In The Scarlet Letter, why is the opening scene important, what does it set up, or how does it add to the rest of the novel?

The opening sceneeven
the opening paragraph of the storyhelps to establish the mood and make clear Hawthorne's
feelings regarding the Puritans and their brand of "justice." The narrator
says,

A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments,
and gray steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, [. . .] was assembled in front of a wooden
edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron
spikes.

To describe their clothing as
sad-colored gives us a clue as to the general nature of these individuals;
there is little liveliness about themso little, in fact, that even their clothing seems sad.
Furthermore, their hats are compared to the steeples of churches, signaling how incredibly
important religiona very specific set of religious beliefsinforms everything they do.

Women are hardly mentioned, as women were not generally considered to be very
important (at least not in society), and a great deal of focus is placed on the door to the
prison. It is made...

Based upon the movie or novel 1984,- What is the "secret" torture of room 101 and how did this "secret" succeed in reprograming Oceania's dissident...

After being
caught by the Thought Police,is taken to Room 101, the torture room where physical and
psychological torture is employed. It is a white porcelain room that is windowless with a high
ceiling. The room is flooded with light from hidden lamps, and a low, humming sound permeates;
there is a bench and a lavatory and four telescreens in this barren room.enters and begins
Winston's "correction." This involves physical and psychological torture.  O'Brien
answers some of Winston's questions, but will not tell him if Big Brother exists. 

After electric shock is applied to Winston, O'Brien asks Winston, "What country is
Oceania at war with?" Winston replies that he does not remember. He says this because he
knows it is always at war with Eurasia or Eastasia so that it will keep people at
"peace"--War is Peace. Oceania stays at war because doing so
keeps the people united against an enemy. Later, O'Brien asks Winston how many fingers he holds
up and Winston replies correctly. Then, O'Brien only holds up four, but tells Winston there are
five. Winston agrees even though he sees only four; defeated by the torture, Winston resists
more electric shock. Still, Winston remembers the truth as

one remembers a vivid experence at some remote period of one's life when one was in
effect a different person.

At the end of Chapter II of
Book Three, Winston asks O'Brien what is in Room 101. "Everyone knows what is in Room
101," O'Brien replies as a needle goes into Winston's arm. In Chapter III, O'Brien tells
Winston that his "reintegration" is to begin. After his conversion through torture,
Winston wakes one morning and calls out 's name; it is then that he is taken to Room 101 because
his emotional "progress" has not been complete. In Room 101 the enemies of the state
are converted completely because it addresses the enemies' basic fears.

Room
101 is "the worst thing in the world." For each individual, this "worst
thing" is what that person dreads the most. Pain is not enough; it must be "the
unbearable" O'Brien explains.

"There are
occasions when a human being will stand out against pain, even to the point of death. But for
everyone there is something unendurable--something that cannot be contemplated. Courage and
cowardice are not involved.

For Winston, the rats are the
"unbearable." When O'Brien tells Winston that he will release the rats onto Winston's,
face, Winston betrays Julia, screaming that she should be subjected to this torture, not he.
Satisfied that Winston has relinquished his emotional attachment to Julia, he puts away the cage
of rats. 

Why does jem cry at the end of the chapter

In , the
children begin receiving gifts in the knothole of the Radley tree from an anonymous person,
andhas a hunch thatis the gift-giver. However, Jem refrains from verbally expressing his
thoughts and decides to write a thank-you letter, which he plans on leaving in the knothole of
the tree. Unfortunately, Jem cannot deliver the letter, because Nathan Radley fills the knothole
with cement. When Jem asks why Nathan filled the knothole with cement, he tells Jem that the
tree is dying. Jem knows that his father won't lie to him and asksif the tree is dying. Atticus
responds by saying that the tree looks perfectly healthy and heads inside, while Jem remains
alone on the porch.

Jem cries by himself on the porch because he realizes
that he has just lost an opportunity to communicate with Boo Radley. Jem finally realized that
Boo Radley was a benevolent, compassionate neighbor and looked forward to developing a
friendship with him. Jem also cries because he has lost his childhood innocence after being lied
to by Nathan Radley. This is the first time that Jem recognized an adult has lied to him, which
is an emotional, eye-opening experience.

Who is the worst grotesque in Winesburg, Ohio?

What an
interesting question! Of course, to deem any part of a literary work as either the worst or
the best is entirely subjective. Nonetheless, in order to offer up opinions on the subject, it
is first important to discuss just whatmeans by the grotesque in this bizarre collection of
short stories.

In the first book of the collection, The Book of the
Grotesque, Anderson introduces the reader to the writer, an old man who has a dream after
climbing into bed one evening. In this dream, he saw a long procession of figures appear while
on the verge of sleep. He describes these figures as all grotesques (22). However, Anderson
goes on to describe the grotesque figures not as all horrible, but rather a rich mix
of...

What were the most famous works of art by Titian and Tintoretto and why?

TITIAN (1490-1576) was the
famed leader of the 16th
century Venetian school of Italian Renaissance art.
The "Assumption of the Virgin,"
the largest altarpiece in Venice, is
certainly one of his most famous paintings. It unites three
different
scenes--the Apostles looking heavenward at the Virgin Mary with God looking down
from
above--found on the levels of Heaven and Earth. 

   
This...

what were the social consequences of the industrial revolution

The
Industrial Revolution represented a profound social transformation, as European economies
transitioned from agrarian societies (based in agriculture), towards more heavily urbanized
societies with economies based around manufacturing.

When speaking about
pre-industrial economies, one thing you should keep in mind is just how parochial life tended to
be. The vast majority of people lived in rural communities, and would have rarely traveled any
further than the next town or so over. The world was small. With industrialization, however,
technology improved, and this included improvements in internal communications. For example,
railroads tied industrialized nations together in ways that were not available in the
pre-industrial world, allowing for easier movement across long distances. Industrialization, you
might say, resulted in a compression of space.

