What are some literary devices used in the ghost's speech in Act 1, scene 5 in Hamlet?

of 's father
says,

My hour is almost come
When I to sulfurous
and tormenting flames
Must render up myself.

Here, the ghost substitutes the word "hour" to refer to time, using acalled
metonymy. Metonymy occurs when a writer substitutes a detail
associated with a thing for the thing itself. An hour is a measurement of time, and so we
understand what the ghost means when he says that his "hour" to return to Purgatory is
near.

Later, the ghost says tothat, if he could tell his son about Purgatory,
the tale

Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young
blood
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres
Thy knotted and
combined locks to part
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills
upon the fearful porpentine.
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of
flesh and blood.

In this passage, the ghost uses a
comparing Hamlet's soul to land that has been plowed and broken up
(harrow can also mean to cause distress to , but not
typically with the...

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What is the form of the play according to drama theory, and what is the dramatic development in each act of Pygmalion? How does the humor contribute to...

Christopher Jerde

is considered a dramatic comedy in a realist style. While there
is a great deal of wordplay and comedic situations, the action is not treated as light , with
much emphasis on the way the lower classes are exploited and kept down by society. The play's
themes of social inequality and the changing place of women in the twentieth centuryparticularly
in the anguish of Eliza in her crisis of identityalso lend it dramatic weight.

In terms of how the drama develops in each act, Shaw mainly focuses on how Eliza
changes from act to act. In the first act, she is an uncouth flower-girl, but she is shown to
have some appreciation for beauty and a sense of ambition as well during the scene where she
gets ready for bed. In the second act, Eliza goes to Higgins for speech lessons, and by the end
of the act, she is scrubbed clean and wearing a kimono, a sign of some upward
mobility.

In the third act, Eliza undergoes Higgins's exhausting lessons
until she is...

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What are some neo-classical features in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?

Neo-classicism was the dominant form in
18th-century English poetry. Such poems, often associated with the work of John Dryden and
Alexander Pope, were based on literary models provided by Greece and Rome. Since a gentleman's
education in this period emphasized learning Greek and Latin, most schoolboys would be quite
familiar with poems of antiquity written in Latin and Greek, just as we today are familiar with
movies from earlier eras, such as The Wizard of Oz (the 1930s, howeverthe
period when The Wizard of Oz was releasedare clearly
much closer to our own times than the Classical era to the 18th-century English.) The
neo-classical poems 18th-century people wrote in imitation of the Greeks and Romans  are
generally more intellectual than emotional, and characterized by measured verses in regular
rhymes.

While Gray does not address histo a single individual, which is the
standard Classical form, this poem falls into the category of "lacrinae rerum" or
"tears of (or for) things." The phrase derives from the Latin poet Virgil's
Aeneid, in which the hero looks at a mural depicting deaths in the Trojan
war, and is moved to tears. In Gray's poem, the poet feels sad as he looks at a country
graveyard, where obscure people are buried. 

In the neo-classical mode, the
tone and the rhyme scheme of a poem are measured and even, and the stance is intellectual rather
than given to emotional outburst or breaks in the cadence. The Gray poem waxes
philosophical:

Full many a gem of purest ray
serene, 

         The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: 

Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen, 

         And
waste its sweetness on the desert air.

The poem
communicates sadness, but the poet is distant from his subjects: it is sad that people die
unmourned, but that's the way life is in the larger scheme of nature.

 

The best way to understand the difference in temperament
between a neo-classically influenced poem like Gray's and a full-blown Romantic poem is to read
some of Wordsworth's work in Lyrical Ballads, such as "I Wandered
Lonely as a Cloud,"  to contrast the Romantic's outbursts with Gray's calm
verses.

What is the falling action in A Wrinkle in Time?

The falling
action of a story takes place after theof the novel, where the action begins to slow back down
and lead to the conclusion. In the novel , Charles Wallace has just
finished facing down the beast IT...

What type of emotional appeals does Edwards use to breakthrough to his congregation in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

The entire
sermon is structured to appeal to
the emotions of the listeners through vivid descriptions of
the horrendous
fate awaiting sinful human beings, which Edwards explains includes everyone
in
the congregation.

The "Application" section is most
directly
pointed at those listening to the sermon. In this part of his
presentation, Edwards addresses
the immediate and dire consequences awaiting
those who do not repent. He pictures the revulsion
that creation experiences
because each member of the congregation lives in the midst of what God
has
made.

the sun does not willingly shine upon you
to
give you light to serve sin and Satan; the earth does not willingly yield
her increase to
satisfy your lusts;...the air does not willingly serve you
for breath to maintain the flame of
life in your vitals, while you spend your
life in the service of God's enemies.

As well as explaining how disgusting humanity is in the eyes of

nature, Edwards also portrays the sensations awaiting sinful persons when they are
called to
suffer the wrath of "an Angry God." With emphasis through
repetition and graphic
description, he attempts to convey the torment that is
in store.

There will be no end to this
exquisite horrible misery. When you look forward, you
shall see a long
forever, a boundless duration before you, which will swallow up your
thoughts,
and amaze your soul; and you will absolutely despair of ever having
any deliverance, any end,
any mitigation, any rest at all.

Edwards concludes his
sermon, after all the
terror and anguish and punishment in the bulk of it, by appealing to
members
of the congregation to "fly from the wrath to come" - a closing invitation

urging listeners to flee from the hellfire and brimstone of the preceeding

remarks.

Would you please criticize "Rappaccini's Daughter" from a Structuralist approach?

Of
course, the key to answering this question effectively is an accurate understanding of
"Structuralist."  This word is used differently by various people and in various time
periods, so there is probably no one definitive application of this word in literary
criticism. 

I think there is one Structuralist concept that may be more
useful than others when analyzing "," but please understand that someone else (namely
your teacher or professor) may have something else in mind.

Structuralism is
generally concerned with how a story is framed or built and then with how that structure conveys
meaning.  Most stories are constructed like something else that has been written--there are very
few new forms but many variations of familiar structures.  (Think of Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story, which are
essentially the same in plot, character, and theme.)  These familiar literary forms include
symbols, myths, and archetypes, so let's take a quick look at each as they're used in
Hawthorne's story.

Symbol:  Clearly the dominant--and dangerous--purple plant
is the centerpiece of Rappaccini's garden.  It is both beautiful and deadly.  The consistent
references to this plant being Beatrice's sister, their matching purple attire, and the later
knowledge that this plant was actually "born" on the same day as Beatrice tell us the
plant is a symbol of the girl. The plant is deadly to all but Beatrice, and we can't miss the
fact that the same must be true for the innocent girl. This kind of parallel (something in
nature representing something human) is common throughout literary history.

Myth: In Hawthorne's time, the name Beatrice would have been associated most with two
women in history.  One is a character found in Dante's Divine Comedy.  She
was a symbol of purity and love, guiding him to heaven.  The other, Beatrice Cenci, was an
innocent girl who was rather unwittingly used by her family to kill her father but was then
killed for doing so. These two sides of Beatrice were clearly pre-existing myths which Hawthorne
utilized in this work.

:  This one is fairly straightforward and applies
primarily to Rappaccini himself.  He is a dispassionate manipulator of man (or in this case
woman--his daughter) to promote his own ends. This is a common pattern throughout literary
history.  The most obvious archetype for this story is Dr. Frankenstein and his
monster/creation. 

In short, the structure (symbols, myths and archetypes) of
this story is one which unfolds as we read it yet is not unexpected or
unfamiliar.

What are the main incidents of Gulliver's Travels?

is athat follows the ,
Lemuel Gulliver, as he voyages to various exotic fictional locales. Each of the fantastic races
he encounters in his travels satirizes some aspect of British life, politics, or religion.
Through his encounters with various exotic societies, Gulliver comes to have a clearer and more
objective understanding of his own society. The major episodes in the work are voyages to four
different lands: 

Lilliputians: Gulliver is
captured by this race of tiny people and learns about their warlike society and their tendency
to have absurdly passionate arguments about such trivia as what end of an egg one should open.
He saves the palace from a fire by urinating on it and because of this is accused of treason. He
manages to escape.

