Rhetorical Devices Old Major's speech Looking for list and examples of rhetorical devices in Old Majors speech.

One
primary rhetorical literary deviceuses is that of repetition. There are many classes of
rhetorical repetition. One Major uses often is the repetition of beginning of clauses. This kind
of repetition is called . An example of anaphora is Major's "No animal
in England" repetition.

What does "swooned" mean in "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe?

To swoon is to faint, and the
narrator faints because he is frightened and being held prisoner.

This story is about a man who is being tortured. He has been condemned by the Spanish
Inquisition. At first, he is just kept in the dark. He is so scared and lacking in nutrition
that sometimes he just faints.

I had swooned; but still
will not say that all of consciousness was lost. What of it there remained I will not attempt to
define, or even to describe; yet all was not lost. In the deepest slumberno! In deliriumno! In a
swoonno! In deathno! even in the grave all is not lost.

When the narrator says he swoons without losing consciousness, he is saying that he
faints but not completely. When you faint it is almost like instantly falling asleep. Usually a
person will faint due to bad health or fear.  In this case, both situations apply.

When the narrator faints, he has brief periods of lucidity upon regaining consciousness
when he remembers what happened to him.

And now a full
memory of the trial, of the judges, of the sable draperies, of the sentence, of the sickness, of
the swoon. Then entire forgetfulness of all that followed; of all that a later day and much
earnestness of endeavor have enabled me vaguely to recall.

Unfortunately for the narrator, things are only about to get worse. He is being held
prisoner under a giant pendulum. As the pendulum swings back and forth, it gains momentum and
gets closer to killing him. Fortunately, in the end he is rescued just as he is about to
die.

This story is very suspenseful, and some of the suspense comes from the
narrator going in and out of consciousness. He is in a dream-like state and not lucid enough to
fully describe his situation.

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MUSIC-Do you think music is important in life? To me,yes. I'm a kind of person who is not that much into study matters.I am not so fond of music and...

I think that
listening to music is important, as someone else has stated it can lift our spirits when we are
down. If you are fortunate to have the talent to actually play music it is even more
important.

Name two characters and explain the ways in which these characters express themselves as they try to deal with the irony of the story. "The Open...

In 's
"," there are two other characters involved in the narrative besides Vera, who, of
course, creates theof the narrative.  The first is Mr. Framton Nuttel, who has recently suffered
from nervous exhaustion and is sent to the countryside for a rest, which, ironically, does not
experience.  His sister has sent him to visit Mrs. Sappleton in hopes that the socialization
will relax her brother.  But, instead of a leisurely visit with her, Nuttel becomes the audience
to "a...

"""They had done it. They had done it at last!" What had Winston and Julia achieved? ""

As was
mentioned in the previous post, the given quote takes place at the beginning of Book Two,
Chapter 8. In Chapter 8,andfinally meet privately with, who they assume is a member of the
Brotherhood. Access into the home of an Inner Party member is rare and nearly impossible, which
is one reason why their visit is an extraordinary achievement. Winston and Julia are also
excited about joining forces with a Party dissident. They both recognize the risk involved in
joining...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: "of the creation of the universe and the existence of something as a sign and an affront to nothing, is a blank one." What is...

The
way to understand Dillard's
statement in is to fix it in its context,
which is all
metaphorical and jumping from oneto another with very few solid pieces to
sink
one's teeth into, metaphorically speaking. Dillard is discussing the
existence of the universe
and the place of creatures in that universe. To
this end she is contemplating fish in Tinker
Creek and collecting mountains
of generalized facts. She states that she is overwhelmed by the
effort to see
through the veil darkly, metaphorically speaking, into things so vast and

indecipherable; she evens leaves the contemplation of birthrates and populations (both
tied
inexorably to climate change) to those who dare to contemplate it, as
she dares not.

This brings us to the quote in question.
Here Dillard is stating that the primary
question,...

How can Zappos's core of value benefit other companies?

Zappos is
an online shoe store based in Las Vegas. Since 2008, the company has made over a billion dollars
in sales every year. The success of Zappos is highly dependent on its unique company culture and
core values. Unlike other eCommerce firms, Zappos focuses on being different and offering unique
customer service. The good news is that other companies can learn from the core values of Zappos
and use that knowledge to grow.

The first core value is giving customers the
WOW factor. To do this, a business must know its core strengths. By leveraging on its expertise,
the firm can deliver services that standout from the rest. Also, the services should have an
emotional impact on the customer. Make them feel good, and they will
return.

The second core value is to accept change and use it to drive your
business forward. Pay attention to trends that may affect your business. Then see how you can
incorporate the new trend in your business. When you go with the times, your business remains
relevant.

The third core value is to create a fun working environment that
embraces employee differences. Workers are very important for your business because they help
you to serve customers. Therefore, you should keep them motivated if you want your clients to be
served well. One way that you can do that is by creating a fun working environment. You should
also give employees the freedom to be themselves. Embrace their weirdness, and they will
reciprocate by being more productive.

Another Zappos core value that other
businesses can adopt is open-mindedness. The management team at Zappos embraces innovativeness.
They encourage employees to think outside the box and come up with new ways to improve the
customer service. Therefore, you should encourage innovation and creativity in your business if
you want to stand out.

The other core value that businesses can adopt is
humility. Despite making over a billion dollars in sales every year, Zappos employees and
management dont brag about their success. The company respects other players. Dont let success
ruin your firms reputation. Always maintain the same level of humility that you had when you
started the business. That way, you will continue to foster relationships that help your
business grow.

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What are the purposes of Christmas carols?

We must
first differentiate between Christmas "Carols", Christmas "songs", and
Christmas Hymns. Many of the songs one hears at Christmas time are not actually Christmas
carols.  Especially "secular" songs, such as "Jingle Bells", "Frosty
the Snowman", are not carols, but popular songs written on imaginatively generated texts.
They invoke ideas and customs we have come to associate with the Season over many years, and are
meant to heighten our enjoyment of the traditions we have come to celebrate
societally.

Even songs such as "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas",
"The First Snowfall of the Winter", "Walking in a Winter Wonderland", etc.,
are not Christmas carols. Many are individually composed for
commercial purposes, and many are from movies such as "Holiday Inn".  This does not
lessen their value and their position in popular music.  It is simply that they are to be
distinguished from carols, about which you have inquired.

Carols, technically, are those vocal pieces which were
originally meant as teaching agents.  In Medieval times, very few persons were literate. They
were not able to read the scriptures for themselves, nor, as a matter of fact, were they allowed
to do so, even if capable.  The Church saw the reading of Scripture as a function of the clergy,
who were also the only persons who had access to the Bible before the invention of the printing
press.

We must also remember that the Scriptures were generally read in
Latin, despite the fact that Latin was no longer the lingua franca of those who listened to the
reading of same. To enable the laity to be taught the stories of the Bible and the beliefs of
the Church, several devices came into use.  Stained glass windows, for example, depicted scenes
from the Bible, which could be explained to lay persons in their own language.  They were then
reminded of the stories, and their attendant meanings, when they viewed the windows.

Similarly, stories, primarily of the advent and birth of Jesus, were taught by the
singing of songs which told the story, although there are also carols for Easter.  The carols
were composed in popular styles, accompanied often by drums, primitive flutes (such as
recorders), and brought to the attention of the public through performances much like a
traveling show of earlier days in our own country.

Themes from the Old
Testament, such as that stating that Jesus was the "Second Adam", were taught in such
carols as "Adam lay y-bounded".  Seeing the Christ Child as a winter-blooming rose was
taught with "Lo!  How a Rose E'er-Blooming". Some of these, called "macaronic
carols", featured the native language, with interspersions of short, Latin phrases, such as
"Gaudeamus" (meaning "let us praise"), or "Adoramus Dominus"
("Let us adore the Lord"), which the people heard often in church.

