Helena’s Desperate Love Helena disgraces all women of her time by desperately chasing Demetrius. Shakespeare uses Helena’s character to show women can be pursuers just like men and in doing so comments on his feminist views on women. In the end‚ Helena is rewarded with Demetrius’ love. In Helena’s desperation to win Demetrius’ love‚ she betrays her friend‚ Hermia. Helena reveals to Demetrius Hermia’s and Lysander’s plan to meet in the woods and run away together. Helena is jealous of Hermia because
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government’s forced removal of Native Americans was a shameful act in American history due to what the Natives were subjected to. As documented by heaps of historians‚ the Trail of Tears was one of the saddest periods in the history of Indian tribe neglect. “Andrew Jackson had placed Indian removal at the top
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In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe it explores the intricate and interesting culture of the Umuofia tribe and those surrounding it. Mainly centered around the child prodigy‚ Okonkwo‚ now an adult with three wives and multiple children. One of the children‚ Nwoye‚ holds a disappointing resemblance to Okonkwo’s father‚ Unoka. The pattern that evolved between the father and son is something beyond mere generational conflict. Growing up Okonkwo was deeply ashamed of his father‚ Unoka. He was lazy
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ADAB AL-RAFIDAYN‚ VOL.(57) 1431/2010 Assessing the Translations of Collocation in the Glorious Qur’an into English Yasir Y. Abdullah* 2009 :تاريخ القبول /115 / 2008/4:تاريخ التقديم /11 1. Introduction Collocation is a linguistic phenomenon found in language. Different languages have their own collocations and their own ways in dealing with them. Being a native speaker of a certain language necessitates being familiar and acquainted with collocations. Since a translator
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Prince’s narrative‚ although related by Prince‚ is not written by her. Therefore‚ much of the story narrated by Prince was heavily edited‚ and for the most part‚ the editing was crucial in making Prince appear innocent and so instances of extra-marital affairs would have been omitted from her narrative. The same is seen in the seventh chapter of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: There was in the neighborhood a young colored carpenter; a free born man. We had been well acquainted in childhood‚ and
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Tamora has an affair with Aaron and she gives birth to his first born; unfortunately she is so disgusted that she tells her maids to kill his child. Not too long after he finds out she gives birth to his first born and he whisks away with his child to protect it by any
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the perfect harmony of Pleasantville and soon everyone who doesn’t conform to the norms of Pleasantville undergoes a vibrant color change. This color change is believed to be an act of sin and corruption for the most part of the movie; it was very shameful to be a "colored." Slowly‚ the entire town begins to brighten and show colors‚ even those who were against change. The mayor finally changes color when he has an outward expression of his anger‚ and the husband/father when he openly shows his love
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lethal incident in the history of India left an indelible mark on the psyche of every Indian & particularly on those Indians who have been the victim of this most dreadful will of God. Indian writers could not remain untouched from this shocking affair and used the medium of creative writing especially novels to lay bare the brutality‚ inhumanity & genocide of worst type. The foremost attempt in this direction is taken by Khushwant Singh in his novel Train to Pakistan in which he depicted
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What We Don’t Acknowledge about “The Thin Red Line” Jennifer Egan’s‚ “The Thin Red Line” argues between self-injures and body modifiers having an unknown difference. Getting a tattoo or a cut design is not the same as slashing one’s flesh. “One is a shared act of pride; the other a secretive act steeped in shame (162).” Mutilation is the act of self-injury that degrades the appearance of the body‚ and modification is the act of changing something‚ in this context‚ the body. With Egan’s segregation
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particular circumstances in which he or she acts. Some acts may seem to contain both voluntary and involuntary actions. One example is a tyrant forcing a man to commit a shameful act by threatening the man’s family. If the man refuses to commit this shameful act his family is to be killed. If the man agrees to commit the shameful act‚ though the man acted under pressure‚ his actions are still voluntary because the man freely chose between two alternatives. The situation may not have been voluntary
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