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    Othello commentary

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    English 122 Mrs. Ayer Suin Kim November‚ 26th.2013 Emilia Speaks Her Mind One of Shakespeare’s famous plays ‘Othello’ is about a black man who marries a white woman‚ and then murders his wife because of unfounded jealousy. The play also contains another dysfunctional marriage between Iago and Emilia‚ which also ends with the husband murdering his wife. Emilia‚ Iago’s wife‚ has never received love from her husband. In Act 4‚ Scene 3 line 95-115‚ Emilia’s speech is structured as if she experienced

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    1604 Document After reading the document from the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre‚ please consider the following question: How is the setting of Othello significant‚ and how would a Jacobean audience feel about this play? Make references to Act 1 as well‚ if you feel you can incorporate some lines from the play to substantiate your claim. If you quote do cite correctly (I.i.24-73). Consider how Shakespeare begins the play – time‚ setting‚ who gets the first words‚ how Othello is developed

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    Out of My Comfort Zone

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    OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE One first impression people have of me is that I’m very quiet and reserved … which is true.My general tendency has always been to keep to myself and speak when spoken to. One story that my mother likes to tell about me is about my first day in preschool when I was only about 3 years old. She came to pick me up and the teachers were very concerned and said‚ “She was very good‚ but she only played by herself. She didn’t interact with any of the other kids. Is she ok?” To

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    The Stranger by Albert Camus is a novella that focuses on the philosophy of existentialism. The story is about a young French man named Meursault living in Algiers‚ Algeria. He is a man that undergoes isolation from the world because of the way he lives his life. As the narrator and protagonist of the book‚ the readers watch Meursault build meaningless relationships‚ reject moral standards‚ and become a threat to society in the eyes of the public because of his careless decisions that derive from

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    Existentialism and the Absurd The novel‚ The Stranger‚ by Albert Camus‚consists of a first person narrator‚ Meursault. Meursault‚ the main character‚ acquires an absurd philosophy on the essence of life.His mindset is that life is not only insignificant‚ it is unavoidable. Meursault ’s’ life consists of futile bonds‚ nonchalant behavior‚ and living an existence of mere tangible exercises throughout the story. In this novel‚ human life appears to have no meaning in the grand spectrum of the universe

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    A Well Known Stranger With a almost regular basis he lures into the bathroom. After a quick shower‚ the morning can begin and with a hurry he begins to prepare for his day. Normally he would walk right pass the mirror in his living room‚ but not today. He cant tell why but today he sees something different in it. He positions himself right infront of the mirror. Watching the stranger in the mirror‚ he remembers the face‚ the stature. "Time changes a man." He talks to himself. "Maybe it is time

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    In The Stranger‚ Camus’ treatment of nature demonstrates how he sees nature as unrelated to and uninterested in human activity. In the text of The Stranger‚ Mersault tells the reader‚ a woman at his mother’s funeral reported “If you go too slowly there’s the risk of a heatstroke. But‚ if you go too fast‚ you perspire‚ and the cold air in the church gives you a chill." I saw her point; either way one was in for it.” (Camus 16) This statement comes early in the text and is part of setting up the action

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    The Stranger By Albert Camus

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    Hannah Howell AP Literature 4/26/13 Disappointment and Death Scholar Ignace Feuerlicht states‚ “Camus holds that man is an eternal stranger to himself‚ that he cannot grasp and define his self or integrate its different aspects.” 1 Meursault is a stranger to society and himself in many ways and the ambiguity of the novel‚ The Stranger by Albert Camus highlights his departure from an existence driven by expectation and ambition. Meursault floats through life without ambition because he does

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    In “Stranger Things“‚ the DUFFER Brothers attempt to create to maximum amount of suspense by keeping evil as unknown as the victims state and even why were they chosen specifically which is very important for letting the audience imagination work a little bit to guess what actually happens .. But we are often surprised by the scenario. Duffer brothers begin the film by a confusing scene in which a scientist is running away from an unknown danger but we don’t know what did actually happen. Then the

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    The Theme of The Stranger In the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus Meursault has to deal with his own problems as well as others problems. He goes to his mother’s funeral and when he returns a few of his friends present him with their own problems as ask him for help. Almost every character in this book faces a problem or multiple problems sometime during the story. The main theme of this book is that problems will always exist in everyone’s life. Just deal with what you have to deal with

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