This is a
great question. The use of setting is very important in the book for one key reason.
The idea of a farm connotes equality. A bit of context is important here. The Soviet
Union enforced something called collectivization. The goal was to consolidate individual
landholdings into collective farms. The leadership, namely, Stalin believed that this would
increase food for all. Hence, this form of...
A cautionary
tale is a story that is told to warn against a specific action or practice. To state that more
positively, it is told to instill certain desired behaviors in the listeners/readers, or to
guide them away from socially...
Gladwell
states his thesis in the first chapter of Outliers . He says that so-called
"outliers" are "the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary
opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the
world in ways others cannot." This runs counter to an assumption we make as a societythat
highly successful people got that way through hard work or genius alone. In reality, hard work
and genius are simply not enough. Gladwell does not dismiss either of these factors. In fact, he
claims that great musicians, athletes, and so on became that way through 10,000 hours of work.
But they also benefited from other factors beyond their control. Many were born into fortuitous
circumstances. Others lived in societies and communities that were culturally supportive of
their efforts. Still others had families that were able to support their efforts financially.
The point is that they weren't born geniuses, and there are many hurdles that did
not...
Arguably,
religions are cultures because the creeds of religion dictate and direct behaviors. Easily
perceptible are the effects of the Muslim religion upon those who practice it as women wear
hijabs or burgas which cover their heads and faces,
along with abayas, which cover their dress. All Muslims pray five times a
day, facing Mecca; then, in the fall they observe Ramadan and fast. Never do they eat pork as it
is perceived as unclean.
Christians, too, have certain practices which affect
their social lives. They, too, observe holy days and Roman Catholics also have a period of
fasting, although modified, during the Lenten season of six weeks before Easter. With charity as
the greatest virtue, Christians are taught to do good works and to treat others with
consideration.
For Jews, there are many practices and customs especially for
the Orthodox Jews. One branch of the Orthodox, Hasidic Judaism, which promotes mysticism, the
revelation of "the ancient esoteric tradition of the Koran." In Hasidic culture, women
must have their arms covered, their hair covered (a wig can be worn), and the men wear a certain
style of hat and have their hair and whiskers in a certain style. Passover is an important
celebration of freedom and during this time, Jews eat an unleavened bread called
matzah.
Certainly, there is a long, running history of antipathy among
religious groups, and historically more people have been killed in the name of God than for any
other reason. The Crusades in which the Catholic Church first held as its objective to take back
the Holy Lands, later extended to re-claiming Spain from the Moors, parts of eastern Europe, and
the Mediterranean islands. The Crusades lasted over 700 years and virtually destroyed Arabic
culture, which was more advanced than the Christian culture at the time. (e.g. Monks copied the
Bible over Arab writings). After the Crusades, the Catholic Church held great wealth and power
in political, commercial, and social matters. It was strongly involved in the discovery of the
New World as another area for the spread of Christianity.
Nowadays, the
Christian world is often threatened by Sunni and Shi'a extremist terrorism, and Israel is
threatened by Arabic enemies. Indubitably,today's "War on Terrorism" traces its roots
to the Crusades and religious history, differences, and antipathy. In American society,
"political correctness" now directs religious tolerance in the hopes that all faiths
can live harmoniously.
On the day that Mr.
Hooper begins to wear the black veil, he first delivers his sermon, and the topic is
"secret sin, and those sad mysteries which we hide from our nearest and dearest, and would
fain conceal from our own consciousness, even forgetting that the Omniscient can detect
them." Such a subject allows readers to begin to understand that the veil is a symbol of
this attempt to hide our true sinful natures; Mr. Hooper wears it as if to admit that he has
such a nature, as we all do.
After the sermon, Mr. Hooper presides at a
funeral, where the solemnity and darkness of his veil seems appropriate, but the wedding he
officiates later on is affected in quite a different way. Here, the bride is overcome by a
"deathlike paleness" when she sees her minister, and the groom's hand is
"tremulous" when he holds his beloved's. When Mr. Hooper raises a glass to toast the
new couple, he "catch[es] a glimpse of his figure in the looking-glass, [and] the black
veil involved his own spirit in the horror with which it overwhelmed all others." Just as
Mr. Hooper's "hearers quaked" when he preached upon the subject of secret sin, the
minister himself seems now just as fearful of his own aspect. Seeing his own reflection, he is
reminded of both his own secret sinfulness as well as the secret sinfulness of everyone around
him, and, given that (as the narrator said earlier) we all desire to conceal this sinfulness
from ourselves and everyone else, the visual reminder of his sinfulness -- in the form of the
black veil over his face -- alarms Mr. Hooper enough that he actually drops his wine glass and
rushes from the building.
At the end of
's novel , whenis sitting in the Chestnut Tree Cafe, he recalls meetingby
accident after their release from the Ministry of Love, "in the Park, on a vile, biting day
in March,...." Due to the psychological after-effects of his torture, culminating in his
"betrayal" of her when faced with the cage of rats, Winston Smith almost passes her by
without recognition, but at the last moment he turns to follow her. She is even more
unresponsive than he is, and merely tolerates his presence. She seems to have become physically
coarser as well as less responsive. Finally, they find seats and sit down to talk:
'I betrayed you,' she said baldly.
'I betrayed you,' he
said.
She gave him another quick look of dislike.
'Sometimes,' she said,
'they threaten you with something -- something you can't stand up to, can't even think
about.....'
It is plain that she has been treated the
same way that Winston Smith has been, and has also been sent to Room 101, though what her
ultimate fear was is never made plain. They admit to each other that their feelings are no
longer the same, and even though their last words are a promise to meet again, it is certain
that any future meeting will not be on their initiative. They have entirely lost interest in
each other.
Julia disappears in the crowd after this, and her ultimate fate
is not clear. However, since we know that Winston Smith is marked down for trial and execution
some time in the future (perhaps the very near future, since at the end of the novel he has
finally managed to love Big Brother), we can plausibly speculate that Julia is being preserved
to be a witness or a co-defendant at that future trial, and will be executed after it, just as
Winston Smith will be.
Calvin is
similar to the Murrys in that he looks at life unconventionally. They meet when Meg and Charles
Wallace run into him near the "haunted" house where Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Which and Mrs.
Who live. Calvin explains that he felt a "compulsion" to visit the haunted house and
mentions often having such compulsions. In other words, like Charles Wallace, Calvin listens to
his intuitions. Although he is popular at school, a good student and a basketball player, he
doesn't feel anymore at home in this conventional environment than do Meg or Charles Wallace. He
explains to Meg that while he fits in superficially, the everyday high school world really isn't
for him. Until the Murrays, he hasn't met anyone who truly understands him and who he can talk
to about subjects that matter. As he puts it after meeting the Murrays, "I feel as though I
were just being born! I'm not alone anymore!"
Like Mr. Murry, Calvin is
tall, thin and blue-eyed. Like the Murrys, he's caring, he's open to new ideas and he has had
pain in his domestic life. If the Murry father has disappeared without a trace, Calvin suffers
because his mother, with eleven children, is overwhelmed and unable to adequately care for her
family. Calvin has so much in common with the Murrys in terms of outlook, and they fill such a
gap in his home life, that he clicks almost instantly with his new
"family."
The Watergate
scandal was arguably the most serious political crisis in the history of the United States. It
dragged on for two years, and the public watched the daily proceedings on TV. By 1974, President
Richard Nixon's position was untenable. Facing certain impeachment, he resigned from the
presidency in August 1974. Nixon had been just second chief executive to face impeachment; the
first to confront this threat was Andrew Johnson during the Reconstruction era. (Since Nixon,
two additional presidents have faced impeachment, including the current one, Donald
Trump.)
The Watergate story began in mid-1972 with the burglary of the
Democratic National Committee headquarters; the burglars were attempting to wiretap the
facility. The criminals were directly or indirectly linked to Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the
President (CREEP). Seven men were convicted, but one of them wrote a letter to the judge in
which he claimed a conspiracy with ties to Nixon.
By 1972, Nixon had become
paranoid. He was obsessed with secrecy, and his obsession was exacerbated by the pressures of
the Vietnam War. The New York Times' coverage of the Vietnam War and the
release of the Pentagon Papers made him increasingly insecure.
