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- 5341: Our Town By Thornton Wilder
- ... Hampshire, set at the turn of the century. The play involves three main acts, each focussed upon a different aspect of life. Set in 1901, the first act simply discusses the passing of an uneventful day in the town. We are exposed to all the characters, particularly two teenage characters, Emily Webb, and George Gibbs. The second act focuses upon love and marriage , and takes place in 1904, the day of Emily and George s wedding. We are exposed to all the tremulous events of marriage, yet the scene ends happily. The final act, set in 1913 involves the funeral of Emily Webb. After her ...
- 5342: Oedipus
- ... that took place fifteen years and four of his children ago. Was it really Sophocles' intention that we regard Oedipus as a "good" man? Oedipus accuses Tiresias and Creon, two innocent men, of conspiring to d! ethrone him and take over the country. Would a "good" man do this, lacking any evidence but his own suspicions? Would a "good" man wish his own brother-in-law dead when no one could ... his "quest for identity", it becomes apparent that the sequence of events are quite coincidental. First, he summons Tiresias to name the killer, who Oedipus does not at the time believe to be himself. Secon! d, a messenger arrives from Corinth, not summoned by the king, revealing that Oedipus is not truly Polybus' son. Finally, the shepherd reveals all of Oedipus' past, after having been called for the purpose of providing ...
- 5343: Biography of Thomas Edison
- ... of the Grand Truck railroad which ran between Port Huron and Detroit, Michigan. Unfortunately, about the same time he began this, an accident occurred that left Edison deaf for the rest of his life. One day he struggled to climb the freight car while carrying stacks of newspapers. The conductor of the train saw him and grabbed him by both of his ears, lifting him into the car. From that day forward, Edison was deaf. But he said he did not mind. Being deaf helped him to work on his inventions in quiet and without being disturbed. At sixteen, Edison became a telegraph operator.He learned ...
- 5344: Ernest Hemingway 4
- ... which he introduced and lived. Hemingway was also a night-club roisterer, a slick and chromatically unreal advertisement in the rotogravures, unfairly good copy for the gossip columnists, public brawler and braggart, and the batter d. wreck d old man who appeared to Seymour Betsky and Leslie Fielder as an unsure schoolboy, desperately uncertain and frail (Lesniak 19). Hemingway was awarded many awards, they included the Pulitzer prize for his novel The Old ...
- 5345: The Odyssey
- ... the wind the whole voyage home. “I had worked the sheet nine days alone, and give it to no one, wishing to spill no wind on the homeward run,”(Ody X 36). On the ninth day, the shore of Ithaka could be seen, Odysseus thinks he is safe and sleeps until he is waken up by the screaming of the wind that his men had released from the bag. Odysseus and ... that he must prevent the men from eating the cattle on the island called the sun. This time his men show hubris by eating the cattle that they were warned not to eat. The next day when they leave the island, Zeus strike the ship with a lightning bolt. All of Odysseus' men die and he is forced to swim days to the island of Alkinoos. Throughout this journey Odysseus’ hubris ...
- 5346: Claudius: Leader, King, Man
- ... his sins because he has gained from them. "My fault is past-but O, what form of prayer / Can serve my turn? ‘Forgive me my foul murdered?’ / That cannot be, since I am still possess’d / Of those effects for which I did the murder- / My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen." (III,iii,51-55) Example 2 He is so blinded by his ambition to remain King that he didn’t stop his wife, the Queen, from drinking from the poisoned cup because it would reveal his plan. "It is the poison’d cup. It is too late." (V,ii,296) MAN: He is a coward, a man of no honor. Example 1 Claudius kills his brother in his sleep, by pouring poison into his ear, without even ...
- 5347: Our Grandmothers By Maya Angel
- ... cool breeze blowing, hear the leaves rustling and even sense the smell of fear; everything that one could think of to enhance the setting of a plantation. Reading this poem is an escape from modern day life. As readers, we observe everything that the narrator and the main character experience. To fulfill the imagination of the readers, Maya Angelou concentrates primarily as to how the readers are going to interpret certain ... 94-106). These few selected lines are important to the development of imagery through the setting. Here the narrator comments, that even though slavery was a thing of the past, it still exists in modern day society. The readers feel as if they are actually there, undermining the role of the main character and experience the horrors of living in a racially discriminatory world. The feel of standing on the corner ...
- 5348: The Quest Of A Hemingway Hero
- ... and value to his life. Catherine is the one that has to set Fredrick Henry straight and make him become aware of what life really is.Fredrick Henry is excited by the war and every day it becomes worse The cold temperature and rain only bring more havoc as disease and sickness adds to the growing number of deaths. Catherine describes the war as in contrast to the battle of the Somme, where an exuberant number of people lost their lives foolishly. On duty one day, Fredrick drives down the road and confronts a man with hernia limping down the road. Fredrick offers the man help, the man clearly does not want to be helped. Fredrick insists on helping the man ...
- 5349: Hamlet - Ophelia Character Ana
- ... v). Ophelia is referring to the way her father used to treat her before the tragic incident of his death. The love within her madness is when she speaks about the events on "Valentine’s Day"(IV, v). When Ophelia speaks about Valentines Day she is referring to the events of romance that she was denied. Ophelia’s madness is brought on by her lack of being able to demonstrate any maturity in trying to cope with her losses ...
- 5350: Othello Vs. Twelfth Night
- She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd, and I loved her that she did pity them (Othello, I.iii 166-167). William Shakespeare s tragedy Othello, is pervaded by a dominant theme, one of love. Othello, the Moor of Venice falls madly ... a court hearing, Desdemona confesses her love for Othello and Barbanzio is forced to let her go. I am hitherto your daughter: but here's my husband, and so much duty as my mother show'd to you, preferring you before her father, so much I challenge that I may profess due to the Moor my lord (Othello, I.iii 184-188) As the course of events shift, Othello and Desdemona ...
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