Additionally,
industrialization resulted in the emergence of the modern class structure as we know it today.
Just consider, for example, the Estates System of Pre-Revolutionary France, divided as it was
between the clergy, nobility, and the rest of the population. Technically, while this was a
system of social stratification, it was not one founded strictly upon income or occupation.
Among the clergy were numbered both bishops and parish priests; among the nobility one might
find magistrates, aristocrats and the officer corps of the army. This was a very different
vision than the class structure as we understand it today. The modern class structure, divided
into upper, middle, and lower (or working) class, ultimately emerged out of the economic
transformations of industrial society.

Industrialization had other far
reaching effects as well. It impacted our modern sense of time (especially the idea of
standardized time). By its very nature, industrialization is regimented. People worked in
shifts, and this required a coordination of labor. In agrarian societies, work was dictated
primarily be seasonal patterns, and their understanding of time was a largely informal one. The
Industrial Revolution introduced a radically different relationship between human beings and
time, one which continues into the present day.

Finally, you can talk about
the rise of industrial cities and the living conditions (and working conditions) of the working
class. Exploitation was built into industrialization, with workers facing long hours in poor
working conditions for poor wages. Living conditions were bleak as well.

To
conclude, there's actually a lot of ground you can cover with this kind of question. The
Industrial Revolution represented a watershed in human history, with repercussions that continue
even into the present day.

What are some key quotes in the short story "Charles" by Shirley Jackson?

's short
story examines the difficulties both children and parents can have in adapting to a new
situation, such as, in this story, the first few weeks of kindergarten.

The
narrator hints at her young son's change in attitude from the first paragraph.

The day my son Laurie started kindergarten he renounced corduroy
overalls with bibs and began wearing blue jeans with a belt; I watched him go off the first
morning with the older girl next door, seeing clearly that an era of my life was ended, my
sweet-voiced nursery-school tot replaced by a long- trousered, swaggering...

To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 2 Quotes

.  I've always

loved the final lines of this chapter concerning 's mixed feelings of sympathy toward
her
inexperienced teacher, Miss Caroline. Scout has been ridiculed by Miss
Caroline for being able
to read above grade level; she has had to endure Miss
Caroline insult 's teaching skills; she
has been punished unfairly; and she
has been "whipped" with a ruler. The unruly class
causes another teacher to
berate Miss Caroline, leaving the new teacher with her head buried in
her
arms. As the class breaks for lunch, Scout sees Miss Caroline "sink down in
her
chair."

Had her conduct been more
friendly toward me,
I would have felt sorry for her. She was a pretty little
thing. 
(Scout)

. 
Certainly one of the most famous and
important quotes of the novel comes
following Scout's terrible first day at
school. Atticus's advice to Scout deals with his
philosophy about tolerance,
and how if you try and put yourself in another person's place, one
might
better understand their reasoning.

"You
never
really understand a person until you consider things from his point of
view--until you climb
into his skin and walk around in it." 
(Atticus, to Scout)

Why was agriculture delayed in some areas?

In 's
Guns, Germs and Steel, his primary thesis is that geography, not any kind
of racial superiority, is the reason that some cultures developed agriculture and some
didn't.

In places like the European continent and the Fertile Crescent in the
Middle East, geography and topography produced fertile soil in relatively stable, temperate
climates, meaning that farming happened earlier than, say, Mexico, most of Africa and Australia,
each of which have significant deserts.

Desert climates dictated more
hunter/gatherer food production because of the obvious difficulty of growing plants in sand and
the lack of water. Most of those areas also have dense, impenetrable rainforests, which would
have required the labor of hundreds of people to clear. Most humans lived in relatively small
groups, and how does one obtain food when they spend all day clearing forest?

He also argues that the climate in areas like those, even when primitive societies
could develop agriculture of any kind, was especially inhospitable to food plants. In short,
everything burned up.

Europe, by contrast, has long growing seasons, very
fertile soil and stable climate bands from east to west, where rain is plentiful and extreme
temperatures are relatively rare throughout at least 9 months a year. Those cultures developed
the technologies to preserve food, leaving more time for other forms of industry, specialization
of labor (certain clans or tribes became blacksmiths, for example) and methods of exchange where
other items could be traded for food.

Because of agriculture, European, etc.
societies began to domesticate animals they could actually feed with excess food production.
Those animals brought with them viruses and disease that jumped to human populations, just as
they do today (the bird flu, etc), giving Europeans immunities to disease much earlier than
their counterparts in other parts of the world.

All of this gave those
cultures time and resources to begin to explore the world, taking disease and steel with them,
resulting in conquest of most of the world.

In Jerry Spinelli's novel Stargirl, what happens that starts making the students at Mica Area High School not care for Stargirl?

The students at
Mica Area High School don't understand or likewhen she first shows up. They absolutely love her,
though, when her quirky cheering style brings in a thousand people to watch one of the school's
football games. She does wonders for school spirit and finally begins to be accepted among
classmates. Sadly, by basketball season, all of that falls apart because she sympathizes with
one of an opposing team's players. During Sun Valley vs Mica, a boy by the name of Kovac breaks
his leg during the game and Stargirl rushes to his side and cradles his head. Leo notices the
odd behavior, as many students may have as well, but nothing comes of it until the next game
with Glendale. The Mica students seem crushed as they are losing the game by thirty points, but
Stargirl isn't as upset as everyone else in the crowd. As Mica students are crying for their
impending loss, Stargirl cheers for the other team's lead and eventual win. As a result, someone
throws a tomato in her face.

Soon after that, as Leo and Stargirl start to
date, they slowly notice that no one else is paying attention to them at school. Leo asks Kevin
what is going on and he tells him it's the silent treatment. Kevin explains that the problem
started with "The basketball stuff" (98). Sadly, the students aren't easily swayed to
forgive and forget as Leo explains:

"For the rest of
the day, and the next and the next, I grew increasingly paranoid. Walking with her in and around
the school, I was intensely aware that the nature of our aloneness had changed. It was no longer
a cozy, tunnel-of-love sweetness, but a chilling isolation" (99).

