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English Essays and Term Papers
A Clockwork OrangeTo leave out the final chapter of is to change the entire meaning of the novel; as Burgess says in the introduction, his story is transformed into a fable. Without the last chapter the reader is left with a dark and pessimistic theme, that absolute good and evil exist in this world and it is ...
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Brutus, An Honorable ManBrutus, an honorable conspirator? Honorable is defined as genuine, truthful and displaying integrity while a conspirator is defined as one that ingages in an agreement to commit an illegal or wrongful act. Anyone can clearly see that these two words do not belong together. There are also other ...
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Dante's Inferno: The Guardians Of The InfernoDante's Inferno is one of the best written works of all time because it
was written as an allegory inside an excellent story. A key part of this
allegory was how Dante used different guardians in the various circles of
hell. These guardians were used to symbolize the punishments of ...
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Young Goodman Brown 3"Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story that is thick with allegory. "Young Goodman Brown" is a moral story which is told through the perversion of a religious leader. In "Young Goodman Brown", Goodman Brown is a Puritan minister who lets his excessive pride in himself interfere ...
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Beowulf 11Different cultures around the world admire and appreciate certain traits or characteristics of a person to make them ideal. In the story of Beowulf, which narrates the heroics of a Scandinavian warrior, we grasp some traits that where appreciated by the Scandinavian culture. As a youth, he ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird - What MSuperlatives no longer mean much to this venerable classic, and it was one of the best novels I think was ever written. So I'm more interested in describing what makes the book work.
Humour is one crucial factor. By never succumbing to the pretentious grandiosity that has plagued many a novelist ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird - ScoutIn the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout learns valuable lessons on the evil of prejudice present in her Southern town of Maycomb, on the true nature of courage, and on the dangers of judging others before "...climbing into their skin and walking around in it." Set in the mid 1930s, Scout Finch ...
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Brave New World - SummaryThis novel takes place in the year 632 A.F. The government controls the population of Utopia, there are only test tube births and an artificial process for multiplying the embryos. Marriage is forbidden. There are ten World Controllers; these people control the government and all of their plans. ...
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Jane Eyre - Struggle For LoveThe overriding theme of "Jane Eyre," is Jane's continual quest for love. Jane searches for love and
acceptance through the five settings in which she lives: Gateshead, Lowood, Thornfield, Moor
House, and Ferndean. Through these viewpoints, the maturation and self-recognition of Jane
becomes ...
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Great Expectations By CharlesGreat Expectations was written in 1861, right after Dickens had divorced Kate, his first wife. Dickens basically invoked his own emotions in the story. It was where his heart lay. Also, anyone who has read more of Dickens' work can clearly see his determination to avoid repeating himself in this ...
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Cyrano De Bergerac 2"Aggressive: I, sir, if that nose were mine, I'd have it amputated-on the spot! Friendly: How do you drink with such a nose? You ought to have a cup made specially. Descriptive: ‘Tis a rock-a crag-a cape- A cape? Say rather, a peninsula!"
Cyrano de Bergerac is a heroic comedy, a play ...
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Emily The Fallen RoseEmily Dickinson was raised in a traditional New England home in the mid 1800's. Her father along with the rest of the family had become Christians and she alone decided to rebel against that and reject the Church. She like many of her contemporaries had rejected the traditional views in life and ...
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How Shakespeare And Ibsen TreaShakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew and Ibsen’s A Doll’s House portray women in many ways. Both authors have strong feelings about women and weren’t afraid to express them in their writing. Shakespeare’s views about women differed greatly with those of Ibsen’s. ...
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Of Mice And Men 6Of mice and men is the story of two opposites that attract. They are two very different people Lennie and George, yet they stick together like glue. These two characters have a lifetime to tell, while John Steinbeck articulately and so well detailed, makes the place, the characters and the ...
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Poem 2As we sat around like every other day,
We decided we could no longer stay.
And we were determined to darken our tan.
California was where we were going
To the beach where it’s never snowing.
We were off to watch the scenery during the day
And at night, find the best partay.
By now ...
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Trifles By Susan GlaspellThe thesis of this paper is to prove that the title of Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles" represents how men considered women's duties and their opinions to be of little importance compared to a man's role in society. The dictionary defines the word trifle as something of little importance or value, ...
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King Lear --The role the Fool in the Tragedy of King Lear
The Fool in William Shakespeare's King Lear is often mistaken as foolhardy, but everything he says has a deeper significance and greater truth. Since he is the court jester, the audience assumes that the Fool's main purpose is to entertain us. The ...
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Lord ByronGeorge Gordon Byron a Natural Born Poet
Their are many different opinions on the written works of George Gordon Byron which could include one very big question. Was he a natural born poet or simply a product of abuse and mental illness. His writings may have been more a way to ease his ...
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No ExitSartre believed that one day man happened, or occurred, and
after this anomalous event man’s life took meaning. With this
theory, Sartre articulated the premise that “existence precedes
essence”. Through this assumption, Sartre evolves further ideas
in which a human can gain a greater ...
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Macbeth - TragedyWilliam Shakespeare is the noted author of a vast array of plays, ranging from comedies to histories to tragedies. Perhaps one of his most famous in the tragedy genre is Macbeth. Though Shakespeare can be considered as a scholar in the sense that he was both a renowned and prolific playwright, ...
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The CrucibleJohn Hale is the minister of Beverly, which has been summoned to Salem to discover and
extinguish supposed witchcraft in the town of Salem, Mass. in the colonial period. Hale
overgoes a gradual change of character and belief as the play unfolds. As a dynamic
character? Though a gradual change ...
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Negotiate To CloseHow to Make More Successful Deals
In this book the author uses the salesperson relationship of the buyer and seller to discuss negotiation. The author identifies the sources of power that a seller has when negotiating, and the tactics used by buyers to get what they want. Recognizing these key ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird 5Certain uncanny resemblance’s between Tom Robinson and Boo Radley’s lives exist in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. In this novel, Boo Radley and Tom Robinson both symbolize the mockingbird. A mockingbird is a harmless bird that makes the world more pleasant with it’s ...
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Romeo And Juliet- Who Is To Blame For Their Deaths?Topic-Who is ultimately to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Is it chance, their families and the feud, Mercutio, the nurse, Friar Lawrence or are they themselves to blame. Discuss.
Romeo and Juliet’s deaths are the result of the acts of many people. It can be blamed on chance, the feud, ...
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Minnie BibbleIn many short stories authors develop the characters by using different ways of
characterization. These methods may include both direct and or indirect characterization.In the short story "He Thinks He's Wonderful," F. Scott Fitzgerald develops in both of these ways.
Fitzgerald uses direct ...
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