Therefore, the purpose of Christmas carols, in direct response to your question, was
originally as a device for teaching.  Over the centuries, the original use was not abandoned,
but added to, by simple ideas of joy, wonder, mystery, and gratitude.  In our present day,
carols are often un-distinguished from other seasonal songs, which are largely imbued with the
same intent, whether it be sacred or secular.

I mentioned above that
Christmas carols are often thought of in the same vein as Christmas hymns.  The difference lies
primarily in the fact that Carols were originally in a popular , much like the "street
music" of the day.  That is to say, the dance rhythms of the time were adopted and adapted
for religious purposes. The people were familiar with such music, and could, therefore, be
"enticed" to the learning of Christian ideals through its use.  In actuality, we find
the same process today, as is witnessed to by the fact that we can hear music which, at first,
sounds like any other "rock" or popular music on the radio, CD's, etc.  Only after
listening carefully to the words do we find that they carry a Christian message.

On the other hand, Christmas Hymns are more akin to the
traditional hymnody of the Church, based largely on Lutheran Chorales by Bach(1685-1750), or on
Victorian hymns.  These hymns are "strophic" in nature (meaning that several verses
are sung to a single melody), and are usually harmonized in Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass
parts.

Whether in popular Christmas music, Christmas hymns, or Christmas
Carols, the purpose is to share the stories and traditions of Christmas in ways which can be
enjoyed through passive listening and active participation of singing.

What is the meaning of tribulation in paragraph 14?

In paragraph
14, Martin Luther King is addressing the black and white activists in the audience who came to
the March on Washington. Tribulations are sufferings or persecutions. King specifically mentions
people coming "fresh from jail cells," perhaps where they were incarcerated for civil
rights work. He also says people are arriving after suffering police brutality. He offers them
special praise for their "creative suffering" for the cause.

Tribulation is a word with Biblical overtones. King, a pastor, wants to tie the
struggles of the blacks for full freedom (civil rights) in the United States to the struggles of
the Israelites for freedom from Egypt. Biblical Israelites suffered many tribulations but God
was always with them. Tribulation is also used in the New Testament to refer to a period of
suffering before the faithful are gathered up by Jesus in the Rapture. Both allusions to
tribulation hold the promise of deliverance and a better time coming, which is what King wanted
people to understand was on the horizon.

What were the characteristics of the communist takeover in Eastern Europe?

The first
characteristic, in most Eastern Bloc countries, was the violent nature of the takeover.  After
being overrun by German armies, the countries were again overrun by their liberating comrades in
the Russian army.  A relatively immediate and forceful government takeover of nearly all aspects
of life followed.  Remember that this is not just...

In Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Black Cat, how does the description of the cat as "sagacious" contribute to the meaning of the story?

Walter Fischer

In his 1843 short story , s narrator describes himself as an animal
lover, with a particular affinity for certain of his and his spouses many pets.  Among those he
considers particularly discerning is a large black cat named Pluto.  In explaining his affinity
for animals, the narrator uses as an example of the way in which the bond can form between a
human and his or her pet the loyalty the animal has to its owner.  As he states early in the
story,

To those who have cherished an affection for a
faithful and sagacious dog, I need hardly be at the trouble of explaining the nature of the
intensity of the gratification thus derivable.

In the
case of the narrator, it is not a dog with whom he develops a special bond of mutual admiration
and respect, it is the cat.  Once again, as Poes narrator explains his relationship to the cat,
he emphasizes its apparent gift for discerning quality in a human:

[The cat] was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious
to an astonishing degree. Plutothis was the cats namewas my favorite pet and playmate. I alone
fed him, and he attended me wherever I went about the house.

The repeated use of the word sagacious in describing the qualities of favored pets is
almost certainly intended to emphasize the significance of the cats later transition from loyal
and loving to suspicious and fearful.  This transition, as the narrator attests, occurs in the
context of his increasing consumption of alcohol and the dramatic mood changes that
result:

I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable,
more regardless of the feelings of others. . . My pets, of course, were made to feel the change
in my disposition.

While he points out that his changing
temperament with regard to those with whom he shared a residence €“ wife and pets €“ had caused
a deterioration in his relationships, he does note that his feelings for the cat had not
similarly changed.  That the cat, however, changes its attitude towards the narrator is a direct
reflection of its sagacious nature:  it senses the narrators growing hostility to all those
around him and reacts accordingly, thereby alienating itself from its master.

What is meant by this quote? "The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed that collection of myths to which white...

African
Americans have never needed to subscribe to dominant myths because they were born into a harsh
reality of oppression, marginalization, and prejudice. The creation of myths is a privilege of
power; as African  Americans have never exercised power in the United States to any great
degree, they have not been able to generate the kind of galvanic, power-enhancing myths that
entrench white dominance.

Such myths, however, are seldom consciously
constructed. They develop over time, serving the needs of those who come to believe in them in
various different ways. As successive generations of white people are raised under these myths,
they lack the wider perspective on American history necessary to understand the nature of racial
oppression. In blunt terms, they have been brainwashed. People who have been brainwashed tend
not to be held responsible for their beliefs.

This is not to suggest that
white people are in any way unaccountable for racist actions; I simply mean to point out
that...

What is the conflict in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?

Aside
from the obvious conflict between Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones, there are a number of other
conflicts at work in 's . First, the beliefs of the very town are in
conflict with the larger region, as those in the town subscribe to various superstitions,
including that of the Headless Horseman. Irving comments on the discrepancy, going so far as to
say that when outsiders come to Tarrytown

they are sure,
in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to
dream dreams, and see apparitions.

Within Ichabod himself
is also the conflict between his fondness for supernatural tales and their effects on his
imagination. Washington writes of Ichabod's enjoyment of ghost stories:

But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cuddling in
the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and
where, of course, no spectre dared to show its face, it was dearly...

How is Winston affected by the abuse of power?

The
abuse of power by the state forcesto take
increasingly dangerous risks. As well as embarking
upon an illicit
relationship with , Winston allows himself to become embroiled in what he
thinks
is a plot to overthrow the government. All this is because Winston,
deep down, is still an
individuala human being with his own thoughts and
feelings despite the efforts of the Party to
turn him into an unthinking
automaton.

He bridles against the systemic abuse
of
power, of which he's just one of many victims, and he is always on the lookout for ways
of
resisting the regime and its tyranny. Whether it's writing "Down with Big
Brother" in
his diary or engaging in the very risky acts we've already
mentioned, Winston's instinctive
reaction to the abuse of power is to rebel.
In a society where nothing less than...

What enabled the Allies to win the Battle of the Atlantic?

