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... Mayville. The sheriff of this small southern town asks Attics to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman. As the name hints this is a story whose theme is, don't kill something that hasn't bothered anyone else. Tom resembles the mockingbird because he's accused of a crime he didn't commit and everyone wants to kill him. Atticus was a simple man who always followed the rules. So knowing the consequences he agrees to defend Tom Robinson. Eventually Tom loses the trial, mainly because the jury was made up of all white racists. Even t ...

Number of words: 451 | Number of pages: 2

How Does Iago Persuade Othello

... ways, through imagery, ‘sewing the seed’ in Othello’s mind, and reverse psychology. However all of these ways boil down to one thing, Iago, throughout the play, plays on Othello’s own insecurities about race, and Desdemona. Iago’s language throughout the scene is very rich and amazingly descriptive so much so that it actually acts as a projector, projecting vivid, clear pictures into the audience’s, and more importantly, Othello’s mind. This is more evident in the later part of the scene, and there i ...

Number of words: 956 | Number of pages: 4

Imagery In Waiting For Godot

... and other wise implied, visible and invisible,involving people as well as inanimate objects, and connect the dead with the living. The only rope that appears literally is the leash around Lucky's neck that Pozzo holds. In terms of the rope, the relationship between these characters is one of consistent domination. The stage directions say that "Pozzo drives Lucky by means of a rope passed round his neck." [15] Lucky is whipped often, and he is essentially the horse pulling Pozzo's carriage in a relationship that seems cruel and domineerin ...

Number of words: 822 | Number of pages: 3

Waiting For Godot

... people as well as inanimate objects, and connect the dead with the living. The only rope that appears literally is the leash around Lucky's neck that Pozzo holds. In terms of the rope, the relationship between these characters is one of consistent domination. The stage directions say that "Pozzo drives Lucky by means of a rope passed round his neck." [15] Lucky is whipped often, and he is essentially the horse pulling Pozzo's carriage in a relationship that seems cruel and domineering. Yet Lucky is strangely compliant. ...

Number of words: 813 | Number of pages: 3

Fire And Ice

... between these two temptations, trying to achieve the right balance between the two, while still preserving her own self. To develop the character of Jane, Bronte uses a great deal of fire imagery. This is most evident at Gateshead. The novel opens with Jane seating herself at the window-seat. She draws shut the red curtains around her, effectively closing herself off. Jane sees through the window the cold and gloomy outside world. The winter landscape represents society, cold and emotionless. The curtains, representing Jane's passion ...

Number of words: 1408 | Number of pages: 6

The Painted Door

... characters, the readers is able to understand the different desires each character wants. Since there characters were produced so well, the reader is able ro accept and grasp the characters actions at the end of the story. The character of John, is a simple generous man who thinks he has to serve his wife ro pleaseher. He believes that hes wife cannot love him for who he is. So he works long hours to made up for his big hulking body, bad looks, and his simple mind. He has determination to give her things that his wife does not need, bu ...

Number of words: 678 | Number of pages: 3

The Scarlet Letter 7

... good, even though death threaten on the other side (pg. 202)!” It is Hester’s pride, which sustains her from the beginning of the novel to the end, when she dies, still sporting the scarlet A on her bosom. Hester’s sin is the sin which gives the book its title and around which the action of the book resolves. Adultery, which was prohibited by the Seventh Amendment, was usually punished by death. A woman in the crowd stated, “At the very least, they should have put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne’s ...

Number of words: 563 | Number of pages: 3

Characterization Of Araby

... thestories that he reads and applies them to his own life. At the beginning of the story the reader is told of the narrator's fondness ofMangan's sister. His quest for her affection is much like that of themedieval knight's quest for the Holy Grail. As he walks through thestreets of Dublin, "he imagines that he bares his chalice safely through the throng of foes." The narrator also imagines Mangan's sister as the holy Madonna. At one point, his love for Mangan's sisteroverwhelms him, and he presses his palms together and begins to cha ...

Number of words: 441 | Number of pages: 2

Under The Influence

... one half year of kindergarten. Sister Candida would not accept Celestine because she hadn’t attended kindergarten. Then there were Celestine’s encounters with Mrs. Hoffman at the Church of Christ United Separate School (C.C.U.). Mrs. Hoffman disliked Indians, perhaps, because her husband had had an affair with one. She heard about it and left her husband for a couple of weeks. Celestine had arrived late to class one morning. As she walked into the classroom, she could feel the teacher’s disgusting glance. After class was ov ...

Number of words: 1310 | Number of pages: 5

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep

... / are smaller than himself."(Lines 10-11) In these lines Lawrence uses the repetition of "the things he sees" to emphasize to us that man faces major challenges and minor challenges that are all a part of our lives. Lawrence also repeats "The dog trots freely in the street" in this section and throughout the poem to tell us that we are free and can control our own destiny’s. We are shown, in this section, how exciting life is through the use of colourful imagery and explosive alliteration. Some examples are " ...

Number of words: 733 | Number of pages: 3

Othello

... aide, Iago, who convinces him that his wife is having a love affair with another officer named Cassio. Unable to trust the falsely corrupted Desdemona - he lacks the essential element of love and it is this absence of trust that causes Othello to disintegrate morally. This destructiveness extends to his own suicide, when his error of judging Desdemona to be an adulteress fails him. Our closely woven relationship with this traumatised and gullible Othello causes us to suffer with him, as he experiences emotional agonies, such as the destruc ...

Number of words: 1031 | Number of pages: 4

The Fifty-First Dragon: Analysis

... better than no slogan at all... but it is a doctrine on which some of the most dangerous causes in the world have been founded.” When the United States entered the war in 1917, the nation was deeply divided. President Woodrow Wilson had just won re-election partly because of the slogan, "He kept us out of war." Wilson established the Committee on Public Information which spread pro-war propaganda throughout the nation. The slogans were trite and did not address the deep betrayal the nation felt. Broun put it aptly when he wrote of the second ...

Number of words: 1396 | Number of pages: 6

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