In 1984, what is the significance of the junk shop, thought police, vaporizing, junior anti-sex league, and Chestnut Tree Cafe?

The junk
shop, the thought police, and vaporizing people are all ways of enforcing orthodoxy and weeding
out undesirables.

The junk shop is the trickiest, as it operates on
deception. Just as flies are attracted to and then trapped by honeypots, so too are people with
the wrong kind of thought patterns attracted to Mr. Charrington's junk shop. Mr. Charrington
poses as an elderly prole interested in historic artifacts, but he is actually a member of the
Thought Police, out to entrap the unwary. One of his victims is , who buys into the deception
hook, line, and sinker.

The Thought Police arrest people whose behavior or
thoughts are in any way perceived to deviate from the norm. Even talking aloud in one's sleep
can attract the Thought Police. Vaporizing is when people not only disappear but have their
existence erased. Both the Thought Police and vaporizing are forms of terror.

The junior anti-sex league is part of the Party's long-term plan to eradicate all joy
from people's lives except the joy of triumph. The Chestnut Street Cafe is where people who have
been arrested and released congregateit is a place many people avoid for that
reason.

What is the summary of Chapter 1 in Lyddie?

Chapter 1 of this great novel starts with a very intense sequence. We are introduced
tostirring a pot of oatmeal over the fire, and we are also told that Charlie left the door to
their house open. This allowed a bear to enter the cabin. Lyddie quickly takes charge of the
situation and gets everybody present into the loft in order to seek some protection against the
hungry bear. The bear rummages around the room and eventually gets burned by the boiling
oatmeal. The bear makes its way out of the house, and the children are so relieved that they
begin laughing. Unfortunately, Lyddie's mother doesn't think it is any laughing matter. Lyddie's
mother is convinced that the bear is a sign of the end times. She tells the family that they are
going to leave the next day "to be with the faithful when the end comes."

Lyddie and Charlie refuse to leave with their mother and the rest of the kids. They
decide to stay and tend to the house and surrounding land through the winter. Part
of...

How can we compare the moral and ethical issues in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go with our current society?

This
question is a broad one, so I will address one specific moral and ethical issue in detail. By
writing , Ishiguro insists that the reader confront the tension that exists
around the normalization of artificiality in today's society. This is a moral and ethical issue
for many people, as things that are artificial are being mistaken for real, which causes
problems of trust and reliability.

Artificial is a synonym for fake,
or...

Anticolonialism has often been regarded as a constitutive feature of postcolonial literature. Do you agree?

The rejection of
colonialism and its exploitation of the subjects of the Empire is certainly a feature of
postcolonial. However, critics from a New Historicist perspective often argue that rejection and
rebellion often hide a complicit attitude. Thus, some texts produced by Europeans but that could
be considered postcolonial because they were influenced by imperialist...

What are some quotes from Matt de la Penas Mexican WhiteBoy that reveal major character traits?

Danny, the
main character in , is the offspring
of a white mother and a Mexican father. Danny attends a
private school near
San Diego anddue to his slightly darker skin colordoes not feel like he fits

in with any of the students there. Danny's father is not in his life, and Danny is
haunted by
his absence.

One summer, Danny spends some time
with his father's family in
National City. He hopes to form some sort of
connection with them, but because he cannot speak
Spanish, he feels he does
not fit in there either. Danny loves baseball and is an
extraordinarily
talented baseball pitcher, but whenever he has to pitch in front of others,
he
is terror-stricken and the pitches go haywire:

Nothing
hypes him up more than when people are
watching him. Especially white people.

One of the central themes of the book is Danny's inability to feel

at home in the world, especially when he's attending his private school near
San
Diego:

Nobody paid him any
attention anyway because he
was...

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What is the role of old lady in the play A Streetcar Named Desire? She is dressed in black that Blanche hallucinates, selling flowers for funerals,...

