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Mortally Wounded Mme De
1,459 wordsWarning: There are a few spelling errors. 'It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ' 'What is essential is invisible to the eye, ' the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupry, The Little Prince The ending of Stendhal's, The Red the Black, is obscure. Julien Sorel is sentenced to death by guillotine for the crime of attempting to murder Mme. de Real, his former mistress. During his trial, Julie...
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House Of Usher Fall Of The House
558 wordsBefore I read The Fall of the House of Usher, I had a dreary experience of my at my great grand-mothers house. Just as there are several causes and effects of horror in The Fall of the House of Usher, I have experienced a frightening event which was due to a variety of causes and which had specific unpleasant effects. The story and my venture to my great grandmothers are similar. The story puts many aspects in your mind of scary and eerie surroundings. Still, both the story and my incident cause...
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Black And White Oskar Schindler
882 wordsThere have been many documentaries and dramatic productions focusing on the Holocaust. The film, Schindler's List is one of the most serious, accurate, and compelling non documentary accounts so far. With the vision of unforgettable images, this movie shows the anguish and endless struggle the massacred Jews suffered. This film explores the many sides of humanity during one of the most terrifying times in recent history. Some people, however, may respond negatively to the fact that there may be ...
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Men And Women Eternal Love
739 wordsThe question all single people are asking, "Why do people date? Why does it happen in the same certain ways? How does the dating phenomenon occur?" I guess Mother Nature intended for us to find our soul mates so we would reproduce children. Who knows for sure? All we know is boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. Boy and Girl like each other. Or Boy likes Girl. Girl does not like Boy. Boy chases Girl. Girl breaks Boy's heart. Boy leaves in despair or vice versa. As anyone can see dating has its definit...
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Sneer Of Cold Command Sneer Of Cold Ozymandias
639 wordsThis sonnet is written to express to the speaker that possessions don't mean immortality - ironically, the king who seemed to think that his kingdom would remain under his statue's egotistical gaze forever teaches us this through his epitaph. "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" becomes good advice, though in an opposite meaning than the king intended, for it comes to mean that despite all the power and might one acquires in the course of one's life, material possessions will not last for...
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Earl Of Gloucester King Lear
1,463 wordsThe images of sight given, taken, or abused resonate deeply in King Lear from Kent's first imperative, "See better, Lear" (I. i. 158), to the painful images of a stumbling, eyeless Gloucester. Such imagery, drawn both dramatically and verbally, illustrates well the theme of consciousness. Consciousness in this play refers to seeing the world without through the lens of the world within. The success of King Lear as a satisfying tragedy relies on this issue of consciousness. This theme is most pot...
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Epic Of Gilgamesh Significant Change
631 wordsThere once lived a king, the great king of Uruk in Mesopotamia. This great leader was Gilgamesh. His preserved epic is of great significance to modern day culture. Through Gilgamesh, the fate of mankind is revealed, and the inevitable factor of change is expressed. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, it is a great love, followed by a lingering grief that cause a significant change in the character of Gilgamesh. Before the coming of Enkidu, Gilgamesh was a man of pure power. A being of which there was no e...
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Jean Paul Sartre Garcin And Inez Hell
831 wordsHell. The four lettered word that trembles in the throats of men and children alike; The images of suffering, flame pits and blood, the smell of burning flesh, the shrieking of those who have fallen from grace. For centuries man has sought out ways to cleanse his soul, to repent for his sins and possibly secure his passage into paradise, all evoked by the fear of eternal damnation and pain. The early 20 th century philosopher and existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre saw life as an endless real...
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Story Of An Hour Kate Chopin
714 wordsIn an age where bustles, petticoats, and veils stifled women physically, it is not surprising that society imposed standards that stifled them mentally. Women were molded into an ideal form from birth, with direction as to how they should speak, act, dress, and marry. They lacked education, employable skills, and rights in any form. Every aspect of their life was controlled by a male authority figure starting with their father at birth and persisting through early womanhood into marriage where i...
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Van Gogh The Expressionist
1,652 words"What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter, and then the painting. " - Vincent Van Gogh Expressionism is an art form in which the very style itself and the symbols that the artist uses are meant to express his innermost feelings on the subject. Vincent van Gogh has often been hailed as the quintessential expressionist painter. His artwork covers a range of moods over the years, and his canvases are almost mirrors into his troubled soul. Vincent van Gogh lived a troub...
