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- 5061: Scarlet Letter Chapter Summari
- ... church, charged with enforcing its edicts.) Reverend Wilson's comments about his fellow clergyman, Dimmesdale, allows the reader to have a good picture in his mind of the young minister before he speaks. (Compare the effect of this speech by Dimmesdale with that of his Election Day Sermon in Chapter XXII, The Procession.") Dimmesdale describes how he feels about his own involvement in Hester's sin, but the members of the ...
- 5062: Satire Or Tragedy - Macbeth
- ... Tragedy is not an imitation of men, but of action and life. It is by men's actions that they acquire happiness or sadness. Aristotle stated, in response to Plato, that tragedy produces a healthful effect on the human character through a katharsis, a "proper purgation" of "pity and terror." A successful tragedy, then, exploits and appeals at the start to two basic emotions: fear and pity. Tragedy deals with the ...
- 5063: Root 2
- ... gone kept growing in volume and intensity as the men began to communicate better and better with one another." In this sentence from Roots, by Alex Haley, the author used specific words to produce an effect in the reader. For example, Haley used "murmuring" instead of the more usual "talking" Haley used "murmuring" rather than the more usual "talking" because Kunta and the other prisoners developed a "deepening sense of intrigue ...
- 5064: Romeo And Juliet 11 -
- ... near and yet so far (40). This does seem quiet strange that almost every consequential event is disrupted by "tragic miscalculations" and "chance events." If Shakespeare had not organized his play this way the outcome effect would not have been the same. We would not have gotten the feeling of "If only, if only So near and yet so far." The whole point of arranging these events in this "inevitable" order ...
- 5065: Romanticism
- ... of famous writers such as Irving, Cooper, Bryant, and Poe composed the stories and poems which all of them had a great value in the American literature. What is the Romanticism and how dies it effect to the American literature? By taking some compositions from these writers, there will be good answers for those questions. According to some information in English books, the critics said the name Romantic can be misleading ...
- 5066: Rita Dove Literary Analysis
- ... Here is a short but memorable hyperbole from My Mother Enters the Work Force, traveling the lit path of the needle through quicksand taffeta or velvet deep as a forest . Figurative language has a direct effect on tone but with the variety of poems that Dove produces it is hard to pin anything like a specific figurative language setter for the tone. It depends on what, and for whom she is ...
- 5067: Revolutionary War
- ... the commander in chief to the lower officers had subscribed to the traditional European method that relied on fear to achieve discipline. This method of fear was probably not essential, and had little if any effect in the early days of the war because the soldiers were mostly fighting for their own ideologies. To the soldiers, the commanders were of little importance. The soldiers were going to fight their own fight ...
- 5068: Red Badge Of Courage
- ... of death, and of each dead or deathly person Fleming encounters. Gray, first of all, is the uniform color of the opposing army: " Fleming perceived with dim amazement that their uniforms were rather gay in effect, being light gray . . ." (186). This realization is a little ironic since gray so quickly loses its gaiety within this narrative. Perhaps it reflects Fleming's growing awareness of the battlefield and his loss of fear ...
- 5069: Rebecca
- ... setting for a Gothic Romance. Manderley is the isolated, beautiful, and mysterious place that is what really makes the story so engrossing. If the story took place anywhere else it would not have the same effect. There is a hint of the supernatural with the feeling that Rebecca still haunts the corridors of Manderley. "Rebecca is the demon that must be exercised from both Maxim and the narrorator's minds." (Kelly ...
- 5070: Reader Response Theory And The
- ... any opinions about the title, the author (his/her typical subjects, themes, style, etc.), or the genre. It also incorporates the issues of the current time period, including societal and cultural ideologies. Jauss explains the effect of this "horizon of expectations" on the reader and the literary experience: "A literary work, even when it appears to be new, does not present itself as something absolutely new in an informational vacuum, but ...
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