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Fate In Macbeth
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 735.... to think if he ever had the chance to become king that it would be a great honor that he would accept, “If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown me”.(Act 1 scene 3, line 143) The prophecy of Banquo’s son having power in the future effects the actions of Macbeth later in the play too. The thought that Banquo’s child might take over the thrown from Macbeth makes him feel the need to get rid of him. Fleance, Banquo’s son, gets scared as his father is being killed and flees, “Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!”.( Act3 scene 3, .....
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The Pearl 2
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 451.... He struck her in the face and she fell among the boulders, and
he kicked her in the side...He hissed at her like a snake and she
stared at him with wide unfrightened eyes, like a sheep before a
butcher. (742) Juana saw through the outer beauty of the pearl and
knew it would destroy them, but Kino's vision was blurred by the
possible prosperity the pearl brought. The malignant evil then spread
to a secret cult known only as the trackers. This corrupt band of
ruffians attacked and destroyed Kino's life. The very night that the
trackers .....
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LOTTEY
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 461.... family only they choose another slip. Tessies bad luck hits her again. She chooses the wrong slip. She turns Bills suffering into her own. Because of her destiny her life came to an end. As she stands in the circle by herself all she could say is "this isn't fair"(Jackson 302).
Mrs. Hutchinson a character in the story is somewhat related to Anne Hutchinson who was a caretaker of the sick. Anne ran to the aide of people by showing them her kindness and generosity. Mrs. Hutchinson in jacksons story ran to the aid of Bill Hutchinson, instead of letting him suffer. The histor .....
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On The Left Side
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1051.... housekeeper took a
statue of the black man of the Three Wise Men, and placed in front of the
crib to protest against O'Rourke's treatment of Friday. When Friday
returned to Burundi, only a few people in Conn kept collecting money to
help the people in Burundi, and those people were the ones that sat the
left side of the church.
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One must always look upon things from different angles, for if
everybody were narrow-minded progress would never be made.
This short story takes place in Conn in western Ireland which means
that the inhabitants of Conn must be Catholics. Catholi .....
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To His Coy Mistress 3
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 690.... will become. He changes his tone after this stanza in order to effectively explain why he is unable to love her in such a manner: "But at my back I always hear / Time's wingéd chariot hurrying near; / And yonder all before us lie / Deserts of vast eternity" (21-24). This is another paradoxical quote that the speaker utilizes to effectively develop appreciation for this poem. The speaker argues that the mistress should not waste her youth like those before who are unable to taste new experiences because they are now dead.
In the second stanza, the speaker utilizes paradox to c .....
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A Clockwork Orange
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 838.... of moral freedom in both his introduction and in his novel.
Burgess's definition of moral freedom as the ability to perform both good and evil is presented by implication in his discussion of the first kind of clockwork orange. In his introduction, he states that if one "can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is - meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with color and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State." Burgess goes on to say, "It is as i .....
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Orestes An Innocent Hero
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1128.... played by the gods.
Deep into the first story of “The Oresteia,” better known as “Agamemnon,” Cassandra, who has been cursed by Apollo to be a seer who will never be believed, envisions the death of Agamemnon and herself. It is in this vision that she sees an avenger who will come about and bring justice to the murdered victims, “ We will die, but not without some honor from the gods. There will come another to avenge us, born to kill his mother, born his father’s champion. The gods have sworn a monumental oath: as his father lies up .....
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The Hollow Of The Three Hills
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 915.... that we may tarry here."(Hawthorne 103)
and I will do your bidding though I die(Hawthorne 103). She
had run from everything that was important to her because
the most important, was dying. Hawthorne was not too clear
in stating what exactly the problem was but it seemed that
her daughter had fallen ill.
Throughout the story Hawthorne masks this fact well and
uses foreshadowing nicely. In one part where the main
character is looking in on her parents by means of the
witches powers and Hawthorne describes her parents as
speaking "...of a daughter, a wanderer they k .....
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