Who is Judas Iscariot?

Judas
Iscariot was one of the original twelve disciples of Jesus. But he notoriously betrayed Jesus to
the authorities for thirty pieces of silver. When a crowd descended upon the Garden of
Gethsemane to arrest Jesus, Judas identified him by kissing him and calling him
"rabbi," or teacher. Ever since...

Give two possible themes for "Battle Royal." Give examples from the story to support your answer.

"" is chapter one of 's novel .  Many of the themes that
run throughout the book are present in chapter one.  The two themes that I will discuss from
this chapter are oppression and sexual objectification. 

Let's look at
oppression in "Battle Royal" first.  What I find interesting about this chapter is
that the events of the chapter not only show that the narrator is oppressed because of his skin
color, but the chapter also shows that women are oppressed.   

The narrator
is asked to give a speech at a gathering of the town's leading white citizens, and the narrator
is both proud and excited for the opportunity.  Unfortunately, the narrator is forced to take
part in the evening's "entertainment."

Everyone
praised me and I was invited to give the speech at a gathering of the town's leading white
citizens. It was a triumph for the whole community.

It was in the main
ballroom of the leading hotel. When I got there I discovered that it was on the...

What are the styles used in Animal Farm?

s famous
novel primarily
usesto explore the communist ideology and criticize its
pitfalls. In the
novel, famous leaders are made into caricatures and represented as animals
who
run a farm into the ground and give themselves all the wealth that is
purportedly to be
distributed to the other farm animals. He uses satire
effectively to criticize the evils of a
communist society run by inherently
flawed individuals.

In addition to
satire, he uses an
omniscient third person narrator who can observe the events of the novel

objectively and give insight into the feelings of each animal. While doing this, it
gives an
accurate portrayal of how people are tricked by the idealism of
communism, while making the
flaws in the arguments abundantly clear. It shows
the greed and justification of the leaders
while also representing the
poverty and disillusionment that occurs in the masses

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How does the short story "Girl" embody plot, setting, and symbolism?

I agree
it's a little disconcerting to have to find these three literary elements in what appears to be
just a huge list of "dos and don'ts" written by a mother to her daughter. A closer
look, however, will reveal them. 

Let's start with plot. This list is
actually the story of a day, and then a life, of a young girl becoming a woman in this
particular culture.  It outlines chores for the day: sweeping, laundry, cooking, shopping,
entertaining, gardening, fishing... and the list goes on.  These are the everyday chores,
traditions, and activities which a mother must teach and a daughter must learn.  Add to that the
intricacies of maturing (white cloths and medicine to "throw a child away") and
relationships (smiling and bullying and singing), and this is a lifetime worth of learning
experiences. 

The setting is actually the simplest element to identify, as it
is embodied in the plot.  This is obviously a more simplified, non-American, tropical culture,
one in which growing things and working hard are expected.  We do only have the women's
perspective, but we can imagine the same kind of conversation happening as fathers teach their
sons to repair roofs and provide for their families.  As you examine the specifics of this list,
the setting becomes clearer.

Symbolism is a bit more difficult to identify
because it's a culture with which we have little experience.  One consistent symbol includes
things that are and are not appropriate in this culture.  Singing benna in the wrong places is
obviously potentially dangerous to a young girl's reputation.  So is smiling in the wrong way or
improperly setting the table for guests.  And if the baker knows of your sullied reputation,
everyonemust know (thus making him a symbol of society). Reputation is
clearly important, and it is the consequences of these kinds of symbolic actions which can make
or break one's reputation.

While "" may not look like a traditional
short story, it does contain the key elements of plot, setting, and symbolism. And, while this
may not be your culture, you can understand it in the context of getting advice from a parent on
how to live a successful life--and the consequences if you choose to flaunt the
rules. 

Who are the female characters in The Odyssey?

As
takes place over many years and miles, there are a number of female characters that
feature in the story.

I agree that Penelope is one of the most important
female figures in this epic, and she is one of the few female heroes in Classical literature.
One of the defining aspects of being a heroine is that, rather than the brute strength and
battle courage displayed by male heroes, Penelope is often characterized as very cunning. She is
extremely loyal to her missing husband, and deploys several schemes in order to ward off the
suitors who come while Odysseus is away. Odysseus is constantly worried about her faithfulness
despite his own multiple sexual encounters, and the fear of a wicked wife is enforced in his
journey to the Underworld. He talks to Agamemnon, who was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra upon
his return from the Trojan War. With this in mind, Penelope as a female character influences
Odysseus to hide his initial return to Ithaca in order to assess the current...

Who suffers most from Willy's delusions? Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Undoubtedly,
the person who suffers the most
from Willy's delusions is his wife Linda. Although this may be
an arguable
observation, the evidence in the novel points at this being quite

probable.

The character of Willy Loman in 's is
a sixty
year old man who has achieved very little in life because he has
embarked in a never-ending
quest to hit his version of the American Dream:
One which can be obtained quickly and painlessly
if only one is well-liked
and good looking.

Living under that philosophy,
Willy has
brought more grief than joy into his household: He has raised two sons under
his
"spell", turning them into immature womanizers. He also has cheated on
his wife in the
quest of being "well-liked" and "popular", and he has
brought  little
earnings to their finances. After all, Willy has done nothing
but to live off his
"dreams" of making it big, which are wrong from the
beginning.

With time, Willy's illusions have turned into
delusions. Literally. Now in...

Where did Dick and Perry go when on the run in "In Cold Blood"? where was all the places dick and perry went while on the run from the KBI

While on
the run, Dick and Perry head south from Kansas City to Oklahoma on the 21st of November, and two
days later, they cross the border into Mexico at Laredo, Texas. At this stage of their trip,
they were only two hundred miles from their destination of Mexico City. After a week in Mexico
City, Dick and Perry traveled even further south to Cuernevaca, Taxco, and Acapulco. After
spending some time in these areas of Mexico, the two men returned to Mexico City.

While in Mexico City for the second time, Dick decides that they have to return to the
United States because they are running out of money and the pay for legitimate work is not
enough for Dick. Perry considers staying in Mexico on his own, but he ends up deciding to leave
Mexico with Dick. They take a bus to Barstow, California, and then they hike the Mojave Desert
for a half a day before trying to hitch a ride.

Who does Moses symbolize in history?

Moses, the raven,
represents the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia and/or Rasputin, the influential "mad
monk" during days of the early Soviet Union and of the Bolshevik revolution.

What Does It Mean To Be A Citizen

Citizenship:
We used to teach it as a subject! We thought it was important to make students understand that
we're all in this together and everybody has a part to play. I guess we still teach the
principles of citizenship, except we call it other things, like "Value of the Week."
Rights and responsibilities . . . I can't imagine one without the other. It seems to me that
claiming rights without accepting corresponding responsibilities is selfish and egocentric. In
regard to our role as U.S. citizens, I would suggest that in a government "of the people,
by the people, and for the people," the people (that now would be you and I) had better
step up to the plate. Remember the rest of that sentence?

What does Diamond see as an important lesson we can draw from the Dutch polder system?

In
Collapse: How Societies Choose to
Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond argues that
the Dutch polder system
provides us with an example of environmental sustainability through

cooperation.

A polder is a piece of low-lying land reclaimed from the
sea. In
the Netherlands, about 20% of the land has been reclaimed in his way
so it is important to have
an effective system in place to ensure long-term
environmental sustainability. And this system
depends for its effectiveness
on people in different polders working together to ensure that no
one drowns.
It isn't the case that rich people live safely on top of dikes while the poor
eke
out a parlous existence on the polders below sea-level; if the dikes and
the pumps and all the
other crucial elements of the polder system fail, then
everyone will drown, rich and poor
alike.

