In Part 2, Chapter 5, of 1984, what points does Julia raise that Winston has never thought of, in regard to party propaganda?

In this
chapter, we learn that the apparent war with Eurasia has escalated, and the Party's attempts to
propagandize the conflict have intensified along with it.notes giant posters of Eurasian
soldiers throughout the city, and there are public funerals to mourn peopleincluding
childrenthat are killed by the rocket bomb barrages, which also seem to be occurring more
frequently. In discussing this with , Winston is struck by her observation that "the rocket
bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, 'just
to keep people frightened.'" Winston had never thought of that, which demonstrates how her
questioning of Party orthodoxy is different than his own.

On the other hand,
she believes Party lines that Winston dismisses as nonsense, like the idea that the Party
invented airplanes. He is also surprised to realize that she does not remember that, not long
before, Oceania had been at war with Eastasia instead of Eurasia. When he...

How did the Neolithic Revolution set the stage for early civilizations?

The
Neolithic Revolution represents the discovery of agriculture, and with it, the transition from a
hunter gatherer lifestyle to a sedentary one.This moment has had long reaching repercussions,
ultimately shaping everything that has followed afterwards.

When you study
Ancient History, you'll observe that the very earliest civilizations arose in river valleys
(which tend to provide excellent conditions for farming).Furthermore, if you look still further
back into the archaeological records, you tend to observe the presence of agricultural
communities in those same regions.As it is often...

What was Hester's conflict with herself in The Scarlet Letter?

also
has a profound internal conflict over her feelings for her daughter, . On the one hand, there's
no doubt that Hester genuinely loves Pearl. She is Hester's happiness, as she herself openly
proclaims. Yet, at the same time, Hester frankly acknowledges that Pearl is also "her
torture, nonetheless." The main problem is that Pearl acts as a constant reminder of her
sin, her adultery. She is 's love-child, and her birth out of wedlock is the direct cause of
Hester's public branding as an adulteress and her subsequent expulsion from the
community.

But Pearl also represents that side of Hester's character which
led her to conduct an adulterous liaison with Dimmesdale, the slightly wild, artistic, creative
free-spirit; someone who really doesn't belong in a Puritan theocracy. It is Pearl's wayward,
effervescent nature that leads many of the townsfolk to regard her as the devil's spawn. Hester
is disturbed by Pearl's nature, but blames herself as she sees it as a...

What is the difference between latent and manifest Orientalism in Edward Said's Orientalism?

In chapter 3 of , Said

makes the distinction between manifest Orientalism, which comprises "the various
stated
views about Oriental society, languages, literatures, history,
sociology, and so forth,"
and latent Orientalism, where Orientalist views
form an unstated background to what is actually
said. Latent Orientalism may
often be unconscious and is, by its very nature, difficult to argue
against,
which is why Said says he has concerned himself almost exclusively with
manifest
Orientalism up to this point.

However, Said
continues, it is necessary to
attack latent Orientalism because it is such a
solid and wide-ranging background to work in
numerous disciplines, including
history, economics, philosophy and politics. It is, moreover,
much less
subject to revision than manifest Orientalism:

Whatever change occurs in knowledge of the Orient is found almost exclusively
in
manifest Orientalism; the unanimity, stability, and durability of latent
Orientalism are more or
less constant.

It is latent Orientalism that underlies
imperialist and racist
ideologies, such as the notion that Europeans have a mission to civilize
the
peoples of Asia:

Thus the racial classifications
found
in Cuvier's Le Regne animal, Gobineau's
Essai sur Inegalit© des
races humaines, and Robert
Knox's The Dark Races of Man found a
willing partner in
latent Orientalism.

Said points out

that in nineteenth-century debates on imperialism, both sides accepted the premises of
latent
Orientalism, which weakened the ideological case of the
anti-imperialists. This is why it is
important to challenge latent
Orientalism, despite the obvious difficulties of doing

so.

How did Robinson Crusoe preserve his gunpowder?

It's
vital for Crusoe's survival that he preserve his supplies of gunpowder. For one thing, he'll
need it to load his gun when he goes huntingfor without being able to hunt on this remote desert
island, he's sure that he'll starve to death. Also, Crusoe will need to have gunpowder in order
to ward off any natives that might be in the vicinity. If there are such people on the island,
chances are they won't be very glad to see a stranger like Crusoe in their midst.

Despite the gunpowder's importance, however, Crusoe is a little slipshod in protecting
it. It's only after he's secured his other provisions inside a tent that he realizes what he's
forgotten to do. A sudden thunderstorm, complete with a flash of lightening, brings home to
Crusoe how easily his stock of gunpowder can be ruined by the elements. Either it can be damaged
by the rain or explode if struck by lightening.

So to protect his stock of
gunpowder Crusoe comes up with the idea of dividing it up into little bags and boxes. This way,
if the weather should turn nasty, Crusoe will lose, at worst, only some of the gunpowder and not
all of it.

I have an old Robinson Crusoe book without a copyright and want to know if it is valuable.

The answer to
your question depends on a number of factors.

a) How old is your copy of the
book?  If it is 50 or 60 years, it is probably not worth more than the paper it is printed on. 
If, however, your book goes back to the days whenwas first published (1719), you may have a
treasure on your hands.

b) What condition is the book in?  The better the
condition of the pages and the covers, the more it might be worth.

c) Is it a
first edition?  That means, is it from the first batch of the novel that was ever printed? 
First editions are always worth considerably more than any later reissues.

d)
Is there anything unusual about your edition?  Is it autographed byor some other famous person? 
Does it contain pictures that do not appear in most other editions?  Does it contain any text
that does not appear in most other additions?

What do you understand to be the writers own attitude toward the lottery and the stoning? Exactly what in the story makes her attitude clear to us?

In Shirley Jackson's short story "The
Lottery," the writer mainly uses very neutral descriptive language that does not make it
clear how she feels about the proceedings. This has the effect of making the reader work out how
he or she feels, a process which takes most of the length of the story, since it is not really
clear what is going on until the chilling sentence:

Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they
still remembered to use stones.

The public stoning is one
of the oldest and most barbaric methods of punishment and the final word of the sentence weighs
it down with the gravity of a stone.

After this sentence, there are a few
indications of the writer's own feelings, though they are initially focused through Tessie
Hutchinson and show her pitiable terror. She holds her hands out "desperately" and
screams. The final phrase "and then they were upon her" suggests a pack of ravenous
wild beasts rather than a human community.

Theof Old Man Warner may be
another subtle way in which the writer shows her own feelings. He is portrayed as a petulant
windbag, so the fact that he is the greatest proponent and defender of the lottery can scarcely
be to its credit.

In The Bronze Bow,when does Daniel make a vow of revenge against the Romans?

 

Daniel's quest of revenge is his driving force, and the main reason that he allies
himself with Rosh. He believes that he is entitled to his revenge because his father and uncle
have been killed, and furthermore that he has a moral and ethical responsibility to fight the
Romans for their occupation of Israel. In Chapter 7, he explains to Thacia:

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Does the prerogative of Judicial Review held by the Supreme Court compliment or detract from the ideal of representative democracy and of pluralism?

