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  • Sin in The Scarlet Letter

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    How can we as a society differentiate what is to be deemed morally wrong biblically sinful or passionately blissful No matter what we decide for our own predicaments it is of no place for our peers or community to make the choice for us Everyday through radio magazines and television we hear of scandals and celebrity breakups gossip about other peoples lives none of which pertains to our own In The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne created many characters all of which went through this very su

  • Animal Imagery In Macbeth

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    Animal imagery in Shakespeares Macbeth Every animal has different qualities like their colour or their personality We have animal species on this earth who out known to have been heroes and murderers Even with their differences each animal is attached to a certain meaning and can create a certain tone for the reader William Shakespeares Macbeth makes use of this idea well Shakespeare uses this imagery to its full potential by not only setting tones but also for so much more In the Scottish play

  • Commentary on Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

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    Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl In the book Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl starts off very happy They are living in a house Free from anything The book starts out on Sunday 14 June 1942 on Anne Franks 13 birthday Living in a house in Holland that the whole family love very much Anne and her sister Margot Frank were very popular with the boys When Anne and Margot went to the ice cream shop they didnt even need money to buy anything the boys were more than welcome to find some of their

  • Commentary on After Great Pain

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    In the poem After great pain a formal feeling comes Emily Dickinson speaks of the stages of emotions felt things emotion appear in a hierarchical order which finally leads to letting go Line 13 Dickinson notes that after great pain a formal feeling sets in while the nerves are sombre and ceremonious like Tombs capturing the numbness 1 2 Dickinson also uses physical description to denote the internal and psychological aspects of feelings by using words that are associated with the flesh society

  • Richard in Black Boy

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    Because Richard is growing throughout the book his character is always changing The small child we see at the beginning is a far cry from the seventeen year old at the end yet there is a fundamental core which remains the same He is a rebel and as such an outsider from the very beginning Through his descriptions of peoples reactions to him Wright gives us a sense of the impression he makes on others He offends most everyone not for overt acts of defiance against them but because of the attitude

  • Expansion of Views in Black Boy

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    The Expansion on a View of Life Desire is a strong word to express a wish for that everyone around the world has Richard Wright in Black Boy has many desires to achieve Wright tells of his life from a young boy in the prejudice south to an adult in the north In Black Boy Richards expression of desire is a need for knowledge independence and understanding Knowledge is something that most if not all people want Richards one of them His first need for knowledge was when he moved in with his grandm

  • Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire

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    Character Sketch of Blanche Dubois In Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire we are introduced to Blanche Dubois Blanche is a misplaced southern belle who as a last resort comes to live with her sister Stella and husband Stanley for the summer in their modest home in New Orleans Blanche arrives in a fragile state of mind but maintains her aristocratic faade nonetheless To an onlooker she is a walking paradox to her surroundings Looking polished and proper in a white suit with a fluffy

  • Character Analysis Of The Narrator of The Tell Tale

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    Character Analysis of the narrator The Tell Tale Heart The narrator is the protagonist in the The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe This short story is about a man that wants to prove his sanity even though he has plans to compete murder upon the old man that lives with him He has a deep passionate fear of this mans blue eye which he feels is wicked and vulture like He speaks of love for the old man however the old mans vulture like blue eye is something that the narrator wants gone So he rati

  • Comparing The Tell-Tale Heart To The Cask of Amontillado

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    The short stories The Tell Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe are two stories that are morbid tales of both murder and insanity While the stories take place in different times and different motivations are given the stories are similar In each of the stories the format of the stories has the narrator explaining why they were forced to commit murder and while the reasons seem like rather weak excuses to us the narrators both believe they had valid reasons for their crimes

  • Comparison of Heroines in Wuthering Heights and The Great Gatsby

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    Comparison of Heroines in Wuthering Hieghts and the Great Gatsby Summary comparison of heroines in wuthering hieghts and the great gatsby Comparison of the presentation of the heroines in F Scott Fitzgeralds TheGreat Gatsby and Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights Introduction to The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby He presents us with many characters one of which is quite complex Daisy Buchanan She is stuck in a love triangle with the affairs brings tension and envy to an unex

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