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English Essays and Term Papers
Odysseus: Metis Is His Most Important QualityOdysseus’ most important quality as an epic hero is his metis, a Greek word meaning artifice, stratagem, or plan. Homer even associates Odysseus as “polymetis,” or a man of “many turns.” Robert Fitzgerald, translator of the Odyssey in The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, interprets this ...
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Just A Pot Of BasilAt the age of eight one of my favorite things to do was dream about living in a time where gigantic beasts loomed over the earth. Form the gigantasaurus to the brontosaurus I enjoyed anything from the Precambrian period. I grew to appreciate the monstrous creatures even more after I took my ...
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To Kill A Mocking Bird AnalysiTo Kill a Mockingbird is definitely an excellent novel in that
it portrays life and the role of racism in the 1930 s. A reader may
not interpret several aspects in and of the book through just the
plain text. Boo Radley, Atticus, and the title represent three such
things.
Not really ...
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All Quiet On The Western FrontThe Sorrows of War and the Glorious Lies
Is it really worth it? Is the simple order by a superior officer enough for someone to spill the blood of innocent soldiers? In , a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a group of soldiers learn the hard way about the realities of war. They encounter trench ...
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The AwakeningKate Chopin's is a work of fiction that tells the story of Edna Pontellier, Southern wife and mother. This book presents the reader with many tough questions and few answers. It is not hard to imagine why this book was banished for decades not long after its initial publication in 1899. At that ...
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“Shiloh”: Norma Jean MoffittNorma Jean had waited for Leroy to get his act together for a long time, but Leroy her husband of eighteen years was only getting worst. Norma Jean Moffitt one of the main characters in the short story “Shiloh” written by, Bobbie Ann Mason, wanted more out of life, but she had one huge problem, ...
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Matthew Arnolds melancholy in life, religion, and love
In “Dover Beach,” discusses his religious views, the melancholy in his life, and a new love, which he experiences by an isolated individual as he confronts the turbulent historical forces and the loss of religious faith in the modern world. ’s faith in ...
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Lord Of The Flies Critical Literary Essay
Even apparently rational and civilized people will turn evil. This is true with some characters in the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding. Jack and Ralph are two characters that demonstrate this theme in the novel.
In the beginning, Jack appears to be rational and ...
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Othello Vs. Twelfth Night“She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd, and I loved her that she did pity them” (Othello, I.iii 166-167). William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello,” is pervaded by a dominant theme, one of love. Othello, the Moor of Venice falls madly in love with a woman named ...
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Christian Elements In BeowulfBeowulf is one of the great heroic poems in English literature. The epic follows a courageous warrior named Beowulf throughout his young, adult life and into his old age. As a young man, Beowulf becomes a legendary hero when he saves the land of the Danes from the hellish creatures, Grendel and ...
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OmerosDerek Walcott’s is an epic story which fits well into the classical tradition. Its numerous echoes of Homeric writing combined with the use of characters’ names from Homer’s stories are clear evidence to the fact that there is a major parallel to Homer’s Iliad and ...
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Richard III"The tragedy of lies in the progressive isolation of its protagonist". Discuss.
From the very opening of the play when enters "solus", the protagonist's isolation is made clear. Richard's isolation progresses as he separates himself from the other characters and breaks the natural bonds between ...
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The Purpose Of Minor CharacterIn the play, Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, three minor characters affect the plot. These characters are Ben, Charley and Howard. The minor characters help the story's protagonist, Willy, develop extensively throughout the course of the play; therefore, they are key elements in the ...
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Jane EyreCharlotte Bronte uses violence in several scenes throughout the novel. The violence in the novel is not fatal to anyone, it is just used to catch the readers eye. This novel consists of many emotional aspects. For example, the violence in the scene where Mr. Mason gets attacked. The attack really ...
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight"The poem '' creates a literary mid-point between Anglo-Saxon literature and Christian Literature. Agree or Disagree?"
In broad terms Sir Gawain is part of an expansive body of literature that typically was intended to entertain a courtly and hence selective audience. If there is any common ...
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Les Miserables 2Can we really say we know what a hard life is? The character Fantine in Les Miserables definitely had a hard life, with no breaks. She had a daughter who she adored and never got to see. She worked most of her life and always lived in poverty. Death came upon Fantine while she was in the hospital ...
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The NightIn the book , written by Elie Wiesel, a quote that made me realize the horror people went through in the Holocaust was, "For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. And we had to look him full in the face. He was still alive ...
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Voltaire's Candide: "All Is Not For The Best"Voltaire's Candide is the story of an innocent man's experiences in a
mad and evil world, his struggle to survive in that world, and his need to
ultimately come to terms with it. All people experience the turmoil of life
and must overcome obstacles, both natural and man-made, in order to ...
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By Means Of PowerBoth Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde, in their respective poems entitled Power, convey the idea that ones identity and sense of worth is defined by what they are willing to give up. This message is energized by the emotion the authors evoke through their ability to communicate a sense of ...
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The Symbolic PearlMost novels usually have a main symbol, which teaches a character, or the reader, a very important lesson or moral. This is true in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic The Scarlet Letter, where Hester Prynne’s daughter Pearl serves as the most extensive living symbol in the entire novel. ...
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My Antonia 2Why Did He Kill Himself? Most people find it very hard to pull up roots in their native land and move to a strange country. Throughout history, countless millions of people have done so. People forsake their homeland and move to another country for various reasons. Some people emigrate to avoid ...
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Hamlet - The Character Of HamletHamlet identifies with an adolescent of the 1990’s more than he does with the youth of his own time. Hamlet is immature, sarcastic, and takes action during the heat of passion which is very much like the behavior of the youth in the 1990’s.
Love, control over action, and the ability to overcome ...
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Great Gatsby 16Nick Carraway, the narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, assigns certain types of images and descriptive words to Tom, Daisy and Jordan and continues to elaborate on these illustration throughout the first chapter. Nick uses contrasting approaches to arrive at these character ...
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Animal Farm“” is a symbolical political satire in which animals take the place of humans. These animals can talk and are just as intelligent as humans. They learn to read and each type of animal a different aspect of humanity. (Ex.: Pigs- Politicians; Horses- Laborers; Sheep- Gullible People; etc. ) This ...
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Anne Stevenson" I thought you were my victory /though you cut me like a knife"
The opening lines of 's poem The Victory set a tone
of conflict. This poem, at its surface, expresses a mother's thoughts
on giving birth to a son. Stevenson describes the mixed feelings many
mothers have upon the delivery of ...
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