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Comparing And Contrasting Rouse And Hamilton's Books On Greek Mythology
<view this essay>.... said he was Hermes son. He was born in
Arcadia in Rouse's book, but born in Arcady in Hamilton's book. These may
be the same place, but they are spelled differently.
Athena was a great goddess of war according to both authors. She
was born from the head of Zeus. Zeus loved her very much. She taught the
people to do carving and handicrafts. Both said that she wore lots of
armor. She ruled Athens. She was a virgin and got the nickname Maiden.
Rouse that she had a mother named Metis. Hamilton said she had none.
Hamilton said she was the inventor of the bridle. Rouse said nothing about
that.
Meleagros was a fighting god who killed the wild boar in Cal .....
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Hamlet 6
<view this essay>.... King is telling Hamlet that death is only natural and that Hamlet's
father lost his father too. He is informing Hamlet that he is mourning
too much for his deceased father and he should try to get over it. Another
example of Hamlet's emotions getting the better of him can be seen when he
is reminiscing his father's death. Hamlet says, "...How stand I then,/That
have father killed, a mother stained,...2". He is asking himself what kind
of a person he is if he can allow his father to be murdered and his mother
to be married so soon after his father's death to his uncle. This shows us
that he is pitying himself and is putting himself down. Yet anot .....
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The Great Gatsby And The Hollo
<view this essay>.... The differences in these types of men can be seen through the events of the novel. Another aspect of the poem that represents the novel is the idea of the paralyzed force. This force symbolizes freedom and uniqueness. It also is captivating and serves as authority. So, the similarities between The Great Gatsby and “The Hollow Men” remarkably show the hollow and stuffed characteristic of the people in Gatsby’s secret society.
The first similarity between the two pieces of work is the hollowness in mankind referred to by the poem. In the novel there are two main characters that depict such hollowness. The antagonistic character of .....
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Othello
<view this essay>.... that Macbeth really is and the disguises he assumes to conceal the fact. In opinion, the reader thinks of the play honors as garments to be worn; likewise, Macbeth is constantly represented symbolically as the wearer of robes not belonging to him. He is wearing an undeserved dignity, which is a crucial point that Shakespeare has made. The description of the purpose of clothing in Macbeth is the fact that these garments are not his. Therefore, Macbeth is uncomfortable in them because he is continually conscious of the fact that they do not belong to him. In the following passage, the idea constantly recurs that Macbeth's new honors sit ill upon him, like loo .....
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Emily Dickinson
<view this essay>.... passed the School … / We passed the Setting Sun—," sets a slow, quiet,
calm, and dreamy atmosphere (5, 9, 11, 12). "One thing that impresses us," one author
wrote, "is the remarkable placidity, or composure, of its tone" (Greenberg 128). The tone
in Dickinson’s poem will put its readers’ ideas on a unifying track heading towards a
boggling atmosphere.
Dickinson’s masterpiece lives on complex ideas that are evoked through symbols, which
carry her readers through her poem. Besides the literal significance of —the "School,"
"Gazing Grain," "Setting Sun," and the "Ring"—much is gathered to complete the poem’s .....
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Heart Of Darkness
<view this essay>.... "The horror! The horror!" The horror in has been critiqued to represent different aspects of situations in the book. However, Kurtz's last words "The horror! The horror!" refer, to me, to magnify only three major aspects. The horror magnifies Kurtz not being able to restrain himself, the colonizers' greed, and Europe's darkness. Kurtz comes to the Congo with noble intentions. He thought that each ivory station should stand like a beacon light, offering a better way of life to the natives. He was considered to be a "universal genius": he was an orator, writer, poet, musician, artist, politician, ivory producer, and chief agent of the ivory company's Inner .....
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Macbeth - Lady Macbeth Is Worse Than Macbeth
<view this essay>.... the letter telling her about the witches' prophecies, she immediately thinks that she and Macbeth will have to kill king Duncan. She also decides that Macbeth is too nice to kill the king, sayin that he "is too ful o' the milk of human kindness" and when she hears the Duncan will visit their castle that night, she immediately appeals to the evil spirits, to (ironically) give her the strength to kill the king.
In Act 1, Scene 7, Macbeth is doubtfull of Lady Macbeth's plot to kill the king. He doesn't think that he will be able to live with the guilt of killing his king while he is staying under his very roof, and then decides that he will not kill .....
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Gerard Manley Hopkins Terrible
<view this essay>.... 86). These poems were written while Hopkins worked as a professor at University College, Dublin (Drabble 474). Hopkins' sonnets "No Worst, there is none" and " I wake and feel the fell of Dark, Not Day" show his mental anguish caused by spiritual agony.
His job as a professor at University College required the grading of 500 examination papers, each one several pages of uninspired student translations, five to six times a year (Benzel 370). His job demanded long hours which took away time for his admiration of nature and his time for prayer. The six "terrible" sonnets have a strong contradiction to his earlier works. His early works were filled with b .....
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