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Love And Friendship Shakespeare Sonnets
1,235 wordsShakespeare's poems are the monument of a remarkable genius but they are also the monuments of a remarkable age. The greatness of Shakespeare's achievement was largely made possible by the work of his immediate predecessors, Sidney and Spenser. Shakespeare's sonnets are intensely personal and are records of his hopes and fears, love and friendships, infatuations and disillusions that in turn acquire a universal quality through their intensity. The vogue of the sonnet in the Elizabethan age was b...
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Romantic Poetry Imagination And Emotion
1,052 wordsr ticular characteristics of the literature of romanticism includes subjectivity and an emphasis on individualism; spontaneity; freedom from rules; solitary life rather than life in society; the beliefs that imagination is superior to reason and devotion to beauty; love of and worship of nature; and fascination with the past, especially the myths and mysticism of the middle ages. " web > In this essay I will be looking mainly at Tears, Idle Tears by Tennyson and discussing how...
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Third Person Narration First Person Narration
982 wordsA black African is captured and sold into slavery. Its an unfortunate story, but one with approximately eleven million equivalents. Aphra Behn, however, brings this common piece of history to life in her story Oroonoko, the tale of an African prince tricked into slavery in the West Indies. As the storyteller, Behn makes use of two common forms of narration, the third person and the first person. She recounts what she is present for in the first person, while relying on the words of Oroonoko hims...
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Makes Fun Human Society
1,072 wordsGrendel has a sarcastic and cynical mind, which serves to entertain both him and the reader. Through his expositions of situations, we see humor where others would simply see violence, and irony where others only fact. These others are the humans, the Danes, unwitting neighbors of Grendel, forced to stand night after night of slaughter. What is a traumatic and terrifying experience for them, is simply a game to Grendel, and the reader. Grendel bursts in on the Danes, ready to kill, and they sque...
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Tomorrow And Tomorrow Life In General
691 wordsOne of the most famous soliloquies in the play Macbeth is the Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow soliloquy. The soliloquy takes place after Macbeth knows that Macduff is going to charge his castle. The last prophecy from the witches is no one born of woman will harm Macbeth. At this moment, Macbeth is not worried that Macduff can harm him because Macduff is born of a woman. Macbeth is getting a little worried though because Macduff's men are approaching Macbeth's castle. He then hears the news...
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Time And Spiritual Transcendence In Crusoe
1,116 wordsIn The Rise of the Novel Ian Watt says of capitalism in English Society it is, at least, generally agreed that the foundations of the new order were laid in that period immediately following the Glorious Revolution (61). Defoe, a denizen of the new economic structure, was one of its unabashed supporters. Though in Robinson Crusoe he created an island far removed from Western society, it was used as a stage to expound the virtues of both Western religion and capitalist economics. Michele Tournier...
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Whisky Priest Whiskey Priest God
1,011 wordsAs countless people in a third world country fall to the ravages of poverty and disease, a single woman fights to make a difference. Living a spartan life, through conditions far from humane, she helps those who are poor, suffering and sick, with total disregard for her own personal comfort. One might say that this woman is a saint and for many she already is. Her selfless abandon to help those in need makes her virtuous to a heroic degree. Her name is Mother Theresa. By stark contrast, the whis...
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Mental And Physical Rhyme Scheme
1,447 wordsIn What Ways Might Elizabeth Jennings Poetry Be About Voicing What Cannot Normally Be Expressed? The divide between the external and the internal is one that poets have always sought to breach. The enigma of mind and emotion has been one that seemed almost impossible to convey truthfully in line and verse; a thought is too fleeting to capture, an emotion too deep to describe. Despite this writers have continued in their quest to give voice to the silent interior existence of humanity, though few...
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Piano Sonatas Van Beethoven
983 wordsLudwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn to the son of Johann van Beethoven, a tenor in a choir, and his wife, Maria Magdalena. His first music lessons were from his father, an unstable man whose rough temper and desire to make Beethoven into the next Mozart did not destroy Beethoven's talent or his love for music. He studied and performed successfully, despite becoming the main entertainment source of the family by the time he was 18. His fathers increasingly serious alcoholism and the earlier dea...
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Act 1 Scene Act 2 Scene
1,227 wordsFrom noble Macbeth to this dead butcher. People of Shakespeare time are often thought of as Elizabethans but in fact Macbeth was written when Queen Elizabeth was on her deathbed and had appointed James the VI of Scotland her successor. Shakespeare wrote the play with this new king in mind. The basic story of Macbeth follows that of the Chronicles of Scotland a history book of the time. The real-life Banquo was guilty but since he was an ancestor of James I Shakespeare makes him innocent. At this...
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