According to Aristotle, the function of a tragedy is to purge pity and fear out of a person. The tragic hero of a tragedy must have certain qualities that can contribute to this function. Inez Serrano, a character from Sartre`s play No Exit, not only exhibits those qualities but also demonstrates...
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Like all of Shaw's great dramatic creations, Pygmalion is a richly complex play. It combines a central story of the transformation of a young woman with elements of myth, fairy tale, and romance, while also combining an interesting plot with an exploration of social identity, the power of science...
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Theme: To me the reader, or the audience, best interprets the theme of this story, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. To some they simply may see this as a fiction novel written for fun rather than having a main focus point, or underwritten message. Others may see...
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Response on the passage of the Swamp in the Handmaid’s Tale Offred is one of the women that represent resistance in the Gilead regime; she has managed to survive thought the novel, with all the things that it implies. She is a handmaid and according to the theocratic government, her main role is...
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Next comes the events in the rising action. Chuck starts to tell Thomas information about the Glade. He says once a month, another boy is pulled up to the Glade in the Box (elevator). Every boy is assigned a job and has certain tasks to perform so they survive. He accidentally slips out how the...
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"The Secret Life of Bees uses the Black Madonna as an important symbol of women leadership. As August tells Lily, "Our Lady is not some magical being out there somewhere, like a fairy godmother. She's not in the statue in the parlor. She's something inside you" (Kidd, 288). This statement is the...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout's Development "Select a novel studied by you where at least one of the principal characters is a young person. Discuss what you consider to be the most important influence in the novel in helping that young person to develop. " Jean-Louise Finch (Scout) is the main...
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Both Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984 present an anti-utopian future, in which anything that might be validly equated with freedom has been destroyed. Although markedly different in many ways, these two books show a grim parallelism in their presentation of many of the ways...
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"? It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart. " The background of "A separate Peace" is the Second World War and the focus of book is a group of sixteen-year-old boys who are moving...
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"Antigone" the play written by Sophocles deals with moral law vs civil law. King Creon has condemned Princess Antgione. Antgione went against the king's decree and buried her brother Ploynices. Antgione now will be punished by starvation under King Creon's decree. Antigone is a passionate, strong...
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In the novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, it is not only about one person’s evil but a collective and collaborative effort to evidently lead to a horrible catastrophe. Santiago Nasar, the main character, is going to be killed and has no idea. However, the rest of the town knows...
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Matt Grann January 4, 2009 Ethan Frome is an example of realist text for many reasons. The novel has many gritty facts of life and explains the lower class. It also has shows the harshness of reality. Finally, Ethan Frome is an example of men having no free will and can’t avoid their fate. Ethan...
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Henry vs. Becket How is it despite their many differences Henry and Becket are able to be friends and coexist together for so long? Even though in the end they severely go their separate ways and do not see eye to eye anymore. In the film Becket based on the novel by Jean Anouilh, Henry’s abuse of...
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Long Day`s Journey into thePast: The character analysis of Mary In the play ? °Long Day s Journey into Night, ± by Eugene O Neill, the writer depicts a typical day of the Tyrone family, whose once-close family has deteriorated over the years for a number of reasons: Mary s drug addiction, Tyrone...
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Hell is Other People “Only in the self can the drama of truth occur. A crowd is untruth. ” - Kierkegaard On a literal level, Sartre’s play, “No Exit”, is an account of three individuals damned to a hell unlike any other. The first and only Act opens upon the arrival of Garcin. He is escorted by a...
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poetry Deconstruction: The Story of Pygmalion and the Statue (1713 translation) The poem “The Story of Pygmalion and the Statue” was originally written in Greek by Ovid, and is found in Book Ten of his work, Metamorphoses. It was translated into English in 1713, and this translation employs...
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Ernest Hemingway probably summed it up best when he said, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn" (source). We’re dealing with quite a book here. Published in 1885, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain’s follow-up to the Adventures of Tom Sawyer...