The old
woman in "" is walking around selling flowers to mourn the dead. She is a seemingly
minor character of little importance, but her presence here is figurative and mirrors the events
of the story.

Blanche is struggling to come to grips with her past life,
trying to reconcile with herself the prostitution she undertook to make ends meet. However, she
says she can no longer live with itessentially, she is killing her former self. The woman on the
street is echoing this sentiment, offering up a chance to "mourn the dead", which is
Blanche, figuratively.

As she deteriorates in the moment, she becomes more
fragile and less cohesive, echoing the woman speaking in Spanish that is not understood by the
people around themBlanche is no longer coherent and is having a difficult time understanding
herself and her life.

Where is there foreshadowing in the short story "Desiree's Baby"?

We learn early on that
Desiree was a foundling, first spotted by Monsieur Valmonde "lying asleep in the shadow of
the big stone pillar" before the entrance to their home. It is some eighteen years later
when Armand Aubigny rides by and sees her there, leaning against that same "stone pillar in
whose shadow she had lain asleep." The fact that Desiree is found and is, later, fallen in
love with in that same shadowed spot seems to foreshadow the darkness and sadness that will
attend her in her married life. In fact, a shadow would have caused her skin to look darker than
it really wasthus Armand's suspicions of her being of mixed race. However, just as the shadow
would have created that illusion of dark skin when it did not really exist, Armand will later
accuse Desiree of possessing a racially mixed ancestry when it does not exist; it is his own
ancestry which includes people of color.

What have we learned from Lyddie in the book?

More
than anything else, we learn thatis very much an individualist. This places her in a
long-standing American tradition of rugged self-reliance. Growing up in the wilderness, Lyddie
is forced to stand on her own two feet quite early on in life. With her father gone and her
mother experiencing severe mental health issues, she's thrust into the role of breadwinner for
her family. And it's fair to say that she acquits herself admirably, not just defending her
siblings from an inquisitive, hungry bear, but traveling far and wide to find work that will
enable her to support her family.

But as this episode illustrates, Lyddie
isn't simply looking out for herself; she understands the obligation she has to others. We see
this demonstrated by the way she looks out for other girls at the factory. The most obvious
example is when Lyddie attacks Marsden the supervisor after he tries his luck with Brigid.
Lyddie has a fundamental sense...

When Lyddie's mother decides to go to her sister's farm, what do Lyddie and Charlie do? What does this show about Lyddie's relationship with her...

The
answer to this question can be found in Chapter 1. Early in the chapter, a bear enters the house
thatand her family lives in. Lyddie bravely fends off the bear to keep her family safe; however,
Lyddie's mother takes the event with the bear as a bad sign. She no longer feels safe in the
house, and she wants her entire family to go to her sister's place. Lyddie is not on board with
that idea because she and Charles are worried that their father will come home to find his
family gone. 

"But how will Papa find us if we've
left home?" Charles asked. 

Lyddie tells her mother
that she is unwilling to go to the other farm. She and Charlie agree to stay behind, take care
of the farm, and wait for the possible return of their father. 

"I can't stop you to go," Lyddie said, "but I can't go with you.  I
can't leave the farm." 

Charlie leaves with the
family for two weeks to make sure that they make it safely to Uncle Judah's farm, and then he
returns. Lyddie and Charlie successfully take care of the farm, feed themselves, and birth a
calf.  All of this shows that Lyddie and her brother are close with each other. They get along
with each other, and they are capable of working together as a team. It also shows that they
have a similar work ethic and emotional attachment to their home. Finally, it shows that Charlie
and Lyddie have a lot of trust in each other. They are each essentially placing their welfare,
health, and safety in the hands of the other sibling.  

What were the causes of the American Civil War?

One of the
major causes of the civil war had to do with the expansion of the United States and the conflict
over whether new states would be admitted to the Union as slave states or free states. Though
the Missouri Compromise was considered to be a partial solution, many people felt that it set in
motion an unstoppable slide towards the war.