Investigations, which lasted for two years, revealed that Nixon was guilty of numerous
crimes. Evidence of his guilt was recorded on White House tapes, which were eventually released.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, reporters with the Washington Post,
uncovered the details of the Watergate affair.
Nixon was pardoned by his
successor, but many others were sent to prison. Watergate did serious damage to the public's
faith in their government.
"" byexplains the importance of family relationships. Mama or Mrs. Johnson
narrates the story. She is an uneducated yet hardworking African-American mother of two
daughters. She describes herself:
I am a large, big boned
woman with rough, man working hands. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My
daughter [Dee] would like for me to be 100 pounds lighter and my skin like an uncooked barley
pancake.
Events in the story are going to force Mama to
reevaluate her attitude toward her daughters. As a dynamic character, she will change and stand
up for one daughter and refuse the other one for the first time in her life.
Mama's daughter are as different as night and day. Dee, the oldest, did not like her
home. She is pretty and intelligent. Dee wanted the things in life that Mama could not give
her. The church and her mother sent her to college. Today, in the story, she has come back for
a visit.
The youngest daughter Maggie was severely injured...
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thirty-two-year old intellectually disabled man with an IQ of 68, Charlie Gordon has agreed to
undergo experimental neurosurgery which will dramatically improve his intelligence. In order for
Dr. Strauss and Professor Nemur to monitor Charlie's intellectual and emotional development and
progress, he must undergo a series of tests and compose daily progress reports. The progress
reports will serve as a record of Charlie's...
Odysseus' encounter with and escape from the
Cyclops, Polyphemus, in Book 9 is considered to be his most significant achievement because he
not only saves himself but also a number of his men through his cunning and intelligence--with
one exception. Initially, he tells Polyphemus that his name is Nobody or
Noman because he needs to remain anonymous in order not to evoke any
retribution from any of the gods, like Poseidon, who are already trying to destroy the man known
as Odysseus. When he finally tricks Polyphemus into letting him and his men, disguised as sheep,
escape from Polyphemus's cave, Odysseus cannot keep from telling Polyphemus who has actually
defeated him:
'Cyclops, if any one asks you who it was
that put your eye out and spoiled your beauty, say it was the valiant warrior Ulysses, son of
Laertes, who lives in Ithaca.' (Book IX)
This disclosure
has been roundly criticized by readers and critics as an example of Odysseus' pride, and it is
surely an instance in which Odysseus' pride overcomes common sense. As several critics have
pointed out, however, disclosing his real name is an act of heroism and defiance--Odysseus, as
one of the leading warrior-kings in the Trojan War, could not let his triumph over Polyphemus be
a mystery. Fame and honor are an essential part of a warrior-king's being, and Odysseus' defeat
of such a formidable opponent as Polyphemus had to become part of Odysseus' recorded
achievements even if the disclosure of his name put him and his men at risk.
A second episode depicking Odysseus' heroic nature occurs when, in Book 11, Circe tells
Odysseus to journey to the underworld, Hades, in order to question the dead prophet, Teiresias,
about Odysseus' fate. A journey to Hades, especially for a living person, is incredibly
dangerous, and there are only a few heroes who have made the attempt--Hercules, Achilles,
Aeneas--because they face the real possibility that they will be forced to remain in the
underworld. Because there is no guaranty that Odysseus will be able to ascend to the living
world, Odysseus is risking his life, just as he did many times over during the Trojan
War.
In Book XVII,when Odysseus returns to Ithaca in the disguise of a
beggar, he purposely faces the suitors as a beggar in order to understand what he will face when
he finally takes his revenge on those who have defiled his household. At one point, he gets into
a verbal altercation with Antinoos,one of the suitors, who throws a wooden stool at Odysseus,
which hits him in the back, and Odysseus' response to this insult is:
Ulysses stood firm as a rock and the blow did not even stagger him,
but he shook his head in silence as he brooded on his revenge. (Book XVII)
Anyone but a true heroic figure, who is biding his time in order to
exact a final revenge on all the suitors, would have immediately engaged Antinoos. Odysseus,
however, using the discipline honed through many years of warfare, ignores this insult because,
as a warrior king about to retake his kingdom, his ultimate goal is much more important than
responding to a single insult.
Odysseus demonstrates his heroic nature
throughout the Odyssey in both significant and insignificant episodes, and
personifies the virtues of a Bronze Age warrior king, with the addition of intelligence and
endurance, attributes that allow him to survive long enough to retake his
kingdom.
In the
fourth book of , Gulliver lands on an island inhabited by rational horses,
who keep the humanlike Yahoo as animals, much as humans have kept domesticated animals such as
horses. To the Houyhnhnms, the horse represents the apex of nature (in fact, according to
Gulliver, the word signifies "in its etymology, the Perfection of
Nature" (Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Penguin Classics Ed.
(paperback), New York: Penguin Books, 1985, 281). This reflects the terms by which Gulliver
himself is viewed. To the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver is nothing more than a particularly intelligent
yahoo (in fact, he is referred to as "a perfect Yahoo" (283)).
An
earlier answer has already cited Gulliver's conversation in chapter 4, during which the
Houyhnhnm makes an account of Gulliver's anatomical limitations. He proceeds to cite the
uselessness of Gulliver's nails and criticizes Gulliver's bipedal nature; he...
Although Goodman Brown
cries that his Faith is gone when he sees her pink ribbons, he later asks, "'But, where is
Faith?'" Further, "hope came into his heart" at the witches' Sabbath. Brown and
Faith are brought forth as "converts," and when they are brought together at the front
of the unholy congregation, Goodman Brown looks at his wife and cries, "'Faith! [....] Look
up to Heaven, and resist the Wicked One!"
To my mind, his hope of
seeing Faith and then his instruction to her to resist the Devil indicates that he hasn't yet
lost his faith yet, at least not fully. At this point,...
Inof , whenfirst encountersafter his sojourn in the forest, his attitude toward Hester
is one of a dual regret mixed with an ironic sarcasm stirred by an unquenchable, bitter
curiosity to know the name of the man who transgressed against Hester and Chillingworth himself.
After giving Hester an Indian herbal potion to calm her fevered emotions, Chillingworth
addresses her explaining what he thinks and what he wants.
Chillingworth...
s portrays
a mother advising her daughter in how to become a woman. The short story is a list of bits
of seemingly random advice from the mother to her daughter. In the format of the story, it is
one long sentence with the advice separated by semi-colons. Following the narrative literary
device of stream of consciousness, the narrator presents her thoughts and feelings as they pass
through her mind.
The mother covers several areas in her advice:
Clothes-Washing, ironing, buying cloth, and sewing button and hems
Cooking/cleaning- What to do with fish, planting okra, gardening, and how to
sweep
Etiquette-Setting the table, how to...
In s
, Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up one day to find himself
transformed into a large insect.
He eventually discovers that his taste in
food has changed as well. When his sister leaves him a bowl of milk and bread, he is shocked to
discover that the milk, which he had enjoyed when he was human, now disgusts him. He now prefers
the filthiest, most unappetizing food his sister can procure for him, such as rotten vegetables,
leftover bones, dried sauce, dry bread rolls, and spoiled cheese. Additionally, Gregor explains
that he now cannot stand the smell of fresh food.
Gregors drastic change of
food preferences serve to demonstrate the tender relationship he has with his sister, who,
unlike the rest of his family, continued to show him affection after his transformation. Apart
from this, it also marks the severity of his transformationas, aside from looking like a filthy
insect, he has also internalized the transformation and craves the type of food preyed on by
filthy insects.
Figurative language
can be used in poems, stories, speeches, songs and other creations. It is defined as " a
word or phrase that departs from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison, emphasis,
clarity, or freshness." It provides the author with a means of conveying or creating an
image, idea, or point by using descriptive and symbolic words.
In the song
"I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz, figurative language is abundant. In general, he is singing
about keeping things simple and doing what one wants to do in life. There are many instances to
discuss. For example, the lyric "I tried to be chill but you're so hot that I melted"
indicates the magnitude of the impact someone has had on him. You can envision ice melting over
fire from the language he uses but it may be his composure that actually is lost or
"melted" because of the attractiveness of the person.
