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Fools And Kings In King Lear
Number of words: 1109 | Number of pages: 5.... foolishness in his belief that malevolence is the force that drives one to greatness or prosperity. It also illustrates the bastard's mistaken belief that by fooling his father, he might be able to eliminate Edgar, the competition for Gloucester's title, and possibly rid himself of his father in the same
act. This is a prime example of immoral foolishness in King Lear.
Another type of fool in King Lear is the ignorant fool. Whereas characters such as Goneril, Regan, and Edmund are fools because of their tendency to harm others for self-gain, the ignorant foolish are not necessarily driven to evil. However, the evil are .....
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Love In Hamlet
Number of words: 1107 | Number of pages: 5.... against his own son, Laertes. Polonius hired a spy, Reynaldo, to go to France to spy on Laertes. Polonius even went as far as to tell Reynaldo to spread a few lies to get to the truth about what Laertes was doing. "Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth: and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out." (II.I.63-66)
Despite the devious and deceitful actions taken by Polonius, there was still love. The relationship Laertes and Polonius had with each other went beyond deceit. Laertes best shows his love for his father, by his reaction to his father's .....
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Short Story Analysis Of Edgar
Number of words: 3423 | Number of pages: 13.... fiction, and to critics who expressed disapprobation at finding no discernible moral in his works. The tale "Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Tale with a Moral" presents Poe's "way of staying execution" (Poe 487) for his transgressions against the didactics. The story's main character is Toby Dammit, who from infanthood, had been flogged left-handed, which since the world revolves right to left, causes evil propensities to be driven home rather than driven out. The narrator relates that by the age of seven months, Toby was chasing down and kissing the female babies, that by eight months he had flatly refused to sign the Tempe .....
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Jack London 2
Number of words: 1002 | Number of pages: 4.... the raw material for his first stories. Jack London fought his way up out of the factories and waterfront dives of West Oakland to become the highest paid, most popular novelist and short story writer of his day. He wrote passionately and prolifically about the great questions of life and death, the struggle to survive with dignity and integrity, and he wove the elemental ideas into stories of high adventure based on his own writing appealed not to the few, but to millions of people all around the world.
Along with his books and stories, however, Jack London was widely known for his personal exploits. He was a celebri .....
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Lady Macbeth
Number of words: 706 | Number of pages: 3.... she has lost her soul and that, in my opinion, makes her a monster. This is illustrated by her willingness to “…dash the brains out…” of her baby, if she had one. The loss of her feminine qualities exemplifies her knowledge of the consequences of killing Duncan, this is demonstrated when she asks the “…keen knife see not the wound it makes…”. This reveals her hope that she will not feel any guilt after the murder and she naively believes that “…a little water clears us of this deed…”; these examples show that knew the deeds she was going to commit were evil and therefore sustains my unsympathetic feelings f .....
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David Guterson And His Use Of The Theme Of Nature
Number of words: 1544 | Number of pages: 6.... the Japanese laborers worked the fields and the white Americans
owned the fields. The question of the ownership of seven acres of strawberry
fields serves as the apparent motive for the murder of Carl Heine. To a local
Japanese fisherman, Kabuo (accused of murdering Carl Heine), the ownership of
this land promises a secure future and ultimately independence. “...she knew
that Kabuo wanted a strawberry field.. nothing more than that” (Snow Falling 89).
“His dream...was close to him now, his strawberry land, his happiness” (Snow
Falling 456). The strawberry fields connected Kabuo to his past and symbolized .....
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The Road Contemplated
Number of words: 784 | Number of pages: 3.... the unknown, as does any
choice in life. As much he may strain his eyes to see as far the road
stretches, eventually it surpasses his vision and he can never see where
it is going to lead. It is the way that he chooses here that sets him
off on his journey and decides where he is going.
"Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the
better claim." What made it have the better claim is that "it was grassy
and wanted wear." It was something that was obviously not for everyone
because it seemed that the majority of people took the other path
therefore he calls it "the road less travelled by". The fact tha .....
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Contrast In Language
Number of words: 397 | Number of pages: 2.... of the play, there is much talk of death by Romeo, Friar Laurence, and Juliet. Romeo announces his own demise in his soliloquy:
Depart again. Here, here I will remain
With worms and chambermaids. O, here
Will I set my everlasting rest
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied
flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips,
O you
The doors of breath to engrossing death!(Rom. V. III, 108-114.)
The Friar's Frantic wrods and actions in conflict to his previous calm stature illustrate the grim mood of the scene: Stay not to question, for the watch is coming.
Come, go good Juliet. I dar .....
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Call Of The Wild Book Report
Number of words: 929 | Number of pages: 4.... was going, Buck's
pride was severely damaged, if not completely wiped out by men who
used tools to restrain him. No matter how many times Buck tried to
lunge, he would just be choked into submission at the end. When
Buck arrived at his destination, there was snow everywhere, not to
mention the masses of Husky and wolf dogs. Buck was thrown into a
pen with a man who had a club. This is where Buck would learn one
of the two most important laws that a dog could know in the
Klondike. The law of club is quite simple, if there is a man with
a club, a dog would be better off not to challenge that man. Buck
learned this law aft .....
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Bella
Number of words: 1945 | Number of pages: 8.... in the candidate list was always I.
As soon as I was taken off from mother’s chest, I have started having conversations with the teacher – an aged rat with a nickname Mavr. He told me about the world in which we live, about the people who become a ruling race on the ground, about our antagonism with human civilization and at the same time - our relation to it. His stories, as I now realize, were rather poor, because, being pulled out from a cellar, I have seen so much interesting, new and mysterious, that the Mavr’s lessons seemed miserable abstracts of genuine life on ground. Nevertheless I am grateful to him for everythi .....
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