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Hester Prynne Arthur Dimmesdale
929 wordsBy definition, a symbol is something concrete that represents or suggests another thing that cannot in itself be pictured. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses many people as symbols throughout The Scarlet Letter. The characters of Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Pearl, and Roger Chillingworth all represent sin. However, these four symbolize different aspects of sin. Through the character of Hester Prynne, Hawthorne shows how sin can make a person stronger. When Hester commits adultery, the Puritan punish...
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Reformation Of Kikuji In Thousand Cranes
1,679 words... ns throughout the course of the story. The last words of the book reinforce this continued loathing- " 'And only Kurimoto is left. ' As if spitting out all the accumulated venom on the woman he took for his enemy, Kikuji hurried into the shade of the park. " I think that it can safely be concluded that this is one aspect of his past that Kikuji will never change his position on. As Chikako cleans the cottage, "The sound of her broom became the sound of a broom sweeping the contents of his sk...
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Farewell To Arms Ernest Hemingway
1,200 wordsErnest Hemingway intended this book for a mature audience. Considering the way he describes the horrors of the book. Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms uses nature to structure the novel and provide symbols that replace human emotions. Nature serves as a basic structure for the plot and the actions that occur. It also emerges as a source of symbols that replace human sentiment or feelings. Characters die and there is no mention of sadness or pain. Instead, Hemingway writes that it is ra...
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Lorraine Hansberry Walter Lee
495 wordsA domestic drama set in a tenement on the south side of Chicago, Lorraine Hansberry's tells the story of the Younger family. Following the death of the family's father and provider Big Walter, who has died from overwork and grief over the death of a child, the Younger's await the payment of Walter's life insurance. For Walter's son Walter Lee, the money would enable him to open a liquor store and give up his degrading work as a chauffeur for a wealthy white; he also dreams of buying pearls for h...
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Oedipus At Colour Daughters Of Oedipus Theseus
679 wordsClassics 180 The character Theseus portrayed in the epics Hippolytus and Oedipus at colour have some similarities but quite a few differences. In Hippolytus, Theseus returns from his voyage and finds his beloved wife dead, he mourns with sorrow. Theseus said by her death he is ruined. He goes into a sort of depression at his loss. Theseus is confused and doesnt know why the gods put this suffering on him and at his point he doesnt know why she would do such a thing as to kill herself. When These...
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Put An End Research And Development
1,409 wordsThe atomic bomb ended a war of massive death and destruction, but began what is now known as the Atomic Age. At the time of the disasters in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the bomb appeared as a promise of peace to the entire world. It had ended a costly and gruesome war, beginning a time of peace. Compared to the technology of 1945, the atomic bomb looked too powerful and unethical ever to be used again. It was seen as the weapon that would put an end to war. In Keith Eubank's "The Bomb, " he shows th...
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Realization Of His True Oedipus Threatens Creon
1,406 wordsA Puppet without Strings The theory behind fate or predetermination has been embedded in todays society partially due to literature. Sophocles Oedipus The King perpetuates this ideology that the title character pursues a path which happens to be foretold. Oedipus was determined to save his city and discover his identity, however he ultimately assists in his own downfall. An Oracle reveals that Oedipus is destined to murder his father and marry his mother, and Oedipus, unable to face his unspeaka...
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Achilles In His Interaction Character Of Achilles Hector
751 wordsFrom the initial callousness and stubborn temper of Achilles in the first books of the Iliad to the eventual humanization' of Achilles in his interaction with the grieving father of Hector, whom Achilles himself slew, the Iliad can be seen to chronicle the maturation of the Greek hero during the terrible battles of the Trojan War. Achilles is a hero in the epic sense, complete with flaws and bad qualities that round out the character, but with passions and convictions that any reader can relate ...
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Black No Sky Tongue Stuck In My Jaw Man
969 wordsSylvia Plath uses her poem, Daddy, to express deep emotions toward her fathers life and death. With passionate articulation, she verbally turns over her feelings of rage, abandonment, confusion and grief. Though this work is fraught with ambiguity, a reader can infer Plath's basic story. Her father was apparently a Nazi soldier killed in World War II while she was young. Her statements about not knowing even remotely where he was while he was in battle, the only photograph she has left of him an...