Another
example is the lyric "open up your plans and damn your free." Often times when people
make plans, they are dedicated to a specific agenda. By "opening" your plans up or
expanding your agenda, you can change your direction. You are no longer limited, thus you are
free to explore more opportunities and encounter new experiences.
One more
example is the lyric "I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the
mirror." You may envision him examining his tongue in the mirror, but it's indicative of
him rehearsing what he wants to say and how he wants to say it. He realizes he should just say
it.
In fact,
Gnosticism was not so much a threat as it was considered heretical, and therefore a danger to
those who practiced it. Gnosticism was based on the teachings of the pre-Christian Greek
philosophers. Gnostic Christians attempted to assimilate Greek philosophical teachings with
those of the early church. It is perhaps best illustrated in the Gnostic
Gospels, long deleted from Scripture, including the Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of
Judas, and the Gospel of Thomas. Gnosticism taught that salvation came from mediation, not
through the work of the Church. More importantly, the Gnostics believed that Jesus never took
human form (contrary to the above response, which is incorrect.) He was wholly divine, and thus
appeared only as a spirit. He presumably cast no shadow, and left no footprints when he walked.
Part of this belief originated from the idea of the sinful nature of humanity; since Jesus was
without sin, he could not be human, and was therefore wholly spiritual. This teaching was
directly contrary to the teaching of the church adopted at the Council of Nicaea which stated
that Jesus was both human and divine. This was heresy, which condemned its believers to hell.
Thus it was more a threat to its followers than to the church hierarchy
itself.
"Flattening of affect" refers to a
constricted or completely blunted emotional response to a situation that would otherwise illicit
a strong emotional response. Psychologists typically use this term in reference to the
schizophrenic mind's tendency to display inappropriate emotional reactions to various stimuli,
and it is not to be confused with the low emotional energy of a depressed mind.
In 's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the
flattening of affect refers to the inability of the androids to empathize with others, which
serves as an important diagnostic tool to distinguish them from humans. When flattening of
affect has nothing to do with a mental illness, it marks its bearer as something fundamentally
other than human. Pris uses the explanation of schizophrenia to pass off as human and avoid
being "retired."
In ,
Candy arrives in the doorway of Crooks's private room whileis inside and begins discussing their
dream of purchasing their own homestead, where they will live off the land and Lennie can tend
rabbits. Crooks interrupts their discussion and proceeds to elaborate on the impossibility of
their dream. Crooks tells Candy and Lennie,
"I seen
hunderds of men come by on the road an on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an that
same damn thing in their heads. Hunderds of them. They come, an they quit an go on; an every
damn one of €˜ems got a little piece of land in his head. An never a God damn one of €˜em ever
gets it. Just like heaven. Everbody wants a little piece of lan. I read plenty of books out
here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. Its just in their head. Theyre all
the time talkin about it, but its jus in their head" (Steinbeck, 36).
Crooks has been on the ranch for some time and has never witnessed
a laborer save up enough money to purchase their own piece of property. Crooks displays his
pessimistic attitude by telling Candy,
"You guys is
just kiddin yourself. Youll talk about it a hell of a lot, but you wont get no land. Youll be a
swamper here till they take you out in a box. Hell, I seen too many guys. Lennie herell quit an
be on the road in two, three weeks. Seems like ever guy got land in his head" (Steinbeck,
37).
Candy responds to Crooks's negative comments by
saying that they've already saved up enough money andknows where there is a plot of land for
sale at a reasonable price. Crooks is taken back by this information and briefly entertains the
possibility of attaining the seemingly impossible dream. Crooks even contemplates the
possibility of joining the men and partaking in their dream by saying,
"I never seen a guy really do it . . . I seen guys nearly crazy
with loneliness for land, but ever time a whore house or a blackjack game took what it takes. He
hesitated . . . . "If you . . . guys would want a hand to work for nothingjust his keep,
why Id come an lend a hand. I aint so crippled I cant work like a son-of-a-bitch if I want
to" (Steinbeck, 37).
Overall, Crooks initially
thinks that Candy, George, and Lennie's dream is impossible to attain. His experience on the
farm has taught him that nobody can ever save up enough money or formulate a plan to attain
their dreams. However, Crooks eventually entertains the possibility of sharing their dream and
even offers to lend a hand on their homestead. In the end, Crooks's initial assessment of their
dreams proves correct after Lennie kills Curley's wife and ruins their
plans.
The
specific situation he is talking about here is that he has been, he thinks, swept out to sea in
his boat. He had made the boat so as to be able to get off the...
s wonderful
poem If supplies a guide for how to live an honorable, successful life. Written in 1895, the
principles that Kipling present still apply to todays world. His intuitive solutions to lifes
problems have no time, gender, or age.
The poem is written in four stanzas
with only two sentences. The first sentence ends at the end of the third stanza and the second
sentence ends at the end of the poem. Each stanza has eight lines. The poem is written in first
and second person. His use of you makes the poem seem as though it is addressed directly to
the reader.
1st stanza
The word if
begins every stanza and establishes a condition that the poet assumes that the person will face
in life. The first stanza focuses on self-confidence. Trust in ones own abilities. A person may
be blamed and doubted; it does not matter if the person knows the truth. Keep an even keel in
whatever happens. Be patient. Do not listen to lies or work with those who do not tell the
truth. Hate must never be a part of a mans life. In addition, never try to show off or be
arrogant in talking to others.
2nd stanza
A man should dream, but he can live on just his dreams. He must act. Thoughts and
thinking are important as well; but there is more to life.
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just
the same:
Winning is easy. Losing is
hard. Both aspects of life are faced by a person. A man must learn how to handle both situations
with grace and go on with his life.
Sometimes a person learns that people
will twist what a person has said and use it against him. A man may also have something that he
has built torn down by fools. The only thing to do is to kneel down and use whatever tools he
has and rebuild what has been broken
3rd
Stanza
Risk and loss are a part of life. If a person risks
everything he has and loses in some foolish game, the only thing to do is start over again.
Never give up and never discuss the loss with anyone. It is only the individuals
business.
A person sometimes has to work beyond his physical capabilities.
It is his responsibility to work until the goal is gained. There is something in man that
propels him forward if he has the will to hold on.
4th
Stanza
When a man talks in the midst of men, he should not give up
his integrity. If he walks among nobility, he must never forget who he is. Pride and conceit are
sins. A man will have friends and enemies, but he must never allow them to harm him. Other
people should be an important part of the a mans life, but never depend on any one man too
much.
Time must never be wasted. Every minute of every day is important.
Never be idle and squander time. If a person can live the life prescribed, everything that a
person wants will come to him. In addition, a person will be hailed as a true and good
man.
Weddings are supposed to be joyous family
occasions. There is always a sense of happiness for the newly wedded couple as well as a
positive and hopeful outlook on the new couple's future together. To put it bluntly, Mr.
Hooper's black veil ruins all of those feelings.
What makes it worse is that
the text tells readers that Mr. Hooper has always previously been a bright and cheery person at
weddings. He is the kind of person whose very presence calms and encourages the nervous couple
while at the same time conveying a general cheerfulness to all the wedding's
attendees:
That night, the handsomest couple in Milford
village were to be joined in wedlock. Though reckoned a melancholy man, Mr. Hooper had a placid
cheerfulness for such occasions, which often excited a sympathetic smile where livelier
merriment would have been thrown away. There was no quality of his disposition which made him
more beloved than this.
When Mr. Hooper shows up at the
wedding, he does not usher in the standard happy wedding feelings. Instead, readers are told
that Mr. Hooper brings in an overall sense of evil:
When Mr. Hooper came, the first thing that their eyes rested on was
the same horrible black veil, which had added deeper gloom to the funeral, and could portend
nothing but evil to the wedding.
We are told that the
people in attendance feel as if the room has grown darker. The bride becomes so pale that people
think that she looks like the dead body from the day's earlier funeral. We are specifically told
that Mr. Hooper's black veil creates one of the most "dismal" weddings
ever.