Brobdingnagians: The
Brobdingnagians, a race of giants, are well-governed, with an admirable and practical
educational system. Gulliver is kept as a pet and has terrifying encounters with animals such as
mice, which in this land are his own size. He eventually escapes.

Laputa: This is a land of philosophers and mathematicians
concerned with abstract speculation and having few practical interests. They are technologically
advanced.

Houyhnhms: This is a land of
intelligent horses who have barbaric primates called "yahoos" as slaves. They are an
advanced and wise race who are horrified by Gulliver's descriptions of England, and they expel
him from the island.

What is a summary of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson?

,'s memoir, depicts the
story of Stevenson's establishment of his work in law and his founding of the Equal Justice
Initiative, which seeks to provide just treatment for all caught up in the court system. The
book flows chronologically through Stevenson's beginning years as a lawyer during the 1980s and
1990s. Although several cases are discussed within the book, each pointing to the unjust
treatment of people of color, people of low socioeconomic status, and people with mental health
problems by the courts, the book centers mainly on the case of Walter McMillian. McMillian was
condemned for killing a white woman in his hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, with very
little...

How is Winston Smith upsetting or reinforcing the Party?

Queen Langosh

Whilehimself is not an important Party figure, his job is. He works at the Ministry of
Truth, or Minitrue, where he "rectifies" old news articles and other information to
bring it in line with Party orthodoxy. In the worldhas created, control of information is
essential to maintaining power, and so Winston is very much reinforcing the Party's position. As
perhaps the most...

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In Romeo and Juliet, how does Shakespeare use characterization to explore aspects of the "human condition," especially in Romeo?

The human
condition is, in part, comprised ofimportant events in life such as birth, falling in love,
marriage, and so on, and it is easy to see that, as a character,is developmentally at the stage
when falling in love and marriage are of vital interest to him. But the human condition runs
deeper than these life events: the term is also used to describe the often unrealistic desires
and yearnings of the human heart.

Romeo exhibits two of these desires: he
wants the forbidden (, daughter of the family with whom his family is engaged in a bitter and
deadly feud), and more importantly, he has the desire to have what he wants right
now.

One of Romeo's chief character traits is his
impulsivity. He lives passionately in the present moment, wants what he wants, and is privileged
enough to almost always get it. This yearning to fulfill his desires immediatelya trait
associated with adolescenceis his downfall. He can't control himself when he falls in love with
Juliet, and he...

What is the exact quote Stargirl says when she is divulging her previous names from Jerry Spinelli's Stargirl?

reveals the
different names that she has called herself when a jury member for the high school show
Hot Seat interviews her. Students from the school are asked to be a part of
a "jury" who make up questions to ask any student being interviewed. Since Stargirl's
name is weird to them, it isn't surprising that one of them would ask why she doesn't go by what
her parents named her at birth. The scene where she shares her birth name and her self-given
names is presented through a course...

What advice does the Nurse give to Juliet?

The
Nurse has looked afterfrom her babyhood, and she is extremely supportive of Juliet throughout,
to the extent that Juliet seems to trust her more than she does her own mother. Throughout the
early part of the play, the Nurse is supportive of Juliet's love for , which she has been told
about in confidence; she even knows that Juliet and Romeo have been married in secret. This
makes the advice she gives to Juliet in Act 3, scene 5 particularly difficult for Juliet to
accept.

Juliet asks for some "comfort" from her Nurse because of
the fact that Romeo, now her husband, has been banished. Instead of offering any real comfort,
the Nurse tells her that she should be "married with the county." She is suggesting
that Juliet commit bigamy, for purely practical reasons which do not take into account Juliet's
feelings. The Nurse says that because Romeo is banished and is therefore "nothing" to
Juliet, it is the best thing she could do to marry , by comparison with whom Romeo is a mere
"dishclout." She is trying to comfort Juliet as best she knows how: by saying that
Romeo isn't particularly great anyway and that Paris is "lovely" and will be a good
match for her. However, Juliet clearly feels rather betrayed by this
advice.

How does Unoka die in Things Fall Apart?

is 's
father, who is depicted as a lazy, irresponsible man. Okonkwo despises his father and is
embarrassed to be related to him. Unoka is continually in debt and drinks excessively while
playing his flute. Unoka's primary desire is to live life to the fullest, and he is a relatively
peaceful man, who refuses to labor or attempt to earn titles.

Okonkwo is
ashamed of his father and is determined to not follow in his footsteps. Okonkwo grows up to be a
hardworking man, who is courageous but has an affinity for violence. Okonkwo's tough exterior
and callous personality stem from his fear of becoming an unaccomplished man like his father.
Unoka is not respected by his neighbors, and Achebe writes that he was an ill-fated man.
In , Achebe mentions that Unoka had a bad chi and died of "swelling of the
stomach," which was considered an abomination to the earth goddess. Unoka was carried to
the Evil Forest and left there to die.

Assess Chaucer's contribution to English poetry.

Chaucer is
sometimes referred to as the "father of English poetry." Part of the reason for this
is that he was writing in Middle English and his work marks a major transition between the
scanty remnants we have of Anglo-Saxon epic and early religious poetry and the development of a
modern English poetic corpus. 

Perhaps Chaucer's most important achievement
was his role in the formation of the English vernacular as a tool for poetry. Most of the
English poets in his period wrote in French or Latin for court or ecclesiastical audiences. In
contrast, Chaucer wrote in English, which was accessible to a wider audience. His subject
matter, too, while it included courtly romance, also often dealt with the ordinary lives of the
bourgeois. In The Canterbury Tales, for example, among his pilgrims are
many commoners, who are described in an unusually realistic manner.

Chaucer
is also a key figure in the development and regularization of iambic pentameter as the standard
meter for English poetry. He was especially important for using accentual syllabic verse that
blended the strong stress tradition of Old English with French accentual
meter. 

Compare and contrast watching a movie on television versus viewing it in theater.

The story of the
rise of cinema reflects the desire for a social experience as much as the appeal of the silver
screen. The story of cinemas decline reflects the sense of isolation that developed in society
as technology became more pervasive. In the early years of cinema, going to the movies was a
social event, charged with anticipation and excitement. In todays society, however, the
movie-going experience has lost its appeal, largely because people tend to downplay the
significance of the social experience and get the majority of their entertainment from their
computers, tablets, and mobile phones. Studies have shown, however, that the movie-watching
experience is enhanced when it is shared with other people, and that shared experiences, in
general, lead to greater enjoyment than solitary ones. Hence, movie theaters today are trying to
revive the social experience of cinema by resulting to sales gimmicks, such as serving food and
drinks.

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Most Americans believe that the U.S. won the war with a little help from the Soviets. Most Russians believe the opposite. What facts support these...

I am
not at all sure that most Americans believe, as you suggest, that the U.S. won the war with a
little help from the Soviets. The help from the Soviets was tremendous. If the Russians want to
believe that they won the war with a little help from the U.S., they could make a pretty good
case for their belief. The important thing was to beat Germany--and it took everything the
Soviets, the U.S. and the British could throw at them to make them finally surrender. The
pictures we see of their bombed-out cities...

Whats the grievance that Jefferson lists as a reason for why the king violated the natural rights of the colonists?

Jefferson
and Congress do not use the term "natural rights." In the context of the Declaration,
the closest approximation to this concept is contained in paragraph 2 with the famous
words,

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all
men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,
that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness . . . .

The Declaration then, of course, states how these central rights
are facilitated: by governments. In other words, the only legitimate reason for a government to
exist is that of enabling people to live, to be free, and to be happyand by the term
"pursuit" Jefferson and Congress mean that it is the individual's responsibility to
accomplish this without any interference from the government (or others).