What plans did Perry and Dick have for Mr. Bell?

The plan was to rob and
kill him. Dick and Perry had plans to gain transportation and funds by taking lethal advantage
of the next person to pick them up as hitchhikers. This person happened to be Mr.
Bell. 

How is the scene when Eveline has an epiphany about leaving with Frank substantial? "Eveline" by James Joyce

Asis
preparing to leave with Frank, she has an
epiphany of a bell clanging upon her heart." As
he takes her hand, she
experiences all the seas of the world tumbling about her heart."
She has a
vision of him drowning her in the seas and she clutches at the iron railing,
fiercely.
Even though he calls after her, asking her to follow him, she does
not respond to his call.
Instead, she looks at him helplessly, without any
emotion.

This scene is
important because it explains the
conflicting emotions going on within Eveline. When presented
with escape from
her difficult life, she is paralyzed into inaction. She cannot make herself
to
follow Frank into the waiting boat. She is too attached to her life in
Ireland to be able to
leave all the familiar things behind. Instead, she now
sees her beloved as a possibly dangerous
man. Indeed, Evelines situation is a
difficult one, for she has to make a choice between staying
and leaving with
a man whom she barely knows. If she...

What are some examples of foreshadowing in the story "Charles"?

's
classic short story "" first appeared in Mademoiselle in 1948 and
contains many examples of . 

The story is told in the first person point of
view of the mother of a boy named Laurie, who is just beginning kindergarten. Laurie comes home
from kindergarten every day with stories of the awful things his classmate, Charles, has done.
His parents are appalled by the influence of Charles and worry that it will affect Laurie
negatively. The

In Romeo and Juliet, who causes the fight in Act 1 Scene 1?

The
conversation betweenand , two servants of the house of Capulet, make it clear that they are out
to provoke the Montagues, their masters' lifelong enemies, into a fight. They speak about how
much they hate the Montagues and how they would fight them in an encounter. When they see two
Montagues, Abraham and , approaching, they decide to start a quarrel:

GREGORY
I will frown as I pass by, and
let them take it as
they list.

SAMPSON
Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at
them;
which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.

Sampson is clearly intent on daring the two men and decides to make an insulting
gesture which, he knows, would offend the two and draw them into a confrontation. He bites his
thumb, which is a vulgar indication of his disrespect for the two men. Abraham questions his
action and Sampson at first denies the gesture but then states that he is, after all, biting his
thumb. Gregory then asks Abraham if he is quarreling, an accusation that he denies.

Sampson, for his part, informs Abraham that he is for him, since he is employed by a
master similar in status to his. He will, therefore, not stand back and tolerate any abuse.
Abraham's response, "no better," is a clear insult (he claims that his master is
better than theirs or that they are equal in status). The two Capulet servants then insist that
he acknowledge the superiority of the house they serve, and when he refuses and tells them that
they are lying, Sampson then challenges them to a duel:

SAMPSON
Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing
blow.

Sampson has probably just noticed , also of the
Capulet house, on his way, and is obviously emboldened. The men start fighting and(a Montague)
steps in and attempts to stop the fight. Tybalt then arrives and threatens him. The fight soon
spreads and a number of supporters from both houses join in the fray, including lords Montague
and Capulet.

It should be obvious that the chief perpetrator in this incident
is Sampson. He took the lead throughout and was intent on creating a fracas, continuously
confirming with Gregory whether they would have the law on their side and then succeeding in his
nefarious purpose. 

How does Voltaire satirize society's faults and failures in Candide?

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how does it not do so?

I offer this perspective because the entire work is a
. This starts with the title ( is candid, honest, but that doesn't work or fit the...

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What are subsequent events that lead to the climax in the novel 1984? 5 events that lead to the climax

is unhappy
and thinks he sees that in other's faces, too.

Winston meetswho also wants
change.

Winston and Julia have an affair although...

Why is the narrator in prison?

In 's story
"," many details are left unexplained. The narrator, who is never named, is being held
by the Spanish Inquisition. The trial and sentencing described in the first paragraph includes
"inquisitorial voices" and "black-robed judges," and the narrator mentions
the Inquisition in twelfth paragraph.

The Spanish Inquisition operated from
1478 to 1834 in Spain. Its primary purpose was to test the validity of the faith of Jews and
Muslims who had ostensibly converted to Catholicism. At the peak of the Inquisition, a grand
inquisitor was assisted by a council of five members, so those may be the judges referred to in
the story. The reason a person was condemned by the Inquisition was religious heresy--practicing
a religion at odds with Catholicism. It is possible any enemy of the Church could also come
under the purview of the inquisitor. The fact that the narrator was not immediately burned at
the stake in conjunction with the auto-da-fe, a pageant in which heretics
were turned over to the secular authorities to be executed, might suggest that he was not a
run-of-the-mill heretic but had done something more onerous to the Inquisition, causing him to
be held over for a more brutal and psychologically agonizing type of death. 

Poe must have believed the reason for the character's imprisonment was a moot point. No
crime, after all, could deserve the type of unwarranted torture that the narrator is subjected
to. Not naming the character or his crime means that any reader can more easily put himself or
herself in the place of the man who endures these horrors.

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What is the role of Choragos in Oedipus Rex?

In , the Choragos is the

"leader" of the .  Normally, thespeaks in unison in Greek plays; however, there
are
times when a single member of the chorus is employed to serve as a voice
of the people.
 In  Rex, the Choragos is a lead elder
who makes comments during the scenes
relating to ethical implications that
arise. For example, in Scene 3, the Choragos tells Oedipus
that he would do
well to trust the word of the shepherd, and later in Scene 4, the Choragos

confirms that the shepherd was indeed one of Laius's men. The support of the Choragos
is
important because Oedipus still has doubt about elements of the prophecy.
But Oedipus has
misplaced his doubts--rather than looking inward, he fears
that others are trying to deceive
him. The Choragos is there to remind him
that he should not fear the word of good
men.

