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  • Quotes – Page 364 | Just Great DataBase

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    You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy, by coming in all this state to hear me? I will not be alarmed though your sister does play so well. There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate…

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    Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five 1010 Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth…

  • A Rose for Emily Study Guide

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    A Rose for Emily Study Guide Author: William Faulkner Original title: A Rose for Emily Characters: Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Judge Stevens, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris Published: January 1st 1970 by Merrill Publishing Company (first published November 1st 1930) Setting: Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi (United States) ISBN 0675093244 (ISBN13: 9780675093248) “A Rose for Emily” is…

  • Hiroshima Summary

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    Written by John Hersey, this is a novel that speaks about the destruction and trauma that the people of Hiroshima had to face during the attack on Hiroshima. The main intent of the author is to rebuild the events of the day when it all went down through stories of the survivors. After the Japanese…

  • Polyphemus

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    He is minor character of the poem. Polyphemus is a gigantic Cyclopes whose island Odysseus comes soon after leaving Troy. Polyphemus is a son of Poseidon. It is complicated and impossible to speak about the inner world and personal characteristics of this creature but we can conclude that it is a negative antagonist. According to…

  • Redresal

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    This personage is from Lilliputian’s land. He is the chief secretary of the secret affairs of the country and also a Gulliver’s friend. He tells him about the two warring parties of high and low heels and about the Blefuscu — empire on the big island, with which the Lilliputians fights. Redresal also secretly warns…

  • The Tempest Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

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    Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himselfUpon thy wicked dam The Tempest 6 Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler? The Tempest 5 Now my charms are all o’erthrown… The Tempest 5 The truth you speak doth lack some gentlenessAnd time to speak it in. You rub the soreWhen you should bring the plaster.…

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    I could just sit here, peacefully. I could withdraw. It’s possible to go so far in, so far down and back, they could never get you out. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 1 Yesterday was my unlucky day. I pricked my right thumb with the blunt end of a big needle. Anne Frank The Diary…

  • Thénardier (Jondrette)

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    Thénardier is a cruel and selfish man, who is an innkeeper together with his wife. They have five children, and also, Cosette lives with them, and they exploit her making her work hard about the house. Thénardier is an example of an unfair and immoral person, and it is visible in numerous episodes. For example,…

  • Arcadio

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    Arcadio is the illegitimate son of José Arcadio and Pilar Turner. He is a school teacher. However, he took over the leadership of Macondo at the request of Colonel Aureliano, when he was forced to leave the city. Arcadio can be described as a despotic dictator. He tried to uproot the church, because of his…