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- 17531: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- ... captain on a boat but things did not work out. Jules Verne has written many very famous books such as Journey To the Center of the Earth, Five Weeks in a balloon and Around the World in Eighty Days. I have written a review on one of his most famous books 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. This book combines adventure, suspense and mystery throwing in a few pieces of information ...
- 17532: Yosano Akiko
- ... to stop her brother going to war. But sometimes one can't stop that from happening. This was an awkward time of year when this was taking place. The Japanese were becoming very powerful. The world was becoming aware of Japan's powers. This was the start of other wars with the Japanese other than the Russo - Japanese War. The thing that interested me in this poem was the title. The ...
- 17533: Hamlet: Laertes An Important Character In Play
- ... dislike for the King and his wish to be away from the questionable circumstances of his marriage and subsequent ascension to the throne, a wise decision, and an attempt to remain apart and above the world, as the Greek าsupermanำ is seen to gain immortality by doing, though Laertes does have personal feelings in the matter, unlike the true Stoic, thus his attempt is a failure, though a noble one. As ...
- 17534: King Lear: Rejection
- ... as an obstacle on his way to the top. It is at this point that Gloucester realizes his love for his other son, Edgar, who he had rejected from birth. O you mighty Gods! This world I do renounce and in your sights shake patiently my great affliction off : If I could bear it longer and not fall to quarrel with your great opposeless wills, my shuff and loathed part of ...
- 17535: Young Goodman Brown 4
- ... the stage for Brown's walk with the devel. As he walked through the forest with the dard stranger, who bore a striking resenbelense to his father, Brown had to confront that maybeall in his world was not as it appeared to be. Every person that he had a high regard for was challenged on this walk. Evil too the shape of his father and goodness his own mother reaching for ...
- 17536: Julius Caesar: Jealousy
- ... sc. II, 194-195). Cassius thinks that Caesar's temper is dangerous. He declares, "Ye gods! It doth amaze me, / A man of such a feeble temper should / So get the start of the majestic world, / And bear the palm alone" (Act I, sc. II, 128-131). Casca also is jealous of Caesar. He is disgusted by Caesar's manipulation of the commoners. He describes it as "mere foolery" (Act I ...
- 17537: Young Goodman Brown 6
- ... forest and he found people from his church engaged in a witching Sabbath. This is when he lost all faith in everyone and even his wife. For the rest of his life, he developed a new faith and judged everyone from what he saw that night in the woods.
- 17538: A Book of Double Meanings
- ... people in general is displayed in this act. Another display of the littleness is the fact that Gulliver is used as the Emperor's absolute weapon, but the emperor only uses him to conquer his world of two islands. This makes the emperor's ambition seem extremely low. Swift also criticizes the religious beliefs of the Lilliputians and England in the first story. In Lilliput, Ministers were chosen strictly on agility ...
- 17539: Macbeth: How Money Killed
- ... Macbeth's life ends as the witches predicted, thus the tragic plot is complete. Shylock the Jew's fortune and purpose in life ends as he looses all he owns to his daughter and her new husband. Both Macbeth and Shylock loose what their greed got them and end up with nothing to show for it. Greed may be the biggest killer through out time, surpassing perhaps cancer and aids. As ...
- 17540: Henry IV: Hotspur vs. Harry
- ... of honours tongue'. ' in envy that my Lord Northumberland should be father to so blest a son'. The King feels that Hotspur reminds him of himself, when he challenged Richard for the throne. Hotspur is brave and valiant and has a good reputation with the people, whereas Hal compared with Richard does not care for the welfare of the country and spends his time entertaining himself with poor company. Hotspur has ...
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