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Antigone: The Structure Of Classical Tragedy And The Theme
<view this essay>.... Again beginning on line 13, Ismene wails, "We two sisters were robbed of our two brothers on one day when each destroyed the other." The attention of the audience is grabbed. More questions as to the reasons and means of the brothers’ deaths arise. The audience immediately feels pity for the girls and desires to know the cause of the preexisting tragedy. However, to prevent the audience from becoming so confused that they lack attentiveness, all of these questions are answered within the next several minutes. The protasis in Antigone is brought about by Ismene attempting to reason with Antigone and reminding her of all that has gone wrong in the past. On .....
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Dulce Et Decorum Est 2
<view this essay>.... act as World War I so horrendously demonstrated to the world powers. The graphic horror of war is presented through a series of images which are designed to demolish the notion of war being a patriotic and meaningful adventure. The one particularly vivid image that got to me was that of the lone soldier who doesn't fasten his mask fast enough and suffers from the full effects of deadly gas:
'In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.'
And then:
'If you could hear at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores .....
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Great Gatsby
<view this essay>.... the white race has more wealth, that they should be in control of society.
Miss Baker shows off her vanity in her actions. In the vehicle with Nick, Jordan insisted she receive special privileges because of her wealth and celebrity status. Her comment, "They'll keep out of my way," implies that other drivers will keep out of her way. She has a spoiled altitude towards because she thinks she owns the road. She is also hypocritical because she hates careless people even though she is a careless driver herself.
Daisy Buchanan expresses her vanity in the words she says. For example, she once said, "I've been everywhere and seen everything and love everyth .....
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The Aeneid
<view this essay>.... about her husband, and the conflict she faces. This guilt
causes the reader to feel sympathy for Dido. She is caught between a rock and a hard
place with no where to turn. She finally does turn to Aeneas though, which even furthers
her conflict, and makes a decision for her. When Virgil wrote this part he was trying to
make an image of Roman men and how irresistible they are to women by making Dido
forget about her duties just for Aeneas.
We can also see a lack of confidence by the people of Carthage. The people of
Carthage feel like they don’t have a leader and are being left to fend for themselves.
They feel Dido is not paying any attention to her c .....
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The Color Purple
<view this essay>.... final straw she could no longer bare, she leaves her husband and becomes an independent happy woman.
Celie was an abused woman from all the men in her life. She was abused and raped by her stepfather and then by her own husband. This abusiveness took away all of Celie’s ambitions and drove her into a state of fear. That is why she refers to these men only known as Mister, for she had lost her feelings. She feared them so much that she would always do whatever she was told without hesitation, because she was fearful of being beaten. The first evidence comes from the opening line of the novel, You better not never tell nobody but God… (P.11). That is why all .....
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Barbie Doll
<view this essay>.... is all about. However, I'll see what I can do. When viewing the two works together, one realizes that although the price for rejecting cultural norms can be shame, torture, and even death, fully embracing the ideals is often a worse alternative.
"No Name Woman" is an excellent example of the possible horrors awaiting those who won't fit the mold. The story is set in the culture of China in the early 1900s. The female role in this culture bears strong similarities to that of a slave. Women were essentially not supposed to have their own opinions, thoughts, or wants. Their main goal in life was to marry a prosperous man and serve him. They went to great .....
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How Is Mystery And Suspense Cr
<view this essay>.... in the way in which he creates mystery and suspense. In order to fully grasp the essence of the stories, we must first know some background information about the writer and the period in which the characters involved in the stories lived.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle studied medicine in Edinburgh and graduated in 1881. He set up practice soon afterwards but unfortunately his patients were far and few between. He then turned to writing. In the duration of his stay in Edinburgh, he met Joseph Bell who was a professor at the University that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle attended. Bell had an intriguing hobby of deducing people’s characters from their appearance. Bell bec .....
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Norway
<view this essay>.... along the coast and cooler in the interior regions. The terrain is glaciated , mostly high plateaus and rugged mountain broken by fertile valleys , small , scattered plains and coastlines deeply indented by fjords. The highest point of at 2472 m is Glittertind and the lowest at0 m is the Norwegian Sea.
About two-thirds of are mountainous and about 50000 small islands lying around its coast. has always depended on its relations with foreign countries.
Glaciation and many other forces in time have worn down the surface to create thick sandstone, conglomerate, and limestone deposits known as sparagmite, as well as other numerous extensive areas called pen .....
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