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Aware Of The Fact End Of The Story
2,152 words... part, uses an allegory as the literary theme in The Masque of the Red Death. I do not see the story as one intended to scare or keep the reader in suspense, however, more to leave the reader with a message concerning death, and trying to prevent the inevitable. Very little description is used throughout the story, excluding the description the most important roles in the story; the seven rooms, and the Red Death. I believe this is written the way it is in order to keep the reader focused on ...
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One Of The Girls Reverend Parris
1,161 wordsIt's the spring of 1692. The whole village of Salem is in an uproar. The Reverend Samuel Parris' daughter Betty won't wake up, and the Putnam's' little Ruth is walking around like a zombie. The night before, Reverend Parris had heard a funny noise in the woods outside his house, and stumbled onto a frightening scene: his black slave Tituba was waving her arms over a boiling kettle, muttering wild-sounding gibberish, and around the fire a dozen girls were dancing- dancing, strictly forbidden by P...
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Tower Of London William The Conqueror
1,175 wordsWe went to the torture room in a kind of solemn precession, the guards walking ahead with lighted candles. The chamber was underground and dark, particularly near the entrance. It was a vast shadowy place and every device and instrument of human torture was there. They pointed out some of them to me and said I should have to taste them. Then they asked me again if I would confess. I Those words were spoken by John Gerard, a Jesuit priest accused of spreading Catholicism in England. And in 1597 h...
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Twentieth Birthday Baby Doll Archie
710 wordsThe play is about a woman named Baby Doll who is married to a man named Archie Meighan. The only reason they got married was because Baby Dolls father was on his deathbed, and he wanted to know that she would be taken care of. Archie was the only halfway decant man around, so they got married. Archie was not Baby Dolls first choice, but she married him to please her father. Since Baby Doll wasnt ready to get married she said that they would have to wait until she was ready to have sex, or to hav...
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Holy Roman Empire Ottoman Turks
930 words"In 1519, Charles Hapsburg became Charles V. Roman Emperor. Discuss and analyze the political, social, and religious problems he faced over the course of his imperial reign of 1519 - 1556. " Born at Ghent, 1500; died at Yuste, in Spain, 1558; Charles V. Roman Emperor, was a descendant of the house of Hapsburg, and to this descent owed his sovereignty over so many lands that it was said of him that the sun never set on his dominions. As soon as Charles received his title of emperor of the Holy Ro...
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Low Self Esteem Elizabeth Proctor
799 wordsAuthor Millers, The Crucible takes a close look at John Proctors, conflict between his raw deeds and his conception of himself. Throughout the play John Proctor is tormented by this conflict. He struggles against his own weakness to achieve a view of himself that he can accept. Proctor has to overcome tremendous emotional and moral hurdles and as a result his character develops into a different person. His battle for integrity is lost many times before it is finally won in the play's final minut...
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The Presence Of Guilt In Scarlet Letter
580 wordsThe Presence of Guilt in The Scarlet Letter Guilt can change even the evilest moral standards. The continuing emotional guilt throughout the story affects the characters and events that take place. This presence of guilt is shown through the scaffold with Hester's punishment, with Dimmesdale's inner struggle, and with Dimmesdale's final confession at the end of the novel. Guilt first comes into play, when Hester must take her stand on the scaffold as public punishment for her adultery. Hester is...
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Forgive Sins Mortal Sin
1,113 wordsThe Christian religion including the Catholic, Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches is known as Christianity. Within the Christian faith there are many beliefs and acts for one to follow. Such acts consist of the sacraments, for which there is seven. Believed by many to be one of the most intricate and difficult to understand of all the sacraments, is the sacrament of Reconciliation. Those who approach the sacrament of Reconciliation, obtain pardon from God's mercy for the offense committed ...
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Raskolnikov Believes Raskolnikov Suffering Extraordinary
1,319 wordsIn his book Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky explores the path of Raskolnikov who has many problems and obstacles throughout his life. He commits murder and is faced with the long and mentally extremely painful journey of seeking redemption. Raskolnikov believes that by a law of nature men have been somewhat arbitrarily divided into two groups of ordinary and extraordinary. Raskolnikov believes that the duty of the ordinary group is to just exist, in order to form the world and the society. The ...
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Save His Life Abigail Williams
841 wordsI want my life, I will have my life (137). In the drama of the Crucible John Proctor is accused of being a witch. John is unaware of the reason he is accused, but it is obvious that every time someone comes close to getting to the bottom of the girls lie that is the person the girls accuse. Before the beginning of the play John had committed lechery with Abigail Williams. John Proctor is almost ready to admit that he is a witch even though he is not, some reasons that he doesnt admit it could be...
