In today’s society‚ the issues of fate and free will are hotly debated‚ drawing in heated discussions of religion‚ chance‚ and the extent of free will. While some believe we have a significant amount of control over our lives exercised through free will in our choices‚ others believe an entirely different power is at hand in controlling our lives. These issues often find themselves associated in literature‚ with examples such as John Steinbeck’s East of Eden‚ Herman Melville’s Moby Dick‚ and Jostein
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A Character from the “Hole” 1. My full name is Brodericka Amanda Smith‚ but the team calls me Brody. My mother gave me the first name‚ and father was responsible for the last part. I am 34; I was born on March 17‚ the Saint Patrick’s Day. The play mentions only characters first name and average age. Brody can by a short version of a male name Broderick‚ which means “a dream”. That is why I included Irish background and culture’s traditional holiday. People often believe their dreams will come true
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man named Ahad who is captain of the " Whaler Pequod " and how he is on an obsessive quest for the " White Whale " because in an previous voyage for looking for whales to get oil the whale bit off Ahab’s knee. The setting is at sea basically the whole time and Ishmael writes all about what he experiences such as all the whales they have killed for oil and all the oceans they have traveled to and all the continents they have been to that all led up to the big white whale that Ahab has been waiting for
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Dickens’ titles are drawn from Shakespeare‚ while Melville frequently used Shakespearean devices‚ including formal stage directions and extended soliloquies‚ in Moby Dick. In fact‚ Shakespeare so influenced Melville that the novel’s main character‚ Captain Ahab‚ is a classic Shakespearean tragic figure. Shakespeare’s writing was so influential to 1800s English poetry that critic George Steiner said that all poetic dramas of the time were “feeble variations of Shakespearean themes”. He is also credited
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sending signals to nerve endings to simulate natural movement‚ which I understand scholars at Case are working on currently‚ but I also would like to see us focus on the seemingly trivial concern with how to attach a prosthetic. It seems very Captain Ahab-like to belt on a prosthetic limb. Prosthetics should not just be a poor substitute for losing a limb but instead something that completely replaces your lost limb in a way that does not serve as a barrier. So a person is able to walk again and
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Queequeq‚ Starbuck‚ and the captain of the ship‚ Ahab‚ all journeyed together. Not long once at sea‚ the captain of the ship‚ Ahab reveals his plan to hunt down a white whale named Moby Dick. Ahab was veteran sailor‚ a man that had a heart of stone. Ahab had a personal grudge against Moby Dick. Moby Dick was responsible for taking off Ahab’s leg in a previous voyage. Ahab’s plan was essentially an unauthorized takeover‚ what the whaling company had not in mind. Ahab was very irrational and ludicrous;
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famous stories about how far someone’s pride can take them and how it can drive them to do crazy things. Captain Ahab leader of the ship the Pequod sets sail with one mission and that mission is lead by his pride. Before the voyage
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This phrase means pretty close to how it sounds‚ it means that if you are considered the laughing stock that you are what everyone is laughing at. The connotation of this phrase can be both bad or good depending on the context of how you use it. “Love is blind” you would think this phrase would come out of the famous romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet‚ but it is found in The Merchant of Venice (2.6). It means that when you love someone you refuse to see their flaws or the error of their ways. “Wear
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When Chillingworth first enters the novel he is seen in a crowd. Hester notices him because he stands out. Chillingworth is dressed all in black. Black is a color often used to represent evil‚ other famous characters that demonstrate this are Captain Ahab and Darth Vader. Chillingworth is also said to have a hump on the left side of his back. The left or "sinister" side is used to represent evil. Chillingworth is also gnarled and ugly. Hawthorne writes characters to appear on the outside the way
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Chapter 1 Ishmael 1) Biblical--son of Abraham; an exile. 2) Ishmael ben Elisha--2nd century A.D. Jewish teacher of Galilee; outstanding Talmudic teacher; compiled the 13 hermeneutical rules for interpreting the Torah; founded a school which produced the legal commentary‚ Mekhilta. Cato A Shakespearean character in Julius Caesar; committed suicide by falling on his sword. Seneca and the Stoics Seneca--among Rome’s leading intellectual figures in the mid-1st century AD. He and Epictetus
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