Nat Turner's slave rebellion in
1831 also caused Virginian lawmakers to remove some basic civil rights that had been accorded to
slaves contributing to further unrest.

The Compromise of 1850, intended as a
further band-aid to problems inherent in the westward expansion of the United States also pushed
the country closer to open conflict.

John Brown's raid in 1859 coupled with
the election of Abraham Lincoln and his Republican Party's anti-slavery position led to the
secession of South Carolina which was then followed by other southern states in 1860.

An attempt to re-supply Fort Sumter triggered a Southern response, the first open
battle of the Civil War that would lead to the surrender of Fort Sumter and the onset of the
Civil War.

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What is the significance of this quote from "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe? "There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a...

This
statement made by the narrator in at the beginning of the story is important because it
foreshadows events that later happen in the story. Pluto, the black cat, loves the narrator and
follows him everywhere he goes. Before the change in his temperance, the narrator alone fed the
cat. Later on, after a change in behavior which he claims was brought on by his overindulgence
in alcohol, the narrator develops a great dislike for the black cat, a dislike that pushes him
to cut out its eye and finally hang it on a tree.

The narrators actions
totally contradict those of a loving, docile and tender of heart pet owner. In fact, instead
of being touched by the cats unselfish and self-sacrificing love, the narrator loathes the
animal even more. The narrator is full of contradictions. He says that he is not mad, yet
displays insanity through his perverse actions. He says that nothing equals the unselfish love
of a pet, yet loathes his pets for loving him....

What are the drivers of globalization?

Globalization can be defined as the free movement of goods, people, information, and
technologies across national borders in an unimpeded manner. The phenomenon not only has
economic consequences, but it also has social, cultural, political, and legal
ramifications.

It would be a mistake to think that
globalization is purely a modern phenomenon. In fact, historical precedent is one of the drivers
of globalization. For millennia humankind has attempted to integrate commercially, socially, and
culturally to mutual advantage. For instance, as far back as the 1st century, China exchanged
luxury goods such as silk and spices with Europe via the Silk Road. Although the Silk Road,
after centuries of commercial and informational exchange, eventually closed, during the spread
of Islam between the 7th and 15th centuries new international trade routes opened up. Europeans
circumnavigating the globe between the 15th and 18th centuries radically furthered international
links through trade and...

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What are the similarities and differences between a state government and a regime?

The Oxford
English Dictionary defines a regime as "a government, especially an authoritarian
one." It defines a state government as follows:

The
government of a nation or state; now specifically (also with capital initial(s)) the government
of one of the states of the United States of America, the Commonwealth of Australia, etc.
(sometimes as distinct from the federal or national government).

The two terms do not align perfectly, so we need to look at what each one connotes or
implies. The terms are alike in referring to the governance of a country or territory.

A regime, however, implies a country ruled by a top-down, tightly controlled central
government. An authoritarian government is not usually democratic: it does not reflect the will
of the governed but instead imposes its will on them, whether they like it or not.

In contrast, the existence of state governments implies a dispersal of power away from
central authority and into local hands. The definition's examples of state governments in
democratic nations, such as the US and Australia, suggest that state governance is a bottom-up,
democratic affair in which the sources of power are local and closer to the people being ruled.
While state governments certainly have the potential to be authoritarian, they nevertheless
represent a dispersal of power that works against centralized authority. 

 

 

Consider Harrison Bergeron in terms of both his physical qualities and personality traits.