In order to
answer this question, lets first define the terms.

Representative democracy is a form of government in which
the people of the nation elect representatives to make and enforce laws.

Pluralism in government is a system in which there are
more than one governing body.In the United States, there are three branches of government: the
legislative, executive, and judicial branches.This separation of powers is supported by a system
of checks and balances, which prevents one branch from becoming too powerful.

Judicial review is a process of the court reviewing a law
that has been passed.The point of judicial review is to ensure that unconstitutional laws are
not passed by the legislative branch.The power of the judiciary to review and reject laws is an
aspect of checks and balances.

Now, how might someone see judicial review as
detracting from representative democracy and pluralism ?If people elect
politicians they believe will represent their interests, they may not appreciate...

What are the values, attitudes and beliefs embedded in the poem "Smalltown Dance" by Judith Wright? What attitudes does the poem reflect about these...

Judith
Wright wrote many of her poems in the 1950s when there was a consciousness in the Western World
of the rights of women. However, attitudes - and that would be of women themselves as well as
their male counterparts - did not support the philosophy of equality.

The
value system, as reflected in Smalltown Dance is so well entrenched, being
"an ancient dance" that it is hard to even imagine any other way. It is " some
impossible world." Of course, if the women do not even believe they can expand their views
because they know  " where danger lies" then things will never change and they will
continue to "keep things orderly."

The women do appear to be aware
that there is the potential for change but, even those who do try to leave and manage to shrug
off some of the restrictions and "struggle from the peg"  never make anything of it as
they do not "travel far." The women realize that even though it "might symbolise
/ something," the means of going beyond don't exist. The fact that the women are concerned
about "the household budget" also reveals their limited financial means, there isn't
enough money to repeat efforts if mistakes are made. It will certainly "not stretch to
more."

It is clear then that it is society's realities and embedded
ideas (typical in this era) that contribute to their dreams put away and being nothing more than
a little girl's " glimpse of unobstructed waiting green."    

According to the mother, how did Laurie change when he started kindergarten?

At the
beginning of the story, Laurie's mother mentions that the day her son attended his first day of
kindergarten was the day he changed from being her sweet-voiced tot to a confident, swaggering
little boy. As Laurie's mother sends her son off to school, he renounces his corduroy overalls
with bibs in favor of wearing blue jeans with a belt.

In addition to his
appearance and clothing, Laurie's character also changes. As he heads to school with the older
neighbor girl, Laurie forgets to turn around at the corner and wave goodbye to his
mother.

Laurie's mother also mentions that he came home the same way, by
slamming open the front door and raising his voice. During dinner, Laurie speaks insolently to
his father, takes a cookie without permission, and excuses himself from the table. As the story
progresses, Laurie becomes increasingly disrespectful to his parents and refuses to comply with
their rules.

Overall, Laurie changes into an independent, confident little
boy who behaves disrespectfully and acts arrogantly once he starts kindergarten, which is a
dramatic change from his former sweet-voiced, innocent personality.

In "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath, why would some people consider the mirror to be cruel?

's poem,
"," is narrated by the eponymous mirror. In the fourth line of the first stanza, the
mirror says, "I am not cruel, only truthful." The mirror might be perceived as cruel
by some people because it exposes people to the reality of the ageing process.

In the second stanza, for example, the mirror says of a woman who comes and goes
to...

In A Separate Peace, how would you describe Gene's and Finny's relationship? friendship, human nature, the realizations gene comes to in the story

Throughout the novel, Gene and Finny's
relationship develops and changes as Gene's insecurities indirectly cost Finny his life.
Initially, Gene and Finny begin their summer session at Devon as best friends. Gene, who is
fascinated and attracted to everything that Finny does, reluctantly follows his friend into some
precarious, unforgettable situations. However, Gene's insecurities manifest into jealousy toward
Finny as he begins to view Finny as more of a rival than friend. Gene drastically misinterprets
Finny's motivations and feelings towards him by thinking,

I found a single sustaining thought. The thought was, You and Phineas are even already.
You are even in enmity. You are both coldly driving ahead for yourselves alone. You did hate him
for breaking that school swimming record, but so what? He hated you for getting an A in every
course but one last term. You would have had an A in that one except for him. Except for him
(Knowles, 24).

While Finny innocently trusts Gene and has
no harmful feelings towards him, Gene deeply resents Finny for his natural charisma and
effortless ability to succeed. Gene's insecurities and jealousy take a turn for the worse when
he decides to purposely make Finny fall from a tree, which shatters Finny's leg.

After Finny becomes incapacitated from his injury, Gene's sense of remorse is evident.
However, by making Finny his "equal," Gene's love for his friend is finally revealed
in the mirror scene when Gene puts on Finny's clothes. Gene and Finny essentially become
codependent on one another, and Gene's feelings toward his friend seem genuine. Unfortunately,
Finny cannot deal with the reality that Gene purposely made him fall from the tree and dies of
complications stemming from his initial accident. By the end of the novel, Gene feels at peace
with himself and recognizes the true nature of his complex friendship with Finny. Gene's
experiences with Finny have dramatically impacted his outlook on life, war, and his inner
conscience as he comes to terms with his past actions.

What was the purpose of altering the text of the Lord's prayer?

The word
"nada" or nothing is inserted by the
waiter into the Lord's Prayer to turn it into a
kind of existentialist . The
older waiter in the story personifies the story's general theme of

existential anxiety in the face of a meaningless universe from which God has been
removed. He's
a world-weary soul for whom the old certainties of religion no
longer provide any shape or
meaning to his life.

Once God
has been removed from the waiter's worldview,
the Lord's Prayer is just a
form of words. And just as God has been replaced by nothingness, so
the words
of the Lord's Prayer have been suitably altered to take account of the
waiter's
nihilistic stance towards the...

In The Bronze Bow, what gift is in Thacia's eyes, and why is Daniel now free to accept it?

At the
end of the novel, Jesus heals Leah and Daniel turns around to see Thacia's face. Daniel looks at
Thacia and sees a "gift" in her eyes. Daniel knew that he was not worthy of Thacia's
gift, but is finally free to offer her all that he possesses. Daniel and Thacia then exchange
marriage vows. The "gift" in Thacia's eyes is love, and Daniel is free
to accept her love because he has chosen to let go of all his hate and anger.
Throughout the novel, Daniel devotes his entire life to seeking vengeance on the Roman Empire
for the death of his parents. He is fueled by hate alone and continually rejects Jesus'
teachings of tolerance and love. Daniel's hateful attitude has not only adversely affected his
life, but also negatively affected his relationships with Leah and Thacia. In the last chapter,
Daniel finally accepts Jesus and chooses to follow him. Daniel realized that only
love can bend the bow of bronze and lets go of all his hate and
malice.

In "Hills Like White Elephants," how can Hemingways writing be considered masculine and as presenting "just the tip of the iceberg"? What is the...

