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Madame Bovary
<view this essay>.... each. During this time, Emma spends Charles' money freely and incurs many debts. She keeps these secrets from Bovary and manages to gain Power of Attorney so she can have full access over all their financial affairs. Eventually, Emma's unpaid bills become overdue and her creditors put a judgement against her. Emma tries to raise enough money to pay the bills and even resorts to Rodolphe and Leon for help, not neither are willing to aid her. Out of shame, Emma poisons herself and suffers a painful death. Shortly afterward, Charles dies. Emma searches for "happiness, passion, and intoxication" (55) because she cannot accept her status in the Petite Bourgeo .....
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The Pencil Box
<view this essay>.... Teachers liked Jane. Teachers loved Jane, even though Jane thought they had a funny way of showing it, giving her another worksheet to do when she finished the assigned worksheet fifteen minutes before the rest of the class, telling her parents that Jane was a special child, maybe they should move her to a higher grade and her parents always saying no, we want our daughter to have a normal childhood. It became quite normal for them to have these conversations while Jane sat outside the door wit ha garage sale, dog eared copy of Gone With the Wind—a five-hundred-page-long book! —swinging her patent leather Mary Jane shoes because they di .....
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Paradise Lost
<view this essay>.... of the Tree of Knowledge (Milton 255). The later introduction of The Almighty had the readers change their feelings towards sin, as the ways of God were introduced to them and these ways were shown to be the way to feel and believe. This levy of good vs. evil carried on throughout the poem with the interaction of Satan and his fallen angels with God and his son in Heaven.
The common representation of sin and evil came from the lead character in the battle against God, Satan. His name means "enemy of God." He was a former high angel from Heaven named Lucifer, meaning, "light bearer" (John). Satan became jealous in Heaven of God's son and formed an al .....
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Innocence Of Ophelia And Gertr
<view this essay>.... of her and to obey her father’s orders not to permit Hamlet to see her again.
Hamlet has the disillusion that women are frail after his mother’s rushed remarriage as shown by “Frailty, thy name is woman!” He also believes women do not have the power to reason. (“O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason.”) Ophelia has the power to change his view but her unexplained rejection of him only adds to Hamlet’s disillusion. The ghost’s revelation that Gertrude dishonored Hamlet’s father but also their marriage by the adultery with Claudius is contemplated by Hamlet until he goes into Ophelia’s room to look upon her. As Hamlet searches Ophelia’s face .....
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Macbeth
<view this essay>.... Duncan's throne to become king. Eventhough Macbeth has not really taken his consideration into action, we are still under the assumption that Macbeth could act on his thoughts and commit this unlawful murder. Knowing that his thoughts are deliberate, it is definitely considered as being an evil characteristic.
Macbeth's intentions to kill Banquo, a fellow leader of Duncan's Scottish Army, is a second example that proves evils powers.
2"Bring them before us, to be thus is nothing
but to be safely thus our fears in Banquo stick
and in his royalty of nature reigns that which
would be fear'd tis much he dares"(Act 3, I, 47-52)
Macbeth deci .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath
<view this essay>.... take advantage of them,
their poverty and willingness to work.
The Grapes of Wrath combines Steinbeck adoration of the land,
his simple hatred of corruption resulting from materialism (money) and
his abiding faith in the common people to overcome the hostile
environment. The novel opens with a retaining picture of nature on
rampage. The novel shows the men and women that are unbroken by
nature. The theme is one of man verses a hostile environment. His
body destroyed but his spirit is not broken. The method used to
develop the theme of the novel is through the use of symbolism. There
are several uses of symbols in the .....
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Iliad/Odyssey Summary
<view this essay>.... would surely defeat them. By this they would have to plead for Achilles to return which would restore his honor. So Zeus sent Agamemnon a false dream showing that if they attacked Troy now, they will be successful. Paris and Menelaus fought on the battlefield but neither was considered victorious.
Hector, a Trojan warrior, decided to return to Troy in order ask the women to pray to the gods for help. He saw his brother Paris and urged him to fight with the Trojans. Hector saw his wife-Andromache, and son-Astyanax. He said his farewells to them as he went back to battle.
As the Greeks fought the Trojans, they realized they were no match, and knew that wit .....
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The Crucible
<view this essay>.... I, the opening scene, there are many audio and visual aids used. When all of the girls gather in the woods, mysterious music is playing. As the women get further and further into the forest, the scenery gets darker. When all of the ladies are gathered around the pot, whispering is used to catch the attention of the viewers. As the scene continues one of the persons starts singing a voodoo song. A girl takes a dead chicken and drinks the blood from it. By now everyone is running wild jumping and screaming. One girl feels the urge to get naked and dance around. By now the governor has entered the scene. The maidens see him and recognize him. They al .....
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