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- 11951: Fifth Business
- ... uses to relate the theme of magic and religion is Dunstable Ramsay. Dunny was brought up in a Scottish Presbyterian family in Deptford, Ontario. While in the war, he kept himself busy by reading the New Testament and states “Arabian Nights and the Bible were getting pretty close”, referring to both magic and religion. After servicing in the war, Dunstable is renamed Dunstan by Diana after Saint Dunstan. Dunstan’s study of saints becomes his passion and he later travels around the world in search of information about several living saints. During his search for saints, Dunstan coincidentally comes across Le grande Cirque forain de St. Vile and Illusions, a circus where Paul Dempster preformed magic. This clearly ...
- 11952: Fire And Ice
- ... at Gateshead. The novel opens with Jane seating herself at the window-seat. She draws shut the red curtains around her, effectively closing herself off. Jane sees through the window the cold and gloomy outside world. The winter landscape represents society, cold and emotionless. The curtains, representing Jane's passionate nature, symbolize how Jane's fiery personality alienate her from society. A short while later, John Reed, representing a male-dominated ... the perils of being excessively passionate. But the tree is left joined at the roots, the same way that Jane and Rochester still have the basis of their love. This represents a chance for a new beginning once each brings their passion under control. After Jane returns from her time with St. John, she finds Rochester alone and blinded. Rochester's passionate nature, embodied by Bertha and the fire she started ...
- 11953: Canterbury Tales - The Wife Of
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, which was published in March 1981 by Bantam Books in New York, New York is a funny piece of work about twenty- nine characters and their stories while on their way to Canterbury. The twenty-nine characters have to tell two stories on their trip to Canterbury. In ... a woman ugly by day, yet loyal and faithful the rest of the time or to be beautiful and take his chances the rest of the time. The knight becomes really perplexed by this whole new situation and so chooses to have her decide. This is the resolution because the old woman decides to reward him by giving him both beautiful yet loyal and faithful. The main character being the ...
- 11954: Adults Of The Bell Jar
- ... teach her. She admired her mom’s history of speaking German and desired to learn it as well: “My mother spoke German during her childhood in America and was stoned for it during the First World War by the children at school” (30). At one point Esther even briefly decides to learn shorthand. This need to be like her mother while at the same time hating her is enough to disturb ... came along Esther could only see the archetypes. She felt like she had to choose whom she was going to resemble, the poet, the editor, the wife or the mother. Doctor Nolan, however, represents something new all together, something she never even knew existed - a complete woman. A woman who doesn’t sacrifice part of herself in order to fulfill a need. She is a professional. She is loving, nurturing and ...
- 11955: Analysis Of King Lear With MLA
- ... brother Edgar in the eyes of their father, Gloucester. Edmund is fully aware of his evil nature, and revels in it as seen in the following quotation: Edmund This is the excellent foppery of the world that, when we are sick in fortune--often the surfeits of our own behaviour--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars. As if we were villains on necessity, fools by ... brand from heaven And fire us hence like foxes. Wipe your eyes; The good-years shall devour them, flesh and skin, Ere they shall make us weep. We’ll see them starved first (138). This new carefree Lear is certainly a far cry from the arrogant king we saw at the beginning of the play. His joy at reconciliation with his daughter outweighs any other concerns he might have. Shakespeare has ...
- 11956: A Doll House 2
- ... to fix the situation is to leave Torvald and her children and find herself independently. Slowly Nora s character is forced to discontinue her inauthentic role of a doll and seek out her individuality, her new authentic identity. She comes to realize that her whole life has been a lie. She lived her life pretending to be the old Nora, and hid the changed woman she had become. The illusion of the old Nora continues well after she becomes a new person. When she realizes that responsibilities for herself are more important, Nora slams the door on not just Torvald but on everything that happened in her past. It took time to evolve into a new person, but after she did she became a person who could not stand to be oppressed by Torvald any longer. Nora says, I ve been your wife-doll here, just as at home I ...
- 11957: A Seperate Peace
- ... A Separate Peace," by John Knowles, a man named Gene visits his high school 15 years after graduating in an attempt to find an inner peace with himself. While attending Devon, his high school, during World War Two, Gene's roommate and best friend Phineas died partially because of an accident involving Gene. Phineas, otherwise known as Finny, was one of the more popular and athletic boys in school. He was a brave, cunning, attractive guy that had total trust in his best friend Gene. On the other hand, Gene was a lonely, self-sufficient intellectual. The two became great friends, but Finny is eventually led down a ...
- 11958: A Rose For Emily By William Fa
- ... smell began developing. Although the smell was hitting everyone in the town, no one said anything, instead they sprinkled lime all over her house. Emily died a time later. After the town people heard the new they went to see her to begin the funeral arrangements. Tobby her faithful servant ran off and the town people discover the smell. After all this time Emily had been sleeping with Homer's dead ... to help her, because they thought greatly of her. For example, after her father's death Colonel Sartoris told her she would not have to pay any taxes in that town and even after the new generation came in it stayed that way. The new mayor tried to get her to pay her taxes but after some time gave up. The reader can also see he power when she goes to the store to buy some rat poison. The ...
- 11959: An Essay On Equus
- ... character he has developed and most important, the God he worships. When Equus leaves - if he lives at all - it will be with your intestines in his teeth...I’ll give him the good, normal world...and give him normal places for his ecstasy... Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor it cannot be created.” Pages 92 & 93* Alan’s love for horses develops into devotion, a religious passion ... subject is something of an obsession to him... Frank: Call it what you like. All that stuff to me is just bad sex. page 18* These contrasting beliefs of his parents leads Alan into a world of personal problems which encompasses an understanding of the world formed largely by watching television, an inability to read, a distorted view of sex and violence, and no sense of his place in society. The plots painful journey into the tortured mind of Alan ...
- 11960: Analytical Essay - The Ruum An
- Analytical Essay - "The Ruum" & "The Pedestrian" It is known the short stories in this world of ours bring up social issues that make us think, an example of this is Ray Bradbury's story, 'The Pedestrian'. Also short stories are there to entertain us, for example, 'The Ruum' by Arthur ... walking at night. In this city all the other citizens stay and watch their 'viewing screens'. The main issue that this story brings up is that as the years pass by, the people of the world may become lazier due to the fact that the technology in constantly upgrading. Ray Bradbury has written this story for a main purpose; it is to show people that the world could be heading towards a greater disaster because of technology. Although both of these stories are fictional one of them gives us a realistic view of what may happen in the future, 'The Pedestrian', ...
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