The
things that have been done to the colonists which are contrary to, or violate, this principle of
the role of government are then enumerated. In each case, the king himself is the one
principally blamed: "He has refused his assent to laws . . . necessary
for the public good," "He has forbidden his governors to pass
laws of immediate and pressing importance . . ." and so on, and after many other violations
cited, we are told that "He has excited domestoc insurrections amongst
us" (italics added). All of these actions by the King are seen as inhibiting the
unalienable rights enunciated at the start of the Declaration. But in answer to your question,
what is the reason George III has committed these violations? we are told his aim is

the direct establishment of an absolute tyranny over these
states.

Throughout English history, there had been a
continuous tension between the power of the sovereign and that of the people, the latter being
represented by the legislative body, Parliament. If the sovereign was perceived as holding too
much poweras was the case with Charles I and James II in the 1600sthen government ceased to be
valid. The colonists in rebellion against the Crown considered their situation to be another in
this line of conflicts between, on the one side, a potentially (or actually) tyrannical power
and, on the other, the valid function of government in serving the people. The central grievance
of the colonists, as represented by Congress, was therefore the arbitrary power exercised by the
king and his administration against them, and all the individual grievances listed are caused
by, or contained within, this one. The solution, as Congress saw it, was political separation
from Britain.

Discuss the Second Commandment and explain why some religions forbid images and others favor them. Be sure to provide specific examples.

The
Second Commandment is a tricky one and has
become a source of contention among many religious
groups. The full text of
this commandment (from the King James version of the Bible, Exodus 20:
4-6)
says:

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven
image,
or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in
the earth beneath, or that
is in the water under the earth.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor
serve them: for I the
Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon
the
children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

And
shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my
commandments.

The main confusion is
whether the first or second part of the
Commandment is most important. If you
read only the first part, it sounds like people are not
allowed to make any
kind of image that represents a specific person or creature. This is the

interpretation taken, say, by the Muslim religion, where traditionally no kind of
representative
art is allowed at all. Islamic artists became masters at
calligraphy and abstract art, such as
ceramic tiles and mosaics, partly
because their religion forbids portraits of people or
animals.

Other religions focus more on the second part, where it states that

people should not bow down to any graven image. This ties into the ancient traditions,
as in
Egypt, where statues of gods and goddesses were worshiped as if they
were the real thing.
(Incidentally, the Hebrews were also caught doing this
when Moses descended Mt. Sinai with the
Ten Commandments in handthey had made
a golden calf and were praying to it, instead of to God.
Moses was not
pleased.) However, as long as the images are not a replacement for God, or
prayed
to as a god, then it is okay to make them. This is the view taken by
the Catholic church, for
example. They have statues of saints and beautiful
paintings, which people admire, but everyone
knows these images are not
actual deities. Therefore it is fine to include them in church

decoration.

What do Santiago's parents plan for him, and how does he change that plan?

Santiago's
parents want him to become a priest, so he attends the seminary until he is sixteen years old.
While in the seminary, Santiago learns to read. While it is a great honor and accomplishment for
a boy from a poor family to become a priest, Santiago soon realizes he is unhappy at the
seminary. He courageously tells his father that he wishes for a life of adventure and travel.
After his father tries to convince him that every place is the same and is no better than where
he lives, he tells Santiago that the only occupation that will allow a poor person to travel is
that of a shepherd. His father relents and gives Santiago three gold coins to allow him to buy a
flock of sheep to fulfill his dreams of adventure and travel.

How does the revelation at the end of the story contribute to the storys theme?

The last
line reflects not only the short story's racial themes, but also the theme of a mother's love
and how that love can instinctively affect the decisions you make later on in life.

The racial themes are apparent first in the characters need to hide any kind of
evidence that they have black blood. Even if people in the south knew you had a distant relative
who was black they would still view you as inferior to the white race.

This
is the reason the author suggests people didn't take to the beautiful Desiree. People didn't
know her origins. The Valmondes found her as a baby and although they did their best to quash
the rumours, people didn't trust that she was pure white.

It is therefore
interesting that Armand is not only bowled over by her, but doesn't care about her origins. As
the author states, he was reminded that she was nameless. What did it matter about a name when
he could give her one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana? Rather than go by his thoughts he
does what the author says all his family did and goes by his instincts.

The
origins of his own instincts come clear at the end when the author tells the reader that his
mother had Negro blood. In that regard, he is attracted to Desiree because like him she has a
past that may or may not be acceptable to their people. Like his mother, he feels that she would
love him no matter what.

Unfortunately for Armand, he is the one who can't
accept that he has Negro blood. Whether he means to or not he uses Desiree and her unknown past
as a way to keep his standing in society. It seems that the fear of being found that you have
black blood is greater than the fear of spending the rest of your life
alone.

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What happened between Elizabeth and the Reverend?

The
minister and his fianc©e, Elizabeth, have a fundmanetal difference of opinion on matters of
trust, faith, and love. Although the minister apparently begins wearing the veil as an
experiment, he soon becomes so attached to it that he cannot contemplate giving it up. He
refuses to believe that a simple action can create such a large divide in the town. While the
minister sees his behavior as evidence of piety, others are puzzled and often frightened by his
appearance and, even more, by his rigid attitude. Elizabeth believes that he should honor her
wishes because of their love for each other, while he sees her requests as evidence that she
does not trust him to know what is right. His strict adherence to his own beliefs is
overwhelming and even frightening to the young woman. When he refuses even to lift a corner of
the veil, she breaks off their engagement.

The Bronze Bow: Chapter 5 summary

With the
harvest season of Nisan drawing to a close, Daniel becomes impatient to take the fight to the
Romans. He doesn't understand why Rosh lingers in the mountains, giving everyone seemingly
menial tasks.

As he broods, Daniel remembers Joel bar Hezron, the young man
who climbed up to the mountain stronghold with his sister, Thacia. He thinks that Joel would be
willing to join Rosh's band of soldiers if he has another chance. Buoyed with hope, he requests
Rosh's permission to seek out Joel in Capernaum. The leader of the Zealots is skeptical, but
consents to let Daniel go.

As Daniel enters the city, he is greeted by
strange and wonderful sights. He marvels over the abundant produce in the marketplace, the ships
in the harbor, and most of all, the day's catch the fishermen are bringing in. A young woman
offers him some freshly cooked fish for his breakfast and tells him that everyone is waiting for
the carpenter teacher. When Daniel sees Jesus, he is fascinated by the preacher's aura of
vitality and strength. He stays to listen to Jesus' words, but finds himself irritated at the
easy presence of Roman soldiers among the Jewish populace.

Frustrated with
the reminder of Israel's captivity, Daniel decides to make his way to Joel's house. At Rabbi
Hezron's house, he is initially greeted by a stunned Thacia. However, Joel enthusiastically
invites Daniel in, despite the latter's acute embarrassment. Everything Daniel knows about the
Pharisees makes him uncomfortable in this lavishly opulent . Yet, it is clear that Joel is
ecstatic Daniel has come and no set precedents or Pharisaical laws are going to prevent him from
thoroughly enjoying his friend's company.

Daniel soon meets the intimidating
Rabbi Hezron, who glances with distaste at the clothing on Daniel's back; after all, anyone who
steps into a Pharisee home must take off his cloak to avoid spiritually contaminating the home.
At the table, Daniel finds himself out of his element; he is confused and frustrated at the many
ceremonial laws and unspoken traditions governing the ingestion of food in such a home. Daniel's
only guide is his hunger, but he is unable to satisfy his appetite openly.

Rabbi Hezron quizzes Daniel about his parents. However, the Pharisee's patronizing air
and condescending questions deeply offend Daniel. It is not long before an argument threatens
the peace of the atmosphere. Frustrated at his thwarted hunger, Daniel lashes out. When he
expresses his deep anger at the Roman presence in Israel, Rabbi Hezron sternly counters with the
assertion that the Jews should be thankful for any conceivable Roman largesse towards them. He
cites the example of a new synagogue built with Roman funds.

