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- 5721: Macbeth About Macbeth
- ... the euphoria which follows. He also rejoices no doubt in the success which crowns his efforts in battle - and so on. He may even conceived of the proper motive which should energize back of his great deed: The service and the loyalty I owe, In doing it, pays itself. But while he destroys the king's enemies, such motives work but dimly at best and are obscured in his consciousness by ... pale, and this is the law of his own natural from whose exactions of devastating penalties he seeks release: Come, seeling night... And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. He conceives that quick escape from the accusations of conscience may possibly be effected by utter extirpation of the precepts of natural law deposited in his nature. And he imagines ...
- 5722: Mark Twain 2
- ... his literature be "American" and helped create the American experience. Twains humor in his stories was used partly because it was his way of writing but also because during those times America was going through great tribulation and was in need of relief from the Civil war. Through humor he eased the pains of America and also made himself a popular literary figure of the time. In the story "Life on ... the people, and writing things down as he went along. He used these experiences as the basis for his stories and since they were based on truth, spoke of America, and included humor, were a great success and still stand as American classics today. Mark Twain, spoke about what it was to be an American, he gave stories like "Huckleberry Finn" which captured the idea of what it was and is ...
- 5723: Macbeth 2 - Fixed
- ... shows their close relationship until they have started falling into a state of near-despair after the murder of Banquo and Macduff's wife and son. At this point, they have started to seperate a great deal. In act five, scene five, Macbeth hears the "cry of women" and not even noticing that it is a woman's cry, let alone that of his own wife, asks "What is that noise ... witches changes significantly as the play progresses. In act one, scene five, Macbeth tells his wife in his letter to her that the witches "have more in them than mortal knowledge." (2), and he puts great faith in their prophecies; after all, of the witches' three so-called "prophecies", "Two truths are told" (I, iii, 126b). He depends on the witches for a long time, even after he murders Banquo. In ...
- 5724: Lord Of The Flies 13
- ... novel The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway describes a couple who share a very strange and distant kind of love for each other. This story takes place immediately after World War I, a time of great hardship. This hardship results in a digression of values both morally and socially. The love that Brett and Jake share is symbolic of the general decline in values in that they tolerate behaviors in one ... a combination jealousy, compassion, understanding, and hate. These are a very unusual group of feelings for a person to ed to act the way she did, while mantaining her social status, which clearly meant a great deal to her. She would have had to choose, and most likely her choice would have been that of a more chaste lifestyle. In this story, there is a very different way of life from ...
- 5725: Les Miserables 3
- ... Of course, the Thenardiers never intended for any of the money to be used on Cosette. Instead, they spend it on themselves and their own daughters. The endless bills sent by the Thenardiers become so great, Fantine can barely support herself, because she sends all her money to Cosette. Eventually, the foreman of the factory learns Fantine has a daughter and no husband. Because of the society they live in, he ... she must be a whore and she is fired. With no other choice, Fantine must sell herself to make money for her daughter. As the Thenardiers continue to demand more money, the stress becomes too great and Fantine sickens and dies as a result - yet another example of Hugo s opinion of a sick society. The Thenardiers next appear conning wealthy families into giving them money with letters of pity. One ...
- 5726: Lord Of The Flies 8
- ... an island in the Pacific with no adults around to lead and guide them. They do set up a leadership consisting of a chief, and then workers who carry out the chiefs orders. This works great for about a week, but soon the children tire of the work, and do not realize the long term consequences involved with not having necessities like shelter and a signal fire, and before long, fun ... ship might come to the rescue. Meat was also something that the characters desired, but meat required hunting, and hunting involved much skill, and time, so much time that hunting; rather than working, caused a great deal of friction between Jack and Ralph. V So What? As I was reading this book, I was able to relate to Ralph, his feelings, his confusion, as the 8th grade president at my middle ...
- 5727: Lord Of The Flies 6
- ... and White, he describes how the ruling minority of the whites treated blacks. The main idea of the poem is to tell the reader of that time, how the blacks were being treated. He uses great diction to describe the treatment. For instance he says, they lay like catch in the plaza sun, which helps the reader understand that the men were on the ground like fish in the sun. He ... all lined up like the keys on a keyboard. The diction he uses in this poem really lets you understand the differences between black and white in the African town of Rhodesia. The author uses great detail to describe his poem. For example he writes, Rhodesia, sweaty flank of the world, which lets the reader understand that Rhodesia is a hot place. He also writes, I read as quietly as they ...
- 5728: Julius Caesar 3
- ... the first scene of the play. Marullus says to the commoners whom no longer worship Pompey, You blocks of stones, you worse than senseless things! to try and influence them to stay loyal to the great Pompey. Even today, we use ridicule as a way of persuading of influencing people to do something. An example of this would be in the Think. Don t Smoke commercial. They are implying that when ... oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To tow rs and windows, yea, to chimney tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome. Because guilt is a universal theme, it is still used to entice and influence others. For example, on television, there are many commercials that display babies and younger children ...
- 5729: Blanche Ingram: Villain?
- ... were also scared of the see because they were callow, they did not know much about rafts or the ocean, but they ameliorated later, they learned from their own experience. The author easily express her great form of writing and also share it with the reader through the plot, the plot is the sequence of events in a literary work, in this case Jumping off for Freedom, Arilu Bernardor wrote the ... husband and her daughters, Stephanie and Amanda. Anilu Bernardo writes from the heart. Jumping off for Freedom is a moving, sensitive and informative novel, told with clarity and compassion. She also shows her intelligence and great style of writing through the plot, the conflicts and finally the setting. She knows what it feels because she went through what the Leal family went through, There are now thousands of Cubans who leave ...
- 5730: Jane Eyre 2
- ... in love with Mr. Rochester. After that event Mr. Rochester invites a lot of guests. One of the guests is Miss Blanche Ingram, a very beautiful woman who tries to secure Mr. Rochester, which gives great pain to Jane. Jane thinks that Mr. Rochester wants to marry Blanche Ingram. One day a stranger arrives, a Mr. Mason from Spanishtown, Jamaica. Mr. Rochester seems to be very upset by his arrival. In ... she lives at Thornfield Hall. Mr. Rochester shows his wife to the audience. His wife is insane and behaves like a wild beast, and he has been married to her for 15 years. Jane has great pity with him but she decides to go away because she can't live with Mr. Rochester as his mistress. She sneaks away in the night with little money and takes a carriage to the ...
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