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Billy Pilgrim Kilgore Trout
813 wordsKurt Vonnegut - Plays the role of himself in the first chapter, as he tries to get a grip on the Dresden book he feels the need to write. Appears occasionally in Billy Pilgrim's story as a reminder that he was indeed there. Also appears again at the end, when he returns to Dresden as a tourist. Billy Pilgrim - Pacifistic, wimpy, and passive-natured main character in Vonnegut's Dresden story. Generally seen as a pilgrim in his own haunted past, from which he returns with a message of goodness for...
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Meaning Of Life Win The War
897 wordsThe Mahabarata In the story the Mahabarata the Pandava's represent the forces of good. The Karavas represent the forces of evil. For example, Duryodhana gets Sakuni to cheat in order to defeat the Pandava's. The Pandava's lose everything including Draupadi. The Karavas try to undress Draupadi. They also try to murder the Pandava's during their 13 years in exile. The Karavas were going to kidnap Krishna in order to win the war. The Pandava's were good. They had respect for their enemy's in the wa...
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Andrew Carnegie Captain Of Industry
1,179 wordsA captain of industry is defined as a business leader that benefits the nation in a positive way. This includes increasing the availability of goods, creating more and new jobs, and donating money to benefit the well being of the people. Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1835. His father, Will, was a failing weaver. Leaving Scotland poor, his mother wanted to return in a carriage as a wealthy well-respected woman of importance. This drove Andrew to become successful by amassin...
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J R R Middle Earth
1,077 wordsJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien, creator of a world. When someone who knows Tolkien is asked about his works, one thought comes to mind, Middle Earth. This was the playground in his mind that such vivid descriptions of fantasy lands came from. It is the base of his most well known stories, where dreams are just the norm. J. R. R. may owe much of his success to his diverse beginnings. On April 16, 1891, Mabel Suffield and Arthur Reuel Tolkien were married in Bloemfontein, South Africa. They soon gave b...
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Les Miserables Theme Forgiveness Self Sacrifice And Courage
997 wordsIt is precisely of him that I wished to speak. Dispose of me as you please; but help me first to carry him home. I only ask that of you. Upon examination of Les Miserables, it is clearly evident that the elements of Forgiveness, Self Sacrifice, and Courage are only a few of the main themes Hugo wanted to develop. First off, is the element of forgiveness. In a book of mistrust, poverty, and hate forgiveness thrives in the world of Les Miserables. The first example of this was at the very beginnin...
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Lady Macbeth Tragic Hero
935 wordsSince the name of this play is Macbeth, most people wouldnt think of anyone but Macbeth being a tragic hero in this story. However, if the character of Lady Macbeth is examined we see that she is a tragic hero. A tragic hero is a protagonist, usually of high estate and neither entirely good nor bad. He is perfect except for a Hamartia (flaw), which is the significant factor leading to his suffering, that eventually brings him down in the end. More often than not, the tragic flaw is hubris (arrog...
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One Hundred Years Years Of Solitude
1,007 wordsDeath is slow to visit Macondo in Gabriel Gamma Mrquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude, but once it does arrive, there is no stopping it. It moves into the community slowly at first, then gathers speed as it races across the one hundred years. When Jos Arcadio Buenda and Ursula establish Macondo, it is like a utopia. Life prospers there with seemingly no end to it. Representative of this idea is that there have been no deaths, or a need for a cemetery. They come to this Utopia to get away from de...
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Play King Lear Tragic Flaw
2,225 wordsBeing proud is an attribute everyone has amongst them; pride can help some and defy others. In the play King Lear by William Shakespeare, it proves personality can impair your success. King Lear has many conflicts, which weakens his development as a person. Blindness to the surrounding public is caused by pride. Tragic heroes are sought out through pride. Pride inhibits character development. Conflicts throughout the play have a dramatic effect on King Lear s character. King Lear s decision to g...
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Scene Iii Lines Falls In Love
4,924 words^OTHELLO: ACT I Shakespeare's story of jealousy, betrayal, and murder begins on a street in Venice in the middle of the night. Roderigo has just learned that Desdemona, the woman loves, has eloped with Othello, a Moorish general hired to lead the Venetian army against the Turks. Roderigo is angry at Iago, the young Venetian hes been paying to play matchmaker- for him and Desdemona. But Iago has other problems. Hes furious with Othello for having chosen Michael Cassio as his Lieutenant instead of...
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Slaughterhouse Five Prevent War
963 wordsPicture this: Bombshells exploding all around, destruction everywhere, civilians running for their lives total devastation. This is exactly what Kurt Vonnegut encountered in the fire-bombing of Dresden during World War Two. Vonnegut bases his novel, Slaughterhouse-five on this event in his life. Several themes can be seen throughout the novel: The theme of war and its contrast with beauty, love and innocence, the theme that people are merely bugs in amber, the theme that death is inevitable and ...