Diamond holds up
the polder system as a paradigm example of how we
should all work together to
stave off environmental disaster. Far too often, especially in the
West, we
tend not to notice the damaging environmental impact that our actions can have on
other
parts of the world. But as Diamond points out, such an attitude is a
recipe for disaster. Unless
we acknowledge the fundamental interconnectedness
of humankind, as the Dutch do in the operation
of their polder system, then
there is every danger that the Earth will hurtle towards
environmental
catastrophe at a truly alarming rate.

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What is the effect of the alliteration "Smallest space a sheet...on a ...shelf" in the poem "Small Town Dance" by Judith Wright?

of the initial
"s" sound is also known as sibiliance, but the alliteration in this poem that you have
identified also includes repetition of the "sh" sound in "sheet" and
"shelf," which crams a lot of alliteration in to these two lines:

That white Expanse
reduces to a neat
compression
sitting in the smallest space
a sheet can pack in on a cupboard shelf.

It is important to remember the context of...

Are the people, objects, and events in Goodman Brown's adventure invested with enough consistent symbolic resonance to justify calling his episode in...

The people, objects,
and events in this story are, indeed, invested with enough symbolism to justify calling the text
an . Salem is a place of apparent order, where all seem to follow the rules and abide by the
dictates that keep society from turning into chaossymbolic of any and every community with its
own specific set of rules. The forest is a place outside these rules, a place of lawlessness
and, hence, temptation. It symbolizes any temptation that might compel a person to behave in a
manner which is out of sync with the rules they desire or purport to follow.

Brown, an everyman character as indicated by his common name, thinks of himself as a "good
man" even though he is quite willing to meet and walk with the devil in the forest. Many
Puritans did, which, Hawthorne points out, makes it ironic that "Goodman" and
"Goodwife" were common titles. His "Faith"a symbol of his Christian
faith"kept [him] back awhile"almost preventing him from going into the woods
(i.e....

Why did Vikings settle in England?

Between 800 and
1150, around 200,000 Vikings left their homes in Scandinavia and settled in various countries
across the world. According to historical records, the first Vikings arrived in England in the
year 793 when they raided a monastery on the island of Lindisfarne. It was the
allure of Christian gold and...

How does timing play fate in Romeo and Juliet?

As the
other answers have noted, timing at least seems to be everything in this
play. Thethat kills the two lovers appears to have been caused as much by the ill-timed sequence
of events as by the feud dividing the two families.

It is a case of if, if,
if. If only 's wedding had not been moved up, forcing her to take the sleeping potion earlier
than planned; if onlyhad gotten word of the plot so that he would have known Juliet was not
really dead; and if only he hadn't immediately and impulsively killed himself, all would have
been wellat least potentially. Of course, we learn in thethat the lovers are fated to come to a
tragic end, so we have to believe that if this series of mishaps had not ruined their chances,
something else would have.

What happens to Tom Robinson following the trial in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Tom Robinson is shot trying to

escape while in prison.

The trial of Tom Robinson is
the trial
of the century for Maycomb, Alabama.  A black man accused of raping
a white girl is big news. 
The case is not so simple as black and white,
however.  It threatens to tear apart several
families in Maycomb.

The Ewells are a poor white family that lives near the
town dump. 
They are mostly illiterate because they never send their children to school for
very
long.  They do not have jobs.  Bob Ewell gets relief checks from the
government and hunts to
feed his family.  No one is even sure how many
children there are.

Tom
Robinson is a black man from a
respectable family, but no one in Maycomb really respects anyone
of color. 
Tom Robinson felt sorry for young Mayella Ewell, the oldest Ewell, because she
was
responsible for taking care of the entire Ewell brood.  She seemed
desperate and lonely, so he
helped her when she needed it and she paid him a
nickel for small chores.  One day she tried to
kiss him.

Mayella was caught with Tom Robinson by her father, and he assumed

the worst.  She accused Tom Robinson of rape, and he was arrested.  Judge Taylor
assigned
respected lawyerto defend him.  Unlike most of Maycomb, Atticus was
not willing to give up on
his client just because he was black.  That did not
mean, however, that he felt he could win the
case.

During
the trial, Atticus made a big deal out of the fact that Mayella
was beat up
on her right side by someone who had to be left-handed.  He also proved that
Bob
Ewell was left handed, and that he often beat Mayella.  He established
that Mayella never saw a
doctor, and there was no proof she was even
raped.

The clincher for Atticus's
case was that Tom
Robinson was crippled.  He did not have use of his left hand at all because
of
a farming accident when he was young.  Despite this, as the prosecutor Mr.
Gilmer demonstrated,
Tom Robinson was incredibly strong.  Robinson also said
that he felt sorry for Mayella, which
was a big mistake.  A black man should
not admit to feeling sorry for a white woman.

In his
closing argument, Atticus reminded people that the case should be decided on

facts and not on the preference for believing a white woman over a black
man.

€¦ I am confident that you
gentlemen will review without passion
the evidence you have heard, come to a
decision, and restore this defendant to his family. In
the name of God, do
your duty. (Ch. 20)

The jury

deliberated longer than anyone thought possible, but they still came back with a guilty
verdict
and Tom Robinson went to prison.  Atticus was dejected, but told his
client that they had a
chance on appeal.  It was too much for Tom Robinson.
He had been locked up long enough, and the
injustice of what happened finally
got to him.

Tom Robinson tried to jump the
fence of the
prison, which was difficult with one hand.  He was shot trying to escape.  It
was
suicide.

We had such a good chance,
he said. I told
him what I thought, but I couldnt in truth say that we had
more than a good chance. I guess Tom
was tired of white mens chances and
preferred to take his own. €¦ (Ch. 24)

The death of Tom Robinson was not enough for Bob Ewell.  He had
been
humiliated by Atticuss accusations at the trial, and spat in his face.  Ewell vowed to
get
Atticus, but Atticus did not take him seriously until Bob Ewell tried to
attack his children. 
The Finches reclusive neighbordefended them, killing
Bob Ewell and putting an end to
things.

Provide a short critical analysis to the play "Pygmalion."

The play
, byis, like the previous post accurately stated, primarily a socialthat
belongs to the genre of Romanticism, and most specifically, to the form of Comedy of Manners.
Within this genre, society is often mocked particularly by the way that the upper classes act
and think.

One most keep into consideration that GB Shaw is an Irish
playwright who produces pieces for a very complex British Victorian audience. Victorian society
is notorious for its classicist nature, for its hypocritical values, and for its 'holier than
thou' attitudes. When we take this into consideration, we can safely argue that Shaw literally
laughed at the English Victorian audience right in its face by pointing out the shallow nature
of their judgement of other people.

You see this creature
with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days.
Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden
party. I could even get her a place as lady's maid or shop assistant, which requires better
English. That's the sort of thing I do for commercial millionaires. And on the profits of it I
do genuine scientific work in phonetics, and a little as a poet on Miltonic lines.

The central theme of the play revolves around making a peasant girl
look portrayDuchess in an upcoming fashionable event. In the process of transforming Eliza, Shaw
irreverently points at the coarse and terrible image that the lower classes have of the upper
classes by making jokes at the way Eliza should pronounce words and use specific mannerisms.
These words are exaggerated and made to look ridiculous. The mannerisms are meant to mock the
aristocrats. The language used by Eliza and her peers throughout the transformation process just
adds salt to the wound: It brings the upper classes spiraling down from their self-made
pedestals.

