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19 Th Century Public And Private
1,374 wordsCapital punishment seemed to have been regenerated from the beginning of mankind, where beheading was considered an honorable method of meeting death, whereas hanging carried with it a definite stigma. The era of public hanging was emotionally satisfying even though the surroundings was emotionally tense. In contrast to private hangings where they were fewer observers, less theatrical from the accuse and hanging was becoming more of an inhuman punishment to inflict on those found guilty of their...
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Picnic At Hanging Rock
1,208 wordsThe shadow of the Rock has grown darker and longer. At the beginning of the book, on St. Valentines Day, nineteen girls and their two school mistresses from the Appleyard College leave for a picnic to Hanging Rock. The girls are all wearing white and clean clothes. That symbolizes purity, cleanness, properness and virginity. Thereby author, Joan Lindsay, tries to show, the contrast between these girls and the hard, brutal and ruthless nature. The atmosphere is very positive- everything and every...
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