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Ethan Frome

... get through her problems was by hurting herself, and in the end, everyone else around her too. Growing up in a small town can be tougher than a big city, because it’s harder to get away from your problems when everyone knows about them and keeps reminding you of them. Amber found that she could at least forget her problems, along with everything else, by going out to parties on the weekends and getting "wasted". She hung out with a good group of girls, and her boyfriend was the captain of the football team, so no one suspec ...

Number of words: 1471 | Number of pages: 6

The Real Monster, Victor Frank

... monster this was evident from his selfishness, from his cruelty and rejection of his creation, and because he indirectly caused the deaths of his own family and friends. The selfishness shown by Victor Frankenstein is just one of the traits that shows that he is the monster. His selfish attitude is visible throughout the whole story. In the beginning when he first discovers the cause of generation and life, he does not tell anyone about it. He thinks, “The astonishment which I had first experienced on this discovery soon gave pla ...

Number of words: 737 | Number of pages: 3

Dante

... Abyss that is so ineffable that he, as a poet, feels he cannot handle? In the following lines, Dante expands on this rhetorical position. He elaborates on why it is important for any man to offer a good description of what he sees. No poet can achieve this description. “Each tongue that tried would certainly fall short...” (L. 4). It is not just poetic talent that is at stake; poets do not have the background to give them the poetic power for such description. His reasoning is "the shallowness of both our speech and intellec ...

Number of words: 1618 | Number of pages: 6

A Dolls House - Noras Rebellio

... for women to take out a loan without their husbands consent. When she did this she proved that she wasn’t as submissive and helpless as Torvald thought she was. He called her a “poor helpless little creature”. A perfect example of Torvalds control and Nora’s submissiveness was when she got him to re-teach her the tarantella. She already knew the dance but she acted as if she needed him to re-teach her the whole thing. When he says to her “Watching you swing and dance the tarantella makes my blood rush”. This shows that he is more ...

Number of words: 742 | Number of pages: 3

Macbeth 8

... hadst less deserved, that the proportion both of thanks and payment might have been mine! Only I have left to say, more is thy due than more than all can pay. (p.34)² The last sentence of his quote said that he deserved more than everyone could have given him. Duncan¹s thankfulness resulted in raising the title of Macbeth from Thane of Glamis to that of Cawdor. Only one title then separated him from being next in line to the throne, the Prince of Cumberland. Macbeth could not help but notice how close he was to being king and hinted hi ...

Number of words: 1078 | Number of pages: 4

The Ironies Of 1984

... are remembered ("Memory"), but it's actually an incinerator. The next example of irony comes when you learn about the departments of Government in Oceania. The Ministry of Truth is actually the maker of lies for the history books, the Ministry of Love discourages love, and the Ministry of Peace is actually quite violent. The final example of verbal Irony can be seen in the name of the leader of Oceania, "Big Brother." The concept of a big brother is one whom is older and wiser and helps the "littler siblings"-this not the case with 1984's Big ...

Number of words: 420 | Number of pages: 2

Love And Acceptance

... done before, "hugged Maggie to me," then took the quilts from Dee and gave them to Maggie. In I Stand Here Ironing the mother tells us she feels guilty for the way her daughter Emily is, for the things she (the mother) did and did not do. The mother's neighbor even tells her she should "smile at Emily more when you look at her." Again towards the end of the story Emily's mother admits "my wisdom came too late." The mothers unknowingly gave Emily and Maggie second best. Both mothers compare their two daughters to each other. In Everyday Us ...

Number of words: 622 | Number of pages: 3

Design By Robert Frost An Exam

... not give them the label as innocent or pure because spiders live in a dirty environment. By giving the spider a white color seems to disguise it. The white color of the spider is a mask that makes people think that it is innocent and pure when it is really not. Traditionally spiders have been associated with dirty and devilish acts. By portreying the spider as white it comes into a whole new perspective, and you begin to think that maybe the spider isn’t so bad after all. In the second part of the first stanza Frost describes a w ...

Number of words: 936 | Number of pages: 4

The Chosen

... bonds are, and must be, broken when the boy has to become a man. The novel starts out in the 1940's, in the Willaimsburg neighborhood of Brookline. Two boy who have grown up within a few blocks of eachother, but live in two entirley different worlds, meet for hte very first time in a bizarre fashion, a baseball game between two Jewish parochial schools that turns into a holy war. the assailant is a young boy name Danny Saunders, a moody, but brilliant boy who is driven to anger by his pent-up torment, who feels imprisoned by the tradition that ...

Number of words: 297 | Number of pages: 2

The Theme Of Matriarchy In Sou

... in those who are oppressed and exploited." This statement was made by Erich Fromm in and interview appearing in the February 16 1975, issue of the Italian magazine L'Espresso. It sums up the basic thinking concerning the problematic relations between men and women. But any solution to the problem that merely attempts to transfer domination from men to women only fosters the warfare between them. This is the reason "we do not favor a movement for women's rights that in reality retains the principles of the patriarchal world, except that ...

Number of words: 1153 | Number of pages: 5

Song Of Solomon

... his materialism, and his lack of nurturing his family. Macon does not concentrate on being a loving and nurturing father; instead he concentrates on another aspect of paternity, the acquisition of property. Macon aspires to own property and other people too. His words to his son, "Let me tell you right now the one important thing that you'll ever need to know: Own things. And let the things you own own other things too. Then you'll own yourself and other people too". The owning of things as well as other people is a rather remarkable stat ...

Number of words: 1281 | Number of pages: 5

Macbeth - Shakespeare

... a person to seize the opportunity and kill the King. “…I fear thy nature, It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.”(p29) Lady Macbeth also “speaks” with “demons” to give her the courage and fill her with evil to allow her to carry out the murder of the King. “…fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty…”(p30) 4.) This speech tells us that Macbeth does not wholly want to proceed with the murder of the King, and that the very idea scares Macbeth, and seems impossible t ...

Number of words: 1083 | Number of pages: 4

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