1. Writing style
is not something that is based on gender, so to consider Hemingways prose masculine is
problematic. However, he has popularly been portrayed as a mans man, someone who hunted, got
in bar fights, and was popular with the ladies. Likely for this reason, some may consider his
spare writing style an extension of his masculine persona. In this story, Hemingway uses a
third-person objective point of view that reveals just the tip of the iceberg. This
fly-on-the-wall narrative technique makes the reader feel like they are watching the events
unfold through a camera without knowing what the characters are thinking.

2.
The reader can infer that the couple in the story is discussing the woman's getting an
abortion.

3. The setting of this story is a train station in northern Spain
on a hot day. The title comes from the long white hills the couple can see as they talk,
waiting for their train. When the woman says the hills look to her like white elephants, this
description has a deeper significance. The couple avoids directly saying what procedure the
woman will have. The topic is the proverbial elephant in the room. Additionally, white hills can
conjure the image of a womans pregnant belly. The train-trackmay signify the tracks the couple
will soon follow. Just as they are physically stuck at the train station, the couple is stuck
in not being able to explicitly communicate about their relationship and pregnancy and stuck
in not yet having had the abortion they talk in circles around.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the communicative approach to the teaching of language.

Students
learn languages best by using them.  If you have students constantly practicing their language
skills by talking to each other, they will gain confidence and learn more quickly. The key is to
create a safe environment, where it is ok to make mistakes.  Kids will be embarrassed that they
might say something wrong.  I remind them that everyone in the room is a learner except me, and
I am not going to laugh at them or ridicule them for making a mistake!  Have them talk, talk,
talk!

What are some examples of metaphors throughout "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

As George
Lakoff explains in his "Why It's Difficult to Replace the Fiscal Cliff ," geographic
metaphors are among the most powerful, anduses these abundantly in "." For example, he
employs the metaphors of the slippery slope and the yawning abyss to make abstract concepts such
as sin and hell vividly real to people. We can all create a visual and tactile image in our
minds of sliding down a slope and imagine what it would feel like (painful) to fall into an
abyss. Further, this abyss is filled with fire, a physical metaphor for the pain of remorse a
sinner experiences in hell. The pain of remorse might be abstract to people; the pain of being
burned by fire would not. Edwards uses as well the physical metaphor of humans walking over hell
on a rotten covering. This would bring to mind the idea of walking on a bridge made of rotten
wood that could collapse at any time, though in Edwards' telling of the story, people would
plunge not into cold water but into fiery brimstone. These powerful images, along with everyday
images that would be familiar to a rural society, such as worms crushed underfoot and chaff
blowing in the wind, powerfully impress on people's minds their own precarious, weak and
helpless situation before hell and the devil, and the need to be saved by
Christ.

One of the issues explored in "Everyday Use" is the relationship between mothers and daughters. What specifically do you think is being said about...

An
interesting question. In this short story,presents two very different mother-daughter
relationships, both involving the same mother. This immediately tells us that the fact of a
common denominatorin this case, Mamadoes not mean that the relationship between any two
mother-daughter pairs will be the same. Mama relates very differently to Maggie, her homely
younger daughter, than she does to Dee, and she also worries about their relationship with each
other.

Mama feels that she would embarrass Dee in wider society: note her
imagined scenario about appearing on television and how she thinks Dee would like her to
present. She knows that Dee is the more beautiful daughter, but she also has reservations about
her moral compass and her behavior towards Maggie. She knows that Dee is ashamed of her roots
and dislikes this about her.

Meanwhile, Mama is also very aware of Maggie's
shortcomings and wants to protect her. She knows that Maggie is rather slow, not beautiful,
and...

In "The Black Cat", why do the narrator and his wife go down in the cellar?

Of his wife, the
narrator says,

One day she accompanied me, upon some
household errand, into the cellar of the old building which our poverty compelled us to
inhabit.

Thus, we do not know exactly why the speaker and
his wife go down into their basement, but we know that it has to do with a household errand of
some sort. After the fire destroyed their first home, they were compelled to move into an older
buildingperhaps an apartment buildingwith a cellar. Perhaps they went down to retrieve some
household object they had stored in the basement; or perhaps they can food and the narrator was
going down to retrieve some of it. There are any number of reasons that they might have gone
down into the cellar, but it sounds as though it was perfectly mundane.

It is
in this cellar where the narrator murders and then disposes of his wife. He decides to hide her
body within the wall, as he's heard monks of the Middle Ages used to do. The walls were
"loosely constructed" and the plaster had never dried completely, so he is easily able
to dislodge the bricks and then repair the mess with new plaster.

What is Iago's plan and purpose in Act 1, scene 3 of Othello?

Arguably
Shakespeare's most heinous villain, the duplicitous Iago plans to avenge himself againstfor
being passed over for promotion. He decides to exploit Cassio in this plan.

In hisat the end of Act I, Scene 3, Iago decides to use Cassio to hurt Othello. He
plans to incite Othello's jealousy by intimating that Desdemona and Cassio are having an affair.
Because Cassio is good-looking, Iago reasons, Othello will easily believe that Desdemona has
been seduced by him. Iago also plans to exploit Othello's ingenuousness:

The Moor is of a free and open nature
That thinks men
honest that but seem to be so,
And will as tenderly be led by the nose
As
asses are. (1.3.379-382)

Interestingly, in his aggressive
soliloquy Iago demonstrates the flaw that has caused Othello to not promote him and to give
Cassio the position instead. That is, Iago is incapable of being anything but bellicose, while
Cassio is diplomatic and is aware of the limits of war. 

According to
renowned Shakespearean critic Harold Bloom, in Iago Othello sees a man who cannot stop being at
war, and for this reason, Iago could not replace Othello if the general were to be killed or
wounded. The skilled warrior Othello understands that there is a time for war and a time for
peace. 

Additional Source: Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: the invention
of the Human. London: Fourth Estate, 1999. Print.

I need complete critical analysis of the poem "An Ordinary Day" by Norman MacCaig. Everything abouth the poem including the writing style.

The style is
almost like a series of . A haiku is 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively. But this
poem does not stick to that and the lines run on even from one stanza (set of three lines) to
the next, so this poem would be considered . This works well because it is closely related to
stream of consciousness and the poem itself is a series meditations on observations. These are
observations of the external world but they are also processed as thoughts and this is one of
the themes of the poem: the duality of observation. 

The first few lines,
"I took my mind a walk/Or my mind took me a walk-" set up this duality. The speaker is
walking around and observing ordinary things in nature and/or he is thinking about them. (It
could also be argued that he is not literally walking around; he might just be thinking all this
up.) The speaker is marveling at the extra-ordinariness of life and the extra-ordinariness of
being able to observe it all. The "light glittering on the water" or water glittering
in the light also shows the duality of observation. That is, it is extraordinary to be alive and
experience things. And it is equally  extraordinary how the process of observation
works.

The "water" could be analogous to your mind. The
"light" is the world, observation or experience. You observe things and the
"light" glitters on your mind (water); likewise, your mind glitters (thinks) in the
light (world). This can get very complicated, philosophically speaking. For example,
"seeing" can mean to see visually but it also can mean understanding or thinking. This
isn't a mistake in the etymological history of the word "see." It reflects the way we
understand external experience and internal thinking, which is that experience and thinking are
quite similar. Some might say they are identical and/or they necessarily go hand in
hand.

