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A Streetcar Named Desire - Sym
<view this essay>.... Blanche to move. Her appearance in the first scene "suggests a moth" (Williams 96). In literature a moth represents the soul. So it is possible to see her entire voyage as the journey of her soul (Quirino 63). Later in the same scene she describes her voyage: "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields" (Quirino 63). Taken literally this does not seam to add much to the story. However, if one investigate Blanches past one can truly understand what this quotation symbolizes. Blanche left her home to join her sister, because her life was a miserable wreck in her .....
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The Scarlet Letter: The Scaffold's Power
<view this essay>.... a platform to the same height as Hester
and Pearl; and Roger Chillingworth, Hester's lost husband, arrives, stands below
and questions the proceedings. As Hester endures her suffering, Dimmesdale is
told to beseech the woman to confess. It was said "So powerful seemed the
ministers appeal that the people could not believe but that Hester Prynne would
speak out the guilty name." His powerful speech shows Dimmesdale's need to
confess. This scene sets the stage for the next two scenes.
A few years later the event is again repeated. It is very similar to the
other and helps us understand the torment of Dimmesdale. As before the
tortured Reverend Dimmesd .....
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Cruciable Essay
<view this essay>.... today in the sense that some of us can block out other comments aimed towards us. We can also play sick to weasel out of going to school or other sorts. After this basic lying from the girls things can only get worse and worse from here on. The next event that is a big lie but does not kill anyone is John Proctor lying about his love to Abigail Williams by having an affair and not loving her. He lied to her because he led her to believe that their entourage meant something between the two but in reality it didn't. Because of this incident a whole chain of events happened while they could have been avoided by just no lying at this time. The final BIG lie is wi .....
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The Awakening: Edna
<view this essay>.... social conventions of the time. She spends more time on her art. She goes
to races and parties all the time. All of this doesn't seem to help her
maintain happiness all the time.
There were days when she was very happy without knowing why. She was
happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the
sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern
day. There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why, when it did
not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be dead or alive; when life
appeared to her like a grotesque
Pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward i .....
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A Review On Durable Goods By Elizabeth Berg
<view this essay>.... of all
ages. Her work is considered fictional, yet the reader is left awe of how
real her images become as the stories progress. One thing her writing has
taught me is never to sit down with one of her novels and expect to walk
away unaffected. The wonderful messages in her writings will find a place
in your soul, and stay there, as so elequently stated by critic,
Christopher Tilghman.
Katie is the narrator of the story. About twelve years old, Katie
is waiting for puberty to hit, waiting for prince charming, waiting for her
father to come to his senses. Her father is a highly ranked and respected
serviceman who moves his family to a Texas army base af .....
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Great Gatsby
<view this essay>.... of ³Winter Dreams² to him. Gatsbyıs silk shirts being tossed over his head out of his dresser is a good example of how his money means nothing to him and how he would give it all away to have Daisy. Also his eccentric cars were the center of attention because of their high price and extreme beauty. All of these examples of prosperity represent the lives of the people of this novel to a point. Together, the citizens of this book are more concerned with their possessions and money, than their health and lives. Subsequently, the people at his parties show careless recklessness with their abuse of alcohol and their bodies. First of all, the people at Gatsbyıs .....
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Jane Eyre: Jane's Love For Rochester
<view this essay>.... meets St. John,
a man who she does find good looking, but doesn't like his personality.
From here she returns to Thornfield where she marries Rochester. If Jane
had gone through her life looking for beauty instead of someone who shared
a mental similarity with her, she never would of found happiness.
Jane is attracted to Rochester, even though she does not find him
to be handsome. "...it was not easy to give an impromptu answer to a
question about appearances; that tastes mostly differ; and that beauty is
of little consequence..." After answering no to Rochester's question of
whether or not he was handsome, she goes on to tell him that appearances
mean littl .....
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Moll Flanders
<view this essay>.... husbands died. Which is why had to resort to a life of crime after she no longer looked good enough to make a living as a whore. This all, eventually, led to her imprisonment and trip to America to live happily with her husband.
chose her life as a prostitute. She states on page 138:
"Well, let her life have been the way it would then,
it was certain that my life was very uneasy to me; for
I liv'd, as I have said, but in the worst sort of whoredom,
and as I cou'd expect no Good of it, so really no good issue
came and all my seeming prosperity wore off and ended in misery
and destruction;..."
Whenever Moll would have kids she .....
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