How does Dick use his charm to get money from retailers so that he and Perry can afford to continue their journey to Mexico?

As they make
their escape to Mexico, Dick and Perry stop at stores where Dick can really "con a
guy."

• For one, the clerk in a Kansas City, Missouri,
  clothing store was especially gullible because Dick joked with him and convinced the clerk that
  he was helping Perry buy clothes for his upcoming wedding to a wealthy young woman. "The
  salesman 'ate it up'" and it was not long before Perry had a wardrobe. When the clerk
  presented a bill, Dick acted as though he had forgotten his wallet, so the clerk foolishly
  handed...

How is verbal, dramatic, and situational irony expressed in Guy de Maupassant's story "The Necklace"?

When his wife complains that she cannot attend the party because she has nothing to
wear, Monsieur Loisel asks her,

How much would it cost, a
suitable dress...?

The situationalhere is that
it will cost the couple a great deal, and not just in money.
Mathilde will have to sacrifice her pride, her beauty, and years of her life as a result of
making this purchase to attend the party. Monsieur Loisel is likely also considering the fact
that he has been saving up money for a gun and a hunting trip for himself the following summer;
therefore, his wife's purchase will not only cost him the four hundred francs but also his
dreams of a hunting getaway.

Mathilde is so concerned with appearances that
a new dress worth 400 francs is not enough to placate her desire to impress "rich"
women. Thus, she enlists the help of her friend Madame Forestier in obtaining a necklace which
she believes further illuminates a wealthier lifestyle than she actually lives. Ironically, this
act of borrowing her...

What is the foreshadowing in "The Masque of the Red Death"?

The
narrator foreshadows from the start that this fortress of pleasure will be invaded by the horror
of the Red Death.

First, the indifference and callousness of the prince
towards the sufferings of his subjectscries out for poetic justice. We learn at the start that
the prince thinks:

The external world could take care of
itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think. The prince had provided all the
appliances of pleasure. ... there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these
and security were within. Without was the "Red Death"

From the beginning, we are uneasily aware that it is impossible to shut out trouble for
too long. The prince is trying too hard.

Poe also usesto foreshadow that
death is coming. In the final room, the seventh room, which is hung with black, the image of the
"blood-tinted" panes and the use of the word "ghastly" foreshadow the grim
ending:

the effect of the fire-light that streamed upon
the dark hangings through the...

What genre is Robinson Crusoe?

, written by , is a
novel. A novel is a genre defined as a long imaginative work of literature written in prose. In
other words, it is fictional rather than based on a true story and is written in prose rather
than verse.

One can also talk about "subgenre" or what type of
novel it is. First, it is a type of travel , set in an exotic local. Next, it is a realistic
story, rather than a fantasy or romance, in that it describes relatively plausible behavior by
an ordinary person rather than heroic acts of someone with supernatural powers. 

In some ways it resembles a spiritual autobiography, as it shows the development of the
religious and spiritual thought of its , but it is not autobiographical per
se because it is fictional and autobiography is factual. 

Please explain the conversation between the Lord of Flies and Simon in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies.

In
chapter eight of , by ,and his hunters sharpen a stick at both ends and
place the dismembered head of a pig on it as a kind of offering. Jack says, This head is for
the beast. Its a gift. Jack knows that he is helping his hunters to be less afraid by suggesting
this token as some kind of appeasement for the imaginary beast they are all at least somewhat
afraid of; however, it is literally just a rather gory pig's head on a stick.

has seen the entire incident from his place of solitude, the place he goes when he
needs to be alone. The first thing we learned about Simon is that he is prone to fainting, and
the description of this conversation with what is called the Lord of the Flies suggests that it
is all some kind of a waking dream. 

There were no shadows
under the trees but everywhere a pearly stillness, so that what was real seemed illusive and
without definition.... In Simons right temple, a pulse began to beat on the brain.

Th Lord of the Flies mocks Simon as a "silly little boy"
for thinking that the beast on the island is "something you could hunt and kill." The
final words the Lord of the Flies speaks to Simon are a threat, After mocking him and taunting
him, the Lord of the Flies says:

Im warning you. Im
going to get angry. Dyou see? Youre not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this
island. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island! So dont try it on, my poor
misguided boy, or else

What he is telling Simon is that
anyone who tries to interfere with the unrestrained savagery which has been released on the
island (the boys' own natural desires and inclinations) will not be tolerated. In fact, he says
that if Simon tries to do anything to stop the savagery, Simon will be killed by "Jack
andand Maurice and Robert and Bill andand ." It is a surprising list because Piggy and
Ralph are Simon's friends, but it is a prophetic statement. Somehow Simon knows what is going to
happen to him, and yet in the next chapter he still tries to warn them.

The
final act in this scene is Simon's fainting, a reminder that this was not an actual conversation
but more of a realization that the sensitive Simon is having with himself; he realizes that it
is they who are the beast and it is their unrestrained human nature that
has caused the evil on this island. 

How is the topic of 'Dependence on men' illustrated in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

The topic of
"dependence of men" is illustrated in 's in two ways:
women are dependent on men because they have no
choice, and, women are dependent on men but do
not need to be if they do not wish to.

The first
instance, the theme of women being dependent because they have no
choice is illustrated at the beginning of the play in the dynamics of
the Eynsford Hills. Mrs. Eynsford Hill and her daughter, Clara, follow the Victorian propriety
of allowing "the male" take care of them, in this case, the man of the house
is Frederick Eynsford Hill, the elder brother of Clara. However, he is not the type of man that
neither his mother, nor his sister, would be entirely proud of. He is a bit weak of mind, body,
and character. He is also not extremely bright. Evidence of this is illustrated in the way that
he is treated when he, as the man, is unable to find a cab for his mother and sister.

THE MOTHER: You really are very helpless, Freddy. Go again; and
don't come back until you have found a cab.

