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- 13691: Pride And Prejudice
- ... to form that groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry." (Austen, 145). Elizabeth never holds back her feelings toward anyone in the novel. Both Darcy and Elizabeth insult each other to the point where one would ...
- 13692: Pride And Prejudice
- ... act of prejudice. He refuses to dance with her on account of her not being "handsome enough to tempt me." After being described throughout the chapter as being "the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world" because he would not socialise ("he danced only once with Mrs Hurst and once with Miss Bingley, declined being introduced to any other lady, and spent the rest of the evening walking about the room ...
- 13693: Pragmatics Deixis And Conversational Implicature
- ... not inevitably have to be conversational implicatures. Defining the term ‘implicature’ more precisely, one can distinguish conversational implicature from conventional implicature. Conventional implicatures arise from expressions which, taken by themselves, implicate certain states of the world that cannot be attributed to our use of language. They are not derived from pragmatic principles like the maxims, but are simply attached by convention to particular lexical items or expressions. Examples A: "Why do ...
- 13694: Portrait Of A Lady
- ... it as her big chance to experience the life that she could not find in America. At her arrival in Europe, she was immediately experiencing new people and places. She was in a totally different world, where the people valued life, art, and were more civilized. She had finally found a place where she could grow both emotionally and morally. Goodwood's proposal would have taken her away, back to America ...
- 13695: Poem #640: Interpretation
- ... Dickinson considers three major resolutions for the frustrations she is seeking to define and to resolve. Each of these resolutions is expressed in negative form: living wither her lover, dying with him, and discovering a world beyond nature. Building on this series of negations, Dickinson advances a catalogue of reasons for her covenant with despair, which are both final and insufficient. Throughout, she excoriates the social and religious authorities that impede ...
- 13696: Pocahontas
- ... True Relation, in 1608? The only explanation is that Smith needed a story that would develop a hatred toward the Indians. This fabrication was just part of a longer one used as justification to wage war on the Powhatan Nation. The more Smith’s description is examined, the less believable it becomes. This was only one of three reports invented by the pretentious Smith that allege he was saved from death ...
- 13697: Phyllis Wheatley
- ... while altering faith into her one and only possession, and paradoxically finding freedom in this ownership of something else. She, like the victim of a 17th century house fire or the casualty of the lonely war against aging, turns to faith when she has nothing, needs something or anything, and uses this possession for her own needs. This is, nevertheless, a faith in something, but it is not yet a true ...
- 13698: Phantasia For Elvira Shatayev
- ... is conflicted when Shatayev, "meet[s] a NO of no degrees" the nemesis of her, "yes," her will. This "NO" a strong rival attacking her "yes" opens the door for, "the black hole sucking the world in." These are very powerful and violent descriptions of death. It seems that the loss of her "yes," the embodiment of her journey and the love for her team is more damaging than the loss ...
- 13699: Paradise Lost
- ... love. When we look at Adam & Eve, we see what might be considered tragic "heroes" in the sense that they also knowingly doom themselves to be removed from Paradise, and subjected to the harsh, new world as well as death, and yet persevere with the hope for a better future. What makes their act of sin almost tragic in a way as compared to Satan, is that Satan’s act was ...
- 13700: Paradise Lost
- ... remains so ‘natural,’ so alive, and so powerful that perhaps the oil wells therefore spring up from a foreground of blazing flowers," then that is saying something of how California is deficient of the real world. Moreover, since "nearby is a cemetery for dogs, with small monuments and even a Conestoga wagon," then once again we get the impression that California being a plaything; a child’s tale. There are many ...
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