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Nazi Occupation Young Boy
1,108 wordsOpen City by Roberto Rossellini Open City is a neo-realist film that followed the movement in Italy during World War 2. The film is neo-realistic because it has that reality like feeling to it by following specific characters through their daily stressful lives that are screwed up from poverty and war. It has many qualities that make it in some ways closer to the characters. While watching, the viewer is sucked into the story and immediately feeling emotional with the families and the other vari...
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Salem Witch Trials Group Of People
1,032 wordsIn The Crucible, there was a lot of senseless behavior. The purpose of The Crucible is to educate the reader on the insanity that can form in a group of people who think they are judging fairly upon a group of people. Judge Hawthorne believes what he is told by certain people is the truth even if little evidence is to be shown. The young girls with Abigail convince Hawthorne of others being witches so that Abigail can get what she wants, John Proctor, also so that Abigail does not blackmail the ...
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Hester And Dimmesdale Sin Of Adultery
1,035 wordsIn Nathaniel Hawthorne's, The Scarlet Letter, Pearl, is the human symbol of the sin of adultery in the fact that she leads her mother, Hester Prynne, and Arthur Dimmesdale to accept and admit to their sin. Pearl is the beautiful daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale. She is the living symbol of the scarlet letter and has unique traits that make her sometimes appear as a demon. Her love for nature and freedom, her spirit, her wildness, her loneliness and separation from the world, her curiosity, and ...
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Elizabeth Proctor Arthur Miller
751 wordsCircumstances cause adaptation. Drastic circumstances cause drastic adaptation. The Salem witch trials of 1692 were definitely drastic circumstances. Society's hysteria, greed, and vengeance led to accusations that changed many lives, even changed some of those lives to death. Elizabeth Proctor, Reverend John Hale, and John Proctor were three characters that were altered during Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Elizabeth Proctor is a kind, intelligent, almost joyless woman that has evidently been il...
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American Psycho Commodity Fetishism And Social Reification
1,046 words... ion as I saw it, colossal and jagged (360) With its fragmented formal style and its endless citations of brands by which everything and everyone is identified characters almost absent beneath their Armani suits, and beyond conversations about restaurants, American Psycho may well be read as description of a society that has arrived at the conclusion of a Marxist logic of commodity fetishism as developed by a logic of social reification. This logic as expanded in Georg Lukacs essay Reificatio...
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Augustine Then Moves Moves On To Talk Sin
1,200 wordsSt. Augustine: True Confessions Books I to IX. Concept of sin The Confessions presents St. Augustine's deepest understanding of sin. He explores the realm of human sin by delving deep into the roots of humanity like the sins of Adam, and even those of a newly born child, who, from the frame of reference of any average human is the most pure speck of human life. The Confessions expounds the profound observation that St. Augustine makes on the dynamics of sin. The human condition of anterior bonda...
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Criminal Investigation Psychological Characteristics
1,779 wordsA detective is a police officer, whose duty is to detect criminals, by in-depth investigation of cases. When attempting to solve a crime, detectives conduct a criminal investigation that seeks all the facts about a crime to help determine the truth: what happened and who is responsible. This involves making a preliminary and final investigation. A detective s task is to gather, organize, and use information about social behavior. To effectively complete that task a detective should possess certa...
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Ethan Frome Arthur Dimmesdale
2,014 wordsArthur Dimmesdale of Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter and Ethan Frome, the main character of Wharton's classic Ethan Frome, though separated by over a century of time, find themselves in remarkably similar situations bleak existence, punctuated only be intermittent glimpses into a life that might have been. However, a difference in character leads each to ultimately confront their respective situation in opposing ways. Ironically, the one seeking a new, clean life is met by death and the one seeking a...
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Night Santiago Young Women Abraham
745 wordsIn the still of the night Santiago? s crying cut sharply like a knife. His crying was relentless, as though it would never end but then, a child of three knows no other way to express his horror. Abraham Name walked down the narrow street made of hardened earth and nothing more. His dress was pure class, white blazer and pants with matching wide brimmed hat. Lost in thought he rolled his cigar between his lips, then, as if in a motion as natural to him as his tendency to smile at beautiful women...
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Quest For Power Morrow And To Morrow
1,086 wordsTo-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Lifes but a walking shadow Macbeth. Act V, Scene V, Lines 19 - 24 In one of his most celebrated plays, Macbeth, William Shakespeare illustrates the classical tragic hero pattern: a character regarded with the utmost admiration, demoted to an evil villain, despised by all. Like most trag...
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