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Robert Frost And Ralph Waldo Emerson: Similarities In Nature
<view this essay>.... Voice and Vision he says " Whereas Emerson prefers to be
suggestive, to develop a few images or a series of briefly sketched scenes,
Frost characteristically structures a poem around a single symbolic event.
Emerson's unifying principle is ideational, Frost's metaphorical."(Ryan127)
Both of these writers have their differences as all writers do. A close
look at their works will show that Frost and Emerson have similarities.
At a first glance the works Frost and Emerson seem to have numerous
similarities. In Alvan S. Ryan's essay "Frost and Emerson: Voice and
Vision" he states that Frost and Emerson "agree on the central importance
of symbol an .....
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The House Of Seven Gables - Sy
<view this essay>.... as it is being described by Hawthorne in the opening chapters. The house is described as "breathing through the spiracles of one great chimney"(Hawthorne 7). Hawthorne uses descriptive lines like this to turn the house into a symbol of the lives that have passed through its halls. The house takes on a persona of a living creature that exists and influences the lives of everybody who enters through its doors. (Colacurcio 113) "So much of mankind’s varied experience had passed there - so much had been suffered, and something, too, enjoyed - that the very timbers were oozy, as with the moisture of a heart." (Hawthorne 27). Hawthorne turns the house into a .....
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Crime In The Great Gatsby .
<view this essay>.... Daisy's name. This is an excerpt from that scene.
Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing in
impassioned voices whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention
Daisy's name.
"Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!" shouted Mrs. Wilson , " I'll say it whenever
I want to! Daisy! Dai---
Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with
is open hand. (41)
Tom was a spoiled brat who is used to getting everything he wants. This could have been a factor when he told Nick:
That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your
eyes just like he did Daisy's but he was a tough one. He ran
over Myrtle just like you'd a dog and neve .....
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Theodore Seuss Geisel, Better
<view this essay>.... Book and The Lorax, "take strong stands on the dangers of indifference to world affairs." (Horn 70) In The Butter Battle Book, Seuss takes nuclear war as his theme. Two groups of animals live on either side of a stone wall. One side eats their bread butter side up, while the other side eats their bread butter side down. Because of each group’s odd ways, neither side trusts the other. Each side sets up a border patrol with mild protection. Over the course of the book, the weapons get more complicated and powerful until each side invents "the bitsy big-boy boomeroo," a very powerful bomb. Each side is ready to destroy the other when the books ends. These .....
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The Chrysanthemums
<view this essay>.... description of Elisa while working in the garden, gives the distinct impression that she is not as weak as a stereotypical housewife would be. He writes that "Her face was lean and strong and her eyes were as clear as water. Her figure looked blocked and heavy in her gardening costume, a man's black hat pulled low down over her eyes, clodhopper shoes, a figured print dress almost completely covered by a big corduroy apron with four big pockets to hold the snips, the trowel and scratcher, the seeds and the knife she worked with." As evidenced by this excerpt you can see that she has covered up her hair with a "man's hat" and has thrown an apron over .....
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The Development Of Desire
<view this essay>.... over time. With this progression of
civilization, from simple to complex ideals, so will the evolution of the ideals
and desires of our heroes change from simple to complex.
Odysseus is a man who is both strong and smart, but most known not for
the brawn of his body, but the wits of his brain. A man who is loved in every
country, but Trojan, and could stay where ever he chooses, his sailors knew this
to be true as one bench mate to the next, “It never fails. He is welcome
everywhere: hail to the captain when he goes ashore!” (Homer 166). The irony
falls as Odysseus only desires his homeland. ”Begin when all the rest who left
behind them headlong death in .....
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Gatsbys Pursuit Of The America
<view this essay>.... of his adult life trying to recapture it and, finally, dies in its pursuit. In the past, Jay had a love affair with the affluent Daisy. Knowing he could not marry her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to amass wealth to reach her economic standards. Once he acquires this wealth, he moves near to Daisy, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay (83)," and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them. He, himself, does not attend his parties but watches them from a distance. When this dream doesn't happen, he asks around casually if anyone knows her. Soon he meets Nick C .....
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The Loyalty Of Antigone To Bot
<view this essay>.... of understanding and serves empathy for her father's harsh life. Due to what he did in the past, just the fact that he loves her more then anything gives her reason to be loyal and always there to help him no matter what the danger.
While being there to care for her father everyday, she put herself in danger of being caught by the new king of Thebes, Creon. He was held accountable for Anitgone and Ismene by request from Oedipus himself. She knew of her father's great need, so she battled the hardships with Creon to see her father she loved so dearly. Their love was so strong for one another that she would do anything, even risk everything she had to pl .....
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