Macbeth: Macbeth A Tragic Hero - His Strengths, His Weaknesses, His Tragic Flaw and the Effect of Outside Influences on His Nature The contributions of Macbeth towards his fate in becoming the "tragic hero" is evident from the first act. Like other of Shakespearean plays, the tragic hero, Macbeth...
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?Title: Looking for Alaska Author: John Green Text type: Young adult; Fiction “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to...
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Act 2; Scene 2; Lines 36-39 and 41-52 36O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo? 37Deny thy father and refuse thy name, 38Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, 39And I’ll no longer be a Capulet. 41‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy. 42Thou art thyself, thou not a Montague...
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THE ALCHEMIST BY PAULO COELHO BOOK ANALYSIS (CRITICAL PAPER) THE ALCHEMIST BY PAULO COELHO I. INTRODUCTION The Alchemist is one of the most popular novels that became known in the past twenty years made by Paulo Coelho. It is a story about the searching of happiness and destiny which is called...
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The Diary of a Young Girl The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank, is a book consisting of letters written by Ms. Frank as a teen when she was in hiding from the Nazis during World War II. The alternate book cover I created is a drawing of Anne Frank as she writes in her beloved diary that she...
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In Homer's epic, The Iliad, there are many great characters, both mortal and immortal. However, no characters seem to match the greatness and importance of Achilles, the mightiest of the Greeks and Hector, Trojan prince and mightiest of the Trojans. Although they are the mightiest of their forces...
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Somewhere between the dawn of time and the present day, man’s foot touched down on the earth for the first time, and from that point on, man had made an eternal connection to an invisible power greater than he: nature. Both being incredibly competent writers, Steinbeck and Hemmingway acknowledged...
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COMPARISON OF "RAGTIME", "THE STRANGER" AND "ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD" Option One: Character Discussion Compared to Ragtime or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, I wasn’t really drawn into their world as much as I was with The Stranger. It’s not that Ragtime was more compelling than The...
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Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Alborn 1. Do you think Mitch would have listened if Morrie hadn’t been dying? Does impending death automatically make one’s voice available to penetrate where it couldn’t before? ?I think Mitch wouldn’t have the chance to listen to Morrie if Morrie hadn’t been dying...
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Act I Analysis: Act I, in the tradition of the well made play in which the first act serves as an exposition, the second an event, and the third an unraveling (though Ibsen diverges from the traditional third act by presenting not an unraveling, but a discussion), establishes the tensions that...
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In Aeschylus' Agamemnon there are many different opinions about what kind of king and commander Agamemnon was. Some argued that he was good, while others dispute that his motives were wrong. Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, gained a strong hatred for him, after he sacrificed his own daughter so he...
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A number of the stories studied this semester explore the conflict between social restraint and inner compulsion. Discuss at least two of the stories in the light of this. Through an exploration of the boundaries between social constraint and inner compulsion, Melville and Chekov reveal the...
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The 1987 film Roxanne I believe is a great successful modernization to Cyrano de Bergerac because it explains how well the similarities between each of the characters in the play are and how well detailed they become in a more present day modernization, both the movie and the book are similar. In...
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Society has become a shallow place. If an individual does not fit into societies form of the normal person then they are treated differently. But does society treat those who are different in a negative or positive way? In the novel Flowers for Algernon, the author Daniel Keyes shows an in depth...
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The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells, is composed of many small themes that combined to form two major themes in the novel. Some of the minor themes are acting before thinking and denial of unexplainable events. It is based on the two major themes of science experiments gone wrong and the ignorance...
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Macbeth: Macbeth The Tragic Hero The most recent meaning of the word Tragic Hero as defined by Microsoft Works dictionary is "A hero of noble stature whose fortunes are reversed as a result of weakness. " Many characters in the play were affected by tragedy for a number of reasons, but without...
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Book: Looking for Alaska by John Green # Character Trait Context of Quote & Page Number Response to Text 1 Warm “In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla, and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette except for when she smoked, when the...
