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Hawthorne Describes Scarlet Letter
2,304 wordsThere are two main themes that Hawthorne he uses in the novel both are related. Through his diction Hawthorne seems to emphasize the severity of Puritan law as a theme, the other is the strictness of Puritan society. In the opening chapter he carefully describes the prison as an ugly edifice and gloomy even though the prison is old, it still has the power to enforce the severe Puritan laws whatever they may be. He describes the door of the prison as being. Heavily timbered with oak and studded w...
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Death Penalty Capital Punishment
683 wordsHow criminals should be punished? Before any test in class, some students who are not well prepared for the test usually think about cheating in class. But when they know that the punishment for being caught will not be just a zero on the test as usual but an F for the class, they will think about it ten times before they do it. So, I believe that all sentencing is based on the principle that punishment should be proportionate to the seriousness of the crime, especially when it is about a crime ...
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Thrushcross Grange Wuthering Heights
1,170 wordsBront's novel seems to contain all the typical, traditional Victorian social values and divisions such as the master of the house with servants below him and so on. Social distinctions were very much more marked and rigidly respected. We first glimpse what Bront might think of social stereotypes and divisions, right at the start of the book through Lockwood, and later through other narrators such as Nelly Dean. Lockwood is seen as the epitome of Victorian social values and ideals, he is a normal...
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Addison Wesley Longman Feel Sympathy
1,415 words... Even Billy and Gene's dad favors Gene over Billy. "Shut your mouth. Don't go dragging your brother into this. Anyway what he done to the car was accidental. But not you. Oh no, you marched into that collection of religious screwballs, holy belly-flopper's, and linoleum-beaters under your own steam. On purpose. For God's sake, Billy, that's no religion that - it's exercise. Stay away from them Baptists. " (Vanderhaghe p. 590). Gene can crash a car and still go out, but Billy can't leave the h...
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Point In The Story Indirect Characterization
1,941 wordsAn Investigation into the Structure of Gogol's The Portrait Gogol's The Portrait, is a short story which examined through a formalistic approach, can be understood beyond its obvious storyline and plot. Formalism is the literary theory that literature is not simply a mass of words, but comprised of individual words that each may possess a social stereotype, a spiritual aspect or convey a physical response in the reader. Formalism asserts that the world is full of codes that need to be decoded. B...
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First And Second Give The Reader
1,010 wordsThe Use of a Narrative Voice in Conjunction with Sympathy and Rejection The narrator's job is to speak to the reader in a way that gives him / her a sense of emotion. Although the reader is first led to sympathize with Kugelmass in the beginning, s / he later rejects him because of his insensitive personality. This is the emotion that the narrator is putting forth on the reader. The narrator tries to give the reader the implication that we should try to sympathize with Kugelmass at first glance....
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Capital Punishment Strongly Disagree
1,154 wordsIn society today there are many unavoidable issues that can change the way life is lived. One that comes to mine is crime, and with crime has to come some type of punishment. Generally there are three purposes distinguished for punishment: deterrence, retribution, and rehabilitation. In the case of capital punishment only the first two apply. There has been extensive research into the issue of weather capital punishment served a deterrent function (Neapolitan 195). Thus, there has been a growing...
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Thoughts On Charles Tansley In To The Lighthouse
1,099 wordsThoughts on Charles Tansley in To the Lighthouse In To the Lighthouse, Mr. Ramsay serves as a role model for Charles Tansley, and thus has great influence on Tansley's career and views toward women. Because Tansley is from an "unsuccessful" family, he needs a role model for success, which he finds in Ramsay. Tansley is staying at the Ramsay house during a holiday in order to work on his dissertation and to have access to Mr. Ramsay. Tansley greatly admires Ramsay, and hopes to impress him. "They...
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Role In Society Miss Havisham
1,192 wordsThe novel, Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of Victorian fiction. It is through the use of characterization and imagery that Dickens is able to make his ideas most prominent in the minds of readers. Through his expert use of these authorial techniques, Dickens successfully criticizes the prison system, the morals of society, and the social injustice of his time. In the novel, Dickens takes an innocent young orphan boy through childhood ...
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Sitting Bull White Man
1,207 words"Progress is the elimination of the savage." These words of General Terry, a character in Sharon Pollock's "Walsh", demonstrates how he and his fellow white men feel towards Native Indians. The indians see Canada as their homeland, but the Canadian government will not let them stay and will do anything in their power to make them leave to the United States. They are cheated against, lied to, and betrayed by their government, because of their ethnic background. Especially Sitting Bull, the head o...