Therefore, far from portraying the English as tolerant, kind, and
intelligent people, Shaw shows us how easily to deceive they can be if only you make someone
look and sound the way an aristocrat is meant to look and sound. Because of this clear attack to
a society that accepts no criticism, Shaw obtained mixed reviews about the play. It is not so
much because of its form, but because of its central message: Shaw seems to have been quite
interested in pointing out social flaws, and this is obviously something that, in a shallow
society, will not transform into a vote of approval.

How did China become Chinese according to Guns, Germs and Steel?

Margarete Abshire

Diamond argues that geography played a large role in the cultural and linguistic unity
of Southeast Asia. While the country is divided into two distinct regions, the north and the
south, each with their own domesticated crops (millet in the north, rice in the south), the
north-south distances in China were smaller than in Africa, and there were no natural barriers
that inhibited movement between the regions. In fact, in China the Yellow and Yangtze River
systems facilitated the spread of crops and technology. As a result, China undoubtedly was one
of the earliest sites of food production, which in turn led to the development of urban centers
and a stratified social system. This made it possible for China to be unified under a single
Emperor as early as 2000 BCE.

The "Chinese"-ness of China is
connected to the early adoption of Mandarin and its relatives as the "native" language
of the area. Diamond notes that one result of...

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Discuss how the settings and changing circumstances in the story affect Madame Loisels choices. Record your ideas in a chart.

Initially, in her home,
Madame Loisel is quite
unhappy. She cannot dress well because she is not rich, and so she
"dressed
plainly." She suffers "ceaselessly" because she cannot have the
luxuries
afforded by those with wealth, and she feels that her home is "wretched" and

"worn-out" and ugly. Though, the narrator says, other women would not even be aware
of
the flaws Madame Loisel hates so much, she chooses to see them and refuses
to be grateful for
what she has. She only imagines what her rooms could look
like with richer decorations and
furnishings. Moreover, she has a friend with
whom she went to school, though she chooses not to
visit her anymore "because
she suffered so much when she came back" to her own home
and was forced to
compare it with her friend's abode. She only decides to pay her friend a
visit
when she wants to borrow some jewelry.

After the
fateful night of the party,
however, and after Madame Loisel has lost the
seemingly priceless necklace belonging to her
friend, her life changes most
dramatically. She can no longer make very many choices at all.
They must
downsize, moving to a smaller apartment. They must let their servant
go.

However, Madame Loisel takes her part "all on a
sudden, with heroism." She
does heavy housework and her hands grow coarse and
rough. She bears up under this debt better
than she seemed to before it was
acquired. She chooses to accept her responsibility with more
grace and poise
than she accepted her position before. It's an interestingthat she is a more

positive person when she is truly poor than when she only thinks she
is.

Assess the attributes and potential drawbacks to having a formal Human Resource Management process.

I would
say that there are more benefits to having a formalprocess.  The more formal the Human Resources
process is in an organization, the more likely it is that there will be synchronicity between
management and workers, understanding of essential principles in the organization, and greater
avenues that can be pursued if there is confusion in the organization.  A formal Human Resource
Management process also enables...

What approaches do Matthew and Dr. Bulkeley use to testify in Kit's defense in "Witch of Blackbird Pond"?

Matthew Wood
attempts to testify as a character witness.  Although he admits that Kit is "thoughtless
and headstrong at times", he knows she is a good girl at heart and certainly no witch. 
When the Magistrate asks him if he is "willing to vouch for (his) niece's good
character", he responds without hesitation that he will.  When he tries to tell the court
that Kit, by virtue of the kind of person she is could not be guilty of the crimes for which she
is being accused, his meaning is twisted, and he becomes frustrated.  In "steely
anger", he declares emphatically at the end of his testimony, "You can twist what I
say as you will...but I swear before all present, on my word as a freeman of the colony, that
the girl is no witch".

Dr. Bulkeley takes a more legalistic approach in
his testimony.  He cautions, "In my opinion...it is necessary to use the greatest caution
in the matter of testimony".  He points out that since each of the accusations given to
this point "rest...upon the word of but one witness, the legality of any one of them is
open to question".  Dr. Bulkeley does not speak directly in Kit's behalf as does Matthew,
but he uses his astute legal mind and calm, level-headed demeanor to direct the course of the
trial so that fairness and truth prevail (Chapter 19).

What are some examples of characterizations in Bierce's short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"?

's
Civil War stories are well known for their shocking endings, and "" provides such an
ending. Histechniques vary according to the story but, on the whole, he applies the three most
common types of characterization(a) description and action, with authorial commentary; (b)
action alone, with no authorial commentary on the action; and (c) through depiction of a
character's inner self through the thoughts and feelings the character expresses. Of the three,
Bierce focuses on developing his character through the man's inner self.

When
we first encounter Farquhar, he is introduced only as "a man" who is standing on some
planks, with his hands behind his back and a rope around his neck, about to be hanged by some
Federal troops who are themselves only characterized by their actions in connection with the
hanging. In a brutal war, these men are silent and stone faced because death is both common and
expected.

Bierce first characterizes Farquharstill referred to a "the
man"with his observable characteristics:

He was a
civilian, if one might judge by his habit, which was that of a planter. His features were
good...his eyes were large and dark gray, and had a kindly expression which one would hardly
have expected in one whose neck was in the hemp.

Bierce's
observation of the man's "kindly expression" is a subtle, but important, observation
that immediately creates some sympathy for the as-yet unnamed victim of war.

The characterization moves from the outside world to within the character when Bierce
notes that the man "closed his eyes in order to fix his last thought upon his wife and
children," another slice of this man's life that creates sympathy in the reader. From this
point to the end, Bierce includes Farquhar's interior life in the characterizationwe know how
and what Farquhar feels and sees because we see the action through his eyes and are privy to his
interpretation of events.

Perhaps the most effective and startling use of
Farquhar's inner self is, appropriately, at the end when Farquhar's brain, starved of oxygen
because of the hanging, is still sending signals to his consciousness:

His eyes felt congested; he could no longer close them; his tongue
was swollen with thirst; he relieved its fever by thrusting it forward from beneath his teeth
into the cold air...he could no longer feel the roadway beneath his feet.

In Farquhar's last moment of consciousness, he is sensing the
consequences of the hangingprotruding eyes; tongue protruding from the mouth; no roadway to be
felt. Bierce's choice to maintain Farquhar's inner dialogue is a masterful touch of . Rather
than simply describing Farquhar's physical being at the point of death, Bierce has made us feel,
as if we are inhabiting Farquhar's body, his last sensations.

What is the symbolism of the stones? site examples

According to the quickNotes guide, "(t)he picks and stones remind the reader of the
rubble... lifted day after tortuous day." ...

How does Hamlet's mental state change throughout Shakespeare's Hamlet?

I would argue
that the first change we see in 's mental state occurs whenfirst sees(and the ghost leads him
away from his friends) in .  In this scene, his mental state changes rather quickly.  Hamlet's
dialogue (and his friends' responses to him) makes this clear.  He addresses his friends with an
odd response, "Hillo, ho, ho, boy!  Come and come."  The back-and-forth that follows
between Hamlet,, and Marcellus suggests that Hamlet's mind is not "right" and that his
friends are having difficulty following his line of logic.  This dialogue makes...

What are three major conflicts in The Face on the Milk Carton?

Hmm.
 How about the conflict of Janie's adoptive parents.  I'm sure their struggle of whether or not
to let Janie go back to her birth parents is a super difficult decision.  

To what extent, does an exploration of storytelling in 1984 lead to a deeper understanding of human experiences?