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New Ending Act V, Scene III Verona. A churchyard; the monument of the Capulets. Enter Romeo and Paris. Paris This is that banished haughty Montague, That murdered my love's cousin, with which grief It is supposed that fair creature died, And here is come to do some villainous shame To the dead...
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“It’s a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your personal legend. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire...
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In the late 1930’s and throughout the 1940’s Adolf Hitler an anti Jewish man came to power in Germany. During this Germany was in a great depression due to their loss of World War One. Hitler promised restoration and power and he was easily accepted. Once Adolf was in powered he began to invade...
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In the poem Iliad by Homer, Homer begins the epic by asking the goddess to sing about the rage of Achilles. That is the main theme of the poem. The reason why there is so much anger and conflict in the Iliad is because the Homeric law of honor and respect is being insulted which results to rage...
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Old Man and the sea: Epilogue The old man awoke to the boy staring at him. His vision was still blurry. As he wiped his tired eyes, he noticed the dry blood and cuts on his hand. He frowned, but then looked up at the boy and smiled. “I brought you some soup. ” the boy said anxiously. “I’m not...
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Themes of The Stranger Several themes in The Stranger serve as the foundation to the novel. Detachment, the first theme, is evident through Meursault’s overall attitude, Salamano’s situation, and Meursault’s desire to bury his mother without seeing her body. Meursault detached himself from the...
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Christina An Weiss AIC September 9, 2010 Tuesdays with Morrie Love is a powerful emotion and an essential human need. Without loving the ones around them and their community, people are unable to live their lives to the fullest. In Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie, love is a most meaningful and...
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In Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House, the personality of the protagonist Nora Helmer is developed and revealed through her interactions and conversations with the other characters in the play, including Mrs. Linde, Nils Krogstad, Dr. Rank and Ann-Marie. Ibsen also uses certain dramatic and...
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Aeschylus- Agamemnon Characters- The Watchman Clytaemnestra The Herald Agamemnon Cassandra Aegisthus The Chorus 1). The Watchman: ?The watchman sets the time and place for the play (Agamemnon's palace in Argos, the house of Atreus); he describes the many miserable nights he has spent on the...
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'Bartleby the Scrivener' Outline I. Introduction: A. Plot Overview B. Thesis Statement: The short story 'Bartleby the Scrivener' is very difficult to interpret. However, I am going to interpret what I believe the reader should know for certain about Bartleby and why Melville...
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Cyrano de Bergerac Summary Who is Cyrano in the play Cyrano de Bergerac? In Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, Cyrano is a man who has a big sized nose, and he is in love with a beautiful woman named Roxane, but she is in love with a handsome man named Christian. All throughout the play Cyrano...
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The hunger and humor of Algernon When Oscar Wilde wrote The Importance of Being Earnest he gave birth to a wonderful character named Algernon Moncrieff. In this essay we will see how the appetites of this character add to the humor of this play. To analyze this we will look at his character traits...
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Allusions in Invisible Man Invisible Man, written with ingenuity by Ralph Waldo Ellison, is a masterpiece by itself, but it also intertwines into every page one or more allusions to previously written masterpieces. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, and whether it was Ellison who...
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Macbeth: Summary Macbeth and Banquo, Scottish generals, are returning after crushing a rebellion against Duncan ( King of Scotland ), when they are met by three witches. The witches prophesy that Macbeth will become thane of Cawdor , then later on he will become King. Banquo is told that he will...
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?Looking for Alaska, by John Green, is a story about friendship and love. As a new student at Culver Creek (a boarding school), Miles gets a chance to start over and actually get a chance to make friends. When Miles gets to his school for the first time he meets his roommate, Chip, and they become...
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They play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern by Tom Stoppard is a humorous, existentialist play where two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet are the leads, focusing mainly on their musings and actions while Hamlet occurs as background. The story is about the two main characters’ misadventures...
