... Lear, an old king ready for retirement, preparing to divide the kingdom among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance by judging who can proclaim their love for him in the grandest possible fashion. Cordelia finds that she is unable to show her love with mere words: Cordelia (aside) What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent (23). Cordelia’s nature is such that she is unable to engage in even so forgivable a deception as to satisfy an old king’s vanity and pride. Cordelia (aside) Then poor Cordelia! And yet not so, since I am sure my love’s More ponderous than my tongue (23). Cordelia clearly loves her father, and yet rea ...
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... this is seen when hears a "rat" listening in on his dialogue with his mother in Act III, iv. Without the necessary thought, Hamlet draws his sword and kills Polonius. Another example to support this premise is in Act I, iv when Hamlet threatens his friends and follows the potentially dangerous ghost into the forest without any contemplation. The contention that Hamlet's tragic flaw is "external difficulties" can be disproven in Act III, iii when Hamlet has his knife drawn and is only a swift motion away from Claudius' death. Hamlet's tragic flaw is not that he is motivated by ambition. This point is best displayed in Act II, ii when Hamlet states "Man delights not ...
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... a sleepless night in the room, Jane looked out upon daylight to find "rain still beating continuously on the staircase window." Her "habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, and forlorn depression" were deepened by such gloomy weather. (Bronte 9-10) Much like the beast's castle in "Beauty and the Beast", Gateshead, Jane's home, appeared to have an evil spell that would not allow the days to be sprinkled with sunshine and happiness. Jane's horrible, doom filled days at Gateshead came to a halt when Jane was accepted into Lowood Institution. Although Lowood was a more joyous home for Jane, she never considered it home. Jane delighted in one wintery morning when t ...
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... subsistence. The boys first stayed with relatives who could not afford to keep them and eventually were raised by a black woman, Miss Dora, who had no kinship relation with them, but believed they deserved a chance. Greg Williams was singled out by his family and his father to excel, to leave Muncie, and to make his fortune through his brains and academic prowess. This came true, and he is now the Dean of the College of Law at Ohio State University. His brother Mike, however, missed their mother terribly, yielded to their father's vision of him as "just like me" and lived a hard and dangerous life. Part of the significance of the book is the author's ability to ...
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... to do things, so his wife questions his manhood and calls him weak. After she insulted him, he thinks that he is wrong and she is right, so he go against his own conscience, in the end he was right and Lady wrong. Lady tells when the king is in their castle to “Your hand, your tongue: look like th’ innocent flower, but be serpent under’t.” What this meant was that looked and talked like an innocent little flower, but under that fake mask he was an evil serpent. I agree that Macbeth was unimaginative to a degree but then again he had an imagination because he saw the daggers before he killed King Duncan, and after he got Banquo killed he saw the image of ...
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... want to leave is her job. Once she is in South America, the people there will treat her with respect once she is married. Her brother Ernest had passed away, Harry, her other brother was hardly ever around because he traveled for his job. This left her alone with her father who had begun to threaten her. At least in Buenos Aires she would be protected. Though she loved Frank, it was a difficult relationship due to the fact that her father forbid her to see him after the two men were involved in an argument. Eveline really didn't know Frank that well. She was a lonely person, and when Frank came along he seemed to be her ticket to happiness. All she knew really kne ...
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... spirit. But others, like Prometheus and his gift of fire, believe that new technology is the key to a new, and better, reality. Genetic engineering and, specifically, cloning, of human life has become an issue of extreme gravity in the age of technology where anything may be dreamed and many things are possible. Cloning is a reality in today\'s world: Not long ago, Gearhart and Thomson announced that they had each isolated embryonic stem cells and induced them to begin copying themselves without turning into anything else. In so doing, they apparently discovered a way to make stem cells by the billions, creating a biological feedstock that might, in turn, b ...
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... perspectives” (Holstad 1). King Lear is a most unusual play in that it only deals with the present and neglects the past and the future. The reader is not informed about an earlier time period in the play. The play opens up with Lear immediately choosing to, “express our darker purpose” (I, i, 35). There is no mention of any of the three daughters’ childhood. In contrast, Smiley makes a point of adding description to her novel. She constantly describes the three girls’ childhood, their ancestors, and other memories from the past. In the beginning of the novel, Ginny elaborates upon her great-grandparents and, “when they came the first time to Zebu ...
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... he swept by the fields he would watch and smile at Liberty and she would smile back. Liberty was a woman that worked in the home of the peasants. Making contact with a woman was prohibited but for when in the palace of the mating. The palace of the mating was where people were forced to breed. Equality thought touching a woman was shameful and ugly. Then one day while he swept the streets he found a grate that led to underground tunnel full of things from the unmentionable times. For two years he went to the tunnel and discovered a new glowing light. Then one day while in the tunnel decided that he must share his secret with his brothers. He decided that he wou ...
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... grenades or bullets! Narrator: Tim O’Brien, the story was told from Mr. O’Brien’s personal experiences in warfare. Events in summary: (1) A group of soldiers march in the rough terrain of Vietnam, each carrying something they love. Some soldiers carried pictures, while others carried good luck charms. (2) The soldiers arrive at a dark tunnel. As active soldiers are, they investigate the tunnel looking for their opposition. (3) As one of the soldiers exit the tunnel, he gets shot in the head causing warfare to erupt. (4) Jimmy Cross decides to burn the city down, leaving nothing behind. (5) As soldiers wait for a jet to take them home, they ...
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