Crime and Punishment: How does Hammurabi’s Code translate into modern society? In order to understand crime, it’s factors, and it’s transcendence through time, we must first realize the source of aggression. At some point during human history, man turned on himself and began attacking others...
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Director and screenwriter Richard Brooks influences the viewers of In Cold Blood, to think not only certain things about the murder and murderers in the plot, which is based on a true story and nonfiction novel, but also tries to shape viewers' ideas about certain social issues. In particular, sex...
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Lord of the Flies 1,021 words The Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, follows the story of a group of British boys who are stranded on a deserted island. Golding suggests that all men are born with the potential to commit evil. He shows this through the use of symbolism including the...
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Aristotle’s definition for a tragic hero is one who is not in control of his own fate, but instead is ruled by the gods in one fashion or another. The tragic hero for Aristotle is tragic because of their lack of control or will in the face of their predetermined future and downfall. It can be...
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Epics The Aeneid and Metamorphoses: A Comparison Both Vergil and Ovid imbedded underlying meanings in their epics The Aeneid and Metamorphoses. In this paper I will focus on the underlying meaning in the Underworld scene in Vergil's The Aeneid (lines 356 through 1199). I will also focus on three...
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Treasure Island In the novel Treasure Island, a few themes are present that were also in our previous novels such as Fifth Business, Wuthering Heights, and Hamlet. All the novels demonstrate an element of good and evil, also in each there is a bold hero that defies the odds and goes on a journey...
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Classical literature has withstood the tests of time. Through the Anglo-Saxon era in history, long narrative poems, known as epics become all the rage. These poems were written in elevated styles that presented the adventures of a hero with superhuman qualities who embodied the national ideals...
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When one ponders the Greek mythology and literature, powerful images invariably come to mind. One relives the heroes’ struggles against innumerable odds, their battles against magical monsters, and the gods’ periodic intervention in mortal affairs. Yet, a common and often essential...
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Crime at its simplest is an act prohibited by law upon pain of punishment (Hall-Williams 1964). Theorists such as McCabe (1983:49) stated that no word in legal and criminological terms could define the word crime for the varying content in which an act is categorised. Due to the broad spectrum...
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Censorship has been an issue that has been debated for many years. Censorship is the suppression of a book or other work of art which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other...
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Truman Capote’s non-fiction novel, In Cold Blood, was a breakthrough in literacy in that it was accredited as the first non-fiction novel. There was a lot of controversy when the book was first published because of the incredibility of the work. This could be expected in that time, because people...
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Oedipus Rex and Hamlet are two tragedies with regicide at the centre of their plots. The theme of the first play by Sophocles is subjection of free will to divine design. William Shakespeare’s play is also about the limitation of man in respect to the divine. The latter is however more concerned...
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A Clockwork Orange The freedom of choice and the rehabilitating form of corrections encase the realm of A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess. It produces the question about man's free will and the ability to choose one's destiny, good or evil. "If he can only perform good or only perform evil...
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness." Charles Dickens The art of historical fiction requires from its...
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Oedipus and Hamlet are characters of extra-ordinary complexity and no simple formula can unfold mysteries about their nature and disposition. Both fulfill the conception of the tragic hero that we gather from Aristotle’s Poetics i.e. both are highly esteemed and prosperous man who falls into...
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Nick Hoberg The Trauma of Mango Street The House on Mango Street is a story of a young girl who lives on a poor street in Chicago. During the story the young girl, whose name is Esperanza, has various interactions with the people of the street as well as both witnessing and experiencing an...
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William Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying in 1930, around the time when the theories of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, were gaining popularity. In his story about the death of a mother, Addie, and her family’s reaction and grieving process, Faulkner adheres to many of Freud’s theories on...
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'Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of it all. Let him not love the earth to deeply. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give to much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he lives too much...