The Battle of
the Atlantic occurred between
German U-Boats (submarines) and the surface American and British
Fleets. 
Between 1941, when the US entered the Second World War, and early 1943, the German
subs
contained US shipping to Britain with traditional submarine tactics that
had been developed
during World War I.  The traditional counter-strategy was
for the Merchant Marine, which was
transporting war materiel, to travel in
convoys, made up of navy escorts (battleships and
destroyers) to accompany
the transport ships, the US covering from its coast to Iceland, and the

British covering from Iceland to its coast.  This strategy worked better than single
ships
crossing the Atlantic, but losses continued to mount.   Admiral Karl
Doenitz (1891-1980) devised
the concept of the "Wolfpack," to amass
underwater firepower by grouping numbers of
German subs together to
simultaneously attack the convoys.  By producing subs in large numbers,
he
believed they could contain the whole of the Allied War effort, and for a time, he was
proven
right!  Allied shipping began to incur huge losses -- so much so that
it became known in the
German Submarine fleet as the "Happy Time," as very
few German subs were lost, and the
monthly tonnage of Allied shipping sunk
continued to increase ominously.  However, Allied
technological advances
began to destroy the wolfpacks -- Great Britain shared its ASDIC system

(Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee) which the US termed SONAR (SOund,
NAvigation
and Ranging) which enabled both surface fleets to track and
destroy subs more efficiently.  The
US began a plan of air escort, with
aircraft equipped with antisubmarine bombs which could put
the sub on
defensive before it could acquire a ship and launch its torpedoes.  Finally, the
US
developed an forward throwing offensive weapon for ships known as the
"hedgehog,"
which could quickly saturate an area with depth charges and
increase the chances of a hit on a
sub.  These measures began to destroy more
German subs and crews than could be replaced, and by
1943, the tide had
literally turned in favor of the Allies.  By war's end, Germany had 30,000

casualties of the 40,000 underwater sailors that comprised the submariner fleet. Winning
the
Battle of the Atlantic was critical for the Allied war effort; once the
Atlantic was under
Allied control, the full industrial output of the US could
be shipped to Britain and brought to
bear against a conquered Europe. 
Stockpiling supplies began in earnest in England; the invasion
of Europe
(D-Day) followed within a year.

Two excellent references on
this
topic are the movie Das Boot ("The Boat") and the
World
at War video series, episode 14, entitled
"Wolfpack."

What were the social issues during the fall of the Byzantine Empire?

There were
basically two social causes to the fall of the Byzantine Empire. First was a class struggle over
land between the free peasants and the wealthy aristocracy. Byzantine rulers had depended on the
peasants to serve in the military and pay taxes. Over time, as land became a more lucrative
investment, wealthy nobles were motivated to grab land and enslave the local populations of
peasants. This was similar to the system of feudalism that already existed in Western Europe for
centuries. Byzantine emperors obviously wanted to protect the free peasant system, but
ultimately failed. The loss of free peasants to serfdom caused a severe loss in tax revenue and
hurt the military to the point that the emperor needed to pay others to protect his
kingdom.

A second social cause in the fall of the Byzantine Empire was the
split in the church between the east and west. This occurred in 1054 and is called the Great
Schism. Due to the split in the church, cooperation between east and west was not as easy to
achieve. This meant that the Byzantine Empire was left to defend itself from powerful Muslim
empires that were emerging to their East. Additionally, the west actually assaulted the
Byzantine capital during the Crusades, which weakened the empire even
further.

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In Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson, briefly summarize the theme.

There are
several themes in , by . As listed with the three themes are
"rite of passage," "isolation and alienation" and "doubt and
ambiguity."

A "theme" is defined as:

...a...repeated idea that is incorporated throughout a literary
work...a thought or idea the author presents to the reader....

The theme that speaks most strongly to me is that of "alienation and
isolation." The two characters in which this theme is most clearly seen are Enoch Robinson
and Elizabeth WillardGeorge Willard's mother. Epoch Robinson is alienated not...

Please provide examples of figurative language in book 18 of the Odyssey.

A
feature of the Homeric epic, and of classical
Greek poetry in general, is its reliance on
figurative language, in part
because the use of metaphorical language is an important element of

literature that began in an oral tradition.

Book 18 covers Odysseus's
return
to his palace in Ithaka, and Odysseus, because he appears to be a
beggar, is subject to an
assault by Iros (Arnaeus) and abuse from the
suitors. The language, at least in the first 100
lines, centers on the
escalating fight between the beggar Iros and the apparent beggar Odysseus.
As
Odysseus is challenged by Iros, he reminds Iros that they are both beggars, using a
subtle,
but apt, image to make concrete their equality:

I have
done nothing to harm or insult you, nor do
I begrudge you the food that you get from these
gentlemen here. There is
plenty of room in the doorway for both of us.

This may seem to be a minor example of figurative language in , but

it is typical of the perfect image for the circumstanceOdysseus is carefully retaining
his
beggar persona by telling Iros, as well as the suitors, that he and Iros
are equals and they
both have equal claims to hospitality. Iros responds
with, "listen how he goes on like a
foul-mouthed scullery maid," using ato
place Odysseus on the level of serving
women.

Before the
fight begins in earnest, Athena makes Odysseus more
powerful, and the result
is that Odysseus is able to beat Iros easily. As his punishment for
losing
the fight, one of the suitors says,

We will
send
him [Iros] off to King Echetus on the mainland, the Mutilator.

Another important element of figurative
languageand probably a feature of the original
oral traditionis , the
reference to something or someone outside the immediate scene that
resonates
with the listeners or readers because of its cultural associations. In this case,
the
suitor alludes to either a particularly nasty ogre or an actual king
located on the mainland
near Ithaka, someone known widely for his cruelty,
and the allusion enriches the
scene.

Later in book 18,
Penelope is preparing to visit the suitors, and
Athena, wanting to make
Penelope as desirable as possible to the suitors, performs some cosmetic

magic while Penelope is asleep:

she cleansed her
beautiful
face with the fragrant ointment that is used by Aphrodite
herself...and made her complexion
whiter than than newly sawn
ivory.

This scene contains
the
allusion to the goddess of love, Aphrodite, another very important cultural touchstone
in
this culture. Even more importantly, it compares Penelope's complexion to
the ideal for
upper-class women (i.e., very white), a sign that, unlike other
women in the palace, Penelope,
despite her circumstances as an apparently
widowed woman, is of very high station and worthy of
respect and certainly of
desire.

The figurative language here and throughout
the
Homeric epics allows the poet to create concrete images that enliven abstractions.
Instead
of describing Penelope as beautiful, the poet notes that her
complexion is like "newly sawn
ivory," creating an immediate sensory
perception that the word "beautiful" could
not. And this use of metaphorical
language carries images to us that are still meaningful
because we see,
rather than merely hear, the poet's world.

I saw two shoes that were not fellows. What does this mean?

All that
this means is that the shoes were not from the same pair of shoes.  That is why they are not
fellows.  Because of this, the two shoes were of no use to him.  Presumably, he...

In Zindel's The Pigman, what is the real reason John is writing his part of the story?

On the page
preceding chapter one, there is an interesting type ofentitled "The Oath." John and
Lorraine announce here that the story they are writing is true and a "memorial epic"
for Mr. Pignati. It seems that by this oath that they want to honor the sweet old man they grew
to love and to explain a few details about what they witnessed as far as death is concerned.
For John, he probably wants to honor Mr. Pignati as well as show how Norton Kelly
indirectly caused the poor man to die. For example, in chapter 5, which is one
from John's perspective, he says that Norton is to blame.

". . . if Lorraine felt like saying one of us murdered Mr. Pignati, she should
have blamed Norton. He' the one who finally caused all the trouble" (31).

Chapter 13 is when John and Lorraine invite friends over for a
party but things get out of hand. Norton shows up unexpectedly and John catches him stealing an
oscilloscope. Norton punches John and runs away, but he's not finished. John explains the next
horrifying events as follows:

". . . there was Norton
holding a large white pig, which he brought down suddenly on a table edge, knocking its head
off. He looked inside and then threw it against the wall where it blasted to pieces. Several
other broken pigs were lying all over the floor" (155-156).

Mr. Pignati comes home to see his pig collection in pieces and his home vandalized.
John believes this is the moment that killed Mr. Pignati, even though he dies the next day at
the zoo. John would rather blame the old man's death on Norton who smashed most
of the pig collection; and, by writing parts of the story, he would be able to get his
truth about it out into the open.

