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Scarlet Letter-the Sides Of A

... blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire”. Thus showing how much evil is in Roger Chillingsworth. The second character to talk about in the book “The Scarlet Letter” is Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Arthur is a holy man, in the puritan society everyone looks at the reverend as a sign of belief and honesty. One example of Arthur’s good doing, is when he stood at the platform at night and asked Hester and Pearl to join him on the platform and to hold h ...

Number of words: 310 | Number of pages: 2

Comparison Of Daniel Sonnet 6

... what the perfect love would be using metaphors. Daniel uses metaphors that related to something of great power or energy, such as the sun, writing "although her eyes are sunny." Daniel uses the sun to compliment the mystical sense of his mistress. When Daniel talks of the eyes, he is explaining the power that can be seen in her eyes. This of course is not a realistic portrayal of a woman, but rather an idea of the kind of love that is so powerful, so heavenly that it is unattainable. Daniel tries to prove that his mistress has a love so ...

Number of words: 1347 | Number of pages: 5

Thomas More's Ideal Society

... the technology was simple and the economic demand was not sophisticated. So More’s views probably seemed good at the time, but today his ideas might seem foolish. More believed that everyone, men, women, children, and adults would be farmers. Then and only then would the people be allowed to learn another trade such as carpentry or sewing. Also, the person could only practice that trade in their spare time. This idea does not seem reasonable to me. Why does someone have to be a farmer? This would mean that whoever did not want to f ...

Number of words: 713 | Number of pages: 3

Fahrenheit51

... the city has its own problems. The protagonist , Guy Montag, goes against society and steals books to read at home, meets a friend to help him in his brave stand against society but gets discovered, then barely escapes his punishment to join a group of people who attempt to preserve knowledge through memorization. At the beginning of the novel Guy Montag is described as a "minstrel man" (4). He is a fireman who "never questioned the pleasure of watching pages consumed by flames." (Back cover). He is a brave individual who decides to rebel ag ...

Number of words: 837 | Number of pages: 4

The Catcher In The Rye 3

... when Holden says “I got the axe. They give guys the axe quite frequently at Pencey.” he does not like this as it does not allow students to be individuals and be who they really want to be. Another reason Holden dislikes school so much is because the way teachers have an unfair authority over their students. Mr Spencer used his authority when he read out Holden’s paper. holden thought this was rude and said “I don’t think I’ll ever forgive him for reading me that crap out loud. I wouldn’tR ...

Number of words: 751 | Number of pages: 3

To Kill A Mockingbird 3 -

... to the jail. Through this the author aims to highlight the matter of prejudices and evoke empathy and understanding in the readers. One of Scout’s first encounters with prejudice, and subsequent “loss of innocence”, is during the children’s interruption at the jail house where Tom Robinson was being held. On impulse, the children arrived at the jail to encounter several men confronting Atticus. At this time, Scout was quite unaware of what was happening, being totally oblivious to the threat the men posed to the ...

Number of words: 943 | Number of pages: 4

Compare And Contrast Of The Od

... Tiresias is direct and to the point. He starts by stating that “A sweet smooth journey home … is what you seek, but a god will make it hard for you.” From what can be read, Tiresias feels no need ‘sugarcoat’ what he is telling for two simple reasons. First, he came willingly to Odysseus, sugarcoating the truth would be a waste of time. The second and more important reason is that he has good news for Odysseus, relative to what has happened so far. On the other hand, in Oedipus the King, Tiresias skirts around telling Oedipus th ...

Number of words: 1156 | Number of pages: 5

Murder In The Cathedral

... the church with those of the king marked him as a traitor and resulted in his subsequent flight from London. A makeshift peace between the king and Becket allows the priest's homecoming, but the treaty is one of dubious stability. Thus, the women of Canterbury and local priests meet the news of the archbishop’s return with both joy and trepidation. Once back in Canterbury, Becket is greeted by the temptations that corrupted him before. More of his past is revealed as the play progresses, giving the audience a sense for how far Becket ha ...

Number of words: 625 | Number of pages: 3

Difficulty In Making An Important Decision

... family's income and most of the medical benefits. Some means of earning a living while preparing for a new career was foremost on my mind during this stage. If I spent to much time and energy pursuing a job to provide a means for supporting my family while retraining, I might not do a sufficient job of retraining for a new career. Another difficulty equally as important as the the financial one was the possibility of failing at a new endeavor or not being able to find a new job. These possibilities made me feel uncomfortable and insecu ...

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The Western Formula

... setting to the coarse grin one cowboy would make towards another. These do not in fact relate to Cawelti’s Western formula. Crane’s deviation from the formula western signifies his deeper approach towards issues such as human existence and morality—the ethical code that we follow for success. Crane perhaps does this because he personally finds more significance in the inner meaning of an issue rather than its surfacing argument. Cawelti’s Western formula holds a strong assumption that men are assertive and women are ...

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Tradition Roles

... away." (Cerenio, 16-21) The author mentions that she feels attatched to this tradition. Her tradition is to marry a boy from a good family and of course, from the islands or others may think negatively of her family for not following the tradition. In the telephone man, Jack has been raised by a racist father. His father's beliefs have become a tradition in the household. "I wonder if my dad would mind if I stopped hating niggers for awhile." (Crutcher) The father has influenced Jack so much that Jack doesn't know the appropriate term ...

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Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?": Arnold Fiend

... begins to notice the features such as the painted eyelashes, his shaggy hair which looked like a wig, and his stuffed boots; these features led her to believe he was not a teenager, but in fact, much older. Oates does make Arnold out to be a psychopathic stalker, but never objectively states the diabolical nature to his character. In “Connie's Tambourine Man”, a critical essay on the story, the authors write about Arnold Friend: “There are indeed diabolical shades to Arnold just as Blake and Shelley could see Milton's Satan a posit ...

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