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Robert Gray
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... Coast Town, Gray details the experiences of a hitchhiker travelling around the coast. As Gray is an imagist, the poem brings to life the travels of this hitchhiker, who by describing the area gives personal views on the changes seen. Though the important part comes from this, that when travelling in an area that is not known, people become more perceptive. Although the hitchhiker is a native of the area, the issue of change is raised as he himself, does not know the town any more, after the change. Gray uses the travels of this person, who has no identity except for that of a hitchhiker, to show how some people travel. Though in North Coast Town, the travel is ...



Characters From Shakesperes Tw
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... death with extravagant gestures. Instead, her grief is quiet, deep, sincere - and tinged with hope that Sebastian may still be alive. Furthermore, finding herself in a difficult, perhaps compromising position in a strange country, she spends little time bemoaning the harshness of her fate, but immediately sets to work with characteristic practical energy to figure out a way to improve her situation. When she enters Orsino's service, her talent, wit, and good looks quickly captivate him, just as, soon after, when she's sent to "woo" Olivia, these qualities also entrance the Countess. Indeed, in almost every scene in which she appears - whether she's jesting with ...



Hamlet
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... however, at the start of the play. In the first act, appears to be very straightforward in his actions and inner state. When questioned by Gertrude about his melancholy appearance, says, "Seems, madam? Nay it is. I know not 'seems.' (1.2.76). This is to say "I am what I appear to be." Later In Act I, makes a clear statement about his state when he commits himself to revenge. In this statement the play makes an easy to follow shift. This shift consists of giving up the role of a student and mourning son. says, "I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy comma ...



Soldiers Home
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... "a conflicted mother-son relationship"(29). Krebs' small-town mother cannot comprehend her son's struggles and sufferings caused by the war. She devotes herself to her religion and never questions her own values; she manipulates her son. She is one of the Hemingway "bitch mothers" who also appear in "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife"and "Now I Lay Me." Her sermons to her son lack any power to heal his spiritual wounds. She has determined that Krebs should live in God's "Kingdom," find a job, and get married like a normal local boy . Although Hemingway locates the story in Oklahoma and excludes it from the Nick Adams group, the husband and wife relationship obs ...



Metamorphosis 3
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... in his bed into a gigantic insect,” reveals the primary and most basic metamorphosis of this piece of literature. Kafka attempts to show the reader Samsa’s discontentment with what his feels is the lack of control in his life by spontaneous transformation of a human being into an insect. Humans are at the top of the food chain in the world, and thus are in complete control. In contrast, insects have almost no control over their own destiny because they are small, unintelligent creatures that can be squashed between a human’s thumb and forefinger or destroyed under the sole of a stepping shoe. The first instance of lack of control over his ...



Macbeth: Independence And Fail
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... side. The three together are very strong, but to stand they all must be united. The longer a marriage is held the longer the bottom stretches, and the more dependent each person becomes on the other. If one side tries to stand on its own then the second will fall on the first as it tries to stand. This metaphor also excellently exemplifies the catastrophe that occurs in Macbeth as both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth try to separate. Macbeth is a eighteenth century play written by William Shakespeare. Using these two metaphors, the breakdown in the relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth and between the king and the thanes and how they perfectly parallel each other ...



Boll's "The Laugher"
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... signifys that he is not a person that would bring his job home. For instance, if a doctor had to work on a cadaver, he wouldn't bring home the cadaver and work on it, he would leave it at the hospital, as is in the laughers situation. Finally, he only likes to lzugh on the job, but otherwise he doesn't have the deire to laugh in other ways. The laugher's married life is not like any others. Boll writes " During the first years of our married liek my wife would often say too me " Do Laugh !"" This quote show that his wife never heard his real life. She had always heard his " fake " laugh. She is telling him to laugh on purpose. She is encouraging him to ...



Arsenic And Old Lace
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... give you the chance to work with a German accent and such. Dr. Einstein just seemed to be a very unique character to try and portray. 8. Mortimer: He didn't even have the sense enough to be scared - to be on guard. For instance, ther muderer invites him to sit down. Einstein: You mean "Won't you sit down"? Mortimer: Believe it or not, that was in there too. Einstein: And What did he do? Mortimer: He sat down! Mind you - this fellow is supposed to be bright. There he is - all ready to be trussed up. And what do they use to tie him with? Einstein: What? Mortimer: The curtain cord (Jonathan cuts the curtain cord) 9. I think the most challenging part of produ ...



Its Simply Red Herring
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... scam, really, that society foists upon itself by insisting that college is the prerequisite for most of the elite jobs in economy, when in no very substantial way does it prepare people for those jobs. Bird makes no pretense at objectivity, and argues that we should not attend college for the sake of an elite job. Bird offers the reason of going to college could land a satisfying career through attaining a degree. Odds are this is not a good idea. According to Bird, Liberal-Arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job. Bird states that colleges fail to warn students that high paying jobs are hard to come by, ...



Little Women
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... As they grow and mature, they learn many hard lessons about life. For instance, there was the time when Amy, the youngest, suffered her first punishment in school. She carries that anger, humility, and embarrassment with her for the rest of her life. There were also more serious lessons to be learned, like when one of the sisters, Beth, dies. By the end of the book, they really have turned from little women into real women. Jo was the second oldest of the four sisters. Her birth name was Josephine, but she always thought that it sounded too feminine, so she shortened it to Jo. Clearly, Jo was one of the main characters of the story because ...




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