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- 5001: The Women Of Poe
- ... denoted windows to the soul. Also, the narrator claims to have never learned her maiden name, which seems highly unlikely, as does his contention that he cannot remember when they met. This evidence reinforces the effect of unreality in the story. In fact, Ligeia seems not so much a person any more; for she, like the teeth of Berenice, represents the realm of ideas. But her knowledge will not be spoken ...
- 5002: The True Witchcraft Trials
- ... the child is to be quiet, and stay out of the way. When Abigail is being considered a witch in the first moments of the story, Rev. Paris is very worried about how this will effect his image, and not of the fate of Abigail. It is this society where Abigail feels the need to break loose and to act the way a teenager should: freely. This is the reason why ...
- 5003: The Tell Tale Heart
- ... of the old man. When an author creates a situation where the protagonist tells a personal account, the overall impact of the story is heightened. The narrator, in this particular story, adds to the overall effect of horror by continually stressing to the reader that he or she is not mad, and tries to convince us of that fact by how carefully this brutal crime was planned and executed. Poe's ...
- 5004: The Role Of Women In Sir Gaiwa
- ... which support it, no longer fit comfortably with a more complicated world where the standard basis for exchange and loyalties is being undermined. From our perspective, _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_, has the unintentional effect of pointing out the moral complexities facing Fourteenth Century feudalism. The conflict Sir Gawain confronts becomes a metaphor for other problems facing the Fourteenth Century aristocracy. Gawain's bargaining with Bertilak's wife, a bargain ...
- 5005: The Owls Are Not What They See
- ... relatives where Laura brought them only grief, and is considerate of the teenage friends Laura exploited (Desmet 100). This division reinforces to the male audience that they must see women as virgins or whores. The effect of this in society is that males will be less trusting and more prone to violence towards the women they see as whores, and to ignore the women they see as passive virgins. Although the ...
- 5006: The Lord Of The Flies
- ... of resolution. Finally, Roger in an act of unadulterated evil killed Piggy by pushing the boulder onto him, the only intentional murder of another human in the book. The boulder also crushed the conch, in effect evil won by crushing the means by which order was maintained. Throughout the Lord of the Flies William Golding's microcosm of the real world reinforces his idea of the descent of man from civilization ...
- 5007: The Lonely Soul Of Dasein
- ... an impending event that will happen someday in the future without allowing the knowledge of this event to affect any of the possibilities of Being with which Dasein might be presented. If there is an effect on the possibilities of Being in respect to Death, it is very limited and not fully comprehending of the actual nature of Death. In the inauthentic Being-Towards-Death the they-self never dies in ...
- 5008: The Lady Of Shalott -
- ... making a distinction between tension through formal aspects, such as rhyme scheme, and tension through content it will try to show the interconnection between both of them. Additionally, the paper will deal with the possible effect of tension on the reader and how the poem might be perceived by him/her. 2. Growth of Consciousness and Development of Tension 2.1. Initial Isolation Lord Alfred Tennyson s poem starts out with ...
- 5009: The Lady Of Shalott
- ... 115), putting the Lady in a trance to inevitably die for her love of Lancelot. The moment that Lancelot "flashed into the crystal mirror" (Tennyson, line 106), the third function of the mirror came into effect after this. The temptation of being with Lancelot being too much for her to stay away from. The curse belfel her ending the responsibilities of the mirror, in all matters. The exhibited this image by ...
- 5010: The Great Gatsby 16
- ... kind of lifestyle that she longed for all her life. It might seem confusing at first, but in the end the reader understands that this novel is not about love. It is about that rotting effect that the money has on the society. Fitzgerald depicts the society as a faceless, drunk, and demoralized mass: I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional, overhanging ...
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