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Beowulf

... He then becomes jealous because of the idea that everyone has friends except him. Grendel was believed to be one of the pair of monsters that was a descendent of Cain, banished by God, forever punished for the crime of Abel's death. "…Since Cain had killed his only / Brother, slain his father's son / With an angry sword. God drove him off, / outlawed him…" (, 1261 - 1264). Grendel envies the fellowship and happiness he sees in Herot. He hates not having anyone and being excluded from the company of men. He is jealous of the pleasure ...

Number of words: 1464 | Number of pages: 6

Mosquito Coast

... appealing parts of the book's lead character, a brilliant but iconoclastic inventor. He rages against the phoniness of American life: neon, fast food, TV, pollution, crime and phony evangelism - in short, all the old and usual suspects. These may have been timely villains back when Jessica Mitford first wrote about planned obsolescence in the 1950s, but now they're just tired subjects. And, in Paul Schrader's heavy-verbiage screenplay they're just plain annoying. On and on, a Hawaiian-shirted Ford spouts the evils of double-digit inflation an ...

Number of words: 621 | Number of pages: 3

The Fall Of The House Of Usher

... because of the house. The erosion of both the physical house of Usher and the people of the house Usher are comparative to each other. As the physical house of Usher crumbles, so do the family members in turn. As each brick in the house erodes, so do the minds of the Usher family. As Roderick Usher crumbles there is a sense of approaching doom is descending upon the entire household. Both the house and the Ushers are awaiting collapse. When Roderick collapsed to the floor dead, the narrator ran from the house, as he "saw the mighty walls ...

Number of words: 284 | Number of pages: 2

Symbolism And Characterization In Books

... and has doubts. The crew is adequate for their positions on the ship, but the Captain is doubtful about his own adequacy. His thoughts reveal his doubts early in the book, "I wonder how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly" (5). Lacking consultation with his repressed side, the captain questions whether he will be able to command his ship correctly. As the reader continues through the book, the Captain's first meeting with Leggatt communicates a closene ...

Number of words: 784 | Number of pages: 3

"Why Don't We Complain": Man De-evolving?

... or a furnace man. With the age of technology, we became more dependent on machinery resulting in a lack of creativeness in solving problems. The air conditioner is a prime example. Often, I find myself asking my father, "How did you ever make it through the summer without air conditioning?" Although Buckley wrote this essay in 1961, his argument definitely holds true today. Americans are spoiled by technological advantages. Children used to go to school to learn how to perform simple mathematical equations. However, due to man's pa ...

Number of words: 571 | Number of pages: 3

A Lesson Before Dying

... of the Civil War in their native Georgia, and move to the scrub of Northern Florida. The MacIveys experience many troubles and learn many new things during their stay in the scrub, such as meeting Indians, that will turn out to influence their life greatly. Other experiences included Tobias being recruited by Marshall Adler to drive cattle to the confederate troops and also being recruited to chop trees to build walls of defense for the confederate forces. During the excursion to chop down trees, confederate deserters raided Emma a ...

Number of words: 1584 | Number of pages: 6

Julius Caesar

... speech would not know what he was going to say. Anthony then started his speech almost identically as brutus only changing one word, but it made an obvious difference, and it sent out more compassion towards the crowd. He then says act 3 scene 2 line 81, “the noble brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious, if it were so it was a grievous fault, and grievously hath Caesar answered it”. This meant that because Caesar was ambitious he deserved to die. He then says act 3 scene 2 line 91”Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought ...

Number of words: 839 | Number of pages: 4

Supernatural Elements In Macbe

... than the rest. So he found nothing wrong with the witches’ forecasts of him becoming the king of Scotland. “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis! … All hail, Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter” This was all part of the witches’ plan. They knew that Macbeth was both single-minded and gullible, and took full advantage of it. Macbeth let these predictions go to his head and he expected King Duncan to make him the next in line for the throne. When this didn’t happen, Macbeth saw no othe ...

Number of words: 574 | Number of pages: 3

Tomorrow When The War Began

... a foreign force and starts ruling parts of Australia. This foreign force wants to take over Australia because of the wide open space which Australia has an their Country doesn’t. They want to bring people from their country and give them a home each and manage a farm and have the Australians as slaves to them. Through Ellie's eyes you find out information you never thought possible. The information you find out from Ellie is about what the group is going to do to try and stop this force and other various things like bringing live stock ...

Number of words: 835 | Number of pages: 4

The Count Of Monte Cristo

... The Count of Monte Cristo is set within the nineteenth century of France in large and populous cities. This was a time of great disruption. There was confusion all over the land in regards to who led France, King Louis or Napoleon. The citizens of France became divided by the two ruling parties. Royalists and the Bonapartist cut at each others throats in order to declare that their ruler was supreme. This situation has a profound effect on the events of the story. Dantes' enemies used the rivalry between the two p ...

Number of words: 1270 | Number of pages: 5

Kurt Vonnegut--slaughterhouse

... purposes and, therefore, was not considered a military target. Because of it's apparent safety, thousands of refugees from all over Europe converged on Dresden for protection (Klinkowitz 2-3). Dresden's neutrality was broken and the resulting attacks laid waste, what Vonnegut called, "the Florence of the Elbe." Kurt Vonnegut was a witness to this event and because of fate, had been spared. He wrote Slaughterhouse Five to answer the question that resounded through his head long after the bombs could no longer be heard. "Why me?"- a frequent qu ...

Number of words: 2173 | Number of pages: 8

The Death Ivan Ilyich

... her. When Praskovya fell in love with Ivan he thought, “Really, why shouldn’t I get married?” So he decided to get married. Everything was going well at the start. Then his wife got pregnant, everything changed. She became angry at everything he did. She started saying that he was not paying enough attention to her. He tried to act normal and spend time with his friends. Then his wife got violent with him so he stayed at work more because he didn’t want to be at home. They never got divorced but he did ha ...

Number of words: 561 | Number of pages: 3

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