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- 5561: Two Characters Add Mystery In
- ... provides mystery to the community of habitants of the island. The island throughout the play adds mystery to the lives of Miranda, and the people of Naples. Through Miranda lack of knowledge of the real world and the magical inspiration of Prospero, both Miranda and those of Naples find mysterious aspects in this island which they are on. Prospero living on the island for twelve years with his daughter, Miranda, and ... gift from this island which she has spent twelve years. The island indirectly add mystery to Miranda in what life outside of the island would be like. In talking to Ferdinand he speaks of this world outside of the Island which is foreign to Miranda and in speaking of other woman Miranda with a sense of curiosity says " I do not know/ One of my sex; no woman's face remember ... may call men than you, good friend,/ And my dear father; how features are abroad,/ I am skilless of; but, my modesty,/ The jewel in my dower, I would not wish/ Any companion in the world but you;/ Nor can imagination form a shape,/ Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle/ Something too wildly, and my father's precepts/ I therein do forget."(III, I, l48-59). In spending ...
- 5562: Holdens Lonliness And His Inab
- ... say or he knows what to say but cannot properly mold his thoughts in to words. Either way this inability to communicate effectively is a major factor in his inability to cope with the adult world and often led him into all sorts of troubles. In his encounter with Maurice; Holden's lack of knowledge of what to say and when to say it got him a smacking from the pimp ... asked others to drink and paid the bill himself. This shows not only his irresponsibility but also is carelessness, which is one of the reasons of his troubles. Holden's inability to relate to the world is also evident in his lack of commitment towards relationships. This habit makes him a loner; he is desperate to talk to any one but cannot commit himself to an intelligent and meaningful conversation. The ... himself from succeeding in communicating with other people. When it comes to friends we see that Holden is a hopeless grumbler who always keeps an eye on other peoples weaknesses. He lives in a fantasy world where everyone is perfect and when he sees a fault in any one, he keeps that in mind and thinks of that person as a 'phony'. For this reason he could not get along ...
- 5563: Risen From The Ashes Of Earthl
- ... Perhaps one of the things that makes the poem so popular still is that almost everyone can relate to the way Dante feels about Beatrice. Beatrice, to Dante, symbolizes everything that is right in the world; all the good and hope and wonder that exists. He places her upon a pedestal of glass and hopes to God that it will not shatter. In order to fully understand Dante's poetic conversion ... his object of adulation was taken away from him. Taken together, these events could do nothing but change Dante in some way. Dante found that he had less and less to live for in this world, thus he began to turn his eyes to what lay beyond this life. The Divine Comedy is much more than just an homage to Beatrice or a physical description of hell; it is his confession ... both The Consolation of Philosophy and Convivo. Just as the Phoenix dies in its own fire and rises up from its ashes, so did the poetics of Dante Alighieri. Dante was a shaped by the world around him, just as well all are. His response to his environment and events that took place directly affected his view of the world, and hence his style of poetry. Knowing both the history ...
- 5564: Billy Budd
- ... believe that through this book, Melville is telling us that we need to strike some kind of balance between these two ideas; we need to have morality and virtue; we need to be in the world, but not of the world. To illustrate his theme, Melville uses a few characters who are all very different, the most important of which is Billy Budd. Billy is the focal point of the book and the single person whom ... who are truly ready and without regret, as Billy was. The question, then, is presented. Innocence or wisdom? Which philosophy, which way of life is more correct? Claggart, who represents the natural evil in the world, serves as the opposition and corruption which we face everyday. He is the obstacle that Billy must deal with, and the way in which he confronts that obstacle determines which of these answers is ...
- 5565: Creative Writing: Hackers Manifesto
- ... s technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world... Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me... Damn underachiever. They're all alike. I'm in junior high or high school. I ... m a smart ass... Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here... Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike. And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is ...
