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Papers on English
The Glass Menagerie 2
Number of words: 1194 | Number of pages: 5.... of the Wingfield family. Tom is a poet who is employed at a shoe factory and spends his nights drinking in order to escape.
Amanda Wingfield-
Mother of Tom and Laura. She is a middle-aged southern belle whose husband had abandoned her. She spends her time reminiscing about the past and nagging her children. She is completely dependent on Tom for financial security and holds him fully responsible for Laura's future.
Laura Wingfield:
Daughter of Amanda Wingfield. She is hypersensitive, crippled young woman who spends all her time in a world of glass ornaments and phonograph records. Though she tries several time .....
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A Separate Peace Is A Story Of
Number of words: 1226 | Number of pages: 5.... two friends and it never occurred to him that he could do anything so perilous. In Gene's own way he was fighting his own war because he had to build up all his courage in order to jump from the tree. If Gene had not jumped then he would be inferior to Finny.
In Gene's mind Finny was his enemy because Finny always shined at sports. Gene was always jealous. Gene might never have known he was feeling jealous but somewhere deep down in Gene this jealousy grew over time. Eventually this lead Gene to Gene causing Finny to fall from the tree. Just as if two countries had hated each other for a long time and all the anger grew and b .....
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Macbeth As A Tragic Hero
Number of words: 766 | Number of pages: 3.... fitting garments, belonging to someone else:
New honors come upon him
Like strange garments,
Cleave not to their mould
But with the aid of use (I, iii, 144-145)
This passage is clearly demonstrating that Macbeth cannot fit in these garments. They are not meant to and the clothing imagery is therefor effective.
The second form of imagery used to add to the atmosphere is the imagery of darkness. Macbeth, a Shakespearean tragedy contains and demonstrates the darkness in a tragedy. In the play, the design of the witches, the guilt in Macbeth’s soul and the darkness of the night establish the atmosphere. All of the .....
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Heart Of Darkness
Number of words: 1091 | Number of pages: 4.... outer station, Marlow described them as ginefficient.h Under gthe devotion to efficiency,h incompetent people were excluded from society. Only efficient people can survive. For example, since Kurtz was the most efficient agent, with regards to producing ivory, his employers respected his achievement and regarded him as an essential person. However, once he fell into disintegration, he was considered no more the than dying natives and thus was treated as if he were dead. He was then buried in the darkness. The symbol of inefficiency was the color green. Marlow illustrated a picture of dying natives, when he said, g[They we .....
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Wars Of The Roses
Number of words: 956 | Number of pages: 4.... in the play Clarence was a good guy who loved everybody, but in real life Clarence was
jailed and executed for committing treason. www.altavista.com search engine said that in the play, Shakespeare said that Richard
had Clarence killed so that he could have an uncontested line to the throne. Shakespeare also said that Richard killed young
Edward V and his brother so that he could be next in line for the crown. But that is not true for Richard really didn’t do it.
There is a lot of speculation about rather Richard did it or not. There is more evidence supporting Richard. Some scholars
believe that Richard didn’t trust th .....
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Odysseus And Aeneas
Number of words: 436 | Number of pages: 2.... Venus (Goddess of love), his mother. She convinced him to stop fighting because she wanted him to rescue his family which was a lot more important. Jupiter also helped him because Aeneas’s wife told Jupiter that Aeneas was going to kill himself, so she wanted him to send Aeneas a sign telling him not to kill himself. Aeneas was going to do this because he found his father almost dead and decided to take his own life.
Both of them are really great fighters, but they have differences in how they do things. Odysseus plans things out before he attacks and has a good plan as well. Aeneas however does not plan things out and just jump .....
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The Green Mile Card Report 2
Number of words: 919 | Number of pages: 4.... Edgecombe. Though it is not obvious at the beginning, it becomes clearer as Paul ages. Toot-Toot was portrayed as a jester to lighten the mood of the story. His humor is what kept the other guards sane. Hal (Warden) Moores was the warden of Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Melinda Moores, Hal’s wife, is portrayed as a sick elderly woman. She is used in the story to demonstrate the miraculous healing power that John Coffey held. Janice Edgecombe was Paul’s wife. She died in a bus accident, setting up the character of Elaine Connelly, who Paul met at the retirement center in his later years. Eduard Delacroix was a .....
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The Crucible, John Proctor Vs.
Number of words: 602 | Number of pages: 3.... should have been caring for his wife he was looking for love outside of the household insted of helping his love get well and he spotted his mistake to late and he dealt with the problem the wrong way, he tried to make it go away and get back to life as if it didn’t happen but he could’nt because it was already to late for that approach. I really applaude Elizabeth for forgiving a man who, while she was sick he was permisqous with her maid Abigale. So I think in this case John should have known the right choice before he had any relation with Abigale Williams and should have seen the religious consequenses before he .....
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Scarlet Letter 8
Number of words: 2960 | Number of pages: 11.... and she felt that “God, as a direct consequence of the sin, had given her a child, whose place was on that same dishonored bosom.”(82) Pearl was sent from God as a reminder to Hester and the Puritan community of her sin each and every day. However, Hester chose not to tell who Pearl's father was. “Pearl was the scarlet letter in another form, the scarlet letter endowed with life.”(88) Pearl and the scarlet letter were one in the same. Both represented Hester's sin she carried with her day after day. Both brought shame to her life. “On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with .....
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Everyday Use 3
Number of words: 818 | Number of pages: 3.... much about her, and she never changes throughout the whole story. The mother would be the static character. She is seen as an older women set in her ways from life experiences, and from what she had been taught growing up black in the south. She made up her mind that the two family quilts would go to Maggie and she did not give it a second thought. Dee is also the dynamic character round. She is dynamic when she returns home to the country. She had previously said she would not bring any of her friends home, but when she gets there she is accompanied by a gentleman. Other aspects of her dynamics are displayed when she changes h .....
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