Compare the central characters in ‘Medusa’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Medusa’ and Robert Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ are two entirely different poems in many respects. Written in entirely different eras‚ some would say that they are as opposite as poetry could be. However‚ their central characters have some remarkable similarities that strike a chord with the reader and represent a common theme. In each of the poems‚ both Medusa and the Duke of Ferrara represent the fickleness
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It is undeniable that mistakes are a bsic fundamental of life. Whether or not that is a good or bad thing‚ is much harder to determine. In a passage from The Medusa and the Snail‚ biologist Lewis Thomas discusses mistakes and how they affect our life. In the second paragraph‚ Thomas claims that we‚ as humans‚ learn by "trial and error". Although at first though this is seemingly true‚ but when it comes down to it‚ just how accurate is this saying? Some people make a mistake‚ learn from it‚ and
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Plot Segmentation: The Prestige C. Credit title. 1. The Pledge. a. Borden’s workshop. i. Mr. Cutter picks up a bird and shows Jess. b. The Great Danton. i. The theater curtain rises revealing a massive electrical machine on stage with Angier. ii. Borden and other members of the audience inspect the machine. iii. Borden goes backstage. iv. Angier takes off his jacket in preparation for the trick. v. Borden runs downstairs below the stage and sees a blind man sitting guard.
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performance of The 39 Steps. The 39 Steps was originally a book by John Buchan set before the First World War‚ the book was later adapted into a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was a serious book and film following a bachelor called Richard Hannay who meets a mysterious German woman at a play‚ the women begs him to take her home with him and later reveals she is a spy trying to discover the truth about an organisation trying to steal British defence plans and something called the 39 steps. Later
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Historically‚ women have been omitted. By the free verse poem‚ Duffy gives the mythological character Medusa a voice‚ and thereby another chance to speak up. She also challenges the stereotypes of women‚ this character faced. In the poem‚ Duffy explores the position of women‚ and Medusa’s point of view of the story. The word choice in the poem brings the voice of the character out. Because the poem is a dramatic monologue‚ personal pronouns and the repetition of the words “I” and “my”
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(ch 7) — Maggie’s cousin Stephen Guess (ch 1 bk 6) — Lucy’s suitor Chapter Summaries Book First: Boy and Girl Outside Dorlcote Mill - The narrator walks along the River Floss at Dorlcote Mill. He watches a nearby little girl and her dog. The plot jumps to several years later‚ and the narrator begins to tell the story of the Tullivers that day at the Mill. Mr Tulliver‚ of Dorlcote Mill‚ declares his resolution about Tom — Mr Tulliver speaks with Mrs Tulliver about his plan to "give Tom a good
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“The Westing Game” and watched the movie “Get a Clue‚” and I have found some similarities and differences. The movie was told in Turtle’s point of view‚ but the book was in a 3rd person point of view. There were characters in “The Westing Game” that were not in “Get a Clue.” The way the solution to The Westing Game was found in “The Westing Game” was different than in “Get a Clue.” “The Westing Game” is told in a 3rd person point of view‚ but “Get a Clue” is told in Turtle’s point of view. Because
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Jake Suit The episode starts with Finn wearing Jake as the "Jakesuit‚" smashing around the Tree Fort and letting BMO attack him as hard as it can‚ not realizing that he is causing Jake pain. Finn then jumps off the roof and lands crotch first on a fence‚ causing Jake to spit out Finn. BMO comes outside and hits Jake one last time before the screen goes black and the scene goes to Finn playing BMO on the couch. Jake has a red lower body as he limps onto the couch to lie down. As Jake recovers‚ he
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Matilda Cook lives with her hardworking mother‚ grandfather‚ a veteran of the Revolutionary War‚ and Eliza‚ a freed slave who works as their cook‚ in the apartment on top of their family coffeehouse in Philadelphia. Matilda ("Mattie") Cook is 14 years old with big dreams for her family’s coffeehouse. When the yellow fever epidemic breaks out during the summer‚ people flee the city or die. Matilda realizes she has to fight for her own life and her loved ones. Her father died in a fall from a ladder
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Professor Philip Brainard (Robin Williams) he works at the Medfield College and is trying to develop a new energy source‚ to try to raise enough money to save the college from closing. His research distracts him from his fiancée the college president Sara Jean Reynolds (Marcia Gay Harden); he has missed two weddings in the past and this has angered Sara. On the day of the third wedding‚ Philip is approached by his former partner Wilson Croft (Christopher McDonald)‚ who has profited from ideas he
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