FREDDY: I shall simply get soaked
for nothing.

THE DAUGHTER: And what about us? Are we to stay here all night
in this draught, with next to nothing on. You selfish pig

Hence, we can assume that the women are only dependent on him because that is what
society has taught them to do.

The second statement,
women are dependent on men but do not need to be if they do not wish
to,is illustrated in Eliza's dynamics with both Fredrick and Higgins.
As a woman who always did for herself, Eliza has always had a choice on whether to need or not
to need. When she meets Fredrick she appreciates the fact that he is devoted to her. However,
she knows that she cannot count on him too much.

Eliza's
desire to have Freddy in the house with her seemed of no more importance than if she had wanted
an extra piece of bedroom furniture.

We also learn about
how things go in their marriage, and after their attempt to open a flower shop.

Freddy, like all youths educated at cheap, pretentious, and
thoroughly inefficient schools, knew a little Latin. It was very little, but enough to make him
appear to her a Porson or Bentley, and to put him at his ease with botanical nomenclature.
Unfortunately he knew nothing else; and Eliza, though she could count money up to eighteen
shillings or so, and had acquired a certain familiarity with the language of Milton from her
struggles to qualify herself for winning Higgins's bet, could not write out a bill without
utterly disgracing the establishment.

Meanwhile, with
Higgins, at one point Eliza really thinks that the natural course of their relationship would be
to be married.  However, she realizes that Higgins has no inkling for love and she much rather
be his competitor, his challenger, rather than his amiable companion and his
dependent.

LIZA: [with sudden
sincerity] I don't care how you treat me. I don't mind your swearing at me. I don't
mind a black eye: I've had one before this. But [standing up and facing
him] I won't be passed over.

HIGGINS: Then get out of my way; for
I won't stop for you. You talk about me as if I were a motor bus.

LIZA: So
you are a motor bus: all bounce and go, and no consideration for anyone. But I can do without
you: don't think I can't.

And she is right! In the end,
Liza gets her way and it is she who carries the stronger character, dealing with life, work,
home, and Higgins as well, as a peer. She chooses not to depend on
anybody.

In "The Pit and the Pendulum", to what fate has the narrator been sentenced? How does he react to his sentence?

He faces
several different fates.  At first, he is sentenced to "the dread sentence of death"
and his reaction is brief (as he is drugged), but "dread" speaks it.  When he comes
to, he discovers himself in total blackness; his reaction is fear that he is in a tomb.  This is
horrific enough that it  "drove the blood in torrents upon my heart", he passes out,
wakes, and upon discovering it isn't a tomb, he is greatly relieved.  But then he discoveres the
pit, and "congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which I had escaped."  He
is grateful he didn't fall into it, but fears they are everywhere, and trembles in the corner. 
Later, he finds himself tied to a board with the blade slowly descending.  His reaction to this
is varied:  "I prayedI wearied heaven with my prayer for its more speedy descent. I grew
frantically mad, and struggled to force myself upward against the sweep of the fearful scimitar.
And then I fell suddenly calm, and lay smiling at the glittering death".  Once he
formulates his plan for escape, he feels "joy", and no wonder, considering what he's
been through!

Explain the melody, rhythm, tempo, texture, tonality, dynamics, and form of the piece "Vivaldi: Winter," from The Four Seasons, movement 1.

"Winter" is a three-movement violin
concerto, like the other three concerti that make up Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
It is scored for solo violin, string orchestra, and continuo (a
keyboard instrument such as a harpsichord or an organ that was typically employed in the Baroque
period to provide harmonic and textural support to the orchestra).

The key
facts about the first movement of "Winter" are:

1. Key: F
   minor.
2. Tempo: Allegro non molto. In Italian, allegro
   literally means "happy," but as a tempo direction in music it generally
   means fast or rapid. Non molto means "not too
   much," so the tempo is not too rapid.
3. Meter: 4/4
   time.
4. Instrumentation: Solo violin accompanied by string orchestra: first
   violins, second violins, violas, cellos, contrabasses and continuo (see above).


5. Dynamics: Composers in the Baroque period generally did not explicitly specify the
   dynamics (degree of loudness or softness), so if one sees the indications f
   (forte, loud) or p (piano,
   soft) or mf (mezzo forte, "half,"
   or somewhat, loud), these were probably added by a later editor.
6. General
   Description and Form: The movement begins with a repeated pattern of staccato eighth notes in
   the orchestra, joined by the solo violin, which then interrupts the pattern with a rapid
   figuration of thirty-second notes. The movement consists of this alternation between the
   staccato repeated notes and the rapid, virtuosic figuration by the solo instrument. Typically,
   as in the Baroque in general, it does not go far afield from the home key, F minor, modulating
   mainly to the dominant (C minor) and E-flat major (which will be the home key of the second
   movement of "Winter").

The overall mood is one of
extreme agitation. The nervous, jumpy and even menacing tension of the piece is enhanced by the
repeated use of suspensions in the harmonic texturethe delay of the resolution of a
dissonance.The rapid figurations in the solo part impart a frenzied quality. As the sonnet
Vivaldi appended to the concerto indicates, the music is meant to convey a picture of outdoors
in the freezing, icy cold and the winds of winter.

I need to invent a new product or business idea for entrepreneurship class and develop a business plan. Can you help. Something simple and useful...

One
simple service that may or may not exist in a given community is a shopping and errand service
for senior citizens.  The largest generation in recent history is the baby boomer generation,
and that generation is getting  old.  Many would welcome such a service.

I
think there is a huge, untapped market for a few reasons.  Traditionally, one's children helped
senior citizens with things like this, but today, it is more typical for one's children to be
living in other areas or to be far too busy working to attend to this.  Senior citizens who live
in senior citizen communities may have available a transport service to shop or see doctors, but
not everyone wants to do his or her own shopping and errands. 

