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Fate In Macbeth
<view this essay>.... superior, Hecate, obviously thinks that it was important enough to discipline the weird sisters verbally for abusing it. To the weird sisters, fate, and for that matter it seems, time, is merely as water and bread are to Macbeth: they exist and can be altered. This view of fate is not as ambivalent as the other view, but is more a view along the lines of Thomas Aquinas or Kurt Vonnegut. According to Aquinas, time is something that you both exist in and are affected by or you not. One is either subject to the limitations of time or one is not. For instance, God is outside the normal limitations of time and is therefore immortal. In Macbeth, it seems, the wi .....
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The Truth Is Out There, Do We
<view this essay>.... few, the artists, musicians, orators, and other cultured people, he knew nothing of the dark depths of the human heart. When confronted with those horrible realities, he was forced to learn the "black" truth about life and people. His mind couldn’t comprehend the truths he had to accept; it was totally contradicting to what he knew, and so he crumbled, selling his soul to sit among demons and devils. He was hollow inside, had no sense of moral or social responsibility, and the black truth he discovered ate away and destroyed him. He regressed to savage behaviors he had previously repressed and let the darkness fill the cold void within him. Because he knew .....
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Heart Of Darkness: Themes In Garden Of Evil And Heart Of Darkness
<view this essay>.... to do that he has not done yet maybe
to prove himself.
2. Heart of Darkness is a very good example of a Quest story.
Marlowe is risking life and limb inorder to fufill his adventure of meeting
the infamous Mr.Kurtz. Along Marlowe's journey he meets bands of cannibles
that are ever posing a threat to his life. At the end of Heart of Darkness
the story becomes a Quest of the self. Marlowe is searching deep within
himself to comprehend what he is seeing with Mr.Kurtz and within himself he
has to conquor the evil that could take him over. It is a Quest for Marlowe
to search for his self being.
Independent Novel Study-Style
1. Irony-Occurs when a set o .....
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The Glass Menagerie: Struggle To Fit Into Society
<view this essay>.... were he worked, because is the warehouse
really a place for someone like him and his mind rebelled. Lastly you can see
how society forced them to change and Laura to lose her status in order to fit
in with Jim and that's shown by the horn breaking. Tom then realizes that and
leaves which causes him to change too. Tennessee Williams artfully depicted this.
The fire escape. A downtrodden red thing off the sides of buildings showing
societies ineffectual escape from itself. In this case it served as a passageway
between the real world and the dream one that Laura and Tom were living in at
home. Both somehow stumbled both physically and mentally. When .....
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Bless Me, Ultima: Conflicting Lifestyles
<view this essay>.... very different backgrounds, and raised him based upon their cultures.
Though the Marez background influences Tony, the Luna background made a
much more profound impression on him, leading Tony into Ultima's world of
spiritual exploration and healing.
Gabriel Marez, Tony's father was raised in a very nontraditional
lifestyle. His family lineage came from the plains. His family was
restless and nomadic, and inclined to be rootless and adventurous. They
lived off the land. The family led a simple life, and believed that by
worshipping the land it would provide for them. To be happy and prosperous
one did not need the comfort of towns or advantages of .....
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Pudd’nhead Wilson
<view this essay>.... he tries to photograph a court scene with his pen; and so I was not willing to let the law chapters in this book go to press without first subjecting them to rigid and exhausting revision and correction by a trained barrister.” He did not want to look like a fool when he wrote these chapters. He wanted to make sure he, and the readers, were talking about.
takes place during 1830, in a little town called Dawson’s Landing. Dave Wilson was a new citizen. He had a law degree, but when he moved in he ruined his reputation by saying, “I wish I owned half of that dog, because I would kill my half”. Every one called him instead of Dave Wilson. His career, as a la .....
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Beowulf
<view this essay>.... These tales also had another purpose, which was to remind the people of the evils that were around them. Lurking in the shadows, waiting to claim another victim in the war of good and evil. Such stories fed on the fears of the people and the uncertainty of the world around them. Although the stories themselves may differ considerably from region to region, the basic underlying theme has always been identical. With the coming into being of written word, these stories could now be put down for people to read and serve as a reminder of their folklore. Not only to them, but to future people who come to read these documents. We have been lucky in the fact tha .....
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Scarlet Letter - Pearl
<view this essay>.... hatred between her and the other Puritan children. Thus we see how Pearl is conceived through sin, and how she suffers when her mother and the community situate this deed upon her like the scarlet letter on her mother's bosom. Pearl is thought of being an evil child with demon like qualities, yet she is spirited and very loving towards her mother.
Hester Prynn constantly questions Pearl's existence and purpose asking God, "what is this being which I have brought into the world, evil?" or inquiring to Pearl, "Child, what art thou?" Hester sees Pearl as a reminder of her sin, especially since as an infant Pearl is acutely aware of the scarlet letter A on her .....
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