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- 1501: Identity In Sula
- ... time, all the time, I thought I was missing Jude." And the loss pressed down on her chest and came up into her throat. "We was girls together," she said as though explaining something. "O Lord, Sula," she cried, "girl, girl, girlgirlgirl." (p.174) Nel and Sula were not just girls together at the same time; they were girls together as one. Nel explains this to herself in this passage because ...
- 1502: Innocence Of Ophelia And Gertr
- ... of his father. Ophelia “sucked the honey of his music vows” and returned Hamlet’s affection. But when her father had challenged Hamlet’s true intentions, Ophelia could only say: “I do not know, my lord, what I should think.” Ophelia was used to relying on her father’s directions and she was also brought up to be obedient. This allowed her to only accept her father’s views that Hamlet ...
- 1503: Beowulf
- ... 2312 - 2313). Beowulf also wanted revenge of what the dragon had made to his kingdom. The dragon had destroyed the peace they had had for many years. "…The Geats / Deserved revenge; Beowulf, their leader / And lord began to plan it…" (2355 - 2357). The greed that the dragon felt had also caused him to feel revenge and what the dragon had done to Beowulf's kingdom had caused him to feel revenge ...
- 1504: Beowulf
- ... death. The Almighty drove Those demons out, and their exile was bitter, Shut away from men; they split Into a thousand forms of evil--spirits And feinds, goblins, monsters, giants, A brood forever opposing the Lord's Will, and again and again defeated. The Biblical reference in the epic has become a modern day archetypal motif, and serves to give the listener an idea of the extent of Grendel's pure ...
- 1505: British Literature Women Of Lo
- ... She answers his prayers and leads him to Bertilak’s castle. When Gawain comes to Bertilak’s court he is thrown into a totally different world. And therefore sighing he said, “I beseech of Thee, Lord, And Mary, thou mildest mother so sear, Some harborage where haply I might hear mass And thy matins tomorrow-meekly I ask it, And thereto proffer and pray my pater and ave and creed… (Gawain ...
- 1506: Beowulf
- ... lands and treasures for himself, but denied every offering. Instead he accepted the gifts to take to his king Hygelac. " Convey also the gifts that you have granted to me, my beloved Hrothgar, to my lord Hygelac. (p 98) He was also well treated everywhere he went, but insisted upon returning to his King. "We now wish to say, who are come from far, how keenly we desire to return again ...
- 1507: Beloved
- ... our world is caving in, we can always count on the people who care about us the most. If our friends, neighbors and families’ strength is not strong enough, we can always count on the Lord for His strength because He has an abundance to give.
- 1508: Beowulf
- ... forever and hopes to make a final “score” and let the people live out the rest of their days wealthy and without worry. But Beowulf still wants to fight the beast alone. “Our old gift lord meant to manage this monster hot battle alone once again with his great wonder strength armed with a war name earned through a lifetime forged now with deeds” (2642-46). Beowulf is not fighting these ...
- 1509: Grandpa
- ... life can be painful, others rewarding. Too bad we can't bypass the painful times. It seems to me when we have problems we need to remember the prayer that goes something like this: 'Oh Lord, give me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the wisdom to change what can be changed, and the foresight to know the difference.' It also helps to know you have people who ...
- 1510: George Orwell
- ... that everything was very restricted and closely watched.(Orwell 1+) Nineteen Eighty-four also shows Orwell’s irritation at many facets of British Socialism(Shorer 16). "Nineteen Eighty-four greatly dramatizes the famous apothegm of Lord Acton, ‘Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely’." Orwell is best known for his novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, which warn of the growing power of the modern governments, threaten to ...
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