Category: Essays
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Love in Lolita Some critics read Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita as a story of Humbert’s unrequited love for the title character; others consider it a record of the rant-ings of a mad pedophile, with, as Humbert himself admits, “a fancy prose style. ” Nabokov’s innovative construction, in fact, highlights both of… 1 302 words Lolita Notes…
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Flowers For Algernon Short Story Charlie Gordon, a mentally retarded man, is chosen by a team of scientists to undergo an experimental surgery designed to boost his intelligence. Alice Kinnian, Charlie’s teacher at the College for Retarded Adults, has recommended Charlie for the experiment because of his exceptional eagerness to… 1 268 words Flowers for…
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The Crucible: Hysteria and Injustice The Crucible: Hysteria and Injustice Thesis Statement: The purpose is to educate and display to the reader the hysteria and injustice that can come from a group of people that thinks it’s doing the “right” thing for society in relation to The Crucible by Arthur Miller. I. Introduction: The play…
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The Missing Dialogue in Antigone The Missing dialogue in Antigone After reading Antigone, one might feel that there is lacking a dialogue between Antigone and Haimon before their deaths. Sophocles does not include any direct communication between the two lovers during this drama. The reader might assume that such a conversation… 1 028 words Antigone…
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Compare and Contrast: Hamlet and Oedipus The essential component to any tragedy, Greek or Shakespearean, is a protagonist with a fatal flaw. In Greek tragedy this is called hamartia. This Latin term translates directly into the word “flaw” but is usually used to describe an excess of a personality trait – virtue or vice (Cave…
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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev During the discussion, several articles were presented to the class. The subjects brought to light were the Russian economy during the 1850s, serfdom, and the question of whether Turgenev was obsolete or not. The articles on the Russian economy explained the state of transition the Russian economy… 332 words…
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A Wrinkle in Time Quotes with Page Number “Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. – Mrs. Whatsit” — Page 151 — “Believing takes practice.” — — “We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how…
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The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie is a masterpiece by Tennessee Williams. This is one of his earliest play that most recognized and arguably the most autobiographical. It is one of the greatest plays of American literature. It recounts the story of a small struggling family in St. Louis, MO, during the great… 597 words…
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Analysis of the Good Earth Filthy Rich “When the rich are too rich there are ways, and when the poor are too poor there are ways” (Buck, 118). Pearl Buck, in her novel The Good Earth, shows how wealth can corrupt a man if there is too much of it. The fatal flaw for the…
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“Animal Farm” Speech – Snowball Comrades, I stand here before you on this Sunday morning to bring forth my final solicitation to you for the ratification of the building of the windmill. In a minute or so, I will make all the beauties of the windmill known to you. Weeks ago, when I investigated our…