.... Macbeth scolds Macbeth for giving in to his fears, and letting his imagination get the best of him. "Approach thou like a rugged Russian Bear..." there are quite a few similes in this scene, which have no real effect except to provide a few simple images for the reader. Act IV Scene III Context: This scene's purpose is to give the reader a feeling of how much is being built up against Macbeth. There is a great contrast in this scene because it opens with despair, and ends in friendship and confidence. Language: Incredible amounts of contrast in this scen .....

.... When we first are introduced to Mr. Herbert Pocket in Chapter 16, he is rather down to earth. His living quarters don't consist of anything expensive and luxurious. For example, (pg. 732) Herbert says "this is my little bedroom, rather musty, …the furniture is hired for the occasion." He is just a man managing to get along and be happy with what he has. Mr. Pocket, over time, teaches Pip how to become a gentleman. With both Herbert and Pip living in the same household, things get quite expensive. For example, with Pip's lavish habits it began to lead .....

.... by his position until he deserts the army. Floating down the river with barely a hold on a piece of wood his life, he abandons everything except Catherine and lets the river take him to a new life that becomes increasing difficult to understand. The escape to Switzerland seemed too perfect for a book that set a tone of ugliness in the world that was only dotted with pure love like Henry's and Cat's and I knew the story couldn't end with bliss in the slopes of Montreux. In a world where the abstracts of glory, honor, and sacrifice meant little to Frederick, his physical association with Catherine was the onl .....

.... a once normal man into a blood seeking, greedy, stingy, and decrepitly weak old man. Revenge was also the driving force behind the Abigail Walker’s, a character in The Chamber, accusations of Elizabeth Proctor being a witch. John Proctor and Abigail Williams once had an affair. John was lonely and in need of human comfort, comfort his wife was unable to give in her dying state. However when she regained her health, John left Abigail and went back to his wife. Abigail was furious at his decision; she would love to get back at the hurt he caused. .....

.... husband's newfound potency-fires a bullet through the back of his head" (Ed. Harris 205). At the start of the safari, Francis Macomber must endure the embarrassment of his own cowardliness during the hunt. He is first presented in a "mock triumph", since he had only "half an hour before, been carried to his tent from the edge of the camp in triumph on the arms and shoulders of the cook, the personal boys, the skinner and the porters. The gun-bearers had taken no part in the demonstration" (Stallman 89) (Hemingway 1395). This is evident that Macomber has withdr .....

.... in the future world, scared that it may be rendered useless and discarded. Unlike Bradbury, Huxley includes in his book a group of people unaffected by the changes in society, a group that still has religious beliefs and marriage, things no longer part of the changed society, to compare and contrast today's culture with his proposed futuristic culture. But one theme that both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 use in common is the theme of individual discovery by refusing to accept a passive approach to life, and refusing t .....

.... The dogs, the other symbol used for people, are the ones afraid to break the monotony of their everyday lives consisting of “doggy circles where well-smelt baskets, suitable wives, good lunches are the order of things, and where prevails much wagging of incurious heads and tails.” (ll. 11-14). They refuse to take chances because of possible detrimental outcomes that could alter their lives. “Nevertheless, to be curious is dangerous enough.” (ll. 6-7). Reid uses the poetic device, allegory, to convey a moral to the readers of this poem. He emphasizes the princ .....

.... media: the genres of soap, game show and phone-in are found on both television and radio; the genre of the news report is found on TV, radio and in newspapers; the advertisement appears in all mass media forms. Texts sometimes allude directly to each other as in 'remakes' of films, and in many amusing contemporary TV ads. Texts in the genre of the trailer are directly tied to specific texts within or outside the same medium. The genre of the programme listing exists within the medium of print (listings magazines, newspapers) to support the media of TV, radio and .....