In truth, though, the
destruction of the pigs was only the first breaking point. Mr. Pignati is also very disappointed
in John and Lorraine for having the party at his house while he was in the hospital. The final
thing that destroys Mr. Pignati's heart, though, is that Bobo the baboon dies at the
zoo.

What is Yali's question in Guns, Germs, and Steel?

The answer to
this can be found in the .  On page 14 of the paperback edition, (the second page of the book),
Diamond sets out Yali's question.  It reads:

Why is it
that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people
had little cargo of our own?

 

When
Yali talked about "cargo," he was referring to material possessions.  What Yali wanted
to know was why white people had come to dominate the world to such a great degree.  He wanted
to know why they were so much more advanced and so much wealthier than the people of New Guinea
(where Yali was from).  

Diamond spends the rest of the book trying to answer
this question and concludes that it was geographic luck that led to European domination of the
world.

What is the appropriate age group to read the novel (not the movie). I have an 11 year old who is interested in reading the book we still do not let...

It is best to
leave it to an early high school population due to the nature of the story, and because there is
expletive language used in the book. The description in which Susie is raped and killed is quite
strong, and I couldn't visualize any of my 6th-8th graders quite getting a grasp on it without
taking away the morbo on it, which would defeat the purpose.

By the time kids
reach 8th grade, they would have read Beowulf which is no picnic either, so they would be
mentally ready a year later to deal with something a bit more explicit.

What is the significance of insomnia in Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"?

In
Hemingway's iconography, good places are clean and filled with light. We see this in
"," as well, when Harry dreams he is taken to the mountaintop, where he is at peace,
as he actually lies dying in the valley, filled with self-recrimination. In this story, the cafe
is clean and well lit, while outside, the dark descends. The older waiter muses on this as he
closes the cafe: "It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and
order." The young waiter had been impatient to return to his home and his wife, while the
older waiter, who suffers from insomnia, wants to linger in the cafe, reflecting on his life and
his emptiness. This older waiter has also displayed sympathy for the customer who had tried to
kill himself.

In Modernist literature, and in Hemingway especially, it's
important to listen for echoes of earlier worksthe collective memories of a culture that seems
to have faded. In this brief interlude, the old waiter's thoughts of...

Where is enantiodromia seen in the play Oedipus the King by Sophocles?

This is a
highly intelligent question. It is best to start off with a definition of
enantiodromia

State the three parts to cell theory.

The
three parts to the cell theory are as follows:

1. All living things
   are composed of cells.
2. All cells come from preexisting cells.


3. Cells are the basic unit of structure and function of living things. In other words,
   cells are the most basic building blocks of life.

The cell theory
resulted from the work of several different scientists spread over the course of years. 
Matthias Schleiden stated in 1838 that all plants are made of cells, and a year later Theodor
Schwann said that all animals are made of cells.  In 1855, Rudolf Virchow stated that all cells
arise from the division of preexisting cells.  This discovery put an end to the previous
thinking that cells simply came about through spontaneous generation.  It is from their work and
observations that we get the cell theory.  

href="https://www.britannica.com/science/cell-biology/The-process-of-differentiation">https://www.britannica.com/science/cell-biology/The-proce...

Why do George and Lennie recite their dream?

In
,anddream of one day owning their own piece of land, of being
self-sufficient, and of never having to work ever again for anybody else.

Throughout the story, Lennie repeatedly asks George to recite this dream. For example,
in the opening chapter, Lennie implores George to "Tell me ... Like you done before."
George then recites the dream, repeating the words "rhythmically as though he had said them
many times before." He tells Lennie that they have "a future" and that they will
look after one another. He also tells Lennie that they will have "a little house and a
couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs" and that they will "live off the fatta the
lan.'" This is George and Lennie's own version of the American Dream. When we first hear
George and Lennie talking about this dream, we feel hopeful for them.

Later
in the story, George mentions this dream again. He says that he knows "a little place
(they) can get cheap." Lennie insists that George tell him more about the place, and George
tells him that "it's ten acres" and has "a little windmill ... a chicken run ...
orchard ... a place for alfalfa and plenty water to flood it." When we hear about George
and Lennie's dream the second time, we become even more hopeful for them. Their dream seems so
close and so possible.

At the end of the story, however, after Lennie
accidentally kills Curley's Wife, we realize that the dream that was so close will never come
true. The fact that the dream has been repeatedly recited throughout the novel, each time
building a more and more palpable sense of hope, makes the loss of that dream at the end of the
story all the more tragic.

Explain how "Harrison Bergeron" is a satire.

In addition to pointing
out human flaws or missteps, uses sarcasm, , and other literary
devices in order to compel us to change or to remedy whatever problem or vice is being
illuminated in the text.

The story makes use of irony when George calls the
time beforewhen "everybody [was] competing against everybody else" because people
could use their natural talents and gifts fullythe "dark ages." It defies expectation
to think of such an era as "dark" when we see that people, in the time in which the
story is set, are prevented from using their superior intellect or heightened grace or atypical
beauty in the name of fairness. Such irony helps to illuminate the idea that we often place
fairness ahead of progress and common sense.

Hazel says, of the
speech-impaired news announcer, "He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him.
He should get a nice raise for trying so hard." Rather than hire someone who can do the job
well, a man who cannot possibly perform well is...

Bring out the tragic and comic elements in The Metamorphosis.

Kafka's novella is funny on a number of
levels. First, Gregor's whole situationhis transformation into a giant insectfunctions as a kind
of broad joke, an example of , or amade literal. Gregor isn't simply insignificant
like an insecthe is an insect. His transformation has
additional comic effect as he family struggles to understand what has happened to him and how to
act. Grete's repudiation of Gregor-as-insect is a kind of final comic take on man's inhumanity
to man (or brother, in this case): she argues that if the bug really were Gregor, it would have
the sense to know it was not wanted and leave on its own!

The tragic
implications of Gregor's case are equally clear. As a bug, he is stigmatized, feared, and
unloved, even by his own family. If we understand his transformation as a kind of realization of
his social and political powerlessness, then we can understand his fate as a bug to be the fate
of all who share his disenfranchisementa fate that ultimately destroys even the bonds of
family.

An extra tragic twist lies in the empathy Grete expresses only after
Gregor is dead: Look how thin he was," she says, recognizing the corpse of the bug as her
brother. The end of the storywhich suggests that the Samsas have a bright future now that Gregor
is gonealso has a tragic air to it. While it is possible to read their sense of well being as
another example of their insensitivity, on another level their eagerness to embrace the
bourgeois life (now they can get a better apartment!) suggests that they are just as trapped and
powerless as Gregor.

What is the theme of "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns?

While the
overriding theme is Love in 's ","
there is another theme suggested even in the title:
Time.

A rose that is very red is at its fullest and will shortly die. The

first two lines suggest the temporal nature of love:

O my
Luves like a red, red rose,
Thats newly sprung in
June: 

However, Burns makes a
distinction in his verses: When the "Luve" is a person
in this poem, the life
is limited, just as is that of a rose; however, whenever "Luve"
is mentioned
relative to emotions, there are images in the poem suggesting that time is
unable
to affect the life of the love:

Till a the seas gang dry,
my Dear,
And the rocks melt wi
the sun:
O I will luve thee still, my Dear,

While the
sands o life shall run.

Because of

this distinction in the meaning of the speaker's declaration of his love, the emotion
and life
of this love is afforded more depth and intensity. And, thus, the
last lines suggest both the
temporality and the eternity of love. Clearly,
Robert Burns's poem strives to find a compromise
between the temporary and
the eternal nature of love.

