... care. Antigone is driven to bury her brother and she wants her sister’s help. “Ismene, I am going to bury him. Will you come?”(pg.750 line 30). Ismene is too afraid of Creon to help Antigone. Antigone is determined to bury her brother at any cost, and unlike her sister, she is not afraid of Creon. “Creon is not strong enough to stand in my way,”(pg.750 line 35). Not even the threat of death is enough to make Antigone afraid of Creon. At this point in the book she is stubborn and self-righteous. Antigone then goes out at night and buries Polyneices. That makes Creon very mad, so he unburies Poylneices and posts guard around t ...

... Unfortunately this bond was broken with the advent of slavery. Slavery ultimately destroyed this institution. Families were sold off like pieces of furniture at an auction. Their histories together were forgotten. Family heritages were lost. Bonds between mothers and daughters could not be formed. In Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved, Morrison exhibits a pattern of perceived abandonment, betrayal and recovery through the mother daughter relationships between Sethe and her mother, Ma’am, and Sethe and her daughter, Beloved. The mother-daughter relationship between Sethe and her mother starts the cycle of perceived abandonment, betrayal and recovery inhe ...

... for what a review of this book should be. It is, in a sense, a blending of elements that make the book what it is. Both atmosphere and characters are filled with a mystery that keeps the reader drawn to the book much as some are addicted to viewing day time soap operas. One of the main elements of the story that is mentioned in the review is cruelty. Cruelty has helped form some of the characters to be what they are. When a young Heathcliff is brought into the Earnshaw family, he is instantly disliked by Hindley Earnshaw. Hindley hates Heathcliff for intruding onto his family. He loses his fathers love and sets out to destroy Heathcliff. Within Cat ...

... it is this particular summer when Doug starts out as a boy and by the end he has become more educated about life and learns to handle many difficult situations well. How many 12 year olds can cope with death of important people at that time of their lives? Douglas is forced to deal with it quite a few times. One day Doug meets an old man named Colonel Freeleigh. The Colonel is 100 years of age. The Colonel is a very old man who is quite sick and lonely. The Colonel is at the point in his life where he needs a nurse to take care of him. The Colonel is overjoyed to receive company. The Colonel regales Doug and two of his friends with stories of when he w ...

... daily before me. Instead of brooding and trying foolishly to pray, I could run and toam, mingle with the boys and girls, feel at home with people, share a little of life in common with others, satisfy my hunger to be and live.” Wright fills the chapter with a calm and mesmorizing tone; like that of a preecher drawing his audience into a hymm. Omisdt violence, under anger and fear, Wright converses with the reader as though he were a youth leader telling a story to a group of boyscouts outside by a campfire. His spellbounding words chant the reader into his world and produce a map through which the reader follows his life in the shadows of ...

... This gets Macbeth thinking about what they mean. At the start of the play the audience hail Macbeth as a hero but as he begins to think about murdering the king the audience feel he isn't so heroic after all, and they begin to dislike him. We learn from Lady Macbeth, the person who knows him best that he is too nice to be able to kill anyone especially the present king: "is too full o' th' milk of human kindness, "says Lady Macbeth. She then devises a plan to kill Duncan while he is staying with them. Duncan has arrived and is having dinner. Macbeth leaves and decides not to murder Duncan. Lady Macbeth accuses him of being less than a man for not killing ...

... ,excessive talkativeness, distractedness, and sometimes grandiosity. During manic periods a person becomes "high" extremely active , excessively talkative, and easily distracted. During these periods the affected person's self esteem is also often greatly inflated. These people often become aggressive and hostile to others as their self confidence becomes more and more inflated and exaggerated .In extreme cases (like Hamlet's) the manic person may become consistently wild or violent until he or she reaches the point of exhaustion. Manic depressives often function on little or no sleep during their episodes .(A.L.Smith &Weisman,1992) At the opening of the play Ha ...

... jobs of life. They are under our control and are here solely for our use. However, the machines that are created in Blade Runner are, as Tyrell says, ‘more human than human.’ They have almost all of the characteristics of humans. They have feelings and emotions, intelligence and understanding, and desire for the same things that humankind does. The film, however, starts out with a disassociation between replicants and humans. The opening text states that the replicants are not being ‘executed’ but ‘retired.’ It uses such language as ‘mutiny’ which in and of itself brings images of traitors and rebels. The word brings ...

... by being captured by savage Indians. While being held captive he was presumed dead his wife Hester had a child by another man out of wedlock. By the end of the book we see that Chillingworth's sins are far greater than either Hester's or Author's. This is first evident in the fact that he married Hester knowing she would never love him and yet he made her marry him anyway. He admits this while talking to her in the jail cell. "Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay." His second sin is allowing himself to become obsessed with vengeance against Dimmesdale]. "But ...

... police system. After living in this ghetto for a while, the Germans forced them to relocate into a new ghetto some miles down the road. This new ghetto did not last very long and the Jews were forced to move again. The Germans forced the Jews to board a train and travel to a concentration camp. Elie, Elie’s mom, father, and sister all boarded a train heading for the concentration camp called Auschwitz. When they arrived, the SS separated the men from women. This was the last time Elie saw his mother and sister ever again. From this time on, Elie only had his father to protect him. The person in charge of their barrack was fairly nice because he treated the ...