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The Wife (canterbury Tales)
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1889.... a tale to send us all asleep"(321). He withholds his true emotions about sexism and mastery until he has completed the tale. Whereas the woman first began by sharing her feelings, then told her story to back her thoughts.
One of the main characters from each tale is put to a test of their patience and subordination to the opposite sex. In the "Wife of Bath" the knight is allowed to choose the appearance of his wife; either she become beautiful and unfaithful or remain old, and noble. The knight has been taught that it is the women's decision to choose her appearance. .....
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The Picture Of Dorain Gray
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2830.... some form of terrible personal doom. Basil Hallward's aestheticism is manifested in his dedication to his artistic creations. He searches in the outside world for the perfect manifestation of his own soul, when he finds this object, he can create masterpieces by painting it (Bloom 109). He refuses to display the portrait of Dorian Gray with the explanation that, "I have put too much of myself into it" (Wilde 106). He further demonstrates the extent to which he holds this philosophy by later stating that, "only the artist is truly reveled" (109). Lord Henry Wotton criticizes Bas .....
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Tragic Differences
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1260.... and the suffering of others? But like everything else tragedy has laws. One of the laws is Hubris.
A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, can easily be classified as a tragedy. It is a repulsive story about a woman, who died just as she lived: lonely. Emily Grierson was a peculiar woman, who owned a large house, which was a mystery to many people. She never had any real friends and she never had a spouse. And when she started seeing a man, Homer Barron, everybody was assured that she would marry him. But Mr. Barron was as queer as Ms. Grierson was, so their melding was .....
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The Triumph Of "Gorsh The Cellist"
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 766.... his music and with it the
realization of the healing and soothing properties of music upon the soul;
fantasy- as a real event of the mind. Kenji writes of fantastical
wonderful things with a nonchalance that makes it almost believable
especially through the eyes of a child; and best of all: open-mindedness-
to believing in the best of all things in strangers and other creatures.
Every child, and thus, the child in us, loves to be stimulated by
the experiences of Gorsh and if one learns the lessons alongside Gorsh as
he encounters them, they can consider themselves well taugh .....
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Sonnet 12
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 945.... next line, "the brave day sunk in hideous night"(L2). Again, we need to place emphasis on Shakespeare's choice of wording. Shakespeare uses the word sunk in order to illustrate how the dark night engulfs the day. What Shakespeare is doing is using the words "hideous night" and "sunk" to form a catalogue of images pertaining to decay and passing time. The brave day sinks deeper and deeper as time on the clock marches on. Time is destruction. "When I behold violet past prime"(L.3), Shakespeare is again adding to his catalogue. T .....
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Wandering Girl, What Insights
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1028.... and a priest who valued children and lovingly brought her up. However, it was not the same at the Bigelow's property. Each day felt like years, as Glenyse had no one to talk to. Mrs Bigelow never spoke to Glenyse unless it was to give her orders. Glenyse had very little contact with the Bigelow children and Mr Bigelow, the Mayor of Ridgeway, never spoke to Glenyse. She was their "dark slave" and was to do all their household chores. For a while Glenyse did not have anyone to talk to or to joke with. However, Glenyse did have a sense of humor and guts to pull her through the t .....
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The Mystery Of Edwin Drood By
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1622.... the nunnery that has a man to court her. She is the only woman mentioned, in the nunnery, that is going to be married off to a man, not God. Rosa capitalizes on this situation by leading the other girls in the nunnery to be her “poor pets”(118). She realizes that the girls as well as the head of the school, Miss Twinkleton, who describes Rosa as her “pet pupil”(14), look at her to be the embodiment of romance because of her prospective marriage. Miss Twinkleton and the girls live their love lives through Rosa, “over her shoulder”(51). Rosa feeds into the situation by making su .....
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Chronical Of The Death Foretold
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 597.... for everything.
Clotilde Armenta's store is where a lot of the story took place. The Vicario twins were here since four o' clock in the morning waiting for Santiago Nasar. This is also where they first started telling everybody about the fact that they were going to kill Santiago nasar. The store was in direct view of Santiago Nasar's house so that the brothers Vicario could easily keep an eye on it. The store is also where the brothers had their first set of knives taken away by the police officer so that they couldn't kill Santiago Nasar. When this happened, the older of t .....
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