Daniel responds
that he will never be thankful for a synagogue built with the blood-tainted funds of Roman
generosity. The Rabbi rebukes the young man and counsels him to endure what God has seen fit to
allow. He criticizes what he considers the seeming lack of judgment displayed by the Zealots,
asserting that their ill-founded rebellions have only succeeded in causing more Jewish deaths
and the imposition of higher taxes on the people. It is his belief that the Law given to Moses
and the prophets will endure long after the Romans are gone. He wants his son, Joel, to devote
himself to the laws of his faith rather than to dedicate himself to a senseless, physical
conflict against a superior army.

Daniel leaves the house with a bad taste in
his mouth. Not only has he lost a potential recruit, he has lost the first friend he has made in
a long while.

What does the check mean in A Raisin in the Sun?

The
check is the ten-thousand-dollar life insurance compensation thatYounger receives after her
husband passed away. The check represents possible financial freedom and the opportunity to
pursue the various dreams of each of the family members.

The check means
something different to each person in the Younger family and represents numerous future
possibilities. ForJr., the check provides him with the financial backing to go into the liquor
business, which he hopes will prosper and bring the family more financial freedom. For Walter's
wife, the check gives her husband the opportunity to follow his dreams and a rare chance to
leave the south side of Chicago. For , the check means an opportunity to enroll in the college
of her choice to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. For Lena, the check means an opportunity
to provide a comfortable home for her family and the financial means for her children to pursue
their lofty dreams.

Find three quotes that characterize O'Brien from 1984.

Early in
the novel,is developed primarily as the subject of 's fantasies. Despite only having seen the
man a few times, Winston imagines that O'Brien, a Inner Party official, is in reality a Party
discontent like him:

He felt deeply drawn to him...because
of a secretly held beliefor perhaps not even a belief, merely a hopethat OBriens political
orthodoxy was not perfect.

This conviction only increases
over time, and O'Brien eventually approaches him, leading him to believe that he is, in fact, a
Party dissident. Winston andgo to his home, where they confess their heretical thoughts, and
throw themselves on his mercy while asking if the rumors about the Brotherhood are true. O'Brien
engages in what turns out to be an extended act of deception, convincing Winston that he is to
be made part of the resistance. He even drinks to the health of the Party's bugaboo Emmanuel
Goldstein:

I think it is fitting that we should begin by
drinking a health. To our Leader: To Emmanuel Goldstein.

This quote, in retrospect, reveals the extent of O'Brien's duplicity and ruthlessness.
Later, when Winston is arrested and brought in for torture (by O'Brien himself) we see another
quote that reveals the true nature of the Party and of O'Brien. After several lengthy torture
sessions in which O'Brien reveals the true nature of the Party and of Big Brother, he offers a
chilling vision of the future:

There will be no curiosity,
no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But alwaysdo not
forget this, Winstonalways there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and
constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the
sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine
a boot stamping on a human facefor ever.

This passage
succinctly characterizes O'Brien. Like the Inner Party that he represents, he wields power for
its own ends. He is highly attuned to the processes by which memory is manipulated, created, and
destroyed. He is ruthless, cruel, and totally bereft of any sense of humanity. He embodies the
frightening methods and logic of totalitarianism.

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Why is it important that Shakespeare presents Macbeth as a warrior in act 1, scene 2, and how does he do it?

In
act 1, scene 2, of Shakespeare's , Kingcalls on a Sergeant to tell the
story of the battle in which he was just wounded. This is the Sergeant's, and Shakespeare's,
opportunity to praisefor his decisiveness, skill as a warrior, and unwavering courage in battle,
even in the face of overwhelming forces aligned against him.

Just as Macbeth
kills Macdonwald in one-on-one combat and sends Macdonwald's army into full retreat, the King of
Norway arrives with fresh reinforcements and renews the attack on Macbeth's army. Macbeth
defeats the King of Norway's army and wins the day for King Duncan.

Following
his victory in two battles against Duncan's foes, Macbeth is at the height of his glory. Duncan
commends him for his bravery and rewards him with the property and title of the traitorous Thane
of Cawdor.

Interestingly, Shakespeare foreshadows Macbeth's later behavior
toward Duncan by assigning him the traitorous Thane of Cawdor's title.

Nevertheless, by raising Macbeth so high, Shakespeare can contrast the height of
Macbeth's hard-won glory with the ignominy of his precipitous fall from such a great
height.

Whereas the loyal warrior Macbeth is decisive and fearless, the
ambitious, traitorous Macbeth is cautious, indecisive, and fearful. Shakespeare shows the
deterioration of Macbeth's once-noble mind into madness, melancholy, and despair, which
culminates in Macbeth's last futile act of courage againstand Macbeth's ultimate
demise.

How do I write a good hook, introduction & thesis statement for the prompt: How does Scrooge's character transform over the course of the play?

A hook is an
opening statement that catches an
audience's interest and keeps them reading. An introduction
is, in quick
strokes, the barebones background readers need to give them a context for
your
paper, and the thesis is the argument you will be making in the rest of
the paper.

Starting backward, there is no question that
Scrooge undergoes a profound
transformation during the course of the story.
Therefore, stating that he transforms would not
be a strong thesis. A more
interesting and arguable question is why he becomes good. What
transforms
him? One could argue that Scrooge changes because he is exposed to both
forgotten
memories of his past and to new experiences he has never thought
about before, such as how the
Cratchits live or how his own death will be
treated. You could state something along the lines
that "Scrooge is
transformed through memory and the expanding of his imagination, both of

which help him to get out of himself and empathize with others."

As
for
an introduction, you would want to remind your audience briefly that
Scrooge begins as a
hard-hearted, selfish, and irritable man who has a life
changing encounter with three holiday
ghosts on Christmas Eve.

A hook is a sentence or two that pull the readers
into your paper.
If you instructor allows it, you could begin with a question, such as
"What
would Christmas be like is everybody were as hardhearted as Scrooge?" or with

description that sets the scene. Another tried and true hook is an interesting fact--you
could
find a quick fact about the popularity of or, to
help set context, about
how many poor there were in London in Dickens' day
who needed the generosity of wealthier people
like Scrooge.

Normally, as your own question suggests, you would begin with
your
hook, follow with your introduction, and end your opening paragraph on your

thesis.

In Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, why does Crusoe want to catalog (briefly) the events of every day? Why not just let time pass and allow the weeks and...

In Defoe's
, I believe that Crusoe starts a journal for much the same reasons that he
builds furniture, grows food, improves his "home," and tries to domesticate the goats:
he is doing his very best to act as if he were within civilized society so as not to lose his
mind with loneliness and worry.

When Crusoe first arrives on the island, his
first concern is gathering as many supplies, tools and materials from the wrecked ship as
possible. His plan is to do his best to survive until he is rescued. This process takes a long
time and requires a great deal of work. After there is nothing else to collect, he begins to
build a substantial shelter, manages the supplies (such as separating gunpowder so it doesn't
all blow up), makes furniture, finds a source of fresh water, and goes about learning ways to
feed himself. These things also take a long time. He eventually learns to
make candles so that he does not need to go to sleep when the sun goes down. In essence, Crusoe
does his best to create some semblance of a homestead, which not only protects him and adds to
his comfort, but also keeps him occupied. When he can no longer do this, he sometimes searches
for rescue; seeing no ships on the horizon, he cries. Keeping a journal keeps track of the days,
but helps give him new direction as well. He writes:

Some
days after this, and after I had been on board the ship, and got all that I could out of her,
yet I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain and looking out to sea, in
hopes of seeing a ship; then fancy at a vast distance I spied a sail, please myself with the
hopes of it, and then after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit
down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.

But
having gotten over these things in some measure, and having settled my household staff and
habitation, made me a table and a chair, and all as handsome about me as I could, I began to
keep my journal; of which I shall here give you the copy (though in it will be told all these
particulars over again) as long as it lasted; for having no more ink, I was forced to leave it
off.

