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Macbeth
<view this essay>.... of "". The Sergeant described ’s honor and bravery to king Duncan in act I, scene 2.
"For brave —well he deserves that name— Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour’s minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave;…"
defended his king’s honor as well as his own, as Shakespeare showed a good man never backed down from a foe.
In the later acts of the play, Shakespeare furthered the definition of a good man by portraying what a bad one was not. In ’s darkest hours, he
showed no sign of prudence and logic as he slayed king Duncan, and hired assassins to murder his friend Banquo. Macbeth displayed hi .....
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Tartuffe
<view this essay>.... marry Valere, who she is in love with, because Damis is in love with Valere’s sister. Orgon comes and tells Mariane that he wants her to marry instead of Valere because he wants to ally to his house. She is so shocked that she does not say anything. Cleante tries to tell Orgon about ’s misleading personality, but Orgon does not want to hear it. Valere finds out about this proposed marriage, and Dorine promises to help Mariane and Cleante expose for the hypocrite he is. Meanwhile, Damis has a plan to hide in a closet to try to expose ’s hypocrisy. He hears profess love to Elmire, Orgon’s wife, and suggests that they become lovers. Damis comes from the clos .....
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My Antonia
<view this essay>.... was by many, but it was the failure to adequately find a way to provide for his family that sent Mr. Shimerda into a depressing downward spiral that left him no foreseeable alternative but to take his own life.
The first descriptions of Mr. Shimerda are that of a successful businessman that had always provided well for his family.
I noticed how white and well-shaped his own hands were. They looked calm, somehow, and skilled. His eyes were melancholy, and were set back deep under his brow. His face was ruggedly formed, but it looked like ashes – like something from which all the warmth and light had dried out. Everything about this old man was in keeping .....
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Joy Williams The Killing Game
<view this essay>.... that. A final quote on word choice be, “Hunters make wildlife dead, dead, dead...” This be a good choice because it reflects on what be really going on, and what be happening. It happens in such a way, that be allows readers to stop and think about the subject.
A good example she uses for imagry be the quote “Instead of monitoring animals—many animals in managed areas are tagged, tattooed, and wear radio transmitters—wildlife managers should start hanging telementry gear around hunters’ necks to study thier attitudes and listen to thier converstions.” That paints a vivid image of what be really going on with the animals. It gets the message across using a form .....
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Ring Of Time
<view this essay>.... "cleverly proportioned, deeply browned by the sun, dusty, eager, and almost naked" girl is the one thing which he wishes to focus on. After watching her magnificently ride around the one of the circus’ rehearsal rings, the author begins see a connection between the girl and her act. This brings about the author’s central idea of a cyclical view of time.
White suggests that time is circular, and that is goes round and round repeating itself. The images of rings and circles throughout the first few paragraphs support this. He describes the girl’s gaze as "circular", and "time itself began running in circles" as she took her .....
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Truth Is It Good Or Evil
<view this essay>.... to be. For example, when grandma and the family took a road trip to Florida grandma dressed in her nicest clothes because she feared that if they got in an accident people would find her and they would not think she was a real “lady”. To most people the thought of pre- planning an outfit in fear of an accident sounds rather peculiar and silly but that was just a normal thought of grandmas. We do not meet the misfit until the end of the story, but it is he who hold the key to grandmothers utter emotions. I believe the Misfit was grandmother’s destiny. Flannery O’Conner creates a story that forces us to question, “What is truth .....
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A Duty Dance With Exploring De
<view this essay>.... infatuated with death. His semi- autobiographical novel, dealing with his experiences in Dresden during WWII, named Slaughterhouse Five, The Children's Crusade or A Duty Dance With Death, is no exception to his fixation. "A work of transparent simplicity [and] a modern allegory, whose hero, Billy Pilgrim, shuffles between Earth and its timeless surrogate, Tralfamadore" (Riley and Harte 452), Slaughterhouse Five shows a "sympathetic and compassionate evaluation of Billy's response to the cruelty of life" (Bryfonski and Senick 614). This cruelty stems from death, time, renewal, war, and the lack of compassion for human life; all large themes "inextri .....
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Jane Eyre 3
<view this essay>.... does it, or if Mr. Mason is going to live or die. That is why Charlotte Bronte used violence to create this kind of suspense. So a person would be interested enough in the novel to keep reading. The mystery is a mystery itself, there is a secret at Thornfield and Jane can sense this. Then there is the mystery of the person who committed this act of violence. Jane suspects who it might be, but she is not for sure. To find out the mystery of the house and the person who did it a person has to solve it. Finally, there is the characterization of Bertha. From the way Rochester talks about Bertha at first she seems pretty normal, but he says how she become after t .....
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