What are the
elements you must consider in a business plan? The overhead for such an operation would be very
low.  For example, marketing could consist of leaving flyers in neighborhoods with aging
populations, at supermarkets, dry cleaners, etc., or in the lobbies of senior citizen
highrises.  Word of mouth would probably be good once the service got going.  Many errands could
be done with a bicycle, for example, picking up prescriptions or going to get a bag of flour or
sugar.  Even using a car, for the most part, this would be a very neighborhood-oriented
business, so gas costs would not be great, particularly if one could combine errands in a
community or for a high-rise.  Little capital would be needed to get started: a car or a bike,
and some printing costs, although flyers can now be produced at home by anyone.  I would say
that an urban target market would be the best starting point, to create an efficient operation
without high fuel costs and less investment in time.  Price-setting and wage-setting are
something that you would have to calculate based upon your particular geographic area, based
upon what the market will bear, but when calculating wages, you will want to consider that most
people using such a service are likely to tip and that poor people tend to tip more generously
than wealthy people.  The structure of your business is likely to be rather flat, with a group
of people responsible for deliveries and one person in charge to coordinate and put out any
fires. 

I think that covers all of the basic elements that you must consider
in a business plan, and honestly, it would be wonderful to see something like this in my own
neighborhood. 

In this story, why slavery and education are incompatible.

Slavery and
education are incompatible inbecause as slaves become educated they gain the tools necessary to
free themselves.  The ability to read and write gives slaves the ability to write themselves
passes and escape...

In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, there was a friend of Elie's that played music while everyone was dying in the snow, who was the friend?

You are correct
that it was Juliek, a tiny
young Polish boy--who recognized that he would not survive the death

march--begins to play Beethoven on the violin.  It is a marked contrast to the situation
they
are in, and to the main character/author; this makes it all the more
beautiful.

It is a very short section of the book, which
is cut off abruptly when Elie awakens to
find young Juliek dead, his violin
smashed to pieces.  It is perfect symbolism of the
hopelessness of their
situation, and Juliek had accepted this hopelessness, deciding to exit the

world in the most beautiful way that he could.

How is Hawthorne's theme of "be true" developed through the character of Roger Chillingworth in The Scarlet Letter?

McKinstry Rose

Whiledoes advance one of the novel'sof integrity, he does not always stay
"true" himself to the theme. Below are some examples of both sides of hisin regards to
being true.

Affirmative: Chillingworth is honest withabout what he intends to
do to(or the father ofbefore he knows his identity).  One could also argue that Chillingworth
does not truly hide his motives from Dimmesdale. ...

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What is a specific instance in "The Black Cat" when a character experiences remorse?

The
first thing that comes to mind when looking for remorse in is when the
narrator hangs Pluto. After he hangs the cat, he says that he experienced
"a half-sentiment that seemed, but was not, remorse", but...

How do Jem and Scout change during the course of the novel? How do they remain the same? I really need help for my English essay >m< And thank you...

who change in a
significant way over the course of a story are called dynamic . Just like people in real life,
characters dont change easily. It usually takes some sort of difficult experience or event to
change us.

and s character change is evident at the end of the story. On
page 279 of the Warner Books paperback, Scout says to the reader,

was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes
and walk around in them.

Here, the author is repeating a
phrase that Atticus said earlier in the story. At that time, Scout did not understand what he
meant. Now as a result of her experience, she does. This is an important change.

Finally, in the last several paragraphs, Scout speaks to Atticus about , saying with a
kind of soft surprise, Atticus, he was real nice.

For Scout to say this
about Boo signals a momentous change. She and Jem have spent the entire book in terror of Boo,
imagining all sorts of horrible things about him.

Writers often show
character change in just this way. Establish an idea, let it run through the story, then show
how the characters' attitudes toward this idea change.

In 1984, when Winston said to Julia, "You're only a rebel from the waist downwards," what did he mean?

rebels
against the physical privations that come with being an outer Party member. Inner Party members
enjoy all sorts of privileges denied to the rank and file, such as good coffee, wine and nice
apartments. Julia rebels against the puritanical hypocrisy of the system by having sex with men
who can offer her the comforts she wants, including sex, but also consumer goods, such as make
up. Unlike , she is not concerned with the nature of truth or the nature of reality. She doesn't
really care if the Party says two plus two equals five or whether or not the Party invented the
airplane. She simply wants to have some pleasure in her life (and part of this includes the
sense of victory that comes with beating the system) so that she can experience something beyond
an endless round of toil, cheap gin, and rage. 

While Winston's statement
sounds like a put down, in fact, he admires her pragmatism, and it is important to remember that
without her know-how, she and Winston would never have gotten together. She approaches him and
arranges the first meeting. She gets them luxuries like real coffee. 

In the
end, she and Winston fall in love, and she embraces his idea of joining the Brotherhood and
rebelling in a more overtly political way against the Party. 

Where is the climax in The Open Window?

Aof a
story is defined as the turning point of the plot and the moment of highest tension in the
narrative. In 's short story " ," the mischievous Vera concocts an elaborate tale
regarding why her aunt, Mrs. Sappleton, leaves the large French window open in order to scare
the neurotic, timid Framton Nuttel. The rising action begins shortly after Framton...

What event caused Southern states to secede from the Union, just weeks after it happened?

It was the
election of Abraham Lincoln as president which caused the Southern
states to secede. Lincoln was elected president on November on November 6, 1860, and secession
began just a few weeks later: South Carolina went first, on December 20, followed by Mississippi
on January 9, 1861, and then by Florida on the next day.

For the Southern
states, secession from the Union was about saving slavery. They felt that Lincoln wanted to
bring this practice to an end and they were prepared to take extreme action to prevent this from
happening. By the time of Lincoln's inauguration, for instance, seven of the Southern states had
already seceded from the Union and war was just one month away. 

Lincoln's
personal views on slavery were, therefore, one of the most important causes of the Civil
War. 

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What sort of techniques does the author use to make Never Let Me Go an appealing book?

