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Ethan Frome
Number of words: 892 | Number of pages: 4.... Her trip would keep her over night so Ethan and Mattie had the night alone together. Zeena asked Ethan to take her down to the Flats to catch the train, but Ethan said that Jotham Powel would have to do it because he had to drive a bunch of lumber over to Mr. Hale’s and collect the cash for it. But he knew he was not going to be paid for the lumber then, he only said that to avoid taking his wife to the station, and he soon regretted it.
When Ethan drove the lumber over to Mr. Hale’s he asked for an advance on the money because he knew that Zeena would be tempted to buy a lot of fancy medicines because she was expe .....
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Oedipus 4
Number of words: 1155 | Number of pages: 5.... between a soothsayer and Oedipus to find out the justification for the punishing, "…murdering sea," that Thebes has been thrown upon. The city is being punished by the gods for an offense that has been committed by a criminal who does not know his crime. The question of justice arises and is dismissed just as fast because, "...justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality." The action of the gods may not have seemed fair, but, to coin a phrase, "life isn't fair." From his birth, Oedipus was prophesied to a fate worse than death, so his parents then sentenced him to death. He was bound at the ankles and carried off by .....
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Sappho (the Greek Poet)
Number of words: 625 | Number of pages: 3.... and Sappho was known only through quotations in other ancient writers until 1900, when considerable fragments of her work began to be found on papyrus in Egypt and so only a few hundred lines of her poetry remain. In her lifetime, she invented a 21-string lyre which she used to accompany herself when she sang her poems. She also founded a "thiasos", a society of women bound by religious and secular oaths. Her Sapphic stanza which consists of three long lines and one short one was greatly
emulated by later poets such as Horace and Catullus.
Sappho was called a lyrist because, as was the custom of the time, she wrote her poems .....
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Compare And Contrast
Number of words: 430 | Number of pages: 2.... In John Smith's work he always made fun of the Indians like he was the greatest one then everybody. William Bradford's purpose in writing was to teach people. He directed them how to set their corn, where to take fish, and to procure other commodities, and was also their pilot to bring them to unknown places for their profit, and never left them till he died.
John Smith and William Bradford were very mean to the Indians and hated them all together, but towards the end William Bradford started liking them. "All this while the Indians came shulking about them, and would sometimes show themselves aloof off, but when any approac .....
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Hamlet - Appearence Vs Reality
Number of words: 831 | Number of pages: 4.... find the truth. Hamlet quickly reveals the truth and says, "Were you not sent for/ And there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties have not craft in color." (Shakespeare 2:2:278) From these words he is demanding an answer from his schoolmates as to their unexplained arrival. At the end he tells them nothing. As the play continues his "friends" are asked again by the king to go to Hamlet and try again to find the real reason for Hamlet’s behavior. Hamlet insults them at every chance knowing that they are lying to him about their purpose of the visit, "’Tis as easy as lying: govern thes .....
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The Last Gentleman By Walker P
Number of words: 2282 | Number of pages: 9.... may be the least forgivable sin of all human betrayals; Ed Barrett arrogantly and selfishly committed suicide, leaving himself dead and unanswerable to his son. As John M. Schwartz states, what finally provoked Mr. Barrett to suicide was, "His dance of honor collapsed amidst its moral ambiguities. At the last, he was a moralist, but his world completely failed to stand at the moral attention he demanded" (117). What he wanted was for all gentlemen to accept the burden of noblesse oblige, and for there to be a distinction between a gentleman and others (Schwartz 117). Walker Percy's Ed Barrett states on the night of the suici .....
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Wuthering Heights
Number of words: 1031 | Number of pages: 4.... "What in the name of all that feels has he to do with books when I am dying." McKibben shows that while Catherine is making a scene and crying, Edgar is in the library handling Catherine’s death in the only way he knows how, in a mild mannered approach. He lacks the passionate ways in which Catherine and Heathcliff handle ordeals. During this scene Catherine’s mind strays back to childhood and she comes to realize that "the Linton’s are alien to her and exemplify a completely foreign mode of perception" (p38). Catherine discovers that she would never belong in Edgar’s society. On her journey of self-discovery, she re .....
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The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kr
Number of words: 548 | Number of pages: 2.... does something wrong and gets a whipping for it, he or she will cease doing the same erroneous act again. Though it will not change the way he or she thinks, but it WILL work. The student will not understand why he or she should not behave in that particular manner, and will continue to think that he or she is right, but physical abuse can stop them from doing it again -- it definitely works. But in long-term, some people are inclined to rebel against the authority who impose corporal punishments on them. Once they can overpower the authority, they will challenge their masters. Others, like Duddy Kravitz, they get used to their pu .....
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A Farewell To Arms 4
Number of words: 298 | Number of pages: 2.... down the river with barely a hold on a piece of
wood his life, he abandons everything except Catherine and
lets the river take him to a new life that becomes
increasing difficult to understand.
The escape to Switzerland seemed too perfect for a book that
set a tone of ugliness in the world that was only dotted
with pure love like Henry's and Cat's and I knew the story
couldn't end with bliss in the slopes of Montreux. In a
world where the abstracts of glory, honor, and sacrifice
meant little to Frederick, his physical association with
Catherine was the only thing he had and it was taken away
f .....
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Achilles
Number of words: 1002 | Number of pages: 4.... around the grave of Patroklos. This is the same corpse that vowed to feed to the dogs, the man who slew ’ dearest companion and led him to swallow his pride and return to the battlefield. I believe that this is not the same we saw prior to the death of his loving companion Patroklos. After Patroklos rode off into battle and was cut down by a mix of divine intervention and Hektor, grief and the desire to revenge the death of Patroklos consumed . Thus I feel his behaviour throughout these books where he is moved to battle is a function of his personality acting under tremendous pain and grief.
A better place to view is in the f .....
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