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Tragedy In Genesis

... In fact, according to the Genesetic paradigm, tragedy need not end in death. Before entering into a detailed discussion of Genesis, we must attempt to define the term tragedy itself. Walter Kaufmann defines tragedy in an almost scientific kind of way. To him, every tragedy must fit into exactly the same mold in precisely the same fashion. He writes: tragedy is (1) a form of a literature that (2) presents a symbolic action as performed by actors and (3) moves into the center immense human suffering (4) in such a way that it brings to ...

Number of words: 4987 | Number of pages: 19

Iowa- An American Portrait

... and spread through out Iowa in the short time span of forty years. They soon began farming the land and found that one family could make a good living on eighty acres. Work was a necessity to Iowans. It gave meaning and pride to life, and farming was a business that could be passed on from generation to generation. Corn soon became the crop of choice to Iowa farmers. They found that it was more resistant to disease than the other crops they were growing, such as barley, oats, wheat, and apples. With this newfound “wonder crop”, Iowans ...

Number of words: 453 | Number of pages: 2

Essay On Caesar

... inorder to help the romans rid rome of Caesar. Brutus also understands that he is putting it all on the line for his romans, therefore Brutus is an honorable man. Brutus is a scrupulous man, whose virtues endure. "No not an oath, If not by the face of men, the sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse-If these motives be weak, break off betimes, and every men hence to his idle bed; So let high sighted tyranny rage on, till each man drop by lottery" (Shakespeare 399). Brutus said that if the conspirators do not join for a common cause, then ...

Number of words: 410 | Number of pages: 2

The Natural 3

... field. Yet his father warns him, immediately prior to his early death (By, rather than within, a large tree) that he can't rely solely on his gift alone, or he will fail. Only a couple chapters into the book this seems to have come true, as Harriet Bird, lover of veteran baseball star the Whammer, shoots Roy down with a silver bullet. The evening before Harriet injures Roy; she asks him, in a restaurant car, whether he has read Homer. The authors are not just drawing on the Matter of Britain for their archetypes. The manager and co-owne ...

Number of words: 510 | Number of pages: 2

Artificial Nigger

... of what constitutes as well as motivates an adherent racist. Mr. Head, a self-proclaimed missionary, plans on taking his grandson Nelson to Atlanta City. Intending to introduce Nelson to the focal point of his prejudice. However, Mr. Head’s sub- conscious motives are to have Nelson believe his grandfather’s existence in his life is indispensable. He hopes Nelson dependency upon him strengthens. Doing so would not only make himself feel superior but also ...

Number of words: 757 | Number of pages: 3

Hamlets Changing Character - B

... are friends with whom Hamlet attended college.. They cause Hamlet to do things that even the reader thinks he would never do. Hamlet's interactions with these people demonstrates how a person can be affected by the personalities and actions of the people around them. Horatio is the only person in the play who is always on Hamlet's side. In the play some people believe in Hamlet while other don't, but throughout, Horatio is a loyal friend to Hamlet. With the quote, "A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks; an ...

Number of words: 1355 | Number of pages: 5

Slaughter House Five

... So why do we only notice the bad things? Probably because we're human. Even though the bulk of our problems are self-inflicted or man-made, they still come as a shock to us nearly every time. We have created an absurd time to live in. So now what? How do we deal with it? How should we react to the horrors of war, heartache, and famine? Do we try to solve our problems all at once, or do we sit back and watch things fall apart? Kurt Vonnegut has an interesting idea of what to do, as is shown in his novel, . Vonnegut's prescription f ...

Number of words: 923 | Number of pages: 4

A Lesson Before Dying

... relating him to a hog, and a thing that cannot make intelligent decisions. By saying this he hopes to convince the jury that it would not be within justice to put him to death. Mentioning the attorney, Kenny points out, "To execute someone so simple, he concluded, would be like putting a hog in the electric chair" (683). Directed the jury, Jefferson's attorney states, "What you see here is a thing that acts on command... Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this" (Gaines 7-8). At one point in the novel, Jefferso ...

Number of words: 802 | Number of pages: 3

Old Neighborhood

... the " we can deduce a number of things from the overall poem. Dove seems to go back in time to view her home as a child from a newly shifting and surreal location. The speakers in Dove’s poems are not usually at ease with their surroundings, and they tend to look upon scenes of home as seen through a distant and dispassionate eye. Dove’s home seems alien to her. Even the flowers are strangers there. Analyzing the poem farther we can see that Dove uses her views on home to further alienate from our familiar picture of that typical ...

Number of words: 1063 | Number of pages: 4

Romeo And Juliet - Contrast In Language

... metaphors and similes to express his affection for Juliet: O, speak again bright angel, for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven.(Rom. II. II, 28-30.) This passage is used to compare Juliet to an angel, somethign that is universally held as sacred and lovely. Elsewhere in the scene there are lines that describe their love for one another, and add to the romantic theme of the scene: And but thou love me, let them find me here. My life better ended by their hate The death prorogued, wanti ...

Number of words: 397 | Number of pages: 2

Trifles By Susan Glaspell

... and Mr. Hale to the house. Mr. Hale describes everything that he saw the morning he discovered Mr. Wright’s body. The men have come to the house looking for evidence to convict Mrs. Wright. While the men are looking the house over for evidence, they grasp a different image than the women. The men viewed the house as inadequately taken care of due to broken jars of preserves or discovering dirty towels. All the men notice is clutter. The men do not look deeper behind the meanings of this disarray. However, the women do. The women ...

Number of words: 461 | Number of pages: 2

Granite - 2

... the culprit. An old rusted mower and a tactless, overweight nimrod with gray hair crowning it. With a shot of adrenaline, she hurled the stone edge after the tractor. Had this man no respect for the souls he so violently cut over? The stone dropped ten feet short, and the man was oblivious to it. The girl, innocent and full of rage, dropped to her knees at her deceased brother’s headstone. The only way she’ll ever see him. Only one tear fell the whole night, though. She wasn’t as mad as she was blown away at the wh ...

Number of words: 461 | Number of pages: 2

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