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Compare And Contrast ‘State’ And ‘Nation’

... a common history, a common language, similar ethic origins and religious interests. Joined along together with a common economic life and a common political base. However each criteria can exist in different forms and extremes. Members of a nation have a unity that is not merely legal, they form a nation due to collective experiences which are often rooted in history. Anthony Smith states that “to say that the modern world is a world of nations is to describe both a reality and an aspiration.” A common language is essential for all ...

Number of words: 1238 | Number of pages: 5

Twelfth Night - Character Study :Malvolio

... a point of insulting the wit and intelligence of Feste "I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren rascal". Through doing this he shows himself to be man who condescends to those that he believes to be lower than him in any way, by acting on his own personal belief of superiority, and this later becomes a major player in his downfall. Initial impressions are supported by further vices in Malvolio’s general character and these lead to further aversion to him. He shows himself to be a strict puritan and this is also sug ...

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The Significance Of Changes In The Lottery

... is seen when she states that the villages forgot the ritual and cut some parts out. Old Man Warner symbolizes tradition and does not agree with change because he has been through the lottery seventy-seven times. His comments “Nothing but trouble in that” and “Pack of young fools,” After Mr. Adams said that the north village was talking about giving up the lottery, show that Old Man Warner did not approve of change and was comfortable with the way things were then. The “original paraphernalia” is stated to have been lost and replac ...

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Catcher In The Rye

... or abilities and used other methods to make him out to be a rough tough boy. "Boy, I sat at that goddam bar till around one o'clock or so, getting drunk as a bastard. I could hardly see straight." (pg. 150) Holden tried all he could to fit in. He drank, cursed and criticized life in general to make it seem he was very knowing of these habits. Holden used the term 'phonies' to describe more than a few people in this book. He used the term to be what a person is if they don't act naturally and follow other people's manners and grace. H ...

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Heart Of Darkness

... represents capitalism. Her efforts to get him a job are significant because of the morally compromising nature of the work of which she seems totally ignorant. When Marlow expresses doubts about the nature of the work, she replies, "You forget, dear Charlie, that the labourer is worthy of his hire" (12). It is clear that Marlow has mixed feelings about the whole idea. At one point, trying to justify his actions to himself, he says, "You understand it was a continental concern, that Trading Society; but I have a lot of relations on the livi ...

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Greek Literature

... did not invent these literary forms, they did perfect them. A popular Greek literary form was epic poetry. Like the epic poems of Homer, the Odyssey and the Iliad. The Greeks also wrote a shorter form of poetry. This was called lyric poetry. Lyric poetry is personal feelings instead of great events. One of the greatest contributions of Greek literature was Greek theater. Greek tragic plays are admired today because they deal with issues about how people behave. The Greeks brought styles of comedy that we see today. Greeks enjoyed comedies ...

Number of words: 1572 | Number of pages: 6

Bird Imagery In The Awakening

... by forecasting her actions and monitor her development by reflecting her feelings. The novel opens with the image of a bird, trapped and unable to communicate: "a green and yellow parrot, which hung in the cage outside the door...could speak a little Spanish, and also a language that nobody understood" (1). Like the bird, Edna feels trapped and believes that society has imprisoned her. Her marriage to Mr. Pontellier suffocates her and keeps her from being free. At the same time, she remains shut apart from society like the bird in ...

Number of words: 864 | Number of pages: 4

Battle Royal

... . The thing that is absolutely essential to our understanding of the story is the understanding of this "rich" character . In this study I will try to analyze some of his traits (invisibility-lack of indentity , blindness) and his journey from idealism to a grim realism about the racism that confronts him in the story. All my life I had been looking for something , and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was . I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I , and only I , could answer . It ...

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Around The World In 80 Days

... he makes. He has promised his arrival back in London in eighty days, regardless of the wilderness, delay, or other problems that may arise on his journey. The reader is, perhaps, driven to the conclusion that Fogg is a madman, who takes lightly to large sums of money. This is not so, as Fogg (although the wager seems unfeasible) is a reserved man, calm and collected at all times atop the punctuality Verne expresses within him in just the first chapters. Verne expresses the stereotypical Englishmen, the seeker of adventure, popular in his tim ...

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Oedipus Rex: Classic Tragic Hero

... (Miller 67). All of the above characteristics make Oedipus a tragic hero according to Aristotle's ideas about tragedy, and a narcissist according to Alice Miller's The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self. Using Oedipus as an ideal model, Aristotle says that a tragic hero must be an important or influential man who makes an error in judgment, and who must then suffer the consequences of his actions. Those actions are seen when Oedipus forces Teiresias to reveal his destiny and his father's name. When Teiresias tries to warn ...

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Structural Levels Of The Iliad

... universal war of the gods, social war of the Greeks and Trojans, and the private war of Achilles' honor are structural levels of the Trojan war. These structural levels seem to influence and shape each other in many distinct ways. The universal war between the gods over the apple of discord consequently lead to the social war between the Greeks and the Trojans. For example, Aphrodite promised Paris that he could have the most beautiful woman in the world if he gave the apple of discord to her. He did so, and decided to go and get his rewar ...

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Ordeal By Hunger

... guide the Donner Party through Weber canyon. Later McCutchen and Stanton took the Wahsatch route to Fort Sumter, because they needed to buy food and other supplies for the Donner Party and themselves. At Fort Sutter McCutchen got a little ill and had to stay while Stanton went back to the Donner Party with supplies and two Indian guides. When Reed arrived at Fort Sutter McCutchen and him heard that the Donner Party was stuck at foot of the Sierra Nevada’s mountains. Therefore, they try to save the Donner Party by traveling to Truckee Lake w ...

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