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Term Papers on English
Canterbury Tales -- Role Of Wo
Number of words: 1602 - Number of pages: 6.... as he gazes upon her:
"The freshness of her beauty strikes me dead,
Hers that I see, roaming in yonder place!
Unless I gain the mercy of her grace,
Unless I at least see her day by day,
I am but dead, there is no more to say."
(p. 49, l. 24-28).
The knights believe that one man may love and worship Emily from afar and each vehemently contends that he should be this man. The knights' emotions for a woman of whom they know absolutely nothing, save that she is beautiful, reduces her to an object to be won and an occasion for adventu .....
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London
Number of words: 606 - Number of pages: 3.... manacles are not real. By this I mean that they are created in the mind of those people whom the speaker sees on the streets. Those hopeless and depressing thoughts, in turn imprison the people whom the speaker sees on the street. When the speaker says that he can hear the "mind-forged manacles" he doesn't mean that he can literally hear the mind forged manacles but that he can hear the cries of the people which show their mind-forged manacles. In the second stanza, the speaker focuses on two specific occupations, the chimney sweeper and the soldier. The word b .....
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Macbeth - Tragedy
Number of words: 1330 - Number of pages: 5.... by Macbeth, gives the audience fear for the extreme lengths Mac-beth will go to. Then only a scene later the audience witnesses a paranoid Macbeth visualises the ‘ghost’ of Banquo. The audience felt sorrow and pity for Macbeth, after the announcement that his wife had died. Finally in the death of Macbeth at the finalé of the play, the audience has a final ounce of pity to give to Macbeth.
Macbeth and Banquo were on return from their great victory, when stopped by three witches [I.iii.]. The witches had a ‘prophecy’ that involved Macbeth and the ruling .....
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Man Is Innately Good, But Has The Ability To Be Evil
Number of words: 742 - Number of pages: 3.... I catch myself thinking about how I could make someone feel
bad. I automatically feel my face turn red, and that would be the end of
the thought. But I think once in a while everyone thinks something like,
"He would really be embarrassed if I told everyone about that time at camp.
Plus I could get him back," or something like, "She doesn't deserve that.
What if they found out what she did last year." This is not exactly evil
thoughts, but it can quite possibly lead to evil actions.
Prejudice is another form of evil that produces alienation an .....
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The Scarlet Letter 2
Number of words: 401 - Number of pages: 2.... Hester. As a result he is forced to keep this secret deep with in. His punishments are for it to eat him alive and slowly tear away at his heart until he is actually dead. He knew what he did is wrong he just could not tell anyone because he was ashamed of it, but this is not saying that he’s not in love with Hester because that’s why it happened. That is his second punishment being denied the wish of spending the rest of their lives together.
Chillingworth committed the worst sin out of all of them. He wanted to get back at Dimmesdale so he was try .....
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Pericles
Number of words: 1624 - Number of pages: 6.... home, so he gave orders for one of his servants to take a torch and guide this critic safely back to wherever he lived.
Some people said that was only trying to fool the public with a false front of virtue. But Zeno replied that if were faking virtue, his detractors should do the same, because even pretending to be good, if this is
continued for long enough, will give a man the desire and practice that is needed for good habits.
was very wealthy, and his skill with words made him famous in Athens while he was still a young man. But because he was afraid .....
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A Streetcar Named Desire 2
Number of words: 989 - Number of pages: 4.... of their attitudes, beliefs, appearances and desires.
1"For such characters, no hope can be offered, for they can only react, not act."
The most obvious 'savage' character of A Streetcar Named Desire is Stanley Kowalski. He is a large well-toned, territorial male with simple beliefs and a short temper. He feels threatened by Blanche because she moves in on his territory and wants Stella to leave him. At first, Stanley acts physically dominant over both Blanche and Stella; by rifling through Blanches possessions (act 1 scene 3 pg.124 ), quoting to Stella and Blanc .....
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Les Miserables
Number of words: 504 - Number of pages: 2.... of that nation. This theme is universal because every nation in the world has some sort of outcasts in their land. In America, this theme can be related to the blacks. In the beginning of the twentieth century they did not have as much rights and oppurtunities as the whites. Another example of how this theme can be related to America is how a person with a southern accent is perceived as less intelligent, which is a false misconception. The theme -how criminals are viewed by society- can be seen by how Jean Valjean is treated after he is released by prison. A .....
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