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- 2421: Ethan Frome
- ... to tell Zeena his true feelings, not only about his life and marriage, but about Mattie. In fact, he pretends to worry about Zeena's reputation in order to conceal his defense of Mattie. In short, Ethan does not fully let go of his fear and submissiveness, but his very attempt signals development. Suddenly and unpredictably, Ethan comes to his senses and recognizes how Zeena oppresses him. Ethan knows that when ... he never learned how to express love. Now, he can share the depths of his feelings and declare his love openly. For once, Ethan sings his passion without the restraint of guilt or fear. In short, trapped in a loveless marriage to an uncongenial spouse, Ethan achieves his sweetheart by sloughing off his shyness and building the strength to communicate his feelings. On the whole, does Ethan Frome ever set himself ...
- 2422: Edward II - To What Extent Is Edward Responsible For His Own
- ... and intricate, but I believe can be divided into three basic categories, Edwards relationship with those around him, his personality and the advantage to others such as Mortimer attained because of Edwards’s downfall. However short-lived they may have been. As I have described briefly above, and in keeping with Aristotle’s definition of tragedy, certain flaws in Edwards Character were major contributors to the king’s downfall. A point ... so am I forever miserable.’ Eventually though Isabella, mentally, can’t take it anymore and so falls into the open arms of Mortimer from the closed heart of Edward II. Her love in a very short period of time goes from being immense to being non-existent. She becomes manipulative and two faced, demonstrated by her making it clear she wants him executed but sending him tokens of her love and ...
- 2423: Dubliners
- ... 1914 right at the onset of World War I breaking out in Europe. It is a journey through the stages of life itself: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, public life and finally death. Each one of the stories in the novel fall into one of these stages. "After the Race" falls into the adolescence aspect of the book. It does this because the characters have not yet grown up. Although they are adults ... a cloud was settling over them. This cloud was entrapment. Most of the story is about how the characters struggled to keep their freedoms over the entrapments. It also touches upon other characters from other stories by paralleling Jimmy to Eveline. "After the Race" is a story in which the ideas of freedom and entrapment are tested and joined as one to prove the overall archetype in Dubliners of paralysis and ...
- 2424: Dawn
- ... by choice. Jews fighting the group of people who helped save them during the war. Held in prison camp during the war. Parents died in camps. Stranger comes to door and walks right in. Both stories have Jews fighting for freedom. Chapter 3 The narrator believes that he has killed before in raids on camps and convoys but he did not feel bad about planning the raids. They were at night ... ate with good appetite. Dawn is at 5 o'clock and it is now 4 o'clock. Gad handed the narrator a revolver. The narrator asked if the prisoner had laughed. Gad replied "no" The stories that the prisoner told were funny but Gad said that he did not laugh. The narrator feels that David, the prisoner of the English, will come to the rescue. The narrator wants to go down ...
- 2425: Daddy, Vampires, And Dark Hearts
- ... year, seven years if you want to know" describe her husband and the ability of male power to strip a person of their own sense of themselves. The poem is written in stanzas of five short lines. These lines remind me of a Mike Tyson jab, short but extremely powerful. An example of this "If I've killed one man I've killed two-The vampire who said he was you". The powerful imagery of these lines overpowers any of the rhyme ...
- 2426: Crime And Punishment
- ... story "Akulka's Husband ," in which there is everything but regret on the side of the killer, faith in God is the only path to sanity. Dostoevsky was a young man when he heard these stories. How could he live otherwise, if he really actively loved people, but take the belief in God as a necessity? The belief that the idea of God should be there because otherwise everything would be ... go further than that. Works Cited: Frank, Joseph. Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal 1850-1859. Princeton University Press. NJ, 1983. Frank, Joseph. Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years 1865-1871. Princeton University Press. NJ, 1983. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Stories. Tr. Andrei Goncharov. Progress Publisher Moscow. USSR, 1971. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. A Writer's Diary. Tr. Kenneth Lantz. Northwestern University Press. IL, 1993. Kabat, Geoffrey. Ideology and Imagination. Columbia University Press. NY, 1978. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The ...
- 2427: Canterbury Tales - In And Out
- ... flesh out their exploration of intrusion through other literary devices than plot twists. Chaucer also uses focused physical forrays into "the inner circle" in the text of his verse and in minor elements of his stories. These tangible interruptions fortify the technique of raising his comedy from inverted social situations. A slew of momentary, physical insertions arise throughout the Tales as reminders of the poetry’s plan. When Absolon rapes Nicholas ... searing poker in the Miller’s tale and when the university students have sex with all of the women in Symkin’s family in the Reeve’s Tale, Chaucer reminds his readers exactly what his stories describe with defined, actualized inner circle penetration. The rampant sex and rape found in The Canterbury Tales works harder than to simply supply a low comedy crowd-pleaser. Then, the poet further bolsters his argument ...
- 2428: Candide
- ... the amusing parts make it entertaining. According to Georges Ascoli, "Nothing could be more lively, more witty, or more instructive than this story...Too often Voltaire, delighted with his own artistic flair...gives us amusing stories...Let us take them for what they are, not giving too much historical credit...but tasting freely of the delights of well told stories" (Adams; Ascoli p.129). Ascoli takes Candide to be a witty and lively story despite the misfortune in the characters' lives. He, too, thinks the story was written for entertainment in which Voltaire did a ...
- 2429: Billy Budd
- ... Moreover, Melville compares the old Dansker to the oracle at Delphi, a kind of religious fortune-teller whom the ancient Greeks would consult for advise about the future. Like this oracle, the Dansker likes making short, cryptic pronouncements, and once he speaks, he refuses to explain what he’s said. Billy, for one, can’t understand half of his utterances, and what he understands he refuses to believe. You might get frustrated with him because, while he cares for Billy, he refuses to take a stand and speak up for him. In addition, after this short account of who the Dansker is, one can see vividly why he was named "Baby Budd." On a physical level Billy contrasted the Dansker quite vividly. On a deeper level, thought still easy to grasp ...
- 2430: Beowulf - Norse Mythology
- ... treasure: it was used to protect the people and gods against their enemies. The hammer was made of gold, and the only flaw was in the handle; it was slightly unfinished, and a bit too short. In the myth, the hammer was given to Thor by his enemy Loki. In a mischievous act, Loki had cut off the hair of Sif, Thor’s wife (Davidson 67). So to spare his own ... s hand. Still despising Thor, Loki tried to ruin the dwarf's work by stinging him in the eye. The dwarf was not able to finish the handle of the hammer, and it was left short. "In spite of this, (the shortened handle) it was declared by the gods to be the finest of all the treasures." (Davidson 67). Gods were always battling other gods and enemies; even from the creation ...
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