For the majority of Edwards's sermon, the tone is indeed vexed. He uses shockingto try
to convince his audience to turn from their sinful ways and follow Christ. One of the most vivid
images in the sermon is this one:
The God that holds you
over the Pit of Hell, much as one holds a Spider, or some loathsome Insect, over the Fire,
abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his Wrath towards you burns like Fire; he looks upon you
as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the Fire; he is of purer Eyes than to bear to
have you in his Sight; you are ten thousand Times so abominable in his Eyes as the most hateful
venomous Serpent is in ours....and yet 'tis nothing but his Hand that holds you from falling
into the Fire every Moment: 'Tis to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to Hell the
last Night; that you was suffer'd to awake again in this World, after you closed your Eyes to
sleep: and there is no other Reason to be given why you have not dropped into Hell since
you...
When
asking this question, the first instinct is almost always to place the entirety of the blame on
Abigail Williams and her group. However, Miller's play was largely a criticism on McCarthyism,
and a political climate wherein a person's life could be completely ruined simply by being
accused being affiliated with communism. For such an environment to function and flourish, it
requires the ignorant and spiteful actions of many more, as well as the ignorance and apathy of
more still.
That being said, Abigail Williams certainly did her part. A
string of lies that are motivated by protecting herself as well as winning her place in the
heart of John Proctor eventually lead the community to ruin. It is clear that Abigail will do
anything and hurt anyone to get what she wants or to keep herself from punishment.
The Putnams are also heavily to blame, as they use the witch trials as a
means to increase their estate. While they did not create the hysteria, they made it much worse
by exploiting...
The
philosophical debate between free will and determinism is also relevant here. Do we have the
freedom to make our own decisions and choices in life or are they determined for us in advance?
The question is of particular importance in relation tobecause he lives in a time when just
about everyone believes that the gods regularly intervene in human affairs. By the standards of
the day Oedipus is certainly guilty of , or overweening pride, in
attempting to defy the prophecies of the Delphic Oracle. The implication here is that everything
that happens in our lives is determined by fate, and that any attempt to defy that fate will
inevitably end in disaster.
Yet at the same time, Oedipus is only human. He
is a king, a very important individual who needs to impose himself on the world around him. Of
necessity he must be a dynamic character; he must make things happen rather than allow things to
happen to him. He can't just go through life passively accepting everything that...
When
considering this question, we can break the analysis down by how each allied power addressed its
goals relative to the major Axis powers.
GREAT
BRITAIN
Against Germany: The
paramount goal throughout the war was to protect the integrity of the British
Isles and its population. The first and most daunting test was the Battle of Britain
(July€“October, 1940) during which Germany sent thousands of planes against English cities and
military targets. Germanys aim was to starve the population and to destroy the RAF. A vigorous
defense thwarted the German offensive and effectively guaranteed the safety of British home
territory thereafter.
Against Japan: Great
Britain sent troops and planes to South-East Asia to support the United States efforts against
Japan in accord with the English/US alliance. Overall, the English blunted some of Japan's
ambitions and gained time for the US to move in the Pacific.
UNITED STATES
Against
Germany: The overarching goal was to push German forces out
of...
In the most
traditional readings of the novel,is seen as "pride," and , as
"prejudice."
The plot of the novel kicks into action when Mr. Darcy
is too proud to ask Elizabeth to dance. Elizabeth overhears him saying that she is not pretty
enough to tempt him. Like any self-respecting young woman, Elizabeth is insulted and develops a
prejudice against Darcy.
Darcy's pride and Elizabeth's prejudice put them at
odds and cause mishaps that lead the course of their true love to not run smoothly. Darcy,
because of his pride and his tendency to look down on Elizabeth's family, manages to enrage her
during his first marriage proposal. Being proud, Darcy expects her to fall all over him when he,
the grand Darcy, proposes to her, the lowly Elizabeth. However, she surprises him by bursting
into a rage, telling him he has insulted her in every way possible through his arrogant proposal
and telling him, in essence, that she wouldn't marry him if he were the last man
alive.
A monotreme is
a mammal that lays eggs. This means that they do not give birth to live young. They also keep
the eggs inside for a longer period of time to provide nutrients to the egg. An example of a
monotreme is a platypus or echidna.
A marsupial is a mammal that has a pouch
in which to carry their young. Marsupials generally give birth earlier that placental mammals.
They have very strong limbs because they have to climb to the mothers nipples to feed. An
example of a marsupial is the koala and kangaroo.
A placental mammal is a
mammal that is nourished in the mother's uterus and born developed. This is a very diverse group
and consists of whales, cats, dogs, and humans, just to name a few.
This is a
great question. While, I agree with the other post that there is fate and we need to appreciate
this, but we also need to emphasize ' own actions. He is filled with pride (). He thinks he can
outwit the gods and overturn prophecy. Also, he think that he can solve the plague at the
beginning of the play. And he is so filled with arrogance that he states that he will punish
anyone responsible for this plague. Theis that he is the one responsible. He even brazenly kills
his father for something that could be considered minor, certainly not meriting death. You
see,...
The
answer to this question is subjective and best left up to individual audience members, but that
is what makes it such a great discussion question. There are generally three ways to go with
this answer. First,deserve none of the blame. This argument fully embraces the notion thatandare
the unfortunate consequences of a feud and catastrophic miscommunications. Second, Romeo and
Juliet are partly to blame. This is the easiest route to go because it allows a person to spread
the blame around on a lot of characters and situations. My personal favorite is option three.
Romeo and Juliet deserve 100% of the blame for their eventual deaths. Granted, they are young;
however, they are old enough to know that marrying someone from the "enemy family"
isn't a good decision. They are also old enough to know that meeting and marrying somebody
within a day or two is also not smart. They didn't consult the wisdom of their elders or
parents. They depended on messages being...
Through
creates humor as she depicts comedic characters with regional dialects and ridiculous physical
appearances. For instance, Bailey's wife is described as having a face
...broad and innocent as a cabbage...tied around with a green
head-kerchief that had two points on the top like a rabbit's ears.
O'Connor lightly ridicules some of her Southern characters, too, such as the little
girl whose name is June Star and the man the grandmother should have married, Mr. Teagarden,
whose initials were E.A.T. and the black boy read them on a watermelon mistaking them for
directions. The owner of Sammy's Famous Barbecue is, indeed, laughable with his monkey in the
chinaberry tree and his khaki trousers that sit low on his hips with his stomach hanging over
them "like a sack of meal swaying under his shirt." O'Connor's depiction of his
manner of speech is simply hilarious as he sits down at a table near the grandmother's family
and emits "a combination sigh and yodel." And, his regionalis also
humorous:
"Yes'm, I suppose so," Red Sam said as
if he were struck with this answer.
Certainly,
O'Connor continues to have fun with the character of June Star who rudely tells Red Sam's wife
who says something many would say in her region as something meant to be a compliment to a cute
child,
"Would you like to come be my little
girl?""No, I certainly wouldn't," June Star said. "I
wouldn't live in a broken-down place like this for a million bucks!" and she ran back to
the table.
Nor does June Star lose her headstrong
attitude even when confronted by the Misfit and his friends. She talks back to them,
asking them, "What are you telling US what to do for?" and after Hiram is told to hold
her hand and lead her off, she says, "I don't want to hold hands with him....He reminds me
of a pig."
Even the two men and the Misfit are somewhat comical in
appearance:
One was a fat boy in black trousers and a red
sweat shirt with a silver stallion embossed on the front of it. He moved around on the right
side of them and stood staring, his mouth partly open in a kind of loose grin. The other had on
khaki pants and a blue striped coat and a gray hat pulled down very low, hiding most of his
face....The driver...was an older man that the other two. His hair was just
beginning to gray and he wore silver-rimmed spectacles that gave him a scholarly look.
He...didn't have on any shirt or undershirt. He had on blue jeans that were too tight for him
and was holding a black hat and a gun.
At the same time,
however, there is a certain black humor, a dark comedic quality, to the description of the three
men, especially later when the Misfit dons Bailey's Florida shirt and the grandmother murmurs,
"Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children!"
