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The Awakening
<view this essay>.... woman, rather that she takes a little of each woman’s understanding of her being. The men mainly Robert and Leonce are also the contributors in the metamorphosis of Edna.
Adele Ratignolle is Edna's close friend and confidante, but the two women are nothing alike. Adele is the perfect housewife and mother; she is the epitome of what a Creole woman and mother ought to be. She lives her life for her children, always being sure that they are properly cared for, clothed, and educated. Unlike Adele whose life is fulfilled through loving and caring for her children, Edna is "fond of her children in an uneven, impulsive way" (Chopin, p. 18). They are not enough to jus .....
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Analysis Of "The Tell-Tale Heart": First Person Point Of View
<view this essay>.... example his words
are described in such vivid detail that you picture this scene perfectly.
Another example includes when Poe uses such phrases as, "It was open-wide,
wide open-and I grew furious as I gazed upon it" (63). The use of
repetition in first person point of view helps to stir some emotions of
the unknown. It creates the suspense of not knowing what will happen next.
By using first person point of view, Poe was able to show how the
narrator feels. An example of this is when the narrator uses the phrases
at the beginning to question his existence. The narrator wanted to know
if he was mad, or not. Phrases such as "I heard all things in the heav .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Symbolism In The Title, Names And Objects
<view this essay>.... familiar to me that I knocked on his door: ‘why ain’t you going to bed?’ Another example would be Dill. Dill added life to everyone around him like the spice dill. For instance he talked about being a clown that would laugh at other people “‘I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown,’ said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. ‘Yes sir, a clown,’ he said. ‘There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.’” Finally Jem’s name was used to symbolize his qualities. Jem was like the valuable stone. He was rough on the outside but inside was nice. Jem was not always mature to other pe .....
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Pericles Funeral Oration
<view this essay>.... ultimate act of p atriotism. In paragraph two he says, "I make the ancestors my opening theme, since it is right, it is appropriate here, to p ay them memory's tribute. They dwelt nowhere but here, passed this land down to us generation by generation, kept free by their valor(courage)." This shows you how much he respects his ancestors for what they have done.
I think that Pericles had in mind when he was writing his Eulogy is that he wanted to instill pride among the Athenians and not only to have respect for those who had died for Athens, but also to encourage them to want to fight for their country. As in paragraph two he says, "But what lay behind thos .....
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Milton's Paradise Lost: A Look Within
<view this essay>.... Most of the images in Paradise Lost, however, have a
substantial life of their own; they are properties rather than metaphors.
In the presentation of Satan, Milton is dealing with a special difficulty.
He is not presenting a human intelligence, but an angelic one-a being the
nature of which is almost impossible for the human mind to grasp. Milton
simplifies the matter by making spiritual intelligences more highly refined
versions of human intelligence. He is still left with one problem, that of
introducing a flaws in this refined beings. Because of these refined
intelligence, these creatures should incline solely to good.
"So farwel Hope, and wi .....
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More's Utopia And Huxley's Brave New World: Differing Societies
<view this essay>.... of love, religion, and the way to eliminate social classes. These
differences seem to suggest that if we do not come closer to More’s goal
in Utopia, we will end up in a society much like that of Huxley’s Brave New
World.
Thomas More’s Utopia, is a small island where there is no greed or
crime. The inhabitants of this island live as equals, no one does more
work than another person and everyone feels secure with their place in
society. By abolishing money and private property, More would rid society
of greed and social ambition. Most of all, he wants to curtail pride, the
evil he believes is at the root of all evils -- "the infernal serpent that .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Where The Blame Falls
<view this essay>.... the book, She removes the scarlet letter, and
throws it on the river bank. Hester receives her punishment for adultery.
Hester must stand up on the platform for three hours while the townspeople
participate in her punishment. She must wear the scarlet letter for the
rest of her life, no matter what she does to redeem herself. Hester, and
Pearl were not the same as the rest of the townspeople. No one ever talks
to her, and she was not allowed to make any clothing for the other Puritans
weddings. Pearl was picked upon by the other children often. Hester was
no longer accepted by the Puritans.
Dimmesdale has had as much punishment as Hester for their sin.
D .....
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Eliot's Views Of Sexuality As Revealed In The Behavior Of Prufrock And Sweeney
<view this essay>.... there will be time."
Prufrock is aware of his monotonous routines and is frustrated, "I
have measured out my life with coffee spoons":. He contemplates the
aimless pattern of his divided and solitary self. He is a lover, yet he is
unable to declare his love. Should a middle-aged man even think of making
a proposal of love? "Do I dare/Disturb the universe?" he asks.
Prufrock knows the women in the saloons "known them all" and he
presumes how they classify him and he feels he deserves the classification,
because he has put on a face other than his own. "To prepare a face to meet
the faces that you meet." He has always done what he was socially suppose .....
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