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- 20161: Wife Of Bath
- Wife Of Bath Feminism, or a doctrine advocating social, politcal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men, plays a large role in "The Wife of Bath's Prologue". Describing marriage as a misery, the Wife has been married five times. Only one of her husbands she married was because of true love. The reason why she has gone through so many husbands is because her ideal husband is one who permits her to do whatever she wants. Of course, in the 1990's and even back in the 1500's, that kind of spouse is hard to find. The Wife is a pragmatist, or one who is concerned with actual practice. She is a very sexually active person, although is said to be "gap- ...
- 20162: "Unsex Me Here" Macbeth Analysis
- ... cruelty; make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th’ effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature’s mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, ‘Hold ... the violence to come. The raven is also mentioned to be hoarse, this shows that its powers are impaired, and it is being silenced as to not attract attention to the horrors that come. Duncan’s entrace is said to be ‘fatal’ Shakespear used this as a play on words with a double meaning, not only would there be bloodshed, but King Duncan is to meet his fate. In the ...
- 20163: Taronga Vs Children Of The Dust
- ... other survivors from other families who have not been affected by the radioactive material. The focuses of the characters change in part two of the book. The story is then told from a different person’s view, which happened to be Catherine’s father taken to a government bunker. The novel explains of life in the bunker, and how new generations are bought up there. In part three of the novel, the characters change again. These characters are ... In contrast to that, in ‘Children of the Dust”, the humans, or rather more mutants, are described to be more inhumane characters, due to their physical features. Both Taronga and Children of the Dust don’t depict the future in a there are great technological advances, but as the breakdown of society. Breakdown of society is an important theme in both novels. Although it is included in children of the ...
- 20164: John Steinbeck: Realist And Naturalist
- ... being a writer of nateralism and realism. John Steinbeck was a model example of the realist and nateralist of his generation. He often wrote about the things that were going on in th late 20's and 30's, like most noteably the depression and his characters often dealt with the real life problems of the time. His characters often, illiterate and weak minded are essentially good people. when steinbeck's characters are esablished severly on the land , they are hared working and good hearted. when there agricultural activities are disrupted, as when the joads are driven from oklahoma in The Grapes of Wrath, or ...
- 20165: Handmaids Tale Loss Of Identit
- Offred s Lost of Identity The main character of this book is Offred, one of the faceless many of the new Republic of Gilead. Each day she is removed farther and farther from her true self, to ... three years prior that she had the freedom to do so. She even admits to herself that she has been erased from the memory of her daughter, and that to her little girl she doesn t even exist anymore. To protect herself in her new world, she is forced to hide beneath a submissive, obedient, and mindless mask, yet more and more each day, the mask becomes her real face. When ... yet known as Offred. Only after they relinquished her job, family, and past, and she no longer had much of an identity left, did they finally remove her name. With a name comes a person s identity, and even though everything else has been taken away from them, a person always has the well being of their individuality. However, with the removal of her name and the placement of one ...
- 20166: The Island of Dr. Moreau
- ... fundamental law of the jungle: survival of the fittest. The first illustration is a drawing of Doctor Moreau explaining his status on the island to Prendick. Prendick has been finding out things that he shouldn't have been knowing, and he demands answers. He gets his answers from Dr. Moreau but he hears things that are unimaginable. Moreau explains how he mutates humans into beast-like animals. For the rest of Prendick's stay on the island he maintains an uneasy feeling and he wishes he never arrived on this island. The Next sketch illustrates the beasts new thirst for blood, which is a major turning point for the story. Roaming free, these beast-people are highly intelligent with murderous instincts. Their thirst for blood is pacified through a combination of sedatives and shock discipline. But events triggered by Prendick's unexpected arrival are about to break Moreau's God- like domination over these resentful creatures. The last drawing in my visual essay symbolizes a catastrophe. This was a point in the novel were all ...
- 20167: Heart Of Darkness 12
- ... read this story once before when I was a freshman at a branch campus of Penn State called Behrend. I read it for a literature class dealing with short stories and their analyzation. I didn t really like the story back then, and it really hasn t moved-up any spots on my list of favorites. Although I really didn t care for the story, I did notice quite a bit of symbolism throughout the book. Conrad seemed to use black and white as his main source of color symbolism. Just as in the old ...
- 20168: Herrick Vs. Marvell
- Herrick vs. Marvell To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Rober Herrick and Andrew Marvell s To His Coy Mistress have many similarities and differences. The tone of the speakers, the audience each poem is directed to, and the theme make up some of the literary elements that help fit this description. The tone of To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time and To His Coy Mistress are different. In Herrick s poem, his tone is relaxed. For instance when he writes, Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, /Old times is still a-flying, his word choice has a very relaxed and casual tone. His attitude reflects the relaxed tone in his poem. In Marvell s poem, his tone is serious. Marvell s purpose is to persuade his mistress to have sex with him. He tries to lure her in when saying, Had we but World enough, and Time. He ...
- 20169: Iliad 2 -
- ... kidnapped Helen for his own selfish interests. Homer uses the contradictions in Paris behavior to suggest the ironic contrasts in his character. For example, in line 40, after seeing his formidable opponent Atrides, he dissolve[s] again in the proud Trojan lines, dreading Atrides magnificent, brave Paris. At first glance, he appears very afraid, hardly the hero he is supposed to be. He dissolves, as Homer describes it, a verb choice which implies fragmentation of attitude or feeling. It is as if his famed hero s will were itself disintegrating on the battlefield. Homer uses the epithet proud to modify the Trojan lines, an adjective that intensifies the effect of Paris action of retreating by mentioning its opposite. Homer further reviles ... deceiving, as Hector implies when he says, Paris, appalling Paris! Our prince of beauty--/mad for women, you lure them all to ruin! In this quote, Hector is highlighting Paris ability to ruin virtually everyone s future. After all, Hector s comment suggests, he is not only an unrepentant heartbreaker, but also a self-centered catalyst for the war. Hector specifically describes Paris as appalling and, in another ironic twist, ...
- 20170: Jane Eyre 7
- ... characteristics of the two men, who propose to Jane, conjure and symbolize the themes in Jane Eyre. Although, Rochester and St. John offer Jane entirely different relationships both men are noticeably selfish and disregard Jane s feelings to some degree. Both men are strong-willed, powerful, and stubborn about their ways of thinking and living. This is especially seen in St. John as Jane describes her cousin as being as stiff ... his Sovereign service. But Jane must refuse him too because of her strong belief in that there must be love between two people for them to unite in marriage. St. John does not understand Jane s passionate nature, for him passion is an earthly emotion which must be put aside so that God can be served. He, himself, sacrifices his love for Rosamond Oliver because he thinks she would not make a good missionary s wife whereas Jane would but he does not truly love her. St. John uses his own ways to try to manipulate Jane but he does also try to use her affection towards him to ...
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