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Daisy And Gatsby Tom Buchanan
1,432 wordsIn F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" Tom Buchanan's attitude toward the other characters demonstrates his true personality. There are many things that make up his character which cause him to carry on in this manner. His attitude stems from the way he was brought up by his parents, and the values they instilled in him. Throughout his life everything was handed to him on a silver platter. So Tom feels that world is at feet and that he can do whatever he wants to whoever he wants without ha...
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Listen To What Paul Kill The French Soldier War
582 wordsI. a) Why didn't he kill the French soldier? Paul hesitated to kill the French soldier because the littlest ounce in his body felt remorse towards the suffering soldier. Paul did have some thoughts in killing him, but when he thought about it, he just could not bring himself to kill him. He talked to the soldier and explained how their country did not know what they were doing to each other. Paul just wanted to increase the peace and he felt killing the French soldier would not do any good, sinc...
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Young Goodman Brown Hawthorne Young Goodman
1,203 words... s is another demonstration of Brown's excessive pride and arrogance. He believes that he is better than everyone else in that he alone can destroy evil. Brown then comes upon the ceremony which is setup like a perverted Puritan temple. The altar was a rock in the middle of the congregation and there were four trees surrounding the congregation with their tops ablaze, like candles. A red light rose and fell over the congregation which cast a veil of evil over the congregation over the devil w...
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Macbeth And Lady Macbeth Fatal Flaw
1,021 wordsEvil is a destructive force; it causes harm to those who embrace it and their victims. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the protagonist Macbeth and Lady Macbeth fall into the hands of evil. Evil is what drives people to commit unnatural actions of destruction. Macbeth succumbs to evil through his fatal flaw, greed, and it causes him to disrupt the chain of being. When Macbeth willingly murders, massacres, lies and deceives, he loses his heath and sanity. Evil corrupts everything it touches, and Macbeth...
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Guilty Conscience King Hamlet
1,697 wordsForgive me my foul murder! That cannot be; since I am still possess of those effects for which I did murder-. (III. ii. 52 - 6) The hypocritical Claudius proclaims the aforementioned prayer, but is Claudius prayer superficial? Shakespeare's Hamlet is teeming with deceit, incest, and hypocrisy; all of which are clearly portrayed through Claudius. Shakespeare obscures Claudius sinister characteristics through hypocrisy, but as the play develops, Claudius Mephistophelian nature becomes evident. In ...
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Kenneth Branagh Frankenstein Monster
1,214 wordsMost Americans have some idea of who Frankenstein is, as a result of many Frankenstein movies and popularity of monster. However, most peoples ideas are incorrect about Mary Shelleys novel, Frankenstein is the name of the scientist, not monster, and the monster himself is not the inarticulate, rage-driven criminal that Robert de niro shows in the 1994 film version of the novel. Shelleys original Frankenstein was misrepresented by this Kenneth branagh film, most likely to send a different message...
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Gender Roles And Macbeth
1,026 wordsWhat roles and actions should actors of a particular gender portray? Should men be aggressive and have a level of ambition high enough to meet their loftiest goals? Should women always be passive and frail, never using their energy to advance their lot? William Shakespeare's Macbeth is a tragic tale of one mans deadly and unchecked ambition to be king, and his wifes lust for power and title. By the final act of the play, Macbeth has been consumed by his own drive. The prophecies he once thrived ...
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Lady Macbeth A Woman Before Her Time
1,533 wordsDuring the Elizabethan era, the great chain of being reigned. Women were low on this chain of power, and men were on top. In fact, women were below horses; you couldnt live without a good horse, but, you could live without a wife. Lady Macbeth was a woman before her time, she was caught between being todays ambitious, powerful modern woman and a fragile creature of the Elizabethan era. In the first four acts of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is vicious, overly ambitious, without conscience, and willing t...
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Porphyria Lover And My Last Duchess
1,140 words... e way she poses for the portrait and the reader can sense his jealousy over the way she is looking at the painter, Fr Pandolf. The Duke gives the impression that he thinks the painter is his wifes lover. The Duke belittles the Duchess joy in life and shows a scathing attitude towards the pleasure she gets from the simple things in life - a sunset, or a bough of cherries. Conversely, the reader gets the impression that the Duchess has a kind, happy nature, who finds joy in all things, though ...
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Younger Brother Main Reason
1,295 wordsA Gothic horror story of quite exceptional quality... macabre, bizarre and... quite impossible to put down. The above quote is the response of the Financial Times to the best-selling novel, The Wasp Factory, and in my opinion, truer words were never spoken. I myself had to force the book out of my hands in the early hours of the morning on several occasions. This clearly says something about the sheer power of Iain Banks debut novel. Whether you love it or hate it, once you have read the first p...