In
Vonnegut's future American society,
extremely talented individuals are forced to wear cumbersome
handicaps, ugly
masks, and tremendous earphones due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments
to
the Constitution, which ensure that every citizen must be completely equal
in every facet. The
fourteen-year-oldis an anomaly and represents the most
talented individuals in society. Harrison
stands seven feet tall and is
forced to wear extremely cumbersome handicap weights, which are
described as
being a combination of "Halloween and hardware." In addition to the
massive
weights on his body, Harrison is also forced to wear a huge pair of earphones,
massive
spectacles that impair his vision, and a red rubber ball for a nose.
Harrison's metal handicaps
weigh three hundred pounds and he is described as
looking like a "walking junkyard."
Despite his handicaps, Harrison is able to
escape from prison, take over a television station,
rid himself of his
handicaps, and declare that he is Emperor. Harrison's actions suggest that he

is not only rebellious and determined, but also naturally inclined to be in a position
of power
and rise to the top of society. Unfortunately, Harrison is killed by
Diana Moon Glampers, who
prevents him from usurping power and taking over the
nation.

Who is the actor for the human Enzo in the last scene?

The actor
who plays the human Enzo in is listed on IMDB as Parker. He has no other
films to his name so it's difficult to know whether that is his full legal name, his first name,
or even just a stage name.

In the last scene, Enzo's father takes him to meet
Dennywho is now a successful racing driverand tells Denny his son wants to be just like him.
Recovering from the shock that the boy has the same name as his beloved dog, Denny signs Enzo's
program and tells the father he will train the boy himself.

The film is
narrated by a dying dog called Enzo. He tells the story of his life from meeting his best friend
and owner Denny as a puppy to the deterioration of his health in later life. On the way, he has
observed his friend's wife's brain tumor and his friend's fight for custody of his child and
experienced firsthand the pain of getting hit by a car.

Based on a novel by ,
The Art of Racing is directed by Simon Curtis and stars Kevin Costner as
the voice of Enzo the Dog, Mino Ventimiglia as Denny, and Amana Seyfried as
Eve.

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What events influenced the way Annie Dillard wrote Pilgrim at Tinker Creek?

In
by , an unnamed narrator explores the area around Tinker Creek in the Blue
Ridge Mountains while offering observations about life, religion, solitude, and the natural
world. She divides the book into sections matching the seasons of the year. When
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek was published, it received great critical acclaim
and won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Several events influenced the way that
Dillard wrote the book.

First of all, Dillard wrote her
master's thesis on "Walden Pond and Thoreau." Critics have often compared
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek to Thoreau's masterpiece
Walden. Both have solitary narrators making observations on nature,
literature, and other subjects in natural settings. They are structured similarly. Dillard
greatly admired Thoreau's work, and considered Walden Pond a "perfect " and
"vehicle for thought."

Secondly, although
Dillard did not live in the wilderness as Thoreau had but rather in a normal suburban
neighborhood with her husband, she began to take long walks in the natural areas around her
home. As she strolled, she would constantly encounter fascinating natural phenomena such as
local animals. She also read widely during the same period. From her personal observations and
her readings, she wrote 20 volumes of journals from which she drew the material for
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. From her journals, she assembled 1,100 note cards
full of facts, quotes, anecdotes, and ideas. She would shuffle them around to try to come up
with the best order for the material.

Finally, Dillard
began writing the book for one or two hours a day from home, but as the ideas caught on and she
became immersed in it, she found that she needed a place where she could be completely cut off
from the commonplace. As she explains in her book , she rented a cubicle in
the library at a nearby college. Even the mundane view outside the window distracted her, so she
lowered the blinds to further isolate herself and wrote for 15 to 16 hours a day until she
finished the book.

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How did the factory fail to meet the needs of its workers in Lyddie?

The
factory, like most factories during the time that this story takes place, failed to meet the
physical and emotional needs of its workers.  

Let's start with physical
needs.  The factory is a dangerous place to be, and it is hard on the body.  For example, the
machines are so loud that deafness is actually a realistic possibility.  The factory did not
provide any kind of ear protection.  The air quality was atrocious too.  Girls in the mills
would frequently have lung problems.  Proper ventilation could have cut down on a lot of those
problems.  Additionally, the girls were generally worked for such long hours with few breaks
that they were operating on the borders of exhaustion.  People make dumb mistakes when they are
working tired.  That's what happened to many of the girls.  It even happened to , which is why
she eventually injured her hand.  