The subject of storytelling is central to

since side-by-side with 's rebellion against the Party is his
attempt to
find out what preceded its dominance. The Party, of course, has
its own version of this, which
is widely disseminated. Winston knows that
this version is a lie:

But where did
that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case
must
soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposedif
all
records told the same talethen the lie passed into history and became
truth. "Who controls
the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future:
who controls the present
controls the past."

Winston is continually
frustrated in his attempt to discover the
story of the human race before and without the Party.
No one else seems
interested, not even , who lives in the moment and has no interest in

philosophy or history. When Winston tries to question an old man in a public bar (a
dangerous
thing to do and a sign of Winston's hunger to learn about the past)
the old man remembers
nothing except a few random words and details.
Eventually, Winston gives up the
attempt:

Within twenty years at the most, he reflected,
the huge and simple
question, "Was life better before the Revolution than it is now?"
would have
ceased once and for all to be answerable. But in effect it was unanswerable even
now,
since the few scattered survivors from the ancient world were incapable
of comparing one age
with another.

This aspect of 1984
tells us much about the
frailty and unreliability of human memory but also, paradoxically, about
its
centrality to the human experience. The people around Winston are hopeless and
deracinated
because they have lost the collective story of their past. It is
this that allows the Party to
control their past, present and future and
makes Winston, aspoints out, "the last
man," since everyone else has
forgotten the stories that made them
human.

Why did Orwell choose Winston as his protagonist in 1984?

To get a
better understanding of life in a totalitarian state, it's always best to see things through the
eyes of awith whom we can identify. That's wherecomes in. There's nothing particularly
remarkable about Winston, and that's precisely howintended it. Winston is a kind of everyman
character, an ordinary Joe who doesn't much stand out from the crowd. Among other things, this
means that we can put ourselves in his shoes and understand more readily the day to day
struggles of livingor rather, existingin such a grim, repressive society.

In
a world where the state creates its own reality, its own parallel universe of lies and
propaganda, it's important that there's at least one person who still holds fast to the truth,
someone who is prepared to assert that two plus two equals four. Winston is able to do this
because, unlike most people in Oceania, he's still old enough to remember the pre-revolutionary
past, a past that the state is actively seeking...

What internal conflicts is Tybalt experiencing in act 3, scene 1 of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

In
act 3, scene 1
of Shakespeare's ,
one internal
conflictfaces concerns his desire to
behave as a
gentleman vs. his hotheaded anger. Earlier in act 1, scene 5,
Tybalt
felt insulted bybecause he appeared at the Capulet ball uninvited.
Tybalt assumed Romeo was
there to mock the Capulets and therefore vowed to
challenge Romeo to a
duel. In the days of the
Italian Renaissance, dueling was a standard means by
which upper-class
gentlemen could redeem their honor and often not

meant to entail "fights to the death"; instead, most duels ended when "first

blood" was drawn (
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Knowledge: An Affair of Honor--The Duel"). Hence, it's no surprise that
Tybalt
decides to challenge Romeo to a duel; doing so was even
considered a
gentlemanly...

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In Of Mice and Men, was George shooting Lennie justified?

Although the
answer to this question can be defended either way, I feel thatis justified in killing. Aside
form the fact that Lennie has been and will continue to be a hindrance to George in both his
personal and professional life, this is not George's main motivation for carrying out such a
serious deed. Ultimately, George kills Lennie in a sense of mercy. Lennie, although he may have
continued on living a happy, oblivious life, would most likely have found a much worse demise.
Due to his lack of cognitive skills and his unbridled brute strength, Lennie continuously found
himself...

In The Bronze Bow, who does Simon take Daniel to the synagogue to see?

Simon is an
old friend of Daniel's, and one of the blacksmiths from which he learned some of his trade. He
brings Daniel back to the village for the first time in years, and although Daniel is
uncomfortable there, he agrees to accompany Simon to the synagogue.

"There's a man I'd like you to see," Simon told him. "They say he will
visit our synagogue this morning."

Daniel glanced up. Beneath the words
there was a hint he could not miss. "What sort of man?"

"I'm
not sure," said Simon. "He comes from Nazareth."
(Speare,
, Google Books)

This, of course, is Jesus, who
becomes a central figure in the book. Daniel is initially confused, and then enamored with what
he sees as natural leadership and sharing of some of his own ideals. However, he is initially
disappointed with the apparent pacifistic ideals that Jesus teaches. This becomes an important
theme of the novel, peace and compassion versus the anger and hatred that has driven Daniel for
so long. In the end, Jesus succeeds in getting through to Daniel and changes his mind and his
heart. Before that, though, Daniel is frustrated that Jesus seems to be doing nothing to help
combat the Romans, and his first meeting is indicative of this
frustration.

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1.In what ways do Gilgamesh's deeds help advance or preserve that society? 2. What do Gilgamesh's qualities and talents suggest were important...

I think
the note of conclusion that is
struck in the epic is one where Gilgamesh understands his purpose
as being
geared towards social betterment. Gilgamesh had carried himself for much of
the
narrative as one driven by his own personal notion of the good.  The
self- indulgence that
defined so much of his identity is shed towards the end
of the narrative. The way in which
Gilgamesh evolves is one where he
acknowledges the importance of his deeds in a larger
sense:

And so they traveled until they reached

Uruk.
There Gilgamesh the king said to the boatman:
/>Study the
brickwork, study the fortification;
climb the
ancient staircase to the
terrace;

study how it is
made; from the terrace see
the planted and
fallow fields, the
ponds and orchards.

One league is the inner city,
another
league 
is orchards; still another the fields
beyond;

over there is
the precinct of the temple. . .
. ,
Three leagues and the temple precinct of
Ishtar. />
Measure Uruk, the city of Gilgamesh 

For Gilgamesh, the very idea that he can
identify with the city of Uruk,
"his" city, represents his ability to embrace
deed and actions that advance and
preserve society.  When he speaks to the
boatman, the pride he feels is not for himself, but for
something larger that
he has helped to create.  The intricacies and nuances have become part of
why
he does what he does and why he believes what he believes.

At the end
of
the narrative, Gilgamesh understands that the path to find some notion of
transcendence in a
temporal condition of being is to do for others, to act in
a manner that advances the social
order and collective notion of the good.
 The fact that the epic ends in this light is
reflective of how the ancient
cultures defined what the purpose of being. They did not see
individuals as
needing to capitulate to self- indulgence.  The cultures placed primacy on
acting
for a wider call to action.  They demand this not only from
individuals, but also from their
leaders.  The ancient Sumerian and
Babylonian cultures insisted that political leaders act with
something larger
in mind.  The measurement of one's success is in the embrace of Uruk.

 

For Gilgamesh, this becomes a critical aspect of his definition and
sense
of being in the world. At the same time, Gilgamesh's flaws represent
how human beings must
strive to put larger interests above their own.
 Gilgamesh is not immediately focused on being a
ruler who looks out for the
welfare of his people.  Rather, he is self indulgent and acts in a
manner
filled withand pride.  The flaws that he embodies are flaws that the ancient cultures
saw
as intrinsic to human beings. The fact that Gilgamesh must emerge from
these actions and evolve
is a reflection of how the culture believes that
human beings possess the capacity to change and
"shed skin" in order to
embrace a condition of what can be from what is.  Gilgamesh's
actions towards
the end of the epic reaffirm the ancient cultural understanding of purpose
and
being in the world.  

