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Arthurian Romances
... truthful, honest, capable, educated, physically fit, noble, sincere, and
subservient to the king.
In “Arthurian Romances” the knight has a duty to protect his
country. When he approaches a situation he does not attack the other party
until he has warned them. His place in the feudalist system involves other
workers (vassals) to do his bidding. They suit him up in his armor and
ready his horse and weapons. The knight in the first story is named Erec,
son of the King Lac. He marries a girl named Enide, who is at his side
throughout the story. Together they adventure through the countryside and
Erec fi ...
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A Rose For Emily
... rose from the title symbolizes this absent love. It symbolizes the roses and flowers that Emily never received, the lovers that overlooked her.
The domineering attitude of Emily's father keeps her to himself, inside the house, and alone until his death. In his own way, Emily's father shows her how to love. Through a forced obligation to love only him, as he drives off young male callers, he teaches his daughter lessons of love. It is this dysfunctional love that resurfaces later, because it is the only way Emily knows how to love.
When Homer Baron, a construction worker, comes into Emily's life he sheds hope into her ...
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Macbeth - Contradiction In The
... Having shared this prophecy with Lady Macbeth, the
goal of being king becomes very enticing.
Macbeth’s first act of evil is the killing of
Duncan. Before the murder, Macbeth tries to tell
Lady Macbeth that he will not go through with it.
She has to goad him into killing the King. After
committing the murder, Macbeth seems almost
delirious. He says that "…all great Neptune’s
ocean will not wash this blood clean from my
hand"(Act II, Scene ii, lines 60-61). When he
murders Banquo, Macbeth is still in torment, but
the cause of his anguish seems to have changed.
He is afraid of Banquo, because Banquo k ...
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The Ice Storm
... other than housewives and mothers.” i.
focuses on two families, the Hoods and the Carvers. Ben Hood, (Kevin Kline), is the aptly-named, self-absorbed patriarch of his family moving through life believing all that matters is what he sees in front of him; his wife, Elena (Joan Allen) is his quietly despairing mate and mother of Paul (Tobey Maguire) and Wendy (Christina Ricci). Jim Carver (Jamey Sheridan) is an enterprising man, who is seldom home long enough to attend to the needs of his wife Jane (Sigourney Weaver) and their two sons Mike (Elijah Wood) and Sandy (Adam Hann-Byrd). These families are linked ...
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Can We Debate Art?
... by the in-class discussions, but were refined and given more “ammunition”; that took my thinking from a highly generalized level, to one where I could express my feelings better and possibly inspire other’s thinking as well.
? Although it is perhaps an unanswerable question, there are a few points I feel should be discussed. One of the issues that I thought about was a problem in the basic definition of art. What could be defined as art? Does it have to be “pleasing to the eye,” or “something that does not offend or ridicule?” One example was a piece done where a person had placed a crucifix ...
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Huck Finn, Violence And Greed
... fortune to the Judge for one dollar to
ensure his father will never poses it. Sorrowfully, this does not discourage Pap's advances
to retrieve the money. He visits Judge Thatcher only to find that the money is out of his
reach. Furious, these actions of greed turned into actions of violence as Pap kidnaps
Huck and brings him to a cabin in the woods. Ingeniously, Huck devised a plan to
escape. For days Huck sawed a hole in the cabin wall. When pap left one morning, Huck
finished the hole, escaped, and splashed pigs blood on the interior cabin walls to give
Pap the impression that he had been murdered. ...
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Lord Of The Flies 11
... course of the world can change. This is a hope worth sustaining." This quote can apply both to the larger world of the Earth, and the smaller world of the island.
On the island, the boys had problems from the beginning. Both Ralph and Jack wanted to be chief and when the rest of the biguns and littluns voted for Ralph, it caused friction between Jack and Ralph. Ralph tried to deal with this problem by appointing Jack the leader of the hunters and keepers of the fire. He had hoped this would repair any damage that had been done to their short friendship. Ralph was doing his duty as the chief and tried to dea ...
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A Days Time
... 3-4 “And this same flower that smiles today,/ Tommorrow will be dying,”(728) which is a symbol of the shortness of youth. Frost in lines 3-4 “Her early leaf’s a flower;/ But only so an hour,”(989) also symbolizes the fleeting time of youth. In the beginning, a flower and youth are filled with vitality, but in a short amount of time the flower will wilt and die, and the youth will be an adult on a passage to death.
The second symbol used by Herrick and Frost is the day: youth is dawn, adulthood is midday, and death is the setting of the sun. From the day man is born, he is dying. I ...
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Dust Over The City
... in , the author presents such a case as shown through their many ordeals and their reactions to them. This is evident in their encounter with other and Alains patients, their battle with loneliness and the decision to move to the mining town, adjusting to the new city and accepting the fact with little provisions this is where they must live now. In Andre Langevins novel the characters Alain and Madeline are the embodiment of two people that are newly wed and the problems that each other face may or may not be normal.
Alain and Madeline were a very unhappy married couple and there were many things underlyi ...
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Spin Cycle
... and the outright avoidance of certain questions allows the White
House to control the scope and content of the stories that make it to the front
page and the nightly network news. As Kurtz makes clear, the president and
First Lady are convinced that the media are out to get them, while the journalists covering the White House are constantly frustrated at the stonewalling and the lack of cooperation they encounter while trying to do their jobs. In the middle is the White House press secretary Mike McCurry, a master at defusing volatile situations and walking the fine line with the press. Though less paranoid ...
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