The very fact that so many girls were
willing to risk being blacklisted in order to get better working conditions means that the
factories were not meeting the emotional needs of their workers.  If the workers were happy with
their work or their pay, there wouldn't be a petition.  Happy workers don't petition for
changes. 

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the internet? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the internet?

The internet
is an incredibly efficient way to track down information, and it is only likely to become more
so as the years go by.  Practically all information will someday probably be digitized, and,
with any luck, much of it will be made freely accessible on the internet.

Why is it important for Mama to be the narrator in "Everyday Use"? .

In ","
it is important that Mama is the narrator:

Mrs. Johnson is
the narrator of this story, overseeing its events and interpreting, more through her actions
than her words, their significance. 

She knows both her
daughters very well. She loves both her daughters very well. She tells the truth. She doesn't
seem to favor one daughter more than the other, but she does give Maggie the quilts. Mama is
fair in this. She knows that Maggie will use the quilts and appreciate the reason the quilts
were made. As the title expresses, the quilts were made for everyday use. The quilts were not
made to become an attractive heirloom for Dee's walls. 

Mama wants the quilts
to be used. She knows Maggie has the best intentions for the quilts. Mama knows that Maggie has
fond memories of her Grandmother Dee who made the quilts:

Maggie is attached to the quilts because they make her think of Grandma Dee. Thus,
although the woman is dead, she represents the cherished family presence that lives on in
Maggie's and her mother's connection to the past.

Mama is
a fair narrator. She does not show favortism. She realizes that Dee does not appreciate the fact
that she has her grandmother Dee's namesake. Dee has changed her name. She is so consumed with
her African heritage until she has forgotten what her grandmother Dee represents.

Mama is a fair narrator. She just reports the facts. She realizes Dee is caught up in
some African heritage that is really so distant until it does not truly belong to Dee. She
allows Dee to have the butter churn top. She wants Dee to have something. 

Mama does seem to sympathize with Maggie as far as the quilts are concerned, but she
does this because Dee has already been given an education. Mama seems to question whether that
education has made Dee think she is superior to Maggie. As narrator, Mama would never allow Dee
to show herself more superior to Maggie. Dee received the education. Maggie deserves the
quilts. 

Explain the 5 principles of democracy.

Democracy is
government by the people (direct) or by their elected representatives (indirect). Ancient Greece
practiced the "direct" form while the US practices the "indirect"
form.

Democracy has been the cornerstone of American government from its
inception in the late eighteenth century. The Founding Fathers rejected monarchy and
aristocracy. Democracy is complex, and it is not possible to unequivocally list its five most
important tenets, but most modern democracies share certain key characteristics.

First, they have freedom of the press. Without free access to information, it is not
possible for the people or voters to carry out their responsibilities. Second, democracies
follow the rule of law. The Constitution is the ultimate set of laws in the United States. Most
other democracies also have a written constitution.

Finally, democracy is
based on ideas promulgated during the Enlightenment in Europe. John Locke, Montesquieu, and
other intellectuals laid the foundations for modern democracytheir eloquent concepts influenced
the Founding Fathers.

In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe what is the meaning of the allegory of the Tortoise and the Birds proverb to explain why he never stopped...

I think this question
actually refers to a number of different myths and legends that are mentioned to us in Chapter
Seven, which describes the way in whichis growing up and how he comes to spend more time withand
his father in 's hut, listening to tales of battle, rather than the myths and legends he used to
listen to in his mother's hut, even though he secretly still likes them. Notice how two separate
stories are refered to in the following quote:

...but somehow he still
preferred the storied that his mother used to tell, and which she no doubt still told to her
younger children--stories of the tortoise and his wily ways, and of the bird
eneke-nti-oba who challenged the whole world to a wrestling contest and was
finally thrown by the cat.