Crusoe is not a strong man when he arrives on the
island. He is a member of the comfortable middle class in England. He is in no way prepared for
the demands of being stranded alone on a deserted island. In the face of crisis, however, he
proves that he has inner- fortitude in rising to each occasion in order to survive. He seems to
have a good deal of common sense and he knows himself. It seems that he quickly realizes that
attending to his physical comfort is paramount. Once he has that well in hand, his mental and
emotional states must also be seen to. The journal helps Crusoe focus on civilized behavior,
which keeps him from going insane.

What was the role of women according to Hammurabi's code?

In Hammurabi's Code, a
woman was
considered the property of her father or husband, who administered her dowry. If
a
woman died, her dowry would go back to her father, to her brothers, or to
her sons. A woman's
sexuality was also highly guarded, showing that she was
considered the property of her husband.
For example, if a married woman were
found guilty of adultery, she could be drowned (or only
saved at the mercy of
her husband). Adultery went against the laws of the community that
regarded
women as property. However, women were afforded some protections in the
society,
particularly if they were mothers. A man with children who left his
wife had to give her custody
of the children as well as the dowry and the use
of a field or other property to support herself
and her children. Widows were
also given some protections, such as the right to stay in their
husband's
houses for as long as they wanted (unless they chose to remarry). While women
were
inferior in status to men in Hammurabi's...

In 1984, describe the scene from the war film that Winston recounts.

In
,goes to see a war film characterized by graphic violence. He writes about
it in his journal in great detail. In one scene, a ship of refugees is being bombed and a fat
man, trying to escape, is chased by a helicopter and shot "full of holes," while the
sea around him turns pink. Winston records the audience "shouting with laugher" as the
man sinks.

Winston then recounts a scene in which a mother on the same refuge
ship under attack tries to protect her screaming three-year-old boy from the helicopter. The
helicopter bombs her and the child, and Winston describes "a wonderful shot of a child's
arm going right up in the air." Winston notes that in the Party member section of the
theater, many people cheer at this sight, but that a female prole has to be dragged out for
protesting that they shouldn't show such a scene in front of children.

Winston's journal account of the film shows how callous and dehumanized people,
especially Party members, have become, taught to applaud graphic violence and to channel their
aggressions into watching innocent people suffer. 

What are the main differences in spoken English between the upper and lower class in Pygmalion?

At the beginning of
,attempts to give anyone reading the play an idea of Eliza Doolittle's
accent. This is her last line before he abandons the attempt:

Ow, eez ye-ooa san, is e? Wal, fewd dan y' de-ooty bawmz a mather should, eed now
bettern to spawl a pore gel's flahrzn than ran awy athaht pyin. Will ye-oo py me
f'them?

This, rendered into standard English, would
read:

Oh, he's your son, is he? Well, if you'd done your
duty by him as a mother should, he would know better than to spoil a poor girl's flowers then
run away without paying. Will you pay me for them?

The
first point is that obviously, standard English, as spoken by the middle and upper classes, is
very much closer to written English than theof Lisson Grove which Eliza speaks. The second is
that, while there are some differences in the consonants (the dropped "h" and the
elided "th" being particularly evident), the most striking distinction is the
difference in almost every vowel sound: san/son, wal/well, the elongated "e-oo" for
"duty" and "you," and so on.

Of course, it should be
emphasized that the chief difference, which Higgins has made his fortune by exploiting, is the
multiplicity of lower or working-class accents, as opposed to the single "standard
English" or "received pronunciation" which he teaches his clients. Eliza speaks
with a Lisson Grove accent, a variety of Cockney, but there are many other accents from all over
England which would mark her out as belonging to the same class in a different
region.

What problems does Mr. Jones have in Animal Farm?

Mr.
Jones's main problem throughout the novella concerns the fact that his animals have driven him
from his farm, and he has no means of financially providing for himself once he is expelled. At
the beginning of the novella,writes that Mr. Jones had recently fallen on "evil days"
and had lost a significant amount money in a lawsuit. Mr. Jones becomes depressed as a result of
the lawsuit, which leads to his excessive drinking. Mr. Jones's excessive consumption of alcohol
becomes a problem, and he forgets to feed the animals on his farm. As a result of not being fed,
the animals begin to meet secretly in the barn and plot against Mr. Jones when he goes to bed.
Orwell also writes that the men who...

Is Hester Prynne a secular saint in "The Scarlet Letter"? Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"

Since
the word secular means not of the religious sect, the Reverendcannot be
considered as the possible saint.  And, since the physician,is likened to the black man of the
forest because of his look and behavior, it is unlikely that he is the secular saint,
either.

Therefore, there is only one main character remaining:  .  Is she a
saint, though?  With her charitable works and more humble attitude, her fellow townspeople do
come to view the scarlet letter on her breast as signifying "Angel" and
"Able," rather than as adulterer. They may perceive her differently because after
time her mark and burden have given her sympathies "so intimate with the sinful brotherhood
of mankind" that there is a communion of this pain with others, although they not recognize
this as such. In Chapter XIII, Hawthorne writes of Hester,

...a species of general regard had ultimately grown up in reference to Hester Prynne. 
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it
loves more readily than it hates.  Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be
transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the
original feeling of hostility.  In this matter of Hester Prynne, there was neither irritation
nor irksomeness  She never battled with the public, but submitted, uncomplainingly, to its worst
usage; she made no claim upon it, in requital for what she suffered, she did not weigh upon its
sympathies.  Then, also, the blameless purity of her life during all these years in which she
had been set apart to infamy, was reckoned in her favour.  With nothing now to lose, in the
sight of mankind...it could only be a genuine regard for virtue that had brought back the poor
wanderer to its paths....she was quick to give of her little substance to every demand of
poverty....In all seasons of calamity...she came as an inmate into the houshold...there
glimmered the embroidered letter, with comfort in its unearthly ray....Hester's nature showed
itself warm and rich....She was self-ordained a Sister of Mercy....

Virtuous, humble, charitable, lovin, and kind; Hester Prynne
possesses the traits of a saint, indeed, but yet a saint who knows much of the world.  Truly,
she can be considered a secular saint. 

Interestingly, however,
although Hawthorne suggests that, contrary to Puritan teachings, there is redemption allowed to
the sinner who admits to the sin and then commits good works, he makes the comment that the
scarlet letter "has not done its office."  For, although Hester does good deeds and is
much humbled, she does not regret her sin of passion as the Puritan leaders would have her do
so; instead, she yet loves Dimmesdale as much as ever, if not more.

What is the universal theme of The Stranger?

Camus' novel is
expressive, primarily, of themes relating to absurdity and the difficulty of rendering life
meaningful. Mersault is a character who denies conventional and formal explanations of human
behavior. He does not see the same reasons for actions nor the same excuses for violence that
others do. 

In fact, Mersault sees a lack of reason in his most significant
act, a murder. When Mersault is captured and imprisoned, many people challenge him to accept
their explanations for his behavior. Lawyers and priests provide him with stories to excuse his
violence act. Mersault denies them all. 

In an expression
of Camuss humanist logic, neither theology nor fate can offer men of intelligence (men like
Meursault, willing to use only bare logic to consider the question of life) an explanation for
the absolutely senseless things that humans dowar, murder, and other heinous acts. The
alternative, therefore, is absurdity.

We can see from
early on in the novel that the world does not make sense to Mersault as it does to everyone
else. Another way to say this is that Mersault sees absurdity in the world, whereas others see
order, sense, and rationality. 

For Mersault, reason does not guides men's
behavior and certainly does not guide his own when he commits a murder. As a result of this lack
of reason, Mersault can draw very little meaning from the act. Where there is no reason and no
rationality, there is no meaning. 

Articulated as themes, these ideas of
absurdity and the difficulty of meaning can also be related to personal inability to construct a
meaningful worldview or philosophy. Mersault is a man beset with
absurdity. 

What role did the Mongols play in regards to Eurasian trade and cultural integration? My text for this is Traditions & Encountersby Bentley and...