I think there are a
number of different strategies that Ishiguro uses in this wonderful book. Firstly, we can see
that the central strategy he uses is raising our curiosity about these seemingly normal
children. The strange world in which Kathy, Tommy and Ruth live is particularly bizarre, and it
is a little while until we are able to fully understand what is actually going on and why they
have to do various things, such as submit their best work to be viewed by somebody who clearly
hates and despises them. We also wonder why they are so excited about being able to select
things that are clearly the cast offs of other children. It is only slowly that Ishiguro reveals
to us what is going on as we realise the truth about these children.

Secondly, and perhaps this is more of an annoyance than anything else, Ishiguro
intrigues us as readers through presenting the clones as meekly accepting their fate. They make
no effort to escape or to resist their destiny as clones who have to face multiple operations
causing them great pain until they die. They almost act like robots rather than humans in the
way that they face their fate unthinkingly and seem unable to contemplate any other way of life.
This makes us ask profound questions about ourselves as humans and whether we too act like
robots in certain ways or when confronted by certain situations. Just as the clones seem unable
to ask the bigger questions that could lead them to change their fate, do we as humans do the
same thing?

What was the importance of the Boston Massacre?

On March
5th, 1770, five men in Boston were
killed by gunfire, with many others wounded. A group of men
were heckling
some British Army soldiers sent to try and keep colonial tensions under
control-
many people in Boston were upset with the taxes on imported goods
imposed by the British
Parliament. Prior to the...

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Describe the relationship between Scout and Miss Maudie Atkinson.

has a
friendly relationship with her compassionate neighbor Miss Maudie Atkinson. Miss Maudie is not
only a positive role model, but also Scout's faithful companion. Miss Maudie takes time out of
her day to sit on her porch with Scout and keeps her company whileplays with Dill. Scout learns
about 's background from Miss Maudie and can always trust that Maudie will tell her the truth.
Maudie also allows Scout and her brother to play in her yard and routinely bakes them delicious
cakes.

Scout considers Maudie a close friend and can always rely on her for
comfort in difficult times. During the missionary circle, Miss Maudie calms Scout by grasping
her hand when the other ladies make her feel uncomfortable. Miss Maudie also supports 's
decisions and encourages the children after their father loses his case. Overall, Scout and Miss
Maudie have a close, friendly relationship, and Scout appreciates everything that Maudie does
for her and Jem throughout the novel.

In the Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass what is the overall impression of his childhood on the plantation?

The
overall impression one gets is cruelty.  Douglass goes to lengths to describe how his childhood
was defined by the overall cruelty of the master.  In the opening chapter, Douglass describes
how slaves are whipped and beaten for disobeying the master, like Aunt Hester.  The overall
impression that continues on is that slave masters and plantation managers enjoyed using
violence and savagery as a means of controlling slaves and ensuring that obedience of slaves was
maintained through subjugation and repression.  The use of whippings, beatings, and being
subject to extremely horrific conditions allows one to fully grasp Douglass' contention that
slavery was a way of life that could not sustain itself and its own demise was evident.  At some
level, the cruelty that it offered compelled Douglass to believe that it will suffocate itself
out of existence.

In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, how does Robert Louis Stevenson create and continue a sense of suspense and intrigue?

Stevenson introduces
the fiendish character of Mr. Hyde but does not reveal who he is or how he is connected to the
esteemed Dr. Jekyll until the end of the book. At the outset, Mr. Utterson, Dr. Jekyll's lawyer,
merely hears of the dastardly deeds of Mr. Hyde and then learns that his old friend Dr. Jekyll
has bequeathed everything to Mr. Hyde in his will. Even more mysteriously, Dr. Jekyll leaves
instructions that everything is to be left to Mr. Hyde in the case of his disappearance, which
adds an extra layer of suspense. It is unclear why Dr. Jekyll would disappear for a length of
time. 

Later, Mr. Utterson comes upon Mr. Hyde leaving Dr. Jekyll's
laboratory, and he finds Hyde distasteful to the point of inducing nausea. However, Dr. Jekyll
refuses to tell his old friend Utterson why he continues to befriend Hyde and wants to leave him
his possessions in his will. To heighten the suspense and sense of intrigue, Mr. Hyde is always
surrounded by fog, and Mr. Utterson comes upon him in...

Who deciphered the Rosetta Stone?

The
Rosetta Stone is a piece of black basalt found in Egypt with an identical message carved in
three different languages. It was approximately two-and-a-half feet wide and four feet long.
Carved in 196 BC, the text is written in hieroglyphic (the script used by Egyptian priests for
religious purposes), demotic (the language that common Egyptians used), and ancient
Greek.

The Rosetta Stone...

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In Ernest Heminway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants," why does Jig often express herself sarcastically rather than simply saying what she...

In s short
story , the young woman called Jig
is being pressured by her older male companion, usually
called simply the
man, to have an abortion. Although it is obvious that Jig would prefer to

keep the baby, she never directly and emphatically tells the man that this is her
desire.
Instead, she often uses sarcasm to imply her reluctance to go through
with the
abortion.

Why does Jig rely on sarcasm rather
than openly and forcefully
stating her mind?  Several possible explanations
suggest themselves, and some of them reinforce
one another.  Among the
possible reasons for Jigs indirectness are the following:

• She seems dependent on the man and may fear that if she resists him
  too
  strongly, he will simply abandon her.
• She may not
  completely know her own
  mind and may be genuinely ambivalent, at least to
  some degree.
• Women during
  the period in which the story
  is set were far less likely to express themselves forcefully than
  women
  today. Women today take for granted that they are the equals of men; Jig was raised in
  an
  entirely different and less liberated era.
• Jig may be
  reluctant to argue
  openly with the man in a public place, in front of other
  people. She may not want to cause a
  scene.
• Apparently
  Jig has not been in the habit of openly challenging the
  American. He seems to
  set the terms of their relationship. It might therefore seem inconsistent
  of
  her to begin openly challenging him now.
• Jig may feel that if she
  does
  express herself explicitly, she will lose her temper, alienating the man
  and potentially
  embarrassing herself. After all, at one point she threatens
  to scream, and when the man does
  push her too far, she utters perhaps her
  most memorable line:

Would
you please, please, please, please, please,
please, please stop
talking?

