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Heatcliffe Vs. Hamlet
Number of words: 1024 | Number of pages: 4.... Hamlet is a better representation of it then Wuthering Heights.
Evidence is given in both books about justice taking place in this lifetime without the use of any special courts or authorities, but it is better represented in Hamlet. Claudius and Polonius are shown as the two individuals against Hamlet with their evil intentions. Polonius who gets in Hamlet's way and nags him from achieving justice for his father dies on accident. However Polonius' "accidental" death comes around time after he has several evil intentions to eavesdrop between Hamlet's and Ophelia's conversation and continously proceeds put plans in place to slo .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper, A Descen
Number of words: 1807 | Number of pages: 7.... work and compulsion that had once served to distinguish public life from a sentimentary understood home" [Fleissner 59].
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a fictionalized account of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s own postpartum depression. Gilman was a social critic and feminist who wrote prolifically about the necessity of social and sexual equality, particularly about women’s need for economic independence. According to critic Valarie Gill,
"Gilman attached the nineteenth century’s configuration of private space as woman’s domain and its attendant generalizations about femininity. Gilman seeks to blur the disti .....
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Life 2
Number of words: 412 | Number of pages: 2.... all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will” (279). Her father robs her from many of life’s necessities. She misses out on having friends, being a normal “woman,” and her ability to be happy. Emily is not able to live a normal life which she indirectly blames on her father. Emily is so used to having her father be there for her, she figures that by keeping his body he can still be part of her life.
The Jungian archetype of this feminist struggle can be noted as: Emily is not able to live a normal life b .....
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Compare And Contrast Of The Od
Number of words: 1156 | Number of pages: 5.... anything at all, seen in such lines as “You’ll get nothing from me” and “I’ll never reveal my dreadful secrets.” The important thing is that when Oedipus got Tiresias angered, Tiresias bluntly stated that “[Oedipus is] the curse, the corruption of the land.” When Oedipus responds to this, which will be discussed later, he continues to berate Tiresias for ‘lying’. Following that, Sophocles uses Tiresias to foreshadow the rest of the play for the reader, while cryptically half-hiding and half-telling Oedipus the truth, which is essentially ignored. The fact that Tiresias had to be summoned, instead of coming o .....
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The Change If The Immagery Of
Number of words: 970 | Number of pages: 4.... on, after Macbeth kills Duncan, the meaning of blood begins to change. In Act II Scene ii, after Macbeth kills Duncan, Macbeth’s hands are covered in blood, and later on, Lady Macbeth’s. Macbeth reacts to the blood very differently then Lady Macbeth. Macbeth sees the blood as the symbol of his action and as the symbol of his guilt; Macbeth cannot believe what he has done and is in shock. “What hands are here! Ha! – they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hands? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green on red .....
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Pygmalion
Number of words: 384 | Number of pages: 2.... She said that she did not want to be accused of stealing.
But Henry Higgins was very sarcastic, making Eliza appear calculating as she wanted to make sure of what she could take along with her. He was just trying to make her feel bad too.
In Act V, Higgins tried to shake Eliza's composure with the phrase "You will jolly well see whether she has an idea that I Haven't put into her mouth." This is an insult to Eliza as Higgins is accusing her of being unintelligent. He also implies that she is incapable of doing anything on her own. He is also reminding her that she has no education; that everything she knows comes from him. He .....
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Emerson's View On Transcendentalism
Number of words: 444 | Number of pages: 2.... own spiritual capabilities are. Thus, they would travel through life spiritually empty and have no substance in their life. Likewise, if a person goes through life having everything spoon-fed to them and never have to work for anything that is important to them, they will never truly experience satisfaction, an emotion of the soul.
These situations can be played out today. Some people are exceptionally intelligent people and have the gift of regurgitating information which they are expected to know. These people can easily succeed in high school where tests and quizzes are geared towards information which one must know. This .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath 4
Number of words: 764 | Number of pages: 3.... farmer when he says, "There's the place down by the barn where Pa got gored to death by a bull. An' his blood is right in the groun', right now"(65-66). In the inner chapter, an angry tenant farmer threatens a tractor driver with a rifle because he holds the tractor driver responsible for forcing him to leave his land. Grandpa also threatens a tractor driver with a rifle because he considers him a traitor for accepting a job that forces many families to move off of the land. Chapter Five foreshadows the problems that the Joad family will encounter with the tenant system.
In Chapter Nine, another inner chapter, many tenant .....
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Black Pawn: White Pawn
Number of words: 938 | Number of pages: 4.... such as drink blood, and why Betty was sick. Tituba, however, did not subject herself as a helpless victim of Abigail's sick game. Tituba twisted the lie aroun so it was for her benefit, if she confessed she would be forgiven. She saw her opportunity for a counter move and took it. Abigail had the fingers pointing at her and Betty again. Abigail made a dangerous turn. She and Betty accused Goody Good, Goody Osburn, Bridget Bishop, George Jacobs, Goody Howe, Martha Bellows, Goody Sibber, Alice Barrow, Goody Hawkins, Goody Bibber, and Goody Booth of being witches. Abigail and Betty had managed to take themselves out of danger, b .....
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Taxi Driver
Number of words: 1179 | Number of pages: 5.... that " One day a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.
Bickle works long hours sometimes from 6pm to 8am and while working is very disgusted by the city. In his free time though he represents everything that he hates about the city. He goes to the triple x theatre and even tries to pick up the concession stand worker. As he narrates he tells of how he is trying to find his own identity in the crowded city.
Then one day, out of the monotony, walks a girl in which Bickle develops a severe crush. He observes her from afar viewing her as an untouchable dream girl. A few days pass and Bickl .....
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