Why did they make the Treaty of Versailles?

The
Treaty of Versailles was designed to bring peace to Europe afterand to punish Germany for
starting the conflict.

In very broad terms, the Treaty took land away from
Germany, which was held solely responsible for starting the War; Alsace-Lorraine was given to
France and the rich farmlands of Posen in Prussia...

Compare the use of houses as psychological metaphors in "Araby" and "The Yellow Wallpaper." One possible question to consider is how the houses carry...

Both houses
in "" and "The Yellow Wallpaper"
are psychological metaphors for entrapment
and lack of possibility.

In "Araby," the houses on the unnamed
narrator's block represent the
boy's entrapment in the stagnant culture of Dublin. The street he
lives on is
described as "blind," meaning it ends in a cul-de-sac or a dead end. There

are almost no ways out. The houses on the block are brown, a symbol of Ireland's
perceived
dullness and lack of color or possibility.

His
own house carries grim
reminders of the past. A now-dead priest once lived in
it, and the air in it is "hung"
with a "musty" odor. He finds old books in
the house and "useless"
newspapers. It is stagnant, trapped in the past, just
as the narrator believes that Ireland
is.

In "The Yellow
Wallpaper," the patterned yellow wallpaper that
covers the walls of the room
in which the unnamed narrator lives comes to represent both her
entrapment
and her deteriorating mental health as she is put into a place of isolation
with
nothing to do.

Like the home in "Araby," the house
looks back to an
oppressive past rather than forward to the future. It is
"ancestral," a "colonial
mansion," "hereditary," and "haunted." Everything
about it symbolizes
the patriarchy that stifles the narrator, from which she
feels helpless to escape. The
greenhouses on the estate, symbols of growth,
are described as broken. The windows of the room
she is consigned to have
bars on the windows, another symbol of the entrapment.

She
describes the yellow wallpaper as the "worse" pattern ever and says of

it:

It is dull enough to confuse the eye in
following,
pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and
when you follow the lame
uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly
commit suicideplunge off at outrageous
angles, destroy themselves in unheard
of contradictions.

As the story makes
clear, the "dull," "lame," and suicidal
wallpaper comes to represent the
narrator's own psyche and psychic disintegration.

In both
stories, houses are used both as metaphors for how the relics of the past

entrap people seeking light and life. In "Araby," Ireland is the trap for the

narrator, and in "The Yellow Wallpaper" it is patriarchy. In "Araby"

entrapment leads to anguish and humiliation while in Gilman's story it leads
to
psychosis.

What is the meaning of fame in the poem "On Fame" by John Keats?

In the
context of the poem, Keats is referring to man's lust for renown, the omnipresent desire to be
noticed and admired by other people. He criticizes this attitude throughout the poem,
contrasting it unfavorably with the simplicity and grace of the natural world. Man is forever
restless and unsatisfied; he is always striving to achieve high status in the eyes of his
fellows. In contrast, look at the...

Why is Yali's question in Guns, Germs, and Steel important to us today?

In
, Yali asks Diamond why white men have so much cargo and people in New
Guinea have so little. Many of the multiple conflicting interpretations of the question and of
Diamonds answer are analyzed in Errington and Gewertzs book Yali's
Question. The fact that so many people have taken interest in the question in itself
constitutes an argument for its continued relevance.

One of the key elements
of the question is the term cargo. Most readers (and viewers of the related PBS video) have
interpreted this as synonymous for wealth or manufactured goods. By extension, they have
seen Yali as asking Diamond to explain why the authors native country or region is wealthier
than the one where Yali lives. A primary critique of that perspective is an implicit accusation
of injustice, or a colonialist approach in which the West extracts resources from the rest of
the world and uses them to manufacture goods for sale, often to consumers...

In Animal Farm, what are Snowball's views on education for the animals?

wants to
educate the other animals as far as possible so that they can be informed participants in the
new society he is trying to build. He organizes reading and writing classes for this purpose.
While all the pigs learn to read and write very rapidly, for most of the other animals this is a
difficult, if not impossible, task. We learn that Benjamin could read as well as the pigs, that
the dogs were good at learning to read but not interested, that Muriel the goat could read
almost as well as the dogs, and that Clover learns the whole alphabet.

,
however, only can learn to the letter D. Many of the animals get nowhere:

None of the other animals on the farm could get further than the
letter A. It was also found that the stupider animals, such as the sheep, hens, and ducks, were
unable to learn the Seven Commandments by heart. After much thought Snowball declared that the
Seven Commandments could in effect be reduced to a single maxim, namely: "Four legs good,
two legs bad."

In Ender's Game Chapter 7, why are the adults the real enemies?

The thing the
kids at Battle School have largely forgotten is that they are in training
for a real war.  So many of them are so wrapped up in the "games" and battles against
other armies, that they have lost sight of the big picture.  Ender realizes that Bonzo is one
such student.

Rather than attempting to become the best commander he can be,
to learn from others and learn from his mistakes, Bonzo instead takes everything personally. 
Bonzo has made a personal enemy out of Ender.  Ender realizes this - but rather than retaliate,
or become afraid, he weighs his options.  He knows that the teachers are aware of everything in
the school - and at this point he has a pretty good idea that they are not going to intervene in
advance to stop something potentially dangerous.

Ender sets his sights on
personal survival in more ways than one.  He takes personal defense classes in case it ever
comes to hand-to-hand fighting with Bonzo.  But more than that, he begins to think about how he
can be the very best student that ever existed in the history of the Battle School.  Ender knows
this is his only real chance at not only surviving through training, but surviving the bigger
picture as well.  The teachers have complete control of Ender while he is in Battle School - and
in this chapter he realizes he does not need to worry about petty battles with other students -
but instead learn how to beat the system.

Moli¨res plays strictly observe all three unities: there is one central action, taking place in a single location, and the time of the performance...

It's
difficult to address this question without beginning with Samuel Johnson's
Preface to Shakespeare, in which he tackles this very issue. In the
eighteenth century, in which Johnson was writing, there was an emphasis on Classical forms, such
as Aristotle's unities of place, time, and action. Theses unities, which Moli¨re adhered to,
dictated that a play take place in one place, avoid subplots, and be restrained to a 24-hour
periodor as in Moli¨re's case, real time. Shakespeare, as the question notes, ignored these
rules.

An advantage of observing the unities is that they impose a form or
grid on a play that forces a playwright to stay focused. As with writing a sonnet of 14 lines, a
rigid form keeps a playwright's writing concise and on track. It ensures a play is easy to
follow. Its compression can also heighten the emotional impact of a story.

Shakespeare's ignoring of the unities, however, gave him an enormous amount of freedom
to move his plays from place to place, such as from Rome to Egypt, introduce subplots to
provideor illuminate a main plot point, or cover months or years of time. This freedom allowed
for a vast amount of richness and creativity to enter his plays. And as Johnson notes, audiences
realize they are watching a work ofand are able to adjust themselves to the world a play
presents. They are not concerned about rigidfor

The
reflection that strikes the heart is not, that the evils before us are real evils, but that they
are evils to which we ourselves may be exposed.

Further,
Johnson believed Shakespeare's characters were so realistic that that feature of his drama
imposed its own unity.

A drawback to the unities is that they can become a
strait jacket in the hands of a lesser playwright than Moli¨re, imposing artificiality on a
play or forcing characters to have experiences that don't properly fit real time or one
location. You don't, for example, want too much reporting of events that happened in other
places, as that can make a play static and dull. Moliere is a great playwright, but he does not
have the stature of Shakespeare, and that is in part because his plays are constrained in what
they can do.

