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The Crucible
Number of words: 869 - Number of pages: 4.... then got rid of her as a maid, and put her on the road. When she is talking to her uncle, Reverend Parris, she even mentions that "She [Elizabeth Proctor] hates me, uncle. It’s a bitter woman, a lying, cold, sniveling woman..." (page 12). It is clear that Abigail is speaking with a jealous tone, and that Elizabeth only did what seemed to be the best way to keep her family together. Abigail, however, does not understand nor accept this, since she is deeply in love with John Proctor, and sees Elizabeth as her adversary.
Once the word "witchcraft" has fallen in Salem, .....
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Beloved By Toni Morisson
Number of words: 767 - Number of pages: 3.... not follow chronological order. However, when they are all pieced together, the whole picture of slavery, Sethe's act, and its aftermath emerges.
A universal characteristic of the survivor's tale is the subjectivity and incompleteness of the survivor's knowledge. The author works to provide a more objective view of events by including several storytellers. Digression also provides a more complete picture by including minute details, such as the story of Miss Amy Denver and her love of velvet. Entwined with digression is regression. The story is told in the present, referring back to different .....
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Last Days Of Socrates
Number of words: 2258 - Number of pages: 9.... but most important are the discussions about relationships in the book. The relationships between the religion and state and individual and society have impacted the past and are still concerns that are with us today.
While Plato is writing to prove Socrates a good or respectable person, he allows the modern reader a glimpse into Athenian culture. We see that religion is held in very high regard and failing to serve a religion is punishable by death, no matter what one’s social or political stature. In “Euthyphro,” the reader learns that sometimes an Interpreter is consulted w .....
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Connecticut Yank
Number of words: 1151 - Number of pages: 5.... "the boss" of Camelot, and begins his plans to free the serfs and establish a republic. However his plans are destined to fail because he is incapable of understanding values that are different from his own; he is the ultimate know-it all, and sets out to remake the world in his own image. He is given "the choicest suite of apartments in the castle, after the king's"(Twain 31), but he criticizes them because they lack the conveniences of the nineteenth century, such as "a three-color God-Bless-Our-Home over the door"(Twain 32). His lack of acceptance of the local culture is also seen thro .....
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Similarities Between Creon And
Number of words: 1322 - Number of pages: 5.... comes to talk with him he refuses to listen , claiming that Haimon is "girlst ruck!" and corrupted . Teirsesais comes and tells him a morbid prophecy. Creon will not listen to this either. He claims that Teirsesais has been corrupted by money, like many prophets at that time. He finally listens to the Charagous when reminded th at Teiresias has never been wrong. Antigone has no problem working by her self either. She demonstrates this when she slipped by all the guards that were protecting the dead body of Polyneices. Creon and Antigone are both independent, and they are both very loyal. They .....
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Death Of A Salesman
Number of words: 1029 - Number of pages: 4.... a senile salesman who was no longer able to work doing what he's done for a lifetime. When he reaches the point where he can no longer handle working, he doesn't realize it, he puts his life in danger as well a others just because he's pig-headed and doesn't understand that he has to give up on his dream. He complains about a lot of things that occur in everyday life, and usually he's the cause of the problems. When he has to pay for the repair bills on the fridge, he bitches a lot and bad mouths Charley for buying the one he should of bought. The car having to be repaired is only because h .....
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Around The World In Eighty Day
Number of words: 1508 - Number of pages: 6.... of these settings are London, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, and New York. Clearly though one the most important settings was in the Indian forests, which were passed through, in order to pursue to Kandallah. The Carnatic and the Mongolia were also key settings to the novel.
Plot:
In the 19th century, a man by the name of Phileas Fogg, made a wager that he would be able to travel the world in approximately eighty days. At the time of his wager he was looking for a servant. He found a servant by the name of Jean Passepartout. These two came to the understandi .....
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The Writings Of Plato And Dantes
Number of words: 2056 - Number of pages: 8.... It is necessary to
review the precepts of Plato's ideal world. There existed, for Plato, a
world of ideas where all things exist in the perfect form. That ideal place
is where all ideas that we have and that appear in material form originate.
Thus the paper you read this essay off of is an imitation of the idea of
paper, that idea of paper is paper in its quintessential paper perfection.
This sets up two layers of import, the first, or perfect, layer; and the
second, or imperfect, layer where we all live and construct things. But now
where does literature fit into all of this? According to .....
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Ywain
Number of words: 2761 - Number of pages: 11.... peers, he gives detailed blow-for-blow descriptions of what occurred. Also, throughout the body of the work the warriors, no matter which side they are on, have significant names for their weapons and war-horses. This holds to the ancient custom that honored weapons with special names as having magical powers that could help its bearer. The battles and heroism of the main characters, as well as the names and details given about their war-horses and weapons, were important to a society that was constantly in a state-of-battle readiness, such as Roland's was.
Beyond the battle scenes, Rola .....
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Ethan Frome 2
Number of words: 336 - Number of pages: 2.... it would never actually be right because Zeena would always stand in the way of their love for each other. Toward the end Ethan and Mattie decide that the only way that they could ever be together is in death itself. The weak attempt at death on top of everything left Mattie a quadriplegic and had to be spoon-fed for the rest of her life by Zeena.
Mattie was in a way, taken advantage of by Ethan. He made her sense that she was needed, which was something that she deserved, but after he found out that he couldn’t have what he wanted; he brainwashed her into thinking that that only .....
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