To sum up, this poem is about appreciating the phenomena of observation
and the reciprocal connection between mind and the world. 

Although this was
written in the 20th century and in free verse, it is quite reminiscent of Romantic poetry which
was characteristically about nature and imagination. 

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In The Pigman by Paul Zindel, why does Lorraine say that she is calling Mr. Pignati?

In Chapter
Three, John explains the rules for the telephone marathon, which is a prank calling game the
teenagers play. The idea is to keep the person on for as long as possible by drawing out the
conversation. When picking out a number from the phone book, each player must close his or her
eyes and simply point to a random name and number. In Chapter Four, it's Lorraine's turn and
she's nervous. Since she is nervous, she does take a quick peek at the...

What is one of the most common uses of hydrogen?

Hydrogen
fuel cells are also used to power some vehicles.  The hydrogen combines with oxygen and releases
energy.  The byproduct is only water.  There are also hydrogen burning internal combustion
engines similar to gasoline burning internal combustion engines.

Hydrogen
filling stations would need to be built for this type of vehicle to become commonly used.
 Hawaii may become a new testing area for hydrogen powered cars.  Hydrogen is a byproduct of
producing synthetic natural gas.  The...

In "Young Goodman Brown," why does Goodman Brown become a cynical man?

In 's
story, Goodman Brown experiences a total crisis of faith. While the authors leaves unclear
whether Brown actually saw what he thought he saw, or whether his own guilt got the best of him
is in some ways irrelevant. Part of the story's power, as well as its relevance to its colonial
Salem setting, inheres in that very ambiguity.

Goodman sets off into the
forest on an errand he does not disclose to his wife, but says he'll be right back. In the
course of his adventure, he sees everyone whose good character he valued doing abominable things
or represented as diabolical symbols. Even his own grandfather and his wife are not immune.
Perhaps even worse, he sees himself fully participating in these evil acts.

At a certain point, it all vanishes. Was it all real? Did he pass out and come to after they
left? Or was everything an...

Who is the speaker and what is subject of the poem "Caged Bird"?

As was mentioned in the
previous response, the poem is written in the third person from an omniscient point of
view. Utilizing omniscient narration,compares and contrasts the plight of a free
bird to that of a caged bird. She juxtaposes the environment and nature of the free bird to
illuminate the harsh, depressing life of the caged bird. While the free bird is given the
opportunity to fly and "claim the sky," the caged bird's feet are tied and "can
seldom see through his bars of rage." Unlike the caged bird, the free bird lives an
independent, delightful existence. The caged bird can only open his throat to sing of things
hoped for and unknown. Maya'sof the caged bird's helpless existence illustrates
the oppressive experience of African Americans. The poem is also autobiographical
and depicts Maya's resilience and strength in the face of adversity. The fact that the caged
bird sings of freedom despite its current situation conveys a feeling of hope that one day the
caged bird will be released. This message coincides with the hope that one day African Americans
will no longer suffer from discrimination and oppression in a prejudiced
society. 

Why was african american culture fasionable in the 1920's? Why was african american culture fasionable in the 1920's?

The Harlem
Renaissance did produce some remarkable art of all genres. The Roaring Twenties were all about
fashion,If a trend-setter found the African American art interesting, others would follow.It was
quaint and charming, but they never saw the artists as equals.]]>

In act 2 Alfred Doolittle is one of Shaw's great secondary character . What are the qualities that give him audience appeal?

Alfred
Doolittle enters the home of Mr. Higgins after finding out that Eliza is there. At this time,
Higgins and Col. Pickering are still having an avid conversation about Higgin's impressions of
women and relationships, when Mrs. Pearce enters the room and announces him.

Higgins refers to Doolittle as "the blackguard" and Pickering holds doubt
about that specific title. However, it is true that Doolittle is a dustman and he is described
quite vividly in the play:

Alfred Doolittle is an elderly
but vigorous dustman, clad in the costume of his profession, including a hat with a back brim
covering his neck and shoulders. He has well marked and rather interesting features, and seems
equally free from fear and conscience. He has a remarkably expressive voice, the result of a
habit of giving vent to his feelings without reserve. His present pose is that of wounded honor
and stern resolution.

The reason behind Doolittle's
greatness as a secondary character is that he serves as an intermediary between Eliza's old life
and her new beginning at Higgins's. We must keep in mind that Eliza's background has left a
strong impression in her manners, speech, and behavior. All these were a direct acquisition from
Doolittle.

Another great characteristic of Doolittle is that he embodies the
transition occurring in Victorian lower classes. In his case, he obtains money from Higgins,
after trying over and over to profit off Eliza's stay in his residence. Once Doolittle becomes
"middle class" after receiving the profits, he realizes what "being of
money" encompasses: With money comes the appearance of having money and living with the
highest moral and social codes of conduct. This is impossible for Arthur to do, and his
character sends out the message of how the lives of the Victorian middle classes are based on
snobbery and futility.

This is not a far vision of Shaw's own perception of
society. Doolittle is a sort of mouthpiece for the playwright. The fact that he exposes society
for what it really is through Doolittle is what makes the play almost three-dimensional: We can
almost hear Shaw laugh at society in plain view.

What is the aesthetic theory of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?

Stephen
Dadalus, the main character of as well as a fictional alter-ego ofhimself,
defines beauty fully as the comprehensive relationship between the artist and their art. Dadalus
believes that art should invoke only aesthetic emotions.

Dadalus also asserts
that the aesthetic mood is, by its nature, static rather than dynamic. It is a moment suspended
in time that completely captivates the audience and raises the consciousness to not concern
itself with things as petty as base emotions. Dadalus also argues that anything that induces
reaction cannot be art, because it inspires an animal part of us that is base and doesn't
pertain to the intellect.

Dadalus discusses the wholeness and harmony of a
work of art when discussing his aesthetic theory. This refers to an art's completeness and
separation from anything else, as well as its components' relation to each other and itself as a
whole. This leads to radiance, which is the essence of a thing, its essential beauty, that can
be understood by first knowing its wholeness and harmony.

What are the masks, earphones, body weights, and headgear for?

The masks, earphones,
body weights, and headgear are designed to handicap individuals who are more attractive or
smarter or faster than others. As the narrator says in the first sentence, "everybody was
finally equal."

Equality in all thingsintelligence, speed,
attractiveness, and everything elsehas been achieved by Amendments 211-213 to the Constitution.
Hazel Bergeron, for example, has a "perfectly average intelligence," but her husband,
George, has a higher-than-normal level of smarts. In order to make him "equal" to
Hazel, he has to wear "a little mental handicap radio in his ear" that would emit
horrifyingly distracting and sharp noises every twenty seconds so that George could not take
"unfair advantage" of his above-average intelligence.

The
ballerinas on the television George and Hazel watch are "burdened with sashweights and bags
of birdshot, and their faces were masked" so that no one watching would feel bad about
themselves by seeing someone more graceful or more attractive than they. There's actually a
Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers, who determines what handicaps people ought to have in
order to make them equal to everyone else.

