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Poe As A Romantic
955 Words - 4 Pages.... utilizing many qualities that were never
seen before. His works focus on four main motifs, Love, Beauty, Death, and
Pride. These themes, when incorporated into one entire work, made up
Romanticism, the thread Poe wove through every story.
One of the characteristics of romanticism is the admiration of
beauty. Beauty was revered by Poe, he worshipped it in all its' manifests.
Poe used beauty in almost all of his poems, often to describe a woman. In
Annabelle Lee, To Helen, and Ligeia, Poe uses eloquent words to describe
the objects of his affection. The beauty of the women in these poems was
tremendous, not only physically but spiritually. Poe saw beauty in all
things, ....
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King Lear
1145 Words - 5 Pages.... he is instantly cast
away.
Throughout this play, there are many tragedies which are
webbed together indirectly, yet barely touch, such as, the
triangle's of Gloucester and his two sons (Edmund and Edgar),
in which Gloucester indirectly turns Edmund against Edgar
and himself and is clueless up until the end of Edmunds'
hatred and resentment towards Gloucester and Edgar. There's
the triangle of Goneril, Regan and Edmund in which the two
sister's fight the battle of love over Edmund and lose it with
their lives. There is also the triangle of Regan, Goneril, and
Cordelia, ....
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“Shiloh”: Norma Jean Moffitt
603 Words - 3 Pages.... out what really happened that tragic day (page 48). Leroy was putting all the troubles in their life in the back of his mind and not willing to deal with them. The statement about the dust ruffle for the bed “Now we can hide things under the bed” is a primary example of the way Leroy was thinking (page 48). Lets hide it where we do not have to deal with it.
When Norma Jean’s mother told her the awful story and about a dachshund that had chewed a baby’s leg off. Norma Jean believed her mother was punishing her, because Mabel had caught her smoking the day before. Norma Jean looked “small and helpless” to the writer, but Leroy took up for her mother an ....
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Character Analysis Of John Pro
455 Words - 2 Pages.... challenges the ethical alternative in most cases. John Proctor falls victim to instinct, and instead of saving the members of his community he chooses to save his own self-image. This human weakness proves to be John Proctor’s tragic character flaw. It not only leads to his demise, but to the loss of many innocent lives as well.
Survival may be one of the natural instincts in human beings, but it can and sometimes will be overcome by other powerful emotions. John’s initial struggle for survival is suppressed by his overwhelming love for his wife. He becomes involved when his wife’s name is mentioned in court, and her life becomes endangered. John does ....
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Paradise Lost
975 Words - 4 Pages.... that Satan was not able to do.
In the fourth book in , we see Satan wrestling with himself over what has happened (his fall), and what it is he is about to do (his completely setting himself against God). He is able to recognize that God’s forgiving nature extends even to himself, "I could repent and could obtain By Act of Grace, my former state", and is if only for a moment, unsure as to "which way I shall fly"? However, Satan knowingly chooses to cling to his foolish pride, and is unwilling to ask and receive the forgiveness of God, "is there no place left for repentance… none left… disdain forbids me". It is important to ....
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Frankenstein
1474 Words - 6 Pages.... with devising a means by which he could procure fire and with no other motive in mind than glory, he cunningly stole fire from Zeus and gave it to a grateful mankind. Prometheus’ trickery was bound to invite catastrophe. Zeus’ retribution was swift and twofold. Firstly, with the help of Hephaestus, Hermes and Aphrodite, he fashioned out of clay the first woman, Pandora. Thereafter, men would no longer be born directly from the earth; now through women, they would undergo birth by procreation, and consequently old age, suffering and death. She was given a box which contained all manner of misery and evils and was responsible for letting them escape, to torment humankind ....
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Of Mice And Men - What Are Friends For?
480 Words - 2 Pages.... George cannot make up for the huge gap in Lennies mind. Lennie is so childish it is hard to believe, for example when he sees things he wants to grab and touch them. Throughout the book, the stress of Lennie's retardation begins to weigh down on George. Because of Lennie, they are nomads. Wherever they go, Lennie gets them in trouble. At there last location in a town named Weed, Lennie grabbed a woman's dress to feel it and soon startled the woman with his overwhelming strength. So, once again George had to rescue Lennie, and with that they had to move again. George knew he could leave Lennie and have a great life, but what was a friend for. He couldn't just abandon Len ....
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1984
1080 Words - 4 Pages.... real person—no one really knows—is the leader of this miserable system of Ingsoc—English Socialism, that is. No one is allowed to hold ideas different from those of the official propaganda outlet: Minitruth. To enforce these laws, Big Brother uses many means, the first and foremost of these being the Thought Police, a corps of law officers who monitor the populace through undercover agents, infinite amounts of surveillance cameras and hidden microphones, and a two-way television screen that can be turned down, but never off. A new language is also being introduced to retard thought: Newspeak. This new English dialect uses shortened and compacted forms of modern day wo ....
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