Being a
traditionally nomadic people, the
Mongols had always supported trade. This was even true before
the conquests
of Ghengis Khan. After the empire was established, the Mongols found that
trade
could vastly enrich their empire. Because their empire was beside the
Silk Road, they had
control of the important trade routes that connected the
markets of East Asia with those of
Europe. To protect the silk market, the
Mongols kept the source of the precious cloth a secret.
The punishment for
bringing silkworms out of the Empire was death. The Mongol government also

provided armed escorts for trade caravans in order to safeguard them from bandits.
Merchants and
traders were held in high regard in Mongol society. They
received privileges such as tax
exemptions, a high social status, and
low-interest government loans.

The
Mongol empire was huge
and encompassed many different ethnicities. At its height, it covered
almost
12 million square miles. The Khans valued cultural differences
and...

I need a good thesis statement and opener for a paper on "The Necklace."

One interesting element
of the story is theof Mathilde Loisel's dynamism.She is a character who changes quite
dramatically and in ways that we would likely not expect.Initially, "She had no dresses, no
jewels, nothing.And she loved nothing but that; she felt made for that."But, then, after
she loses her friend, Madame Forestier's, beautiful (though artificial) diamond necklace, rather
than become more sullen and miserable, "She took her part [...] all on a sudden, with
heroism."She knows that the horrifying debt she and her husband have taken on in order to
replace the necklace has to be repaid, and "She would pay it."Situational irony is
created when what actually happens is the opposite of, or at least very different from what we
expected to happen.We would very likely expect Mahilde to descend into even further dejection as
she and her husband are forced to move from their comfortable lodgings and into a cheaper
apartment as well as give up their serving girl....

Why does the memory of the day with Ray Singh seem so important to Susie after her death? chapter 6

If you died
at 14 and were looking down from heaven, what of your life would you remember? Would you
remember the moment when you were about to experience your first kiss with someone? Why might
this type of memory stick in your mind?

The serial killer, Mr. Harvey, has
denied Susie a full life. Her life is cut off before she can experience all that teens
experience. And in a full life, one hopefully has a love, perhaps a true love, or at least a
momentary connection with someone. Susie is about fulfill a romantic and sexual moment with Ray
Singh -- a first kiss -- and then the moment is ripped away, just as her life is. You can
imagine that a girl from heaven looking back over her life, should she have any nostalgia, might
feel some for "the kiss that never happened." (Others who live to full adulthood might
remember a wedding ceremony, having children, etc...)

What is interesting
about the moment that stops the kiss from happening? It's the chastisement of Ruth that
interrupts Ray and Susie from kissing. Ruth is the girl whom Susie is spiritually connected to,
and she is being criticized by the principal and the art teacher, for drawing honest pictures of
real women, ones that might be a bit too "real" for middle and high schoolers to look
at. (In other words, what master artists often do: draw from real life, even the naked body. But
for these adults in the 1970s, this type of drawing by a teen is viewed as
inappropriate.)

Note what Ruth is doing, what Ray and Susie are about to do,
and what the serial killer does. All of these images and plot elements revolve around romance
and the body and sexuality. In the case of Susie and Ray, something pure and romantic is about
to occur. In the case of Ruth, something pure, borne out of curiosity, is about to be explored.
But in the case of Mr. Harvey...he is an evildoer who perverts and exploits "the lovely
bones." Ruth glorifies them. Ray and Susie glory in first love. The backdrop is the evil
that Mr. Harvey has done. Yet, does Susie rise above the darkness? Does she transcend it? Do you
think the book has a positive energy about it, about the power of humans to redeem the evil and
suffering they endure?

Balance this memory with other memories that Susie
holds dear. Where does it rank in the light of her other memories? If a person only has 14
years, what will a person take with them to the grave and beyond?

Good luck
with your analysis.

What is the importance of names in "Everyday Use"? For example, what does Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo represent?

In the
story, "Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo" is Dee's new name. Her use of the name symbolizes
the "renaming" practice by African-Americans during the heyday of the Black Power
movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

During those decades, many African-Americans
who supported the Black Power Movement decided to discard their Anglicized names. They believed
that those names were an insulting reminder of their slavery heritage. So, many chose
Afrocentric names like "Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo" to signify a reclaiming of their
original African roots. Many also chose Afrocentric names to symbolize their revolutionary zeal
for self-determination.

Interestingly, the name "Wangero" is also
significant from the author's point of view. During a speech at the "11th Annual Steve Biko
Lecture at the University of Cape Town" on 13...

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What are some examples of sight and blindness/ light and darkness in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex?

We
especially see the motif concerning sight and blindness in the
dialogue betweenand . Tiresias is ironically a blind soothsayer or "seer." However,
when Tiresias accurately prophecies that Oedipus is the "unholy polluter" of Thebes,
meaning the one who committed the murder that is causing the plague, Oedipus disbelieves that he
is speaking the truth (372). Instead, Oedipus proclaims that Tiresias does not have the truth
due to his blindness, as we see in his line, "Since you are blind in your ears and mind and
eyes" (390-391). Ironically, Tiresias turns Oedipus's accusations of blindness back on
Oedipus by saying that it is really Oedipus who is truly blind, as we see in his
lines:

You, even though you see clearly, do not see the
scope of your evil, nor where you live, nor with whom you dwell. (433-435)

Hence, the recurring motif of sight and blindness is applied to
both Tiresias and Oedipus to help portray the theme of limited perception and
understanding.

The motif of light and darkness
is frequently seen in relation to the gods and suffering, especially the current plague. The
gods are portrayed as light or a saving, redeeming grace, while suffering is portrayed as
darkness. The gods are asked to use their light and save the Thebans from their current state of
darkness. Oedipus himself refers to the god Apollo and any messages the god delivers that will
hopefully end the plague as light, as we see in Oedipus's lines, "Lord Apollo, if only he
might come as bright with redeeming fortune as shine his eyes!" (86-87). Later, when
thedelivers a long ode petitioning the gods for help, they also refer to the gods as saving
light. They call on three gods, Zeus, Artemis and Phoebus for protection from their current
troubles, as we see in their lines, "I call: my threefold protection from death, shine
forth on me" (175). Hence we see that the recurring motif of light and darkness helps to
portray protection and salvation as light, and death, destruction, and agony as
darkness.

What is your answer to this question? "Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?"

However, an
argument could be made that the scene is too contrived to be real.  The whole town is out in the
forest on the one night that Goodman Brown decides to travel through it?  The pink ribbons he
has just seen on his wife just happen to be laying in sight?  There are many elements of this
"journey" that are coincidental and mystical to suggest that it is a dream.  In which
case, one could fault thefor having such serious doubts about his neighbors.  You could also
fault him for placing people too high on a pedastal, expecting them to always be pious and
true.  If Goodman Brown were to accept that to be human is to sin and repent, then he might not
have turned his back so drastically on society, and might in turn have been able to lead and
happier and fuller life.

How is youth and old age shown in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

Youth and
age are certainly contrasted in , though not necessarily old age. It is rather a contrast
between youths and adults.

Youth is portrayed through the young characters of
the play, such as , , , and . Juliet is our youngest character, being only 13. We know that
Juliet is only 13 because her father points out tothat she is not yet fourteen in saying,
"She hath not seen the change of fourteen years" (I.ii.9). Likewise, Juliet's Nurse
points out that in a little more than two weeks, Juliet will be 14 (I.iii.18-21). We are never
told exactly how old Romeo is, but since he and his friends are men roaming around town, we know
that he and his friends are at least in their late teens, possibly early twenties. If they were
younger, they would still be at home studying under their tutors, which was the way that boys of
high society were educated back then.

All of these young characters make
extremely emotionally driven, impetuous, and rash decisions. Even Benvolio, who is known for
being the peace maker, comes up with the foolish idea to crash the Capulet's ball. We can assume
that crashing the ball was his idea because, as the second speaker in the scene, he is the one
to lay out the plan in Scene 4 of Act 1. Both Romeo and Juliet also make the rash, emotional
decision to marry so suddenly. The whole play is full of youthful, emotionally driven, rash
decisions.

