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Term Papers on English
The Tempest - Bringing It All
Number of words: 557 - Number of pages: 3.... in will be safely returned and Prospero can be "relieved by prayer" of the audience.
All of what Prospero has said is very nice cute, but the most interesting part of this monologue is what Shakespeare himself is saying. "Now that my charms are all o'erthrown, and what strength I have's mine own" means, now my plays are over, and it's no longer my characters speaking. The "Island" or stage Shakespeare is on is now "bare" and it is time for "you" the audience to release Shakespeare and his actors from this play with the "help of [y]our good hands." Shakespear .....
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Love And Suffering - Dantes In
Number of words: 1267 - Number of pages: 5.... was guaranteed to the Hebrews in the Old Testament, the Trojans’ Promised Land was guaranteed by fate. History is the guarantor. The theme of this work is that of how a nation came to be.
Aeneas suffers a great deal. Emerging from this suffering, Aeneas will lead his people and conquer their new homeland. Aeneas has many obstacles that stand in his way. Juno hates the Trojans and wants to do everything in her power to prevent the Trojans from reaching Rome and Italy. Aeneas has inner obstacles as well. Until Aeneas descends into Hades, he will never full .....
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Work Of A Masterpiece
Number of words: 806 - Number of pages: 3.... Eva and Augustine die, there is nobody left except Marie to care for the household and the slaves. The fact that she treats the slaves as people who are less than human, and doesn't care about selling and splitting up families makes the readers see the pain they go through. Another example of this is with Simon Legree. He is the only white person on the plantation, and he is an evil, unchristian man. Obviously, readers will see him with disgust and sympathize with the blacks.
Stowe uses common emotions to bring readers to understand her standpoint. The .....
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Themes In Medea
Number of words: 673 - Number of pages: 3.... of rites for children
3. Transcending female nature--denial of maternity
Medea as Archetype of Child-Murderess
1. Original myth: Corinthians kill children in retribution for death of Creon
Crossing of Gender Boundaries
1. Medea as female
1. Incorporates forces of chaos
2. Represents the non-human and non-Greek
2. Medea as male
1. Successfully avenges slighted honor
2. Punishes breaker of oaths and so acts as agent of divine justice--classic patriarchal role
3. Contrast with Penelope's failure to protect household: why does Penelo .....
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Sense And Sensibility
Number of words: 808 - Number of pages: 3.... Very much a Romantic, sixteen-year-old Marianne is governed by her feelings, not by reason, unlike Elinor. Passionate in her opinions and certain of their morality, Marianne lacks prudence and relies on instinct, typical values of the Romantic Movement. Elinor’s sense, on the other hand, reflects “the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which had advocated a commitment to reason and considered and other source of conviction irrational.”
Marianne, says of love, "To love is to burn.", and Elinor says: "I do not attempt to deny I think v .....
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Sula
Number of words: 1212 - Number of pages: 5.... awry with things, people, voices and the slamming of doors . . ." (52), which suggests a family accustomed to spontaneous disruptions and fleeting alliances. decides that "sex is pleasant and frequent, but otherwise insignificant." (44) grows up in the atmosphere of an emotional separation between mothers and daughters in her family. The mothers provide only the physical maternal support but lack in the emotional attachment to their children. overhears her mother, Hannah, say, "I love her []. I just don't like her, that's the thing." (57) Hannah's words a .....
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Plato Vs Shelley
Number of words: 559 - Number of pages: 3.... is the truth. From there he goes to the carpenter. “There is another (bed) which is the work of the carpenter.” (44) And finally Plato defines his thesis through metaphor. He uses a metaphor that compares the work of a poet to a mirror. “Turning a mirror round and round – you would soon enough make the sun and the heavens, and the earth and yourself, and other animals and plants, and all other things of which we were just speaking, in the mirror…but they would be appearances only.” (44) The way in which the writing is interactive with two people creates cont .....
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White Fang
Number of words: 488 - Number of pages: 2.... Judge Scott, Jim Hall one night broke into their house. sensed his presence and fought with Jim and killed him. suffered a gun shot wound but was ok and lived the rest of his days in Sierra Valley.
didn't make me feel any special way, books never make me feel a certain way. Otherwise it reminded me of my Dogs (not that are like but the bond we have together.) When Weedon saved made me feel like I'm the same way. Also when protected the Scott's reminded me of how my dogs would probably do the same thing because they are very protective. My dogs are ve .....
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