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David Copperfield Davids Mother
1,004 wordsDavid Copperfield The novel David Copperfield, written by Charles Dickens, deals with the life and times of David Copperfield. About a century ago in a small town in England, David was born on a Friday at the stroke of midnight, which is considered a sign of bad luck. Davids father has already died and his aunt comes to stay with him and his mother as this novel gets off to a very slow start. Soon David becomes aware that his mother has relations with another man and asks one of his servants, if...
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Accept Their Fate Reading Kit 174 Life
1,447 wordsWhen a person dies, his world is literally brought to an end. His family members, friends and acquaintances are all affected by his departure but primarily he is the one who suffers. The suffering involved in death may not be the act of dying in itself, but rather the repercussions of death; it is essentially the cutting off of a continuation. In his writing Nagel discusses the notion of death as an evil. He acknowledges the ambiguity that surrounds the subject of death but he concludes that dea...
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Killing His Father Killed His Father
803 wordsTo many people William Shakespeare's Hamlet is the most vivid and descriptive tragedy that he has ever written. In all classic tragedies the hero suffers, and usually dies at the end. Othello stabs himself, Romeo and Juliet commit suicide, British falls on his sword, and like them, Hamlet dies by getting cut with a poison tipped sword. But that is not the only element that is needed to consider a play a tragedy. Many times a hero does not even need to die. There are more ingredients needed to la...
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Claudius Tells Hamlet
682 wordsWilliam Shakespeare? s Hamlet is a play full of sorrow and excitement, its full of gore and incest. The play has a large amount of betrayal and the person supplying most of that is Claudius, the king and Hamlets uncle. Claudius is cold-hearted, full of hate, and a coward. He is the king but, the ironic thing about that is he should not be and as Hamlet is the prince, the death of his father should put him at the throne. The play starts off with a tense setting, as the guards have seen a ghost th...
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Ernest Hemingway Catherine Barkley
2,891 wordsaa The theme that Hemingway emphasizes throughout the novel is the search for order in a chaotic world. Hemingway conveys this through Fredericks own personal search during the chaos of World War I. Catherine has found strength within herself to lead her through life. This is what Frederick must come to realize. Through his involvement with Catherine, Frederick slowly finds his own inner strength. Fredericks affair with Catherine prompts him to leave his wild life of prostitutes and drink. He be...
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Women Were Treated Period Of Time
2,838 wordsKate Chopin: Adversity and Criticism Tragedy, death, adversity and criticism can one or a combination of these circumstances influence the path you take? Enduring the death of loved ones, facing critical abuse and public denunciation as an immoralist, Kate Chopin is considered among the most important women in the nineteenth-century American fiction. (Scarsella) Katherine (Chopin) Oflaherty was born of Irish-French descendants. There is some controversy over the actual date of her birth. Kate st...
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Knights Of The Round Table Lady Of The Lake
1,149 wordsKing Arthur by Roger Lance lyn Green Book I: The Coming of Arthur The Two Swords- Arthur pulls a sword from a stone and becomes king. Then he goes to the Lady of the Lake and she gives him the sword Excalibur and the magic scabbard. Balyn and Balyn- Balyn gets a cursed sword and kills the Lady of the Lake. He goes after Garden the invisible evil night and finds the Castel Carbonek. He strick's King Pelles with the Dolorous Stroke then fights his brother unknowingly and they kill each other. The ...
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Lord Of The Flies Readers Attention
551 wordsComparison Between Lord Of The Flies Film And Novel Many novels have tried to adopt the idea of their story on to a film, such as the novel Lord Of The Flies. It is apparent that in most cases the novel is more successful than the film, since it has a greater capability to attract the readers attention by using literally devices such as symbolism, and meaningful events through out the story. I believed that the novel Lord Of The Flies was far more superior to the film Lord Of The Flies, because ...
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Jose Arcadio Buendia One Hundred Years
981 wordsDeath is slow to visit Macondo in Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude, but once it does arrive, there is no stopping it. It moves into the community slowly at first, then gathers speed as it races across the one hundred years. When Arcadio Jose Buendia and Ursula establish Macondo, it is like a Utopia. Life prospers there with seemingly no end to it and representative of this idea is the fact that for many years there is no cemetery in Macondo. They come to this Utopia to get aw...
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Husband Is Alive Free Of Her Husbands Control Louise
373 wordsThe Story of an Hour Has young woman just died from the joy of seeing her husband alive or has she died from the heartbreak of losing her freedom once again? Louise Mallard is the woman who has just been given the news that her husband is alive. Instead of dying from the joy of having her husband alive, Louise dies from grief. Chopin does a great job portraying the main character Mrs. Mallard as a wife who is glad she is free of her husbands control. The Story of an Hour, written by Kate Chopin ...
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