movement west is also his movement into the past and traditional values. Fitzgerald’s word choice affects the mood of the passage in many ways. In the first paragraph‚ Nick sounds bitter about the un-attainability of Gatsby’s dream. He says that it was "so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it." This sounds bitter and resentful. Nick then goes on to talk about how the dream that Gatsby strove
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and more importantly keeping him the job in which he acquires all of his money. Thomas Putnam had a bigger motive for starting these witch trials. Thomas Putnam helped spread the witch trials because he was bitter towards the Nurses and he wanted more land for himself. The Putnams had a bitter attitude towards the Nurses for a few reasons. One of the reasons being Francis Nurse prevented Thomas Putnam’s brother-in-law from becoming the
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Wuthering Heights is a house set high upon a hill where it is exposed to extreme weather conditions. The weather was described one night by Lockwood as “A sorrowful sight I saw: dark night coming down prematurely‚ and a sky and hills mingled in one bitter whirl of wind and suffocating snow” (Bronte 15). The Heights are not pleasing to the eye and the building is a harsh‚ cold house. There are no flowers or plants anywhere near the house which conjures images that lack warmth and happiness. On the other
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bias on why he thinks the boy is guilty. As it turns out‚ his own son that he hasn’t seen for 2 years had grown up challenging his authority and rejecting his morals providing the basis for the anger that is displayed so stubbornly until the very bitter end. As alienated followers “are capable‚ they focus exclusively on the shortcomings and have experienced setbacks and obstacles” (195) as did Juror 3 when initially‚ he had convincingly and mindlessly persuaded the others of the
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hands would have been" (para. 10). Initially she felt a little guilt about her joy of relief of the news‚ but that quickly passed as her will to fight off the selfish thoughts was powerless. Thoughts of a bitter funeral were overcome by her selfish new fantasy. "But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she spread her arms out to them in welcome" (para. 13). She was happy to have the shackles released from her unhappy commitment
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Romeo and Juliet is a classic love story by Shakespeare. It is about a young man name Romeo and a young woman named Juliet who fall madly in love with each other although their families are bitter enemies. Juliet is 13 and Romeo is 16. One is adult-like and the other is innocent. Yet still both have a connection and love each other. In the book Romeo and Juliet‚ Romeo and Juliet are both similar‚ yet have their differences. Romeo and Juliet have many similarities. Both Romeo and Juliet are are teenagers
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Napoleon’s Speech (Presented by squealer) We together‚ we the common‚ we the ordinary must do everything we can to make this farm great again‚ believe me. No one will be left out of this democratic process‚ all voices will be considered‚ in other words‚ all voices will be heard‚ believe me. Napoleon will listen to each and everyone and make sure no one is left out! To all out there hoping for a better and more promising future‚ I say these words to you‚ What do you have to lose? I will fix it!
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Explain why Edward IV’s death opened up such a bitter family feud in the weeks from 9th April to 26th June 1483 (12 marks) Edward IV‚ king of England‚ died suddenly and prematurely at Windsor castle – perhaps from a stroke‚ or peritonitis or even a chill caught while on a fishing trip – in April 1483 aged only 40 years. He had enjoyed a relatively successful reign‚ by the standards of the day‚ restoring peace after the disordered period of Lancastrian rule and providing his subjects with some much
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Nicholas Klinkefus ENG 3701 Preiss Wyatt and Women Sir Thomas Wyatt’s “They Flee From Me” is‚ superficially‚ a lamentation of a lost love that‚ as the poem concludes‚ sharpens into a bitter desire to know the fate of the woman who abandoned him. The poem opens with a vague‚ foreboding statement that describes an unknown group that at one time sought the speaker out but now races away from his presence. Wyatt constructs a metaphor‚ construing this unknown group as animals that “take bread at
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Different types of syntactic foregrounding are examined in this essay when applied to poems. There are three poems that are analysed‚ ‘Child’ by Sylvia Plath‚ ‘Women and Children First’ by Ingrid de Kok and ‘Bitter-Berry Daybreak’ by Ingrid Jonker which are used to analyse the terms accentuation‚ creation of hierarchies‚ shifts of accent‚ ambiguity‚ semanticisation and the creation of hierarchical relationships and how they affect literature. Accentuation is evident in all three of the poems. Accentuation
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