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Robinson Crusoe
Number of words: 863 - Number of pages: 4.... the lower classes buy land and/or titles. When lower class members become landowners, the idea of Divine Right to rule over the land no longer proves valid. Defoe illustrates society’s changes through Crusoe, who battles with the notion of God’s Providence. At certain moments he thanks God for His Providence, but then later conceives that actually God did not cause the miracle but he did. For example, when the English barley sprung up from the ground on Crusoe’s remote desert island with improper climate for growing corn, Crusoe thought "these the pure Production of Providence" .....
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Macbeth - Lady Macbeth
Number of words: 1818 - Number of pages: 7.... Macbeth comments on her thoughts after having read a letter from her husband, Macbeth, informing her about the witches’ prophecies on the possibility of Kingship. A variety of outstanding topics are explored, including the revelation of the true traits of characters such as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
Her first thoughts are based on the reaction of the realism of Macbeth being Thane of Glamis, and possibly Cawdor as the witches predicted. This is expressed through the words “What thou art promised”. The idea of having soliloquy interacting with the witches’ prediction .....
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How To Kill People
Number of words: 1172 - Number of pages: 5.... lifestyle is established and taken effect on him. Had Kumalo thought to get involved in his son's life earlier, Absolom probably would not be in the trouble he is in now. Kumalo's self-centeredness is clear when he learns of the trouble Absolom is in: "Perhaps his son and the girl would go back with them to Ndotsheni, perhaps he and his wife would give to the child what they had failed to give their own. Yet where had they failed? What had they done, or left undone, that their son had become a thief, moving like a vagabond from place to place, living with a girl who herself was no more than .....
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Joy Luck Club
Number of words: 963 - Number of pages: 4.... to spend time at the home of a wealthy merchant named Wu Tsing. During the night he comes into Ann-Mei’s mother’s room and rapes her. Despite emotionally scaring Ann-Mei this demonstrates the lack of respect for a woman in China. Ann-Mei’s mother is forced into concubinage because of her lack of power as a women. She becomes the third wife. As a third wife she maintains very little status in the home of Wu Tsing. Ann-Mei’s family disowns her mother because by becoming a third wife she has brought shame to her family. "When I was a young girl in China, my grandmother told me my .....
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Tragedy In MacBeth
Number of words: 815 - Number of pages: 3.... and deserved to die because of his flaw.
Duncan was the King of England, and was murdered by MacBeth. He was murdered, because in order for MacBeth to fulfill his plan and become king, Duncan would have to die. Duncan's fatal flaw was that he was too trusting. For example, he thought that none of his friends could really be enemies. If Duncan was more careful about his safety at MacBeth's castle, he may have had a chance to survive. But Duncan's flaw, wasn't something so horrible that he should die. Most people need to trust each other more, and just because one person did, he shouldn't .....
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Antony Has Been Described As "
Number of words: 1837 - Number of pages: 7.... there is no hour so fit As Caesar's death's hour" "No place will please me so, no mean of death, As here by Caesar" this shows that he holds Caesar as a very noble man, and that he loved him.
However, Antony then appears to make friends with the conspirators when he addresses them after Caesars death "Friends I am with you all, and love you all". Here Antony shows true deceit, for Antony is not their friend, but rather their enemy. "Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!" and pronounces that he will create war among the people to revenge Caesars death. "Domestic fury and fierce ci .....
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Analysis Of Those Winter Sunda
Number of words: 1141 - Number of pages: 5.... does
not realize how much his father loved him until he is an adult.
In the first stanza, Hayden uses vivid language to show that his father woke up before everyone else to light the fire.
Sundays too my father got up early
And put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
Sunday is not a workday, and his father could have slept late. However, he
did not do like that. The plural noun " Sundays" is associated wi .....
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The Outsiders
Number of words: 507 - Number of pages: 2.... Johnny didn’t want to spend his life running from the cops just because
he defended himself.
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Juvenile Delinquents
Turn Heroes
Ponyboy Curtis and John Cade were brought into hospitals yesterday
after making an heroic rescue of several young school children in a burning
abandoned church. The police have been looking for these two boys for
about a week because they are wanted for the murder a wealthy boy named
Bob. The two young men were returning to the church they had been hiding
out at when they saw the smoke and all the kids outside. They heard tha .....
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Homers Vision Of The Duality O
Number of words: 1247 - Number of pages: 5.... smashed its way clean through below the brain in an upward stroke, and the white bones splintered, and the teeth were shaken out with the stroke and both eyes filled up with blood, and gaping he blew a spray of blood through the nostrils and through his mouth, and death in a dark mist closed round about him. (16.345-350)" "Now Dekalion was struck in the arm, at a place in the elbow where the tendons come together. There through the arm Achilleus transfixed him with the bronze spearhead, and he, arm hanging heavy, waited and looked his death in the face. Achilleus struck him with the sword's .....
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The Road Contemplated
Number of words: 784 - Number of pages: 3.... decision, the traveler "looks down one as far as I
could". The road that will be chosen leads to the unknown, as does any
choice in life. As much he may strain his eyes to see as far the road
stretches, eventually it surpasses his vision and he can never see where
it is going to lead. It is the way that he chooses here that sets him
off on his journey and decides where he is going.
"Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the
better claim." What made it have the better claim is that "it was grassy
and wanted wear." It was something that was obviously not for eve .....
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