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- 4211: King Lear 2
- ... shall top the legitimate meaning that one day he will exceed his brother. This sarcasm shows the bitterness with which Edmund views all legitimate children. Another way of showing bitterness, which has almost the same effect as sarcasm, is ridiculing. Edmund feels that married couples are "between asleep and awake" when they go to "creating a whole tribe of fops". This nasty way of referring to legitimate children displays the bitterness ...
- 4212: Killer Angels The Human Factor
- ... Factors of humanity, such as friendships, sense of character, conflicts and brotherhood, play an important part in making the war. The friendship between Confederate General Lewis Armistead and Union General Winfield Scott Hancock has an effect on their fighting. Garnett s sense of honor effects his psychological outlook on the battle and how he is to fight. The Chamberlains are two brothers in the Twentieth Maine of the Union Army. Both ...
- 4213: Kate Chopins The Awakening
- ... she and Adele are foils to one another because Mademoiselle Reisz is always dressed in black, but Adele is almost always wearing white, and both women become close friends with Edna. The language describing the effect on Edna of Mademoiselle Reisz's music is almost sexual: "[T]he very passions themselves were aroused within her soul, swaying it, lashing it, as the waves daily beat upon her splendid body." Before, Mademoiselle ...
- 4214: Irony In The Rocking Horse
- ... he expresses his belief that the house will stop whispering when he becomes lucky. Instead of stopping, the whispering increases after Paul's mother benefits from his winnings. In the beginning, Paul's mother, in effect, challenges him to prove that he is lucky. Paul's search for luck is conducted behind the reins of a rocking-horse, "charging madly into space." In his travels, Paul hears odd names which he ...
- 4215: Independence And Failure
- ... fit is momentary; upon a thought he will again be well. If you much note him, You shall offend him and extend his passion. Feed, and regard him not. . . (III, iv, 54-9) With little effect, she struggles to keep order but gives up and has the thanes stand not upon the order of your going (III, iv, 120-1). Macbeth s strength from self denial fails, because he is losing ...
- 4216: Huck Finn: Essay On Each Chapt
- ... his plan. After dinner, Pap goes to town to sell some logs. Huck is sure he won't be back until morning, which will give him plenty of time to put his escape plan into effect. Read the description of Huck's escape carefully. It's a pretty elaborate plan, worked out to the smallest detail, obviously the work of a bright kid. In the middle of his description, Huck says ...
- 4217: How Does Bernard Shaw Satirise
- ... situation of the house in Bulgaria. Shaw wrote the whole play without reference to a place, and this was only filled in after the play had been finished. Therefore the actual place does not greatly effect the plot, but it adds humour to the situation. Shaw contrasts the less developed home of the Petkoffs with the more developed home of Bluntschli, and does this by introducing things such as the electric ...
- 4218: Hemingway And Camus
- ... is made only to eat and sleep and make love to Catherine, but finally he must face up to experience - he must "realize" what has happened. This requires effort, thinking, and, as an unavoidable "side effect", it usually is painful. We remember that the major, early on, declared that "All thinking men are atheists," (p. 8), and this statement begins to resonate throughout the novel as Frederic must indeed think about ...
- 4219: Heart Of Darkness 4
- ... by society, human nature is left to itself in its purest form. Kurtz, a far superior being mentally than the savages who surround him, suffers from a god-complex. With this mental disorder in full effect, he is left unopposed to claim his position as a god. On his journey to find Kurtz, Marlow realizes the same principles that Kurtz had realized on his. Human nature is inherently both good and ...
- 4220: Hamlet Character Analysis For
- ... of almost anything. Zefferilli makes Hamlet s character slightly further depressed in his version, then in the Shakespearean version. Hamlet is also notably more temperamental, the actions of the people around Hamlet have a profound effect on his character. Everyone close to Hamlet is marred either emotionally or physically by the bedlam that he initiates. Some people are positive influences on people while others are negative influences and still others push ...
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