- 5566: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Jesus Christ and McMurphy
- ... for himself; his attack was driven by the force of the patients' need for freedom, as well as his sentimental feelings for them. He had known for quite a while that he was waging a war against an invincible enemy. Chief Bromden tells how McMurphy began looking "the way Papa finally did when he came to realise that he couldn't beat"(Kesey pg. 150) society, the Combine, or society's figurehead in the asylum, the Big Nurse. McMurphy gave up his war for a short while upon the same realisation, he realised he was committed, but began the war anew with a renewed fervour. His motives for his actions had changed from those of the Western hero, a "hatred of authority," "a lust for life,"(Waldmeir) and self-interest, to those of Christ, ...
- 5567: The Masque Of The Red Death: An In Depth Review Of The Image
- ... in Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories. Poe’s most famous works are morbid tales or terror, madness, death and decay (Vora). Poe captures the reader’s imagination and proceeds to lead them into a world of the gothic and the grotesque. A perfect example of this type of imagery can be found in his short story “The Masque of the Red Death,” first published in 1843. The masked ball becomes ... masque. He and his guest cannot escape death, which the reader then uses to derive the story’s theme. This foreshadowing and other elements of Poe’s work gives the reader a look into the world of the grotesque. “The distortion of all ingredients; the fusion of different realms; the coexistence of beauty, bizzare, ghastly, and repulsive elements; the merger of the parts into a turbulent whole; the withdrawal into a phantasmagoric and nocturnal world- all these features have here entered into the concept of the word grotesque” (Kayser 389). Poe’s use of the grotesque imagery in “The Masque of the Red Death” guides the reader’s imagination ...
- 5568: Brazil Context
- Brazil: Geography Brazil occupies almost one-half of the entire South America continent, and is the fifth largest country in the world. It borders all Latin American countries except Chile and Ecuador. The 9,170km coastline and the 50,000km navigable inland waterways provide great potentials for water transportation which has not been well developed. Brazil is ... for public housing, health care, schools, and infrastructure. Other major social problems include violent crime and corruption. Resources Brazil is rich in natural resources. It has some of the largest iron ore deposits in the world and is now one of the biggest gold producers. Other metals and minerals are also mined on an increasing scale.(See Table 2) The extensive river system provides great hydroelectric potential, as evident in the ... Silva(Lula), leader of the Workers Party(PT) was the second runner-up in the two most recent presidential elections. His socialist philosophy stresses social justice, restraints on market capitalism, limits to integration with the world economy, debt relief, and a larger state role. He represents the left wing of the Brazilian politics which is growing in importance. Meanwhile, pressed by the public outcry for better public services, President Cardoso ...
- 5569: Never Ending Story
- ... s Endless Realm of Stories “Moo-oo-oon Child!” (Ende 225) Screams Bastian. His hopes of this endless story to rid its endless entity has nothing but created a nightmare in his and Atreyu’s world. From the Gnomics project of the mammoth-like Sphinxes to the rescue of the Child-like Empress to the Water of Life, Atreyu and Bastian are two separate characters who are parted by two different ... celebration of unity in which it is proven by Atreyu and Bastian who set the stage and begins what has to be begun. Bastian plays the role of a heroic human being in a human world reading nothing but a book called The Neverending Story while Atreyu characterizes an immortal hero living out struggles inside the book. Their separate worlds are furnished together to bring a united conclusion, but with the ... is evident in the Neverending story. Atreyu is called upon to fulfil an adventure with a goal to find the child-like Empress a cure for her supposed sickness. He is separated from society (civilized world) as soon as he enters the Swamp of Sadness and the setting remains gloomy in the duration of his frightening journey. As the monomyth cycles states, Atreyu encounters many tests of strength, courage, and ...
- 5570: Immigrants 2
- In 1886 the statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World," a gift from the people of France, was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland. Set at the entrance to New York, the statue was just in time to greet the biggest migration in global history. The inscription on the Statue of Liberty, written by Emma Lazarus in 1883, invites the rest of the world to “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the ... political unrest in their homelands, immigrants journeyed to the United States in search of freedom and opportunity. The immigrants came partly because Europe seemed to be running out of room. The population of the Old World more than doubled in the nineteenth century, and Europe began to generate a seething pool of apparently "Surplus" people. They were displaced and footloose in their homelands before they felt the tug of the ...
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