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Life
<view this essay>.... offers many interpretations. However, the structure of the story breaks down into two stages: past and present. By examining the archetypes within the story, it can be suggested that Emily’s over-protective father stands to represent Emily’s feminist struggle, the ongoing battle for women to have an equal place in society. Emily should be able to do as she pleases, but her dependence her father does not allow her to have that freedom.
Her father’s over-protection is evident in this passage, “We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will” ( .....
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The Fall Of Satan
<view this essay>.... much you can see how his appearance and personality are quite related. Milton gives us a vivid description of Satan. That he has eyes that sparking blaze, monstrous size. This describes to us how Satan looks now, but before Satan was an Angel. He is not the same being that he was before.
Satan’s actions also are shown on Milton’s writings. It starts out as early as the beginning of the earth. When Satan attracted Adam
and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. In his speech to Beelzebub he said that “ good will never be their task, but ever to do ill our sole delight and out of good still find means of evil.” This shows us that Satan tempts .....
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Greek Tragedies
<view this essay>.... Shakespeare must have derived his forest spirits from oral folk traditions, since the mysterious people of the forest might be in turn helpful mischievous or sinister. In "Henry IV Part I", the king relates a folk legend that "some night-tripping fairy" might steal babies and leave a fairy child or someone else's child. People may have believed, or half-believed, in the fairies. They might also have been imaginary figures of fun that personify nature.
Another kind of medieval play in contrast with Midsummer is Everyman it refers with death directly along with the metaphor "life is a precious possession." If you have many rituals, you must "invest" them .....
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Lord Of The Flies
<view this essay>.... begins to take over the boys life, and they begin to go about this in a ritualistic way, dancing around the dead animal and chanting. As this thirst for blood begins to spread the group is split into the "rational (the fire-watchers) pitted against the irrational (the hunters) (Dick 121)." The fear of a mythological "beast" is perpetuated by the younger members of the groups and they are forced to do something about it. During one of the hunters' celebrations around the kill of an animal a fire-watcher stumbles in to try and disband the idea of the monster. Caught of in the rabid frenzy of the dance, this fire-watcher suddenly becomes the monster and is b .....
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The Relationship Between Snowb
<view this essay>.... he spoke for the well being of the Animals. He conceived the great windmill that would supply the Animal Farm with electric power. All this for the prosperity of his fellow animal… until Napoleon stepped in.
Napoleon was a leader who led with an iron fist. A fist he used to secretly abuse his fellow animal. He began by raising several ferocious dogs to aid him in enforcing his rules, laws, and expectations. Using them, he abruptly ended Snowballs reign by using the dogs to exile him from the farm. Shortly after, he halted the construction of the windmill. More often than not he would cleverly work his way around the seven commandments by altering them to .....
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Red Sails To Capri
<view this essay>.... gets really excited. The boat that Michele spots is not an ordinary boat, but it is a sailboat with big red sails. There are three people on the boat. Angelo said that they were most likely visitors because they had a lot of luggage with them. There are not usually visitors at that time of the year and this also excited Michele. Michele’s parents own an inn. Michele goes to find his parents to tell them about the visitors. After he tells his parents about the men, they open up and clean out three rooms for them. While Michele was gone, Angelo told the three visitors to stay at Michele’s parent’s inn. The men agree to stay at the inn.
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A Search For Identity (The Blu
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Giants In The Earth
<view this essay>.... does their own
share of work. From Per Hansa’s building of a barn-house combo,
white washing the sod walls with lime, and growing and selling
potatoes to Ole’s chopping wood up on the copping block; everyone
did their part in order to survive or at least to live somewhat
comfortably. The second topic deals with the mental state of
the pioneer when living in total desolation. For the male pioneers,
living on the prairie was almost a dream. This was the place one
could hunt and build. This was the place one could live off of his
own hands. For example, Per Hans is basically happy with the prairie from the beginning to the end of the book .....
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