Indicates that she is intelligent and possesses abilities beyond wifehood. Nora’s character becomes questionable when she starts breaking away from all the standards and expectations her husband and society had set up for her‚ this making her a morally ambiguous character. Early in the Helmers’ marriage‚ Torvalds got sick from overwork. Doctors prescribed a trip south to warmer climates as the only way to save him. At the time‚ the Helmers didn’t have the money for such a trip. To save Torvalds’s
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AP Lit Essay Prompt option #1 In Oscar Wilde’s novel‚ “The Picture of Dorian Gray” one of the main characters Lord Henry Wotton is portrayed‚ as morally ambiguous. Wilde reveals Lord Henry’s ambiguous character through the way he talks‚ he has a more charming tone to him‚ but he leads a conversation in such a seducing way Dorian falls under his spell so fast. Lord Henry’s ambiguity is significant to the work as a whole because without Henry would Dorian of taken the same path that he took? Yes
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Morally Ambiguous Characters What does it mean to be morally ambiguous? The characters created by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Francis Bret Harte are divided between being purely good or purely evil. The environments that the characters live in are judgmental and hypocritical. While being isolated from society‚ they also deal with struggling to disassociate themselves from their pasts. The Scarlet Letter and “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” characters Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and John Oakhurst illustrate
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melodrama apart from most in its genre. These themes are best expressed in the interactions of the three main characters: Victor Laszlo‚ a heroic political leader; Ilsa Lund‚ an enigmatic femme fatale; and Richard (Rick) Blaine‚ a seemingly morally ambiguous night club owner. An unusual love triangle forms with the two men’s mutual love for the intermediary woman. Unlike the archetypal romantic triangle which includes the betrayed husband and the victorious lover‚ this situation results in unhappiness
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Ambiguous Media The influential power of the media is not an issue to be taken lightly. This influence can harbor tremendous benefits‚ or catastrophic consequences. Hotel Rwanda begins with a black screen‚ where the only thing we are exposed to is a radio broadcast‚ consisting of negative propaganda concerning Tutsi rebels in Rwanda. This is important‚ in that the black screen represents our minds‚ with the only input being what we hear over the broadcast. This gives us a sense of what the
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we love. This book written by the classic author Nathaniel Hawthorne has a lot of ambiguous characters. Hawthorne used his characters to portray irony and moral ambiguity. The most intriguing character I chose that displays moral ambiguity is Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale. His character is fairly interesting being that he is a reverend minister and an adulterer. We learn that Dimmesdale is a prime example of an ambiguous character because he doesn’t have the courage to be the right person and do the right
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In the novel Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane‚ the country of the Diallob¨¦ is entirely ruled by a culture of faith‚ a mystical faith that gives the afterlife a supremacy. The Western world has‚ since the Renaissance‚ been engaged in a process of secularization that first "began‚ timidly‚ by putting God ’in parentheses.’ Then two centuries later‚ having acquired more assurance‚ they decreed ’God is dead’". (100) The West world is abundant in material but poor in spiritual‚ that creates
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Evaluating A Claim Bullying is a major problem in schools everywhere around the nation but nobody really knows the effects that bullying has on children in the future. Well‚ Louis (2013) takes a look into the lasting effects of bullying in her article “Effects of Bullying Last Into Adulthood‚ Study Finds”. Louis (2013) claims that children involved in bullying whether it be the victim‚ the bully‚ or both are more likely to have psychiatric problems going into adulthood. However‚ the question
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Making a Claim Worksheet Turn each of the following statements into an arguable claim—i.e.‚ a point that is debatable and shows (or implies) your analysis of or opinion about the topic of your essay or a particular paragraph. To be an effective thesis statement‚ the claim must be narrow enough to allow you to fully support it within the context of the essay and broad enough to enable you to write more than a paragraph or two about it. Topic sentences work in a similar way‚ except your claim needs
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Schopenhauer’s Claim Schopenhauer’s claim tells us that reading books all the time could narrow the mind‚ and that experiencing things hands on will take you further in life. He also talks about how people are into the news and all in other people’s lives. He saying that tells me that we should not worry about other things going on in other people lives‚ but in your own life‚ which would lead us to act more independently. Experience is key‚ and if you experience things in a more physical way
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