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Great Expectations - Compositi

... Pip with him. Joe withstood all of Mrs. Joe's meanness just to be with Pip, even though Pip does not show love towards Joe. Joe is not very intelligent, but he is a strong man. He takes satisfaction in being a blacksmith, and he has pride in himself. He believes in integrity, and he always treats people politely. An example of how Joe treats people, i s at the beginning of the story, when Pip's criminal is apprehended. When the criminal says that he is sorry for eatin g the pie, Joe says, "God knows you're welcome to it-so far as it was ever m ...

Number of words: 609 | Number of pages: 3

Conflict In “A Worn Path”

... 1). There are two theories about this one of them is that she has an old body and needs the cane to help her walk. The other suggested by Edgar V. Roberts is the she has trouble seeing and she uses it to feel her way to town “she may not have been completely blind but she had to have been substantially impaired to have kept tapping her cane in a redundant manner” (Roberts 196). The next conflict is her age. The narrator does not mention exactly how old Phoenix is, but “her eyes were blue with age. Her skin had a pattern all its o ...

Number of words: 481 | Number of pages: 2

The Phantom Of The Opera

... back to a late 19th century opera house. With the use of heavy dark drapes along with dry ice, hundreds of candles mysteriously rising from the floor, the audience is made to feel all of the sentiments that one would feel in the original Paris opera house which was the inspiration for the novel. The costumes are also meticulously designed to enhance the Victorian setting. One of the most important aspects of the set is the chandelier. It comes crashing down at the end of Act One with a powerful force which is not only visualized but ...

Number of words: 477 | Number of pages: 2

Shawshank Redemption 2

... all new inmates, he is sexually assaulted. He constantly resists sexually advances by other inmates. While facing other ordeals he hopes to find a group of people he can identify with. Andy uses his vast financial knowledge to help a prison guard keep a tax free $35,000 left to him by his brother. His only request is that the prison guard gives all the prisoners three beers each. Andy then makes his friends for the duration of his stay at Shawshank Prison. The next challenge that Andy faces is keeping the one thing that he holds dear, ...

Number of words: 658 | Number of pages: 3

Epic Heroes In Time

... are made to overcome obstacles and, finally, the task is not complete until the greater good of the people whom the hero represents is met. Ultimately, the measure of the hero's success is whether the legend stands the test of time. While Greek culture and mythology differ from Jewish traditions, their heroes are one in the same. Odysseus and Moses, as well as Jacob, represent epic heroes that could appear in any culture at any point in time and in any form. Epic heroes are not always flawless. They occasionally commit a crime, lie, or ...

Number of words: 1155 | Number of pages: 5

The Crucible 4

... for some time and submitted the names of the women who were responsible for this awful spell. Eventually, other ailing girls began to give names of those who were presumably persecuting them, leaving dozens of peopled jailed. As soon as this witchcraft hysteria began to get out of hand, the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony designated several of the colony’s leading citizens to assemble a special court responsible for trying all those suspected of witchcraft. It was at this point that the Salem witch trials began and would ...

Number of words: 1073 | Number of pages: 4

The Importance Of Being Earnes

... realizes that Gwendolyn loves the name Ernest. He tries through several ways to talk to her and find out if she could love him if his name was Jack. She considers the entire question to be hypothetical and unimportant, since she’s always known him to be Ernest. The entire dialogue that occurs during the discussion has humorous pieces that add to the colorful nature of the play. One piece of the dialogue is spoken by Jack, where he says, “Gwendolyn, I must get christened at once—I mean, we must get married at once.” ...

Number of words: 547 | Number of pages: 2

Docter Faustus

... is the use of the saying, "the face that launched a thousand ships" (l. 96). This is a commonly applied expression when speaking about Helen of Troy. Throughout the play, Faustus fluctuates between the use of advanced and lesser vocabulary. Here, he is so shocked by Helen’s beauty that he knows nothing else but this typical phrase. This implies that Faustus is in a state of hypnosis. He is taken over by Helen’s beauty, and in the process, loses his soul. Another illustration of the trance Faustus is in, is by the u ...

Number of words: 1099 | Number of pages: 4

Creon Vs. Antigone In The Buri

... As for Polyneices he will recieve no such burial but instead will be left unburied. Antigone, one of the daughter's of Oedipus and sister of Eteocles and Polyneices, decides she is going to bury her brother against the king's wishes even though she is risking her life to do so. King Creon's decision not to properly bury Polyneices is because he feels he is a traitor to Thebes. This is due to the fact that he broke out of exile and attacked his own city with an army form outside of Thebes. King Creon says he is a coward to his city, not a ...

Number of words: 527 | Number of pages: 2

The Patented Gate And The Mean

... young man, Holden puts his inner world to the test through the sexual mores of his peers and elders, the teachings of his education, and his own emerging sense of self. Throughout the years, the language of the story has startled some readers. Salinger's control of Holden's easy, conversational manner makes the introduction of these larger themes appear natural and believable. (Bloom, 1990). At the time of the novel through today, Holden's speech rings true to the colloquial speech of teenagers. Holden, according to many reviews in the ...

Number of words: 1479 | Number of pages: 6

Shakespeare And Kingship

... by the true events, because it is well known that all of Shakespeare's plays were written purely for entertainment value, not as a historical record of what occurred. The main notion of kingship that Shakespeare attacks in Macbeth, King Richard II and King Henry IV, is the divine right of kings, where the kings claimed that they were God's counterpart on Earth, and a 'step up' in divinity from the other aristocrats and the common people. In his plays, Shakespeare depicts the kings, and Hal, in King Henry IV, as people who were not, or at ...

Number of words: 1598 | Number of pages: 6

Julius Caesar

... to us, a mean which is defined by a rationale principal, such as a man of practical wisdom would use to determine it. It is the mean by reference to the two vices: the once of excess and the other of deficiency. It is, moreover, a mean because some vices exceed and fall short of what is required in emotion and in action, whereas virtue finds and chooses a median. Hence in respect of it’s essence and definition of its essential nature virtue is a mean, but in regard to goodness and excellence it is an extreme”(Aristotle 1107a, ...

Number of words: 2013 | Number of pages: 8

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