Also, there is a blending of humor with horror in certain instances as in the
incongruity of the tone of O'Connor's description of the grandmother's desperate cry to her son
who is being taken off to be shot:
There were two more
pistol reports and the grandmother raised her head like a parched old turkey hen crying for
water and called, "Bailey Boy, Bailey Boy!" as if her heart would break.
Likewise, the Misfit's callous remark to throw the grandmother
where "you thrown the others" juxtaposed with his gentleness of picking up the cat
that rubs itself against his leg is horrifically funny. Indeed, the story develops from light
to very dark humor.
Great
question. One way to answer the question is to say what happens in America is important to the
rest of the world. This is because of globalization. In the 19th century this was not as
apparent, but world history would go in this direction. Therefore, the Civil War (1861-1865),
one of the most significant events in American history, would shape the world.
The Civil War determined what kind of nation America would become, as it grappled with
two questions. First, would the United States be dissolvable into sovereign states or would
there be national government over the states. Second, would slavery be prohibited, because all
men were created equal? This last question was particularly important because America was the
largest slave owning country in the world.
The Civil War gave its answers.
The United States would be one, and slavery would be abolished, and in time it was.
From an international point of view, eventually America would lead the way in these
areas. America would champion a democratic form of government and stand up for equal rights.
America did not do this immediately, but with the passage of time America was seen to champion
these causes. Had America dissolved into states and allowed slavery, the world would be a very
different place.
This statement
that Vera is capable of "romance at short notice" isat his satirical best. According
to the American College Dictionary, romance
is
A tale depicting heroic or marvelous achievements,
colorful events or scenes, chivalrous devotion, unusual or supernatural experiences, or other
matters that appeal to the imagination.
So, Verawhose
name is ironic since she rarely speaks with veracity, or truthfulnesshas
now fabricated another tale. This tale is from the real instance of the "tired brown
spaniel," using a "colorful" fictional event: Nuttel was hunted by a pack of dogs
on the banks of the Ganges. Thus, although this story is set in a faraway land, it is anything
but heroic given Nuttel's deeds and experiences.
Vera is capable of blurring
the lines between imagination and reality as she entertains guests of Mrs. Sappleton. Her story
about the males of the Sappleton family who went hunting and were lost resides between truth and
. Later, rather than depicting the guest, Framton Nuttel, as capable of great achievements and
"chivalrous devotion," Vera satirically portrays him as a weak and cowardly man who
has been pursued by vicious dogs and spent the night in a freshly dug grave to escape
injury.
The
supposedly-imagined dream of YGB in which he saw a witches Sabbath, the baptism into the
"mystery of sin", the evil man, and all the other rituals, had a real effect on him as
a person both physically, psychologically, socially, and most importantly spiritually. An event
which supposedly takes place in the mind can in fact effect a person to the point of physical
danger which is the whole idea behind YGB: That the sins of the mind and the sins of the soul,
though abstract, can cause concrete effects in all humans the way that sin can endanger and
affect our bodies through poisoning our minds and souls.
To answer concisely,
it is the combination of the visible and the invisible working together concretely which makes
the imaginary and the real have a working relationship.
I totally
agree with the first post. The whole point of what the Party has done is to get(and the other
people in the society) not to think. The Party wants automatons
who have no real thoughts, who just do what it tells them to do.
To the
extent that Winston is thinking anything, he would simply be thinking that whatever the Party
does is right. He no longer has the capacity for individual thought.
Much of
is about solving problems. For example, as the book opens, Meg is faced
with many problems, such as the mystery of her missing father and how to deal with the
complexities of her school lifefor example, by learning not to get into fights when other
students insult Charles...
While Susie
does goes through the stages of grief in this novel, I am not sure she actually exhibits one
specific stage of grief in chapter 9. This chapter takes place the night before her memorial
service and ends the day of her memorial service.
Since Susie is the
narrator, we usually are able to glimpse some of her feelings and therefore determine which
stage of grief she is in. In this chapter,...
Thoreau's
example of the bug appears near the very end of . The Transcendentalist
presents the story as a familiar anecdote, saying that "every one has heard the story which
has gone the rounds of New England" as he introduces it. In this way he again establishes
familiarity with the reader, particularly Concord locals, as he specifically focuses on New
England lore. The table, from which the bug emerges, "had stood in a farmer's kitchen for
sixty years, first in Connecticut, and afterward in Massachusetts" and was "from an
egg deposited in the living tree many years earlier still." The bug was hatched by the heat
emanating from an urn and gnawed "for several weeks" in order to free itself. The
anecdote allows Thoreau to speculate on how one responds...
f(x)=sin(x);
g(x)=sin(x-pi)
The graph of g(x) is a translation of the graph of f(x) pi
units to the right....
Freud's
theory of the Oedipal complex argues that all young boys have two desires they must learn to
repress: first, they want to kill their father, and second, they want to marry their mother. As
Freud--and many others--have pointed out, this is exactly whatdoes in .
Claudius enacts 's most secret desires by killing Hamlet's father and marrying Hamlet's
mother.
It's no wonder this fills Hamlet with rage against his uncle even
before he hears what his father's ghost has to say. Even before Hamlet knows that Claudius
fulfilled his other repressed desire (to kill his father), he knows that Claudius is sleeping
with his mother.
Of the two acts, murder and sex, Claudius sleeping with his
mother seems to obsess and enrage Hamlet the most. He can't seem to get beyond lurid images of
them in bed together, and when he does murder, it is when he mistakenly thinks Claudius is
hiding behind the arras while, he, Hamlet, is in a state of rage over his mother having sex with
her new...
In , Mersault's interactions with Salamano and Raymond illustrate
Mersault's social indifference and refusal to question the meaning and motivation of other
people.
Salamano is an old man who lives in Mersault's building. Salamano
regularly beats his dog. Mersault greets Salamano and asks him what the dog had done, but he
never really confronts Salamano's violent behaviour towards the dog. Mersault just accepts it as
the way things are.
Mersault agrees to write a letter to Raymond's
girlfriend despite the fact that Raymond admitted to beating her. He even agrees to testify
against her on Raymond's behalf. Overhearing Raymond beating her again, Marie asks Mersault to
call the police. Mersault refuses, saying he doesn't like police.
When
Salamano's dog goes missing, Mersault observes Salamano's sadness and actually thinks of his
mother. This does indicate evidence of...
The
United States was unable to remain neutral in . There are several reasons for this. One reason
was we were more sympathetic toward the British than toward the Germans. Our language and system
of government are very similar. We did a lot of trade and business with Great Britain. Thus, we
felt closer to Great Britain than we did to Germany.
Another factor was the
Germans interfered with our trade. The Germans used the submarine to attack our ships without
warning. This was illegal since we were a neutral country. We had the right to trade with any
country since we were neutral. No country could interfere with that trade. If a country at war
wanted to search our ships, they could do that. If we were carrying ammunition and war supplies
to a country at war, then the country searching our ship could seize the ship and its cargo or
remove the crew and sink the ship. Germany didnt do this. They sunk our ships without warning.
When Germany agreed to stop doing this, things got...
Certainly, Penelope,
Odysseus's wife, is presented as a model of proper female behavior. She is often identified by
the"heedful Penelope," which emphasizes her obedience and loyalty to her husband,
despite the fact that he is missing for ten years after all his living comrades from the Trojan
war have returned home. Penelope not only holds down the fort at home, raising their son
Telemachus, but she also manages to stave off the suitors who seek her hand (and
wealth).
Telemachus is also held up as a model son and Odysseus as a model
heroic man. Telemachus is loyal and brave, challenging the suitors and sailing to try to uncover
more information about his father. And Odysseus displays his own bravery, his respect for the
gods, as well as his intellect and physical prowess too. All three are exemplary in their
behaviors.
In chapter
1 of the Communist Manifesto, Marx provides the rationale for why the
proletariats, or working class people, would eventually overthrow the mechanism of society run
by the Bourgeoisie:
The price of a commodity, and
therefore also of labour, is equal to its cost of production. In proportion, therefore, as the
repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. Nay more, in proportion as the use of
machinery and division of labour increases, in the same proportion the burden of toil also
increases, whether by prolongation of the working hours, by the increase of the work exacted in
a given time or by increased speed of machinery, etc.
