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- 6601: The Canterbury Tales
- ... they had committed in life would be forgiven. The Pardoner of The Canterbury Tales abused his position by selling some papers which he claimed if people bought, their time in purgatory would be shortened after death; he sold them for very high price. He also claimed that he had Virgin Mary s veil, which would have been 1330 years after Mary died. He also claimed that he had St. Peter s ...
- 6602: To The Lighthouse 2
- ... is depicted as a sharp, deadly, and sarcastic killjoy that destroys the anticipation and happiness of his child, James. His children regard him with the utmost rancor that they even think of stabbing him to death. However, little do his children know that, "he [Mr. Ramsay] was incapable of untruth; never altered a disagreeable word to suit the pleasure of any human being, least of all of his own children, who ...
- 6603: The Stranger 2
- ... fashions a character that never is really known as a character. No one in the book ever really knew Meursault. He was to everyone, a stranger. His passive, cold, indifferent appearance eventually led to his death.
- 6604: The Pardoners Tale
- ... Radix malorum est cupiditas. His theme becomes a reality and he allows avarice to take control his life. Just as Jesus lived life living into eternal life, the pardoner lives his life dying into eternal death by committing his avaricious acts and deceiving people in the name of God. Works Cited Brewer, Derek. The Canterbury Tales. An Introduction to Chaucer. New York: Longman Inc., 1984 Hussey, S. S. The Canterbury Tales ...
- 6605: To The Lighthouse
- ... is depicted as a sharp, deadly, and sarcastic killjoy that destroys the anticipation and happiness of his child, James. His children regard him with the utmost rancor that they even think of stabbing him to death. However, little do his children know that, "he [Mr. Ramsay] was incapable of untruth; never altered a disagreeable word to suit the pleasure of any human being, least of all of his own children, who ...
- 6606: To Kill A Mockingbird Injustic
- ... the innocent person it affects will always suffer. Tom Robinson, the most obvious of characters that suffered injustice, receives my deepest sympathy because he was a victim of physical injustice who suffered the worst consequence, death. For all the good deeds he did for Mayella Ewell, he eventually ended up dead. Tom Robinson was a victim of Maycomb County's policy where an honest black man's word does not up ...
- 6607: The Natural
- ... and he thinks nothing of the possibility of food poisoning. Roy winds up in the hospital that night with severe food poisoning and this begins his rapid decline from the high ranks of baseball. The death of a bird in Greek and Roman mythology meant something terrible would happen. In the novel, the meat that looks like dead birds spell the end of Roy Hobbs as an athlete. Perhaps the least ...
- 6608: The Murder Of Art From The Sou
- ... painted. He died as an old man, his real age, withered, and wrinkled. These details included by the author at the books conclusion explain that while Dorian stabbed the picture, he himself was stabbed to death through the heart, and the picture and the person changed places. The picture, now eternally young, is the only living remembrance of this occurrence, and Dorian Gray lay dead, indirectly committing suicide.
- 6609: The Concrete Dangers Of Abstra
- ... moves back and forth between distorted reality and total imagination. On a wider scale is presented the chaotic state of the play s environment, portrayed by thane Lennox s account on the strange screams of death provoked by the violent wind. In a state of political confusion-thane Macduff has just discovered Duncan s assassination-and mental chaos for Macbeth, the unnatural behavior taken by nature strongly accentuates the long lasting ...
- 6610: The Black Cat By Poe
- ... the narrator tells of his decline from sanity to madness, all because of an obsession with two (or possibly one) black cats. These ebony creatures finally drive him to take the life his wife, whose death he unsuccessfully tries to conceal. This short story easily achieved the effect that Poe was looking for through the use of description of setting, symbolism, plot development, diverse word choice, and detailed character development. In ...
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