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Elizabeth Bishop Literary Devices
880 wordsWith fewer than fifty published poems Elizabeth Bishop is not one of the most prominent poets of our time. She is however well known for her use of imagery and her ability to convey the narrators emotions to the reader. In her vividly visual poem The Fish, the reader is exposed to a story wherein the use of language not only draws the reader into the story but causes the images to transcend the written work. In the poem, Bishop makes use of numerous literary devices such as similes, adjectives, ...
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Effects Of Intolerance In Society
906 wordsIn society, many people tend to reject those who are different. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee presents a number of situations that reveal the effects of intolerance on other peoples lives. The characters in the novel who were treated with a lack of intolerance were Boo Radley, Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson. By observing the effects of intolerance on peoples lives, the children gain sympathy, respect and understanding for its victims. The children gain sympathy for Boo Radley wh...
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Act 1 Scene 3 Hath Not A Jew
665 wordsShakespeare's portrayal of Shylock in the Merchant of Venice is more complex than is originally thought. He is not only seen by the audience as the traditional stock villain; I hate him-p 13, but he also evokes the audiences empathy such as in his famous speech: hath not a Jew eyes? -p 47. Shylock is caricature to fit the profile of a typically villainous character in the eyes of an Elizabethan audience; his career in usury, his Jewish religion, and his attitude towards money and the Christians ...
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Feel Sympathy Human Qualities
374 wordsIn Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice the antagonist of the play is Shylock. Shylock is a wealthy Jewish moneylender. Shylock is probably the most memorable character in the play because of Shakespeare's excellent characterization of him. Shylock is the antagonist in the play because he stands in the way of love, but this does not necessarily make him the villain of the play. Shylock can be seen as both the villain of the play and as a man who is very human. The villain that we see in Shylock is t...
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Audience Or Reader Lines 796 797 Medea
1,887 words... enter. Medea, a woman who honors the ways upheld by the old, now 'foreign' gods, represents forces that the Athenians were increasingly overlooking. Jason's suffering at her hands displays some of the consequences of a self-assured civilization's blindness to the power of its repressed values. While the cultural resonance of Medea's characters will be explored more in the succeeding commentary, it should simply be recognized here that Jason's perspective bears more than a personal prejudice;...
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Political And Social Palestinian Arabs
1,748 words... Arabs by an average ratio of 45 to 13 percentage points. On September 14, that ratio was 55 to 7. Conventional wisdom once held that such favor ability to Israel was tied to Israel's patent usefulness to America during the Cold War, and it was often suggested that such favor ability might falter 'after the end of the Cold War. That did not happen. A strong factor in the American public's sympathy for Israel has always been the felt ties of common political and social culture. When asked, a l...
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Sir Gawain Gulliver Travels
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Hit And Run Educational Facilities
1,006 wordsRhetorical Analysis Courtland Milloy, an African American columnist for the Washington Post, examines the effects inadequate educational facilities have on children. His article, Young Minds Injured by Our Inattention, is focused towards the ethnically and socially diverse adults of the Washington area. Milloy's intention in speaking is to explore the problems society has with its educational system. Although effectively appealing to emotions and values, Milloy lacks strong arguments of characte...
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Patriarchal Society Greek Society
984 wordsThe play Medea by Euripides challenges the dominant views of femininity in the patriarchal society of the Greeks. While pursuing her ambition Medea disregards many of the feminine stereotypes/ characteristics of the patriarchal Greek society. She questions the inequality of women in a patriarchal society, contradicts Jasons chauvinist beliefs, challenges the stereotype that women are weak and passive and completely disregards the feminine role of motherhood. Feminism is the belief that women and...
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Hamlet Father Shakespeare Hamlet
608 wordsProcrastination Of Revenge In Shakespeare's Hamlet Essay, Procrastination Of Revenge In Shakespeare's Hamlet In the play? Hamlet? by William Shakespeare, the protagonist Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, is deceived by many of his former allies, including his mother, Gertrude, and his lover, Ophelia. Perhaps the most deceptive of these former allies is Hamlet? s uncle, Claudius. Not only does Claudius kill Hamlet? s father, the King, but he also proceeds to marry Hamlet? s mother, Gertrude, and to ...
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