In "The Cask of Amontillado," why does Montresor vow revenge on Fortunato?

In the
first line of the story, the narrator vows revenge on Fortunato because he claims he had
insulted him in the past.

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had
bourne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.

However, he doesn't really say how Fortunato had insulted him, and he even refers to
him throughout as "my friend." Fortunato seems to be completely unaware of any bad
blood between them. The only clues Montresor gives as possible offenses are his family emblem
and the suggestion of a possible disbarment from the masons.

Montresor's
family motto, for example, underneath a picture of a foot crushing a serpent, is "Nemo me
impune lacessit," meaning, "no one attacks me with impunity." This could suggest
that the attack was not on Montresor personally but on someone in his family, or even on his
family as a whole. After all, he doesn't seem that comfortable in confronting Fortunato about
what happened. It is almost as if he didn't experience it firsthand.

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Identify where there is hope in Nene's letter to Okeke at the end of "Marriage is a Private Affair."

Nene's
emotional frame of reference is complex in her letter to Okeke.  There is a sense of sadness to
it in that she readily acknowledges that the relationship between she and her father in law
will, to a great extent, be ruptured.  Yet, I think that Nene's hope at the end of her letter to
Okeke is fairly powerful in that it is a desire to seek resolution without sacrifice to her own
sense of dignity.  The letter speaks to the idea that she is a mother who wishes the best for
her children, boys who wish to know their grandfather.  She does not let her own sense of
dignity and pride impact their own connection.  In her statement about how she "will remain
in Lagos," there is a sadness, but a sense of the resolute present.  She had been shown in
the story as one who will not be defined by setback and adversity, but actually rise above it. 
She also does not show herself to be a woman that wishes to break the bond between her husband
and his father.  She clearly states that the three of them in terms of the father and the two
sons wish to visit Okeke.  The hope present is that she will not deny or repudiate this in the
same way that Okeke's demeanor has done in terms of his son's and Nene's marriage. It is in this
where hope is evident, that moral ascendancy and transcendency is evident in her actions, the
actions of a young person.  It is in this that we see Okeke's "resolution he had built up
over so many years falling in."  It is here where there is hope and where there is
redemption at the end of her letter.

What 2 passages/quotes from chapter 6 describe Pearl, and what is the symbolic meaning of these quotes?

The opening
ofof "" is beautiful prose:

that little
creature, whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable decree of Providence, a lovely and
immortal flower, out of the rank luxuriance of a guilty passion.  How strange it seemed to the
sad woman, as she watched the growth, and the beauty that became every day more brilliant, and
the intelligence that threw its quivering sunshine over the features of this child!

More than a child,is a symbol of the love and passion betweenand
the father of the child.  In addition, she is the outpourings of the repressed heart of her
mother.  All outpouring of the passions of the woman imprisoned by grey and a mark upon her
bosom are manifested in Pearl:

Man had marked this woman's
sin by a scarlet letter, which had such potent and disastrous efficacy that no human sympathy
could reach her, save it were sinful like herself. God, as a direct consequence of the sin which
man thus punished, had given her a lovely child, whose place was on that same dishonored bosom,
to connect her parent for ever with the race and descent of mortals, and to be finally a blessed
soul in heaven.

In , Hester herself explains that Pearl
is the scarlet letter only "capable of being loved and so endowed with the million-fold the
power of retribution:  "She is my happiness!....She is my torture!"  In a criticism of
the harsh punishment of the Puritans. also, Hawthorne writes that God has given Hester a lovely
child to connect the isolated Hester with the human race and to provide her with the prospect of
reparation through her caring love for her child.

 

In which chapter of 1984 does the quote about controlling the past appear?

It is in Part One,
Chapter Three of  that you can find the following quote about controlling
the past:

"Who controls the past," ran the Party
slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

To illustrate the meaning of this quote,uses the example that
Oceania is at war with Eurasia. While the Party claims that Oceania has always been at war with
Eurasia, Winston can clearly remember a time, four years ago, when Oceania and Eurasia were in
alliance. This knowledge, however, exists only in his "own consciousness" because the
Party has rewritten history so that this alliance never happened.

It is this
manipulation of the truth, or "reality control" as Winston calls it, that contributes
to the Party's everlasting and totalitarian power. It can make people believe whatever it tells
them because it rewrites history accordingly.

It is also worth looking at the
text from Emmanuel Goldstein's book which appears in the last chapter of Part Two. In the
following quote, Goldstein further explains the Party's control of the past:

"The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.
And since the Party is in full control of all records and in equally full control of the minds
of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make
it."

a reflection of how he represents the characteristics and ideals of the modernist movement

The
work of the American poetis characteristically modernist because it is formally innovative (the
poet Ezra Pound's modernist directive was "Make it New") and employs modernist
techniques like fragmentation and collage. These techniques help to underline themes of flux or
instability that are representative of modernism's attempt to re-envision and rebuild the world
in the wake of world war.

One of Crane's most important works is the long
poem "," which entails a journey through the landscape of American history and
culture. Many scholars believe that "The Bridge" is a kind of answer to T.S. Eliot's
"The Waste Land," which is likely the most famous modernist poem and is often taken to
be the most representative example of modernist style and content. While Eliot's poem is
arguably profoundly pessimistic in its emphasis on the rubble and ruin of the early 20th
century, Crane's poem is more hopeful--attempting to build a "bridge" from the
optimism and romanticism of Whitman's 19th century America to modernism and the realities of his
contemporary world. For instance, in the section of "The Bridge" called "The
River," Crane refers to modern invention and technology:

"--and the
telegraphic night coming on Thomas

a Edifordand whistling down the
tracks
a headlight rushing with the soundcan you
imaginewhile an Express makes
time like
SCIENCECOMMERCE and the HOLYGHOST
RADIO ROARS IN EVERY
HOME..."

In this except you can see the play on words of "Thomas a
Ediford" which combines "Thomas a Becket" with "Thomas Alva Edison" and
"Henry Ford." In addition the idea of "HOLYGHOST RADIO" juxtaposes spiritual
and technological communication.

What made Framton Nuttel to visit the countryside in "The Open Window"?

Nuttel
visits the countryside as part of what the text calls a "nerve cure." Nuttel has
apparently had some sort of unspecified nervous breakdown. He believes rest and quiet in a rural
setting will help with his recovery. However, his sister thinks his nerves will end up in worse
shape if he ends up "moping" by himself in a retreat. Therefore, she sends him off
with letters of introduction to people she knows (but he has never met).

These include the Sappletons, with whom he is visiting. He wonders to himself if all
this socializing with people he doesn't know is doing him any good or, instead, making him
worse.

As the story shows, staying in a house with a person with such a
wickedor even sadisticsense of humor as Vera's does not do him any good.