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Star Crossed Lovers Romeo And Juliet
1,472 wordsFriar Laurence's interference in the lives of the characters in Romeo and Juliet set much of the fighting, rage and ultimately, death of these characters into motion. Romeo and Juliet is the title of the great tragedy written by William Shakespeare. The characters in this play include: Paris, Montague, Romeo, Lady Montague, Capulet, Juliet, Lady Capulet, Nurse, Mercutio, Benvolio, Tybalt, Friar Laurence, Friar John and Apothecary. Three points must be made in order to prove the thesis statement,...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Traumatic Stress
886 wordsAbortion has been one of the United States most controversial subjects. Abortion is the intentional killing of a human being before birth. About 1. 6 million pregnancies end in abortion each year in the United States. Although abortion is regarded as a womans right, it should be banned without exceptions because it is murder, has psychological side effects, and there is an alternative. One of the controversial arguments is whether abortion is murder. Is an unborn child in the fetus a living bein...
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A Review Of On Death And Dying
1,072 wordsFor my book review, I read On Death and Dying, by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Dr. Kubler-Ross was the first person in her field to discuss the topic of death. Before 1969, death was considered a taboo. On Death and Dying is one of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century. The work grew out of her famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this paper, I give a comprehensive book review as well as integrate topics learned in class with Dr. Kubler-R...
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Lamentation Pain Grief Rebirth Old Age Disease Death Buddhism
964 wordsBuddhism is probably the most tolerant religion of the world, as the teaching can coexist with any other religion. Other religions however, aim to be restricted and cannot accommodate Buddhism at the same time. The Buddhist teaching on God - in the sense of an ultimate Reality - is neither skeptic (as is sometimes claimed), nor vague, but clear and logical. that we can neither define, describe, nor usefully discuss the nature of that which is beyond the perception of our infinite consciousness. ...
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Victor Frankenstein Henry Clerval
1,027 wordsThe novel begins in a frame narrative: Robert Walton, the captain of a ship, recounts his adventures through a series of letters to his sister back in England. Walton encounters Victor Frankenstein in the seas near the North Pole and is told his story, and the major part of the novel consists of Frankenstein's narration of his strange adventures. Victor tells Walton of his early life in Geneva and his close relationships with his cousin, Elizabeth Lavenza, who had come to live with his family wh...
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Unwanted Pregnancy Side Effects
880 wordsAbortion was created to aid in certain situations in which a woman could not or did not want to give birth to a child and to care for the child. Abortion is a method in which the baby still in the mother's womb or the living embryo / fetus is killed. Abortions will be performed for many reasons if it is an unwanted pregnancy for social and / or financial reasons or if there are medical circumstances with the child and / or the mother. A woman may be unable to carry the child or there may be cong...
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Exile And Pain In Three Elegiac Poems
913 wordsThere is a great similarity between the three elegiac poems, The Wanderer, The Wife of Lament, and The Seafarer. This similarity is the theme of exile. Exile means separation, or banishment from ones native country, region, or home. During the Anglo Saxon period, exile caused a great amount of pain and grief. The theme is shown to have put great sadness into literature of this time period. The majority of the world's literature from the past contains the theme of exile. The Wife of Lament is ano...
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Kinds Of Love Dying Patient
1,780 words... r even more pain during her hyperthermia treatments. The hospice nurse, Janice, made a decision to speak with Henrietta's doctor about pain medicine behind Jim's back. She felt this was necessary, but it also was a very difficult decision to make. Often the family of the dying patient suffers denial, just like a patient may. Janice's promise to Henrietta to allow her to have a dignified death by removing the bandages across her chest before the response team arrived at the time of her death,...
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Hester And Dimmesdale Sin Of Adultery
1,035 wordsIn Nathaniel Hawthorne's, The Scarlet Letter, Pearl, is the human symbol of the sin of adultery in the fact that she leads her mother, Hester Prynne, and Arthur Dimmesdale to accept and admit to their sin. Pearl is the beautiful daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale. She is the living symbol of the scarlet letter and has unique traits that make her sometimes appear as a demon. Her love for nature and freedom, her spirit, her wildness, her loneliness and separation from the world, her curiosity, and ...
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Analysis Of Hamlet First Soliloquy
912 wordsHamlets first soliloquy in Act I, scene ii, lines 133 - 164 is a passionate and startling passage that strongly contrasts to the artificial dialogue and actions that he portrays to his uncle Claudius throughout the remainder of the play. This soliloquy serves to reveal Hamlets melancholia and the reasons for his despair in an outpouring of anger, disgust, sorrow, and grief through which he explains how everything in his life seems futile and miserable. He mourns the death of his father, is sicke...
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Make You Feel Bad Times
869 wordsSolitude the word is scary to some people, but for many, solitude is one of the greatest aspects of their lives. I do not think that people see the advantages of living a solitary life. Most of the time they think that it would be miserable. For many people, their picture of solitude is someone pacing the house trying to escape boredom or loneliness. I think differently. Solitude enables you to grow in many directions: in self-reliance, in enjoyment of life, and in dealing with lifes difficult s...
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