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Virgil begins his poem with a statement of his theme (Arma virumque cano... , "I sing of arms and of a man... ") and an invocation to his Muse (Musa, mihi causas memora... , "O Muse, recall to me the reasons... "). He then explains the cause of the principal conflict of the plot; in this case, the...
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The Count of Monte Cristo: Revenge The Story of Edmond Dantes, the Sailor, who Becomes the Rich & Powerful Count of Monte Cristo and Takes Revenge on all his Enemies. Chesky Hoffman June 17, 1996 Dr. Goodale In this essay I will show how Edmond Dantes punishes his four enemies with relation to...
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The overall premise of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one that is familiar to many. In this novella, Robert Louis Stevenson explores the contrasting qualities of good and evil and also shows that there is indeed some gray area between the two. The main subject of the text is Dr. Jekyll...
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February 18, 2013 Duty is a Four Letter Word with a Three Character Meaning In William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, the Bundrens sacrifice a great deal to lay Addie in her final resting place at Jefferson. They obediently follow her burial orders despite the hardships along the way because of...
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Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925, a harsh time in America. He was brought up in an amalgamation of places in the South of America, moving among New Orleans, Alabama and New Georgia. He began writing stories at the age of fourteen, depending on the seasonal changes. He later went on to...
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A Lost Soul Brianna L. Robinson English 1 Honors Ridgeview High School The character of Jack in Lord of The Flies represents an evil anarchy for the human creation which unleashes to show his dark thirst for power. He uses his sense of atavism to consume the souls of those among him that fall...
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THE GREEK THEATRE 2) Is Oedipus a Tragic Hero? Answer this question demonstrating specific understandings of the concepts of Tragedy and the Tragic Hero. In the Greek play, "King Oedipus" written by Sophocles, certain characteristics, which determine the traits of a tragic hero, reveal themselves...
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"White makes right" means that the whites are never wronged for their actions whenever a white does something clearly wrong to a black while the black has done right. In fact, the blame is pushed to the blacks instead, simply because whites are perceived to be the superior race. What is counted as...
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The term gothic fiction implies a British literary genre from the late eighteenth, and early nineteenth century. The modernized term seems to have been generalized into anything that is dark, gloomy, or depressing. Gothic novels often time posses an emphasis on portraying the terror, a prominent...
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Journals Writing about your favorite book If you are a fan of adventure books, Treasure Island is what you are looking for. It is not because I'm a fan of the book, but is Treasure Island itself is one of greatest fictional adventures in the pirates' world. Robert Louis Stevenson, who is the...
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A Tale of Two Cities is a novel written by Charles Dickens in 1859, set in London and Paris before and after the French Revolution. It tells about the struggles of the French peasantry in the hands of the ruling French aristocrats during the years leading up to the revolution, the consequent rough...
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The book "Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton is a book about agitation and turmoil of both whites and blacks over the white segregation policy called apartheid. The book describes how understanding between whites and blacks can end mutual fear and aggresion, and bring reform and hope to a...
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had...
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The novel Cry the Beloved Country is a prophecy for the future of South Africa. It alludes to and sometimes even blatantly states the conditions necessary for the end of apartheid and the beginning of peace. South Africa in the 1940's was in trouble. Kumalo, a priest, was able to see through...
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Oedipus the King by Sophocles is about Oedipus, a man doomed by his fate. Like most tragedies, “Oedipus the King” contains a tragic hero, a heroic figure unable to escape his/her own doom. This tragic hero usually has a hamartia or a tragic flaw which causes his/hers’ downfall...
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After reading Aeneid Book 1, you should know the following: 1. Identification of characters and places: •Aeneas, Achates, Ascanius, Iulus (Ilus), Dido, Sychaeus, Pygmalion •Juno, Neptune, Venus, Jupiter, Cupid •Carthage, Tyrians, Teucrians 2. Cite lines where Virgil specifically describes Augustus...
