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The Crucible 2
Number of words: 686 | Number of pages: 3.... tells Abigal that she has been mistaken her only response is “Let you beware Mr. Danforth. Think you to be so mighty that the power of hell may not turn your wits?” (Miller, 108) Then pretends to freeze and makes Marry and John turn out to be the bad ones. When Abigal sees Marry making a poppet and sticks the needle in the poppets stomach for safekeeping she decides to stab herself in order to condemn goody Proctor for witchcraft. Of course goody Proctor goes to court and is sentenced to die. Marry confesses that the girl were all pretending in order to save themselves, but when Danforth asks Abigal if it is true sh .....
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Balthazar
Number of words: 515 | Number of pages: 2.... making the cage was to make the little boy happier. Secondly, he felt mean and dirty about rich man¡¯s money. In this story, the cage was splendid and beautiful as much as news of its beauty had spreaded even before he finished the cage. So even though a doctor insisted on buying that cage, he didn¡¯t sell it because he made only for Pepe. But Pepe¡¯s father treated like a sly merchant but praised its beauty;(p 384, ll 45~50). So, thought that if he received money for the cage, it was to exchange his creative beautiful cage, in other word his pride, with dirty and mean money. Finally, in the story, was not a realist. Alt .....
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Richard II
Number of words: 957 | Number of pages: 4.... see later, in Act 1 scene 3, Richard's order for Mowbray and Bolingbroke's lives to answer their accusations was only to fuel Richard's own desire to be the centre of attention; it was his 'showman' quality that lead him to do this, not his ability to take action when a situation that required good leadership skills arose.
In Act 3, scene 2, Richard, on his return to England, finds that his 'favourites' (Bushy, Bagot and Greene) have all been killed by Bolingbroke. Richard is struck down with immense sorrow and self-pity and illustrates very clearly his passive nature. Instead of becoming extremely angry and wanting revenge .....
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A Comparison Of Two Classic Fi
Number of words: 2574 | Number of pages: 10.... you a story. The flashbacks to him sitting there, smoking his cigarette as he knows he has been sucked into doing something he wouldn't ordinarily do capture the true mood of what's to come. What he also can't come to grips with is the fact that all this was over a woman. Both men in the movies, though you only see them after one particular girl, seem to be quite fickle. Walter sees Phyllis at the top of the stares, and almost immediately is at her mercy. The scenes where the men in both movies meet the girls that they think are the women of their dreams, are almost identical. Walter tries to sweet talk Phyllis, but she qui .....
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Oedipus Rex
Number of words: 740 | Number of pages: 3.... King his kingdom was hit by a plague and the only way to stop the plague was to avenge Laius’ death by executing or exiling his killer. Oedipus’ brother-in-law Creon tells him to ask the prophet, Tiresias, who the killer is. Tiresias tells Oedipus that he does not want to know who the killer is, but Oedipus keeps on Tiresias until he tells Oedipus that,
"I charge you, then, submit to that decree you just laid down: from this day onward speak to no one, not these citizens, nor myself. You are the curse, the corruption of the land."(Sophocles 833)
At first Oedipus thinks Creon put Tiresias up to say what he said. .....
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Woman To Man
Number of words: 1584 | Number of pages: 6.... every woman to every man. The title makes the poem universal, more than just a poem from Judith Wright to her husband. There are no names given to the woman and the man within the world of the poem. The experience of 'the Woman' becomes the experience of 'every woman'. The third audience for this text is the literati – the world of literature. Judith Wright is a well-known Australian poet; this poem has been published many times; this poem obviously did not stay between Wright and her husband. The poem displays the poet's highly technical and sophisticated control over language: this skill has been analysed in essays and st .....
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A Separate Peace
Number of words: 437 | Number of pages: 2.... it was no remote aristocrat I had become, no character out of daydreams. I was Phineas, Phineas to life. … standing there (it seemed) that I would never stumble through the confusions of my own character again.” That meant that following that day, he was going to try to live each day more like Finny. Through out the book Phineas taught Gene more and more about himself, he taught Gene to live each day to the fullest, because you might never have another.
At the end of the book, once Finny has past away, Gene learns to live life for himself, not through somebody else. He was ready for anything. He no longer “owed” .....
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Huckleberry Finn - Influences On Huck
Number of words: 928 | Number of pages: 4.... most ways. Huck sees having a slave only as owning the person, not actually being a slave to someone. Therefore, when he helps Jim runaway it would be like stealing. This conscience is telling him that Miss Watson, Jim’s master, never did anything wrong to him and that he shouldn’t be doing a wrong to her by helping Jim escape. This is a totally different view of Miss Watson from Huck’s perspective. Huck always disliked Miss Watson, but now that this society voice plays a part in Huck’s judgment his views are changed. This society views allows Huck to see Jim, a friend, only as a slave and Miss Watson, almost a foe in his .....
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Crime And Punishment 8
Number of words: 593 | Number of pages: 3.... if he's insane. Unfortunately for him, several police officials, including Porfiry Petrovich, the investigator in charge of the pawnbroker's murder, hear about his self-incriminating actions. He faints in the police station when the crime is discussed; he returns to the scene of the crime and makes a spectacle of himself; and he is obsessed with the details of the murder. Even without any physical evidence against him, suspicion focuses on him.
Is Raskolnikov a criminal who should be severely punished for his crime, or a tortured young man who makes a terrible mistake in trying to understand himself? Because his crime is so br .....
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Critical Analysis Of The Ethic
Number of words: 757 | Number of pages: 3.... of apprehension that was shifting and unclear, similar to seeing things in a dream or only through their shadows; its objects were correspondingly unstable. Knowledge, by contrast, was wholly lucid; it carried its own guarantee against error, and the objects with which it was concerned were eternally what they were, and so were exempt from change and the deceptive power to appear to be what they were not. Plato called the objects of opinion phenomena, or appearances; he referred to the objects of knowledge as noumena (objects of the intelligence) or quite simply as realities. Much of the burden of his
philosophical message was to c .....
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