As you can see, parables relating to a tortoise
and a bird are remembered fondly by Nwoye, but they are also two separate parables rather than
onethat is told together. Like all of his mother's parables and stories, these seek to explain
the world and why it is the way that it is through these colourful
stories. 

Graphing an equation y = m(x) - b

When you are
graphing the equation y = mx + b
(or - b, it doesnt matter), you need to first find one of the
intercepts. It
is easiest to find the y intercept because the equation is set up to show it

clearly. To find the y intercept, you set x to 0, which will result in y = b. B is
always the y
intercept (if it is positive, it is above the x axis, if it is
negative, it is below it). You
may plot this point on the map by placing a
dot at the point b on the y axis.

From there, you must
find the slope, which is what m stands for. The slope is defined
as rise over
run, meaning the value of m is a fraction with the number of steps up on top
and
the number of steps to the right or left on the bottom. If the number is
a whole number, such as
3, the rise is that number and the run is 1. If the
value is negative, you travel to the left
instead of to the right for the
run. Graph the next point by counting up and over for the rise
and run from
the y intercept. Once you have two points plotted, you can draw a straight
line
through them and continuing to the edges of the
graph.

How did World War II affect China politically and socially?

The Second
Sino-Japanese War (1937€“1945) became part of(1939€“1945). China suffered huge human and
material losses during the war. The country was divided into three regions during most of the
struggle: a Nationalist-controlled area, a Communist-controlled area, and the regions under
Japanese occupation.

The Japanese defeated often stubborn Chinese resistance
during the early stages of the war (1937€“1938). The Nanjing Massacre of Chinese
civilians...

At what point in "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" did you first know that it included elements of fantasy? What is the effect of the second...

The title of
's "" immediately tells a reader that not all is as it might seem within this story;
certainly, human men do not have wings! This is quickly verified within the first paragraph of
the story, when Pelayo discovers the old man lying facedown in the mud, unable to pick himself
up because of the weight of these wings. M¡rquez is a well known magical realist writer whose
approach to literature is to drop elements of the extraordinary into otherwise realistic
worlds.

The second sentence is also highly characteristic of magical realist
writing, in that it imbues a non-human entity ("the world") with the personality
traits and emotions of a human ("was sad"). This is known as , and it is a common
approach within this genre, which frequently views objects and non-living entities as having
agency or "lives" of their own.

In a peaceful demonstration, are all members resposible for the few that are violent? In a peaceful demonstration, are all members resposible for the...

How can
anyone ever be responsible for anyone else? If I choose to go to a demonstration and protest,
that's fine.  If you go to a demonstration to protest, that's fine, too.  If you stand next to
me and decide to toss Molotovs around, how am I responsible for that?!? As others have posted, I
may not like nor condone it, but that's different than being responsible for the actions of the
person next to me.  Of course, the violent actions of a few will taint the peaceful assembly of
the many; that is the unfortunate risk you incur when protesting.

In "Blue's Ain't No Mockingbird," what does Granny tell Grandaddy to do?

In
"," Granny tells Granddaddy Cain to get the two camera-men out of her flower
bed.

Granddaddy Cain has just come back from hunting, and he has brought a
dead hawk home, which he proceeds to nail to the tool-shed door. Soon, a giant hawk swoops down
on everyone; according to Cathy, he's 'come to claim his mate.' The grieving hawk is enraged and
furious: it randomly unleashes its powerful claws on defenseless heads. Granddaddy Cain puts an
end to the whole mess when his perfect aim with his hammer brings down the hawk.

Facing the men, he wishes them good day and holds out his hand for the mens' camera.
Intimidated after witnessing Granddaddy's precise aim with the hammer, they sheepishly hand the
camera over. Meanwhile, Granddaddy bashes his hand over the camera and starts pulling off almost
half of the camera, parts and all. He tells them that they are standing on his wife's flower bed
and to remember that they are on private property. The men desperately beg for the camera back;
when they finally retrieve the mess of parts the camera has become, the men back off slowly and
proceed to leave the Cain property.

