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- 2621: Life in Victorian England
- ... minority who were considered to need education above the elementary stage. The school education and exhibitions or sizarships to the university were paid for out of the founders endowments, so as long as a childs parents could keep them and forgo their earnings, the child did not have to find any other money for expenses. Since there werent enough grammar schools some parents sent their children to private school. Private schools were profit-making institutions which supplied the materials ...
- 2622: Essay on Impulsiveness in Romeo & Juliet
- ... that lead to much of the misfortune in this play. Hours after Romeo killed Tybalt, Capulet acted on haste in Act III, Scene 4 and told Paris I will make a desperate tender/Of my child's love: I think she will be rul'd/In all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not....And bid her, mark you on me, on Wednesday next- and then continued to sound ... after look me in the face:/Speak not, reply not, do not answer me;(Pg 173, Lines 66 -68). He than went on to insult Juliet by saying God had lent us but this only child;/ But now I see this one is one too much,(Pg 175, Lines 170-71) and what was this over? It was because Tybalt died, and Capulet acted hastily. Unfortunately it eventually lead to the ...
- 2623: A Doll's House: Theme of Emancipation of A Woman
- ... is implying that one of Nora's duties as his wife is to physically pleasure him at his command. Torvald also does not trust Nora with money, which exemplifies Torvald's treating Nora as a child. On the rare occasion when Torvald gives Nora some money, he is concerned that she will waste it on candy and pastry; in modern times, this would be comparable to Macauly Culkin being given money ... wife whom he says he loves. This revelation is what prompts Nora to walk out on Torvald. When Torvald tries to reconcile with Nora, she explains to him how she had been treated like a child all her life; her father had treated her much the same way Torvald does. Both male superiority figures not only denied her the right to think and act the way she wished, but limited her ...
- 2624: Comparing The Murder of Duncan in Macbeth and The Assassination of Kennedy
- ... more benefits from the war in Asia. Whatever happened, Johnson was rewarded with much power after the assassination of Kennedy. Nobody wants to tell the truth if it might get them in trouble. A small child does something wrong, they will usually deny having done it. Teenagers often lie to cover-up their late night parties. Government officials lie to avoid scandals. They are all lies. The only difference is the complexity of the lie and the number of people affected by it. A small child cannot lie very well. Teenagers are somewhat better at it. However, they are mere amateurs compared to professional politicians. This is true for several reasons. Politicians have the means to pay people to lie for ...
- 2625: Harriet Stowe
- ... at thirteen, during one of her father s sermons. She wrestled throughout her eighty-five years with questions and spiritual conflicts for she endured grave trials: her mother died while Harriet was a very young child; her husband, though an erudite theologian, could not provide financially and suffered bouts of poor health; she lost four children tragically; and she enjoyed the acclaim of the rich and powerful of her generation. In ... manor located on Farmington Avenue. Arguably, it is one of the most distinguished landmarks in Hartford. I also associate him with the Huckleberry Finn movie that I fondly remember seeing more than once as a child. There was no similar early in-depth association with Harriet Beecher Stowe for me as there had been with Mark Twain. Compared to him, she is always an afterthought, a sidelight to the head-liner ...
- 2626: The Tempest. An Imperialist Heaven or Hell?
- ... Destiny,--- That hath to instrument this lower world....... ...Your swords are now too massy for your strengths, And will not be uplifted.... ...that you three From Milan did supplant good Prospero:... ...him and his innocent child... (Act III, Sc. III, Ln. 53,4/67,8/68-70) The harshness of Ariel's speech throws the nobles back, but contests their power. As Europeans, they view themselves greater than any, which is ... Ariel also brings about their faults, making them seem less divine. Ariel does that by bringing up moral issues, such as their dethronement of a Duke, and his exile into the sea with his sole child, alone. And not only does this bring up the moral issues, but also forewarns them to Prospero's wrath, for Ariel made it clear to the nobles that he was under the assignment of Prospero ...
- 2627: One Hundred Years Of Solitude
- ... the sin of incest, the Buendia curse is not fulfilled. In the end ,however, when Amaranta Ursula and Aureliano unknowingly unite, they reenact the fated Buendia curse of years before. Born to them is a child with "the tail of a pig"(417). The pattern of the Buendia's incestual choice is so uncanny and so repetitive that like Kikuji's reliving of his father's life, it becomes evident that ... The couple had the chance to further probe, but stopped short and took the easy route of fate's guidance. This comfortable path led them to the final deliverance. Their fate is fulfilled when a child with a tale of a pig is born unto them. Their horror is comparative to Kikuji when he learns of Fumiko's suicide and finds himself left only with the despised Chikako. The quest for ...
- 2628: Macbeth: Darkness, Evil and Tragedy
- ... manliness. "to be more than what you are, you would be so much more the man". She challenges his love for her and says that she would rather "dash the brains out" of her own child than break such a promise as Macbeth has to her. Whether she was bluffing, the imagery that Macbeth would have had in his mind at this point would have been frightening. To have the brains "dashed out" of his own child. Macbeth is so awed by this woman who is his wife, who has so much power that he cannot believe it. At this point in the play, Shakespeare re-confirms just how close the relationship ...
- 2629: Oliver Twist
- ... goodness. This connection between weather and feelings is powerful in Oliver Twist because it echoes many people's feelings. Many forms of love appear in Oliver Twist, whether between man and woman, or parent and child (including adopted children). Dickens seems to suggest that affection is the only source of real strength. For instance, Brownlow's love saves Oliver. Moreover, Rose and Henry find happiness together after all their suffering: "
a ... Lastly, people who are emotionally or physically deprived become cut off from human interaction. Sometimes this alienation from other people makes them withdrawn and passive, like Oliver, who is terrified of being abandoned: "
my dear child
you need not be afraid of me unless you give me cause." (89). Sikes' aggression, Nancy's depression, and Monks' vindictiveness are all results of alienation. Therefore, whatever its cause or effect, alienation is destructive ...
- 2630: Buchi Emechetas Ona
- ... thereby rectifying the omission that nature had made" (629). Two important deductions can be made here: first that men are free to be promiscuous (she is free to have men) and that having a boy child asserts a man's manhood. This is why it may be said that Ona was essentially a surrogate boy for the time being until she has a son. Evidently Chief Umunna feels a great sense ... must bear a son. Ona is supposed to fulfil this promise for her father. From a cultural perspective, if Ona has a boy and she were to become married, she could no longer name the child after her father-this is cultural custom or law. This is therefore another powerful factor in her decision not to get married to Agbadi. What does this say about the value of love and the ...
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