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Symbolism In The Glass Menagerie
632 wordsThroughout "The Glass Menagerie", Tennessee Williams utilizes a variety of symbols. The symbols create inn usual vibes that make the entire play. The symbols range from the jonquils to the unicorn. The jonquils that are referred to from time to time throughout the drama represent Amanda's obsession with her youthful past. "jonquils became an absolute obsession" p. 951. When Amanda is taken back to her youthful days she reminisces about her loads of gentlemen callers. She always speaks fondly of ...
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Gentlemen Callers Glass Menagerie
476 wordsBeing a good mother takes a lot of time and effort. To be a good mother, you need certain, but good qualities. In my opinion, the mother needs to be loving and understanding towards her children. She needs to know when to back off and when to be there. She needs to make many sacrifices and take time for her children. There are so many qualities a mother must have. But to be a good mother, you need unconditional love. Amanda had some of these qualities but lacked a few of them. Amanda did want th...
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Edgar Allan Poe Superstitious Belief
2,129 words... group with a rough plaster, which the dampness of the atmosphere had prevented from hardening. Moreover, in one of the walls was a projection, caused by a false chimney, or fireplace, that had been filled up and made to resemble the rest of the cellar. " The narrator knew that he .".. could readily displace the bricks at this point, insert the corpse, and wall the whole up as before, so that no eye could detect anything suspicious. "By means of a crowbar [the narrator] easily dislodged the b...
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World Of Reality Gentlemen Caller
1,461 wordsSymbols are a tool writers like to use to make the readers think deeper into the meaning and message of their stories. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is full of these symbols. There are three major symbols that seem to be most important. The first major symbol is fire. The symbol of fire for Tom is a symbol of escape. Tom first uses fire in the form of cigarettes. Amanda: (He rises and crosses downstage. ) Youre not excused from the Tom: I am getting a cigarette (164). He escapes conv...
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Kill A Mockingbird Atticus Finch
775 wordsThree students kicked out of a high school for threatening to bring a gun to school. Why would they? Because people were prejudice against them because other students thought they were losers. Moral: You shouldnt not like a person because they arent like you. Prejudice was far much worse in the time period of To Kill A Mockingbird. But, Prejudice is the reason for much social injustice. Three characters named Nathan Radley, Atticus Finch, and Aunt Alexandria show us this in the novel, To Kill A ...
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Women Are Equal Jose Luis Brother
1,348 wordsMy brother was the tallest man alive seven years ago. I know this for a fact because its not true now and humans notice what surprises them. I rarely look at Jose Luis now but when I do, I am sometimes startled that he does not stretch looming above all for seven feet as he does in my vague memories. When I was very young and only the members of my family had a place in my consciousness, I was extremely proud of my strong, tall brother whom was on the surface, the family's pillar of strength. Es...
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Kill A Mockingbird Atticus Finch
1,180 wordsIn Harper Lees book, To Kill A Mockingbird, she reveals to her audience that prejudice, is a destructive force in any society. During the time that Mockingbird was written, racism was acceptable. Racism is a key theme in her book. Not only those who were black, but also those who affiliated with blacks, were considered inferior. Atticus, a lawyer, who defended blacks in court, was mocked. An example of this is when Mrs. Dubose told the children Your fathers no better than the niggers and trash h...
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Rear Window And Gentlemen Prefer Blondes On Display
1,486 wordsRear Window (1954) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) have very different plots but still have many striking similarities, such as the manipulation of the spectators gaze. Gaze is the transaction between the screen and a spectator. Two examples of the types of gazes used in these films are voyeuristic and fetishistic. The use of voyeuristic and fetishistic gazes reinforce movie viewing and gender roles during the 1950 s by featuring manipulative and frivolous women as sex objects. Rear Window i...
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Literature Is Dead Agree That Literature Is Dead World
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Ladies and Gentlemen: What person in their right mind could even reflect on literature as being dead? Certainly not I! Could you imagine a world without books, or plays? Could you imagine a world without words, knowledge or religion? I truthfully cant! Nor should you! So you see, I have already won my argument. But, it would be wrong of me not to justify my words. Literature is everywhere. Look ...
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Hath Wronged Whom Conscience Bids Defend Tother York
1,024 wordsRegal complacency must yield to political expediency and the deposition of the king will reverberate though the ages. Susan L. Powell The parallel and inextricable link between the fall of King Richard to the rise of the new and innovative King Henry, present a significant investigation of power and betrayal of those who wield it and those who desire it. (Queensland Theatre Company) Written in the late 15 th century, William Shakespeare provides a detailed study of kingship and supremacy, which ...