Gilgamesh's positive qualities
could be displayed in a
hero of the modern setting.  In the American
condition, one would have to find someone who was
driven by a need to make
money or advance their own name.  It could be someone who is of a
particular
area and finds their way to advance to the top of said social order.  The parallel
to
Gilgamesh could be in how they recognize that acting in the name of social
cohesion gains
importance in their world view. Modernizing the Gilgamesh
narrative into a modern condition is
the basis of the many types of cinema
dramas such as American

Gangster or Gangs

of New
York. 

What are the three stages of Winston's reintegration in 1984?

The three
stages of 's integration can be described as, first, outward capitulation to power; second,
inward assimilation of the will of the Party; and finally, betrayal of the one he loves so that
he has no independent loyalty apart from the Party.

Physical torture, or
whatcalls the boot stamping the face, leads Winston to outward obedience and capitulation to the
regime. This is the easiest step in his reassimilation, and it begins from the time of his
arrest, when a rubber truncheon to the elbow brings him to his knees. Under torture by O'Brien,
Winston confesses and physically obeys the Party.

But that's hardly enough
for the Party: they want him to really believe what they tell him, and they also want to own his
soul. The second part of his reintegration, which also involves torture, convinces him to accept
that two plus two equals five. He can't simply say it, he has to
believe  it to be true. He has to utterly assimilate the idea that there is
no objective truth...

Do you think it was unfair of Grandaddy Cain to expose the film in "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird"? Why or why not?

Since such a
question as this is subjective, the student should express his/her own feelings based upon the
student's character analysis of Granddaddy and Granny, as well as on an interpretation of the
events of the plot.

Of course, one opinion is that Granddaddy
is justified in his actions because the camera man and "smilin' man,"
who work for some department of the government, have been previously told by Granny that she
does not want them filming anything on her property:

"Mind if we shoot a bit around here?"
"I do indeed," said
Granny with no smile.....
"Suppose you just shut...

"""Willy's falshbacks in Death of a Salesman serve as an escape mechanism. He uses these to cope with his sons' failure." Discuss.""

I agree fully with this
statement, except for one important omission. This is that flashbacks are used as an escape
mechanism, but they are equally, if not more, used as an escape mechanism for Willy to escape
his own failure as well as the failure of his sons. Of course, the two are very closely
intertwined, as part of the failure of the sons is the way that they have been brought up by
Willy. This theme is of course highlighted with Bernard's success as a lawyer compared to Bif
and Happy's lives and what they have achieved.

Discuss the dream in which Robinson Crusoe had his ''terrible vision''?

One
night,has a terrible nightmare: a fever dream brought on by the ague. In the dream, he's
confronted with the truly terrifying vision of a strange man descending from the black clouds to
threaten him with a spear. Crusoe can also hear the sound of a deep, booming voicealmost
certainly the voice of God himselftelling him that he will die, as he hasn't repented of his
sins.

Upon waking, Crusoe immediately understands the significance of the
dream. He knows that he must turn aside from his life of selfishness and pleasure and embrace
Christ as his savior. For all the time he's been on the island, Crusoe has been provided with
everything he needs to survive: plenty of food, material for shelter, and a supply of fresh,
clean water. Yet at no time has he thanked God for these natural gifts; he's simply taken
everything for granted. But that selfish attitude has to change, and it takes a terrifying
nightmare to make Crusoe realize this.

What advice does Thoreau offer to his fellows about ownership of the property and those who live in poverty?

            Chapter one of Thoreaus
is titled Economy. This title might lead readers to believe that Thoreau
considers systems of wealth / poverty in the chapter. However, Thoreau does not begin with a
discussion of economy. Instead, he foregrounds the chapter with a reflection on the condition
and nature of humankind. In fact, it is not until one-third of the way through the first chapter
that Thoreau even uses the word economy. Here, Thoreau suggests that Economy is a subject
which admits being treated with levity, but cannot so be disposed of. He later posits that
Even the poor student studies and is taught only political
economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even
sincerely professed in our colleges. Thus, Thoreau critiques the traditional view of economy as
a capitalist system; he broadens a traditional definition of economy to include the
interconnectedness of all living systems. More specifically, Thoreau concludes that an economy
of living is one which accounts, not for money and wealth, but for the philosophy of being. In
doing this, Thoreau, challenges traditional, conferred authority.

Nineteenth-century Western thought strictly defines economy in monetary terms; to be
considered wealthy was to own property. Thoreau, however, outlines a contrasting perspective,
which is first articulated in his discussion of the nature of human dwellings. In this section,
Thoreau contrasts the state of civilized man with that of the savage. While few civilized men
can afford to own their own dwellings, nearly all native men own their shelter. Thoreau
concludes that even if the farmer owns his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for
it, and it be the house that has got him. Here, Thoreau illustrates modern societys reliance on
material goods as a method to achieve happiness and greatness. He debunks this mode of thinking
by revealing the need to first improve the men who inhabit [the houses] before remodeling the
physical house itself. Thus, economy extends beyond a traditionally political system. Instead,
Thoreau places value in the moral and spiritual understanding of life systems.

Thoreaus economy deeply involves looking inward to ones own spiritual and moral being.
However, the author recognizes the difficulty of obtaining true economy in civilized life.
Hence, he argues for simplicity. He states, I went to the woods because I wished to live
deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life€¦I wanted to live deep and suck out all
the marrow of life€¦to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms. For Thoreau,
deliberateness is marked by simplicity. In order to be awakened to the goodness of life, one
must abandon superfluous detail and reduce life to the essentials. Certainly, this is one of the
primary reasons Thoreau provides great detail as to the monetary economy of his mode of life at
Walden, specifically outlining his building plans and expenditures. He desires to demonstrate
that riches are not necessarily drawn wealth, but can be obtained more readily in the
simplicities of life.

Unfortunately, Thoreau acknowledges that civilization
is too far removed from the natural world, trapped by luxury and heedless expense, which hinders
the vast majority of humankind from inward improvement. Thoreau suggests that the only cure
for [society] is in a rigid economy, a stern and more than Spartan simplicity of life and
elevation of purpose. Thus, Thoreaus stay at Walden allows him to abandon civilized life, slow
down his mode of living, and essentially reconnect with the economy of the natural world. By
returning to natures economy, Thoreau is able to consider society in new ways that are nearly
impossible when surrounded by the day to day needs of living.

Quote biblical text on anointing of the sick.

Extreme
Unction is the name of the seventh and last sacrament in the Catholic Church.  The Sacrament of
Last Rites involves the anointing of the sick who are preparing for death.  Priests do not
anoint just the sick; they anoint only those who are in danger of death,
giving the ill grace which provides courage and strength for the ailing person to
overcome the difficulties of their disease or illness, and to face death.

In
James 5:13-15 the anointing with oil for the sick is mentioned.  In the New American Bible, an
explanation is given for the use of oil; it was employed for...

What is a Shakespearean pun in Romeo and Juliet?

There are
several puns in the play that range from the humorous to provocative to
deeply tragic. Ais a type of play on words that uses a word that has multiple meanings or two
words that sound the same to subvert the commonly understood meaning of a phrase or sentiment.


The first pun is at the very beginning of the play, obviously intended to
appeal to the audiences comedic sensibilities. Two Capulet workers,and , are complaining about
the work they have to do moving coals. Those who belong to this profession are known as
colliers. For performing this work, Sampson claims that they would be in a choler, or an angry
state, and turn on their masters. Gregory reminds him that if they were to do such a thing, they
will find themselves in "collars," or a hangman's noose. This clever feat of wordplay
likely loosened up the audience and engaged them further with the narrative.

