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The Epic Of Gilgamesh
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... has changed. Gilgamesh becomes frightened when he realizes that he isn't immortal. After the death of Enkidu, Gilgamesh tries to find immortality by trying to cross the ocean to find it. He sounds pathetic as he rambles of his reason for trying to find everlasting life. His state of being at this part in the book, which is the end, is completely different from his arrogant beginning of this epic. Gilgamesh has gone from arrogant to scared. Second, the death of Humbaba changes Gilgamesh. Humbaba is evil. Many people who live in the city of Uruk fear Gilgamesh. Most would say that Gilgamesh himself is, in fact, evil. He has sex with the virgins, he does ...



The Fall Of The House Of Usher
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... acute. This adds curiosity and anxiety. The narrator was fairly normal until he began to imagine things and become afraid himself. Because of this, the audience gets a sense that evil is lurking. Madeline is in a cataleptic state. She appears to be very weak and pail. Finally, when she dies, she is buried in a vault inside of the mansion. In this story, the plot consists of rising events, conflict, climax, and resolution. The rising events include the parts in the story when the narrator first arrives at the house, meets Roderick, and hears about Roderick's and Madeline's problems. Madeline's death and burial are part of the conflict. At this point, Roderick and the ...



Wuthering Heights Summary
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... child” named Heathcliff. As he grows older, Heathcliff, to the dismay of Hindley Earnshaw, usurps the affections of not only Hindley’s father, but also that of his younger sister Catherine. Thereafter, in part due to his jealous behavior, Hindley is sent away to school. Years later due to old Mr. Earnshaw’s death, a married Hindley returns, now the master of Wuthering Heights. Intent on revenge, Hindley treats Heathcliff as a servant and frequently attempts to break Heathcliff and Catherine’s unique bond. Before Hindley can do more harm though, Fate seems to step in. Due to a leg injury, Catherine is forced to stay at Thrushcross Gra ...



The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kr
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... cannot play by the rules. You have to stomp on a few toes and you may lose a few friends along the way. Firstly Richler shows us in his novel how Duddy's character developed from a young age. The book starts out with Duddy as a fifteen year old attending high school. At the beginning of the book we find Duddy in a bitter conflict with a teacher at the school, Mr. MacPherson. As is seen in this dialogue: -"I know you're responsible for the drawing on the board and I think it cowardly of you not to have taken complete responsibility." said the teacher. -"I'm a coward. Who's afraid to strap who around here?" responded Duddy. We find that the young ...



Prejudice In The Color Purple
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... Color Purple, a woman by the name of Ceile was a victim of this horrible prejudice. She was and uneducated woman living in the rural American south. She had been raped by her father, deprived of her children she bore him and was forced into marriage with a brutal man whom she calls “ Mister.” Since her sister was taken from her, Celie's only true companion was God whom she turns inward and shares her grief with. The man Celie calls “Mister” gained a lot of power, strength, and almightiness by playing the part of husband to her. He was always in control of the situation and always had control over Celie. Finally, the consequence of the prejudice in this novel we ...



Lives Of Dystopia Can Be Changed
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... in prisons, yet they are almost completely free. Winston is living life on camera because of the telescreens that watch his every move, and Offred’s life is supervised by Aunts and guards regardless of the situation. She is taken to the bathroom, watched while she sleeps, and even though she is constantly being watched, her face cannot be seen. She wears white wings on her face so that no one can see her and the only way she can see out is by sneaking short peeks at the outside world. In both of these books, 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale, the main characters know that the controlled lifestyle that they are living is wrong. At the beginning, they think that this ...



The Children In "Sons And Lovers" By D. H. Lawerence And "What Maisie Knew" By Henry James
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... are different, Henry James and D. H. Lawrence characterize the children as being Impoverished. Henry James in his novel What Maisie Knew , portrays the main character, Maisie, as being impoverished emotionally. The emotional poverty that Maisie experiences in her life exist because of her parents extremely vicious hatred for each other. They use Maisie as a “vessel for bitterness” (13). To Beale and Ida, Maisie was just a tool that they used to hurt the other person. Eventually, Maisie figured out that they were using her to be the bearer of brutily hateful messages. Consequently, she learned not to deliver such messages. This made her parents ...



Macbeth Theme-one Thing Leads
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... The three weird sisters introduced two prophecies to Macbeth. The first prophecy is "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor. (Act 1, Scene 3)." The second prophecy is "All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter! (Act 1, Scene 3)" The prophecies of the three witches spark up a flare in Macbeth's mind. After the first of the two prophecies came true, he was faced with the decision to assassin King Duncan or to sit down calmly and do nothing about it. Macbeth's final decision was to kill the king and thus fulfilling the second prophecy of the three weird sisters. Macbeth's decision of treason is the consequential beginning of the chain of events. ...



The Hanging Of Billy Budd
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... of this, he wondered what the best choice was: save Billy, or hang him. The decision to hang Billy was, in retrospect, the right one. If Captain Vere chose not to hang Billy, no one would have learned from his/her mistakes-including Billy himself. Lack of punishment can lead to severe problems; today, for example, the actions of Bill Clinton are comprable to what might have happened if Billy would not have been hanged. This is because society tends to follow the examples others set for them. Because Billy was so well liked by everyone, Captain Vere was in a very difficult situation. It was very unlike Billy to ever do something so rash; he brought out the be ...



Of Mice And Men
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... adds to his feeling of uselessness. Because he thinks that he is old he puts himself in a state of mind that handicaps him more than his missing hand ever will. He looks down on himself as an old worthless man that’s wasting away his last few years. Not only is it the way that others think of him but also the way he thinks of himself that forces him to find solitude. The most evident case of loneliness is Curley’s wife. No matter how hard she tried she couldn’t fit in. For example, when she tried numerous times to talk to George and Lenny she was either ignored or told to leave. Because of her reputation for being a flirt none of the farmhands wanted to talk to her ...




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