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The Crucible: Characters Chetan Patel The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller that was first produced in 1953, is based on the true story of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Miller wrote the play to parallel the situations in the mid-twentieth century of Alger Hiss, Owen Latimore, Julius and Ethel...
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Esperanza: the Person Behind the Print In The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, a little girl from a Latino heritage is given birth to. Not literally, but in the sense of characterization. Esperanza is a fictional character made up by Cisneros to bring about sensitive, alert, and rich...
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During war, many people change physically, mentally, and socially. War itself is disturbing to the mind. In Walter Dean Meyer’s Fallen Angels, the characters undergo many changes as they learn the true meaning of war. Perry, Peewee and Johnson all change in the sense of their personalities...
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Somin Im Ms. Wilson AP English/ 4th period 25 February 2013 Outline Thesis: Throughout the novel, Lord of the Flies, Golding demonstrates his support for democracy and hatred for authoritarianism by demonstrating the differences between Ralph and Jack through their personalities, leadership, and...
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What is the american dream? Many people will answer that question by saying being successful in america. Others would say that having a nice house in a good neighboorhood, a good marriage, two kids and a golden retreiver is the american dream. Unlike these beliefs of what the american dream is for...
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Homer's poem The Odyssey depicts the tendency of people to ignore the consequences of their actions. Odysseus punished Penelope's suitors without thinking of consequences that he would have to endure. He did not acknowledge the consequences because that would prevent him from doing what he wants...
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'The Importance of Moral Choice' Choice and free will are necessary to maintain humanity, both individually and communally; without them, man is no longer human but a 'clockwork orange', a mechanical toy, as demonstrated in Anthony Burgess' novel, 'A Clockwork Orange'...
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In Cold Blood: Characterization of Hickock and Smith Open up a copy of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote and you will find an array of beautiful and poetic language that makes this novel nothing short of a masterpiece. Effective characterization is a key element; and it is through the use of diction...
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In the epic the Odyssey by Homer (translated by Robert Fitzgerald) one of the most descriptive and best written passages in the entire epic is "The Slaying of the Suitors" (book 23 lines1-62). This is a good passage for many reasons, one of these is that it is a part of the story that has been...
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"A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man. "? Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange is a novel about moral choice and free will. Alex's story shows what happens when an individual's right to choose is robbed for the good of society. The first and last chapters place Alex in more or less the same...
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Corruption in Cry, the Beloved Country Corruption plagues society. It is the agony of the people, the crying of the land, the discord of society, and the mourning of the individual. Even the most elite of charitable people struggle to elude its all-ensnaring grasp. Those brave individuals who...
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The novel, "Fallen Angels", was written by Walter Dean Myers in 1988 in Jersey City, New Jersey. The writing is of a war fiction genre and also a coming-of-age story. The tale is told in a first person point of view through a fairly young African-American soldier fighting in the controversial...
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What does it mean to be Redeemed? Trevor Jordan 5-21-11 Lampa Redemption is a black and white subject, one can either achieve it or fail and hold on to their troubled past for life. Redemption is when one admits to and repents for their bad deeds and truly feels sorry, then that person does a good...
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The pigs lay, bloated bags of fat, sensuously enjoying the shadows under the trees. The bloated fat and sensuous enjoyment, and hiding the sunshine from the damp and hot weather showed that the pigs were in a calm, peaceful rest. Also as a tranquil overture for the following brutal, savage...
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THEMES - THEME ANALYSIS Friendship/Family Cassie develops a more adult understanding of what friendship is as well as what it isn’t. Little Jeremy Simms is, at least for the present, a real friend, perhaps because he is something of an outsider among his own people and family. Nevertheless, he...
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Vergil’s, Aeneid: Not only a Literary Masterpiece, but also a Guideline for the Future of Rome’s GreatnessMatt Beller Professor Ned Johnson Composition II 30 June 2010 Vergil’s, Aeneid: Not only a Literary Masterpiece, but also a Guideline for the Future of Rome’s Greatness If ever there was an...
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