Clearly, Jig is increasingly

agitated as the story evolves, and her decision to use sarcasm is a passive-aggressive
strategy
rather than an assertively aggressive strategy.

The fact that Jigs motives
for using sarcasm are so plausibly
various is testimony to the complexity of the characters
Hemingway has
created even in such a very brief tale.

 

 

What was the cause of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution?

The
proximate (most direct) cause of the Terror was the rise to power of the radical Jacobin faction
within the National Convention in 1793. These politicians had the support of the
sans-culottes, the Parisian working class, and they were able to use this
broad base of political support to prevail over moderate factions, sometimes known as the
Girondins. The Jacobins instituted radical reforms that included price supports and instituted
the Committee of Public Safety to run the country. The Committee, as well as local revolutionary
councils, famously sent tens of thousands of supposed enemies of the Revolution to their deaths,
most memorably using the guillotine. The Terror did not end until it consumed its own leaders,
as Maximilian Robespierre and others were themselves guillotined in 1794. To understand the
deeper origins of the Terror, however, we must remember that it took place in a time of extreme
crisis for the Revolution. In the words of one historian, the Committee was essentially formed
to serve as a "war cabinet." France was at war with almost all the monarchies of
Europe, and confronted a massive revolt in the Vendee region. Faced with spiraling inflation and
food shortages, setbacks on the battlefield, and mob violence that was completely out of
control, the Terror was in no small part an attempt to establish order (albeit a radical order)
to a Revolution and a nation beset with chaos.

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In Frankenstein, where are the monster's feelings of abandonment mentioned in the book specifically?

In Volume II, Chapter
II of ,first comes into contact withsince his "birth." The
Creature does not face a very warm welcome from Victor (given Victor believes him to be
responsible for the deaths of bothand Justine).

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Analyze the relationship between Eveline and her father in James Joyce's "Eveline:. Make reference to how it is affected by society and the role of...

The
relationship betweenand her father is clearly an abusive one, and it does very much reflect the
expectations of how women were treated and expected to behave in 20th Century Ireland. Eveline
is struggling with this internal conflict over whether she should stay in her miserable, abusive
life caring for her father in Ireland, or run away that very day with Frank to Buenos Ayres.
Joyce shows us their relationship through only specific lines and short memories Eveline recalls
as she is sitting, looking out the window contemplating her decision. Her position by the window
alone shows us that she is trapped by this promise she made to her dying mother that she would
look after the household. This is a very typical promise for an Irish daughter to make back
then, especially being the eldest. This is what daughters would do. Their hopes and dreams
(which mostly consisted of getting married and having children) came second to the plans their
fathers already had for them. Eveline is doomed from the start because she is the eldest female
and her mother is dead.

Here is where the reader first starts to understand
Eveline's relationship with her father: "Even now, though she was over nineteen, she
sometimes felt herself in danger of her father's violence." This shows us that she is
literally terrified. She lives a sad life with him, where she does not feel loved or even safe.
Later, she mentions that this is why she has started having "the
palpitations."

Yet, like many abused wives and children are known to do,
she tries to rationalize how her father really does love her, even though he is abusive, cruel
and selfish toward her. It says, "Her father was becoming old lately, she noticed; he would
miss her." Here, Eveline is beginning to guilt herself into staying. She uses this and two
memories of times when her father wasn't so bad (made her laugh once when her mother was alive
and made her toast once when she was sick) to justify to herself why she shouldn't leave him.
This seems ludicrous to the reader. In all of her life, she can only really remember two times
when her father was somewhat nice to her.

Her father hates Frank because, of
course, he wants Eveline to stay at home and continue cleaning the house taking care of the
cooking and shopping. "It was hard work--a hard life--but now that she was about to leave
it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life," (p.33).

Frank is the
exact opposite of her father. "Frank would take her in his arms, fold her in his arms. He
would save her," (p. 35). Frank is filled with life and wants to take Eveline all over the
world. She would actually have a chance at living her life, experiencing happiness and love, the
exact opposite of what she will experience staying in Dublin with her father.

But she cannot go. Joyce craftily continues to show us that she is dead inside already
and is doomed to live and die in Dublin. He describes her frozen at the end of the book,
paralyzed by her fear of leaving her cruel father and breaking the promise made to her
mother.

Eveline is one of many sad characters that Joyce uses throughout
The to paint pictures of what life was like in 20th Century Dublin. He
also wrote these stories based on his own experiences with people he actually knew and
encountered. I am sure he knew many women like Eveline, who struggled with this very
conflict.

What jobs does Monsieur Loisel take on after his wife loses the necklace?

Upon
receiving an invitation to a ball, Madame Loisel buys a new dress and borrows a necklace from a
friend. She has a lovely time at the ball dancing and attracting the attention of the gentlemen.
As she and her husband return home, she realizes she is no longer wearing the necklace. They
search their clothing, and her husband retraces their steps, but they are unable to find it.
After finding a similar necklace at a shop, Madame Loisel and her husband pay thirty-six
thousand francs for a replacement.

Madame Loisel's husband has eighteen
thousand francs from an inheritance but has to borrow the remainder of the money.
In order to pay back the money, he continues his position as a clerk in the
Ministry of Education and works evenings as an accountant and a
copier.

In 1984 how does the theme of political control shape and mold Winston and Julia's relationship?

The fact
that the government has so much control over their lives is what drivesandtogether in the first
place.  They aren't driven together over mutual attraction; Winston is older and pretty
unappealing, and Julia isn't that pretty.  There is no freedom for them to be attracted to each
other based on similar interests or values, and even talking to each other at all is
suspicious.  What drives them together is a mutual hatred of political control.  They hate the
Party.  They want to act out against it, and...