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The Great Gatsby 3
<view this essay>.... to the low point of betraying her trusting husband who loves her more than anything. Her attempt to break into the higher class that Tom belongs to is doomed to fail. Even though she does take on Tom’s way of living during their affair, she only becomes more vulgar and corrupt like the rich. She scorns people from her own class and loses all sense of morality. Myrtle never finds a place in Tom’s higher social division, and what reveals her impertinence most is that she thought she would succeed in the first place, giving up all her morals for the wealthy.
Undoubtedly, Tom and Daisy Buchanan exceedingly demonstrate the wealthy class’s la .....
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Ideas And Reality (thoreau)
<view this essay>.... younger then most people in his time, and although he did benefit his community, doing little labor only shortened his life, and proved no better for the community.
Not only does reality disprove Thoreau’s theology, but his own words contradict him. He proclaimed “the government that governs least is the best,” (Civil Disobedience pg. 222 paragraph 1) and then says that, “We have had to agree on a certain set of rules… to make this frequent meeting tolerable…” (Solitude pg. 95 paragraph 3). His contradiction is evident, what is government but on how the people conduct their meetings, lacking the laws of the government, the society would collapse.
He also crit .....
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Shakespeare And His Theater
<view this essay>.... work the control panels, Shakespeare had to indicate wether it was dawn or nightfall by using a speech rich in metaphors and descriptive details. Shakespeare's theater was far from being bare, the playwright did have some valuable technical sources that he used to the best of his ability. The costumes the actors wore were made to be very elaborate. Many of the costumes conveyed recognizable meanings for the audience such as a rich aristocrat wearing silk clothes with many ruffles. Many times there were musical accompaniments and sound effects such as gunpowder explosions and the beating of a pan to simulate thunder.
The stage itself was also remarkably versat .....
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Hamlet Vs. Oedipus
<view this essay>.... his Uncle may cause confusion in his judgement of the truth so he is hesitant to kill him right away. Hamlet second-guesses himself throughout the play only to end up dying, but not before he kills Claudius.
In Oedipus the king, a child is born to a royal couple, this king and queen want to know how their child will be in the future. So they ask an oracle to tell them the future and it tells them he will kill his father and marry his mother. They have the child taken away to be killed, so they save themselves, but instead the child ends up in a new castle and is raised by another couple as their own child. They never tell Oedipus that he is not their own. Whe .....
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Taming Of The Shrew - Play Review
<view this essay>.... lack in beauty, but blessed (burdened?) with the disposition of a shark and a temper to match. It is the four men's misfortune that Bianca cannot be married until the storm of a woman Kate weds.
This man vs. man conflict is further accentuated by this horrible stroke of luck named Kate. However, a gentleman storms onto the scene, which I believe is named Petruchio, professing his love and adoration for Kate and, against her evil will, whisks her away and makes her his wife. Soon after Bianca takes her true love, and everyone laughs at the ill fortune of he who married Kate.
This is a wonderful build up for a lesson on deception vs. honesty. Though two of .....
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The Concept Of Justice In The
<view this essay>.... and his crew, the suitors, Poseidon, Aeolus, Hyperion, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Melanthius, Melantho, Telemachus, and Polyphemus. Each one of these characters does something wrong and receives a harsh punishment. In the Odyssey, justice, when done, always allots a large punishment, never a small one. Aegisthus courted Agamemnon’s wife and then killed him. The justice of the Gods is a swift and powerful one. However, Aegisthus had been warned: “we ourselves had sent Hermes, the keen-eyed Giant-slayer, to warn him neither to kill the man nor to court his wife” (pg. 4). Aegisthus ignored the warning, killing Agamemnon and courting his wife. Ore .....
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If Only They’d Listened To Pig
<view this essay>.... to blow it… he kind of spat… you blew from down here.” Only a bright person would know the name of a rare shell and how to blow it to make a noise. Further on at the end of chapter two Piggy compares the fire on the mountain to the fires of hell. It almost like he can “see” what is going to happen to the kids. Also he says “acting like a crowd of kids” as if was the adult on the island trying to help the “kids”. More proof of his clear thinking is the fact that Ralph relies on Piggy’s good advice to succeed. Without Piggy, Ralph would be lost. As the story progresses we see the boys drift apart however we see Piggy try to retain order as an adult migh .....
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A Man For All Seasons,by Rober
<view this essay>.... opinion about a certain letter that is to be sent to the Pope regarding the validity of the King's marriage to Catherine. More compliments Wolsey on his phrasing and avoids the content of the dispatch directly, except to say that he feels the council should be informed before it goes to Italy, this response sparks Wolsey
Would you tell the council? Yes, I believe you would. You're
a constant regret to me, Thomas. If you could just see facts
flat on, without that moral squint; with just a little common
sense, you could have been a statesman. (Bolt 10)
More's non-committal response to Wolsey's question is also characteristic of
his .....
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