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Archetypes
Number of words: 731 | Number of pages: 3.... helpful and useful to anyone who receives them. Changing or interpreting things that change can alter many plots or events.
The Loss of Innocence Archetype happens on two levels, Individual and Social and it can be physical, emotional, spiritual, and an onset of experience.
For example, while Perseus is living a wonderful and trouble free life on the island of Serephus Hera seizes and inflicts terror, fear and death into Perseus’s life. Hera believes Perseus shouldn’t receive special treatment and should have to experience the hardships of life like other humans. Hera is jealous that her son Calibos does not get to live .....
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Revenge Vs Justice(macbath)
Number of words: 1905 | Number of pages: 7.... Claudius married late Hamlet’s wife, Queen Gertrude. Prince Hamlet, son of King Hamlet has a meeting with the ghost of his death father king Hamlet. Ghost conveys to his son that his own brother Claudius has murdered him. “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life / Now wears his crown.” (I, v, 39-40). His father’s ghost informs Hamlet that he needs him to take revenge through the death of his brother Claudius.
The ghost also asks Hamlet to:
Let not the royal bed of the Denmark be
A couch for luxury and damned incest
But, howsoever thou pursuest this actd
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul co .....
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Song For Simeon
Number of words: 1272 | Number of pages: 5.... a rope that the speaker feels is beginning to fray. As the rope of tradition frays, a new rope will be created (modernity) that provides a different route to climb through life. People will continue to climb the rope of tradition until only one strand of the rope is left to support the very few people left clinging to the old ways while the new rope continues to be strengthened allowing more people to climb it.
In T.S. Eliot uses many images to represent the change from the traditional to the modern. In the first stanza the speaker presents an image of hyacinths blooming, but then speaks of the winter sun rising. This a .....
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A Jury Of Her Peers
Number of words: 759 | Number of pages: 3.... to be wrong. This fact can be supported by the character of John Wright who is an abusive husband. Even though he treats his wife improperly, his actions are not condemned; where as Minnie’s character, who killing her husband just to stand up for herself is shows to be wrong. In this story men are given a bad role just to make a reader aware of that fact that how women were ones treated in our society.
Women in this story play a major role not just because they are more talked about but simply because it makes a women reader to stand up for herself imagining themselves as the character in the drama, just as Minnie Foste .....
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Song Of Solomon 2
Number of words: 1284 | Number of pages: 5.... Macon has not inherited this trait from his father, even though he mistakenly thinks so. His father had owned things that "grew" other things, not "owned" other things.
Pilate Dead, Macon's younger sister, is a marked contrast to her brother and his family. Macon has a love of property and money, and this determines the nature of his relationships with others. Pilate has a sheer disregard for status, occupation, hygiene, and manners, and has the capability to respect, love, and trust. Her self-sufficiency and isolation prevent her from being trapped or destroyed by the decaying values that threaten her brother's life. .....
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Franklins Preface To Poor Rich
Number of words: 458 | Number of pages: 2.... the generic ones. Another proverb that a person
with no frugality should abide by is, "Women and Wine, Game and Deceit, Make the Wealth small, and the Wants great." This is one I can definitely relate to. Women, wine, and playing around all do put a dent in your pocket book.
"Early to Bed, and Early to rise, makes a Man healthy, wealthy, and wise", is another I can relate to. This maxim is directed to all slothful people. My constant tardiness proves my laziness and my need to abide by this one. Another similar adage is, "Plough deep, While Sluggards sleep, and you should have Corn to sell and to keep." Both of these ma .....
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The Fabliaux
Number of words: 660 | Number of pages: 3.... and -heroines. (The Riverside Chaucer, p. 7.)
was, until Chaucer's time, a genre of French literature, in which it flourished in the thirteenth century. One of the minor problems about Chaucer's fabliaux is why he turned to a genre that had, in effect, been dead for a hundred years. Comic tales were very popular in Chaucer's time, but the more sophisticated were almost always in prose (as in the case of Boccaccio's Decameron). Chaucer had no models in English, and despite the vivid contemporary tone of Chaucer's fabliaux, they are in some ways his most Gallic works.
Perhaps Chaucer was attracted to this genre by its most st .....
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Grapes Of Wrath
Number of words: 780 | Number of pages: 3.... the Works Projects Administration was created to develop relief programs, and to keep a person's skills. From 1935-1943, it employed 8 million people, and spent 11 billion dollars. But in 1939, there were still 9.5 million still unemployed. Another program was the Civilian Conservation Corps. Unemployed, unmarried young men were enlisted to work on conservation and resource-development projects such as soil conservation, flood control, and protection of forests and wildlife. These men we! Provided with food, lodging, and other necessities, and were given a small monthly salary.
Another program was the CWA, the civil works ad .....
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A Prayer For Owen Meany
Number of words: 1264 | Number of pages: 5.... and complimented by his best friend.
The protagonist in one book is similar in nature to the one in the other book, i.e. Gene Foster from A Separate Peace and John Wheelwright from . For example, the protagonist is definitely innately good but lacks to know the very self of him. This translates into a very vulnerable and an uncertain character, who must learn from the events that occur around him. Gene is a noble name, and he with no doubt is a gentleman with great determination. He comes from a good family and his goal is to excel in his studies. He is however, unsure of himself and others around him and this leads him to be qu .....
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Harrison Bergeron By Kurt Vonn
Number of words: 630 | Number of pages: 3.... a radio on their ear tuned to a Government transmitter. The transmitter will send out noises that will scattered their thoughts and will keep them from taking advantage of their brains. If they were not heavy enough they had to wear handicap bags full of birdshot, and this is the case of the ballerinas. They were required by law to wear them at all times.
The kind of society presented in this story where everybody is equal and there is no competition, can be loosely related to the society we are living in today. In today’s society we demand equality in sexes, equality in races, equality in ages and equality in genders. W .....
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