A drawback to freedom is the concept of "so much rope that
you hang yourself." Shakespeare could carry off his complicated plots because of his
consistent characters, but even he sometimes could fall too heavily into comic subplots that
threatened to turn too much attention from the main story. In a lesser playwright, the lack
rules could result in a confusing mess of a drama.

On the
whole, the relationship betweenand her father can reasonably be described as fraught. This is
the inevitable consequence of a gigantic clash between two powerful, headstrong personalities,
each determined to get what they want.

is very much a man of his time and
social class. He is lord and master of his own household and reserves the right to determine his
children's future. In relation to Juliet, this means that she will marry the drippy, uninspiring
. Lord Capulet's under no illusions about any genuine feelings Paris may have for his daughter;
the forthcoming nuptials between the unhappy couple will be nothing more than a political
arrangement, a diplomatic alliance between two powerful, prominent families.

Juliet, for her part, is equally determined...

Explain the transformation that has taken place in Elie's faith.

Before
Elie becomes a prisoner at
Auschwitz and experiences the horrors of the Holocaust, he is a
devout Jew,
who spends the majority of his adolescence studying the Talmud and praying in
the
synagogue. Elie also attempted to learn the secrets of the Kabbalah and
intently reads the Zohar
with Moishe the Beadle. Tragically, Nazi soldiers
take over his peaceful village, transport the
Jewish community to the
Auschwitz concentration camp, and Elie experiences unimaginable
atrocities
during the Holocaust.

In chapter five, Elie completely
abandons
his faith on the Eve of Rosh Hashanah. Elie refuses to pray to the
Almighty and becomes the
accuser of God. Elie no longer believes that God is
omnipotent and feels that man is stronger
than Him. Elie cannot understand
how a benevolent, powerful God could allow such horrors to take
place against
His people, which is why he completely loses his faith in

God.

Why does Bruno call his sister Gretel a "Hopeless Case"?

Theof
Boyne's novel is a nine-year-old German boy named Bruno. Bruno is depicted
as a small, naive child who has difficulty adjusting to his new life in "Out-With,"
which is how he pronounces the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp. Initially, Bruno does not
get along with his domineering sister, Gretel, who is three years older than him. Bruno calls
Gretel a "hopeless case" throughout the story because she is mean, arrogant, and
insensitive toward him. Gretel is not a loving, compassionate older sister and does not get
along with Bruno. She continually corrects him, does not allow Bruno inside her room, and views
him with contempt.

By giving Gretel the name Hopeless Case, Bruno is
expressing his derision toward her and stating that she will never change her ways. A Hopeless
Case is typically someone who will never amount to anything or transform into a better person.
As the novel progresses, Bruno's sister lives up to the name, as she ignores Bruno on a regular
basis and refuses to take him seriously. Eventually, Gretel begins to mature and spends the
majority of her time studying, doting over Lieutenant Kotler, and keeping to herself. Bruno ends
up feeling bad for the Hopeless Case because she does not have a genuine friend like Shmuel to
keep her company. Overall, Bruno refers to Gretel as a Hopeless Case because he does not believe
she will ever mend her ways or transform into a kind, understanding older
sister.

Research Freud and prepare an outline on his contributions to the explanation of criminality. Compare his explanation with other past and current...

The great
psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud held that one's childhood played a tremendously significant role in
the formation of the adult. In terms of criminal behavior, Freud contended that 

• Criminal behavior can be traced back to deep-rooted problems in childhood.
  If parents are neglectful, the superego does not develop and the
  id will dominate and demand satisfaction, often immediate gratification, of
  urges.
• Behavior and unconscious motives are often connected, and their
  interaction can produce criminal behavior. Often, traumas and abuse, especially by mothers, are
  the foundation of sexual crimes against women.
• Deep-rooted problems in
  childhood produce psychoses in adulthood. Criminal behavior is essentially a manifestation of
  psychological conflict.

Modern psychologists, psychiatrists,
and criminologists still hold that negative childhood experience plays a crucial role in
criminal behavior. In addition, they contend that inadequate or improper socialization also
plays a significant role in...

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Why are the Capulet parents to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet?

I
think much of the context of this play is often lost in modern teachings of it, beginning with
the fact of 's age. While it is sometimes said that thirteen or fourteen was a
"normal" age to get married in this period, that is in fact not the case, and there is
a lot of evidence for this in the play itself. At the beginning of the play,chidesfor wanting to
marry Juliet so early and for wanting to marry her without wooing her properly: he tells her
that "too soon marred are those so early [brides] made." The Shakespearean audience
would have agreed with this: although early betrothal was common, most women were not married
until their late teens at least, particularly because poor diet meant that for most people,
menstruation did not begin until later in the teenage years than is the case today. So, at this
point, we see Lord Capulet being a good and reasonable father.

For Capulet
suddenly to change his mind and try to force Juliet to marry Paris at this age,
then,...

What type of dystopia does this text demonstrate ? Please support with text from "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut

Published in
1961, 's "" clearly invokes the fears of many who, after the passage of Civil Rights
legislation, feared the federal government would propose more and more schemes that would
enforce equality of outcome.

In the society of the year 2081 everyone
"was finally equal...every which way." In fact, the government has passed new
Amendments to enforce this "equality." In order to make everyone--actually, force
everyone--to be the same as the...

What is an example of symbolism in the short story "Charles" by Shirley Jackson?

Ollie Kertzmann, M.A.

One example of symbolism
in "" byis the way Laurie speaks when he gets home
the first day. Although
his parents don't realize it at the time, a savvy reader can see the
change
in the boy with the way he speaks while addressing the food on his plate. These
changes
are symbolic of the new part of his life Laurie has created separate
his family.

The narrator describes Laurie coming home from
his first day of kindergarten making it
is obvious that he is a changed boy.
He looks at his father coldly in response to a normal
question. He talks with
his mouth full and refuses to look at his parents.

This
style of address is symbolic of the darker side of the young boy. Laurie tells tales
about
Charles every day after school. Charles becomes part of the family's
vocabulary, and the name is
used when someone does a bad thing. Laurie always
has...

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Was Reconstruction after the civil war a success or failure? why?

You will
probably get a variety of responses to this inquiry; however most historians believe that
Reconstruction was a failure. Although Black Americans were no longer slaves, they made little
progress in other areas.

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were passed
during Reconstruction, designed to make Black Americans citizens of the United States, guarantee
them civil liberties, and also guarantee them the right to vote. Military governments were
instituted in the South to protect the rights of former slaves. However, this did not stop
southern legislatures from enacting "Jim Crow Laws," successors to the former Black
Codes, which prohibited Blacks from equal access to many facilities. The following are
examples:

All persons licensed to conduct a restaurant,
shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to
the two races within the same room or serve the two races anywhere under the same
license.

It shall be unlawful for colored people to frequent any park owned
or maintained by the city for the benefit, use and enjoyment of white persons...and unlawful for
any white person to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the use and benefit of
colored persons.

Every employer of white or negro males shall provide for
such white or negro males reasonably accessible and separate toilet facilities.

All circuses, shows, and tent exhibitions, to which the attendance of...more than one
race is invited or expected to attend shall provide for the convenience of its patrons not less
than two ticket offices with individual ticket sellers, and not less than two entrances to the
said performance, with individual ticket takers and receivers, and in the case of outside or
tent performances, the said ticket offices shall not be less than twenty-five (25) feet
apart.

The right to vote was infringed with abandon,
often by requiring one to read and correctly interpret a portion of the state constitution
(whites were given a much simpler task, if at all, than Blacks;) requiring one to pay a poll
tax, establishing difficult residency requirements, and listing a series of crimes believed to
be common among the Black populace as disqualifications for voting.