In his novel titled Animal Farm, why does George Orwell use allegorical methods to discuss the Soviet Union of his day?

wrote
histitled , aon the Soviet Union and its dictator, Joseph Stalin, during
the middle of World War II.  Before the war, Stalin and the Soviets had been the ideological
enemies of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.  Just before the war broke out, Stalin found it
convenient to sign a non-aggression pact with Hitler €“ a move that shocked and disillusioned
many communists overseas.  (Some, however, loyally defended the pact.) When war did break out,
Stalin and Hitler divided Poland between themselves. Thus, Stalin became almost an ally of
Hitler.  In 1941, however, Hitler surprised Stalin by launching a massive attack on the Soviet
Union.

In the war against Hitler, the Soviet Union was now an ally of the
western democracies, such as the United Kingdom, the United States, and the British
Commonwealth. Many people in the west recognized that Stalins dictatorship was in many ways at
least as bad as Hitlers and that the alliance with the Soviet Union was merely an alliance of
convenience. If and when the war against Hitler was won, tensions with the Soviets were almost
inevitable.  Such tensions became especially unavoidable when, in the immediate aftermath of the
war, the Soviets imposed communist dictatorships on many of the countries of eastern
Europe.

, who had long been deeply suspicious of many kinds of
authoritarianism, wrote Animal Farm as an allegory because openly attacking
the Soviet Union might have seemed damaging to an ally during a time of war.  However, the
allegory Orwell composed is so transparently anti-Soviet that no one could possibly
misunderstand the object of his satire. The novel was not published until after the end of the
war; it was rejected by several publishers who feared offending the Soviets.

Orwell thus had practical reasons for writing an allegory. However, Orwell may also
have felt that writing the book as an allegory would make it more interesting to read than
another dry political tract would have been.  All the charges made against the Soviet Union in
Animal Farm were well-known charges and could easily have been expressed
again in yet another essay.  By writing the book as an allegorical novel, Orwell made old
charges seem fresh and clever.

Orwell himself wrote that he merely hoped to
find a publisher who

(a) has got some paper and (b) isn't
in the arms of Stalin. The latter is important. This book is murder from the Communist point of
view, though no names are mentioned.

 

Name and describe the six purposes of visual art.

Generally
speaking, there are five main functions of the visual arts: ceremonial, artistic expression,
narrative, functional, and persuasive.  To these can be added beauty, in effect, the desire of
the artist to simply create something beautiful with little or no thought to any significance
beyond that objective. 

The ceremonial purpose of the visual arts is to
celebrate or acknowledge an event or era, or to contribute to a ritualistic activity, such as a
dance celebrating one of the season or a peoples flight from captivity or hunger.  One of the
more common forms of ceremonial art is quilting, in which the patterns employed have some
symbolic importance, or the use of ceremonial garb by Native Americans participating in a Pow
Wow. 

Artistic expression refers to the desire or need on the part of the
artist to express his or her emotions or feelings regarding a particular subject, including his-
or herself.  Many abstract artists, for example, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko (although the
latter rejected that categorization) are assumed to be expressing emotions or beliefs through
their art, which lends itself to multiple interpretations and references to the known state of
the artists being during the period in which the individual work of art was created.  Pablo
Picassos art was known to be heavily influenced by his emotional state during specific periods
of his life.

The narrative purpose is to tell a story or relate the history
of ones people.  Again, quilting is a classic form of the use of visual arts to communicate a
story.  The African American community, in particular, uses patterns and colors in quilting to
convey the history of slavery and emancipation.  Film, another form of visual art, is frequently
used to tell a story, such as with Steven Spielbergs film about the Holocaust, Schindlers
List, in which he used black and white photography to provide a documentary and more somber
feel to the film, while incorporating rare color footage to illuminate a detail and lend
significance to the item or individual in question.  David Lean used footage designed to
simulate Russian winters in his film Dr. Zhivago that highlighted the enormous expanse of
Russian plains covered in deep snow. 

Functional visual arts refer to
structures or tools that are actually used in day-to-day activities yet are designed to be
aesthetically pleasing in addition to being functional.  Architecture is the most prominent of
the visual arts to incorporate functionality in designs.  Major architects like Frank Lloyd
Wright, I.M. Pei and Frank Gehry are well-known historical figures for their success in
combining art and function.  The buildings for which architects are commissioned to design
obviously have to serve a function, whether it is as a museum, hospital, house, or theater, yet
are expected to be unique and challenging.  Functional art can also be quite small, such as the
coffee maker or fruit peeler designed to look futuristic while also performing their intended
functions.

Persuasive art is intended to convey a message.  Advertising for
television, billboards, magazine, and other visual media is a form of persuasive art, in that
images are selected and manipulated in order to convey a message or subliminally influence a
consumers decision.  A common form of persuasive visual art is propaganda posters and cartoons
intended to denigrate a particular category of people, such as a racial or religious minority,
or to foster emotional reactions among viewers for or against a particular political cause. 
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union used propaganda to convince its own people as well as
others of the righteousness of its cause and the moral and political depravity of U.S.
policies.  Nazi Germany, under the authoritarian hand of Joseph Goebbels, used propaganda
posters and newspaper editorial cartoons to demonize Jews and facilitate the inculcation of a
culture of genocide.  Tobacco companies use this form of visual art to associate cigarette
smoking with masculine virility and feminine mystique and power. 

A final
purpose of the visual arts can be considered the conveyance of beauty.  While each of the major
practitioners of expressionism had his own back story, much of the art produced by the French
Impressionists like Claude Monet and Pierre-August Renoir simply represent beauty for its own
sake.  While some expressionist painting, like that of Georges Suerat and Vincent Van Gogh, is
more closely tied to the emotional states of the artists, much was intended to beautify the
surroundings.  

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What is the difference between deviant acts and criminal conduct? Give real-life examples of both with an explanation as to why they fit in each...

The categories of "deviant act" and
"criminal conduct" overlap. Deviant acts are divided into two categories: those of
formal and informal deviance. Formal deviance is synonymous with crime whereas informal deviance
refers to the breaking of social conventions or taboos.

Acts of formal
deviance, which are also crimes, therefore, would include, murder, robbery, theft and assault.
Acts of informal deviance might include a huge range of behavior which is generally frowned
upon, from having an extramarital affair, using corporal punishment on one's children, or
talking to oneself in public.

It is clear that formal and informal deviance
both vary according to the society in which the act takes place. In some Islamic countries, such
as Saudi Arabia, adults who consume alcohol or women who wear revealing clothing are guilty of
criminal conduct/formal deviance. In most Western societies, these behaviors are not even
instances of informal deviance but are entirely socially accepted.

Formal and
informal deviance also both change over time. The usual pattern is that a criminal/formally
deviant act will be legalized but will then remain informally deviant for some time before
becoming generally accepted. However, this means that, even within a society, there will be some
communities which still regard the behavior as informally deviant even after it has been
accepted by others.

For instance, homosexual activity was illegal in many
Western countries well within living memory (in the United Kingdom, it was decriminalized in
1967). After legalization, many people and communities continued to regard homosexual behavior
as informally deviant and some still do so while others do not regard it as deviant at all. This
highlights another important difference: criminal conduct/formal deviance is a matter of fact (a
behavior is either illegal or it isn't), while informal deviance may be generally agreed but
contains some element of opinion.