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Focused Class Discussion The Handmaid’s Tale Melina Taquis Theme & Motif 23-4-12 1) Can ’Sex exclusively for reproduction and not for pleasure’’ be considered one of the main themes of this novel? ‘’Sex exclusively for reproduction and not for pleasure’’ can be easily considered one of the...
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The Maze Runner by James Dashner, this book is about a boy named Thomas being brought to a completely different place with no recollection of his past, his family, but only his first name. Trapped behind walls (the Glade), they (Gladers) would need to somehow solve an unsolvable maze to escape...
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Jackie Yets 3/21/11 Per. 6, English H2/SP Secret Life of Bees Research Paper While one reads the Sue Monk Kidd novel, The Secret Life of Bees, an enigma acquainted with the book is why the Black Madonna of Breznichar in Bohemia is used as opposed to a white Virgin Mary. With the story taking place...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Childhood Experience Have you ever thought of an answer to reply to your children, when they ask you, "What was the world like when you were a child? ", "What things that happened that impressed you most when you were a child? " or "How interesting is your childhood...
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In a fascinating book by Neil Postman entitled “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” the author describes George Orwell’s “1984” vis-à-vis Huxley’s “A Brave New World.” In his comparison, Postman gives the context of Orwell’s book in contrast to that of Huxley’s. He says that in “1984,” Orwell feared...
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A Separate Peace Dealing with enemies has been a problem since the beginning of time. "I never killed anybody," Gene had commented later in his life, "And I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform, I was on active duty all my...
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Antigone v. The Roman Women In the play, Antigone and Creon battle a philosophical war dealing with the controversy of the Greek ideals. They both based their actions on their beliefs of what is right and wrong. The whole problem arises when their believes and ideas encountered each other, making...
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5. List the characters in Ch. 1 and identify them in relation to the narrator, Santiago Nasar or the town. Placida Linero- Santiago Nasar's mother. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes- She is the town whore and has slept with the narrator and Santiago Nasar each, many a time. The...
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In the novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, foreshadowing is used to show and explain plot and conflict within the novel. The narrator’s introduction to the story describes Ethan as a crippled man who has had a “smash-up“(11), foreshadowing that his relationship with Mattie will meet a tragic end...
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Henry V and Machiavelli are different in many ways. The main reason why they are different is because they are the leaders from different epochs. Henry V is a leader from medieval times. Machiavelli “The Prince” is a leader from renaissance times. These leaders have different thoughts of a lot of...
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Addiction: Long Days Journey Into Night "Long Days Journey into Night" is a play written by Eugene O'neill. The story is about one day in the life of the Tyrones, a dysfunctional family who are all addicted to something in their own way. Each of their addictions feeds another member of the familys...
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No Exit Analysis of Characters Characters Garcin: Desire: All what Garcin wanted to do, is to show others that he is not a coward. He was also trying to convince himself that what he did is not a coward thing to do. Will: Garcin was lost; he thought he should persuade both Inez and Estelle in...
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Pygmalion is perhaps Shaw's most famous play and, ironically, it is among his most abused and misinterpreted ones. Almost everyone knows the basic outlines of this story of the Cockney flower girl who is almost magically transformed into a duchess by taking speech (phonetic) lessons from her...
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Sometimes in literature, authors will use minor characters to highlight important qualities of another character. This approach helps the reader better understand the character since character foiling helps to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Mark Twain uses several character foils, each...
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Maria IB English 05/31/12 How do the scenes, of both the book and movie, of The Handmaid? s Tale made changes for their own benefit? The Handmaid? s Tale book by the Canadian Margaret Atwood is a dystopian novel, science fiction first published in 1985. It won so many prizes such as the Arthur C...
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Thomas is brought into a place known as the Glade, with no memories except of his name. He and other teenage boys call themselves Gladers, and have made a community in which each is assigned to a task belonging to different departments headed by a Keeper. The Glade is surrounded by a gigantic Maze...
