
.... was his fathers’ 1949 Buick and his prized rose bushes. The lawyer says the rest of the estate is going to a beneficiary. Charlie is mad at what his father did. He tries to find out who get everything else, because it is worth about three million dollars. Charlie finds out the name and location of the beneficiary, but does not know anything else. So Charlie goes to Wallbrook institution to find out who this guy is. While he is inside a man comes up to Charlies’ car and hops in. He say .....
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The Raven By Poe
.... falling asleep next to the fire and a good book, and as he is just about asleep he hears a tapping at the door, which he considers is a visitor that he want to ignore. You can almost feel how tired he is and how he does not want to get up and answer the door.
"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books the surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost .....
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The Real Monster, Victor Frank
.... your wedding night. (164)” Victor Frankenstein never even thinks that it will kill his wife; he just thinks that it will kill him, which is another sign of selfishness.
Another trait that makes Victor Frankenstein the real monster is his animosity and rejection of the creation. From the beginning, Frankenstein abhorred the monster, this is visible when he says, “…he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion , it became a thing such as even Da .....
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The Real Plague
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To start a task force, one needs people. When Rieux and Tarrou converse, they discuss who to put into the task force. Rieux suggests that maybe Jean should consider using some of the prisoners in the jail to work against the plague. After dealing with plague-stricken men all his life, Tarrou rejects this proposal. Tarrou comments, "I loathe men・s being condemned to death," (125). Tarrou・s reasoning for that not wanting prisoners to be used deviates from the ordinary. While many would object to pri .....
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The Reality Evasion Drug: Deat
.... becomes so significant, that he honestly believes the past, and he lives his entire life through a false identity never looking at the truth of his life.
Willy becomes more and more dependent on his drug as the story progresses. His next allusion to the past was during a conversation with his wife. Willy is downhearted about his failure to provide for his family, his looks, and basically his whole life in general. He begins to see some of the truth in his life: “I know it when they walk in. .....
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The Reality Of Huckleberry Fin
.... women folks, big and little, for I was makin' it mighty warm for the rummies, I tell you, and takin' as much as five or six dollars a night -- ten cents a head, children and niggers free -- and business a-growin' all the time, when somehow or another a little report got around last night that I had a way of puttin' in my time with a private jug on the sly.'" (Twain, pg. 161)
A very noble person does not get the respect he deserved Jim that is. Jim was a very brave, strong, courageous man, and the on .....
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The Red Badge Of Courage 2
.... Jim
Conklin. As a result of that, he deserts another friend dying and
runs. He wants to make a wound for himself so that he is removed from
the battle, and by accident is hit on the head by a deserter. He's
discovered by another soldier, who helps him return to his regiment.
There he lies and says he was wounded in battle. The next day he goes
to the front again, and actually retrieves his army's colors from the
dying flag bearer. He urges his comrads on, and is proclaimed a hero.
Cr .....
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The Red Badge Of Courage Essay
.... dying for the cause. These may not be great things, but they are what soldiers do. Henry was the epitome of not doing these soldier’s tasks. In order for Henry to do his job the best, he had to become unthinking. This was a selfless act rather than a selfish act that would benefit the army, rather than hinder it. Once Henry got past his invisible barrier, his fear, he was able to become an unthinking war machine. This is similar to everyday life. For humans to do the best job possible, whate .....
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