What are the 5 major literary devices in "The Pit and the Pendulum"?

Poe begins
the story with an epigraph, though it is a faux epigraph, since he
wrote it himself. An epigraph is a short quotation at the beginning of a literary work to
suggest the work's theme. "" begins with a Latin inscription Poe himself wrote as
commentary on the fall of the French monarchy in the late 1790s, which Poe relates to the
Spanish Inquisition in his story.

Poe chose the first person
point of view of narration to tell the story. Using the first-person pronoun,
"I," Poe pulls the reader into the story by creating intimacy with the person telling
the story.

Poe makes use of sense , creating
sights, sounds, and sensations of the conditions in the dungeon where the narrator is being
held.

Poe utilizes  when he writes "And
now, as I still continued to step cautiously onward, there came thronging upon my recollection a
thousand vague rumors of the horrors of Toledo" to reference the horrors of the Spanish
Inquisition.

As he concludes the story, Poe utilizes the deus
ex machina technique to free the narrator from his tortures; General LaSalle and
his troops rescue him in the nick of time.

What are some of the cultural symbols in "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings?"

The major
symbol(s) is/are the wings of the possible angel, and have more than one interpretation. Rather
than being a beautiful being of light and spirituality, the angel is old and dirty, and his
wings are missing feathers and full of parasites. His wings are not those of a holy being but of
a working biology; even the doctor, seeing how perfectly the wings fit in with the angel's body,
wonders why wings aren't more common. The angel's specific wings are the focus of attention, as
a different flying person is ignored:

A
traveling...

What were the short term and long term negative effects of World War II in the Soviet Union?

World War 2
had a negative impact on many of the European countries. The Soviet Union (SU) however, suffered
in the short and long term. Three and a half years of the war were fought in the SU. In order to
make things more difficult for the enemies, the SU soldiers used scorched earth tactics. This
meant soldiers would burn entire villages, fields, and buildings in order to take away resources
for the attacking Germans. By the end of the war, 1700 towns and 70000 villages were totally
destroyed. This led to negative impacts for the future as it would take many years to rebuild
these areas. The SU population suffered great losses as well during the war. Not only did
soldiers die during combat, but many citizens died from lack of food and good living
environments. Twenty one million people died during the war, leaving the population severely
depleted. Fifteen years after the war, the population was still only at 90% of its prewar
population.

Although the country was affected in the long term by its need to
rebuild and repopulate, there were other issues that caused problems within the SU. As so many
young men died during the war, women were responsible for supporting the work force. However,
the patriarchal structure of the family did not change, and women were expected to cook, clean,
and take care of children, all while trying to work and support the family financially. The war
only solidified the militaristic tendencies of Stalin and the government. Stalin became paranoid
about another war happening, this time using nuclear warfare. He continued to build up industry
in order to build new war machines, but did not concentrate on other economic areas such as
farming. Many citizens felt they had to fix their own problems caused by the war as they would
not receive government support. Stalins ideas for reform became more and more unrealistic.
Various people in the government were too afraid to tell Stalin that his ideas were not working
well for the country, so instead they lied about the success.

All of these
factors caused by the war negatively affected the Soviet Union. It would take years of work and
a change in government to really impact the state of the country. 

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How is dramatic irony evident during Juliet's conversation with her mother in Romeo and Juliet?

In a play, dramaticoccurs when the audience
knows something that a character, or characters, doesn't know. The audience is aware of
information that one or more characters on stage are unaware of. This can cause humor or sadness
for all involved.

In act 3, scene 5,andare discussing 's death. However,
during these lines, Juliet is actually talking about . The dramatic irony occurs when Juliet
cries over Romeo, but her mother believes she is crying over her cousin's death.

When Juliet finds out that Romeo has killed Tybalt out of vengeance for , she is
heartbroken. Not only has she lost her cousin, but her husband has also been banished from
Verona as punishment. She stays in her room crying over this tragic mess.

When Lady Capulet comes to see her, Juliet says she is "not well," which her
mother assumes is due to Tybalt's death. She believes Juliet is "weeping for [her] cousin's
death," but the audience, Juliet, and the Nurse all know she really cries over Romeo's
banishment.

When Juliet says she "might venge [her] cousin's
death," she means she wants to reverse this situation so that she can be happily married to
Romeo, who is now deemed a murderer. We see this wordplay again when Juliet shares her feelings
about revenge:

Indeed I never shall be
satisfied
With Romeo till I behold himdead
Is my poor heart so for a kinsman
vexed.

Here, Juliet uses the word dead, but the hyphens
disguise Juliet's true meaning. To her mother, it reads she wants Romeo dead. To Juliet, it
means her heart is dead. The word kinsman could also relate to Tybalt, her cousin, or her
husband, Romeo.

The audience (along with the Nurse and ) is aware of the
messhave created. However, everyone else is blind to their marriage and their fate which creates
dramatic irony.

Who are the man and woman in "Hills Like White Elephants"? I know their relationship to each other, but who are they?

In reality, we are given
little concrete information about the couple and are left to infer a lot about them. It is clear
from this story that it is the man who has the power and is able to manipulate and persuade Jig
to do what he wants. Consider the way that by his speech at least he wants to come across as
being reasonable, and yet it is he that repeatedly returns to the topic of Jig getting an
abortion. It is Jig who is engaged in trying to mould herself into the kind of person that her
partner wants her to be - note how she changes her view on the hills looking like white
elephants.

What is the integral `int x^2*e^(x^3) dx`

The integral
`int x^2*e^(x^3) dx` has to be determined.

Substitute `x^3 = y`

`dy/dx = 3*x^2`

`=>...

What and where are dramatic irony, allusion, paradox and ambiguity in "Everything That Rises Must Converge"?

Flannery
OConnor was a master ofin her short stories. In Everything that Rises Must Converge,
there is irony in the character of Julian. Although the story is narrated in the
third person, OConnor gives us insight into Julians thoughts in the way she narrates what he is
thinking. He has a very dysfunctional relationship with his mother but by the end of the novel,
the reader slowly comes to sympathize with his mother and not him. This is achieved through the
self-serving thoughts and insensitivity Julian exhibits towards his mother, in spite of her
foibles. Julian continues to plot ways of getting even with his mother in his mind and with his
superior attitude, wishes all sorts of evil upon her, purposefully sitting next to the Black
woman on the bus, etc. In the end, his wish to punish his mother comes true when his mother dies
as a result of the stress that he has caused her by his cruelty. He is the one that ends up
learning the lesson. This is situational irony.

There is...

What was happening during the Renaissance Period that relates to Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet?

Shakespeare wrote during the period of the Renaissance known as the Elizabethan Period,
when Queen Elizabeth I ruled. A Protestant like her (deceased) mother, she forced her subjects
to worship in Anglican churches and forbade Catholic worship; those who chose to do so faced
possible death sentences.

It is known that Queen Elizabeth enjoyed
Shakespeare's work and had him visit her at court several times for various performances. It is
interesting, then, that Shakespeare pens into this script a particular confidant for : , a man
of Catholicism.