Therefore, as labour conditions become less favorable in relation to wage, the Proletariat will
find their work unacceptable and incite a revolution. The nature of the weapons you refer to is
influence over capital, that which has diminished in the Bourgeoisie class as a result of the
end of feudalism. Essentially, the working class now hold...
Laurie
createdas a means of hiding his behavior at school from his parents. Specifically, Charles
provided Laurie with an alter ego, one that could help him navigate the emotional transition
from the domestic to the public sphere.
Adults often underestimate the
difficulty of this transition for very young children. However, Jackson shines a light on this
coming-of-age shift with humor and compassion.
In this story, Laurie imputes
every willful infringement of the rules to Charles. Thus, Charles becomes a convenient
scapegoat. Charles is also something else, however: he is the means of helping Laurie process
his ambivalent emotions about growing up.
Essentially, Charles helps Laurie
experience aof sorts. The result is nothing short of miraculous. By the third or fourth week of
tumultuous classroom...
One
theme that I think is integral to the entire story deals with friends and family.John and
Lorraine do not come from great homes.Each home situation is abusive in different ways, so John
and Lorraine simply do not have a family unit that is there to comfort them.This support system
is found through being friends with each other.John has other "friends" in the book,
but none of them care for him the way that Lorraine and Mr. Pignati do.Mr. Pignati has lost his
family as well, and he has essentially found a replacement through John and Lorraine.This shows
that deep friendships can absolutely be equivalent to a loving family.
Another theme is mortality.For such a short book that is written to a young adult
audience, the book is filled with death.Mr. Pignati's wife is dead, Bobo dies, Mr. Pignati dies,
and Lorraine's mother cares for dying patients.Even John fears that his own dad is going to die
soon which seems odd considering what a terrible father he is; however, that speaks volumes
about the strong bonds that exist between family members no matter how broken those bonds might
appear.All in all, the reader is constantly being reminded that death is real and often right
around the corner.
There is a sense in
which Act III exposes a number of characters for who they really are. Not only has the illusion
of Eliza been somewhat punctured by her use of her common tongue to narrate the story of her
aunt's experience of influenza, but also we see that Pickering and Higgins are shown to be
nothing more than excitable children with their new toy that they are really pleased with. They
get carried away with their own enthusiasm forcing even the formidable Mrs. Higgins to have to
shut them up and keep them quiet. Any sense of their being credible men of science conducting an
experiment of value is lost in the cacophony of their joint voices. Mrs. Higgins treats them
like little over-enthusiastic children, and the play shows that this is precisely what they are.
Mrs. Higgins of course is able to put her finger on the real issue, which is "what is to be
done with her afterwards." She is able to see the long-term impact of what her son and
Pickering have done in a way that they are blind to.
The
characters in deal with chaos in different ways. I will focus on the main
character, Dana. She deals with the chaos of going from one culture to another by keeping a calm
head and doing her best to fit in with the new culture. She also uses her unique...
Appeasement
was a complete failure. It did not in any way do what it was supposed to.
Appeasement was supposed to stop Hitler from wanting to take more of Europe. The French and the
British let him have the...
The most
ironic part of The Scarlett Letter is thatremains throughout the story up
until the end as a respected, well-liked, admired, highly-followed, trendy, beloved, praised and
nearly-adored pastor whose following got bigger and bigger the more emacited, sick-looking, and
odd he became.
This is ironic because it is as if Hawthorne is laughing at
those die-hard church goers who see right in front of them that their shining light of a leader
is obviously going through some very odd and psychologically detrimental issues that are
beginning to show physically- and yet- that is precisely what their blindness leads them to
believe: That such bipolar exoticism, furor and decay are the product of such a Christian life
that he should be admired evermore. This, is the man that abandonedand lied to his flock right
on their faces while dying of guilt inside.
Whensuggests that the boys vote for a
chief,immediately argues that he should be elected chief because he is chapter chorister, head
boy, and can sing C sharp. Despite his pleas to be named chief, the majority of the boys select
Ralph to be chief.
Golding writes that Jack is mortified by Ralph's election
and briefly considers protesting the vote before he eventually acquiesces. As an authoritative
natural leader, Jack feels that he should have been elected chief. The fact that Ralph becomes
chief fills Jack with jealousy, embarrassment, and envy.
After Ralph is
elected chief, he recognizes that Jack is mortified and puts him in charge of the choir, who
hunt pigs throughout the island. As the story progresses, Jack takes charge of the hunters and
gradually begins to undermine Ralph's authority whenever opportunities arise. After the boys
discover the "beast" on the top of the mountain, Jack takes on a more prominent role
as the boys's protector and eventually quits Ralph's group in order to establish his own tribe
of savages at the opposite end of the island.
Yes, there
is a separation between religion and ethics. You can act ethically without following the tenets
of your religion. Usually religions are based on general ethical principles, so if you follow
your religions guidelines you should be also acting ethically.
Tim Buckley,
who died tragically after ingesting heroin at the age of 28, was a unique American singer and
musician, who began with a folk sound that was well received in coffeehouses and in Greenwich
Village. With time, however, his sound evolved from folk to folk-rock, then to a blues/jazz
style, and later to jazz and country western, and soul and funk. As part of the sixties'
generation, Buckley was searching for his own sound--a producer described him as "not
comfortable in his own skin"--but, at the same time, he seemed affected by the cultural
times and the...
In
, theoccurs whenkills Curley's wife. This action is climactic because it is
the point of highest tension in the novel or the turning point from which there is no going
back. Remember that this action is accidental. Lennie did not intend to kill Curley's wife. But
once her neck is broken, there is nothing that can be done to save her. A terrified Lennie then
flees the barn, leaving Candy andto discover her body.
Following this climax,
the resolution occurs when George shoots Lennie. George does not kill his friend as a means of
punishment. This act is, in fact, one of mercy, designed to save Lennie from being lynched by
Curley and his men.
Lennie's death brings the novel to a close and also
brings the dream of owning their own ranch to a swift end.
The
depressing last lines of 's "" (1835) reveal that the titular character's grave held
no "hopeful verse": "they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his
dying hour was gloom." This "hopeful verse" is most likely a Bible verse, given
the story's Puritan frame. Why, however, did Hawthorne add this ostensibly trivial
detail?
In this short tale, Young Goodman Brown, a newly married gentleman
from Salem village, leaves his wife Faith one night and goes into the nearby woods. He
encounters some of the fellow townsfolk committing acts of devil-worship and thinks he hears the
voice of his wife. When Young Goodman Brown returns to Salem, he is trembling, uncertain of
whether what he saw in the forest was real or a dream, and the rest of his days are somber and
bleak.
What are we to make of this? Given the connection between Salem
village and the infamous Salem Witch Trials, and the Devil's reference to Young Goodman Brown's
father burning Native American villages, the story seems to be about human moral hypocrisy. Just
as the characters in the story worship God by day but the devil by night, the early Puritans
committed atrocious crimes in the name of religion. "Young Goodman Brown" then
establishes the dual capacity of the human heart to simultaneously act in good and evil
ways.
How does this relate to the unmarked grave then? Those who buried Young
Goodman Brown didn't care to add a hopeful Christian message to his grave. With this, Hawthorne
suggests that humanity, due to our dual nature, isn't worthy of a hopeful verse as well. A bit
heavy, huh?
Flanner
OConnor was known €“ justifiably €“ for a somewhat cynical perspective with respect to the
superficial judgments people make regarding the character of those they deem worthy or good.
Her much-read short story established the template for cynicism regarding
people who render judgments based upon superficial characteristics like displays of proper
etiquette and presumed fealty to God. A Good Man is Hard to Find is
entirely consistent with OConnors theme of paradoxical relationships between perceptions and
realities. The Bible salesman in Good Country People is revealed as a con
man who conceals alcohol and condoms in his hollowed-out Bible, and the individual in
A Good Man is Hard to Find who best exemplifies the manners and fealty to
God most cherished by the storys main, the grandmother, is a stone-cold killer who has escaped
from prison and who will murder the grandmother just as the aforementioned Bible salesman
deceives Mrs....