Without a doubt the most famous and tragic pun in the play is spoken by the
cleverduring his death scene. As his friends look on in disbelief,says that Mercutio's wound
cannot be that bad. Mercutio replies that if Romeo asks for him tomorrow, he will find "a
grave man." This is a pun where Mercutio admits that he knows that he is dying, as
"grave" here is intended to mean dead, though on the surface it could be seen as
meaning serious or humorless.

Another famous pun that is certainly more
lighthearted is when Romeo claims that he cannot dance because while others have "nimble
soles" his "soul" is made of lead. This is a clever pun that contrasts the light
footwork of skilled dancers with the heavy and depressed feeling that Romeo feels from his
love-sickness.

What roles have international institutions played in helping developing countries curb various challenges? How have some challenges not been resolved...

International institutions are
non-governmental institutions created in developed countries to provide various kinds of aid and
development assistance to developing countries. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are funded
by their country of origin's government, but are not overseen or regulated by those governments.
Clear examples of these international institutions are the International Monetary Fund, the
International Red Cross, and the World
Health Organization.

Some of the roles played by NGOs (or
international institutions) and some of the challenges faced by developing countries that NGOs
address are described in the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which include
"combating HIV/AIDS," eliminating "extreme poverty and hunger," empowering
women and promoting gender equality, and achieving "universal primary education" (UN
Millennium Project). href="http://www.gdrc.org/ngo/state-ngo.html">NGOs work in developing
countries on challenges such as poverty, economic inequality, trade barriers, sustainable
industry, education, human rights, health and disease, child mortality, agriculture, and
economic growth.

The history of NGOs, such as the IMF and World Bank, shows
NGOs, while interested in improving challenges in developing countries, are also interested in
profits. Many NGOs have received a lot of  href="http://www.globalissues.org/article/25/non-governmental-organizations-on-development-issues">criticism
on their philosophies, plans, and actions, and this criticism has led to attempts to improve the
href="http://www.globalissues.org/article/25/non-governmental-organizations-on-development-issues">focus
and methods of NGOs. A significant point of criticism has been that NGO development
projects give rise to new challenges that are detrimental to the growth of health, economies,
human rights, and sustainable ecological development.  href="http://www.un-documents.net/ocf-03.htm">Ecological degradation is
one of the newly arising challenges caused by NGOs. The history of the Mobil oil pipeline (now
Exxon Mobil) in Nigeria is a good illustration of how development projects funded by NGOsin this
case the World
Bankcan result in serious new challenges.

NGO-funded development of
cash crops, such as
cotton, which are intended to increase a developing country's national income by exporting the
crop to developed nations, illustrates how some challenges addressed by NGOs have not been
resolved, while simultaneously giving rise to new challenges. Cash crop emphasis was a strategy
to address the hunger associated with extreme poverty. Planting cash crops did increase national
income and reduce poverty, but emphasizing cash crops monopolized limited agricultural lands.
The cumulative result of the cash crop strategy is to trap the poorest people in continued
hunger because the cash crop of the small, poor farmer displaces the sustenance food crops that
would otherwise feed the farmers, their families, and their neighbors. In this way, the
challenge of hunger was left unresolved while raising the new challenge of land
degradation.

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What are some examples of allusions in the book Fahrenheit 451? Can you give me page numbers? Allusions are very hard for me to find, and I need them...

Anis a casual
reference to something that should be well-known by the reader.  It is generally meant
to support an explanation, to give an example. An allusion can be about the Bible, history,
mythology, or literature.  Bradbury uses all of these in his book. 

Some
historical allusions are:

1. When the woman
comes out of her house and says,

"Play the man,
Master Ridley: we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace, in England, as I trust
shall never be put out." (pg 36)

Later, on page 40,
Beatty explains to Montag that those words  were spoken by a man named Latimer to Nicholas
Ridley as they were being burnt alive at Oxford for heresy on October 16, 1555. The woman said
it just before she ignited and killed herself in the flames.

2. Another
historical allusion is 

"....when Mildred ran from
the parlor like a native fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius" (pg 93)

Vesuvius was a famous volcano that erupted in AD79 destroying the
city of Pompeii and all of its residents. 

Another kind of allusion in the
book is the literary allusion.  Many of these are done when Beatty
is speaking. 

1. One such allusion is

"Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo.  Burn it. 
White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it." (pg
59)

These are allusions to two famous books. 
Little Black Sambo was criticized for racism toward black children.
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an antislavery book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
that would upset white people.

2. Another literary allusion is,

"Montag stopped eating.  ..., he saw their Cheshire cat smiles
burning through the walls of the house...." (pg 93)

This is an allusion to the Cheshire cat character in Alice in
Wonderland.

3. On pages 105-106 in my copy of the book, Beatty
recites quotes from Sir Philip Sydney and Alexander Pope, both famous poets.  He uses their
quotes to make a point to Montag that a person can find support for both sides of an argument in
literature.

Another kind of allusion or casual reference in the book is
concerning the Bible.

1.  When Montag is on the
train on his way to visit Faber, he tries to memorize portions of the Bible but is interrupted
by the advertisement blaring in the train. Montag thinks,

"Shut up, thought Montag.  Consider the lilies of the field." (pg
78)

This is an allusion to the Sermon on the Mount when
Jesus told the people not to worry about their worldly goods.

2. Another
Biblical allusion is at the end of the book when Montag recites Revelation 22:2

"And on either side of the river was there a tree of
life, which bare twelve manner of fruites and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of
the tree were for the healing of the nations." (pg 165)

He decides he will share this with the men when they reach the
city.

Another kind of allusion Bradbury uses is mythological
allusions.  These reference famous stories of the Greek and Roman
myths.

1. When Faber is talking with Montag he says,

"Do you know the legend of Hercules and Aneaeus, the giant
wrestler, whose strength was incredible so long as he stood firmly on the earth?  But when he
was held, rootless, in midair by Hercules, he perished easily." (pg 83)

2. There is the famous reference to the phoenix, the bird that
burned himself every few hundred years but

"....every
time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again."
(pg 163)

The phoenix was a symbol on his
fireman's shirt.

In "1984" what purpose do the flashbacks throughout the novel serve? Why did Orwell include them?

The
flashbacks serve several important functions in the novel.  One of them is to provide relevant
background information on the character of; it helps to flesh out his character, and it helps
the reader to feel a more personal and invested interest in who he is.  When we learn about his
family, his mother and sister, and their lives together, we can understand more fully where
Winston is coming from.  We understand his character and personality more, and it makes him more
of a rounded, complete character.  The more you know about a person, the more you tend to be
invested in them.  So, that is one purpose, to help us to...

When Winston Smith is captured in Part 3 of 1984, what is his serial number?

's number
of 6079 doesn't have any particular significance in itself. What is significant, however, is the
very fact that Winston has a number in the first place. Most people have official numbers given
to them by the government for ID purposes, whether it's Social Security numbers or the numbers
you have on passports. But Winston has his official ID number simply by virtue of being a
citizen of Oceania. Like everyone else, he's been given a number by the state since birth, a
number that doesn't just identify him, but makes it easier for him to be monitored and
controlled by the powers-that-be.

In this totalitarian state, all citizens
have been stripped of their identity as human beings, deprived of all those special
characteristics that make each and every one of us unique. Mindless conformity is now the norm.
Everyone's expected to act the same way and think the same way, and woe betide those who don't
get with the program. The state has effectively reconstructed each citizen's identity, with the
sole purpose of controlling them. A mere number is an entirely appropriate emblem of this
artificial identity as it is wholly impersonal, giving us no inkling as to the personality of
the citizen to which it is attached.

