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The Tempest - Bringing It All Together

... be to go to Naples and reclaim his dukedom, but he doesn't want to do that because he has already "pardoned the deceiver" who took his position many years ago. Prospero then says something a little strange, but it makes sense in the context of the story, he ask us to "release [him] from [his] bands with the help of your good hands." In other words, clap so that the sails of the boats his friends are riding in will be safely returned and Prospero can be "relieved by prayer" of the audience. All of what Prospero has said is very nice ...

Number of words: 557 | Number of pages: 3

Piano

... to the woman’s soft voice, he remembers the time when he was little. He says that it is taking him “back down the vista of years,” till he sees “a child sitting under the .” This child is the speaker. The child is “sitting under the , in the boom of the tingling strings,” and he is “pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.” When the speaker was a child, he used to be under the where the strings were tingling since his mother was playing the . He used to press his mother’s feet, which ...

Number of words: 879 | Number of pages: 4

Brave New World - The Conflict

... their society and all who live within it. The people in this world are nothing. They are objects! Worse than objects! The way that Henry Ford produced cars are the way this world is producing things that are barely humans. All problems that occur can be "solved by standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of Identical twins. The principle of mass production at last applied to biology." Mass production of humans. This is one of the principle issues - treating humans like nothing, a "cell" in the "social bo ...

Number of words: 1700 | Number of pages: 7

The Sanctity Of The Heart

... in order to hide an imperfection, by that action, it will not be fully conveyed. Leaving out the truth creates a margin of error in communication. No matter how meager in size that margin is, it creates gaps which can later become canyons. These canyons carry affect to all that try to cross, a lie can wound anyone whether they are involved directly or simply watching. Roger Chillingworth begins a chain of self-denying which soon travels to the other characters. He is an old and lonely scholar in England dehumanized by a life of abstru ...

Number of words: 1458 | Number of pages: 6

Analytical Essay On I Too Sing

... many number of ways. I Too Sing America has psychological and cultural references such as intergroup stereotyping, communication, cooperation, and conflict. The poem is about the hope of one day being equal, it is expressed in each stanza at least once. “I laugh/and eat well/and grow strong”, these lines represent hope along with determination. It also gives us insight to the style that Hughes uses in all his poetry. He uses humor in most of his writing to convey his message though slight that is what the laugh represents, The laugh ...

Number of words: 691 | Number of pages: 3

Emily Dickenson

... poet in the respective poem. The most humorous or ironic are some of the shorter poems, such as the four lined stanzas of "Faith is a Fine Invention" and "Success Is Counted Sweetest". In "Faith", Dickinson presents a "witty and biting satirical look at Faith and its limitations" (Hartman 113). While it still amuses readers today, it must be mentioned that this short poem would have had a greater impact and seriousness to an audience from the period Dickinson lived in. Dickinson was raised in a strict Calvinist househo ...

Number of words: 1467 | Number of pages: 6

Street Car Named Desire Essay

... while the boys were playing poker, Blanche and Stella come into the kitchen and, as a result, disrupt the games. This got Stanley very angry and violent . For this reason he got up and began attacking Stella. Here is a passage from that scene: “ Men: Take it easy, Stanley, easy fellow,--Let’s all--. Stella: You lay your hands on me and I’ll—“(57) This just proves what I was saying about one of Stanley’s moods. His violence and the fact that he looses control of his actions is one characteristic whi ...

Number of words: 894 | Number of pages: 4

Charlotte’s Web And Watership

... However the activities, physical and mental, actions and behaviour demonstrated by the rabbits in Watership Down are typically the things that humans would expect from rabbits. This said, Charlotte’s behaviour in Charlotte’s Web, is what we might expect to see from a human being. Her spinning of the web with a word or two in it is not common activities for spiders. While examining the animal’s actions, partially sheds light on the stories that we are reading. It helps unravel the ideas and advance the plot. It does not however ...

Number of words: 782 | Number of pages: 3

Scarlett Letter 2

... and associating with nature. Pearl represents God’s punishment by her mocking and nagging of Hester. Throughout the novel she sometimes seemed to her mother as almost a witch baby (Matthiessen 104). She is a baffling mixture of strong emotions with a fierce temper and a capacity for evil. With Pearl, Hester’s life became one of constant nagging, and no joy. The child could not be made amenable to rules. Hester even remarks to herself, “Oh Father in heaven – if thou art still my father – what is this being which ...

Number of words: 1137 | Number of pages: 5

Failure In Shiloh

... to keep up with their own changes in life. Leroy and Norma Jean couldn't keep their relationship going for two reasons. First, due to Leroy's unfortunate accident, he has much more time on his hands and has noticed the many changes that have been going on in his life, and is unwilling to accept them. Now that Leroy has been sitting home and wasting his life away, he has started to take time and ponders his past. He remembers the good times and still wants his life to reflect those same good times. He especially remembers his late son Ra ...

Number of words: 756 | Number of pages: 3

The Masque Of Red Death: The Masque Of Poe

... was an actress that moved Poe's sister, brother , and himself around a lot. Then when he was three she died of tuberculoses. After his mothers death Poe was separated from his sister and brother. Poe was sent to the Allen family. Then when Poe was in his early twenties Mrs. Allen also died of tuberculoses. At the age of twenty-six Poe married his cousin Virginia. She later died of tuberculoses. His brother died of tuberculoses also. In "The Masque of Red Death," Poe uses color as a symbol. He used the colors red, bl ...

Number of words: 546 | Number of pages: 2

Antigone Essay

... to back down, Antigone’s headstrong attitude influences many of her choices throughout the play. Not only did she defy the law of Creon of not to bury Polyneicês, she also showed nastiness to her sister, Ismêne and her uncle, Creon because they would not help her in burying her brother. She shows her stubborness because she is unwilling to accept the fact that Creon and Ismêne won’t help bury her beloved brother. She becomes nasty and malicious because she is unable to forgive them. Antigone’s obstinacy also becomes very app ...

Number of words: 555 | Number of pages: 3

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