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- 9641: Sylvia Plath's Poetry: Feminine Perfection
- ... fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery." (30). Sylvia Plath also assumes that there is a strictly "feminine" way of perceiving a situation. "Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing and am often overweighed with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes." (32) With this statement she ... that one should be able to control and manipulate experience even the most terrifying.. with an informed and intelligent mind." Plath's lucid stanzas and her clear diction became a means for discovering her inner world, just as the telescope was for exploring the heavens. Through her fine use of alliteration, slant rhyme, color and imagery, she attempted to achieve this feminine perfection.
- 9642: Effects of TV on Children
- ... by responding with violence. When they see a character shot, or beat someone up so they can steal their car, they may catch on to the idea. They come to expect it in the real world, and when they do not see it, the world becomes bland. The children then may create the violence that their mind craves. A child may also see a villain on TV, and try to test out his tactics to see if they really do ...
- 9643: Angel and Tess: A Romance Fit For the Books?
- ... have a hand in defining who exactly Tess Durbeyfield is. She expresses an innocence that Angel does not have. Tess is also very idealistic. She is full of hopes and dreams for herself and the world in the future. "They [stars] sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard apple tree. Most of them splendid and sound-a few blighted." (25) Tess believes the stars are other worlds. The stars symbolize her desire to live a better life, but she knows that could never happen unless she lived in another world. Angel, corrupted by the contradiction between his sheltered life and the harshness of reality, could never appease her idealism. Tess was stubborn in her beliefs and independent. "'Never!' said Tess independently, holding on as well ...
- 9644: A Streetcar Named Desire
- ... it as a place that "Only Poe! Only Mr. Edgar Allen Poe!-could do it justice!" (Corrigan 50). The person whom Blanche is most directly contrasted with is Stanley. Blanche loves living in an idealistic world, while Stanley strictly relies on facts. In the story Blanche makes up a good portion of her past for the majority of the play. When she was young she lived an eloquent life in a ... is singing the following song: "Say it's only a paper moon. Sailing over the cardboard sea- But it wouldn't be make-believe if you believed in me! It's a Barnum and Bailey world. Just as phony as it could be- But it wouldn't be make-believe if you believed in me!" (Corrigan 53) The louder Stanley gets on insisting on the undeniable facts about Blanche, the louder ...
- 9645: Frankenstein
- ... mechanism of my being: chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose... I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation. I closed not my eyes that night. My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil (Shelley 25). Many Gothic tales from the time involved people who were ... a horrible mistake, for rejected by society as a whole, he embarked on a murderous rampage, even killing William, Victor s younger brother. Wracked by guilt, Victor cried, Alas! I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, whose delight was in carnage and misery (Shelley 46). While it was easy for Victor to cast the blame on his monstrosity, was it really the monster who bore responsibility for the ...
- 9646: Comparing "We Wear the Mask" by Dunbar and "Richard Cory"
- ... hearts we smile" (4). He feels that our face is a mask that does not show how people really feel. We smile to hide the pain in our hearts. In the lines "Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and signs?" (6-7) Dunber is telling us not to show feelings. Why bother others with our troubles? We sing, laugh, and smile even though we are hurting and "let the world dream otherwise" (14) to hide our suffering. "Richard Cory" is about a man that everyone in town admires. "When ever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was ...
- 9647: Great Expectations The Book Ve
- ... returning. From that point on Fin did not pursue his art anymore, and he thought that the best thing for him to do was to become a man and live in reality, not his own world that revolved around Estella. As Fin grew older and the years went by he began to earn money by fishing and doing odd jobs with Joe. As Fin is painting a boat, a lawyer by ... New York] is not what De Niro's convict [Lustig] means when he expresses the hope that the boy will grow up to become a "gentleman." The unfortunate irrelevance of that notion to the modern world should have made the filmmakers pause before tampering with Dickens' masterful tale of a young man's transcendence of his class origins. (McBride) Reviews of the book were different than the reviews of the film ...
- 9648: Heart Of Darkness 9
- ... personal experiences. Hence negative views on women and (unconsciously) African natives and strong views on colonialism and to a lesser extent racism arise. Marlow quickly expresses his view on colonialism that "The conquest of the world which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much." When Marlow arrives ... in supernatural terms, thus denying them any real presence in society. Marlow proclaims "They - the women I mean - are out of it, should be out of it. We must help them stay in that beautiful world of their own lest ours gets worse". The women remain the narrated. This is further established when Marlow represents the women in purely figurative language, as is when he describes the intended (even named in ...
- 9649: Dramatic Irony and Characters in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- ... her. A little later in the story her parents wanted her to marry County Paris (probably for business purposes). I don't really think that Juliet has a good idea what happens in the real world other than in her own house. She's sort of isolated from the rest of the world. The only people she talks to throughout the story are the Nurse, her parents, Romeo, and Friar Lawrence. Juliet tries to be with Romeo as much as she can but it's hard for her ...
- 9650: Ancient Egyptian Mathematics
- ... of arithmetic that involved fractions, as well as some elementary problems in algebra (Berggren). The science of mathematics was further advanced in Egypt in the fourth millennium BC than it was anywhere else in the world at this time. The Egyptian calendar was introduced about 4241 BC. Their year consisted of 12 months of 30 days each with 5 festival days at the end of the year. These festival days were dedicated to the gods Osiris, Horus, Seth, Isis, and Nephthys (Gillings 235). Osiris was the god of nature and vegetation and was instrumental in civilizing the world. Isis was Osiris's wife and their son was Horus. Seth was Osiris's evil brother and Nephthys was Seth's sister (Weigel 19). The Egyptians divided their year into 3 seasons that were 4 ...
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