How does the setting contribute to the atmosphere of the story "The Open Window"?

The setting
makes the plot of "" possible. We learn that Mr. Nuttel has bad nerves and has been
sent down to a country retreat for a "nerve cure" on the advice of his sister. He
doesn't know the people he is staying with: he has never met them before. His sister, we learn,
visited the area four years ago, so she wouldn't be up-to-date on what is going on there. She
equips her brother with letters of introduction to the Sappleton family. Because of how he meets
them, in a setting that is obviously wealthy and in good taste, he is primed to believe the
niece.

Mr. Nuttel's ignorance of the setting makes it possible for the niece
to deceive him about Mr. Sappleton and his two brother-in-laws going hunting and disappearing,
so that when they return, Mr. Nuttel believes he is seeing ghosts.

also
plays on the idea of a "nut house." Rich people often went to country retreats, not
dissimilar to the Sappleton estate, that were set up to provide expensive rest cures for people
with psychological complaints. The Sappleton home has become a "nut house" in
different way, contributing to further shattering Mr. Nuttel's nerves rather than offering a
cure.

How exactly is the sociopathic Meursault in The Stranger, by any sane person's definition, a "hero?"

I read
Camus' in French many years ago. I was having a horrible time getting
through French 4 because, unlike the first three French courses which I had taken at a different
school, everything was in French. The teacher lectured in French, asked questions in French to
which we had to reply in French, gave essay exams in which the questions were in French and we
were supposed to answer entirely in French.

I had to write a final essay exam
about L'Etranger in French, and my poor teacher must have been appalled by
the blue book I turned in. But the question I was trying to answer was very similar to yours,
and the answer I was trying to express was also very similar to yours.

I
couldn't sympathize with Mersault at all. I didn't understand why he should have gone back to
kill that Arab in cold blood or why anyone should offer excuses for him. Mersault's motive, it
seemed to me, was just to curry favor with the man who had been treating him as a buddy. Camus
was opposed to capital...

Which theoritecal thoughts help me the most to understand the fourteenth century literature in relation to politics in Chaucer's poetry?

The 14th c. in
England was pre-Reformation, and the prevailing powers--the Catholic church and the English
monarchy--were beginning their disagreements, which would come to awith Henry VIIIs desire for a
divorce, and Romes refusal, in the 16th c.  Added to this growing tension was the gradual
strengthening of the power of Commerce, as fueled by...

What is historical context for Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson?

Ollie Kertzmann, M.A.

takes place just before the American Revolution.

In America during the time of the novel, slavery was legal. People could legally own
people like the main character, Isabel. They could sell them, abuse them, and mostly do as they
wished with them. This is why Isabel is sold after her owner dies even though she was promised
freedom.

During the novel, the Rebels and the Loyalists both want help from
Isabel. The Loyalists are the British people who are still loyal to the King and Britain. The
rebels are the Colonials who believe that America shouldn't be under British rule. Her owner,
however, is on the side of the British. They want to stop the colonies from becoming
an...

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What is the theme of "The Truly Great" poem by Stephen Spender? What are two literary devices that contribute to the theme?

The main
theme of the poem centers on the necessity of remembering, celebrating, and cherishing the
"truly great" among us. The narrator doesn't specifically state who these "truly
great" people are, but they might be famous writers and poets the narrator knows.

The narrator praises these "truly great" individuals with highly laudatory
words. During his life, Stephen Spender was infatuated with the idea of fame and greatness. He
yearned for success and dreamed about it; as a rule, he thoroughly enjoyed being surrounded by
successful writers, authors, and poets. It's no surprise, then, that he lavishes high praise on
the "truly great."

He likens these individuals to essentially
superior beings, born from divinity:

What is precious,
is never to forget

The essential delight of the blood drawn from ageless
springs

Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth

Here, the "blood" of the "truly great" is of
divine origin. It is "drawn from ageless springs," meaning God himself has infused his
divine essence into the bloodstreams of the "truly great." So, "ageless
springs" are adescribing God or Providence, whose power is ageless and eternal. This
"ageless spring" is formidable enough to break through "rocks in worlds before
our earth." Essentially, the narrator may be intimating that the "truly great"
have charted new territory in areas beyond the average citizen's comprehension. Because of this,
we should remember them with deep gratitude and strive to emulate their wisdom and nobility of
spirit.

Besides using metaphors to reinforce his points, Spender also uses
synecdoche to warn
us against letting our busy lives crowd out what's truly important:

Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother

With noise and
fog, the flowering of the spirit.

In the above, Spender
mentions the "traffic" that smothers "the flowering of the spirit." Traffic
is part and parcel of bustling, modern lifestyles. Traffic, along with grueling work schedules
and demanding familial responsibilities, often robs us of time to contemplate the achievements
of the "truly great" and emulate them.

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What project does Truman Capote become obsessed with in the film "Capote"?

In the movie
"Capote,"reads in the New York Times about
the slaying of a family, the Clutters, in Kansas.  After he requests permission of his editor to
investigate the first reported mass murder in the United States, Capote travels to Kansas where
he becomes enthralled with Perry Smith, one of the...

In The Kite Runner, how are Amir and Hassan characterized?

As a boy in
Afghanistan, Amir grows up in wealth and privilege as a member of a Pashtun family, the higher
social class in his country. Amir's mother is dead, and his father often seems distant and
disapproving to him. Amir is physically weak and unathletic; he lives in books and fantasy,
longing to be a writer. These traits do not impress Baba (his father).

Amir
longs for a close relationship with Baba. He desperately needs his father's approval and
frequently feels jealous when Baba shows love and attention to Hassan, the servant boy who lives
in their house. Amir's feelings of personal inferiority make his life miserable as he strives to
win his father's approval and feel more worthy; consequently, he often abuses Hassan
emotionally, even though Hassan is his only childhood friend. Amir takes advantage of Hassan's
illiteracy and lack of power; sometimes he is simply cruel to Hassan,...

What is Kit's first impression of the Wood family and the Wood family's first impression of Kit in The Witch of Blackbird Pond?

Kit did not
tell the Woods that she was coming to live with them, and she had never even met them before she
showed up at their door. The Woods would naturally be surprised to see her. Also, Kit came from
Barbados, a colony where she had a much different upbringing from the stuffy Puritanical ways of
Wethersfield.

The Woods are shocked from the very first time they see Kit in
her fancy clothes, which stand out as afor how different she is from everyone else
there.

"You wore a dress like that to travel
in?"

In her eagerness to make a good impression Kit had selected this
dress with care, but here in this plain room it seemed over elegant. The three other women were
all wearing some nondescript sort of coarse gray stuff. (Ch. 3) 

The Woods are shocked at Kits flashy dresses and the fact that she has never worked a
day in her life. She reads plays instead of the Bible. She doesnt understand their customs, and
while she tries to respect them, she is also not afraid to show when she disapproves.

The Woods are also not afraid to show they disapprove of her. Kit doesnt have an
appropriate dress for Meeting (church). She doesnt know how to cook or clean. She is impatient
and her cousins see her as somewhat of a threat or a nuisance. She is a threat because there is
another woman in the house whom men like William Ashby might court, and she is a nuisance
because they have to teach her and do her chores.

First impressions aside,
Kit and the Woods eventually find a way to coexist. Kit makes herself more or less useful, and
all of the girls pair themselves off with eligible bachelors. Kit realizes that she has to find
a way to live in Wethersfield, and they have to live with her.

In the story "Charles" by Shirley Jackson, what are some similarities between Laurie and Charles?

