English Essays and Term Papers
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea:Intellect, Precision, Courtesy; The Makings of a Leader
The ocean swells around you like a dust devil in a sandbox. Salt water fills your nostrils. The ship that deemed this fate upon you sails into the distance. You wonder, how am I going to get out of this one? Suddenly, a large metal object ...
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Macbeth IssuesIn Shakespeare’s Macbeth, there are many issues that may have had an affect on the play. The complex marriage between the power hungry Macbeths, lady Macbeth’s dominant character directing Macbeth in the murders, the role reversal during the murders, Macbeth’s reaction to his wife’s death, and ...
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Our Grandmothers"If Othello didn’t begin as a play about race, history has made it one."
The Venetian society that Othello is set in is representative of the writers context.
The attitudes and values that Shakespeare reveals through the text are those same attitudes and values of Elizabethan society ...
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For Whom The Bell TollsPart II The title symbolizes the uncertainty of life and destiny, where the main character in this story finds himself in a series of unpredictable situations that are beyond his control. The only certain event in life is death and knowing that this may happen to anyone at any time, renders the ...
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King Arthur And Beowulf: A ComparisonSir Thomas Malory brings forth a courageous character , "King
Arthur", utilizing weaponry and leadership, to enlighten the reader of the
unique characteristics of a true hero, on the other hand, the unknown
author of "Beowulf", depicts the Anglo-Saxan era to tell a story of one who
fights to ...
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Huck Finn - JimThroughout all of his adventures Jim shows compassion as his most prominent trait. He makes the reader aware of his many superstitions and Jim exhibits gullibility in the sense that he Jim always assumes the other characters in the book will not take advantage of him. One incident proving that ...
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Cooper Thompsons A New VisionCooper Thompson, in his article "A new Vision of Masculinity", discusses the stereotypical definition of masculinity. He demonstrates that there are good qualities in both male and female; he insists that boys should learn both qualities and combine them properly to from "new masculinity." ...
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Oedipus Rexrepresents one of the greatest tragedies ever written. A classical style tragedy contains six main elements within a plot. These sequences are the exposition, the rising action, the climax, the falling action and finally, the catastrophe.
begins with the exposition. The exposition usually takes ...
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Henrik IbsenIn the plays Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, and Wild ducks by there are many similar themes, which become evident to the reader. A theme, which is consistant though out these plays, is the opposing values of the Ideal and the Real. The views of the idealist versus the realists make for many ...
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LifeArchetypes in A Rose for Emily
Archetypes are, by definition, previous images, characters, or patterns that recur throughout literature and though consistently enough to be considered a universal concept or situation. Archetypes also can be described as complexes of experiences that come upon us ...
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Oedipus Vs. SocietyDuring Greek times, Oedipus committed the worst crime by marrying his mother and killing his father. The Greeks never looked down upon any criminal like they would look down upon someone who went against their family.
If one refers to the 1970's film, The Godfather, the Corleone family was very ...
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Civ. And Its Discontents And GFreud and Mason: Religion and Freedom Theme
Themes such as religion and freedom are prevalent in both Gilgamesh by Herbert Mason and Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud. Throughout Gilgamesh the character Enkidu is portrayed as an easygoing creature who has an overwhelming sense of ...
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Macbeth - Supernatural And SpiritsIn the play \"Macbeth\", there are many interesting sections that concentrate on the suspense and the involvement of the supernatural. The use of the supernatural in the witches, Lady Macbeth, nature, the vision, the ghost and the apparitions are all key elements in making \"Macbeth\" as a tragedy ...
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The Red Badge Of Courage LiterThe Red Badge of Courage begins with the Youth (Henry) preparing to leave to war. He has fabulous ideas concocted in his mind about victory and heroism. The Youth soon finds that victory and heroism are a small part in the splendor of war. The Youth's mind soon becomes burdened with thoughts of ...
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Beowulf: A Story Told In One Mothers Point-of-ViewShe, Grendels mother, awakens to the faint sound and smell of the things known
as men. She has been sleeping down in her dark and dingy cave below the world
that is known to men. She has been biding her time, and plotting her revenge
against the man that murdered her son. All that she had left ...
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Death Be Not ProudThe novel, , by John Gunther, is the story of
the struggle of a child to stay alive. Johnny Gunther Jr.'s constant
hope got him out of bed every morning with a positive attitude. His
outright opposition to the fact that he was going to die and his
determination not to, kept a fiery spirit in ...
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Much Ado About Nothing - Passion Vs. Reason Sometimes, when a man and a woman are interested in each other, they pretend to feel exactly the opposite. They hide their feelings of love inside and act like they absolutely hate each other. Being too proud to concede their love, they leave themselves vulnerable to rejection by the other ...
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Voices Of Women Writers LessonParents play a crucial role in the development of children, varying from culture to culture. Although imperative, the mother and daughter relationship can be trivial. Many women writers have exercised their knowledge and shared their feelings in their works to depict the importance and influence ...
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Citizen Kane By Orson WellsBy many, Citizen Kane is one of the greatest films ever made. Orson Wells, at age 25, directed, produced, and starred in this film. Citizen Kane is a memorable film for countless reasons. The film brought about controversy because it fictionalized the life of William Randolph Hearst, a powerful ...
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Epic Heroes In TimeHeroes and their stories have been at the center of almost every culture throughout history. There are vast differences among these legends since they have to serve each particular culture's needs. The events, settings and other characters may change dramatically, but the hero is basically the ...
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Pied Beauty The poem "" begins by praising God for all the colorful and diverse things in nature. The speaker is thankful for everything with dots, circles, different colors, etc. He seems to be fond of nature and "the great outdoors." Many of the images in the poem made me think of ...
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The Use Of Irony In The StoneIrony is an important literary device in many stories and there are many
examples of it in “The Stone Boy” by Gina Berriault, Animal Farm by George
Orwell, and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. In
all of these works, irony plays an important role in the plot of ...
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Courage Under FireIn 1991, millions of people tuned in to CNN to observe a real life and death drama played out in the cities and deserts of Iraq. For the United States, the war was more or less a display of power and a preservation of economic interest. Nobody was to ever hear of the mishaps and foul-ups of the ...
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Sherlock HolmesWhen Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created , he had no idea that his creation would become on of the most read and talked about fiction characters ever. Doyle himself did not even think that the stories were good literature, but as he found out, people were not interested in the quality of his writing ...
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My Last Duchess By Robert BrowMy Last Duchess, by Robert Browning, is an example of a dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue is a kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem. The Duke is speaking to an envoy about his fisrt wife who is apparently dead. ...
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