Anglo-Saxon mythology had no shortage of supernatural beings and monsters which were believed to
make up part of the natural world. The Anglo-Saxons were pre-Christian, and practiced Pagan
religion similar to the Scandinavian tradition. Based on surviving texts which describe
Anglo-Saxon religion, supernatural beings and phenomena were believed to be a very real part of
the world humans live in and experience. Some of these elements of mythology...
When you
read and come across a sentence such as this one:
The child's attire, on the other hand, was distinguished by a
fanciful, or, we might rather say, a fantastic ingenuity, which served, indeed, to heighten the
airy charm that early began to develop itself in the little girl, but which appeared to have
also a deeper meaning. (Ch. 5, " at her Needle")
You might be inclined to think that Hawthorne's sentence structure is just
hard. And his sentences are definitely long and complex, with embedded
clauses and phrases set off by commas. He could have just said, "But the child's attire was
distinguished by a fantastic ingenuity which heightened the little girl's charm, but which also
had a deeper meaning." Instead, the sentence is peppered with interjections like
"indeed," and "on the other hand," and hedging phrases like "we might
rather say" and "appeared to." In one place he even gives us a selection of
adjectives: "fanciful, or ... fantastic."
The sentences in
The...
mentions thatis at his castle in "double trust," which means that Duncan has two
reasons to trust , and that Macbeth will do him no harm and will protect him.
Firstly, Duncan is his "kinsman," which means that they are related to one
another, not only because they are citizens of the same country, but also in blood. Duncan and
Macbeth are cousins, all the more reason for Macbeth not to harm him €“ such a deed would be
unnatural in the extreme.
Secondly, Macbeth is Duncan's "subject,"
and as his subject, he has to honor his king and show allegiance and loyalty. A loyal subject
should not even consider the thought of bringing harm to his king, let alone plot his
assassination.
These two reasons on their own speak "strong ... against
the deed." They are more than ample conviction for Macbeth not to kill Duncan.
Furthermore, Duncan is also Macbeth's guest, and it is imperative for a host to ensure
the safety of his guests. It would go against the grain if the host should consider committing
any dark, obnoxious deed against his guest/s.
Also, Duncan has been a kind
and gentle king. He has taken care of his subjects and has not been a tyrannical and despotic
leader. He has been gentle and "clear" in his "great office" which implies
that his actions were never questionable €“ further evidence that killing him would be a
purposeless exercise.
Because Duncan is such a good king, there would be a
clamor to bring the murderer/s to justice. There would be a cry in heaven against the
assassination. Macbeth would be damned forever €“ more than enough reason to not even consider
Duncan's assassination. Macbeth also realizes that not only would he be damned, but also that
those loyal to Duncan (which more than likely would be practically the whole of Scotland)
would seek revenge against the callous murderer.
These are the reasons
Macbeth provides against killing Duncan. The only motive for him to continue with this dastardly
deed would be his unbridled ambition and greed.
First, please
note that there are many translations for the five virtues so these may be a little different
from what your book says. The five virtues are:
A lot of
psychologists have studied the psychological significance of color preferences. There are many
sites on this subject that can be googled. The first one on the Google list if you type in
"Psychological Significance of Colors" is "Meaning of Colors in Color
Psychology." Many of the people who answered your question have specified that they favor
purple. This is an excerpt from what that entry says about purple:
This color relates to the imagination and spirituality. It stimulates the imagination
and inspires high ideals. It is an introspective color, allowing us to get in touch with our
deeper thoughts.
Most of the people who responded to this
question were females. Women seem much more sensitive to colors than men. Also a lot harder to
satisfy. Personally I have found that colors bug me. In fairly recent years the clothing
merchants have tried to get men more interested in choosing colors, but I have found it
frustrating and annoying. If I buy a brown shirt then I can't wear it with a pair of blue pants,
so I need a pair of brown pants. But then I can't wear brown pants with a black belt or black
shoes. And of course if I wear brown pants I can't have a brown shirt of the same shade or I
would like like a deliveryman in uniform; so I have to wear, like, brown pants with a tan shirt,
or tan pants with a brown shirt. Women have to have several purses and many pairs of shoes, and
it must take them a long time to be sure that everything matches everything else. But I think
they like shopping and choosing clothes and even taking things home and bringing them back to
the store if they decide they really don't like them.
I don't want to spend
any time or mental energy choosing shirt, shoes, pants, jacket, etc., and then have to go
through the same thing the next day. I have decided to wear nothing but brown and tan as well as
anything that will go with brown and tan, such as shades of red or just plain white. I don't
want to think about it. I would like to be able to pull things out of the drawer and the closet
and put them on knowing that whatever I had would match.
I read that Alfred
Hitchcock owned twelve black suits, twelve white shirts, and several identical black neckties
and several identical pairs of black shoes. That sounds pretty extreme, but I can sympathize
with him. Any time you see a photograph of him he is sure to be wearing a black suit with a
white shirt and a black tie.
Mark Twain decided that he liked a white suit,
so he had a tailor make up about a dozen identical white suits, and he is wearing all white in
any picture of him you are likely to see.
I have occasionally asked myself
what my favorite color is. I still don't know. Green is a good color--for grass and trees. But I
would never own a green car, or a purple one.
In a
legal context, the chilling effect is the name given to the active discouragement of the
exercise of a legitimate right by the threat of legal sanction or prohibition. It is most often
used in relation to free speech. So, for instance, an individual or a corporation will threaten
to sue a newspaper or other media outlet if they publish certain information deemed detrimental
to the would-be plaintiff. Such threats are regarded as having a chilling effect on free speech,
as it discourages people from exercising their First Amendment rights.
The
chilling effect can also be observed in the field of labor relations. For instance, if a labor
union threatens to exercise its legitimate right to strike, then management will often go to
court to seek an injunction in order to prevent this from happening. Some companies also use a
variety of methods to discourage employees from forming labor unions.
It's
often the case that company rulebooks can have a chilling effect on workers' rights by
discouraging employees from engaging in practices such as collective bargaining. The National
Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled such practices unlawful in cases such as
Lutheran Heritage Village-Livonia (2004). Even if the relevant provisions
of a rule book don't explicitly discourage or prohibit lawful activities by employees, they can
still be held unlawful if employees reasonably interpret them as having a chilling effect on
legitimate activities in the workplace.
I think that
the theme of this poem is, quite clearly, the impact that physical abuse has on women and
children. The woman and the two kids in this poem have both clearly been abused and it has
affected them.
The woman is, to me, distraught and afraid. It scares her
when people ask about the blood on the baby. She is (presumably) afraid of what will happen if
the police investigate.
The little girl is also affected. She seems not to
really react to her mother in the way that a kid should. She is detached from her mother.
Maybe it is because her mother cannot protect her from abuse. Maybe it is because she is so
traumatized by parents in general. One way or another, the abuse has clearly affected her and
made her unable to relate normally to her family.
The
ending of 's is fairly complex, and it takes a bit of time to sift through
its many layers. But, on the surface, the essential meaning that Joyce means to get across is
that Stephen Dedalus is preparing to leave Ireland in order to pursue his dream of becoming a
great writer and artist.
The final part of the novel continues to
experiment with form, as the prose takes the form of diary entries, rather than continuous
narrative. Thus, the final sections in the novel are actually examples of Stephen's own writing,
rather than Joyce's presentation of Stephen's character. This development signals Stephen's
increasing preoccupation with his own writing (and, if we're being honest, his increasing
obsession with himself). Additionally, throughout the entries we come to understand that Stephen
is leaving Ireland, and...
takes
nature largely for granted. His island home provides everything he could possibly needthe
materials for constructing shelter, fresh water, and an abundant food supply. Nature is an
object for Crusoe; it has no existence in its own right; it is something to be controlled and
exploited for man's benefit. In this sense, Crusoe is very much a man of the Enlightenment.
Under the Enlightenment's prevailing philosophy, the natural world has been robbed of its
sacredness: it is no longer a space in which divine revelation occurs, and it is a resource
which man uses to satisfy his own worldly ends.
