Agamemnon
.... in order to be able to wage war on Troy. They tell how she was sacrificed despite her cries, all for a wind that would take them to war. Clytemnestra then tells the chorus about the defeat of Troy and Agamemnon returning from his ten years away at war.
After a few hours Agamemnon finally returns to his city. Along with him he brings Cassandra, a princess of Troy and captive to Agamemnon. She is known to be a prophetess who tells of tragedies. Agamemnon gives Cassandra to Clytemnestra as a slave. .....
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A Separate Peace 3
.... incident of Finny’s openness, or boldness is when he wore the school tie as a belt. Gene was anxiously waiting for Finny to get yelled at, but because of his openness he was able to talk his way out of getting into trouble. Finny claimed that he wore the tie as a belt because it represented “Devon in the War.” Again, Gene was envious of Finny’s openness to make up a story and “get away with everything.”
Another one of Gene’s enemies is his anger. Alone, h .....
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A Clockwork Orange
.... partake in this experiment that was to cure him of all the evil inside of him and all that was bad. Alex is given injections and made to watch films of rape, violence, and war and the mixture of these images and the drugs cause him to associate feelings of panic and nausea with violence. He is released after two weeks of the treatment and after a few encounters with past victims finds himself at the home of a radical writer who is strongly opposed to the new treatment the government has subjected him t .....
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Animal Farm
.... effectively since the beginning of time. In the begininng of time, as the Bible states, the serpent uses the technique of propaganda to p[ersuade Eve to eat of the tree that God has forbidden. people in the qworld are persuaded very easily. Like napoleon, adolph hitler is a good example opg a human using propganda in a negtaive sense./ Hitler killed many Jews as well as Christians, and brainwashed the people into thinking that the jews were evil and wrong. People often make the mistake of fo9llowing char .....
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An Analysis Of Buried Child
.... them from the inside out. It is unclear
how long this moral degradation took, it may have taken years for all this to happen. We do know that it has left everyone impotent.
Bradley is the most vivid example of this impotence. His false leg is his crutch, both figuratively and literally. With it, he has the most power of any of the people in the play. He maims and shaves Dodge with no repercussions, intimidates Tilden to the point of making him run away, and he rapes Shelly by sticking his hands .....
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A Clockwork Orange
.... adjectives point out what drives Alex’s actions: emotion. He follows no moral code nor does he even have one. However, he does follow his natural desire to sin, and can thus be described as a clockwork orange in that his actions are controlled by his emotion. We can clearly see how Alex’s inclination to do things that satisfy his emotion are strikingly similar to our desires to do the things that we want to do. This is the whole message behind the doctrine of original sin, where Adam’s first sin again .....
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A Prayer For Owen Meany
.... both have a guiding figure as a friend who is there to indicate them. Finally, the relationships between the protagonists and the guiding figures are the one in which the protagonist is truly guided and complimented by his best friend.
The protagonist in one book is similar in nature to the one in the other book, i.e. Gene Foster from A Separate Peace and John Wheelwright from A Prayer for Owen Meany. For example, the protagonist is definitely innately good but lacks to know the very self of him. This t .....
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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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All Quiet On The Western Front
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An Observation Of Sacred Hoops
.... teaches his players how to work hard even when the spotlight is on someone else. The book continues on subjects like religion, spirituality, and unity among the team and with ones self. These were all new concepts for me. Though I embraced the ideas, I was skeptical of the practice. It was not until I read the book that I realized that the practice of these concepts could be as easy and much more unstructured then I previously had thought.
Dynamic Thoughts of Sacred Hoops
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Analysis Of Poem Woman To Man
.... audience is every woman and every man, as an expression of something from every woman to every man. The title Woman To Man makes the poem universal, more than just a poem from Judith Wright to her husband. There are no names given to the woman and the man within the world of the poem. The experience of 'the Woman' becomes the experience of 'every woman'. The third audience for this text is the literati – the world of literature. Judith Wright is a well-known Australian poet; this poem has been pub .....
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American Dream, The Great Gats
.... Excluding the Wilson’s, each character is given the easy path of life. Money brings them happiness and love. The Wilson’s who work hard for what they have, are viewed as troubled and unhappy.
Each of the characters represents money. What distinguishes each character from each other is how they use and view their money. Gatsby is money but is also the essence of vitality and hope and dreams coming true. The Buchanans, on the other hand, are hard, cold money, representing selfishness.
The America .....
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Analytical Essay On The Grass
.... domaineering over the people that live in her house, especially her sister. " Put on that new pink dress I bought you.... and hold your head up. It makes me dizzy to watch you...... and do something with that mop of hair." Verena treats her sister like an incapable child, and makes all the descisions for her.
Dolly is Verena's oppisite. Dolly is romantic where Verena is all business, and shy where Verena is a hard charger. The filmaker also uses clothes and mannerisms to highlight Dolly's chara .....
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Analyzing King Lears Tragic Fl
.... Kent to mind his own business, Kent continues to try to reason with him. Kent exclaims, “See better, Lear and let me still remain/The true blank of thine eye”(1.1.180-181). Kent shows his worthiness by keeping up his fight to show King Lear the truth. Soon King Lear gives up and decides to banish Kent as well. Because of his arrogance, he splits his kingdom, banishes both his daughter and faithful servant, and abdicates his throne.
King Lear’s other flaw is his ignorance, which is .....
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A Knights Purpose
.... ran up and jumped on his poor father's back. Kain being the paranoid man he is, threw Lance to the ground and punched him in the chest. Lance never forgot the face of his father at that moment. A face that was so innocent, so pure, and so goofy that Lance broke out in a hard laugh, only hacking a few times because his chest was in pain. Kelly got up and greeted the squires and made his way to the monastery, which was in the center of the military school.
Kelly, and the rest of the knights finally got to .....
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