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Romeo And Juliet
<view this essay>.... the two families so much so that even the servants hated each other. This feud would have caused many problems for : These two young lovers knew this and this is why they kept their marriage a secret. If their parents discovered their secret, they would have made their children's lives miserable. would not have been able to see each other. Both of these families were very stubborn and there was hardly any thing that would have made them become friends. In the prologue we learn that the only way the "strife" could be ended was by the deaths of . "Doth with their death bury their parent's strife". (Romeo & Juliet, Prologue, l.8) Neither the Montagues or the .....
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Jack London 3
<view this essay>.... financial condition, London was forced to leave school at the age of fourteen and find work. He labored for several years as a cannery worker, a longshoreman and as a nocturnal scavenger of San Francisco Bay, becoming the self-styled "Prince of the Oyster Pirates." In his spare time, he attempted to further his education by reading the works of Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Rudyard Kipling, Friedrich Nietzche, and others. He joined the Klondike gold rush or 1898, returning to San Francisco penniless, but with a wealth of memories which provided the raw material for his first stories. Jack London fought his way up out of the factories and waterfront dives .....
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Looking To The Future 1984
<view this essay>.... intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated"(Orwell 190).
Many descriptions similar to this are given in the book and help explain the way in which the socialist government of Oceania operates. It explains how a strong ruler can manipulate facts to fit his or her own intentions, which is often what socialist rulers may have done and still may do.
Many of the ideas in 1984 were written to show predictions of what the world might be like if people did not question and act on what was .....
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Merchant Of Venice
<view this essay>.... the young boy, and he seems to enjoy mistreating the young boy. “Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call.” (Act 2, Scene 5, Line 9) He realizes that Lancelet is much lower than he is on the social and economic level, and he does not let the youngster forget his status by continually acting antagonistic towards him. He makes Lancelet appear to be a sluggard who sleeps all day and does little work. He always seems to criticize the poor boy behind his back and complain about his laziness. Even after Shylock sees that Lancelet is gone, he continues to reproach his work as a servant. It seems as though Shylock is trying to elevate his own self-es .....
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Heart Of Darkness
<view this essay>.... said, "This is the reason why I affirm that Kurtz was a remarkable man. He had something to say. He said it" (241).
He was one of those men who you had to admire. You HAD to love him, if you knew him. The Intended said, "she had been worthy of him" (248). She speaks of him as almost a god. The Intended promises Marlow she was worthy of him, she had all his noble confidence. Their engagement wasn’t approved because Kurtz wasn’t wealthy enough. Kurtz had the ability to draw "men towards him by what was best in them" (249). This is the gift of the great. Kurtz was a great man. He was a born leader.
The Kurtz pr .....
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Of Mice And Men - Book Report
<view this essay>.... by the area ("A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.") Feelings evoked by Steinbeck's entrances are unable to be duplicated except by those who know the subject matter personally, a trait that he possesses having grown up in an agricultural valley in Salinas, California. His upbringing on the backdrop for many of his books enables Steinbeck to go beyond the paper and print of a book and create life in his characters. He expresses their joys and pains with such precis .....
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Desdemona
<view this essay>.... honored Venetian general. Othello stands to Brabantio as he dismisses him of his position as a general. exposes her true love for Othello and Brabantio gives his duties back and sends him to Cyprus. ’s father is very angry about this marriage and even more so because she wants to accompany him to Cyprus. Through this anger, I see that is considered her father’s possession. He says nothing more to , but you can feel that there is anger towards Othello and . ’s father confronts her and expresses that she has betrayed him and never accepts what has brought about herself.
seems to be frightful of her father because of the action that she .....
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Transcendentalism 2
<view this essay>.... club in which they shared their ideas. Thoreau had ideas that he firmly believed in and tried to act upon his ideas. He wanted to live in solitude and be one with nature, so he went to Walden Pond and was semi-secluded from society. Except for a couple of times when he went to the nearby town for things he needed he was on his own. He did well with it, but wanted to move on with his life so he left Walden. After his experience, he decided to write about it in his book, Walden Pond. Thoreau tried to live
his life based on his ideas no matter how extreme they may have been.
These transcendentalists had many ideas that seemed to others to be extremely imp .....
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