Shakespeare certainly knew he was walking a fine line here
with his Queen. He therefore creates a man of duality. The friar is both trusted byas they seek
his advice, and he is the man who carries significant blame for their
deaths. He is the one who provides the potion toto fake her own death. He is the one whose
leadership fails to deliver the important message to Romeo which would have saved them
both.

In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane are distinct in their looks, personality, and reputation: What does each man...

's
"Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a classic American folktale. Though originally published
in 1820, its characters are familiar even today, for Ichabod Crane and Brom Van Brunt embody the
dichotomies between town and country, intellect and labor, or more simply, brains and brawn,
that are so well-established in American culture.

Within the context of the
story, the men are rivals for the affections of Katrina Van Tassel, the most desirable young
woman in the vicinity of Tarry Town. Brom was considered her undisputed favorite until Ichabod
came to town to teach at the local school. Katrina's attraction to both men is the bone of
contention between them, as each man feels his claims to Katrina's love are more worthy than his
rival's. One could say that the value American society places on one character's virtues over
the other's is analogous to Katrina's romantic whims and are just as unpredictable.

So what are each character's virtues? What can we say about them as...

As they are discussing the day's events, Elizabeth tells Proctor that Mary Warren went to Salem. What reason did Mary give Elizabeth for going to...

Mary Warren says she has to go to Salem to

attend the court of which she is now an official. John Proctor has forbidden Mary to go
to Salem
and is angry when Elizabeth says that she has gone there anyway.
Elizabeth responds, rather
surprisingly, that she is frightened of Mary
Warren now. John asks how Elizabeth, the mistress
of the house and the wife
of a substantial citizen, can possibly be frightened of a
"mouse" like Mary
Warren. Elizabeth replies:

It
is a
mouse no more. I forbid her go and she raises up her chin like the daughter of a prince
and
says to me, "I must go to Salem, Goody Proctor; I am an official of
the
court!"

When Mary returns from
Salem, we find that
her pride in her new position as an official of the court
has indeed made her arrogant and
defiant, a complete reversal of her former
timidity. She refuses to answer John when he
questions her and says by way of
reproof:

Four judges and
the kings
deputy sat down to dinner with us but an hour ago. II would have you speak civilly
to
me from this out.

This shows the
inversion and chaos
which has begun to take hold of Salem in which the
"children," girls like Mary Warren
and Abigail Williams who formerly had no
authority at all in the community, now have a new and
sinister power to ruin
or even end the lives of those who once looked down on

them.

To what extent did the Treaty of Versailles lead to the outbreak of WWII?

Most
historians would argue that the Treaty of Versailles was a rather efficient cause of . Among its
more egregious provisions was the "war guilt clause" which shouldered Germany with
complete and total responsibility for the war.  Additionally, Germany was compelled to pay
reparations which were eight times greater than the entire country's net worth. Of course the
reparations were not paid in full; however this caused tremendous resentment on the part of the
German people, and proved fertile ground for the likes of Adolf Hitler to focus that resentment.
The Treaty gave territory to France which was German in culture and language, which was also an
untenable situation.

Additionally, Japan had come into World War I expecting
to gain territory in Asia, primarily German territories. By the terms of the Treaty, Japan
walked away empty handed. There is some argument that there was a racial element at work here,
as Woodrow Wilson was quite racist. He had Ho Chi Minh thrown out of the Conference when he
asked for self-determination of the people of Indochina.

Most of the mistakes
made at the Treaty negotiations were because France and England were determined to cripple
Germany; and Woodrow Wilson, who should have been more forceful, made broad concessions to
assure the Treaty would include his dream of a League of Nations. The end result was too high a
price for an organization that soon failed. Had Wilson been more forceful, perhaps World War II
could have been avoided, although that is a subject of substantial
conjecture.

What does 1984 suggest about love in our time?

depicts a very sad view of modern love. depicts love as something that will always be
subject to external scrutiny.  The fact that Big Brother controls all and dominates all over all
aspects of consciousness is reflective on how love is subject to this as well. andhave to be
covert about their sexual liaisons and, if they are in love,...

How do Mrs. Das from "Interpreter of Maladies" and Miranda from "Sexy" compare to each other? How are they different?

This is
very good question to begin your
thought process with a compare and contrast essay.  In fact,
both of these
characters, Mrs. Das and Miranda, can be compared quite easily, especially
with
the following quotation:

A woman
who had fallen out of
love with her life.

This quote describes both Mrs. Das
and Miranda so perfectly, it's
almost a shame to reveal that it was originally spoken of Mrs.

Das. 

Further, the two main characters of " " (Mrs. Das)
and
"Sexy" (Miranda) have many comparisons.  Both of them are at least
somewhat unhappy
with their status in life, especially in regard to how they
feel about their bodies and
self-images.  Mrs. Das is no longer in love with
her husband, even though they are on a family
vacation to India.  She admits
this to their tour guide, Kapasi,...

How are Susie's dreams in heaven different from the ones she had on earth in The Lovely Bones? This question relates to the book The Lovely Bonesfrom...

nicely marks the answer to your question by a line that vividly stands out in the text: 
"These were my dreams on Earth."

Namely, Susie's dreams on earth
often focus on high school.  Susie imagined herself at Fairfax High.  (I guess it should be
noted that where Susie lives and in her time, middle school involves 7th-9th grades, high school
only 10th-12th.)  Susie mentions that, when she got to high school, she would insist on being
called "Suzanne."  Susie goes even further about her earthly dreams:

I would wear my hair feathered or up in a bun.  I would have a body
that the boys wanted and the girls envied, but I'd be so nice on top of it all that they would
feel too guilty to do anything but worship me.  I liked to think of myself--having reached a
sort of queenly status--as protecting misfit kids in the cafeteria. (16-17)

As her dreams go on, they become a bit more idealistic with Susie
overtaking high school "in a matter of days" and ending with Susie earning "an
Oscar for Best Actress my junior year."  Generally, though, they are simple dreams.  They
are normal dreams.  They are dreams snuffed out in one brief moment.

Susie's
dreams in her heaven exist on two levels.  First are the dreams that become real.  Susie says it
best:  "We had been given, in our heavens, our simplest dreams" (18).  The high school
had no teachers.  Susie only  had to attend art class.  The books at the school were only teen
and fashion magazines.

As Susie learns more her "heaven expanded"
to include more of her dreams becoming real. 

Our heaven
had an ice cream shop where, when you asked for peppermint stick ice cream, no one ever said,
"It's seasonal"; it had a newspaper where our pictures appeared a lot and made us look
important; it had real men in it and beautiful women too, because Holly and I were devoted to
fashion magazines. (20)

But this section ends with the
dreams that Susie CAN'T have in her heaven.  She comes to a sort of epiphany here:

I could not have what I wanted most:  Mr. Harvey dead and me
living.  Heaven wasn't perfect.  But I came to believe that if I watched closely, and desired, I
might change the lives of those I loved on Earth. (20)

Ah, . . . and it is this last sentence that clenches the dreams-becoming-reality of the
rest of this wonderful novel, .

