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Ethan Frome --- Contrast Betwe
Number of words: 975 | Number of pages: 4.... of appropriate music, creates a bleak atmosphere, and there is no doubt in the audience’s mind of an impending sense of gloom and tragedy. The darkness of the house amongst the pure white of the snow is a symbol of the darkness within the house. It shows that the people living in the house, the Fromes, are not happy people. They have their burdens and a darkness in their lives that is further intensified by the joy of the people around them. The audience is perhaps more aware than readers of the book of the dreariness of the isolated town as they are shown visually, aspects of isolation and desertion that the reade .....
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By Means Of Power
Number of words: 784 | Number of pages: 3.... and shoulders/is the only liquid for miles"(9-10), "my mouth splits into dry lips"(12). With the death of her boy she is willing to sacrifice her own need of any quenching of her lips. She is "thirsting for the wetness of his blood"(14) but it is more important to resist the temptation, "trying to make power out of hatred and destruction"(18).
The power displayed in the third section of Lordes Power is that of hatred. A policeman has "shot down a 10-year-old in Queens"(21). This he justifies by saying "I didn’t notice the size or nothing else/only the color"(26-27). This officer has taken the power entrusted into him by t .....
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Literary Themes In All Quiet O
Number of words: 939 | Number of pages: 4.... of the effect war had on him was when he was in the trenches and all of a sudden, a French soldier comes into the trench and Paul immediately stabs him without thinking about, for Paul is scared and emotionally scarred. After stabbing him, Paul leaves him alone to let him bleed to death. In that part of the story, Paul regains a little bit of his emotions because after he stabbed the man, he starts to feel very guilty about it. He tries to talk to the dead man and help the man’s wounds. When Paul looks at the mans wallet, he finds some information about the soldier and realizes that the soldier was very much like himself, .....
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Brave New World
Number of words: 1131 | Number of pages: 5.... is based on his iron law of sexuality: "As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase." A current example of Huxley's belief is China. China is the last remaining communist regime, it also suffers from having one fifth of the world's population within its borders. Needless to say, China's large population is a direct result of a very sexually active society. Aldous Huxley's fears of the future caused him to write about sexual freedom and the resulting over-population in . Over-population is another problem which is addressed by Huxley, and is the direct result of sexual freedom. Th .....
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A Bintel Brief
Number of words: 847 | Number of pages: 4.... surroundings to get a job or even to make friends. In one of the letters, a young Jewish woman would go to work each day knowing that she would be harassed when she arrived. One of her fellow co-workers said the all Galician Jews should be dead. With comments like that, I myself would try to hide the fact that I am of different culture. The Jewish people would have to slowly bring back there heritage after they become treated more equally. Another letter about a 18 year old boy, that is a machinist, would get beaten up as if he was a punching bag. He left the job only to receive the same treatment in the other jobs. “As s .....
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American History Vs. American Literature
Number of words: 409 | Number of pages: 2.... are some of Americans greatest American Literature authors. Their goals and writings may have been different, but all gave America a powerful look at our American History. Emerson, preached a gospel of individualism and self reliance. He wrote a series of essays about the unlimited powers within the soul. Hawthorne, was deeply concerned over the problems of sin and conscience. His novel, " The Scarlet Letter", was one of the most searching analyses of the soul of man in American letters. Melvile, was best known for his romantic writings. His experience at sea gave him abundant material for his writings. Poe's, haunting lyrical poe .....
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Oedipus The King 4
Number of words: 496 | Number of pages: 2.... sends a message to the reader that it is better for Thebes to suffer than for the truth to surface. This leads Oedipus to believe that Tiresias is "bent on betraying us, destroying Thebes" ("Oedipus the King" 1. 377), ironically, this claim has an element of truth to it. In a way, Tiresias is betraying Thebes, and his choice makes sense only if the truth is more terrible than the possible destruction of the city.
Creon recognizes the dangerous nature surrounding the truth as well. With this recognition, he attempts to discreetly report to Oedipus after returning from Delphi. When Oedipus asks Creon to disclose his findings, .....
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The Theme Of Diversity In Novels
Number of words: 1080 | Number of pages: 4.... the pool, her head of shortclipped auburn hair held
up, straight ahead of her, as though it were a rose on a long stem." (Roth 3)
He sees her only as a beautiful woman and allows that to get in the way of
actually realizing the true reasons for her actions. Brenda on the other hand
is using him to be her "slave." This is seen with all her actions that show
that she honestly does not care about his feelings, his wants or desires. "‘
We'll be right back,' Brenda said to me. ‘You have to sit with Julie.
Carlota's off.'"(Roth 13) She finds Neil very accommodating in fulfilling her
needs. Neil is constantly being thrown into .....
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Othello - A Tragedy Without Meaning?
Number of words: 2013 | Number of pages: 8.... does despise him. Iago has to be examined closer to discover his motives: of course, he is jealous of Cassio’s appointment as Othello’s lieutenant and this is an ultimate irony in itself as he later mocks Othello for his own jealousy, having succumbed to the ‘green-eyed monster’. There is also of course Iago’s blatant racial slurs and hatred towards Othello, and his paranoia regarding the supposed infidelity of his wife, ‘And it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets he’s done my office’ (Oth Act 1 Sc. 3 ll. 369-370). However, the latter excuse may seem less reasonable, considering that Iago also utters late .....
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King Lear
Number of words: 1179 | Number of pages: 5.... affects everything below him. There must also be the element of chance or accident that influences some point in the play.
meets all of these requirements that has been laid out by Bradley which is the most logical for a definition of a tragedy as compared to the definition of a comedy by G. Wilson Knight.
The main character of the play would be who in terms of Bradley would be the hero and hold the highest position is the social chain. Lear out of Pride and anger has banished Cordelia and split the kingdom in half to the two older sisters, Goneril and Regan. This is Lear's tragic flaw which prevents him to see the true faces .....
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