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Term Papers on English
The Awakening
Number of words: 762 - Number of pages: 3.... who will accept her, but in the end she succumbs.
Edna's closest physical brush with death occurs one night at the beach, when the summer residents decide to take a midnight swim. Despite having had a hard time learning to swim, she realizes her ability and swims farther out than she ever had before. She overestimates her power and almost doesn't make it back. She has a "quick vision of death". The experience scares her, but she has tested her limits and survived the sea for a while. Metaphorically, she has come close to death but resisted it.
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Lord Of The Flies 2 -
Number of words: 1045 - Number of pages: 4.... 1: 119). When the confusion finally leads to a
manhunt [for Ralph], the reader realizes that despite the strong sense
of British character and civility that has been instilled in the youth
throughout their lives, the boys have backpedaled and shown the
underlying savage side existent in all humans. "Golding senses that
institutions and order imposed from without are temporary, but man's
irrationality and urge for destruction are enduring" (Riley 1: 119).
The novel shows the reader how easy it is to revert back to the evil
nature in .....
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Bartelby The Scrivener
Number of words: 950 - Number of pages: 4.... birthmark is unnatural. Hawthorne correlates this quest for perfection with Aylmer’s intentions of formulating an elixir of life and mastering the art of alchemy. Maybe Hawthorne is drawing a parallel here between the scientists of his day trying to control nature and by the failure of scientists to do this in the past. Aylmer’s attempt to control nature leads to the death of his wife which is unnecessary, she is quite content with the minor facial blemish until he makes a big deal about it. Maybe this too is a parallel between the mass majority being content wi .....
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Analysis Of "Those Winter Sun
Number of words: 1137 - Number of pages: 5.... in a foster family, he and his foster father have a generation gap. He does
not realize how much his father loved him until he is an adult.
In the first stanza, Hayden uses vivid language to show that his father woke up before everyone else to light the fire.
Sundays too my father got up early
And put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
Sunday is not a workday, and his father coul .....
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Stopping By The Woods On A Sno
Number of words: 600 - Number of pages: 3.... "lovely, dark, and deep" woods. The stunning woods represent the peace that is longed for by this man. However, man and nature are two separate things, and their worlds cannot be intertwined. The choice between the two is a difficult one, but the everlasting peace that nature presents is often turned to. This imagery of nature is used to parallel death, whereby the solemnity and peace that depicts nature, in turn, depicts death.
The power of procrastination is strong enough to destroy even the strongest of wills. The man is pondering whether or not he sh .....
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Hamlet 13
Number of words: 586 - Number of pages: 3.... King of Denmark, but he is also married to Queen Gertrude, his brothers former wife. When Claudius confronts anyone, he must become someone totally different. Claudius puts on a mask of his own. He is no longer the self-serving, cold, conniving man that he really is. He becomes a kind, caring man who does his very best to ensure that Gertrude stays with him. Claudius also does his best to keep Hamlet from trying to take the kingdom and destroy what Claudius has worked for so long to gain.
The women in Hamlet are confused in a much different way. Both Ophel .....
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The Awakening
Number of words: 862 - Number of pages: 4.... marriage to Mr. Pontellier suffocates her and keeps her from being free. At the same time, she remains shut apart from society like the bird in the cage, and different ideas and feelings prevent her from communicating. The only person in society that begins to understand her, Robert, eventually decides that he must remain a member of society instead of staying with her. He says that "you [Edna] were not free; you were Leonce Pontellier's wife" and that "[Robert] was demented, dreaming of wild, impossible things...[such as] men who had set their wives free" ( .....
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Writing Style And The Reader -
Number of words: 377 - Number of pages: 2.... on a friend. He “thinks it was his eye! yes, it was [that]! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture, a pale blue eye, with a film over it”, his blood ran cold whenever it fell upon him (106). This is something many people can identify with as many have experienced a hatred for a physical characteristic on someone they know. Just as the character did not understand the hatred but just saw this body part, far out of the control of the old man, as something to be vanquished. The simple emotions of fear and hatred put forth to the reader come t .....
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