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  • The Ambassadors

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    The Ambassadors is the story of Lewis Lambert Strether, a man engaged to a widow who sends him to Paris on her behalf to collect her wayward son, Chad. In Europe Strether finds himself intrigued by the more liberal emotional world of Chad and his friends, including the beautiful Marie de Vionnet. Ultimately, though, Strether learns not to let allure and exoticism rule his perceptions and returns to America without Chad, his own goals uncertain.

  • Eliza in Pygmalion

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    Changes in Eliza in Pygmalion Before Eliza first encountered Mr Higgins she was simply a dirty yet caring girl in the gutter of London During her time with both Mr Higgins and Colonel Pickering Eliza did change for the fist few weeks of her stay in Wimpole Street she questioned everything that Higgins asked her to do and generally couldnt see how they would help her Later Eliza begins to understand that Higgins as harsh as he is is trying to do his best to teach her and therefore should be resp

  • Commentary on Pygmalion

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    Two old gentlemen meet in the rain one night at Covent Garden Professor Higgins is a scientist of phonetics and Colonel Pickering is a linguist of Indian dialects The first bets the other that he can with his knowledge of phonetics convince high London society that in a matter of months he will be able to transform the cockney speaking Covent Garden flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a woman as poised and well spoken as a duchess The next morning the girl appears at his laboratory on Wimpole Stre

  • Commentary on Pygmalion

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    Plot Summary One rainy evening in London two gentlewomen a mother and a daughter are waiting for Freddy the son and brother of the pair to hail a taxi Theyre standing under the shelter of a portico crowded with people when Freddy carelessly bumps into a flower girl The girl attempts to get the mother to buy the flowers her son has damaged and is successful She then tries to sell her flowers to another gentleman when someone in the crowd warns her that a man is taking notes on what she has been

  • Commentary on he Plot of Hamlet

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    Prince Hamlet devotes himself to avenging his fathers death but because he is contemplative and thoughtful by nature he delays entering into a deep melancholy and even apparent madness Claudius and Gertrude worry about the princes erratic behavior and attempt to discover its cause They employ a pair of Hamlets friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to watch him When Polonius the pompous Lord Chamberlain suggests that Hamlet may be mad with love for his daughter Ophelia Claudius agrees to spy on H

  • Scene Analysis: Hamlet

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    Hamlet by William Shakespeare was written during the seventeenth century around 1600 or 1601 William Shakespeare was born in 1564 He was the eldest son of John and Mary Shakespeare Although there are no records it is known Shakespeare attended Edward VI grammar school which was established in 1543 for the sons of the landed gentry of the community It is believed Hamlet was first performed in July 1602 Hamlet first appeared in printed from in 1603 and was published once again as an enlarged edit

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