In contrast, some of the characters that represent the older,
adult generation of the play are Lords and Ladies Capulet and Montague, , and Prince Escalus.
But even these older characters are not necessarily wiser. They, too, are known for making
emotionally driven, rash decisions. Lords Capulet and Montague have made the decision to carry
on a feud that was actually begun by their ancestors, as we learn from the line, "From
ancient grudge break to new mutiny," found in the opening(3). Their decision to fight
actually goes against their own known better judgement, as we learn from Capulet when he
declares "and 'tis not hard, I think, / For men so old as we to keep the peace"
(I.ii.2-3). Friar Laurence decides against his own better judgement to marry Romeo and Juliet,
simply because he hopes it will end the feud. He also makes the irrational decision to fake
Juliet's death, rather than to announce her marriage to her father. Even Prince Escalus, who is
known as the voice of righteous judgement and pure reason, confesses to making poor decisions.
He repents not putting an end to the feud sooner as it cost him Mercutio's life, his own family
member.

Hence, we see that while youth is contrasted with the older
generation in the play, both the youth and the adults actually make the same foolish,
emotionally driven, impetuous, and rash decisions, showing us that so long as you allow yourself
to be governed by your emotions, there is actually not a vast difference between youth and
age.

In Animal Farm, what is an example of Squealer's hypocrisy?

Like most of
the pigs,is a hypocrite in his dealings with the other animals. He doesn't want to put in the
same amount of actual labor to serve the common good of the farm, and so he takes steps to
improve his own living situation while leaving the hard work for the other animals. This is
clearly seen (and isfor later events) in the situation with the apple windfalls and milk.
Although the other animals expect that all food will be divided up fairly, it comes out that the
pigs are taking the milk and apples entirely for themselves. To escape negative judgement,
Squealer uses his powers of persuasion:

"You do not
imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of
us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself... We pigs are brainworkers. The
whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over
your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those
apples."
(, , msxnet.org)

This is, of
course, rediculous; Squealer and the other pigs are just taking the better food for themselves
while making the other animals work harder. The justification that they "need" extra
and higher quality food in order to organize the farm has no merit, but Squealer understands
that he can scare the other animals into accepting his explanation with the threat of Jones's
return. This also has no merit, but the other animals are not educated enough to understand it,
and so they accept Squealer's explanation without protest.

What are the similarities and differences between Marxist theory and psychoanalytic theory in literature?

Although Sigmund Freud, writing several decades later, was aware of Karl Marxs
theories, Freuds ideas were primarily concerned with the interior, universal states of human
consciousness. Marx, conversely, addressed the social dimensions of human life that formed the
basis of political and economic behaviors and institutions. In his lectures published in 1933,
Freud acknowledged that psychoanalysis owed a debt to Marx, but he remarked that a social theory
must remain incomplete because there is not a unilateral, causative direction. Since the 1910s,
many scholars have sought ways to bring the two apparently distinct bodies of theory
together.

Notable among these efforts are the works of Louis Althusser. His
attention to theories of reading point out the importance of individual perspective as shaped by
ideology. The strong influence of Freud on Althussers works fed into a stated goal concerning
literary...

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Identify two dynamic characters and the extent of their changes in The Crucible.

The Reverend Hale is the most obviously dynamic character in . He
enters the play as a self-confident expert, eager to perform a task for which he believes
himself to be exceptionally well prepared. In Act II, he seems increasingly assailed by doubt.
He visits the Proctors to ascertain for himself the Christian character of their home and is
evidently perturbed at the arrest of Rebecca Nurse and Elizabeth Proctor. When John Proctor
calls him a coward and orders him out of the house, he has no reply except to say that there
must be some reason, unknown to any of them, for what is happening.

In Act
IV, Hale has changed completely. He regards the court as grossly unjust and bitterly regrets his
own part in the proceedings, pleading with the obdurate Danforth to relent. He says that he
counts himself guilty of John Proctor's murder and that he has been doing the Devil's work,
counselling "Christians they should belie themselves."

Another
dynamic character is Mary Warren, who...

What does this quote illustrate? "These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder / Which as they kiss...

These
lines are spoken byto , in act 2, scene 6, just beforeget married. Friar Laurence is warning
Romeo not to be too rash, reckless, or extreme in the way that he loves .

When he refers to "these violent delights," Friar Laurence is referring to
the violent intensity with which Romeo and Juliet love one another. He warns Romeo that unless
he and Juliet learn to love one another more moderately, their love shall result in
"violent ends." Later in the play, we discover that this warning was prescient, as
Romeo and Juliet's love does indeed end in violence.

Friar Laurence also
compares Romeo and Juliet's love to "fire and powder." The image evoked here is of a
trail of gunpowder which, when set alight, becomes a trail of fire. Often there is an explosion
at the end of a gunpowder trail, and in this sense this image too foreshadows Romeo and Juliet's
fate. Their love is like a trail of gunpowder running throughout the play which leads,
inevitably, to an explosion. Just a few years after the play was first performed, a group of
Catholics tried to blow up the House of Lords with barrels of gunpowder. Thein the play to
"fire and powder" would have thus had a particularly strong resonance for audiences
watching the play at this time.

Continuing with the same theme of loving
recklessly, Friar Laurence then compares Romeo and Juliet's love to "the sweetest
honey," which, when eaten too greedily and too quickly, becomes "loathsome" and
can make one feel ill. In other words, Friar Laurence is saying that Romeo and Juliet are
feeding upon their love too greedily and too quickly, so it will make them ill and the love
"loathsome."

After comparing their love to a trail of gunpowder and
too much sweet honey, Friar Laurence tells Romeo to "love moderately"preserve the love
rather than destroy it. Romeo, of course, is too naive and too much overwhelmed by his first
experience of reciprocated love to heed Frair Laurence's advice. He continues to love violently
and greedily, and his love, accordingly, ends in violence.

What should be in a conclusion about the age of Chaucer?

Your
conclusion is an opportunity to summarize everything you've discussed in your paper and leave
the reader with "something to think about."

A great way to do this
is by including an answer to one of the following prompts in your conclusion:

1. Why does this matter?

2. How does this connect to modern
times?

3. What lesson can we learn from this?

4. How does
this topic fit into the larger scope of things?

In a paper on the age of
Chaucer, you could take it in several different directions. You could easily connect what you've
discussed to modern life or modern writing/storytelling through comparison or contrast. You also
could pose a question about what lasting impacts of Chaucer and his contemporaries had in
English literature. If you prefer to keep "modern times" out of it, you could finish
by reflecting on how Chaucer can be distinguished from his contemporaries and why he was the one
whose works have lasted.

I certainly wouldn't include
all of this, but you can choose what works for you!

If f(x) = 2x-3 and g(x) = x^2 -2 find fog(x) and gof(x).

We know that
f(x) = 3x - 3 and g(x) = x^2 - 2. We need fog(x) and gof(x)

fog(x) =
f(g(x))

=> f(x^2 - 2)

=> 2*(x^2 - 2) - 3

=> 2x^2 - 4 - 3

=> 2x^2 - 7

gof(x) =
g(f(x))

=> g( 2x - 3)

=> (2x - 3)^2 - 2

=> 4x^2 + 9 - 12x - 2

=> 4x^2 - 12x + 7

This gives fog(x) = 2x^2 - 7 and gof(x) = 4x^2 - 12x +
7

Is Orestes a tragic hero or a mother killer? id like to know your opinion related to this in a essay writen form to explain the both of them and the...

One
possible way of approaching this question is through two perspectives: earthly and divine. From
the earthly standpoint, one could argue that Orestes acts heroically in killing Clytemnestra.
After all, she was responsible for murdering Orestes's father, Agamemnon, and, according to the
standards of the time, this was a serious transgression of the law which needed to be punished
with the utmost severity. At this time and in this culture, law was a private family matter, and
so Orestes's response was perfectly in keeping with the standards of the time. According to the
dictates of contemporary law and morality, then, Orestes's actions can indeed be
justified.

On the divine level, however, it's a different story. From the
gods' perspective, Orestes has...

