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Cheers A Semiotic Analysis By
Number of words: 473 - Number of pages: 2.... is what Berger is trying to explain in his semiotic analysis.
Another example Berger uses is the example about the names of the cast of the television show, “Cheers”. Berger states that there is a definite meaning behind every character’s name in the show. For example, the character named “Coach” is an absent-minded character that can’t even remember his own name. The real meaning of the word “coach” is a mentor or a teacher. This is not a very good argument used by Berger because any name could be made to have different meanings.
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Innocence Of Ophelia And Gertr
Number of words: 744 - Number of pages: 3.... to Hamlet’s disillusion. The ghost’s revelation that Gertrude dishonored Hamlet’s father but also their marriage by the adultery with Claudius is contemplated by Hamlet until he goes into Ophelia’s room to look upon her. As Hamlet searches Ophelia’s face for some sign that might restore his faith in her, he instead believes her face shows guilt and thinks she is another false Gertrude.
There is much similarity between Gertrude and Ophelia in the play. Both are attractive and simple minded, and are easily shaped by opinion, desires and ideas of others. Ophelia and Gertrude see .....
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Dreams
Number of words: 674 - Number of pages: 3.... real life events. Often these are
predictions about what could happen in the future or are an interpretation of
things that have passed. These, like almost all other dreams have significance
as a result of bodily rejuvenation processes. This type of dream has a
significance I believe in helping the person have the feeling of a good sleep,
where things have, if not in some bazaar way, been resolved.
The third type of dream is one which makes great and perfect sense to
the dreamer but doesn't have any real meaning. An example of this is dreaming
that you are flying. Although you k .....
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Paradise Lost
Number of words: 4760 - Number of pages: 18.... is prescribed to it, no restriction is upon it, but in a free scope it has a liberty upon all. And in this liberty is the excellence of the mind; in this power and composition of the mind is perfection of a man... Man is an absolute master of himself; his own safety, and tranquillity by God... are made dependent on himself.'1
In this short example of Puritanism text as it stands, alone contains a number of various references to the process of colonization, of expanding, perceiving all geographically and manipulating, making man or perhaps more specifically the colonisers omnisc .....
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Remains Of The Day
Number of words: 2883 - Number of pages: 11.... who basically amount to machines, unable to think for themselves. They see loyalty to the master as the only thing that matters in the world. Every time Stevens ends his lines with “sir,” he is repressing his true identity. Ishiguro makes the reader wonder how on earth a person could get to be like this, for the sole reward of having the best silver in the house or the best-starched suits.
The old service culture of butlers in England was destined to change dramatically after the two world wars; by the time Stevens decides to change his lifestyle the old ways are alrea .....
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Much Ado About Nothing
Number of words: 913 - Number of pages: 4.... asks Leonato, the governor of Messina, and Claudio, a lord attending on Don Pedro, for help to bring these two together: "If we can do this, Cupid is no / longer an archer; his glory shall be ours…" (2.1.363-4). In Act 2.3, Claudio, Pedro, and Leonato, see Benedick in the garden and decide that that is the right moment for them to try and trick Benedick into falling for Beatrice. The three men talk of Beatrice’s false affections towards Benedick, and in his eavesdropping he falls for the bait. Benedick, shows us his true feelings in his soliloquy: "This can be no trick .....
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Cloudstreet
Number of words: 1184 - Number of pages: 5.... the loss of Sam’s (the father’s) fingers in a fishing accident. The reader can relate these events it to the biblical story of ‘Samson,’ and how he gained his strength through his hair. Meaning that by losing some of their strengths, (like Samson’s hair cut,) both Sam’s where able to gain new insights and opportunities. For Sam Pickles, this meant the move into the city from the outback, brought him his own home and a steady job at the mint. A rather large irony, as Sam is a compulsive gambler, more often than not short of cash. Although for Fish, losing his mental faculties a .....
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Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?": Arnold Fiend
Number of words: 554 - Number of pages: 3.... and Shelley could see Milton's Satan a positive, attractive symbol of the
poet, the religious embodiment of creative energy, so we should also be
sensitive to Arnold's multifaceted and creative nature”(Tierce and Crafton 608).
Mike Tierce and John Michael Crafton suggest that Arnold Friend is not a
diabolical figure, but instead a religious and cultural savior.
On a more realistic note, Joyce M. Wegs argues the symbolism of Arnold
Friend as a Satan figure when she writes: “Arnold is far more a grotesque
portrait of a psychopathic killer masquerading as a teenager; he also has all
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A Typical Novel Hero (charlie
Number of words: 1113 - Number of pages: 5.... In the earlier novels Salter was somewhat obese, and definitely out of shape. While laying in bed one morning, he said to his wife, “My physique isn’t what it once was.” (A Question of Murder pg.24). Immediately after saying this Salter made a vow to himself to get back into the physical condition he once had during his early years on the force. Salter is showing a strong demonstration of mental strength by his motivation to lose weight and get back into shape.
In this manner, Salter was unsure as to how he was going to do all this. Losing weight and getting into s .....
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A Bird Came Down The Walk.
Number of words: 474 - Number of pages: 2.... time it still acts cautiously because its natural habitat is in the sky.
And the he drank a Dew
From a convenient Grass–
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass–
When the bird finally flies away the poem's flow mimics that of a flying bird, very calm and free "And he unrolled his feathers / And rowed him softer home–". She describes a birds flight like rowing in an ocean, but without all the splashing of the oars.
In the first two stanza of the poem she rhymes the second and fourth lines of the quatrain.
A Bird came down the Walk– .....
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