Crusoe's attitude changes
dramatically after a terrifying dream in which he is about to be attacked by what appears to be
an angel of death. The nightmare shakes him out of his complacency and arrogance, making him
realize that the bounties of nature of which he makes such prodigal use have been provided for
him by a benevolent, loving God and must never be taken for granted.
You have identified an
incredibly important symbol in this terrifying dystopian novel. The glass paperweight
in becomes a vital link to the past for . In fact, this paperweight, that
Winston buys in an antique store in a Prole district, comes to symbolise his attempt to
reconnect with the past. This becomes incredibly important in the novel, where we see that the
party is able to dominate people's thoughts with their own "truth" by a campaign of
relentless propaganda. In this novel, it becomes almost impossible for people to challenge the
party if they accept the party's version of the "truth" - that the party arose as a
reaction to decadent capitalism and life was much harsher before than it was now. Winston Smith,
therefore, engages in a battle to recover his own memories and make sense of the world that he
is in by connecting to the past, and the paperweight is symbolic of this struggle, for, as
Winston tells , it is a piece of history that the party has forgotten to alter. It is highly
significant therefore that when the Thought Police catch Winston at last, the paperweight falls
to the floor and shatters.
The paperweight could also said to be a symbol of
happiness or escapism outside of the world of this novel. In Part 2 Chapter 4, the chapter ends
with Winston looking at the paperweight and imagining that he and Julia are inside, able to
float free without having to worry about the party. This chapter clearly shows that Winston
wishes that his relationship with Julia could be like a relationship from "before" -
freer and easier without having to worry about clandestine meetings. The paperweight therefore
represents safety and shelter, a representation that will later be shattered with the events
that tear Julia and Winston apart and force them to yield to the power of the
Party.
According to
post 3, languages other than English do not have the variety of accents that would allow the
play to retain its uniqueness. Since I am not a linguist or speaker of any language other than
English I can only make an educated guess here, but I really doubt that other globally spoken
languages such as French and Spanish do not have a wide variety of accents that depend on a
speaker's location and social station. With that in mind, I would think thatcould probably be
adapted to many other languages.
However, I have to admit that
if...
In '
" ," the ghost of Christmas present represents the lives that Ebeneezer Scrooge
touches on a day-to-day basis, yet whom he holds in condenscending scorn. By making Scrooge
tour the village in which he lives, and observe the holiday celebrations of those to whom he is
related and whom he employs at a miserly wage, the ghost impresses upon Scrooge the joys he
misses because of his attitude and the consequences for the Cratchit family of his miserliness.
While Bob Cratchit has been a loyal and hardworking employee, Scrooge has yet to acknowledge,
let alone display empathy toward, Cratchit and his family, especially the sickly Tiny Tim. By
letting Scrooge observe the Cratchits, and gaze upon Tiny Tim's crutch, the ghost of Christmas
present is presenting Scrooge with the responsibilities...
In
"Gulliver," the speaker talks about all the things that limit and confine him, that
keep him from experiences real freedom. He lists just some of the "ten thousand" small
"hairs" that entwine him and prevent him from moving around freely or doing just what
he likes:
Love, hunger, drunkenness, neuralgia,
debt,
Cold weather, hot weather, sleep and age
If I could only unloose their
spongy fingers,
I'd have a chance yet, slip through the cage.
All kinds of things limit us and challenge us. Emotions can tie us
to other people, hunger can weaken useven basic needs can restrict our actionsand our own bad
decisions or human weaknesses (like drunkenness) can adversely affect us; we can also be
affected by pain and disease and by the debts that we incur (either financial or otherwise).
Human experience is fraught with all kinds of limits, not the least of which is death itself, as
we see in "Wild Grapes." People, families, are "drowned in earth," while
another "dead girl" called Isabella...
Aristotle has
given us the most commonly accepted definition of a tragic hero in
his book Poetics. Aristotle defines a tragic
hero as one who is of high social standing. In other
words, a tragic hero is not just a peasant or a common man because seeing a ruler or leader fall
is for more tragic than just the common man. A tragic hero must also be a generally noble, or
"good and decent" person ("Aristotle & the
Elements of "). The tragic hero won't also be a villain; instead, he is someone the reader
or audience will feel did not deserve his fate because of his general goodness. However, the
tragic hero must also have what is considered to be a "fatal
flaw" ("Aristotle"). In other words, while the tragic hero is a
good person, he is not a perfect person. He has some character flaw
or "moral blindness" or makes an "error" that leads to his
downfall ("Aristotle"). So in order to see howfits the definition of a
tragic hero, all you have to do is consider those three things. As we are limited in space,
below are a couple of ideas to help get you
started.
Romeo certainly is a character with
high social standing. We know he has high social standing because
his father is a Lord, which is a noble title. In fact, Shakespeare makes a point in his
openingof describing the two feuding families as being "[t]wo households, both alike in
dignity," and the word dignity can be translated as "rank"
or "station" (Prologue.1; Random House Dictionary"). While a Lord, or the only
son of a Lord who will inherit the title, is not the highest social position, like a prince or
king, a Lord is certainly a leader of society. Therefore, Romeo's
standing as the only son of a Lord certainly does give him a high enough social position to fit
the definition of a tragic hero.
The second and most important reason why
Romeo fits the definition of a tragic hero is because he has
a fatal flaw. His fatal flaw is easily
seen as being that he allows himself to be governed by his rash, passionate
emotions rather than by his rational mind. We first learn about how he allows
himself to be guided by rash, passionate emotions when we see his reaction to having been
rejected by Rosaline in the very first scene. He's seen staying out all night long and crying
each morning. In fact, his father is so worried about his behavior that he fears Romeo may harm
himself if no one councils him.tries, but Romeo's only reaction to Benvolio's plea that he
forget about Rosaline is, "O, teach me how I should forget to think!" (I.i.228). It's
this same emotionalism and lack of rationalism that leads him to
make other rash decisions, such as allowing himself to be persuaded to crash the Capulet ball,
even though he knew through a dream he considered to be prophetic that the "night's
revels" would cost him an "untimely death" (I.iv.116-18). Had he not allowed
himself to be persuaded into crashing the ball, he never would have angered , and his life never
would have been put in jeopardy. His second emotionally driven, rash decision was avenging
himself on Tybalt, even though rationally he knew that Tybalt would have been justly killed by
the law. This rash decision led to his banishment, as well as to his own death and 's as
well.
A prevailing
attitude of manifest destiny certainly characterizesideas after he follows the lure of seafaring
men; namely, to venture forth onto new, exciting horizons where he can "rise by
enterprise" and conquer. After he sells Xury, thinking it is all right since Xury agrees
to be sold, Crusoe begins to build his sugar empire. However, when a quicker and more lucrative
venture presents itself, Crusoe reacts; he seizes the idea of making a fortune in the slave
trade. Reflecting upon his impulse, Crusoe analyzes his actions:
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my parents, so I could not be content
now, but I must go and leave the happy view I had of being a rich and thriving man in my new
plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate desire of rising faster that the nature of the
thing admitted....But I, that was born to be my own destroyer, could no more resist the
offer....
After Crusoe finds himself shipwrecked on a
deserted island, he adopts the Puritan work ethic of his England and sets about creating a world
of his own. Certainly, he exhibits thoughts of his class when he writes,
...to think that this was all my own, that I was king and lord of
all this country indefeasibly, and had a right and possession; and, if I could convey it, I
might have it in inheritance as completely as any lord of a manor in England.
Jeremy W. Hubbell writes that Crusoe exploits the fears of animals
in order to conquer nature:
He employs terror in the same
way the English crown does; he hangs three dead crows as if they were "notorious
thieves" and, consequently, he never sees another bird in that part of the
island.
Once Friday becomes his man, Robinson Crusoe is
happier, but he still exhibits attitudes of English superiority. For instance, when Friday tries
to show Crusoe how to burn out the boat, Crusoe insists that they use their hatchets. His
refusal to accept Friday as an equal reflects the English attitude of superiority; moreover,
Crusoe becomes a patriarch, like the Puritans in his country, to his man Friday, overriding
Friday's wishes. He demands that Friday imitate him develop his state of mind through laborious
exercises, for this is colonialism.
