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- 8811: Tension And Violence
- ... However, this moment eases the situation. After having come back from returning the rope, with the rope still there, violence may give way to a beautiful, romantic atmosphere "...the smell of broiled steak floated nose-high in the cooling air. Her face was young and smooth and fresh-looking" (p. 91). They both have pushed their hostile thoughts to the background and come back to what they used to dream when ...
- 8812: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... on the other hand, never had that preconception; she never knowingly treated Negroes with disrespect because of their color. Atticus had shielded her and her brother from any outward prejudice against blacks but even at school they were introduced to a new phrase "Nigger Lover". Even Atticus could not keep out the thought that Negroes weren't quite the same. Then she saw Tom Robinson found guilty, and saw him die ...
- 8813: The Role Of Fate In Oedipus Th
- ... running away from fate is a big no-no. The townspeople (chorus) stated: Destiny guide me always, Destiny find me filled with reverence pure in word and deed. Great laws tower above us, reared on high born for the brilliant vault of heaven. The great laws signify a great chain of command, if you will. Oedipus has upset that great chain of command by his blatant attempt to defy his fate ...
- 8814: The Hobbit
- ... outside world. He then bounds over Gollu m's head to freedom. Outside he is reunited with his dwarf friends. Later they encounter Wargs (large savage wolves). The Wargs chase the party into the trees. High in the branches Gandalf uses a spell to turn the pine cones a fire, in order to drive the wolves away. However the plan backfires and the very trees they took refuge in are now ...
- 8815: Tale Of Two Cities 2
- ... the rest of the family split apart. Charles continued to work at the blacking warehouse even after his father inherited some money and got out of prison. When he was thirteen, Dickens went back to school for two years. He later learned shorthand and became a freelance court reporter. He started out as a journalist at the age of twenty and later wrote his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. He went ...
- 8816: Symbolism In Patterns By Amy L
- ... behind colors of pink and silver. This metaphor, however, has some underlying meaning, and symbolizes the training that she received to act properly as a lady. This training leaves behind a blemish, or stain, of high order (pink) and eloquence (silver) that she merely knows how to uphold, and does not want to be a part of her true self. She feels that learning the way the public wants her to ...
- 8817: Socrates Sides With Creon Or A
- ... a higher power than the state that commands them. With this believe they both feel that they are willing to risk death for what they believe in. They both also hold their families at a high level and would not want to see them hurt. we obviously know this to be true with Antigone and Socrates hints towards this same idea in the Apology when he says that he could have ...
- 8818: Sir Gawain And The Green Knigh
- ... a special untainted Christian love. That Gawain is Mary s knight is made clear in the scene where he is robed for battle. That all his force was founded on the five joys that the high Queen of heaven had in her child. And therefore, as I find, he fittingly had on the inner part of his shield her image portrayed, that when his look on it lighted, he never lost ...
- 8819: Sir Gawain And The Green Knigh
- ... an expansive body of literature that typically was intended to entertain a courtly and hence selective audience. If there is any common denominator running throughout the stories, it is the idea of chivalry, a formal, high-stylized system of standards of knightly conduct. This poem is a literary median between Anglo-Saxon and Christian literature. Chivalric ideals of strength and valor became gradually integrated with essentially non-Christian dictates of courtly ...
- 8820: Siddhartha 4
- ... voice. He loved the way he walked, his complete grace of movement; he loved everything that Siddhartha did and said, and above all he loved his intellect, his fine ardent thoughts, his strong will, his high vocation. Govinda knew that [Siddhartha] would not become an ordinary Brahmin, a lazy sacrificial official, an avaricious dealer in magic sayings, a conceited worthless orator, a wicked sly priest, or just a good stupid sheep ...
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