When
Reconstruction ended in 1877, the determination of white Southerners to deny civil rights to
Blacks won out over the efforts of the federal government to ensure them.

What does this Party slogan mean? "Who controls the present controls the past, who controls the past controls the future."

First, the party
slogan in 's book is actually "Who controls the past controls the
future: who controls the present controls the past," not "Who controls the present
controls the past, who controls the past controls the future."

This
slogan first appears early in the book, in passing. Later, it occurs in a more substantive
discussion betweenand . In Winston's perception, the past has "never been altered,"
despite the fact there is unambiguous evidence that the Party has regularly engaged in historic
revisionism. "All that was needed," Winston recalls, "was an unending series of
victories over your own memory."

In other words, the slogan posits that
actions of today determine the course of events tomorrow. It further posits that actions taken
in the present are inspired by events that have occurred in the past. In order to inspire
actions designed to advance the ideological cause of the party, therefore, the presentation of
the past needs to be done in such a...

What is the Greeks' view about destiny in light of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles?

The only reason the
oracle at Delphi can offera prophecy regarding his futurethat he will kill his father and marry
his motheris because his fate is already determined.  Throughout the play, it does not matter
what Oedipus does; it seems as though he is on a fast train toward the destiny he tries so hard
to avoid.  Even before the play begins, he had made the decision not to return to Corinth, where
he believes his mother and father live (so that he cannot possibly kill him and wed her).
 Instead, he decides to make his way to Thebes, not realizing that his biological parents, Laius
and , live there.  In other words, Oedipus's attempts to avoid his fate actually allows it to
come to be; this makes it seem as though his choices have no real impact becauseno matter what
actions he takesthey lead to the destiny that has already been laid out for him.
 

What problems did the characters face in Journey to the Center of the Earth?

Steven Hinkes

was written by. It tells a story about three men who go on an
excursion to attempt to reach the center of the earth. Although the men do not ultimately reach
the center of the earth, they do encounter many challenges on their journey. Specifically, one
of the main characters, Otto Lidenbrock, discovers a guidebook that tells the men the location
of a...

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's
and Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella are both
sonnet collections written in the Renaissance. The main difference between the themes of the two
collections stems from the authors' own experiences with love. Spenser's sonnets are written to
his wife, while Sidney's are written to and about a woman to whom he was previously engaged but
who married another man. Therefore, Spenser's poems celebrate the love he feels for his wife,
while Sidney's poems exude much more complex emotions that fit more easily into the traditional
sonnet traditions begun by Petrarch during the Italian Renaissance.

Spenser's
Amoretti are dedicated to his wife, and we see in the poems his love and
devotion to her. A representative poem is Sonnet 75, "One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the
Strand." In the poem, Spenser describes a scenario wherein he writes his lover's name on
the beach, but the tide washes it away. His beloved says it's foolish to attempt to make
immortal something that is inherently mortal; since they are human, they will inevitably die,
and their love with them. Spenser begs to differ, though, asserting that he will immortalize his
wife and their love through his poetry. The final section of the poem reads as
follows:

"Not so," (quod I) "let baser
things devise

To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:

My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,

And in the heavens
write your glorious name:

Where whenas death shall all the world
subdue,

Our love shall live, and later life renew."
(9€“14)

He tells his lover that "baser
things" can fade away, but she, her beauty, and their love are not "baser
things." They are higher, and they will be "eternize[d]" in his
"verse." While mortal things die all around them, their love will live on through the
immortal words of the poet.

Sidney's poems
feature a much different tone, as his speaker is a man tortured by love. Like Petrarch in the
original sonnets about Laura, Sidney feels pleasure from love and from his beloved's beauty.
However, her rejection of him and/or his inability to be with her creates great pain that he
also expresses in his poems. One representative poem is the sonnet addressed to sleep, Sonnet 39
in the sonnet sequence, "Come Sleep, O Sleep, thy certain knot of peace." In this
poem, Sidney addresses sleep in apostrophe and personifies it as a person who can help assuage
his pain. He wants sleep to come to him and to wrap him in darkness and silence, so he can have
some respite from thinking about Stella. He warns sleep at the end of the poem that if sleep
does not aid him,

thou shalt in me,

Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see. (13€“14)

Not being allowed to sleep and escape Stella will result in greater pain, as his
wakefulness will only exacerbate his thoughts and his pain. This is much different from the
sentiment we see in Spenser's Sonnet 75. He wants his love to be remembered forever, while
Sidney hopes to shut out any thought of his beloved.

Chapters 16-20 in The Scarlet Letter reveal the nature of the encounter in the forest between Hester, Arthur, and Pearl. What are 2 or 3 imagery...

The most
obvious complexand issues that spring to mind regarding  are the issues of
identity, sin, and the nature of evil. 

Images regarding the nature of evil
from these chapters include the fact that the sun itself, indicative of light and goodness, does
not seem to shine on .notices this and says, "The sunshine does not love you. It runs away
and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom." With the optimism of
youth, Pearl offers to catch it, which she does, but when Hester draws near and reaches out her
hand to "grasp some of it," the sunshine vanishes. "Or," adds Hawthorne,
"to judge from the bright expression that was dancing on Pearl's features, her mother could
have fancied that the child had absorbed it into herself, and would give it forth again, with a
gleam about her path, as they should plunge into some gloomier shade." Hester thinks of the
darkness of the forest as representative of her own "moral wilderness"--presumably
fitting considering her moral shortcomings. 

The child, being the product of
sin, is shunned with her mother, but is shown through thisto be innocent. Moreover, the light
imagery suggests she herself is a source of goodness and joy, since she is presumably capable of
absorbing the light and using it again later should they enter "some gloomier
shade." 

Sin is, of course, a major theme of this Puritan-themed novel,
as well. The "Black Man," who Pearl believes is ugly, "haunts this forest, and
carries with him a big, heavy book, with iron clasps." He forces people he meets to write
their names in blood in his book after which he "sets his mark upon their bosoms," a
superstitious embodiment of this evil. This is an interesting image as evil itself is an idea,
formed and maintained in the mind, but is not embodied in any concrete form. When Pearl asks her
mother if she'd ever seen the Black Man, Hester (surprisingly) says yes. She declares that the
scarlet letter she wears is his mark; she speaks not literally, but Pearl is too young to
understand this. 

Another major theme is identity and the most obvious image
of this is Hester's scarlet embroidered "A," which plays a curious part in these
chapters. After deciding to leave for Europe withand leave the past behind, starting anew,
Hester unpins her scarlet letter and flings it away (in ). She immediately feels "the
burden of shame and anguish [depart] from her spirit," and releases her hair. Her
transformation from the imprisoned, shamed woman to vital beauty is remarkable, and immediately,
the sun "[pours] a very flood" of light into the forest, "gladdening each green
leaf, transmuting the yellow fallen ones to gold" and "the objects that had made a
shadow hitherto, embodied"--like Pearl, earlier--"the brightness now." The
scarlet letter had determined Hester's identity as a shamed woman who had accepted her
punishment; discarding it demonstrates her emergence from her own shame, like a butterfly
emerging from a cocoon. 

However, when Pearl returns in , she refuses to
cross the stream and come to her mother because her notion of her mother's identity--of a woman
with hair tied under a bonnet wearing a scarlet A--is too different from the woman she sees
before her. Even the presence of Dimmesdale, the minister, cannot entice her to come to her
mother until her mother has retrieved her brand and assumed her former appearance. Hester's
identity is marked by this letter, but over the years, she has, by force of will, transformed
herself into an admirable woman who is humble and helps the sick, thus transforming the meaning
of the symbol itself. This doesn't change her joy upon discarding the letter, but it speaks to
Pearl's reverence for it (Pearl even kisses it after she has kissed her mother, as though the
letter is a good part of her that Pearl does not wish to lose). 