Stephen Holliday

"," like 's most well-known short story, "," has a few surprises
and, certainly, a surprising ending. Within the story, however, Jackson has left a fair number
of clues that she has created a kind of Jekyll-and-Hyde story or, more precisely, a
Jekyll-and-Jekyll story. Laurie and Charles, who appear as distinct characters throughout the
story, seem to mirror each other so precisely that we begin to suspect, as Laurie's parents do
not, that Charles is Laurie's alter ego.

Our first encounter with Laurie is,
by itself, no clue to the story's ending, but it does foreshadow the behavior later attributed
to Charles. After announcing his arrival from school with a "raucous shout,"
Laurie

spoke insolently to his father, spilled his baby
sister's milk, and remarked that his teacher said that we were not to take the name of the Lord
in vain.

Implicit in this description is that Laurie has
taken the Lord's name in vain, but Laurie's parents assume, as they do with all...

"""When I looked at her like that something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to the soles of my feet." What hit mama? What did she understand...""

Mama herself doesn't seem to know quite what this "something" is, but we can guess
from her response to it. Upon hearing Maggie say that her sister can have the quilts, because
she can remember her grandmother without them, Mama is overwhelmed with the desire to hug her
younger daughter. It is as if she has suddenly realized, in this moment, that fearful Maggie is
actually the much worthier daughter, and yet she expects nothingshe believes her
"portion" in life is to be second place to her sister, and yet it is Maggie who knows
how to quilt the way her foremothers did, and therefore it is Maggie who will be the true
preserver of the family's heritage, not Dee, who does not understand what heritage really is, or
what the quilts should be used for. Overwhelmed by compassion for Maggie, Mama decides to reward
her for her selfless, uncomplaining nature, and punish Dee for her selfish one, by gifting the
quilts...

In 1984, what is the reason why does doublethink lies at the very heart of lngsoc?

The reason why
doublethink is so central to Ingsoc is because doublethink is the way that the Party controls
the thoughts of its population and makes them believe what the Party is telling them even though
at some deep level they know that what they are hearing is not actually true. The reader is
presented with numerous examples of this in the story, but perhaps the most obvious comes
through's job in the so-called Minstry of Truth, where he and other workers there deliberately
and consciously change and edit public records to suit the Party's version of events at any
given moment....

Which quotation in Hamlet refers to his tragic flaw? Please explain the quotation.

Whenof his father visits and asksto avenge his murder,almost immediately begins
questioning whether he should do it, whether this is truly the ghost of his father, and when he
should act. A character's tragic flaw is the one that leads to his own downfall, and the
personality trait that most directly leads to Hamlet's own death is his
indecisiveness.

While he spends much of the play gathering information by
feigning insanity, he finally arrives at a clear answer just after the mousetrap play. Hamlet
works with the actors to devise a plot that might expose's guilt,...

In Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, what is Marlow's attitude towards Africa?

In
's ,confesses to loving maps as a boy and hankering after the excitement of
travel and adventure. During the description of his boyhood travel fantasies, Marlow references
his fascination with Africa, what he calls "a blank space" (14). However, Marlow
recognizes that, by the time he was ready to venture to Africa, "it had become a place of
darkness" (14).

Throughout the book, it's apparent that Marlow thinks of
Africa as a place of darkness. He sees it as a place that harkens back to the darker essence of
a more primitive humanity. For example, he says that traveling on the "river was like
traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world" (84). Additionally, Marlow regards
the vast wilderness of the Congo with a deep unease. At one point, he notes that "the great
wall of vegetation... was like a rioting invasion of soundless life... ready to topple over the
creek, to sweep every little man of us out of his little existence" (74). In short, it's
clear that Marlow views the African wilderness as a menacing and violent force that echoes the
dark beginnings of the human race. 

It's important to recognize that these
sentiments have significant racist undertones. Marlow's theory that Africa is a reflection of
primitive humanity functions upon the assumption that the cultures in Africa are inferior to his
own and represent a "primitive" version of humanity. Thus, while Marlow does not
exhibit the overt racism of some of his colleagues, he does possess subtly racist
beliefs. 

What symbols does Joyce use in "Eveline"?

Symbols are objects, situations, words, places, names and so forth, which an author
uses to signify (symbolize) ideas and qualities which are different from their literal meaning.
These symbols, therefore, acquire a specificwhich is defined by the context in which they are
used. The colour red, for example, may have different connotations in different contexts. In one
it may symbolize danger, whilst in another it could signify passion.

Joyce
uses a variety of symbols in . One which is used early in the story is the window. Eveline looks
through her window to the outside world. The window symbolizes her perception and tells the
reader what she thinks and believes the world outside of her home and her community represents.
We learn through the story that she sees the world as an unknown entity, something that she
actually fears and that she is not prepared to face since it is, for her, better to be
surrounded by what is familiar than that which is not. 

The second
symbol...

Please write a short paragraph describing Daniel Defoe's Robinson's character, including his origins, his reasons for travelling, kind of journey,...

is
theof's novel of the same name, published in 1719. He is an adventurous man, who sets sail to
explore despite his father's request that he pursue a career in law. He is also fearless almost
to a fault, undertaking a sea voyage that results in being shipwrecked on...

What are the social implications of Professor Higgins's experiment with Eliza?

is a withering critique
of Victorian society and its class structure. The upper-class professor of phonetics, Henry
Higgins, sets out to transform a humble Cockney sparrow into a lady of quality, whom he will
then introduce to high society. Higgins's behavior exemplifies the general level of contempt
displayed by the upper-classes toward those they regarded as their social inferiors. He doesn't
value Eliza Dolittle or accept her for who she is; he sees her as a problem to be solved by
means that are both manipulative and exploitative in equal measure.

At the
same time, the artificial methods used by Higgins to transform Eliza into a high-class social
butterfly expose the artificiality of the class structure that existed at the time. If someone
of Eliza's humble social origins could be passed off as a refined upper-class lady after a
relatively short program of instruction and training, then that would seem to suggest that
so-called good breeding is ultimately irrelevant, not just in terms of one's worth as an
individual, but also in relation to how one is judged and evaluated by
society.

What is the cultural/national/political significance of the Van Gogh Gallery? What is the cultural/national/political significance of the Van Gogh...

I am slightly confused
by your question. Surely any centre that brings together paintings by master artists has
massive...

Why is Mme Loisel unhappy when she receives an invitation to an evening reception in "The Necklace"?

The simple
answer is that Madame Loisel is upset that she does not have anything to wear that is worthy of
the occasion. More noteworthy still is how she reacts to the invitation, showing complete
contempt and disregard for the efforts of her husband to secure the invitation for
her. 

Instead of being delighted, as her husband had
hoped, she threw the invitation on the table crossly, muttering:

"What
do you wish me to do with that?"

There is much more
to Mathilde's reaction than just the fact that she has nothing to wear.  Mathilde is a
self-absorbed woman who feels that she is entitled to all the good things in life, despite of
the fact that she has done nothing to earn them, nor has she ever come from money, in the first
place. 

When she says that she has nothing to wear, she does not say this
with the humbleness that distinguishes a good woman of limited means. Instead, she uses sarcasm
and haughtiness, as if demanding from her husband--or from life itself--that she gets those
things. 

She even goes as far as telling her husband that 400 francs would do
for a new dress (which she is only going to wear once), so she took the savings that he had put
aside for a hunting trip to buy the dress. More importantly for Mathilde was the jewelry to
wear. Since she had none, she had to resort to her rich friend, Madame Forestier, who lends her
the necklace for which the story is titled: a necklace that gets lost, and whose replacement
will cost Mathilde her entire life.