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The Color Purple - Compared To Macbeth
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1159.... out that the former Thane of Cawdor has betrayed King Duncan and that he did not have any idea of it. This incident then prepares us for King Duncan's meeting with Lady Macbeth, where Lady Macbeth deceives King Duncan. We know Lady Macbeth is not loyal, yet he considers her his "honour'd hostess.../Which still [he] thank[s] and love[s]" (I. vi. 9-12). Once again when naive King Duncan puts his trust into the hands of disloyal Macbeth by making him Thane of Cowdar, the atmosphere and plot advances by making Macbeth's future plans possible. Celie's mother, in the beginn .....
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An Exploration Of Femininity I
Number of pages: 13 | Number of words: 3482.... the woman by categories. Femininity, symbolic of sexual potency and control, must be determined by the male hierarchy.
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Hamlet has an ambivalent relationship with Horatio. Hamlet, at first, distances himself from Horatio, and is wary of placing too much trust in his friend. Indeed, Horatio recognises the individual nature of the Ghost's plight, and implicitly, therein, Hamlet's task:
It beckons you to go away with it,
As if it some impartment did desire
To you alone.
(1.4.58-60)
Hamlet also refuses to confide in his friend, believing that Hora .....
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Hamlet Character Analysis
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 702.... own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, deal justly with me: come, come, nay, speak.” Rosencrantz and Guilderstern's response was,”
When Hamlet found out that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were working for the King, Hamlet quickly ended his friendship with them and referred to them as just two schoolfellows. His distrust of them leads to his discovery of the documents ordering his execution in England and his plot to send the courtiers to this fate instead. In Act 5 scene 2 Line 376 says,
King Claudius made Rosencrantz and Guildenstern deliver a letter to .....
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The Iliad
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 794.... think that in modern time, emotions haven’t really changed. They are something that everyone has and I don’t really think that they change from time to time. I still think that people still care about each other very much. Love is still very felt today. It I felt in the same way it always was. I think that when one that was close to you dies, you will have some sort of devastation. I think that one could be as devastated as Achilles was when Patroclus died, but I would think
that it would be very rare. I would say that love is just as common today as i .....
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House Made Of Dawn
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1084.... the reader to know the importance of word weaving, of weaving the words to form a beautiful picture that can heal souls if spoken correctly. Momaday believes that the Native Americans who never bothered to learn to read and write, those who depend on their words, are those whose words are most powerful. The love for words, spoken with passion, makes them take on a three-dimensional quality. The words become the images and show a listener instead of telling, making the moment an experience instead of just a moment. The listener can feel what the speaker is trying to say; the .....
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King Lear -
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 419.... the two plots, beginning in Act II at Gloucester's castle and ending in the alliance
of Edgar and Albany, that is is difficult to separate them. Gloucester, like Lear, suffers from filial ingratitude. It is in his
castle that Lear is humiliated by his daughters and flees into the storm. Gloucester's sympathy helps Lear to Dover to meet
Cordelia, yet leads to his own blindness and his going to Dover for suicide.
Edgar becomes embroiled in the main plot when, disguised as a madman, he meets Lear on the heath. His destruction of
Oswald, Goneril's steward and his defeat .....
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Careful, He Might Hear You
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1832.... Lila and George’s child and this perception that he has on himself directly influences the nature of his relationship with them. Being a six year old child yet to develop his own personal sense of identity, PS trusts implicitly in Lila and George and believes, in his innocent naive way, that they will always do what is best for him. This is not so much carelessness on PS’s part, as an ignorance of any other type of upbringing and love than that administered to him by Lila and George. His unawareness of the outside world and any other style of life but his own cause .....
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Red Badge Of Courage
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1451.... rumor within the regiment. This natural setting proves an ironic place for killing, just as these fresh men seem the wrong ones to be fighting in the Civil War. Crane remarks on this later in the narrative: "He was aware that these battalions with their commotions were woven red and startling into the gentle fabric of the softened greens and browns. It looked to be a wrong place for a battlefield" (69). Green is an image of the natural world and of the regiment's fresh youth, while red, in the previous quote, is clearly an image of battle. At the start, however, Crane .....
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