What are the treaties and alliances designed by Otto von Bismark between 1872 and 1887? Also, what were the diplomatic goals regarding France,...

It's
important to note that this question specifically begins its analysis in 1872. This is not by
coincidence: 1871 was a critical year in the nineteenth century which saw the unification of
Germany under Prussian domination.

Bismark's diplomatic and political
maneuvering were motivated out of a desire to expand Prussian power and influence, and he proved
energetic and decisive in pursuing that goal, utilizing both diplomacy and warfare to attain
those ends. These various efforts of expanding Prussian influence culminated in the
Franco-Prussian War, which saw Prussia overwhelm and humiliate one of the traditional Great
Powers of Europe, a victory which inspired the creation of the German Empire under Prussian
leadership.

The results of the Franco-Prussian War signaled throughout Europe
that the continental balance of power had shifted. Thus, the more established Great Powers would
be inclined to see Germany as an emergent threat within Europe (with France particularly
hostile, given the humiliation it had suffered). With that in mind, it became necessary for
Germany to reach out to potential allies in order to stabilize its position.

Initially, as early as 1873, Bismark attempted to form an agreement with
Austria-Hungary and Russia. (If successful, this would have stabilized the Germany's eastern
front.) However, this system was undermined by tensions between Russia and Austria-Hungary.
Germany formed the Dual Alliance with Austria-Hungary in 1879 and later, in 1882, the Triple
Alliance was formed between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.

These
alliance systems were primarily defensive in nature. Bismark was concerned about future wars
targeting Germany, and through these alliances, he sought to discourage attacks from Germany's
rivals (and in addition, to have allies in the event that this discouragement failed).

However, in many respects, these efforts backfired, as the growing power of Germany
(and the alliances Bismark had constructed for its defense) ultimately motivated the creation of
a competing alliance system, which would play such a key role in shaping the First World
War.

In Coelho's The Alchemist, why does the lake cry?

In Coelho's
, the lake cries when Narcissus slips while admiring his beauty on the
surface of the lake, and he drowns. The lake's tears are not so much for the sake of Narcissus
(who was wholly infatuated with his own looks) as they are for the lake's sake. For oddly enough
(and title="irony">ironically), the lake is just as
narcissistic as Narcissus was. While he wanted to look upon his own beauty,
it was in his eyes that the lake was able to see her beauty:

€¦when Narcissus died, the goddesses of the forest appeared and
found the lake, which had been fresh water, transformed into a lake of salty tears.

Why do you weep? the goddesses asked.

I weep for Narcissus, the
lake replied. [€¦] I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful.
۬I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes,
my own beauty reflected.

The goddesses are certain that
the lake weeps for the loss of Narcissus because he was so handsome. The lake (personified in
the story) never noticed that Narcissus was handsome, anymore than he
noticed that the lake was beautiful. The lake surprises the goddesses by admitting she was
enamored of her own beauty reflected in his eyes, and we can infer her tears are falling because
she will never again see her own beauty. The lake is actually crying for
herself, for her own loss to see herself, and not for the lost Narcissus.

Wit and Madness Dryden, in his essay "Absalom and Achitophel," claims, "Great wits are sure to madness near allied." Is Hamlet's wit so above...

Consider
Einstein.  Don't you have to be a little "mad" in order to be a visionary, to see
beyond the "real" world?  That said, I don't know that Hamlet falls into this
category.  The stress of grief, and of knowledge unshared, the inability to come to a decision -
these are the issues that plague him and cause such fretfulness of
feeling.

Which critical theory can be adapted to Albert Camus' The Stranger?

You could
use Colonialism as a critical theory. The novel takes place in Algeria presumably in the early
1940s since the book was published in 1942. France occupied Algeria from 1830 until
1962.

The subject of colonialism and race is often obscured by the
philosophically overwhelming themes of Absurdity and Existentialism. But the aspects of race and
colonialism play a central role in the novel. In fact, the relation between French-Algerians and
Arabs in the novel reveals a Eurocentric perspective. Meursault only associates with other
French-Algerians. The Arab he kills is never given a name. The Arab is literally some Other
person who unfortunately falls into the path of Camus Absurd hero; and here, Absurd has to
refer to the philosophy of Absurdity as well as the general concept of absurd as being
irrational and illogical.

Criticism of this novel tends to focus so much on
the philosophical aspect that it ignores the racial aspects. Meursault might have arrived at
some philosophical epiphany about existence. But his self-involved philosophical brooding should
not be an excuse for murder. Meursault is heroic in his absolute refusal to accept the beliefs
of society, but hes guilty of murder. He does what he can to mentally remove himself from this
society (and/or the world) but he still exists in it and must acknowledge that his actions will
engage others. He never really acknowledges this.

The fact that the Arab is
never given a name is really telling. I dont know if Camus was making a subtle point about
colonialism with this move, but it is there whether he intended it or not. This is a clear
example where a white Europeans racial Other plays victim to the member of the colonizing
nation. Meursault is arrested and executed but this doesn't erase the fact that a man was
killed. The novel is completely focused on Meursault's quest for meaning. The Arab simply
becomes a statistic: the "one" that has been killed.

You could
argue that Meursault's indifference is not racially motivated; he would have killed anyone of
any race that day. After all, his nonchalant attitude was the same with his mother. But you
could also argue that colonialism and race did play a role. Reacting to his mother's death and
actually killing another person are two very different things. Meursault is the narrator, so it
is he who does not give "the Arab" a name.

The court and certainly
the priest seem to be more appalled at Meursault's belief system than they are with the murder.
They are more concerned that his religious and cultural beliefs are different from theirs. Thus,
they are more unsettled that he is unlike them: an "Other." It is his difference, not
his crime, that they focus on.

The Black Death obviously had a significant role in destabilizing populations in the fourteenth century. Unfortunately for Western Europe, the Black...

The Black
Death was clearly the most destabilizing factor of the Late Middle Ages, as it reduced the
European population by at least a third, but other crises marked the period. Two were the Great
Famine of 1315€“1317 and the upsurge in peasant revolts during this period.

The Great Famine has been linked to climate changes, notably the Little Ice Age, though
some scholars debate whether the ice age had actually begun at the time. Whatever the cause,
large-scale crop failures led to widespread starvation, crime, and disease. The effects lasted
until 1322 and shook the foundations of medieval society. For example, people began questioning
the effectiveness of the Church, as prayer did not seem to protect the large numbers of people
devastated by the famine. Further, the violence that erupted as a result of hunger, including
murder, theft, infanticide, and cannibalism, showed that the decentralized governing structures
of feudalism were inadequate to protect people. This led to disillusionment with authority.
Finally, the peasantrythe majority of the population and the group which bore the brunt of the
faminebegan increasingly to question wealth inequality.

The growing concern
about wealth inequality contributed to a number of rebellions that further destabilized an
already badly shaken European society. These included, among others, the Jaquerie (a revolt in
France that took place during the Hundred Years War in the 1350s), the revolts in Transylvania
in 1437, and the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381. While the rebelling peasants were defeated in
this period, their revolts set precedents and paved the way for later underclass successes in
achieving rights. More importantly, the rebellions of the period further sapped an already
weakened continent, allowing the Ottomans to conquer Constantinople. This cut off established
trade routes to the "Orient" and led to European exploration to find alternative paths
to trading partners in Asia. European exploration had a profound impact on Europe through the
"discovery" of the North and South American continents.