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  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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    Life and death are opposing forces of nature that one can not escape In the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the poet uses natures forces to represent procreation which is the giving of life and destruction which is the dealing of death The poet expresses through out the poem how these two forces life and death are interconnected In the beginning of the story King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table were celebrating the New Year until the Green Knight sent by Morgan Le Fay Arthurs sis

  • Commentary on Skellig

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    This is a beautiful highly emotional story about a young lad who does an angel a good turn and who gets his reward The first thing you need to be clear about is that this is not your average Angel Gabriel Hes a disgusting crumpled up heap of vermin ridden tramp I suppose who Michael finds in the far corner of their derelict garage He actually eats the spiders that scramble across him and the mice that scuttle round the disintegrating lean to I thought he was dead He was sitting with his legs st

  • Dimmesdale's Character in The Scarlet Letter

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    In the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is greatly admired by his congregation his fellow clergymen and by the townspeople of this small Puritan colony Is Mr Dimmesdale truly as great as everyone thinks he is in the book it says Therefore so far as his duties would permit he trode in the shadowy by paths and thus kept himself simple and child like coming forth when occasion was with a freshness and fragrance and dewy purity of thought which as many p

  • Interactions in The Odyssey

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    In Homers Odyssey there is a very clear causal relationship between an individuals actions and the outcome of their endeavors Through interactions the gods often influence the actions of mortals If one resists the guidance of the gods there are almost always ramifications In this way the Odyssey suggests that human beings should be reverent and obedient to the gods At times it proves to be hard for mortals to remain in the favor of the gods even if they may be in good favor with one or more god

  • Abuse Of Power in Three Pieces of Literature

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    Edmund Burke once said The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse Authority is used to guide society provide order and create a sense of security The novel Anthem by Ayn Rand the award winning film The Changeling and the play One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Dan Wesserman all exhibit different circumstances involving abuse of power Though it comes in different forms the outcome is consistently a miserable experience for certain individuals in each case Throughout the novel Anthem by Ay

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