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King Lear
478 Words - 2 Pages.... to recognize that his two eldest daughters are evil and only his youngest truly loves him. This is the secret in the story; the two older daughters hide their wickedness behind a mask of kind words, and Lear allows the secret to remain a secret, by his unwillingness to accept the fact that his daughters do not love him.
What follows plunges Lear into the depths of hell, and then through his eventual realization of this secret, he is able to redeem himself. Shakespeare writes this story in a manner that the reader understands the cause of Lear's problems, but Lear himself does not. This draws the reader into the story because the reader knows that Lear's actions will lead to ....
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Gullivers Travels
1261 Words - 5 Pages.... he has been bound to the earth by thousands of tiny crisscrossing threads. He soon discovers that his captors are tiny men about six inches high, natives of the land of Lilliput. He is released from his prone position only to be confined in a ruined temple by ninety-one tiny but unbreakable chains. In spite of his predicament, Gulliver is at first impressed by the intelligence and organizational abilities of the Lilliputians.
In this section, Swift introduces us to the essential conflict of Book I: the naive, ordinary, but compassionate "Everyman" at the mercy of an army of people with "small minds". Because they are technologically adept, Gulliver does not yet see how sma ....
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Hemingway's "A Farewell To Arms": Henry - A Man Of Action, Self-Dicipline, And One Who Maintains Grace Under Pressure
1178 Words - 5 Pages.... who maintains grace
under pressure.
Whenever the situation requires, Henry rises to the occasion taking
control of potentially dangerous incidents with quick decision leaving no
room for second thought. After Frederick is captured by the battle police,
he foresees his inevitable death if no action was taken and instinctively
escaped detainment. "I looked at the carabineri, they were looking at the
newcomers. The others were looking a the colchel. I ducked down, pushed
between two men, and ran for the river, my head down. I tripped at the
edge and went in with a splash" (Hemingway, 214). Henry witnessed the
gruesome executions of the officers before him and kne ....
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The Pearl
457 Words - 2 Pages.... but before he
can go he is attacked by someone trying to steal the pearl from Kino, Kino had
to defend his self by stabbing and killing the attacker. So he has to flee the
town because there are trackers comeing after him, his wife, Juana insists on
going with him so they flee up to a mountain to get away from the trackers.
There were three trackers , two on foot, one on horse with a rifle. Kino
decided to attack them while they were sleeping, so when he attacked them Kino
first tried to get the man on horse, in the struggle Kino killed the trackers
but his son was killed by a bullet. Kino then threw the pearl away.
Kino is a determined man , and he does what ....
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The Handmaids Tale
1482 Words - 6 Pages.... but that every woman
knew; dont open your door to a stranger, even if he is the police. Make him
slide his ID under the door. Dont stop on the road to help a motorist
pretending to be in trouble. Keep the locks on and keep going. If anyone
whistles, dont turn to look. Dont go into a laundromat, by yourself, at night .
.. Women were not protected then."(p. 24)
Nobody believed it could happen to them. When the Sons of Jacob took over and
began to take away their freedom, they accepted it. They were afraid and the
Sons gave them some security. Because they accepted the first few laws, it was
hard to refuse to not go along with the ones that followed.
When the women we ....
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Black Like Me
959 Words - 4 Pages.... Orleans, Griffin discussed race
issues with other African Americans. John was harassed by some white
supremacists, while with Negroes, was treated with courtesies, even by strangers.
When Griffin gets news that a white jury rejected a case of a black lynching,
Griffin decides to go to the heart of the deep south, Mississippi to check it
out.
Even with the risk of his life, Griffin decides to take a bus to Hattiesburg
into the deep south to check out the lynching case. At the bus station, Griffin
acquired “hate stares “ from many whites on the benches waiting for their buses.
Griffin boarded the bus, and during the trip he conversed with a man named
Christophe, and when ....
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Roles In Frankenstein
1629 Words - 6 Pages.... except his demeanor. He doesn't commit any heinous actions towards the people he meets. People are also afraid of him because people are afraid of things they know nothing about. The character of Justine can be used to display societies affect on people. Society doesn't kill her, but the ignorance of people does. Society can't kill a person, but it can influence the actions of its people. She is held accountable for a murder she didn't commit. Judgment is passed on her prematurely. I'll admit there was evidence against Justine, and we have the advantage of knowing that she didn't do it. Justine was not exactly a pillar of the community, so some reasonable evidence and the fa ....
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The Great Gatsby 4
1253 Words - 5 Pages.... death. It becomes clear which events are responsible for the unfortunate changes in character we see in Gatsby and Nick.
The first event is when Nick leaves the mid-west after he returns from the war, understandably restless and at odds with the traditional, conservative values that, from his account, have not changed in spite of the tumult of the war. It is this insularity from a changed world no longer structured by traditional values that had sent young men to war, that inspires him to go east to New York, where he endeavors to learn about the bond market. Nick settles in West Egg as a young, impressionable man hoping to rise with the times. Speaking as the narrator, h ....
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