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Skunk Hour
... becomes obvious. Utilizing such an isolated animal to parallel the thoughts of the speaker, Lowell considerably strengthens the distance between the speaker of the poem and the "love-cars" (Lowell 11) being watched. Even if the occupants of those cars knew they were being observed, chances are they would not associate themselves with the speaker.
In addition, Robert Lowell portrays his character as something akin to a stalker, illustrated in the following excerpt.
One dark night,
my Tudor Ford climbed the hill’s skull;
I watched for love-cars.
(Lowell 25-27)
Why would anyone be out ...
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King Lear And The Fatal Flaw
... third, but the youngest, Cordelia, is stopped by her honesty. Cordelia does love her father dearly, and knows why her sisters spoke as they did, but is not prepared to take advantage of her ignorant father’s pride simply to bring her land and power. Lear’s reaction to this can be likened to that of a spoiled child and in his fury, divides the rest of his Kingdom between Goneril and Regan, and casts Cordelia away from him. ‘Hence, and avoid my sight!’ A fundamental part of Lear’s mistake is what he expects to hear from his daughters, especially his favorite, Cordelia.
With Cordelia cast away, he sets about trying to enjoy his old age, but we discover that his two e ...
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Poe's Man In The Crowd: Types Of People Based On Appearance
... the men and women are set up in hold strong
emotional implications about their feelings towards one another and the emotions
involved in the social setting.
The opening of “The Man of the Crowd,” describes the emotions involved
in untold secrets and the deepest of crimes; there are internal conflicts,
struggles, anxieties, and agonous results due to the horror of the unsolvable
crimes. The possibility of these crimes is introduced through the man of the
crowd through his unseemingly unidentifiable expression The narrator describes
his thoughts of this man as:
There arose confusedly and paradoxically within my mind, the ideas of vast
mental power, of caut ...
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Star Wars
... which once belonged to his father. When Luke receives this and learns of his Jedi potential he desires to leave and learn to be a Jedi. This is not unlike Nick Solchuk who also wants to leave his small town of Three Bear Hills, Alberta. He is raised by his father in an old fashion way, much like Luke. Nicks desire to leave is first aroused by a teacher, Joan McKenzie. She taught him of how the earth is round not flat like his father believes. This starts the conflict between father and son.
I believe another thing that both stories have in common is Luke’s Uncle and Mr. Solchuk’s beliefs that they should stay at their homes and live simple live ...
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John Steinbeck The Pearl
... Once he finds the pearl, his dreams for his son become a real possibility. His wife Jauna is quiet, respectful and cheerful. Jauna believes that the doctor in town can save her son from a scorpion bite. The doctor only is interested in the money he will be paid and tricks them into believing he has cured the baby.
Not very long after leaving the village for the capital the family is tracked by three men with guns. They run up a mountain and hide in a cave. The people following them camp right below the cave that Kino and his family are hiding in. Kino decides that the only way to survive is to kill the person on guard, take his gun, and kill the other two ...
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Taming Of The Shrew
... by the fact that a man wants to marry his eldest daughter that he doesn’t really make sure Petruchio is wealthy as he does for Lucentio (who is really Tranio in disguise). Kate is angry at first because she has to wed Petruchio, a rude, overbearing man that will do anything to make her wrong. Eventually she realizes he is playing a mind game with her. If she does what he says and agrees with him, even if she knows he’s wrong, she will get what she wants, a loving husband, a nice home, nice clothes, food and a warm bed to sleep in. In a way she manipulates him into thinking he has won when really they are both equal.
Kate’s independence is overwhelming for the s ...
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Pride And Prejudice
... and they in fact take great pride in this practice. Women had few rights and advantages. If their fathers died, his inheritance would go to the next surviving male relative, this is a prime example of prejudice. The daughters had no chance of supporting themselves unless the married well and were ultimately dependent on their husbands. Unmarried women would become governesses and live as dependents of their family, other relatives, or their employers. The governess position gave them little social status, which opened them up to much prejudice. The scene towards the beginning of the book when Mr. Darcy insults Elizabeth at the ball, is another example of , in ...
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Active Intellect In Aristotle,
... sense experienceand it is from sense experience that all knowledge is therefore generated. Knowledge for Aristotle is a knowledge of universals, that is, a knowledge of Essences. Thought is thus the faculty by
which we come to comprehend universals. And since material objects are a composite unity of essence and existence, it naturally follows that we grasp the universal through our encounter with the particular. What follows is a series of events which leads to knowledge.
The passive intellect receives the image from the sense data and it is stamped upon the passive intellect from the material impression. From this stamp the active intellect is to draw out of i ...
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Short Stor
... into an accident "There was a secret panel in this house, she said craftily, not telling the truth but wishing she were", by saying these words to her family she leads them into the car accident that eventually leads to the death of her and the ones she loves. By being the person the story is about, the grandmother gets described fully, and is therefore not only a dynamic character but also a round character. Her emotions are seen in many situations in the story by things she says, and her thoughts brought to the reader in detail. This type of character is one of the most important members of the cast in most all stories. It is this person that most ...
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Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold
... .For others it may provoke a thought or memory of the past . Perhaps on childhood holidays with your parents. The could be provoking these thoughts so that you can empathise later to what he is experiencing in the poem . This setting for many , will of course bring the Channel to mind , a gigantic image , provoking again thoughts, this time of France. The title itself however does not give you any emotional insight into the poem . I feel the poet did this as to not alert the reader to what is going to transcend upon them further in the poem.
The poems opening stanza is to begin with very soft and tranquil , 'The sea is calm tonight'. Th ...
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