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The Minister Black Veil
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 501.... wears a black veil, meaning that everyone commits secret sins without revealing them to anyone. If you do not express your secret sin you would be keeping stress and tension locked up inside you, but if you express it, the stress and tension will be relieved.
Another reason behind the veil might be sorrow. Deep, dark sorrow for someone or yourself might be expressed and shown with the help of a black veil. By wearing the black veil for eternity, you are exhibiting great love and sorrow for someone or yourself. If the black veil was removed, the sorrow and love would be dead .....
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The Canterbury Tales: The Monk
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 263.... Monk was a man who looked as though he enjoyed the good life.
He was fat, and obviously enjoyed good food as well as fine clothes. He
wore a fur cloak adorned with fancy decorations, and other expensive
apparel.
It was required that a man go to school to become a monk,
and the Monk had attended school to become part of the religious order.
However, he was more interested in hunting than studying. He was good to
his horses, and had greyhounds as well. His friends were hunters also.
The Monk even preached against ideas and traditions that called hunters
unholy. .....
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More Than A Noble Perception
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 621.... Macbeth is his best friend he feels Macbeth is capable of wrong doing in the future to get what he wants. This is shown in one aside after they leave the witches. "…And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's in deepest consequence. Cousins, a word, I pray you. (Act1, SceneIII,line123)" This quote is stating that Banquo thinks Macbeth may do anything to get what he wants no matter what the consequences are. Duncan is the King of Scotland and Macbeth's leader. Duncan's view of Macbeth is narrow- .....
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A Separate Peace: Gene And Finny's Relationship
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 573.... person is your best pal...which is what you are..." In that passage their relationship has taken on a greater meaning; from that point on they are emotionally attached. After Finny's first accident, the relationship grows stronger. "Listen, pal, if I can't play sports, you're going to play them for me,' and I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas."
Gene begins to feel that Phineas is part of him. "Finny had deliberately set out to wreck my studies...that way .....
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Youth : Then & Now
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 268.... and
motivation of their ancestors. All in all, it is clear through the passing time,
attitudes have changed.
1 "O Youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of
it!" Conrad's example of youth powerfully describes the greatness of it all.
Marlow and the other young crewmen possessed this quality of youth and
powerfully exemplified it on the treacherous voyage of the Judea. The youth of
today, as many feel, do not have the strong characteristics of past generations.
One hundred years ago, a young man may have gone on a dangerous voyage like
Marlow, but a .....
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Huckleberry Finn
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1502.... perfectly sound, too-not bagged down in the middle and busted, like an old basket"(111). It is apparent Huck is more familar with busted chairs than sound ones, and he appreciates the distinction.
Huck is also more familiar with flawed families than loving, virtuous ones, and he is happy to sing the praises of the people who took him in. Col. Grangerford "was a gentleman all over; and so was his family"(116). The Colonel was kind, well-mannered, quiet and far from frivolish. Everyone wanted to be around him, and he gave Huck confidence. Unlike the drunken Pap, the Colonel dres .....
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Hamlet Literary Analysis
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1896.... in his actions and his role. When his mother questions him, Hamlet says, "Seems, madam? Nay it is. I know not seems" (1.2.76). By saying this, Hamlet lets Gertrude know that he is what she sees, torn over his father’s death. Later, he makes a clear statement about his state of mind when he commits himself to revenge. "I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records, all saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, that youth and observation copied there, and thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain" (1.5.100-104). In tha .....
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On The Island: A Review
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1232.... that she is no longer very necessary in John's life
and has accepted this with quiet resignation. She still looks for signs of
affection however, but they seem few and far in between. She has virtually
no relationship with Annette whom she sees as a representative of the new,
efficient generation. While Doris does not fear progress, she fails to see
the use for many of the modern products.
Annette on the other hand has adopted a somewhat colder attitude towards
John's mother. It is hard to accurately pinpoint the passages where this is
expressed, as it is more of a general .....
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