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Justice In Plato Versus Justic
<view this essay>.... that it was in the common interest or in other words: justice was a compromise. I will attempt to provide a deeper understanding of this dilemma.
(Justice is harmony) One would tend to believe that peace, and good will among all individuals in a community would be the main ingredients necessary to encompass harmony, yet although at first a simple concept to conceive, the ultimate goal of achieving harmony (justice according to Plato) requires many different factors. These factors (or pillars) upon which justice in Plato is constructed include but are not limited to education, interdependence of a communities sub-units, philosophy, the separation of public a .....
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Conflict In “A Worn Path”
<view this essay>.... an old body and needs the cane to help her walk. The other suggested by Edgar V. Roberts is the she has trouble seeing and she uses it to feel her way to town “she may not have been completely blind but she had to have been substantially impaired to have kept tapping her cane in a redundant manner” (Roberts 196).
The next conflict is her age. The narrator does not mention exactly how old Phoenix is, but “her eyes were blue with age. Her skin had a pattern all its own of numbering branchless wrinkles…” (Roberts 197). This supports the idea that she is advanced in years, and as she makes the journey to town periodically it becomes harder and harder for her. .....
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Piano
<view this essay>.... he was little. He says that it is taking him “back down the vista of years,” till he sees “a child sitting under the .” This child is the speaker.
The child is “sitting under the , in the boom of the tingling strings,” and he is “pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.” When the speaker was a child, he used to be under the where the strings were tingling since his mother was playing the . He used to press his mother’s feet, which were in balance. His mother was singing with a smile on her face.
The speaker sees this scenery in his mind. As a reader, I can even imagine him standing in a dark room looking at a woman singing an .....
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Revenge In Hamlet
<view this essay>.... the ghost first appears to Hamlet he tells him that it was his brother who slipped poison in his ear while he was sleeping in the orchard and clearly asks him to get revenge for his untimely murder. The ghost speaks to Hamlet about his father and says, “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murderer”(1.5. 31). Although Hamlet has little doubt that the ghost is not his father’s, he must still prove to himself that Claudius is in fact the murderer before he attempts to kill him. Hamlet decides to have the players act out what the ghost has told him and see Claudius’ reaction. When the play “The Mouse Trap” is per .....
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Macbeth - Downfall Of Lady Macbeth
<view this essay>.... We see how a vigorous Lady Macbeth; initially in association with the witches’ predictions, at-tempts to mirror their disturbance of gender in psychological terms by desiring to "unsex" herself in order to carry out such a powerful action [murder], otherwise, being impossible for a woman to carry out (no offence or sexism is intended when I state this).
Lady Macbeth continues to be a frightening and vicious figure as she becomes full of evil thoughts. This is evident by the context in which she states that she would sacrifice the life of her own infant, if it were her wish or order to do so: "…Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums An .....
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Allegory
<view this essay>.... are probably sour
anyway. The allegorical meaning of this story is that people may pretend the
things they cannot have are not worth having.
Allegories had their greatest popularity during medieval and Renaissance times
in Europe. The Divine Comedy, written by the Italian author Dante Alighieri in
the early 1300's, literally tells of a man's journey to heaven through hell and
purgatory. Allegorically, the poem describes a Christian soul rising from a
state of sin to a state of blessedness. Other allegories include the parables
of Jesus, and The Faerie Queene, written by the English poet Edmund Spenser in
the late 1500's.
Allegories lost popularity i .....
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Othello
<view this essay>.... himself worthy of the title General in the Venetian army.
Even before we, as an audience, have had a chance to meet and Desdemona we learn that the match is considered as disgusting as it is outrageous. From the very beginning everyone and everything seem to work against them, but in the hope that love will conquer all we do not allow ourselves to despair as yet. And indeed, the first act proves us right. After having explained why they love each other the world seems to accept this alliance.
But Brabantio`s comment tells us that everything is not all right: (I.iii.293-4) "Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:/She has deceived her father and may thee. .....
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Outsiders
<view this essay>.... joined for protection. It shows people what it is like to be in a gang. It also shows what it is like to be chased by a gang.
3. I think Ponyboy is a static character because the other gang members are rougher and tougher. He is not as mean. He does not get into as much trouble as the others do.
4. The novel is written in the first person point of view. It is written in Ponyboy's view. We only get the opinion and view of Ponyboy and his gang. We don't get the opinion or side of the other gang.
5. The statement "the greasers and socs are more alike than different" means that each of them are gangs. Each of
the gangs are after the same things. Th .....
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