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Having the ability to succeed to your personal legend, and find self discovery allows people to open their minds and see the world for what it really is and how everything has a purpose in life. The story The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, Santiago makes great change from beginning, to the end of his...
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Dialectical Notes The Diary of Anne Frank Quote Analysis *The first table (blue) represents the five dialectical notes under the Inward versus the Outward Self Theme, while the second (turquoise) represents the dialectical notes under the Generosity and Greed in Wartime theme. Quote| Response| “Yes...
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The period in which the events in The Iliad took place were different than the times of today. Back then, the most important aspect of life for a person was to be a hero and to be remembered. One's pride would come before everything else. In the present day, this concept would be thought of as...
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ENC 1101 Essay Assignment: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway There is a scene in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, when after a shark has taken a big chunk “about forty pounds” off Santiago’s prize marlin catch, Santiago begins to doubt whether he should have gone out to sea...
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existentialism “We are thrown into existence first without a predetermined nature and only later do we construct our nature or essence through our actions. ”(Existentialism)This quote is present through the main characters of The Stranger, Blade Runner, and The Metamorphosis in each of these works...
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Tuesdays with Morrie, is a true story about a sports writer, Mitch Albom, who found him self, restoring an old friendship. It leads him into looking after his old College professor, Morrie Schwartz and before he knew it, he was learning life’s lessons. Morrie has been diagnosed with Lou Gehrigs...
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Henrik Ibsen's play "A Dolls House" is a play about a woman who is living a stereotypical life and she doesn't realize it. Nora has been forced into believing that she is happy acting as a child for Torvald until she realizes the men around her stunted her growth as a person. Nora's husband was...
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The House of Atreus is one of the finest examples of uncontrollable fate in all of ancient literature. The lineage of Atreus is steeped in the spilling of family blood starting with Tantalus and continuing with Agamemnon. However it is Atreus who is responsible for the curse on the family, since...
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What does the the narrator mean by Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity Bartleby the Scrivener can be described as a commentary on the irreducible irrational in human existence. One example of Bartleby’s absurdity is his deliberate choice to face the blank wall. Instead of facing his desk out in the open...
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It All Adds Up Throughout the play Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand concentrates on Cyrano’s adoration of the exquisite Roxanne, and his attempts to win her love for the less intelligent but more attractive Christian de Neuvillette. Cyrano, a large-nosed swordsman and poet, must overcome...
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The Flowers for Algernon written by Daniel Key engages many human topics such as intellectual abilities over moral character, the reliance of the present to the past, and views of society on the mentally retarded. Keys effectively accomplishes though protagonist Charlie Gordon. The novel is...
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The Invisible Man Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man shows the conflict or struggle of one Black man struggling in a white culture. The most important section of this novel is that in, which the narrator joins "the Brotherhood", an organization designed to improve the condition under which his race...
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The Cause of Macbeth's Ruin The specific root of Macbeth's ruin is his uncontrollable ambition. His desires take control of his actions and this becomes his tragic flaw. It prevents him from becoming aware of when to stop; he is never fully satisfied as his desire for power grows. Macbeth's...
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“Looking for Alaska” – John Green About The Book & Expectations I chose the novel “Looking for Alaska” by John Green, because I already read a reading sample in my English lessons in Germany from this book and I really liked the style of writing the author used. I also chose this novel...
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Anagnorisis and Existence The Point of Realization in Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the young prince realizes what living is. Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, 105 All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past...
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Many people know what their Personal Legend is and some have ahcieved it. But in the story The Alchemist a shepherd boy named Santiago achieves his Personal Legend with some help from three major characters who teach him many important things. The crystal merchant is one of the characters that...
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The Diary of Anne Frank This journey that Anne Frank encounters was although a short journey had a big affect on her life. A few steps down the road from where she lived had changed her life forever, more than she could’ve imagined. Anne Frank was forced to leave her life behind, in a time of WW2...
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