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The Theme Of Nature In The Works Of Plato, Bryant, Twain, And Thoreau
<view this essay>.... ravages of civilization, the natural world found there by early
settlers was much closer to being "ideal" than anywhere else on Earth. For
this reason, nature has become one of the most important subjects of
American art, especially Literature. Specific examples from American
literature including the works Moby Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn, Walden, and "To a Waterfowl" can show how American authors explore
the ideals of human existence through aesthetic representations of nature.
William Cullen Bryant, who has been called "the father of American
poetry," is one of the earliest artists to capture the essence of nature in
America and apply it to .....
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To Tame A Shrew
<view this essay>.... vocal and aggressive. Men, women and children trembled whenever she came around, including her father and sister. By the end of the play, however, she is presented as being mild and submissive to Petruchio, leading up to her greatest speech in the dialogue of the play:
Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
And for thy maintenance commits his body
To painful labour both by sea and land,
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
And craves no other tribute at thy hands
But love, fair looks and true obedience;
Too little payment for so great a debt. .....
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The Great Gatsby - The Charact
<view this essay>.... we don’t find anything unusual about this, but, in the twenties, it was quite unusual to find a woman playing golf. When we first meet this character, she is described as a “slender, small breasted girl with an erect carriage which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet.” Small breasts are usually symbolic of a masculine figure, as would being a “young cadet.” Later on, we see her reading the Saturday Evening Post, and turning the pages with a “flutter of slender muscles in her arms.” Reading a newspaper would be an unlikely action of a woman of that time, and even her muscles .....
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Holden Caulfield (catcher In T
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The Brothers K
<view this essay>.... important factor for anyone in this era. Few realize, though, that every generation is nearly the same. The only difference between any two generations is technology. All generations are plagued by the same problems and all hope that their children won’t face the same hardships. That is a case, which will never happen.
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"’Except the bad thing is, the real humdinger, see, is that I tried for CO status, being a Christian and all. And weird things happened. And…well…I didn’t get it." Page 358
The dramatic realization of the fact that the war will affect a member of the Chance family is apparent in this quote. The amount of sorrow and emotions .....
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The Eyes Of Dr. T.j. Eckleburg
<view this essay>.... They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose … But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.” (27 - 28) The eyes of Dr. Eckleburg are really a billboard for an optician in Queens, however, if you start at the beginning, they mean so much more than that. We see that the setting of the novel is described as a very dismal place, lacking hope, dark and brooding, when Fitzgerald calls it “gray land” that “drifts endlessly.” Then, all of a sudden, the bright eyes of Dr. Eckleburg appear .....
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Macbeth - Shakespeare
<view this essay>.... fear thy nature, It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.”(p29) Lady Macbeth also “speaks” with “demons” to give her the courage and fill her with evil to allow her to carry out the murder of the King. “…fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty…”(p30)
4.) This speech tells us that Macbeth does not wholly want to proceed with the murder of the King, and that the very idea scares Macbeth, and seems impossible to commit. “…Doth unfix my hair…murder yet is but fantastical…”(p19)
Act Two
1.) At first Macbeth sees a dagger floating, leading him to Duncan’s room, which existence he questions. After having murdered D .....
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Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God
<view this essay>.... harsh tone of voice, he captivates the audience through a deep sense of threat or harm. Within this deep threatening and captivating speech, the speaker uses God as the higher power in order to obtain the audiences attention, to grasp each person’s emotions and fill them with fear. The speaker uses fear to complete the assurance of the people to do his intentions.
Although the Edwards excerpt sentence involved fear, emotional deception and mental deception to obtain the audiences full attention, the opening sentence of Jefferson’s Declaration gives the audience a much different approach to procure the audiences focus. Jefferson’s opening sentence has a mild to .....
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