Araby: An Outline Commentary ‘The Sisters’ and ‘An Encounter’ are about the same length. ‘Araby’ is roughly a hundred lines shorter than these. There is a progression in the three stories. The boy in ‘The Sisters’ is a passive witness‚ limited in his capacity to act by the weight of the adults about him. The boy of ‘An Encounter’ rebels against this oppression but his reward is the menace of a bizarre and abnormal adult. The boy in ‘Araby’ strives both to act and to realize an actual affective
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Commentary on Hamlet’s soliloquy -- On Hamlet’s character We can know a thoughtful‚ tough‚ and affectionate Hamlet from this soliloquy. In this soliloquy Hamlet sparks an internal philosophical debate on the advantages and disadvantages of existence‚ and whether it is one’s right to end one’s own life. He first asks himself thoughtfully whether it is nobler to bear the miseries of life or to take arms against them. And then he explains like this: he says maybe death can be a way to end one’s sorrows
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Macbeth Commentary: Macbeth’s Conflict In Macbeth’s soliloquy of act II scene 1‚ William Shakespeare affectively utilizes symbolism‚ allusions‚ and personification to depict the conflicting elements of fate versus freewill on Macbeth’s decision. Shakespeare uses the hallucination of the dagger to symbolize the beginning of Macbeth’s descent into madness‚ a point where he is unable to make rational decisions. Macbeth describes the dagger as a “fatal vision” (2.1.36) which is significant as it shows
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‘The Divided Self’ by R. D. Laing Commentary In ‘The Divided Self’‚ Laing examines schizoid and schizophrenic people and attempts to make their situation more understandable in existential terms. In order to understand Laing’s work‚ a person must first understand the concept of existential phenomenology‚ in which a person is characterized by his way of being-in-the-world. It involves the way he reacts to his environment and himself as a part of his world. It must also be mentioned that
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Animal Farm Commentary This extract was taken from the book‚ Animal Farm written by George Orwell. The scene holds in the second chapter of the book‚ after Snowball proclaims the seven commandments for all the animals in the farm. This demonstrates the leadership of Snowball and Napoleon. The animals are all hyped and getting prepared for the harvest after driving away their farmer‚ Jones and his men. Snowball and Napoleon use strong military language when they are talking about work (the Harvest)
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The Stone Horse Commentary It is obvious that Lopez has a passion for history‚ especially when it comes to the cultural aspects in history. Having said this‚ it’s no surprise that when cultural history is being destroyed‚ Lopez is writing to bring awareness to the problems faced by unguarded cultural artifacts in the Mojave‚ and Sonoran deserts. The reading itself was dry when it came to the parts about the Stone Horse because Lopez kept describing the horse over and over. As the introduction told
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Literary Commentary: Iago’s First Soliloquy In Othello‚ Shakespeare exposes Iago’s true self to the audience‚ or what we think of as his true self. During the last passage in Act I Scene III‚ Iago is alone on stage and delivers his first soliloquy‚ where the character shares his inside thoughts. When Iago shares his thoughts concerning Othello‚ his character starts to come out more. Shakespeare characterizes Iago as someone who wants revenge on Othello and plans a scheme to quench his thirst for
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In both works‚ the authors of Beowulf and Tolkien also assigned their society’s negative traits to their stories’ villains. In Beowulf‚ Grendel was swamp-dwelling son of Cain‚ the exiled killer of Abel and father to all evil spirits (102 – 110). Grendel’s swampy home is easily accessible to the Anglo-Saxon audience as dark and dangerous. On top of this‚ Grendel’s home exists on the outside edges of King Heorot’s lands: not central but still inside (103). This location represents the marginalities
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Tiffany Thet November 26‚ 2011 IB English Year 1 Heart of Darkness Commentary Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Conrad‚ a parallel of the very experiences that Conrad has gone through and ultimately a look at human nature at its lowest and cruelest form. The book centers around Marlow‚ an introspective sailor‚ and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz‚ reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities‚ as if he was a deity. Ultimately Kurtz’s mental collapse and subsequent
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Colin Andridge Professor Murphy Eng 201 MWF 2:00 3 March 2014 Data Commentary Introduction After reading and evaluating six articles written by experts on obesity‚ the data seems to imply that better educating people about how their behavioral lifestyle choices effect their future and current health is the best solution. The six journal articles evaluated and analyzed include: David Freedman’s article‚ “How to Fix the Obesity Epidemic‚” published in Scientific American in 2011. Green Gregory’s
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