he decided what to do after Billy Budd killed the Master-at-arms‚ John Claggart. Everyone agrees that Captain Vere sympathized with Billy‚ but some people believe that being an abject slave of one’s emotions and a miserable prisoner of one’s feelings and the so called mistaken impulse of the heart‚ should be considered greater than the sacred call of duty and the honour in keeping an oath to uphold the king’s law. Captain Vere should have sentence foretop man‚ Billy Budd to death for three reasons
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Duty Versus Choice in Billy Budd‚ Sailor The novel Billy Budd‚ Sailor is the story about the encounter of Billy Budd‚ a beautiful sailor who is popular on the warship Bellipotent‚ and finally died‚ because he killed the master-at-arms‚ Claggart‚ inadvertently. Actually Captain Vere‚ the captain of Bellipotent‚ likes Billy Budd‚ also‚ he knows that Billy is innocent. But according to his duty on the ship as a captain‚ he decides to push Billy to death. In the late 1700s‚ in Great Britain‚
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his social class‚ and shows the development and changes in his character. Pip’s personality traits change through interaction with other people in the course of this story. Although Pip was brought up in a harsh and poor background‚ with a punishing sister‚ who had brought him up “by hand”‚ he was gentle and kind. However‚ after his encounter with Miss Havisham and Estella‚ his perception of the world is drastically altered‚ and along with this so does his character. The reader first sees how sympathetic
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Timothy Cho 02/04/13 Professor Close English 102 G2 Elliot Ness: Hero or Great Story Teller? In Elliot Ness’ memoir The Untouchables‚ the author personally narrates the story of how the name “Untouchables” came to be. After being released from prison‚ Al Capone was starting trouble again in the streets of Chicago. Capone tries to bribe the police officers trying to take down his operation but Ness and his team refused the bribes. Being proud of this accomplishment Ness immediately goes
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the protagonist is Billy Weaver‚ a young 17 year old brisk man dressed appropriately in a suit. The antagonist is the land lady who lures Billy inside her building. 2. What is the mode of narration: first person‚ or third person point of view? How do you know this? The mode of narration is a third person point of view. The narrator refers to all the characters by name. Also the narrator has access to a character’s thoughts for example‚ “the old girl is slightly dotty”. Billy told himself.
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According to Elliot Aronson in his book The Social Animal we are in a constant tension between our values of individuality and conformity. We want to fit in with the group without losing our unique qualities. However‚ at one point or another we all conform whether it be changing our answer from line B to line A in Solomon Asch’s experiment or changing our positions in an argument in order to be more liked by the group. All of this relates to self-esteem in some way‚ how we perceive our value to
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This poem is really easy to identify with. The first 4 stanzas are clearly relating the reader to the poem. Everyone at some point has to learn these general‚ seemingly useless facts. “A state flower” “The capital of Paraguay” so arbitrary‚ but so true in that this brings back memories of 3rd or 5th grade for almost all of us‚ it is bound to strike a chord with the reader. This is also coupled with a slightly nostalgic loss of these facts in the first stanza‚ as slowly the individual sections of
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The title of this poem suggests that this person will always have the heart of the person they love. The person could actually be holding their lover’s heart‚ or a locket or other heart-shaped object belonging their loved one. Figuratively‚ the person does not actually carry around their lover’s heart‚ but rather that the person will always be loved‚ cherished‚ and remembered by the speaker‚ no matter where their loved one is. In the first stanza‚ I think it means that he is always
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Presumably‚ the poem “Aristotle” is an adaptation to Aristotle’s conceptions on tragedies‚ in which a tragedy must contain a beginning‚ middle‚ and end. Throughout the poem there are unequivocal transitions telling the audience the when the beginning‚ middle‚ and end have arrived. Furthermore‚ the tile may also allude to the way the poem will be written. Since Aristotle was a well renowned philosopher‚ the poem may contain reflections upon certain actions‚ that lead to misfortunes found in tragedies
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Title- I think that this poem will be about money and how influential it can be. Nowadays‚ money practically runs the world. Perhaps the theme of this poem is “wealth and poverty in modern society”. Paraphrase- The poet describes the internal conflict of a man who is pondering on whether he is in love with a girl or not. Is he too old to be in love? Is he too young to fully appreciate a loving relationship? Then‚ the man tosses a penny in the air. It’s like he’s playing the game heads or tails
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