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Hamlet Scene By Scene

... for up to four hours at a time. Polonius, in private, sends his servant Reynaldo to spy on Laertes. Polonius reminds him of how an effective spy asks open-ended questions and tells little suggestive lies. Polonius likes to spy. Ophelia comes in, obviously upset. She describes Hamlet's barging into her bedroom, with "his doublet all unbraced" (we'd say, his shirt open in front), his dirty socks crunched down, and pale and knock-kneed, "as if he had been loosèd out of hell / to speak of horrors." Or, as might say, "as if he'd seen a ghost." Ham ...

Number of words: 1084 | Number of pages: 4

Oppression

... you further down the rabbit’s hole. It forces you to fight when you are the weakest and will take your very last breath. It takes one problem and snowballs until you can not take it anymore. We can learn to fight , if we only make ourselves aware. is not a friend, though it may be disguised as one. It takes what you believe in and makes it nonexistent. is what makes life hard. It tests you to see if you will make the stand for freedom, or be oppressed. African-Americans were oppressed for hundreds of years, and when it couldn’t ...

Number of words: 328 | Number of pages: 2

Interpreting Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever"

... such a category of authors: it is a recognition of her propensity to create poignant and, indeed, successful literature. The brevity of her "Roman Fever" allows for a brilliant display of this talent in it we find many of her highly celebrated qualities in the space of just a few pages. "Roman Fever" is truly outstanding: a work that exposes the gender stereotypes of its day (1936) but that moves beyond documentary to reveal something of the perennial antagonisms of human nature. From the story's first sentence, upon the introdu ...

Number of words: 1189 | Number of pages: 5

Humble Morality

... hears, influences his perception of the validity of these stories. Further, because he refuses to look beyond the rational, he is unable to see the essential elements of evil in slavery. In addition, the protagonist's faults are representative of society's ability to romanticize and gloss over the institution of slavery and are a negation of the sentimentality of slavery, prevalent in society during that period. The stories within the stories, as told by Uncle Julius, relay several themes important in rebutting the sentimentality of slavery ...

Number of words: 768 | Number of pages: 3

Personal Writing: James Marcia's Identity Status Of Moratorium

... I want to, that I have the abiliy to successfully achieve anything I focus on. Is this egotism part of my problem? Then there is the fear I have of making the wrong decision. What if I pick a school or major that I end up hating or having no interest in at all after I get there? Is that a contradiction to my last paragraph? I realize that I always have the oppotunity to change what I do not like, but there is also that fear of time and money wasted. I feel I need the change of scenery that such an investment would bring, but what if I ...

Number of words: 458 | Number of pages: 2

The Main Themes In The Lord Of

... The characters that still have the sense to do what is right are killed and through this the very important theme is shown mainly that when evil overbalances good a human can perform almost any inhuman act without thought. Right from the first meeting called by Ralph on the island there are conflicts that arise. Feelings of superiority and power cause a struggle as to who would be the chief in the society that the boys were beginning to form. Jack takes this decision to heart and so he resents most of the decisions made by Ralph and he ev ...

Number of words: 813 | Number of pages: 3

Hamlet Vs. Laertes

... to pray for forgiveness and Hamlet has the chance to kill him but he thinks about it and decides it would not be a good idea. He does not kill Claudius because he is asking for forgiveness for his sins and if Hamlet was to kill him, Claudius would go to heaven and Hamlet wants him to rot in hell. "Hamlet: No might I do it pat, now he is praying; And now I’ll do’t: and so he goes to heaven: And so am I revenged. That would be scann’d: A villain kills my father; and, for that, &# ...

Number of words: 953 | Number of pages: 4

Dead Poets Society

... one of the largest "offenders" when it comes to conformity, and that point is illustrated repeatedly in the film . At Wellton, students of all walks of life are expected to learn the same lessons the same ways. They are expected to memorize the important facts and regurgitate the same facts during exams. Latin class involves recitation, while chemistry involves memorization, and as long as the students can deliver what they have been told, they are successful in life. The new English teacher, Mr. Keating, challenges his students ...

Number of words: 760 | Number of pages: 3

For The Love Of The Fish An Es

... He has always been made fun of by coworkers, and because he had no one to trust this gave Dummy a pretense for digging a deeper hole into his depression. "Well, it made them kid Dummy, the way he was always carrying everything. Carl Lowe, Ted Shade, Johnny Wait, they were the worst kidders of the ones that kidded Dummy.” Another reasons for Dummy’s introversion was his wife. “ She was a women years younger and said to run around with Mexicans.” The lack of love at home and negative attention at work caused Dummy ...

Number of words: 721 | Number of pages: 3

Robert Frost 2

... go down the path that made the difference. Also, in “Birches”, lines 48-59, it shows that the poem is about being carefree. Frost wishes he could be like the boy swinging from the birch trees. The poem sets the picture of a boy swinging from the tree branches, but he really is talking about being carefree. He says that earth is the right place for love. He says that he doesn’t know where he would like to go better, but he would like to go swinging from the birches. Another example of symbolic description comes from the poem, ...

Number of words: 674 | Number of pages: 3

Cathedral

... blind man to spend the night. The narrator goes on to explain how his wife’s relationship started, beginning "that summer in Seattle she [when] she had needed a job." The husband seems suspicious of their relationship, and his tone is jealous and demeaning. He describes the blind man’s situation with short, terse sentences; "He didn’t have any money, either. But she was in love with the guy, and he was in love with her, etc." He almost seems to balk at their relationship as his use of "etc." depicts. ...

Number of words: 1168 | Number of pages: 5

Summertime Blues

... creates wonderful imagery by using elegant phrases and key contradictory lines to try to win the heart of his reader, and the woman he loves. Shakespeare wrote his sonnet when he was deeply in love with a woman. The woman used by Shakespeare is consistent throughout his sonnets, but no one is quite sure of the woman's identity. An expert on Shakespearian sonnets, Katherine Duncan-Jones, states "one sixth of the sonnets are addressed to the dark lady-and these can be seen as brutally defiant of Petrarchanism, yet the history of criti ...

Number of words: 672 | Number of pages: 3

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