How would you compare the characters Stella and Blanche in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire?

In the
beginning of1947 play , Blanche arrives in New Orleans to live with her
younger sister Stella and her husband Stanley Kowalski. Blanche and Stella display character
traits that are seemingly very different, but in the end, they share a similar
struggle.

Blanche is a widow whose promiscuous sexual behavior has made her
somewhat of a social pariah. In contrast, Stella is a mild-mannered married woman. Both women,
however, display strong sexual behavior. For Blanche, sexuality is the only way she knows how to
interact with men. Blanche criticizes Stellas...

What does Archie mean when he says "When Stargirl cries, she does not shed tears, but light"?

Stargirls' best characteristic is her ability
to empathize with anybody.  She cares deeply for the feelings of others regardless of social
norms.  It's why she cheers for both teams and that kind of thing.  She expresses the emotions
that other people should also be expressing.  So when Archie says
that"doesn't shed tears, but light," what he is actually pointing out is that Stargirl
is enlightening people to the emotions that they should be feeling and
expressing.  A lot of people turn a blind eye to somebody else's embarrassment, or worse still,
they laugh.  Stargirl would run to help and emote the feelings of the victim.  That's what other
people should be doing.  Her tears of light are enlightenment.  Her tears bring knowledge.
 Cartoons use this motif all of the time when an actual light bulb is shown next to their head.
 Have you ever heard the phrase "could you shed some light on this for me?"  It's
another way of asking for something to be explained. Stargirl explains things through her
tears. 

What narrative techniques does Jane Austen employ in "Emma"?

's novel
is written in the third person. Although the narrator is omniscient, we
are generally restricted to Emma's point of view, and therefore, like Emma herself, the readers
often are lacking crucial pieces of information. This lack of information or understanding often
causes Emma to behave in ways that eventually turn out badly or embarrass her. Austen's
narrative techniques make us empathize with the process of Emma's development.


Another major characteristic of Austen's narrator is that it is an
"intrusive" narrator and occasionally addresses the reader directly. The narrative
voice is normative and ironic, providing a model of balanced understanding against which we
judge the characters.

How does Dimmesdale torture himself in The Scarlet Letter?

There is
another instrument of torture that should be mentioned as well:  's "bloody scourge." 
There is quite a large section of the text that deals with Dimmesdale's scourge.  Let's begin
there:

His inward trouble drove him to practices, more in
accordance with theold, corrupted faith of Rome, than with the better light of the churchin
which he had been born and bred. In Mr. Dimmesdale's secret closet,under lock and key, there was
a bloody scourge. Oftentimes, thisProtestant and Puritan divine had plied it on his own
shoulders;laughing bitterly at himself the while, and smiting so much the morepitilessly,
because of that bitter laugh. It was his custom, too, as ithas been that of many other pious
Puritans, to fast--not however, likethem, in order to purify the body and render it the fitter
medium ofcelestial illumination,--but rigorously, and until his knees trembledbeneath him, as an
act of penance. He kept vigils, likewise, night afternight, sometimes in utter darkness;
sometimes with a glimmering lamp;and sometimes, viewing his own face in a looking-glass, by the
mostpowerful light which he could throw upon it. He thus typified theconstant introspection
wherewith he tortured, but could not purify,himself.

A
scourge, of course, is a " whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or
torture."  So Dimmesdale's vigils are full of a lot more than prayer and fasting. 
Dimmesdale is so bothered by his guilt that he actually whips himself in order to do penance for
his sin with .  Dimmesdale is often called a Christ-figure.  Dimmesdale's use of the scourge is
one of the first implements that connect him to Christ (although the scourge is used to purify
Dimmesdale for his own sins instead of the sins of humanity).  There are other connections as
well, such as Dimmesdale's "three temptations" in the "desert" and his
ultimate sacrifice.

 

How does Rousseau define slavery?

Book I,
chapter IV of is devoted to the topic of Slavery.opposes slavery, or the
ownership of another person. He uses logic to dismantle the intellectual bases of slavery that
had been proposed by other philosophers. He begins with the idea that there is no such thing as
natural authority of one man (to use his terminology) over another, considering both the
individual who can alienate his own liberty, becoming a slave to a master, and a group that can
collectively become the subjects of a king.

Ultimately, Rousseau argues that
the condition of slavery is impossible. Slavery requires that a man sell himself. As a man is
not an object, however, he cannot actually sell himself, so any contract based on such a sale
would be void. If, however, one sets that aside to make the argument that slavery a logical
possibility, then a slavebeing propertywould not be a man, and would be incapable of moral
judgments.

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In the short story,"Harrison Bergeron," did Harrison's rebellion accomplish anything?

Harrison's final act of defianceremoving his handicaps and dancing around with a
ballerina live on national TVis most courageous indeed. Few people in this mindlessly conformist
world are either willing or able to challenge the authoritarian rule of Diana Moon Glampers,
Handicapper-General. But the immediate impact of Harrison's brave act of rebellion appears to be
negligible, if his parents' muted reaction is anything to go by. If George and Hazel are unable
to be deeply affected by what they've seen, then it's highly unlikely that anyone else
will.

But looking at things in a more optimistic vein, we might see
Harrison's rebellion as the first shot in what will eventually become a...

What is Ichabod Crane's job in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?

Ichabod
Crane is a schoolteacher in the town of Sleepy Hollow.  Here is the quote stating
this:

• Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed
  it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the
  vicinity.

  He is not the most fair or proper schoolmaster, however.  He
  disciplines his children not based on their offenses, but based on their stature.  The same
  offense may be committed by a weak and a strong child, but the strong child will get the
  harshest punishment:

  • on the contrary, he administered
    justice with discrimination rather than severity; taking the burden off the backs of the weak,
    and laying it on those of the strong. Your mere puny stripling, that winced at the least
    flourish of the rod, was passed by with indulgence; but the claims of justice were satisfied by
    inflicting a double portion on some little tough wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who
    sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the birch.

    He was fond
    of walking his young students home.  Not for their own safety, however, but in hopes of getting
    some good food from their mothers or in hopes of spending time with good-looking older
    sisters.

    • and on holiday afternoons would convoy some of
      the smaller ones home, who happened to have pretty sisters, or good housewives for
      mothers