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- 10441: Thomos Hardy The Mayor Of Cast
- Thomas Harding does an admirable job narrating the, The Life and Death of The Mayor of Casterbridge, Mr. Henchard, as well as the various other characters that influenced the phases of Mr. Henchard s downfall to prosperity and than again to his self-inflicted destruction. As self-inflicted as King Saul s death in Samuel 1 in the Bible. The narrative of King Saul s life follow comparable steps as Mr. Henchard s. In both narratives both men engage in a trusted consanguinity with another man who were existent for the majority of the protagonists chronicle. In Thomas Hardy ...
- 10442: Catcher In The Rye 5
- ... he was very knowing of these habits. Holden used the term 'phonies' to describe more than a few people in this book. He used the term to be what a person is if they don't act naturally and follow other people's manners and grace. Holden didn't like phonies, he thought of them as if they were trying to show off. He didn't like it when they showed off because it seemed so fake and unnatural every time they would ...
- 10443: Macbeth: Supernatural Influences
- Macbeth: Supernatural Influences Throughout William Shakespeare’s play ,Macbeth, the supernatural is used copious times to make a detrimental impact on the characters and the circumstances surrounding the tragedy. All the paranormal transpiration’s emanate from the witches and diverge out causing the eradication of numerous innocent people as well as the principal character Macbeth. By delving into the realms of supernatural occurrences Shakespeare is able to portray various ... the captain ill. “I’ll give thee a wind” and “drain him dry as hay sleep shall neither night nor day.”(I,iii,12). This spell is cast due to the fact that the captain’s wife would not give the witch a chestnut. Another hag is bragging about a thumb she has acquired “Here I have a pilot’s thumb”(I,iii,29). These are the first actions that ...
- 10444: The Hobbit: Bilbo's Journey
- The Hobbit: Bilbo's Journey Before Bilbo Baggins meets Thorin, he was a tiny and modest creature living as an ordinary hobbit, in his average hobbit hole. Thorin, who plays the role of a guardian angel in this story ... himself telling riddles in pitch darkness for his freedom. Now you may ask why was he telling riddles? Well, Gollum loves riddles, and he promises Bilbo, that if he tells a riddle that Gollum can't answer, then he will show him the way out. So they go back and forth telling each other different riddles, many of which are really hard to figure out: 1. Thirty white horses on a ... Said the first eye, "But in a low place, Not in a high place." They do this until one riddle stumps Gollum, Bilbo outwits this notorious creature with his keen sense of intellect. However, Bilbo's confrontation with Gollum is not over. Gollum goes back on his word and decides that he will not show Bilbo the way out of the mountain. He attacks, and misses, and Bilbo runs into ...
- 10445: A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
- ... bold, insecure yet proud, lonely and at the same time afraid of love. One Stephen is a romantic who daydreams of swashbuckling heroes and virginal heroines. The other is a realist at home on Dublin's most sordid streets. One Stephen is too shy to kiss the young lady he yearns for. The other readily turns to prostitutes to satisfy his sexual urges. One is a timid outsider bullied by his ... and question authority. One devoutly hopes to become a priest. The other cynically rejects religion. Stephen loves his mother, yet eventually hurts her by rejecting her Catholic faith. Taught to revere his father, he can't help but see that Simon Dedalus is a drunken failure. Unhappy as a perpetual outsider, he lacks the warmth to engage in true friendship. "Have you never loved anyone?" his fellow student, Cranly, asks him. "I tried to love God," Stephen replies. "It seems now I failed." The force that eventually unites these contradictory Stephens is his overwhelming desire to become an artist, to create. At the novel's opening we see him as an infant artist who sings "his song." Eventually we'll see him expand that song into poetry and theories of art. At the book's end he has made ...
- 10446: Personal Writing: "Lost in the Mess"
- Personal Writing: "Lost in the Mess" "I can't find my pink Guess jacket!" Sure as the day lasts for twenty-four long hours, I knew that it couldn't possibly be in my room, or could it be? The last time I saw it, it hung on a white hanger, closest to the left wall of my closet. It couldn't just vanish into thin air, so I whined and whimpered then shouted with frustration. Escaping my mind, the fact that my clothes hung from the chair, draped across the AB Roller, and idled extremely ...
- 10447: Macbeth: Influencial People
- ... life there are many people who influence our lives, some influence us to try to get us to do bad things and others who influence us to do good things. Throughout the course of Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, there are several people who influence him to murder King Duncan and help lead him to his downfall. The first people to influence him are the three witches. I think the witches play ... 60) I think she is trying to give him confidence, telling him to be calm and everything will go just fine. Another reason I think she influences him is when she says,” What beast was’t, then, that made you break this enterprise to me?… And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this.” What she says is that she would kill and infant child before she broke her word to Macbeth yet he doesn’t seem to care about breaking a promise that he made to her. She is trying to make him feel guilty about breaking his promise to her. The third person who influences Macbeth to commit ...
- 10448: Governmental Flaw ( Gullivers
- GOVERNMENT S FLAW The government is one of the most highly criticized things in the world. From feudalism to democratic governments, there is always something to make fun of or talk about from how fat the president ... how unfair the government taxes the people. Jonathan Swift takes the flaws of politics, from his era, and magnifies them into governmental insults as well as an eye opener to the common man. Thus, Gulliver's Travels breaks up the flaws of the English government to form the governments of the Liliput, Brobdinag, and the Houhynms. Liliput tries to show itself as a well-cultured society but, the narrow-minded people ... island to practice what they believe. The Liliputians, like England of the time, feels that their way is the best and that they must have total control to keep harmony. This is paralleled with England's efforts to keep Ireland and Scotland under their control by militaristic action. As the Liliputians try to force Gulliver into destroying the Big-enders, he protests to the Emperor I will never be an ...
- 10449: The Queen Of Spades, Pushkin
- Russians hold Pushkin in such high esteem that his place in Russian literature can reasonably be compared to that of Shakespeare in the literatures of the English language. Pushkin's literary genius seems to have been almost limitless: in addition to the long narrative and short lyric poems for which he is most famous, he also wrote short stories, stage plays and literary criticism. His letters are among the best in European literature. Many literary historians believe that the legend which suggests the composer Salieri may have murdered Mozart can be traced back to Pushkin's play MOZART AND SALIERI. (It is worth noting here that the great nineteenth-century Russian composer, Rimsky-Korsakov, wrote a successful opera based on the play in 1898; and both the play and the opera would later inspire the British playwright Peter Shaffer in writing AMADEUS). Pushkin's short stories--such as "The Queen of Spades," upon which Tchaikovsky based his great opera "Pique Dame"--are the first great works of prose fiction in Russian to stand the test of time unshakably. ...
- 10450: The Tempest. An Imperialist Heaven or Hell?
- ... throughout the world by colonizing other cultures. Great Britain was reaching for new heights of power. In the play Shakespeare questions the value of this new concept of British imperialism. The Tempest is called Shakespeare's American play, because he calls into question England's right to colonize other nations, much as American colonists did with America 200 years later. The Tempest was Shakespeare's last play. For his entire life he had written plays to please the Queen. For this play it appears he made a controversial statement by challenging the values of his Queen and his country. ...
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