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Hero Of Animal Farm
... however could not do some of the hard and large tasks, so Boxer took it upon himself to do it. Boxer was described as to have the strength of two ordinary horses. He had a white stripe down his nose that had given him a very stupid look. That look that he had was also true; Boxer wasn’t the smartest animal on the farm. His lack of intelligence however was all covered up by his brute strength. It was said that after the rebellion he had the great strength not only two, but now three horses. Since he had this kind of strength, many hard and difficult tasks that required a large amount of strength were usually completed. This is the reason why Boxer held a ...
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The Death Penalty Just Or Inju
... have the right to kill those who have killed. Today, there is a big controversy over capital punishment whether or not it works, or if it is morally right. We have a certain privilege on our own lives, but do the lives of others belong to us as well? Do we have the right to decide the kind of lives others can or cannot live? We find someone guilty of murder and sentence him to death, does that not make murderers out of ourselves? Can justice justify our acts? Those who assist in the death penalty are they not partners in crime? Is the death penalty a "Cruel and Unusual" punishment or is it now a necessary tool in the war on crime? With the increase in crime and ...
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Heart Of Darkness
... the importance of a name and therefore deserve to have one attached to them, as they are really the only people of actual importance and meaning. As soon as Marlow reaches the coast of Africa, he realizes a difference in the perception of certain events by him and his comrades on the boat. As Marlow’s boat pulls up to the Outer Station, he sees a man-of-war shelling the continent, which is quickly clarified, by a pilgrim, to be a front against "a camp of natives - he called them enemies! - hidden out of sight somewhere" (Conrad 78) Marlow felt a "touch of insanity" in the whole concept of shelling the natives, who had done nothing to be consi ...
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King Lear - Blindness
... cannot see into other people's characters, he can never identify them for who they truly are. When Lear is
angered by Cordelia, Kent tries to reason with Lear, who is too stubborn to remain open-minded. Lear responds to Kent's opposition with, "Out of my sight!" to which Kent responds:
"See better, Lear,
and let me still remain"
(Act I, sc I, l. 160).
Kent, once banished, creates a disguise for himself and is eventually hired by Lear as a servant. The king's vision is so superficial that he is easily deceived by Kent's changed appearance. He can never see his trusted servant for whom he really is. He only learns of Kent's noble and honest character just prior to ...
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Robinson Crusoe
... man. With the voyages to the new colonies, many lower and middle class men prove able to create their own fortunes overnight. The concept of the Great Chain of Being becomes lost when members of the lower classes become wealthier than many of the upper class aristocrats. Now many men from the lower classes buy land and/or titles. When lower class members become landowners, the idea of Divine Right to rule over the land no longer proves valid. Defoe illustrates society’s changes through Crusoe, who battles with the notion of God’s Providence. At certain moments he thanks God for His Providence, but then later conceives that actually God did not cause the miracl ...
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A Rose For Emily
... and well. Emily kept this up for three days and finally gave in just as the townspeople were going to forcibly take the body from her.
All of her life up until his death Emily’s father controlled her and made all of her decisions for her. When he died Emily was left alone finally able live her own life, but since her father had been controlling her for so long she wasn’t able to function without him. Since she wasn’t able to function without his presence Emily chose to live her life as if her father was still with her. She spent the majority of her time inside of her house because that was where she could best feel her father’s comforting dominance.
Emily was ...
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Their Eyes Were Wathiching God
... of her independence and identity when she left her first
husband, and lived alone for months after her second died. Throughout her life
Janie demonstrated a courageous personality as she traveled from marriage to
marriage without thinking twice.
Tea Cake Woods, Janie’s third husband, was a younger man in his
thirties. He was a free-spirited, nomadic person, who’s main source of income
was derived from gambling. Tea Cake met his death when in a rabid rage, he
was shot in self-defense by Janie.
Janie’s first marriage came unexpectedly, she was sixteen years old and
forced by her grandmother to “grow up”. She married L ...
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Greek Tragedies
... mischievous or sinister. In "Henry IV Part I", the king relates a folk legend that "some night-tripping fairy" might steal babies and leave a fairy child or someone else's child. People may have believed, or half-believed, in the fairies. They might also have been imaginary figures of fun that personify nature.
Another kind of medieval play in contrast with Midsummer is Everyman it refers with death directly along with the metaphor "life is a precious possession." If you have many rituals, you must "invest" them wisely and use them as you should use material goods, in a charitable way. In the late 15th century English morality play, Everyman, is summoned by Death, ...
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Ideals Satirized In Candide
... is that Candide can not trace his lineage. For some reason this was important to the nobility of the time so they could in effect "stay in the family" and keep there line pure. Unfortunatly that inbreeding resulted in birth defects and sickness later in life. I guess the moral is not to date your friends sister.
After arriving in Venice, Martin and Candide are eating supper in their hotel with six men who claim to be ex-kings. Each of the kings have been dethroned by war, family or chance, and some have been in prison. Its ironic that all these men are sitting, having dinner together, it shows that even the kings of the world are human and can be hit by ...
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Emma
... married earlier. When his previous wife died, he sent their one child (Frank Churchill) to be raised by her brother and his wife, for the now-wealthy Mr. Weston could not at that time provide for the boy. Without Miss Taylor as a companion, adopts the orphan Harriet Smith as a protégé. Harriet lives at a nearby boarding school where she was raised, and knows nothing of her parents. advises the innocent Harriet in virtually all things, including the people with whom she should interact. She suggests that Harriet not spend time with the Martins, a local family of farmers whose son, Robert, is interested in Harriet. Instead, plans to play matchmaker f ...
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