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Glass Menagerie World Of Illusion
1,933 wordsThe illusion in the play starts in scene even before the stage direction at the beginning one where it is clear that Amanda peruses illusions from the very first moment we meet her. Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic page 3. The fact that Tom acts as both narrator and as a character in the play immediately suggests the transitory and illusory nature of memory. Indeed Roger Bill, in his book Tennessee Williams says the play is cradled in the play wrig...
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Kill A Mockingbird Atticus Finch
1,156 wordsIn the 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee explores the concept of racism in the legal system and the upbringing of children. These notions are shown as one of the main patriarchs, Atticus Finch. He shows his children a principled path through life, and through his court case, he reinforces these philosophies. He also shows the small southern town of Maycomb what it really feels like to be a Negro. Atticus did not fail at either of these responsibilities: as a lawyer, he did not fail, ...
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Secret Hiding Spot Hiding Spot In The Woods Back
1,737 wordsDwight giving my Winchester away was inconceivable; I left the house and went to talk to Arthur. Arthur, can you believe that Dwight would make the decision to trade my Winchester for a stupid dog, especially without asking me? On top of that, he lied to my mother once again. There is no way that Dwight will get my Winchester back like he told my mother he would. Who knows, said Arthur, Maybe he didnt lie to your mother and he really is going to trade for your Winchester back. Dwight's main goal...
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Sin To Kill Negroes Lie
730 words1. "First of all, " he [Atticus] said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you " ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. " (Shows morals, wisdom) 2. When he gave us our air rifles Atticus wouldn't teach us to shoot. Uncle Jack instructed us in the rudiments thereof; he said Atticus wasn't interested in guns. Atticus said to Jem, "I'd rather yo...
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Jonathan Swift Hundred Thousand
1,961 wordsSatire of Society and the Enlightenment in Swift's A Modest Proposal and Voltaire's Candide Jonathan Swift is known as probably the one of the greatest satirists of all time. It is due to his initially anonymous publication of A Modest Proposal, which proposed cannibalism and other things as a solution to overpopulation, poverty and famine in Ireland. Jonathans father died before his first birthday. Swift managed to receive the best education available at the time, and upon the invasion of Irela...
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Mortally Wounded Lieutenant Governor
1,906 wordsIn my report I will be discussing the Boston Massacre. I will be looking at the Boston Massacre from three different perspectives. These perspectives are the Boston colonists and Samuel Adams, Tom Hutchinson, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor in 1770, and Captain Preston and his troops. I will also hold some depositions from people who were actually close or at the massacre. I will be show the differences on how all three felt about the situation. Due to great burden from the different act...
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Underground Man Part Ii
1,045 wordsThe narrator in Dosteovskys Notes From Underground has many frustrated desires. While these desires remain unchanged through the course of the novel, his ability to actively pursue these desires deteriorates in the sixteen years between Part II and Part I. The narrators unsuccessful and traumatic actions in Part II lead him to an incapacitated state in Part I where he constantly fears rejection and builds a protective wall to prevent further trauma. This wall keeps him underground, where he can ...
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Scene Iv Lines Act Iv Scene Ii
1,308 wordsIn Websters Dictionary, loyalty is defined as the quality or state or an instance of being loyal and loyal is defined as an unswerving in allegiance. In Elizabethan England, loyalty was believed to be the ultimate test of a gentleman's character, that only those who passed this test could be considered the perfect Elizabethan gentleman. Shakespeare believed this too. In, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, loyalty is a very prevalent theme throughout the comedy. In Act I, the friendship of Proteus and ...
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Lord Jim Bad Luck
1,853 wordsSummer Reading Project Lord Jim The main character of Lord Jim is none other then, Jim. He is also referred to as Lord Jim and Tuan Jim. Jims main goal in life is to be understood by someone, anyone at all. Jim does a lot of day dreaming. His dreams consist of a hero (him) performing some kind of a heroic act. But despite all the day dreaming, he never does perform his Heroic deed. When Jim had the chance to perform his first heroic deed, he failed. He was on a ship, transporting pilgrims, but w...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
1,676 wordsJoe Bikini Mark Twain s Feelings Towards Southern Aristocracy (As Seen In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn) Mark Twain, (Samuel Clemens), is credited with many great works. One of these works is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This book tells of a boy who is a mischief-maker but is basically very well mannered and turns out to be quite the moral human being. Although he sometimes struggles with society s hold on him and what they have drilled into his head from day one about slaves and eve...
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