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Macbeth

... good man, was one that demanded respect in the beginning of "". The Sergeant described ’s honor and bravery to king Duncan in act I, scene 2. "For brave —well he deserves that name— Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour’s minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave;…" defended his king’s honor as well as his own, as Shakespeare showed a good man never backed down from a foe. In the later acts of the play, Shakespeare furthered the definition of a good man by po ...

Number of words: 504 | Number of pages: 2

Hamlet Analyzed In Terms Of Ar

... purgation of these emotions”(p. 22). Shakespeare’s Hamlet follows this definition for the most part, and even though it is not always in agreement with Aristotle’s guidelines, it is still a great and effective tragedy. Aristotle states that tragedy is “an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude”(p. 22). Hamlet is an excellent example of this. The play centers around Hamlet’s quest to avenge his father’s death, this is a serious action. It is also complete in the sense that all the l ...

Number of words: 893 | Number of pages: 4

Grapes Of Wrath

... and entertainment with people. The workers are to the driver a distant family. Truck stops provide companionship with people in the same industry and know what it feels like. This is where Steinbeck introduces Tom Joad. Tom and the driver are both dressed in new clothes but, unlike the driver Tom’s clothes came from McCalaster. McCalaster is a prison where he spent four years, in punishment for homicide. Tom was at the truck stop looking for a ride. He sat on the running board of a rig, until the driver came out. Tom questioned if the ow ...

Number of words: 3861 | Number of pages: 15

Spin Cycle

... combat known as a press conference, Kurtz shows how the use of controlled leaks, meticulously worded briefs, and the outright avoidance of certain questions allows the White House to control the scope and content of the stories that make it to the front page and the nightly network news. As Kurtz makes clear, the president and First Lady are convinced that the media are out to get them, while the journalists covering the White House are constantly frustrated at the stonewalling and the lack of cooperation they encounter while tr ...

Number of words: 1378 | Number of pages: 6

Catcher In The Rye 7

... the cliff and died. Holden wanted to save Allie to catch him before it was too late. The night of Allie’s funeral Holden smashed every window in his garage with his fists. Holden tried smashing the windows on the car but his fists were too badly injured to do it. Holden went to the hospital bleeding during Allie’s funeral. Holden did not attend his brother’s funeral, so that he would not have to completely let go of Allie. Holden was changed so much by his brother’s death, Allie’s death. Holden often talks ...

Number of words: 836 | Number of pages: 4

Winter Oak - Yuri Nagibin

... (Nagibin 59). Much of this dialogue is unnecessary; we the reader understands what goes on in the classroom, and two pages are not needed to establish nouns. Also, through dialogue Anna proved to be a snob. "’Good morning Anna Vasilyevna!’ Frolov raised his fur hat above his solid, close-cropped head. ‘what are you doing! Put it back on it’s freezing!’ Frolov probably wanted to pull his fur over his eyes himself…" (Nagibin 58). Anna feels as though she is high and mighty, and will not even acknowledge Frolov’s attempt ...

Number of words: 1094 | Number of pages: 4

The Stranger 2

... home in Marengo, they both lived two totally different and separate lives from each other. One of the reasons for her being sent to the home was because they were in a sense strangers to each other. Neither one of them was happy nor did neither of them know how to please each other or make the other one happy. "For the first few days she lived with me...she cried allot" (Meursault; page 5). Even after her death, Meursault's mother's social and private life still remained mostly a mystery to him. Meursault comes to realize this when h ...

Number of words: 522 | Number of pages: 2

Great Gatsby Essay

... be this perfect person. So when Gatsby and Daisy talked for the first time in years, it was almost like he was talking to a famous movie star. Daisy didn’t feel that way. She used to love him, but not anymore. Also, if Gatsby and Daisy met under other circumstances, such as each of them having no money and Daisy not being married, their relationship may have worked out. But because of the circumstances, their relationship was doomed to fail. Of all of the relationships, I think that the most honest was between Nick Carraway and ...

Number of words: 371 | Number of pages: 2

Two Different Attitudes, Two D

... describe their own individual experiences. These experiences create a very clear, individualistic tone that makes the poems of these two writers differ in many ways. The speaker in “Homage to my Hips” carries a very proud and self-confident attitude. The best example of this would be when the speaker says, “These hips are mighty hips. These hips are magic hips. I have known them to put a spell on a man and spin him like a top!”(Pg705). That line is so powerful, it portrays the image that she thinks that bug women ar ...

Number of words: 667 | Number of pages: 3

Scarlet Letter 2

... wanted to be known and to have someone to love him and grieve of his death. The family agreed with him and they all talked about how nice it would be to live in a small town and get to know all the people living in the town. They then started talking about death and how they want to die with people remembering them when suddenly there is an avalanche. They all run out of the house and get killed by the falling rocks. The rocks completely missed the house but the people were never found in the rubble around the house. Most writers have a s ...

Number of words: 786 | Number of pages: 3

Evil

... Saviour's life" (8), and yet, Pilate did not take her advice, and opted instead to have nothing to do with it, which was more cowardly than what his wife would have done. She continues this theme into the next stanzas using the fall of Adam and Eve to defend women. Lanyer plays on the age-old idea; men are stronger and superior to women. Therefore, if women are weak, she argues it is in fact men who are more at fault for the fall of humankind because it should have been expected for women to succumb to the power of temptation. Adam's acc ...

Number of words: 1050 | Number of pages: 4

Around The World In Eighty Day

... protagonist in s is Phileas Fogg. Fogg’s most important character quality is his determination to succeed. After Fogg read the article in the paper about how it is possible to voyage the world in eighty days Fogg knew he could prove it. So after he made the bet that he could do it he was so determined the whole way that he could make the voyage. Along the way, he tried not to let anything get in the way even though the trip was delayed by slow railway systems, rescuing an Indian maharani from a burning funeral pyre and being c ...

Number of words: 764 | Number of pages: 3

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