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- 2381: A Midsummer Nights Dream
- ... play proves, these dreams perform an important function in life. (Scott 381) Fairies, part of the fantasy world, live in the kingdom in the vague, dream-like East. In this area, legends, myths, and impossible stories originate. This placed is more commonly called "the dream world." The East exists both during and after sleep. The fairies bring the stories to you from the East. The fairies never think and love, which explains all of the deceit and odd events that go on during the play. This is acceptable in their world, because all the ...
- 2382: Ywain
- ... Yet, in the court of the high medieval period, the knights become slack in their virtue. For example, in the romance it is at the court of King Arthur, away from Laudine, that Ywain falls short of his obligations. He stays to long male bonding with Gawain and forgets about his wife. It is only after his wife refuses to take him back that he realized his mistake. He must do ... took on new roles in the high middle ages. Jesus was no longer the triumphant God, now he was the suffering human. As Southern states so eloquently, "it is a striking thing that the intellectual short-comings of this picture of Man's salvation [that found during Roland's time] only became clear at the moment when the heroic view of human life being lived between the mighty opposites of external ...
- 2383: Winter Moon
- ... and didnt like the switching. Koontz explodes into action during the first chapter, which grips the reader and holds their attention throughout the rest of the book. The novel starts out as two separate stories: a police officers family living in L.A. and an old retired man living in Montana. As the book progresses the two stories become more connected, and finally intertwined. The book can seem confusing at the start. However, the confusion of the reader is used by Koontz to make the ending more intense. Koontz certainly unleashes his vivid ...
- 2384: Wild Meat And The Bully Burgers
- ... and her father have a new moneymaking idea, to pluck feathers off of dead peacocks and to sell them to the feather lei makers. They go on long drives together, and her father tells her stories of when he was young. She enjoys these times very much because he would have never told anyone these stories unless they were in such circumstances as that. He talks about his house back in Haupu and how he misses it. He would like to go back there with Lovey and climb the mountain. Pages ...
- 2385: The Crucible
- ... asked to speak. It is not surprising that the girls would find this type of lifestyle very constricting. To rebel against it, they played pranks, such as dancing in the woods, listening to slaves' magic stories and pretending that other villagers were bewitching them. The Crucible starts after the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. As one of them falls sick, rumors start to fly that ... asked to speak. It is not surprising that the girls would find this type of lifestyle very constricting. To rebel against it, they played pranks, such as dancing in the woods, listening to slaves' magic stories and pretending that other villagers were bewitching them. The Crucible starts after the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. As one of them falls sick, rumors start to fly that ...
- 2386: The Caucasian Chalk Circle By Bertolt Brecht
- ... contrasts with dramatic plays where the audience sympathises and relates to the characters of the play. The theme throughout the play is natural justice versus class justice. The title has links to other parables and stories before it. The Chalk Circle, a Chinese play involved a legal action where the false claimant was granted custody due a bribe to claim her dead husbands estate. This however was overturned by the emperor ... the child, contrasting to Natasha Abashvilla's intent to get the child only to keep her late husband's estate. The singer sums up the meaning of the entire play, linking the prologue with the stories of Azdak and Grusha. "That what there is shall belong to those who are good for it, thus the children to the maternal, that they thrive; the carriages to good drivers, that they are driven ...
- 2387: The Caucasian Chalk Circle
- ... contrasts with dramatic plays where the audience sympathises and relates to the characters of the play. The theme throughout the play is natural justice versus class justice. The title has links to other parables and stories before it. The Chalk Circle, a Chinese play involved a legal action where the false claimant was granted custody due a bribe to claim her dead husbands estate. This however was overturned by the emperor ... the child, contrasting to Natasha Abashvilla's intent to get the child only to keep her late husband's estate. The singer sums up the meaning of the entire play, linking the prologue with the stories of Azdak and Grusha. "That what there is shall belong to those who are good for it,thus the children to the maternal, that they thrive; the carriages to good drivers, that they are driven ...
- 2388: The Cat In The Rain
- The Cat in The Rain In the short story the "The Cat in the Rain" by Ernest Hemingway, the cat is a symbol around which the story revolves. As a central symbol, the cat reveals the psychological state and emotional desires of the ... He leaves her drowning in a storm of indifference and lack of affection. When she goes back to the room she begins to look at herself in the mirror studying her profile feeling unwomanly with short hair. She feels this causes the lack of physical and emotional attention from her husband. When she tells him of all the things she desires, he merely tells her to "shut up." He really doesn ...
- 2389: The Cask Of Amontillado: The Dangers Of Pride
- ... that they should return because his Fortunato's "health is precious" (1147). This bit of conversation is ironic because Montressor does not really want to protect Fortunato's health, but indeed to kill him. The short story, "The Cask of Amontillado," contains many accounts of symbolism. First of all, the black silk mask and "roquelaire" (1147), or cape, which Montressor puts on before entering the catacombs, represents the devil or death ... not be believed. Amontillado should have been a very, very hard to find wine, and even harder to find during the carnival season. The dangers of pride are addressed in "The Cask of Amontillado," a short story by Edgar Allen Poe. In this story, Poe uses the modalities of foreshadowing, irony, and symbolism to convey his message in a creative and original way. He reminds us that pride can lead us ...
- 2390: The Cask Of Amontillado
- ... sentence though ranges from four words (ll. 38) to thirty-three word (ll. 59-61). The thirty-three word sentence contains two commas, and a semicolon. In The Cask of Amontillado, Poe keeps most sentences short, mainly because of the dialogue, but the longer sentences are kept readable with breaks provided by the commas, and the semicolons. 8)Does the author tend toward loose(cumulative), periodic. or balanced sentences? Poe tends ... attention, then he picks up the pace. His sentences are not very long, and the description he provides are helpful for you to get even more wrapped up in the story. The dialogue provides extremely short sentences which picks up the rhythm to a furious pace to see what the other character is going to do or say next. The description of action by the characters is very vivid and descriptive ...
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