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Macbeth 2
Number of words: 1084 - Number of pages: 4.... (1.5.24) and become queen of Scotland. Lady Macbeth craves for her husband's success so much that she would "dash the brains out" (1.7.58) of her own child in order to achieve her goal. The strong ambition within her makes it seem as if she had no conscience or human feeling. Supernatural incidents are what mainly motivates her desire for power. Lady Macbeth would not have wanted to commit murder if the three weird sisters had not said Macbeth would be king. She even mentions how "the raven himself is hoarse/ That croaks" (1.5.34-35), which foretells the upcoming death of Duncan. L .....
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The Story Of An Hour: Irony
Number of words: 480 - Number of pages: 2.... sparrows were twittering...patches of blue sky...." All these are beautiful images of life , the reader is quite confused by this most unusual foreshadowing until Louise's reaction is explained.
The widow whispers "Free, free, free!" Louise realizes that her husband had loved her, but she goes on to explain that as men and women often inhibit eachother, even if it is done with the best of intentions, they exert their own wills upon eachother. She realized that although at times she had loved him, she has regained her freedom, a state of beeing that all of G-d's creatu .....
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How Does Bernard Shaw Satirise
Number of words: 1974 - Number of pages: 8.... he realised that his play still had to be acceptable to a wide audience, he seems to allow Romantic ideas to re-emerge at the end.
During the Romantic period exaggeration of things such as love was common, and was, in fact, the basis of the Romantic culture. In ‘Arms and the Man’ there an even greater extent of exaggeration than was common. The characters, the situations and to some extent the plot are all exaggerated in some way. Of the main characters, Sergius, Raina, and Bluntschli, only Bluntschli is not of a highly romantic bearing, and even he might be considered sli .....
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A Critical Analysis Of Herman Melville's Moby Dick
Number of words: 2254 - Number of pages: 9.... such characters as
Queequeq, Starbuck, and the captain of the ship, Ahab, all journeyed
together.
Not long once at sea, the captain of the ship, Ahab reveals his
plan to hunt down a white whale named Moby Dick. Ahab was veteran sailor, a
man that had a heart of stone. Ahab had a personal grudge against Moby
Dick. Moby Dick was responsible for taking off Ahab's leg in a previous
voyage. Ahab's plan was essentially an unauthorized takeover, what the
whaling company had not in mind. Ahab was very irrational and ludicrous;
his plan seals the fate for himself and the crew of the Pequod. In th .....
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Dawn, By Elie Wiesel
Number of words: 697 - Number of pages: 3.... version called "Night". In the mid 60’s Wiesel spoke out a lot about the Holocaust. Later on Wiesel emerged on as an important moral voice on Religious Issues and the Human Rights. Since 1988 Wiesel has been a professor at Boston University. Some of Wiesel’s greatest novels has been "Night", "Dawn", "The Accident", "The Town Beyond The Wall", "The Gates Of The Forest", "The Fifth Son", "Legends Of Our Time", "One Generation After", "A Jew Today", "Souls On Fire", 5 Biblical Figures", and "Somewhere A Hero". Eventually Wiesel went on to win an Nobel Peace Prize.
The book Dawn conc .....
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The Touch Of Magic By Lorena Hickok
Number of words: 1706 - Number of pages: 7.... A few months after they had arrived, Jimmie got deathly ill. The doctor'
s couldn't do anything for him and unfortunately he past away. Annie took this
unbelievably hard for she had realized that Jimmie was the only thing she had
ever loved.
Annie's attitude then worsened even more because she felt she had
nothing left. She would throw hissy fits at the nurses and kick and scream.
Believe it or not, this is one of the character traits that I most admire about
Miss Macy. She was aggressive and didn't let anyone tell her what to do. Even
though she could hardly see, she lived her .....
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Another Antigone
Number of words: 515 - Number of pages: 2.... gets all of the plot
across, that is not enough to tell the whole story. Aristotelian
Unities Yes, Antigone does follow the Aristotelian Unities.
The play occurs in the same place and roughly the same
time. Things that happened before the play or outside of the
place, was told by a messenger or a character themself. The
action was all centered around Antigone's actions. Her
actions were the sole cause of everything that happened.
Greek Tragedy Antigone does follow the Greek definition of
tragedy. Tragedy is a story or play that has a signifigant
conflict of morals, with a noble protago .....
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A Summary Of The Plot Of The Iliad
Number of words: 3209 - Number of pages: 12.... troops. Agamemnon, while hoping to be able to take Troy without Achilles' help, is conscious of the low morale of his army resulting from the plague and from Achilles' defection. He therefore resorts to a stratagem of reverse psychology. He will propose to his soldiers that they return home. He communicates this plan to the chieftains in council, with instructions that they should prevent the men's return, if the proposal is accepted. He assembles the troops and proposes that they return to their homeland. They all eagerly accept his proposal and hasten to their ships. Odysseus has to interve .....
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The City Of The Sun
Number of words: 679 - Number of pages: 3.... best. Individuals who work extremely hard and acquire knowledge are judged to have the greatest nobility. Moreover, the Solarians have a Prince Prelate called Sun. Sun is elected by knowing a significant amount of information in diverse academic fields. For example, he must know all the mechanical arts and the mathematical, physical, and astrological sciences. In his dialogue, Campanella stresses the importance of acquiring knowledge in this ideal city. He demonstrates this by describing the position of the Prince Prelate: “Once appointed, his tenure lasts until someone with greater knowled .....
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Anna Karenina: Foreshadowing
Number of words: 470 - Number of pages: 2.... it to be Vronsky
and she feels ‘a strange feeling of pleasure mixed with a feeling of vague
apprehension suddenly stirred in her heart.'( page 90)This tells of what
may be the conflict in the plot.
The day after the great ball Anna announces that she must leave.
Dolly expresses her gratitude toward everything Anna has done to help her
in her time of crisis. She tells Anna that she does not know of a person
with a greater heart. Anna tells her that Kitty was depressed because
Vronsky spent the evening with her. She exclaims that it wasn't her fault.
Dolly remarks that Anna so .....
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