In Chapter 13 of The Scarlet Letter, why does Hester decide to reveal the secret of Roger Chillingworth's identity to Mr. Dimmesdale?

By , 's companionship of
Mr.has begun to take a serious toll on Dimmesdale. Whenspeaks with Dimmesdale, she is shocked by
his weakness, and she thinks that "his nerve seemed absolutely destroyed." Hester, by
expiating her own guilt over the past several years, has become stronger. Her years of
punishment and isolation have turned her away from passion to "marble coldness," and
instead of feeling, she is more comfortable now with thinking. Her many years of punishment have
given her time to reflect, and she wonders if she should have rescued Dimmesdale earlier from
the secret evil of Chillingworth. Now, seeing that Dimmesdale is on the brink of what she
regards as "lunacy," she asks herself if she might have stepped in earlier to spare
Dimmesdale. She feels that perhaps a lack of courage or loyalty on her part prevented her from
doing so. She now feels stronger, is able to help Dimmesdale, and wants to correct the error of
her past ways for not having helped Dimmesdale.

What is a good idea for a thesis on the following writing prompt? Examine the relationship of Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutio. What traits and...

In
Shakespeare's , ,andhave a close relationship, although they are very
different in personality and temperament. Romeo is a passionate lover and often acts
impetuously. He rarely takes time to reflect on his feelings. Rather, he indulges in what he
desires. Benvolio is level headed and a peacemaker. He usually gives good advice and is a loyal
friend. Mercutio is a cynic and a fighter. He is sometimes quick tempered and
belligerent.

Romeo is a lover who wears his heart on his sleeve. When he is
first introduced, he is moody and depressed about his unreciprocated love for Rosaline. He bears
his soul to Benvolio about his feelings in :

Griefs of
mine own lie heavy in my breast,
Which thou wilt propagate to have it
pressed
With more of thine. This love that thou hast shown
Doth add more grief
to too much of mine own.

Romeo's depression,
however, doesn't last long. When he first seeshe forgets all about Rosaline. His temperament
is...

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Nature In The Scarlet Letter

Playing a
critical role in , Nature acts in contrast to Puritan society, creating
symbols and , demonstrating Pathetic Fallacy, while also reflecting changes in .

• Contrast to Puritan Society

From the onset
of the narrative about , the contrast of the beauty of nature set against the harshness of
Puritanical law is apparent with the juxtaposition of the weatherbeaten prison door with the
rusted latch against the lovely wild rosebush that is held out as an invitation to "some
sweet moral blossom" for the ensuing tale.

After Hester is made to wear
the scarlet A upon her bosom, (Puritan law), her beauty seems to fade, and
inwhen Hester enters the forest with , the child remarks that the sunshine runs from her mother,
who is in the darkness of her sin, while the innocent child "catches" a stream of
light.

The great black forest--stern as it showed itself
to those who brought the guilt and troubles of the world into its bosom--became the...

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What are three examples of selfishness in "Animal Farm?"

As others
have mentioned, the pigs have more or less cornered the market on selfishnessbut not entirely.
Mollie shows her selfishness when she shirks her duty by getting up late and leaving work early.
She will only learn the letters of her name and no others. She hides lumps of sugar and ribbons
for herself. She finally goes back to pulling a cart for a human. Mollie is interested in her
own well-being more than helping others or working for a cause greater than her own
comfort.

The cat disappears when it is time for work and then shows up for
meals, also not pulling her weight.

But the pigs, by far, are the most
selfish creatures on . They care only about their own well-being and are willing to work the
other animals to the bone to live in comfort. Even early on, they take milk and a windfall of
apples for themselves, not sharing with the other animals. , of course, lies vigorously, denying
that the pigs are selfish:

You do not imagine, I hope,
that we pigs are doing...

Friday, June 5, 2009

Did Rappaccini love his daughter in the story "Rappaccini's Daughter"? What evidence from the story supports your position?

