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  • Passage Analysis: The Waste Land

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    T S Eliot writes very deliberately including just the right details and organizing the poem so that each phrase and section is arranged in the most effective way possible The following passage is from Eliots The Waste Land There is shadow under this red rock Come in under the shadow of this red rock And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust 25 30 This passa

  • Greed in The Pearl

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    Greed Spreads just like poison It may start small but it will end big and it may end up killing people If the characters didnt spread this they would have still had poor Coyotito But sadly they let the evil take over their bodies and loose their minds No good came out of evil greed and no good will EVER come out of ever When kino understood what the pearl and its greed were doing to the society it was too late The evil had took over and the only way to let it out was to get rid of the pearl so

  • Allegory in The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

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    Would You Walk Away The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas was written as a fictive allegory of the scapegoat as the dilemma of the American conscience Although the author Le Guin never literally states this dilemma as a fiction writer she exemplifies but never states the problem If you lived in a land that as in every way you could possibly imagine perfect if it was your own unique custom made Utopia and everyone was ecstatically happy because one small child was horribly unhappy and mistreated Th

  • Tragedy in The Great Gatsby

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    The Great Gatsby In the book The Great Gatsby author F Scott Fitzgerald tells the story of a group of troubled upper class New Yorkers during the summer of 1922 The main character is Jay Gatsby a wealthy young man who worked his way up from rags to riches To the community Gatsby is known for the lavish parties he throws each weekend at his mansion in West Egg He is suspected of being involved in suspicious illegal activities such as bootlegging as a source of his fortune Gatsbys neighbor Nick C

  • The Family of Man in The Grapes Of Wrath

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    One Big Soul Prompt Support the idea that a major theme in this novel is that all men are part of the family of man In the novel The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck shows theme through the hardships of the Okies Even through the hardships they faced on the journey to California the Joad Family helped give rides and food to other poor migrants The Joads were also helped buy others also in misfortune Even though most Okies were low on money and didnt have space in their cars they let others in nee

  • Internal Struggle in Gilgamesh

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    Everyone has their own internal opposition that they sometime struggle to deal with and The epic of Gilgamesh is a proof of it During our journey on earth we sometime find ourselves in opposition with our own self and as we tend to better ourselves we will look and do everything possible to have what we want But the result that we get in life does not always please us and that result can occur to better or devastate us The Epic of Gilgamesh shows how internal opposition led the main character G

  • Tension in Act Three of The Crucible

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    How Does Arthur Miller Create Tension in Act Three in the Courtroom I am writing a review on the drama called the Crucible written by Arthur Miller it was written in 1953 The word crucible means a vessel of a very refractory material used for melting and calcining a substance that requires a high degree of heat The play is a real story based upon the events in 1692 in Salem USA The play was written in the McCarthyism days It was just eight years after the Second World War and Berlin the capital

  • Marriage in Pride and prejudice

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    In the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen there is a theme that arises which criticizes the idea of what truth is which is shaped by the thoughts of members of a certain gender What is meant by truth is how things really are in society during the time that the novel takes place The central theme around the novel is definitely marriage and how different people feel about the issue This novel examines the different perspectives of what marriage is and what the reasons to get married were du

  • Commentary on Porphyrias Lover

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    Porphyrias Lover Essay In this poem the characters are a mystery and not so easy to analyze There are many analogies and some symbolism stating that the two main characters arent just two lovers meeting together but its possibly a risky chance theyre taking a secret and some of the characters may even be describe as immoral In other words one of the characters is possibly a vampire transforming his lover into an immoral human during their meeting theyre having as well Behind each line there are

  • Women in Othello

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    The great failing of Othello is that Desdemona and Emilia are too weak and easily deceived to be convincing Use Act 4 scene 3 as a starting point to discuss and evaluate different interpretations of Desdemona and Emilia in Othello The relationship between men and women is also the key theme of Othello the play by William Shakespeare Womens status and role were subject to the tyranny of patriarchy society Womens rights were restricted legally socially and economically Othello shows us how womens

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