For what reasons did Thoreau write "Walden"?

At the beginning of the
chapter titled, "Economy," Thoreau himself says that one major reason for his writing
is because so many people were curious about his life, specifically the
two years and two months he spent living in the woods at Walden Pond. He writes that some
"very particular inquiries had . . .  been made by [his] townsmen regarding [his] mode of
life . . ." Further, many asked about what he ate while he lived alone in the woods, if he
ever got lonely, what he did with his income, and so forth.  

Moreover,
Thoreau writes that he "require[s] of every writer . . . a simple and sincere account of
his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives." He says that he is
confined to writing about himself because it is what he knows best. He hopes that his readers
"will accept such portions as apply to them." In other words, Thoreau intends to write
a book that he would respect were it written by someone else, and he hopes that he writes things
that other...

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While I have not
read the novel byin a few years, I would love to see a movie adaptation of
it. If I were to cast the movie at the time (or within a...

How Does Dimmesdale Die

You'll
remember that in , whencommits adultery, she refuses to name the father of
her unborn child.  It isthat argues, after 's (the baby's) birth, that Hester should be allowed
to remain in the community as her mother.

When Hester's long-lost husband, ,
appears in disguise, he befriends Dimmesdale, though they are very different, and with his
knowledge and background, passes himself off as a physician. (His intent is revenge on the man
that Hester was unfaithful with.)  Dimmesdale is unwell, often putting his hand to his heart;
his guilt eats away at him over the years, for his is the father of Hester's child.

At one point (while Dimmesdale is in a deep--perhaps drugged--sleep), Chillingworth
examines the minister; seeing something beneath the sick man's shirt, Chillingworth's need for
revenge and his hatred intensify.

By this time, Pearl is seven.  Hester talks
to Chillingworth and asks him to stop tormenting Dimmesdale, realizing why her
"husband" is staying so close to the minister.  Chillingworth refuses, so Hester tells
Chillingworth's secret to Dimmesdale, and the couple agree to leave, taking Pearl with them, to
start a new life.  Chillingworth discovers their plan.

The pair now know they
will never be free of Chillingworth.  As he leaves the church after services, suddenly,
Dimmesdale's vitality leaves him, and clutching at Hester and Pearl, he confesses his part in
Hester's fall from grace, shows the mark hidden beneath his shirt, which looks like an
"A," and Dimmesdale dies.

The "A" he "wears"
ties him to the adulterous affair with Hester, though she had never disclosed his identity in
all the years in which she lived as an outcast in this Puritan
environment.

Why did Shakespeare use androgyny in writing Macbeth?

I would
suggest that Shakespeare does not so much use androgyny as, rather, allude to male and female
traits--in the way they are conventionally understood--as a means of explaining or clarifying
the motives and actions of his characters.

Lady 's famous wish to be
"unsexed" indicates that she herself believes that, as a woman, she doesn't have the
qualities required to plot or carry out a murder. Other things about her behavior suggests a
stereotyped femininity. She urgesto commit the murder ofrather than doing it herself. This is a
case of her using her "feminine wiles." But one could interpret the wish to see her
man become successful as a positive trait (though in this case severely misguided!) motivating
her rather than pure selfishness. However, in more than one scene she tries to humiliate Macbeth
by questioning his strength, his masculinity. When the ghost ofappears and Macbeth becomes
hysterical, she pointedly asks him, "Are you a man?" and then,

Oh,...

How does Madame Loisel in "The Necklace" change emotionally, physically, and mentally?

Madame
Loisel undergoes a complete
transformation from beginning to end of 's "."

In the
beginning of the story, Mathilde is described as pretty, charming, and born
for
luxury. She constantly compares her humble life to the one she feels she
deservesone of
"dainty dinners, of shining silverware, of tapestry." She is
heartbroken that she
possesses no jewels or fancy apparel and that she is not
envied in her life. Mathilde is
described as suffering because she believes
she is poor. Everything hurts herthe shabby
furniture, the ugly curtains, her
plain clothing, even the peasant who she hires to do her
housework.

Once her husband gives her the money to purchase an elegant dress,

she is not satisfied and decides she needs jewelry. Her husband's brilliant idea to
borrow
jewelry from her wealthy friend Jeanne solves Mathilde's problem. She
is ecstatic to wear such
lavish clothing and a diamond necklace, and her
entire demeanor changes as a result.

At the
party,...

What are the advantages of industrialization?

Industrialization
is not only an engine for employment, wealth and technical skill, but an engine for the
development of technology.  Modern conveniences, medical advances, changes in lifestyle,
education, popular living locations, transportation development, machination - all of these are
examples of how industrialization has contributed to widespread and large scale changes to how
people live, and how well they live.

It is also probably the single greatest
factor for the enlargement of and migration to the cities.  Take the explosion in the US
population in the North after 1865, for example, as a direct result of rapid industrial
development.

What is the purpose of Dr. Rank in the play A Doll's House?

The
presence of Dr. Rank in the play shows us that, even in the midst of a rigidly patriarchal
society, it's still possible for men to behave decently towards women. By extension, this means
that the likes ofcan't portray themselves as the helpless victims of society's prevailing norms
and expectations. If they treat women abominably, as Torvald does, then that is because they've
chosen to. Their behavior isn't determined by society and so they cannot evade their
responsibilities.

As Rank is a fundamentally decent man, he's able to provide
a moral commentary on the other, all of whom have very serious flaws. He doesn't do this
explicitly, of course, but the other characters' flaws are revealed by their interactions
with...

Describe the most impressive plant in the garden "Rappuccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In 's
"Rappuccini's Daughter," there is one
shrub that is set in a marble vase in the middle
of the pool of the fountain
which bears "a profusion of purple blossoms," that are
luxuriant, lustrous
and rich like gems.  The entire plant seems so magnificent that it brightens

the entire garden without the aid of any other light.  This splendid plant Beatrice
calls her
"sister" as she opens her arms as though to embrace it.  As
Giovanni watches Beatrice
and the afternoon wanes, it seems as though there
is "an oppressive exhalation"
proceeding from the plants and coming up to his
window.

The next day,
Giovanni looks out at the garden and
sees the "gorgeous shrub that hung its gem-like
flowers over the fountain."
Then, Beatrice appears, arraigned much like the plant in
a dress of similar
hues.  Approaching this resplendent shrub, Beatrice opens her arms and

gathers the branches into an intimate embrace, so intimate that her face is hidden in
the
plant's bosom.  When she cuts a flower to wear that has the dazzling
effect of a gem, a drop of
liquid falls onto an unsuspecting
lizard, and it writhes and then dies. 

Later, as Giovanni
enters the garden, Beatrice appears and speaks with him.  As they
converse,
they move close to the deadly plant.  "For the fist time in my life...I had

forgotten thee," Beatrice says to the plant.  Now in love with a man, Beatrice thinks
not
of the gorgeous plant.  Seeing them, Dr. Rappaccini enters the garden and
tells Beatrice that
Giovanni now can join hands with her.  In fact, he can
wear the magnificent purple leaves as
they will no longer harm
him.