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Term Papers on English
The Metamorphosis -
Number of words: 583 - Number of pages: 3.... Prior to becoming a bug, Gregor was a hard working salesman who was under appreciated by his family. After his transformation, Gregor is neglected by his family, with the exception of Grete, and the family soon disregards Gregor as one of their own, just as society disregards people who are not "normal." Gregor's father can be compared to the abusive people in society. He is the dominant figure of the family and remains abusive throughout the story. The father's aggressiveness is revealed in the beginning of the story when he knocks "gently, yet with his fist .....
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Greek Gods
Number of words: 549 - Number of pages: 2.... dealt with situations that popped up in the world around him than on understanding the world itself. In other words the Greeks were more interested in the workings of the mind than in the workings of the environment around them.
This was so because unlike us, the Greeks believed that they already had explanations for trivial questions such as, "Where the world came from?" "Who are we?" and "Who controls the world around us?" To them all these questions could simply be explained by looking at their own mythology. It is hard .....
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Relationships In King Lear
Number of words: 1412 - Number of pages: 6.... I disclaim all my paternal care, propinquity and property of blood, and as a stranger to my heart and me hold this from thee for ever."(I,i, ln 113-116). Some think that Cordelia was prideful, or even a fool in her response, but I believe she was simply being honest and true.
Another mistake that was made in the course of the play was by the Earl of Gloucester. After being tricked by his bastard son, Edmund, into believing that his other son, Edgar, was plotting to kill him, he put all his faith in Edmund, which would eventually lead to his demise. Besides bel .....
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Fahrenheit 451 - Similarities To Our Society
Number of words: 600 - Number of pages: 3.... so people could get where they want a lot faster. Clarisse and Montag make it obvious to the reader that they live in a fast-paced world when they first meet each other. Before Clarisse runs into her house, they notice how fast drivers go that they "'don't know what grass is, or flowers because they never see them slowly,' she said. 'If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he'd say, that's grass! A pink blur! That's a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles an hour and they ja .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath 5
Number of words: 1830 - Number of pages: 7.... him that his family is now living at his Uncle John’s farm.
Tom and Casy arrive at Uncle John’s farm to find the Joads preparing to move again, this time to California. This is where Tom’s family is introduced to us. There is Ma, Pa, Grampa and Granma, and Noah, the oldest son. The daughter, Rose of Sharon is pregnant and dreams of finding a nice place in California. Connie, Rose of Sharon’s husband who deserts her when they reach California, Al, the sixteen-year old son, and Ruthie and Windfield, the two youngest children. Tom is no .....
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An Edition Of The Rover
Number of words: 961 - Number of pages: 4.... Montague
Summers. Summers’ text was chosen because it is based primarily upon a
1724 collection of Behn’s dramatic pieces--a collection that, according
to Summers, is “by far the best and most reliable edition of the
collected theater.”
Most of the changes documented in the textual notes stem from
substantive discrepancies between these three texts. Often these
discrepancies are the result of words or phrases being inverted from one
edition to another. Note 44, for instance, concerns the stage
directions in a scene where Florinda hugs Belvile and his .....
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Twelfth Night - The Changing Role In Viola/Cesario
Number of words: 1032 - Number of pages: 4.... seeking a companion with which to share and to teach. Thus, Viola grows in her male disguise to get a better feeling for his inner self, not the self that he shows to the public, or would reveal and share with Viola in her true female self, but rather his secret self, as he believes he shares with a peer. So, she grows to love him. But, Orsino's motivation is actually not love for Viola, but rather he seems to be in love with love itself. His entire world is filled with love but he knows that there might be a turning point for him, like when he says:
If m .....
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In My Fathers House
Number of words: 373 - Number of pages: 2.... but Oscie can not accept losing and is always trying to best
people around her and herself. An example of this is how Oscie is
always arguing with Will. She even asked her tutor, “will you teach me
to best Will McLean?”
Although Maria and Oscie are very different they do have a few
things in common. They both have an odd attraction to military men.
This is shown in their choice of guys. They also both share the same
parents. Sarah who is dead now, also has Dr. John and Mama as
parents. Both Oscie and Maria are in love with the south and do .....
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