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The Awakening
<view this essay>.... Edna struggles with three main opposing powers. First, there is the society's opinion of what a woman's "roles" in life was and how they should act, look, and feel. Second, is her independent nature. The last opposing power she comes across is her undying love for the charming Robert Lebrun. It is the unwritten rule that a woman should marry, have children, and be happy and content with that as their life. Society portrays this to be a woman's rightful job and duty.
A woman should act and look "proper" at all times. This is what Edna is fighting against in this novel. She feels that, though many women agree with this "known" rule, it isn't fair. For s .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird-society
<view this essay>.... For instance, he defended Tom
Robinson. Tom Robinson was a black man accused of raping a
white woman. Contrary to everyone else Atticus believed he
was innocent, and treated the case no differently.
Similar to Atticus, Boo Radley did not correspond with
his society. Also, unlike the public he didn’t gossip.
Primarily he was what the townspeople talked about. In
addition opposed to every other character cited he does not
go to church. Instead he spends his time inside his house.
Heck Tate is also his own individual. After learning
Boo Radley killed Bob Ewell, Heck Tate has a right as
sheriff to take him into custody. Despite Atticus’s .....
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Horatios Speech To Fortinbras
<view this essay>.... pressure, but it wasn't until a few of the guards and myself saw a ghost whom we believed was Hamlet's deceased father. This was the point of all of our lives were you either take one path or the other each leading you in a total different direction. Hamlet went to the guard tower with us the next night and reasoned to our favor that the ghost did in fact perpetuate the look of King Hamlet. The ghost made a follow me motion to Hamlet and we grabbed him. Please do not follow Sir Hamlet, I pleaded. The spirit was insistent and Hamlets gut instinct drove him to follow the floating omen. I know not the exact words that the ghost spoke that night but from what I u .....
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One Of The Weaknesses Of The N
<view this essay>.... and charisma she is in all senses an ‘accomplished woman’. Elizabeth is a strong-minded and courageous character, who was not afraid to stand up to others. “ I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”, (Ch. 34) she exclaims in response to Darcy’s initial proposal. However, with all her strong-mindedness, her courage is still shown when she admits that she is wrong after she read Darcy’s letter of explanation and said: “But vanity, not love, has been my folly.” Through this realisation, we see that Elizabeth does not have the stereotypical nature of the majority of the people in her society, who, in contrast a .....
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The Crucible 6
<view this essay>.... Act I Scene I, the opening scene, there are many audio and visual aids used. When all of the girls gather in the woods, mysterious music is playing. As the women get further and further into the forest, the scenery gets darker. When all of the ladies are gathered around the pot, whispering is used to catch the attention of the viewers. As the scene continues one of the persons starts singing a voodoo song. A girl takes a dead chicken and drinks the blood from it. By now everyone is running wild jumping and screaming. One girl feels the urge to get naked and dance around. By now the governor has entered the scene. The maidens see him and recognize him. .....
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In The Skin Of The Lion
<view this essay>.... is described using colors, textures and motions. Ondaatje uses colors such as "moth green", yellow, rust, browns, pink, and describes textures such as "rabbit fur", "papyrus textured", and "furred". Perhaps the most visual aspect of the moth imagery is that of the motion of the insects, which is used both as a description and a comparison. Moths appearing on the screen one night are described as those that "have seen this one lighted room and traveled towards it. A summer night's inquiry." (9). In the Garden of the Blind, Patrick observes the blind woman's remaining eye "darting", "moving with delight", "and alighting", all easily visualized. Later in the stor .....
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Pride And Prejudice
<view this essay>.... is Austen's ideal marriage because of their inherent passion and mutual respect for one another.
The marriage between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet demonstrates the struggle amid reason and emotion, or lack there of. Mrs. Bennet's motivation in marrying Mr. Bennet is knowing that he will be able to provide for her with his wealth. Their marriage is extremely dull since the two cannot even communicate with each other. "Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character" (Austen 5). In fact, Mr. Bennet entertains him .....
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Carver's "Boxes": Something Is Not Right
<view this essay>.... believes he will never see his
mother again, is because his mother mentions more than once in the story that
she would like to die. These gaps in the story where the mother mentions dying
in the same scenes that have to do with her moving associates her moving with
her death. One instance that she mentions dying is where she is complaining
about the weather in Longview: "I mean it, honey. I don't want to see this
place again except from my coffin. I hate this g.d. place. I don't know why I
moved here. I wish I could just die and get it over with" (p. 413). I do not
think the son believes she really wants to die but she puts the idea of her .....
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