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- 5351: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... which someone is "recalled to life" involves Charles Darnay. Charles Darnay is on trial for treason in England. C.J Stryver and Sydney Carton are representing Darnay in this trial. Sydney Carton saves Darnay from death in this trial with his miraculous wits. Through this Darnay is given another chance at life ,and therefore was "recalled to life." The last and most significant instance of someone being "recalled to life" is found in the last chapters of this book. Sydney Carton has recently switched places with his look alike, Darnay, and is awaiting the guillotine. While Sydney awaits his death he thinks, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, then I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." Through these ...
- 5352: The Cask of Amontillado: A Vengeful Setting
- ... there is a feeling of suspense that surrounds the events that follow. Montresor’s participation evokes a conflict that was inevitable. Poe illustrates this by showing bones and giving an impression of the valley of death. It is the perfect setting for a perfect death scene. For no apparent, other than that of revenge, Montresor kills Poe uses two totally different settings and two totally different people to illustrate a complicated conflict. The contrast used was so great that it ...
- 5353: Candide: Voltaire's View of Human Condition
- ... comedy. Voltaire’s primary purpose in writing Candide was to demolish the theory of optimism in which he used exaggeration. For instance, the carnage of the Bulgar-Abar conflict, the tempest and earthquake, the apparent death of Cunegonde and the actual death of her parents, the experiences during the Inquisition, are all noticeable events that have been described in exaggerated terms. The subtitle, “optimism,” used to Candide in which is used of the philosophy of Leibritz was ...
- 5354: The Cask Of Amontillado
- ... trap and kill Fortunato in the end by burying him in the catacombs. Montresor’s actions display much of the same characteristics of Satan himself. Satan works his way around us and lures us to death descised as pleasure, the same way Montresor did this to Fortunato. Satan and Montresor are sneaky, insidious, and nefarious in their act towards Montressor and the world. This first characteristic that Montresor reveals in himself ... critical turn it is he.”, and this gives Fortunato more of an urge to prove himself as the greatest connoisseur of wine in the city. Montresor, sneaky in the way he lured Fortunato to his death without even knowing it. Throughout the whole journey through the catacombs, Montresor intrigues Fortunato’s senses more and more by giving more and more wine on their way to the cask when Fortunato had previously ...
- 5355: Mixed Emotions in The Story of an Hour
- ... does not know anything else so she is content. Also, loyalty and obedience are expected from women in this decade. Mrs. Mallard’s first response to the tragedy of the news of her husband’s death is somewhat unusual, as Chopin puts it. “She did not hear the story as many woman have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild ... for what was coming to her. When she sees her husband opening the door, Mrs. Mallard has a heart attack. It was a mistake, a horrible mistake that cost her life. The doctor says her death was caused by “the joy that kills.” Her sick heart could not take the big distress. People around her could not imagine how unhappy she was in her marriage. All her new dreams were shattered ...
- 5356: Keeping the Reader in Suspense
- ... and the setting, the actual plot of the story also contributes a lot to the creating of suspense. In “K is for Killer” a girl was killed and no one really found out about her death until she started decomposing. Homicide was suspected, but it was not for sure. No one really knew what had happened, and the unawareness of the situation created suspense. Lorna’s family didn’t seem to care about Lorna as much as it was supposed to. Her sisters Trinny and Berlyn did not seem to be heartbroken when they found out about Lorna’s death, and their father did not seem to care too much about anything. Patricia Cornwell develops a very complex plot in her novel. A lot of murders were committed, and a lot of people have died ...
- 5357: Affliction
- ... s taking a nap upstairs, and he will go get her. Glenn comes back and tells Wade and Margie that she is coming. Unwilling to wait, Wade goes upstairs and finds his mother frozen to death. At this point in the movie you begin to understand the kind of abuse that had been enforced on the Whitehouse family by Glenn Whitehouse (James Colburn). Glenn Whitehouse portrayed by James Colburn was very ... William Defoe) telling how he wanted to be there to help Wade through his troubled times. Wade ended up killing Jack Hewitt for the murder of Trombly. However, the most fascinating part was Trombly’s death turned out to be an actual accident, and the conspiracy within that small New Hampshire town was in fact a fantasy within Wade Whitehouse’s imagination. In conclusion, we can ask if Wade’s abuse ...
- 5358: The Call of the Wild: The Effect of the Environment
- ... order to maintain discipline, the dogs were whipped and beaten until they accomplished many unthinkable tasks. After losing thirty pounds due to starvation, Buck was still expected to fulfill his absurd load of work. Near death, Buck was beaten several times while under the power of Hal and Charlie. With the exception of John and Judge Miller, Buck was not loved by any of his masters. He was to them a ... became harder and harder. The wild side of Buck emerged slowly and was found when he learned to steal when his needs were not satisfied, he learned to hunt and enjoy being free. With the death of John, all of Buck’s ties to humans were broken and Buck was finally able to answer the call of the wild. Buck learned to adapt to his surroundings, his reactions showed that he ...
- 5359: Animal Farm By George Orwell
- ... wanted through force. In one part of the book Napoleon had the dogs charge Snowball, another animal, as soon as he thought that the pigs were becoming corrupt. Stalin became the Soviet Leader after the death of Lenin. He was underestimated by his opponents who always became his victims, and he had one of the most ruthless, regimes in history. In was not till very many years later that the world ... Trotsky and Stalin's relationship was very much like Snowball's and Napoleons. Trotsky organized the Red Army and gave speeches and everyone in Russia thought he would win power over Stalin. After Lenin's death Trotsky lost all his power to Stalin and was expelled from the communist party. George Orwell has created a masterpiece which is excellent if it is read without any prior knowledge to the situation in ...
- 5360: The Use Of Pencils As Weapons
- ... more taxes, which would mean more money for the school system, which would allow it to get more computers, and so on and so forth. A much cheaper alternative would be to greatly increase the penalty for the use of weapons in school. If a much heftier fine and/or jail sentence were attached to being convicted of assault with a weapon upon school grounds, fewer people would commit the crime ... adults, they are making decisions which will affect the rest of their lives, at that level of education, they must learn to deal with the consequences of their actions. Though increasing the severity of the penalty for using a weapon on someone at school is a generic answer for an increase in that crime, it is generic because it is cheap and reasonably effective. My advice would be to levy a ...
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