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How The Characters In The Merc

... is robbed of his possessions for these deeds. Shylock is not merciful towards Antonio’s situation and he does not care for his life. When Shylock is about to take a pound of flesh from Antonio, Portia asks for a doctor to help Antonio with his wound. All Shylock can say about this is, “I cannot find it; ‘tis not in the bond.” (IV i 260). He does not care for Antonio’s life. Not only does Shylock hate Antonio, but he also hates all Christians. He shows this when he says, “I hate him for he is Christian& ...

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I Stand Here Ironing

... women, the mother knows to let her be and leave her to live her own life. The character of the mother is crucial to the entire story, for it is this that will determine her attitudes toward her daughter. She at first, seemed very naïve and weak in a big scary world, with society constantly nipping at her heels, but, as she lives, she learns to take life as it comes and try her hardest to do her best. Which at that time was no easy thing to do. The strength and love that the mother exhibits constantly keeps the idea of hope with the read ...

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War Poetry

... war. While Brooke, who did not see the trenches, wrote, “The Soldier”, and a patriotic war-supporting poem. Each man wrote a splendid war poem, but each from different spectrums of war. “Everyone Sang” is a two stanza, five-line poem that says so much about the imprisonment of war. The poem was written right after Sassoon’s release from the British army. He is so overjoyed to be released that he compares it too, “…prisoned birds must find in freedom Winging wildly across the white Orchards&# ...

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My Personal Experiences With Math

... stuck with me throughout my educational background and has laid the foundation toward my future. I always liked math the most of all my subjects in school but I never imagined it as my choice of major in college. I was not really a student who enjoyed school at all. I guess you could almost say that I despised school. I was just one of those kids who hated to get up in the mornings and school just wasn't a good enough reason. I could have thought of a hundred things I would have rather been doing with my time instead of learning but my ...

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Harrison Ainsworth Rookwood An

... and Barnaby Rudge (1841); and William Harrison Ainsworth Rookwood (1834) and Jack Sheppard (1839-40). Several of these novels were based upon famous crimes and criminal careers of the past (Eugene Aram, Dick Turpin in Rookwood, and Jack Sheppard); others derived from contemporary crime (Altick, 1970, p. 72). Although many authors chose to base their stories on criminals, William Harrison Ainsworth’s Rookwood and Jack Sheppard are two of the best examples of the theme of ‘crime and punishment’ in the nineteenth centur ...

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Wutherinng Heights

... means were somewhat lesser compared to the emotional content surrounding her. Furthermore, writing is such an impassioned state; it could well have been her only means to free her soul toward the outer world. In other words, her writings was the means by which she could search and question her personal knowledge on society. Wuthering Heights develops the search for knowledge or truth that subsequently damns and saves her emotionally charged characters: Heathcliff searches for the knowledge he might one day rest with Catherine Earnshaw; Cather ...

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A Man For All Seasons

... VIII to sign the Act of Supremacy. The Act gives Henry VIII full authority over the Catholic Church and thus further distancing England from Rome, since the Pope would no longer be the head of the Church. More has many objections to and reasons for not signing the oath. More believes that if he does what he is called to do rather than what he believes to be morally right then he will have made the wrong decision and in the end will have no positive effect. This is evident when More says " I believe, when statesmen forsake their own privat ...

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Eugene Ionesco's "Rhinoceros": True Means Resides In Action Not Words

... and nothing more. Futile attempts to ease the pain of my "rhinocerotic" life. The only way to really not become a rhinoceros is by making the existential decision not to do so. A main theme in Eugene Ionesco's, Rhinoceros, is that true meaning resides in action rather than in mere words. A resistance to taking action then results in one's becoming a rhinoceros. Jean illustrates this in the beginning of Act 2, scene 2, when we see Jean and Berenger bickering. Berenger feels that Jean isn't looking or feeling well and threatens to get ...

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Hawthorne And Symbolism

... Devil who tries to convert him; this is shown by the Devil's offering of the staff to Brown. The Devil goes on to say that Brown's family has had dealings with evil in the past. He uses the example of the Salem witch trials. Brown goes on to say that he could not bear the shame of betraying his faith while the Devil is naming people known and respected by Brown to try to show him that it wouldn't really be that bad if Brown joined the witches' plan. Secondly, when Goody Cloyse is encountered, Brown learns how she truly feels about him. ...

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To Kill A Mocking Bird 2 -

... of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall judging from his tracks... There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time. (ch.1, pg.17) This quotation is given by Jem because he does not know Arthur. Because he does not know Arthur personally and he has never seen him, stories are made up about his appearance and various other things children have heard about him. Boo wasn’t crazy, he was just high strung at ...

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Creon As The Tragic Hero In An

... of the plot. It develops mostly around his actions. For example, Creon could have had the chance to live “happily ever after” if he would have simply buried Polynices. He then sentences Antigone to death for attempting to give Polynices a proper burial. Creon’s importance in the plot leads me to believe that he is the tragic hero. Tragedies recount an individual’s downfall, usually beginning high and ending low. This individual also boasts noble qualities. Of course, Creon begins as a powerful king, but his development through ...

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Robert Frost And Ralph Waldo Emerson: Similarities In Nature

... described in Alvan S. Ryan's essay Frost and Emerson: Voice and Vision he says " Whereas Emerson prefers to be suggestive, to develop a few images or a series of briefly sketched scenes, Frost characteristically structures a poem around a single symbolic event. Emerson's unifying principle is ideational, Frost's metaphorical."(Ryan127) Both of these writers have their differences as all writers do. A close look at their works will show that Frost and Emerson have similarities. At a first glance the works Frost and Emerson seem to h ...

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