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- 481: King Lear
- ... of treason. There is an element of chance in the play in which Edgar meets Oswald trying to kill his father because he is a traitor. Oswald is slain, and asks Edgar: "And give the letters which thou find'st about me to Edmund Earl of Gloucester. Seek him out upon the English party." Edgar finds a letter to Edmund from Goneril about the conspiracy to kill Albany. This part in ...
- 482: Hamlet - Plot Summary
- ... chance the king responds with two answers one being his mother and two being the support of the people would be lost. Then the messenger comes in and gives the king and the queen the letters. This is when they find out that Hamlet is back in Denmark and the King immediately figures a way to kill Hamlet. The King is going to arrange a fencing match in which Hamlet will ...
- 483: Hamlet - Madness
- ... of love,/ Make up my sum [Act V, scene I, lines 250-253], during the fight with Laertes in Ophelia's grave, but he tells her that he never loved her, when she returns his letters and gifts, while she was still alive. Hamlet subtly hints his awareness of his dissolving sanity as he tells Laertes that he killed Polonius in a fit of madness [Act V, scene II, lines 236 ...
- 484: The Bell Jar
- ... hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.` She claims that she has `always wanted to learn German` although `the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam`. Esther associates the language with her `German-speaking father`, who `cane from some manic-depressive hamlet in the black heart of Prussia'. I think that Esther`s stunt ...
- 485: The Bell Jar
- ... actually she buys Esthers freedom many times over with college scholarships and proper treatment from Dr. Nolan, for instance. Esther rarely refers to Philomena directly, preferring instead to mention her car, her hat, her letters, objects around her, actions of Philomena to other people, but never any direct interaction between Esther and her. This tells me that Esther felt no connection with this woman. Even though Philomena obviously cared a ...
- 486: The Awakening
- ... out into the city, and at the time was considered foolish and immature to be doing. Edna would go out and visit Mademoiselle Reisz at her house. She would go to her house and read letters that Robert had written to Mademoiselle Reisz. ‘§Show me the letter and play for me the Impromptu. You see I have persistence. Does that quality count for anything‘K‘¨(106). This shows that Edna is ...
- 487: Tess - Fatalism
- ... that Fate controls how things happen and God can do nothing to save you, even Tess. Overall, Tess seems to go through life experiencing one negative event after another. Fateful incidents, overheard conversations and undelivered letters work against her ability to control the path her life takes. Tess's future seems locked up from the beginning of the novel. As the story opens, we first meet her father and learn of ...
- 488: Tennessee Williams - Outcasts In His Plays
- ... our understanding of the social and spiritual agon that made those characters possible. Notes: 1)Despite the poor reception of Battle of Angels, Williams was awarded $1,000 by the National Institute of Arts and Letters for this play in 1944. 2)This information comes from an MLA database search I conducted on April 12, 1999, in Gorgas Library at the University of Alabama. That search also yielded 473 entries for ...
- 489: Sweetness And Power
- ... very extensively, various governmental records, personal observations made from individuals, shipping records, cookbooks, and studies written by other researchers. Items from his secondary sources include works by other authors, anthropologists, doctors, and scholars. The Bible, letters, dictionaries, credible institutions, such as the International Sugar Council and the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and even the Wall Street Journal are used throughout the book. Mintzs variety ...
- 490: Spelling Of Emigre Russians
- ... had studied Russian and English in school, and how they remembered being taught to read and spell. Following the diktanty, I asked if they considered themselves to be good spellers, what sounds or groups of letters are difficult to spell correctly, and how they think their English has influenced their Russian. I asked the Americans which sounds they considered to be the most difficult for them to spell, how much easier ...
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