Paper 1: Evaluation of Faustus’s internal conflict Faust. My heart’s so hard’ned I cannot repent. | 20 | Scarce can I name salvation‚ faith‚ or heaven‚ | | But fearful echoes thunder in mine ears | | “Faustus‚ thou art damn’d!” Then swords and knives‚ | | Poison‚ gun‚ halters‚ and envenom’d steel | | Are laid before me to despatch myself‚ | 25 | And long ere this I should have slain myself‚ | | Had not sweet pleasure conquer’d deep despair. | | Have I not
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Passage 1 This passage is a very good representation of the overall character of Nathan Price. His stubborn attitude and refusal to admit that he is wrong comes through very strongly in the passage. Especially towards the beginning of the book that really helps readers understand the character and carry that understanding throughout the rest of the book. The violent nature of the passage also reflects Nathan’s attitude and actions towards his family throughout the book. Also‚ the passage discusses
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1 She chirped‚ and talked‚ and coaxed and he hopped‚ and 2 Flirted his tail and twittered. It was as if he were talking. His red 3 Wasitcoat was like satin and he puffed his tiny breast out and 4 Was so fine and so grand and so pretty that it was really as if he 5 Were showing her how important and like a human person a 6 Robin could be. Mistress Mary forgot that she had ever been 7 contrary in her life when he allowed her to draw closer and 8 closer to him‚ and bend down and talk and try
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In the short story “Hunters in the Snow” Wolff uses the snow and cold atmosphere as a symbol of impact on the characters to create a theme of crisis‚ conveying the uncertainties and intricacy of human interaction and personal struggle. The weather itself plays a crucial role in defining the theme for this story. Winter is the symbol of death‚ hibernation‚ or depression. The snow also adds to the cold weather as a symbol of a blanket that obscures‚ and covers the secrets of loneliness‚ emptiness‚
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This extract from Charlotte Bronte ’s ’Jane Eyre ’ presents a pinnacle moment within the relationship between Jane and Rochester; particularly the spiritual equality that Jane establishes between them in her frank confession‚ thus transcending from his subordinate. While focussing on the this confrontation of Rochester‚ this essay shall consider the extracts place within a chapter whereby nature heavily symbolises Jane ’s true feelings and eventually undercuts the otherwise positive outlook by the
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Richard Rodriguez wrote the essay Late Victorians to inform readers of the complexities and tragedy in the San Franciscan gay community‚ while exploring his own place in it. He is most personal and appealing to the reader’s pathos when he describes the death from AIDS of his friend Cesar‚ near the end of the essay. In order to make the reader empathize more readily‚ he first spends a paragraph making Cesar relatable. Rodriguez begins with straight-forward sentence structure (in paragraph 95)‚ writing:
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The preface to Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ “The Custom House”‚ serves to introduce the society and times in which the story is set; also‚ this essay provides the background story for the finding of the scarlet letter. The Custom House also provides a definition of what a romance is. Excerpts from “The Custom House” essay closely link to The Scarlet Letter’s text. Two notable examples of these parallels can be found in the descriptions given of the townspeople in Salem who live by ancient moral
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Jacquelyn Gucciardi Ms. Waechter Honors English May 24‚ 2015 The Bluest Eye Although Claudia and Frieda are embarrassed and hurt for Pecola‚ their sorrow is intensified by the fact that none of the adults seem to share the same feelings of grief and their hopefulness tries to heal their disjointed society. In the passage Claudia begins to describe how she can see the baby‚ the living human that everyone else wanted dead. The baby that is still in the womb‚ she pictures the baby‚ in a dark place
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Medea’s first public statement‚ a sort of "protest speech‚" is one of the best parts of the play and demonstrates a complex‚ at times even contradictory‚ representation of gender. Medea’s calm and reasoning tone‚ especially after her following out bursts of despair and hatred‚ provides the first display of her ability to gather herself together in the middle of crisis and pursue her hidden agenda with a great determination. This split in her personality is to a certain degree gender bias. The lack
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It was not Death‚ for I stood up‚ And all the Dead lie down - It was not Night‚ for all the Bells Put out their Tongues‚ for Noon. … And yet it tasted like them all‚ The Figures I have seen Set orderly‚ for Burial‚ Reminded me‚ of mine - ~Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson presents to readers a speaker who is rummaging her psychological frame while trying to understand her anguish. In the first stanza‚ Dickinson eliminates certain possibilities of what “it” could be (“it”
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