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Characters 2
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 641.... a fellow slave from another plantation who had already run away.
George Harris - A slave on an estate near the Shelby’s. He is Eliza’s husband. As well, he is intelligent and has learned to read and write. He heads for Canada without his wife and son, hoping to earn the money to redeem them as soon as possible. He does not like white folks until the end when they help him. He ends up going to Liberia to live, where there is no slavery.
Mr. and Mrs. Shelby- A very nice couple who own some of the slaves. They treat them like actual people.
Little Harry- Eliza’s son. He i .....
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Taming Of The Shrew Illusion V
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 653.... vulnerable side to Katherina actually surfaces when she arrives at Petruchio's house. As Petruchio taunts her with food, she exclaims, "I pray you husband, be not so disquiet: The meat was well, if you were so contented." (Pg. 70) Disposing of the invincibility she maintains in Padua, she hungrily entreats her new husband to be reasonable. Taking off the fierce mask she wears in the beginning of the play, Katherina exposes the reality that she too is human.
Stumbling onto the scene in Padua, Petruchio makes a grand entrance as a man who brings merriment to all those around .....
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The Crucible 3
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 382.... look down on him with disdain, and it would
blacken forever his name.
What was most important to him was to make a stand
against the insanity of the town, for himself and for God,
and using that as a last resort to make people aware of what
was happening. This last stand for righteousness is an
example of proctor's great character and rationale.
Arthur Miller wrote his play, The Crucible, a story about
the Salem witch trials, and the panic resulting from it, as
an allegory to show people the insanity of the McCarthy
hearings. He wrote it as .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities
Number of pages: 13 | Number of words: 3391.... Darnay. Lucie
marries Darnay (he's upcoming and handsome, the romantic lead) and
exerts great influence on Carton.
A second, subtler triangle involves Lucie, her father, and Charles
Darnay. The two men share an ambiguous relationship. Because Lucie
loves Darnay, Dr. Manette must love him, too. Yet Darnay belongs to
the St. Evremonde family, cause of the doctor's long imprisonment,
and is thus subject to his undying curse. Apart from his ancestry,
Darnay poses the threat, by marrying Lucie, of replacing Dr. Manette
in her affections.
At the very end of the n .....
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Oedipus Rex - Compared To Hamlet
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 615.... he will kill his father and marry his mother. They have the child taken away to be killed, so they save themselves, but instead the child ends up in a new castle and is raised by another couple as their own child. They never tell Oedipus that he is not their own. When Oedipus hears he is to kill his father and marry his mother, he leaves his parents and searches for a new residence. Except he meets up with a man on the road and kills him. He then finds a castle that is being terrorized by a sphinx and answers the riddle it asks. He then marries the Queen and rules over the .....
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The Old Man And The Sea -x
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1218.... in his village because he has not caught any fish for
more than eighty-four days and is therefore "unlucky". Nonetheless, Manolin
is loyal to Santiago and even when his parents prohibit him. He still wants to
help his friend. Their conversations are comfortable, like that of two friends
who have known each other for their whole lives. When they speak it is
usually about baseball or fishing, the two things they have most in common.
Their favorite team is the Yankees and Santiago never loses faith in them
even when the star player, Joe DiMaggio, .....
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Faust And Victor Frankenstein: Unconcerned With Reality
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1489.... to become the Überminche is an understandable desire; however, the means by which he strives for that end is irresponsible and unjust. It is through this greed that Faust, with the help of Mephisto, exploits others in the pursuit of Faust's earthly desires. As Faust strives to become the "over man" through knowledge, he realizes that books will not satisfy his needs and perhaps sensual pleasures will:
I also have neither money nor treasures, nor worldly
honors or earthly pleasures; no dog would want to live
this way! (p. 95)
The moment Faust sees Gretchen he falls hop .....
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Analyzing Shakespearean Sonnet
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1101.... are the tremors his body is having reminding himself once more that he is not as young as he use to be and ageing has left him feeling like he has lost the power to write. By focusing on the fact that ageing is a slow and discouraging process he is building on the hopes that someone will feel sorry for him and acknowledge the fact that he may die soon.
In me thou see’st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest. The second quatrain is focusing on twilig .....
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