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- 1201: Odysseuss Brutality
- ... to Penelope and had slept with the suitors. Some may say this punishment was too harsh, and made Odysseus less than an honorable man. However, Odysseus s actions are justifiable. Indeed those who occupied the lord s manor during his absence did so with no honor. But one may argue that Odysseus method of punishment was far too brutal, especially for the murder of the ladies who had dishonored his household ...
- 1202: Madame Bovary 2
- ... sees can fulfill her at that moment, it being emotional or financial. She slowly starts to take charge of all the money matters concerning Charles practice and the -4- household, she then gradually becomes the lord and master of the family. After she and Charles move to Yonville, Emma meets Leon Dupuis, and they spend the night conversing about their various interest in common. Emma starts to see what she had ...
- 1203: Macbeth Fear
- ... ends up being driven mad by the guilt and soon can no longer take, and ends up taking her own life hoping that her torment will end now that she is dead. "The Queen, my Lord is dead" [Act V, S 5, L 18], Lady Macbeth takes her life right before the battle against the english is about to begin. This taking of her own life demonstrates her fear and in ...
- 1204: Macbeth - Supernatural Theme
- ... Machiavellian practices to retain it. The appearance of Banquo s ghost at the royal banquet horrifies Macbeth. Shakespeare brilliantly uses irony to make Banquo s emergence very dramatic: Macbeth: Fail not our feast. Banquo: My lord, I will not. (III, i, ll 28-29) Banquo s appearance provides insight into the character of Macbeth. It shows the level that Macbeth s mind has recessed to. His morality is declining and although ...
- 1205: Life On The Farm
- ... creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, and he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving and the rest he keeps for himself (Orwell 6). So the animals ...
- 1206: Lotery Death Of A Salesman
- ... Goodman believes this is Faith and he yells out her name only to be mimicked by the echoes of the forest, as if his calls to Faith were falling on deaf ears. A pink ribbon flies through the air and Goodman grabs it. At this moment, he has lost all faith in the world and declares that there is "no good on earth." Young Goodman Brown in this scene is easily ...
- 1207: Kate Chopins The Awakening
- ... as the property of Leonce Pontellier. But he calls Edna "my dear Mrs. Pontellier." His one expression of affectionate attachment implies a desire for a claim of possession over Edna. Edna, on the other hand, flies in the face of convention and demands the intimacy they have established. She calls him by his first name when she asks, "Write to me when you get there, won't you, Robert?" The nature ...
- 1208: Importance Of The Concept Of H
- ... fettered with frost". The sea is seen as cold, and not just in the physical sense .It is remote, a place of despair , an earthly purgatory, where there is "always anxiety . as to what the Lord will bestow on him"2. The narrator is cut away from the comforts of human companionship and his former life and home. He learns to take his pleasure in nature and the natural , such as ...
- 1209: Independence And Failure
- ... loses all control and reveals his true strength which has been hidden by self denial. For her own safety, Lady Macbeth tries to calm the situation and to make it excusable: Sit, worthy friends. My lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth. Pray you, keep seat. The fit is momentary; upon a thought he will again be well. If you much note him, You shall offend him and ...
- 1210: How Women Are Portrayed In Hom
- ... work all day, and remove the stitches by candlelight while the suitors slept. Odysseus was "blessed in the possession of a wife endowed with such rare excellence of understanding, and so faithful to her wedded lord" (p.256). Penelope was the picture of a perfect, devoted Greek wife. Homer also portrayed the loyal daughter type using Naussica, the young princess of Scheria and daughter of King Alcinous. Like most daughters from ...
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