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Hester And Dimmesdale Dimmesdale And Chillingworth
850 wordsThe world of Puritan New England, like the world of today, was filled with many evil influences. Many people were able to withstand the temptations of this darker side of the spiritual world, but still some fell victim to the supposed Satan's will. Such offences against God, in thought, word, deed, desire or neglect, are what we define as sin (Schuler 14). In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, the reader is able to observe how one sin devastates three lives. Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chilli...
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Act 4 Sc 3 Act 3 Sc
1,317 words... led and chance has diverted the attention from the true murderer. Macbeth has been thus far fortunate and has gone from Thane to king overnight. This raises him in status and prosperity. On the other hand, his morals and human compassion decline. Now that Macbeth is crowned king he has gone as far in material magnitude as he can go but morally he can go lower, and he will. The idea that Banquo's children will become future kings enrages him. For Banquo's issue have I filled my mind; For them...
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Thane Of Cawdor Macbeth And Banquo
1,298 wordsThroughout the play the reason Macbeth's character changes is because the audiences opinion of Macbeth changes. When the audience first here of Macbeth all we know is that Macbeth a brave soldier who is very loyal and patriotic. But when the audience meets Macbeth he is gullible to the witches prophecies and is easily led dew to his wife Lady Macbeth also Macbeth has great ambition. Throughout the play Macbeth reveals his conscience, the audience feels great sympathy for Macbeth. After Macbeth k...
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Lord Of The Flies William Lord Of The Flies Boys
717 wordsIn Lord of the Flies, William Goldberg uses a group of British boys from a private school to demonstrate the masked diabolical nature of humans, and how if given the opportunity, men will turn into savages. Mr. Golding shows us that within each person there is a primitive evil that will break loose if it is not curbed by the strong order of civilization, that there is a monster lurking beneath the calm exterior of mundane, ordinary humans. On a deserted island, the boys illustrate the wicked, ma...
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Thane Of Cawdor Macbeth Character
696 wordsLife is a reality play that forces individuals to choose between right and wrong. Decisions that are made have a lasting effect that decides the outcome of a persons future. Macbeth has a great deal of trouble deciding the difference between moral and immoral decisions during his rise to power which. Macbeth's character experiences a string of questionable decisions that consequently lead to his dethroning. First, Macbeth becomes engulfed in greed and will stop at nothing to obtain what he feels...
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Internal Conflict Of Victor Frankenstein
722 wordsMary Shelley uses Victor Frankenstein's production of a monster to convey the main character's internal conflict concerning the corruption of his creature. Victor feels intense responsible for the deaths that have occurred, and fear of his monster's constant pursuit of revenge. Eventually this emotional state of distress leads him to a state of delirium and, later, to a status of obsession concerning the death of this evil being he has created. Against his initial feelings of doubt, Victor creat...
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Read The Story Billy Budd
663 wordsHerman Mellvilles Billy Budd is and extremely divisive novel when one considers the dissension it has generated. The criticism has essentially focused around the argument of acceptance vs. resistance. On the one hand we can read the story as accepting the hanging of Billy Budd as the necessary ends of justice. We can read Vere's condemnation as a necessary military action performed in the name of preserving order aboard the Indomitable. On the other hand, we can argue that Billy's execution as t...
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Edgar Allan Poe Poe Short Stories
1,154 wordsPoe's Writing Styles The short story writer, which I have chosen to write about, is Edgar Allen Poe. After reading one of his works in class, I realized that his mysterious style of writing greatly appealed to me. Although many critics have different views on Poe's writing style, I think that Harold Bloom summed it up best when he said, Poe has an uncanny talent for exposing our common nightmares and hysteria lurking beneath our carefully structured lives. For me, this is done through his use of...
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Hester And Pearl Context Of The Story
1,221 wordsThe Ambiguity Use of Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne s novel, The Scarlett Letter, uses a lot of symbolism in the story that represents several meanings within the context of the story. Hawthorne uses symbolism to add greater meaning to the story. Objects such as the prison, rosebush, scaffold, meteor, forest, brook, and little Pearl are all important symbols in Hawthorne s novel. The most obvious and principal symbol in the novel is the scarlet letter A, which has several me...
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Characters In The Play Shakespearean Tragedy
1,329 wordsA SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY Shrewd and devious behaviour, especially for his own benefit is perpetuated by the manipulative and evil Iago throughout the Shakespearean tragedy Othello. Iago tampers with the truth and falsifies events in an attempt to secure power and seek revenge. In his quest for power no one is safe from his devious deeds. His lies and manipulative tales ultimately prove destructive to the other characters in the play. Iago appears to be without conscience, continuing to fabricate ...
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