A Midsummer Nights Dream For T
.... the spell on Demetrius. Helena has loved Demetrius from the begining of the story, so the relationship works out well. Again, Titania not only is oblivious to the appearance of Bottom, but she has no control over her feelings for him. "How came these things to pass?", she asks of Oberon upon being released from the spell. "O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!" When she is under the spell, it is as if she sees him, but does not care what he looks like. Now that she is released from the spell, sh .....
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Animal Farm 5
.... is left to the readers imagination.
the animals attack and defeat the farmer and his men and scare the farmers wife into sneaking out of the farmhouse and escaping.
Life after the humans leave is not the paradise the animals had dreamed about; Old majors ideals were forgotton and the pig Napolean and his pack of dogs assume leadership. Snowball, the other pig is forced to flee for his life and the other animals begin to suffer as they did before the revolution. Napplean and his pack of dogs alnog with the other pigs begin to associate wi .....
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A Farewell To Arms 2
.... went out the cold air came sharply
into your lungs and numbed the edge of your nose as you
inhaled.
The simplicity and the sensory richness flow directly from
Hemingway's and his characters'--beliefs. The punchy, vivid
language has the immediacy of a news bulletin: these are
facts, Hemingway is telling us, and they can't be ignored.
And just as Frederic Henry comes to distrust abstractions
like "patriotism," so does Hemingway distrust them. Instead
he seeks the concret .....
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A Farewell To Arms 3
.... role-playing in order to escape or retreat from
their lives. The ability to create characters who play
roles, he says, either to "maintain self-esteem" or to
escape, is one Hemingway exploits extraordinarily well in A
Farewell to Arms and therefore it "is his richest and most
successful handling of human beings trying to come to terms
with their vulnerability."
As far as Stubbs is concerned, Hemingway is quite blatant in
letting us know that role-playing is what is occur .....
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A Farewell To Arms 4
.... each other was
more than could be explained in words and Frederick makes it
known that words are not really effective at describing the
flesh and blood details. Their love during an ugly war was
not to be recreated or modeled even as much as through a
baby conceived by their love. The baby could not be born
alive because their love was beautiful yet doomed so that
nothing could come out of it.
Hemingway's language is effective in leaving much to the
readers interpr .....
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A Farewell To Arms 5
.... army puts some form of discipline in his life. At the start of the
novel, Frederick drinks and travels from one house of prostitution to
another and yet he is discontent because his life is very unsettled.
He befriends a priest because he admires the fact that the priest
lives his life by a set of values that give him an orderly lifestyle.
Further into the novel, Frederick becomes involved with Catherine
Barkley. He slowly falls in love with her and, in his love for
her, he f .....
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A Rose For Emily 2
.... controlled her and made all of her decisions for her. When he died Emily was left alone finally able live her own life, but since her father had been controlling her for so long she wasn’t able to function without him. Since she wasn’t able to function without his presence Emily chose to live her life as if her father was still with her. She spent the majority of her time inside of her house because that was where she could best feel her father’s comforting dominance.
Emily was extr .....
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All The Kings Men
.... that Jack really does not live while in a Great Sleep. He simply wishes to cease to exist.
The first Great Sleep that occurs in the novel is a preview to the reader that shows how Jack handles the situations in his life that require responsibility. The second Great Sleep occurs after Jack quits his college education and does not finish his dissertation in American History. This happens after Jack looks into the life of his great-uncle Cass Mastern. Many things contribute to this particula .....
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Abstractions In Power-Writing
.... the ability to do something, "With all thair
strang *poweir" (OED 2536) Nearly three hundred years later in 1785
the word power carried the same meaning of control, strength, and
force, "power to produce an effect, supposes power not to produce it;
otherwise it is not power but necessity" (OED 2536). This definition
explains how the power government or social institutions rests in
their ability to command people, rocks, colonies to do something they
otherwise would not do. To m .....
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Achilleus
.... plague
likewise". Agamemnon who claims himself as the far greatest of all the
Achaians shows fear to Achilleus by calling him a "good fighter though you
be, godlike ".
By defeating Agamemnon Achilleus proves to be the greatest Achaian
soldier and the most respected because he stood up to Agamemnon the
"wine sack, with a dogs eyes, and deer's heart; the King who feeds on his
people".
After the death of Patrokolos Achilleus returns to avenge his friends
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Adventures On The Rapids
.... two hours from now, we would know.
I was assigned to a raft with my brother, my friend, and the river guide. The adults went in another. About an hour after we left, we made our first stop; an enormous rock midstream. We sat there for several minutes hopped back into the raft and we were on our way, rushing down the river, nearing towards the end.
As we approached the last of the rapids, our guide asked if we wanted to surf up them. Surfing is basically paddling up a rapid. We practiced for sever .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
.... rain. On page 263, Paul comments, “I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow.” This sums up his entire disposition towards himself at the end of the novel. He was taken into the army, willfully, but still taken, in the prime of his youth, to a place where death and destruction were facts of life. Remarque depicts a transition in the value systems of Paul and his comrades. Kemmerich’ .....
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Around The World In Eighty Day
.... 138-141).
After Fogg made the biggest bet of his life there was no turning back. Either he came back in less than eighty days or his fortune would be gone. Throughout Fogg and Passepartout’s great journey they had to use steamers, railways, carriages, yachts, trading-vessels, sledges, and an elephant to make it under eighty days. Also, the journey was even harder because Mr. Fix slowed them down many times. Even rescuing his future wife Aouda didn’t slow him enough to not make the jou .....
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A Bird Came Down The Walk.
.... halves
And ate the fellow, raw,
She uses this rhyme scheme to show that the bird is not frightened yet and has not noticed her presence. Then she switches to half-rhymes to covey that the bird is beginning to be scared because he notices her watching. "That hurried all around– / They looked like frightened beads, I thought– / he stirred his Velvet Head". She rhymes around and head to describe the shape of the bird's head. When she rhymes seam and swim she is comparing t .....
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Animal Dreams
.... define distinct characteristics of Codi's behavior. Specifically, Codi's familial needs became centered around Hallie. Codi and Hallie identify themselves as orphans incapable of understanding their father's coldness. Codi and Hallie become dependent on each other for emotional nourishment. Codi describes her attachment to Hallie as being, "like keenly mismatched Siamese twins conjoined at the back of the mind"(page 8). Hallie becomes Codi's only definition and source of family. Codi becomes extremely d .....
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