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Throughout maturity, women commonly experience hatred towards a number of different parts of life. Society sets high expectations for everyone, and when humans experience something against their morals they are often flooded with hatred. However, one must learn to hate in order to feel the true...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Prejudice Is Part of Our Inherent Nature Why did Atticus defend a nigger? What was the point of being the advocate for a black man? It doesn't matter if their guilty or innocent, you can ceaselessly and effortlessly convict the animals for their colour vice. You can even...
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Reporter: We are indeed very fortunate today because we have been allowed a once in a lifetime opportunity to interview none other than the enigmatic, magnificent, and truly all-powerful leader, Big Brother. As nobody is allowed to actually see Oceania’s supreme leader, he will be speaking to use...
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Difference Too Often Leads to Hate Many times in the world, differences have lead to hate. Think of Martin Luther King, for example, who stood for fighting against one of the largest differences. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, is one of many examples of differences leading to hate. Gene and...
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Conflicts in Antigone There were three basic conflicts that caused Antigone and Creon to clash as violently as they did. First, was the conflict of the individual versus the state, in which Antigone represented the individual and Creon the king, the state. The second conflict can be described as...
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The concept and belief of honor in the Columbian culture in Chronicle of a Death Foretold is one of the deciding aspects of the character's actions, motives, and beliefs. Nobody questions the actions taken to preserve ones honor because it is such an important moral trait that one must cherish. In...
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Ethan Frome, the title character of the novel by Edith Warton, lives in a world that constrains him; one that he is unable to escape from. The prominent use of winter imagery throughout this novel conveys this ideas of detachment and isolation. Winters in Starkfield, the setting for this story...
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Henry V by William Shakespeare, is supposed to have been written about 1599. It expresses the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events surrounding the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War. The play is the final part of a series of plays, following Richard II, Henry IV...
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Long Day's essay into Night The play, Long Days Journey into Night, follows the Tyrone family through a day of their lives. Each character is unique and plays a specific role in this tragic drama. Mary represents an inability to face up to reality; she would rather mask herself with drugs, and...
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No Exit Essay by Tessa Hoek 6ve In No Exit the alienation of the characters from their environments is essential for the expression of existentialist ideas. Throughout the play, Sarte exposes existentialist values to his audience. He could not have done this more understandably and perceptibly for...
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Apart from being problem plays , Pygmalion and A Doll 's house deal with the common theme of transformation of individuals . In Pygmalion, Shaw explores the idea that if a person is born in a low class and gets the opportunity to be trained in the ways of correct speech and manners then he or she...
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TITLE: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn GENRE: Adventure AUTHOR: Mark Twain PERIOD/SCHOOL: 3/Quartz Hill AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES: -born in Florida, Missouri on November 30th, 1835 -died on April 21st, 1910 -moved to a port city near the Mississippi banks when he was four steam boats traveled...
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The Handmaids tale Foreword: In an age of consumerism and commercialization, the younger generations are demanding fast satisfaction and instant returns. They want see and own within a couple of taps on their screens which are specialized, personalized, made to meet their every demand. We are in...
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Maria Leal October 16, 2014 5th period Book report #1 The mace runner / James dasher Publisher: Delacorte Press year: 2009 pages: 376 Genre: Young-adult, science fiction, post-apocalyptic Protagonist Thomas is brought into a place known as the Glade, with no memories of his past life except of his...
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The Secret Life of Bees Assignment The Questioner Why did August paint the house pink? When may and August we're at the paint store May saw the colour and loved it August thought it was the tackiest color she had ever seen, but decided to paint the house pink because it made May happy. Why does...
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To Walk in Another Man’s Shoes “’ You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view’” (30). Atticus Finch, a popular lawyer, and the father of the main character in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, teaches this lesson to...
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Abstract George Orwell’s novel 1984 present a dystopian scenario wherein state interference is present in all aspects of citizens’ lives. But in the context of the novel, state interference is used as a tool for the ruling class to remain in power. Information, for instance, is heavily censored in...
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