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- 5741: Heart Of Darkness
- ... jungle of Africa. It brings in London, as the ship leaving to Africa taking Marlow, deports from. The main setting is the Congo River, which appears to be hot, muggy, and very uncomfortable. There is great contrast in the miserable clothing the civilizes humans from Europe wear, and the skimpy rags the natives wear. This contrasts helps to visualize and become part of the setting. I actually was uncomfortable myself as ... unseen natives. The comments of the dying men were told by the narrator as horrid incidents yet death was well welcomed in face of the social injustices imposed on all concerned. The author wrote with great details that I felt anxious for every word, hoping none would die. Even in the face of death the Marlow narrates a hateful and superior attitude towards the men closest to him. He never failed ...
- 5742: Hunger Of Memory
- ... born and raised in the United States, he was strongly influenced in the ethnic environment of a Spanish family. Although the reader is introduced to only a short excerpt from the autobiography, he learns a great deal about Rodriguez s family and his relationship to it, his conflict of speaking English versus Spanish, and the paradox that became evident as he used English as his primary language. Furthermore, the reader learns ... his story to the reader in order to speak out against support for bilingual education. In the beginning of the excerpt, Rodriguez explains, Supporters of bilingual education today imply that students like me miss a great deal by not being taught in their family s language. What they seem not to recognize that as a socially disadvantaged child... I needed to learn in school that I had the right-- and the ...
- 5743: Owl Creek Bridge
- ... the following paragraph as he mistakes the sound of the ticking from his watch with an unknown sound, similar to the stroke of a blacksmith’s hammer upon the anvil. He describes the sound in great detail. ‘And now he became conscious of a new disturbance. Striking through the thought of his dear ones was a sound which he could neither ignore or understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the ... misses him. This is an anticlimax. The details of loading and firing are touches of realism, and yet the way they are seen-from the water and often from under the water, and from a great distance, all while swirling about in the current, marks them as unachievable fantasy. As Farquhar dives into the water, Bierce uses personification and yet more similes to stress the paragraph. ‘The water roared in his ...
- 5744: Computers And Internet In Our Life
- ... people would agree that children should have access to I-net websites that are considered pornographic. It doesn’t mean that children should not be allowed I-net access. The I-net is also a great source of information and fun for kids. The I-net helps Pystogov 5 kids from one country meet kids from another. It is a great way to communicate and to learn foreign languages. Now we cannot also imagine school without computers. It proves that society and computers are undividable. What is also important is that computer games are the main ...
- 5745: Lack Of Knowledge Thesis Examination
- ... if the knowledge is incomplete? Is it still powerful or just a burden? Frankenstein and his creature are a prime example of the burden brought on one’s life through incomplete knowledge. Frankenstein has a great grasp of knowledge of the physical world but lacks that grasp of knowledge of the emotional world. He creates a creature with the mind of a human but with a body that is severely disformed ... range of human emotions that he found. (64) By reading “Plutarch’s Lives”, he learns a higher way of thinking and finds that, through the processes of his mind and through the examples of the great lives of other men, he is able to be “elevated… above the wretched sphere.” (65). He also reads “Paradise Lost” in which ideas like free will and predestination are discussed. The creature develops a crucial ...
- 5746: Heart Of Darkness
- ... himself. Through Marlow s observations he explicates the naiveness of the Europeans and the hypocritical purpose of their travelling into the dark continent. Marlow s experience in Africa starts with the desire for travel and great journeys to conquer the blank spaces on the map and the naive believe that the mission of the Europeans is to civilize the natives. Marlow s aunt believes that this voyage is a mission to ... the natural resources, and left ruins behind them. Marlow says, They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have different complexion ...
- 5747: Tempest Character Analysis
- ... powerful thing he controls is Ariel (a spirit). An example of this is when Prospero says "Hast thou, spirit, Preformed to point, the tempest I bade thee".(718) Ariel had the power to create a great sea storm and Prospero had the power to control Ariel which gave him great power. Another reason why Prospero is powerful is because of his knowledge of Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculos plot to kill the king. So when Prospero reclaims his place in Milan again he'll have some ...
- 5748: Sonnett 18
- William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 is part of a group of 126 sonnets Shakespeare wrote that are addressed to a young man of great beauty and promise. In this group of sonnets, the speaker urges the young man to marry and perpetuate his virtues through children, and warns him about the destructive power of time, age, and moral weakness ... they will be reminded of his beauty. This poem that Shakespeare wrote, in the octave, describes how all beauty fades except for the man about whom Shakespeare is writing. The octave also tells of how great the man’s beauty is compared to everything else that is beautiful. In the sestet, the poem tells about how the man’s beauty stays alive and out lives all other beauty. The poem is ...
- 5749: Shakespeare - Tragic Heros
- ... Macbeth or any of Shakespeare’s well-known plays were written. The literary term was actually discovered around 330 BC by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. Through his theory of catharsis, Aristotle debated that the great plays of Sophicles, Euripides, and other Greek playwrights contained tragic heroes similar to each other, which all portrayed four basic characteristics ("English Lit."). These qualities were a tragic flaw, or harmartia, they all were from ... death scene that the tragic figure is transformed into the tragic hero (Desjardens). Although it was Aristotle who characterized the tragic hero, it was Shakespeare that made the tragic hero famous ("English Lit."). Through his great many tragedies Shakespeare developed each tragic hero beautifully, making sure that each harbored a tragic flaw, were from the nobility, with identifiable human qualities, and faced their down fall with dignity. It is hard to ...
- 5750: Othello: Iago The Con
- ... able to improvise whenever something unexpected occurs. When Cassio takes hold of Desdemona's hand before the arrival of the Moor Othello, Iago says, "With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio." [Act II, Scene I, Line 163] His cunning and craftiness make him a truly dastardly villain indeed. Being as smart as he is, Iago is quick to recognize the advantages of ... it." [Act IV, Scene II, Line 189] When faced with this accusation, Iago simply offers that killing Cassio will aid his cause and Roderigo blindly falls for it, hook, line, and sinker. "I have no great devotion to the deed, and yet he has given me satisfying reason," [Act V, Scene I, Line 8] says the fool Roderigo. And with this deed, Roderigo is lead to his death by the hands ...
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