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Scarlet Letter 4 =
Number of words: 1034 | Number of pages: 4.... the angels” (75), but she is a “born outcast of the infantile world…an imp of evil, emblem and product of sin” (79). Her physical features did not show she is different: she has perfect arms and legs and has a native grace with innocent beauty. She is magnificent when she is displayed in her exquisite robes as her natural beauty shown through such that there was a circle of radiance around her. However, emotionally something is wrong with Pearl. If other children gather around her, she would feel the dislike from the other children, and would snatch up stones to throw at them, while screaming. In the “ .....
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Fallacy Of Personal Attack
Number of words: 206 | Number of pages: 1.... assassination, circumstantial
and tu quoque.
Character assassination is a personal attack where the arguer's
reputation is considered evidence that his argument is false. For example,
if a convicted felon out of jail has an argument, most people will not
believe him because of his prior involvement with illegal matters. By
rejecting his argument only because he was in jail, a personal attack has
occurred.
Circumstantial personal attack is another form of the fallacy. If
a person thinks that university professors teach better that community
college professors, then that person as made the circumstantial personal
attack .....
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Charachter Analysis Banquo
Number of words: 1128 | Number of pages: 5.... King. Duncan sees Banquo and Macbeth as heroes and honorable soldiers. To reward "brave Macbeth"(act 1,sc.ii, 17) Duncan tells Ross to give the traitors former position ("Thane of Cawdor") to Macbeth. Macbeth and Banquo are both valiant soldiers and are nearly equals (their only difference is that Macbeth is credited with killing Macdonwald).
Scene iii is crucial to the rest of the play and to Banquo's role as Macbeth's foil. In this scene, the three witches greet Macbeth and Banquo with predictions for each: Macbeth is referred to as the "Thane of Cawdor"(which Ross has not yet delivered), the "Thane of Glamis" (his present .....
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Themes In Macbeth
Number of words: 1544 | Number of pages: 6.... is great so with the push of the witches and his wicked wife, Lady Macbeth, Macbeth is able to commit treacherous crimes to achieve his goal, beginning with the murder of King Duncan. After the murder of King Duncan, Macbeth becomes paranoid and he kills any possible enemies, we see the killing is becoming more and more ordinary to Macbeth. As the play progresses, Macbeth's murder victims include King Duncan, his best friend Banquo, and Macduff's family. Curious of what is to come Macbeth decides to visit the three witches. They prophesize that Macbeth should fear Macduff, that he should fear no man of woman born, and that he woul .....
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Beowulf: First Literary Superhero
Number of words: 456 | Number of pages: 2.... unusual and courageous method of killing Grendel demonstrates
his bravery and physical strength. Before, Unferth had taunted Beowulf about his
foolish bravery but when he and all the rest of the Geats saw that Beowulf's
strength and power were worth boasting about, they were humbled. To prove
Beowulf was powerful, he hung Grendel's arm, claw, and shoulders from the
rafters of the meeting hall.”No Dane doubted The victory, for the proof, hanging
high From the rafters where Beowulf had hung it, was the monster's Arm, claw and
shoulder and all.”(line 485-488)
Had Beowulf attacked Grendel with a sword, the events would not ha .....
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Madness In Yellow Wallpaper
Number of words: 3149 | Number of pages: 12.... The main character, a woman whose name is never revealed, tells us of the mental state of mind she is under and how her husband and his brother, both physicians, dismiss it. "You see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hysterical tendency -- what is one to do?" (671). The doctors seem completely unable to admit that there might be more to her condition than just stress and a slight nervous disorder even when a summer in the coun .....
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Educating Rita
Number of words: 957 | Number of pages: 4.... Frank's office can be seen by the audience. All action is inevitably confined within these four walls. When Frank invites Rita to his home for dinner in the play the audience are not set up for suspension as to how it will turn out since they already know that whatever happens will not take place before them, but will be retold.
The movie is several scenes richer. Some of these scenes are in the play retold by the actors and some of them are not there at all. Scene three in act two begins with Frank cursing "Sod them-no fuck them! Fuck them, eh, Rita? Neither Rita or the audience have the first clue as to what he is referrin .....
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The Crucible
Number of words: 2508 | Number of pages: 10.... is bewitched. Once the girls talk to each other, they become more and more frightened of being accused as witches, so Abigail starts accusing others of practicing witchcraft. The other girls all join in so that the blame will not be placed on them. In , Abigail starts the accusations by saying, "I go back to Jesus; I kiss his hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!" Another girl, Betty, continues the cry with, "I saw George Jacobs with the Devil! I saw Goody Howe with the Devil!" From here on, the accusations grow and grow until the jails overflow with a .....
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The Good Corn & Turned: Cultural Circumstances And Its Effect On A Character's Reaction To Certain Situations
Number of words: 687 | Number of pages: 3.... Elsie was pregnant she
was at first upset but later realised what a blessing the whole situation
was, she had been longing for a child for so long and was hoping that Elsie
would give the baby to her. Mrs. Mortimer was not overly upset with Mr.
Mortimer because she felt that because she was in a depressed state
concerning her infertility that she pushed him away and also the fact that
if she didn't forgive her husband she would be left stranded with no-money,
no possessions and not knowing anybody because of her isolated
circumstances.
Mrs. Marroner on the other hand reacted to Gerta's pregnancy very
differently. At first she w .....
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Social Criticism In Literature
Number of words: 1501 | Number of pages: 6.... even with the best of
intentions, our ambitions get the best of us. Both authors also demonstrate
that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of "the ends justifying the
means" are deplorable.
George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, ". . . to discredit the Soviet system
by showing its inhumanity and its back-sliding from ideals [he] valued . .
."(Gardner, 106) Orwell noted that " there exists in England almost no
literature of disillusionment with the Soviet Union.' Instead, that
country is viewed either with ignorant disapproval' or with uncritical
admiration.'"(Gardner, 96) The basic synopsis is this: Old Major, an old
boar in .....
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