Rappaccini comes across as a cold, insensitive man. When Giovanni first sees him tending to his
flowers, he observes that the doctor avoids the actual touch of the flowers, or the direct
inhaling of their odors, almost like he is walking among malignant influences, such as savage
beasts, or deadly snakes, or evil spirits, instead of beautiful flowers. Thus, when Signor
Pietro Baglioni, a Professor of Medicine at the University of Padua, tells him that the doctor
Rappaccini cares more for science than mankind, and that he has little compassion for other
human beings, he is not completely surprised by this information. However, he points out to
Baglioni, that from his observations, Rappaccini appears to have great affection for his
daughter Beatrice. Baglioni says that it is said that Rappaccini has taught Beatrice all there
is to know of his science and that Beatrice is widely known for her beauty. What the two do not
know at this point is that Beatrice is as poisonous...

How would a feminist critic analyze "Young Goodman Brown"? How does Hawthorne portray Goody Cloyse and Faith in society?

In this short story,
women are portrayed as either innocent and femininea role embodied by Goodman Brown's wife,
Faithor as sinful witches (a role embodied by Goody Cloyse and her deception). Faith wears pink
ribbons, symbolic of her femininity and innocence, and Brown even thinks of her as "'a
blessed angel on earth.'" He plans to "'cling to her skirts and follow her to
Heaven'" after this one last night of sinfulness, as he thinks of her as quite pure and
even close to the level of divine.

Later, after his experiences in the
woodand learning that she is as sinful as he is (after all, they both go to
the witches' meeting)he can no longer love or trust her. Now that he believes she fails to be
innocent and pure, he wants little to do with her. Goody Cloyse also seemed good prior to
Brown's experiences in the woods, but...

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Who Are The Souls Tortured In This Canto

 was written by Italian
writerin 1320. It is divided into three parts, which are entitled Inferno,
Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Inferno
is the depiction of hell. Purgatorio is the depiction of what Catholics
believe is a state of "limbo," meaning the soul is not in heaven or hell.
Paradiso, or paradise,  is the depiction of heaven. 

There are different levels of torture in the inferno, depending on the sins committed.
In "limbo," people are not fit to enter heaven, but they aren't tortured either. They
live in perpetual sorrow. Among those in living in this level are philosophers, authors, and
children who have not been baptized. Notable people in this level are Caesar, Homer, Virgil,
Socrates, and Aristotle.

Level two is where the lustful are tormented. Souls
are tormented by winds of desire. Among those in this level are Cleopatra and Helen of
Troy. 

Gluttons are tortured in the third level. They live in mud amid the
eternal rain. They are tormented by Cerberus the three-headed dog.

Level four
is where the greedy dwell. They are those who hoarded wealth and lived greedily. Plutus, the
demon of wealth, lives here.

Level five is the river Styx. This is where the
vengeful, cruel, and hateful souls are tormented. 

Heretics are doomed to
level six. These are those who refused to believe in God and the afterlife. They are tormented
by the Furies.

Level seven is for the violent, assassins, war-mongers, and
tyrants. It's guarded by the minotaur. In this level, people who commit suicide are found.
Blasphemers and sodomites also dwell in this level. 

Level eight is for
sorcerers, fortune-tellers, magicians, diviners, pimps, and hypocrites. They are tortured by
leprosy, among other things. 

Level nine is where Satan dwells. It is a
freezing place devoid of light. It's for traitors against God and man. Those tortured here are
Judas, who betrayed Jesus, and Brutus and Cassius, who betrayed Julius
Caesar.

Monday, June 1, 2009

What are similarities between Plato's allegory of the cave and the film The Village?

Plato's
Cave is anof the sense of self and the fallacy of correctly interpreting the world around us. In
his estimation, it is impossible to truly deduce what is happening outside of our own heads,
because the only thing we really experience is our brain's reconstruction of events. In his
story, a prisoner is tied up in a cave facing away from the entrance, and he begins to create a
story of...

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