What are the similarities and differences between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam?

speculette

Christianity, Judaism and Islam are what we commonly call the "Abrahamic
Religions." 

The association with Abraham, and thus the biblical story
of The Call of Abraham, influences all three of the above religions in terms of their beliefs
about God and the origin of humanity. 

In short, the very first tale of
Abraham--found in the first of three sections of the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Torah--is
essentially about God's creation of the paradigmatic human being. In an effort to see if Abraham
would (unlike Adam and Eve) follow his will unconditionally, God tested Abraham with a series of
difficult tasks, all of which Abraham completed without argument. 

Abraham
also heeded God's will when he was told to sacrifice his son, Isaac, to God. He prepared a
ritualistic killing for the child and was stopped just before the actual killing when God
intervened and told him that he needn't see anymore; he...

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Compare and contrast Mama and Beneatha from A Raisin in the Sun.

Mama
andoperate as foils in the play. Hansberry uses theto compare and contrast the difference in
values between Mama's generation and Beneatha's. Mama's generation was that which migrated from
the South to northern cities like Chicago, the setting of the play, in the early part of the
twentieth-century. Beneatha's generation embraced Civil Rights, pan-Africanism, and later, would
embrace Black Pride, which encouraged a singularly black aesthetic, as well as black
nationalism.

Beneatha's generation had more access to education and
opportunity than her mother's. This is exemplified not only by the erudite language that
Beneatha uses, which befuddles her mother, but also by her experiments with different hobbies.
For example, Beneatha announces that she will start guitar lessons, a pastime which makes no
sense to either Mama or :

Mama: How come you done taken it
in your mind to learn to play the guitar?

Beneatha: I just want to, that's
all.

Mama: (Smiling)  Lord, child,...

Consider the physical traits and personality traits of Harrison, in the short story, "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Why is he considered a...

Harrison, inJr.'s
short story, "," is considered a threat to the society he lives in for a few reasons.
First of all, his physical strength surpasses just about anyone's.  He has been held down by all
kinds of physical contraptions to keep that strength at bay, but in the story, he easily rips
off his "handicaps" and proceeds to rip off those of the ballerina and musicians, too.
His physical strength alone is enough to worry the people of power in his society where everyone
is supposed to be "equal in every way."  However, not only is Harrison big and strong,
he is also highly intelligent, and this is an even bigger threat to his society. He, if given
the chance, can tell people what is going on, he can explain that by being "equal,"
they are not equal at all, that they are oppressed and all opportunities have been taken away
from them. Sadly, in this story, Harrison is killed off before he has the chance to explain this
to the people of this oppressive society. 

"'Even as
I stand here--' he bellowed, 'crippled, hobbled, sickened--I am a greater ruler than any man who
ever lived! Now watch me become what I can become!'" (Vonnegut
6)

Harrison knows he is smarter and stronger than
everyone else. He knows what the rest of society does not - he is much more than what the
authorities want him, and everyone else, to think he is.

What was the Enlightenment according to Dorinda Outram in her book The Enlightenment?

Maureen Powlowski

Dorinda Outram takes up the definition of the Enlightenment in the first chapter of her
book, entitled ; however, the title of the chapter is actually, "What
is Enlightenment," not "What is the
Enlightenment."

Why "Enlightenment" and not
"the Enlightenment?" Does it matter? For Outram, it does.
According to the author, the Enlightenment has traditionally been seen by historians as an
entity or a unitary phenomenon. Consequently, the traditional interpretation was replete with
oversimplifications, such as the tendency to see French intellectual developments as typical and
to emphasize certain themes, such as the victory of rationality over faith, through a selective
sampling of the evidence. One might characterize this traditional approach as reductionist and
limited.

For Outram, "the Enlightenment" (or more properly
"Enlightenment," given her argument) was diverse, complex, and geographically
widespread; in fact, it is even arguably still ongoing. In other words, it was not...

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Should Stargirl have changed to become popular?

Well,does try to change to become popular. She enters the Arizona
state oratorical contest, hoping that if she wins, then the other students will think she's
great. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite turn out like that, and not because Stargirl failed to
win. On the contrary, she storms the competition. Her winning speech receives rapturous applause
from the audience, and she ends up on the front page of the local newspaper.

But when Stargirl returns to school, far from being hailed as a conquering hero by the
other kids, she's roundly ignored by them. It's almost like she doesn't exist. The only people
waiting to greet her as she arrives in the school parking lot are Dori and a couple of
teachers.

The moral of this episode would seem to be that you should always
be true to herself. Stargirl certainly takes this lesson to heart after winning the oratorical
contest. From now on, she's going to be her normal kooky self instead of trying to fit in and be
popular.

Describe the idea of the American Dream in "A Raisin in the Sun". How does that dream differ from Beneatha to Walter to Mama? Why?

Each
character in the Younger family has different ideas of what the American Dream is and plans on
spending the insurance money to accomplish their individual dreams.Younger's idea of the
American Dream involves having her family together in a safe, comfortable environment. She does
not necessarily have any dreams of her own and mentions that she would even donate the check to
her church. Lena's foremost concern is the well-being of her children. However, Lena decides to
put a down payment on a house in Clybourne Park, which is a white neighborhood. She is motivated
to put her family in a better position with improved living conditions.

's
idea of the American Dream involves her going to college to become a doctor. The self-confident,
independent woman, selfishly wishes to use the family's insurance money to pay for her
schooling.

Lee's idea of the American Dream involves him becoming a wealthy
business owner. Walter wishes to use the insurance money to open a liquor...

Is Robinson Crusoe a middle class hero?

Yes,is a
solidly, and even supremely, middle-class character. In England, Crusoe's land of birth, and in
fact throughout Europe there were three classes of people: the hereditary aristocracy, the
middle class (which up until the 18th century was very small), and the vast bulk of people, who
were poor. The members of the hereditary aristocracy were set apart by not having to work for a
living; they lived on inherited wealth and the rents paid by those farming on their vast
estates. The aristocrats were also, because they did not work for a living, called the leisure
class.

Anyone who was not born to the aristocracy but made
enough...

What can you say about Stumpy in "The Luck of Roaring Camp"?

Stumpy is
the good-hearted surrogate father of " ." Stumpy is hiding out in Roaring Camp and
because he is a bigamist, it is decided that he has more experience dealing with women. So he
assists in the...

Explain three challenges of democracy.

Another
challenge to democracy is that even a
free and fair election of leaders does not necessarily
guarantee good and
honest leaders who will do well for the people in a country.  A leader can be

elected with dire consequences, corruption, unequal enforcement of law, repression of
rights
such as freedom of speech or freedom of religion, control of the
media, military law, or any
number of other measures that most democratic
nations believe are an anathema for a true
democracy.  There are leaders who
were voted in and did away with term limits, leaders who have
imposed
theocratic governance, and elected leaders who maintained their power through

intimidation. This is why a democracy without a constitution upheld by its courts is not
a
fully...

What is the narrative structure of Oedipus Rex? Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

You
should also take into account, when considering the structure of , that it was a classical Greek
.  Aristotle, in his work Poetics, is credited with defining this specific
dramatic form. He wrote:

A tragedy is the imitation of an
action that is serious and also,as having magnitude, complete in itself; in appropriate and
pleasurable language;... in a dramatic rather than narrative form; with incidents arousing pity
andfear, wherewith to accomplish aof these emotions.

So,
by definition, the structure of a Tragedy was meant to incite an audience to "pity and
fear" in order to have a cathartic moment of release instigated by the fall of the tragic
hero.

The fall is key to the successful narrative structure of the play,
because, by definition, it must inspire pity and fear in the audience.  Oedipus is generally
considered one of the most "perfect" tragic heroes.  The pity is inspired by Oedipus'
true and unrelenting desire to find the person...

Describe Scrooge at the start of the film/novel and identify the major influences on his identity.

At the
start of , Ebezner
Scrooge is a lonely and embittered aging miser. He has
no real friends and
his life is uncomfortable. He lives as cheaply as...