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- 17761: King Lear -
- Why bastard wherefore base?" asks Edmund. The bitter illegitimate son resents his father and brother. He is determined to "prosper" and "grow." Ruthlessly, he plays on old Gloucester's weakness and persuades him that Edgar seeks his death to obtain his inheritance. Edgar, being told that Gloucester seeks his life for some reason, flees. With Edgar thus removed, Edmund now seeks to destroy his father and reports his alleged "treason" to Cornwall who removes the old man's eyes. The bastard has travelled far and is now Earl of Gloucester. Sought in love by both Goneril and Regan, victorious in battle over Cordelia's forces, Edmund's future seems assured. Alas, the discovery of Goneril's letter urging Edmund to kill her husband Albany leads to his arrest. Edgar in disguise fights Edmund, who is defending his honour ...
- 17762: The Call of the Wild: Effect of the Environment
- ... on ones reactions. The main character is a dog named Buck who changes through the course of the novel in reaction to his environment. The harshness of the climate and the weather contribute to Buck’s transformation. Buck also responds to the treatment that he receives from his many masters. When looking at this creature’s character at the beginning of the novel and comparing it to his character at the end of the novel, it is easy to see that every environment Buck experienced affected him. After being kidnapped from ... slave endures freezing temperatures. Buck learns how to deal with the unbearable conditions by watching the other dogs and imitating them. This lesson proves to be very helpful to Buck in the future. Because Buck’s first home was in Southern California, he was never exposed to snow. Buck’s body became accustomed to the harsh snow and he toughened and learned how to use it for his advantage. For ...
- 17763: Men's Basketball
- Men's Basketball Basketball is a sport that has been around for a long time. Although baseball is the American sport, basketball is a worldly sport. It is played all over the world. Some of the greatest ... college few make it to the American and National leauges. Some even find playing in Europe satisfys their love for playing basketball. Mens Basketball has always defined the way basketball was played. In the 1990's the NBA opened a concurrent leauge by initiating the WNBA. The first professional womans basketball leauge opened the door for girl athletes. It had always been the "boys" were more athletic, but now its becoming ...
- 17764: Song Of Solomon
- The Icarus Myth in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon Throughout literature it has been common for authors to use allusions to complement recurrent motifs in their work. In Toni Morrison's Song Of Solomon, Milkman learns that his desire to fly has been passed down to him from his ancestor Solomon. As Milkman is figuring out the puzzle of his ancestry, he realizes that when Solomon ... their twenty other children. Black lady fell down on the ground Come booba yalle, come booma tambee Threw her body all around Come konka yalle, come konka tambee...(303). This verse of the popular children's song which Milkman heard in Shalimar, Virginia, was referring to Ryna's sobbing, an event which also led to the naming of Ryna's Gulch where it is rumored that Ryna's spirit moaned ...
- 17765: Wuthering Heights
- ... an exception to this...while, ultimately, one Thrushcroff Grange attracts Catherine, and thusly leads her to stray from her true nature. It is difficult to separate the character from the author, noting that the author's childhood was basically isolated and gloomy, and Catherine herself, is a truly private individual. It is this sense of privacy, in my opinion, that supersedes any other factor throughout the story. To understand this sense of inwardness, one must explore the novel itself. The story begins in the early 1800's (c. 1801) and one Mr. Lockwood removed from the narrative. The novel begins to take shape, only after some degree of reading, when we realize what is happening at Wuthering Heights in conjunction with Thrushcroff ... and repeatedly visits. One particular night, he is snowed in and forced to stay much to the chagrin of Heathcliff. It is during this time that he encounters other members of the household including Heathcliff's daughter-in-law who is young and pretty, although her looks are scornful and hateful. When it is bedtime, Lockwood is shown to a bedroom which appeared to not have been used and observes ...
- 17766: Scarlet Letter- Hester Prynne
- ... The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. She is a character about whom much gas been written such as, Toward Hester Prynn, by David Reynolds, and The Scarlet A, Aboriginal and Awesome, by Kristin Herzog. Reynold's essay dealt with Hester as a heroine, who is an artistic combination of disparate female types. Herzog's essay dealt with the idea that Hester is both wild and passionate, as well as, caring, conservative, and alien. Towards Hester Prynne, by David Reynolds, expressed Hester as a heroine composed of many different stereotypes of females from the time period Hawthorne was writing. Hawthorne created some of the most skeptical and politically uncommitted characters in pre-civil war history. Reynolds went on to say, His [Hawthorne's] career illustrates the success of an especially responsive author in gathering together disparate female types and recombining them artistically so that they become crucial elements of the rhetorical and artistic construct of his fiction ( ...
- 17767: Virtues That Change Society In The Future
- ... the opportunity to be a doctor, lawyer, teacher, police officer, or even the President. Impressions are made upon children through their parents, teachers, and society. These important lessons play a major role in a child's personality and shape the fragile mind of a child. Children learn from their parents, and teachers the best way to be an integral part of society. If the list of thirteen virtues given by Ben ... as a whole would greatly benefit. How can a list of thirteen virtues change society in the future? After a brief overview of the list I was not impressed. Maybe these would apply to Franklin's day but not to the twentieth century. With a few subtractions and additions the list of virtues may be a helpful tool in any persons life. Temperance is first on the list and is the most important of the virtues. As Franklin states, some associate temperance with eating and drinking, but this was not Franklin's intention. "Temperance first, as it tends to procure that coolness and clearness of head, which is so necessary where constant vigilance was to be kept up, and guard maintained against the unremitting attraction of ...
- 17768: Julius Ceasar 2
- Caesar's Funeral Speeches - "Justification versus Manipulation" In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, one of the most important and significant orations are the funeral speeches given by both Brutus and Mark Antony. At first glance, the funeral speeches seem to have no true significant meaning. However ... we are able to focus on the key components which differentiate one from the other. Through this examination we are also able to comprehend why Brutus' speech becomes one of justification and explanation, while Antony's becomes one of manipulation and skill. In order to evaluate each of the speeches, we must first distinguish the general purpose each serves. It is known that both Brutus and Antony desired to appeal ...
- 17769: 1984 2
- ... trying to control our minds, as it says "thought crime does not entail death; thought crime is death." (page 27). Later in the novel the government tries even more drastic methods of control. Big Brother s predictions in the Times are changed. The government is lying about production figures (pages 35-37). Even later in the novel, Syme s name was left out on the Chess Committee list. He then essentially vanishes as though he had never truly existed (page 122). Though the methods and activities of the government seem rather extreme in Orwell s novel, they may not be entirely too false. "Nineteen Eighty-Four is to the disorders of the twentieth century what Leviathan was to those of the seventeenth." (Crick, 1980). In the novel, Winston Smith ...
- 17770: Interaction Between Gods and Mortals In Agamemnon
- ... the characters even though they do not appear in the play. Many of the characters in the play mention various gods’ names in order to survive or get something from them. Many of the character’s actions are influenced by the mere mental presence of them. They perform actions that will appease the gods and inflict the least amount of harm of themselves and their people. There are many different types ... is the gods, not his wife or anything else. He understands the problems he could run into if he does not appease the gods. This was not the only situation where Agamemnon chose someone else’s wishes over his families. He has also sacrificed his daughter in order to appease the gods and make sure that his people would not suffer. This also shows the power of the gods and how ... not walk on the tapestries that Clytaemestra had laid out for him. He says that he was only a mortal man, and could not walk on it without fear of upsetting the gods. While Agamemnon’s view of the gods is one of obedience and reverence, other characters in the play have different motivations for interacting with the gods. Clytaemestra worships the gods because she wants something from them. She ...
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