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    The novel Atonement by Ian McEwan displays through the stories of Briony Tallis‚ Robbie Turner‚ and Lola Quincey that fervently hanging onto a belief can sustain and contrastingly destroy. A headstrong and determined girl with a fantastical imagination‚ Briony Tallis ultimately triggers despair. Constrained by her youth and innocence‚ Briony witnesses certain events that transpire between her sister and Robbie Turner without fully understanding them and draws her own conclusions. These conclusions

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    Othello and jealousy

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    William Shakespeare’s play “Othello” a man named Iago hates and is jealous of the protagonist Othello because Othello has not promoted him to position of Lietunant‚ so he decides to try and kill Othello. However‚ he first convinces Roderigo to help him because Roderigo is in love with Othello’s wife Desdemona and Iago promises that he can get him together with Desdemona. With Roderigo’s help‚ Iago is able to plot a series of events which eventually leads to convincing Othello that Desdemona is having

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    OTHELLO AND UNFORGIVEN

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    OTHELLO AND UNFORGIVEN How do the values represented in Othello and Unforgiven resonate with the contemporary audiences? Values are the principles of behavior that is regarded to the importance and exchangeability. Universal values represented in Othello and Unforgiven evidently depicts with the contemporary audiences as it reflects through the fundamental issue regarding definition of what is ultimately real as opposed to what is merely apparent. Without a doubt this is shown through the conflicting

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    Deception in King Lear

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    The Deception in King Lear William Shakespeare’s play King Lear is a play full of deceit‚ betrayal and meaningless promises. This becomes evident in the first few lines. We first learn of the empty words of Goneril and Regan as well as their hatred for their father‚ King Lear. This becomes the center of the play and also leads to the madness that the king suffers from. The first words that Goneril speaks are totally empty and are the complete opposite of what she really feels. She says‚ ’Sir‚ I

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    Language in Othello

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    Language in Othello Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists used language to establish and build dramatic atmosphere‚ to define time‚ place and character. But in Othello‚ language is not simply the medium by which the drama is conveyed: in this play language is action. Othello ‘falls’ because he believes a man whose every utterance is deceptive. When the hero is taken in by false words‚ tragedy is the result. The play shows us the power of words; we watch as characters construct their own and others’

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    Wealth In Othello

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    Iago‚ in an attempt to stir up more drama‚ begins to persuade Othello into suspecting his wife‚ Desdemona‚ of cheating on him when it is all just a ruse to get the pair against each other. Iago explains that a man who doesn’t know that his wife his cheating on him and still loves her is bound to be in a very unhappy state‚ implying that Othello would thus be in the same position. Iago then “pleads to God” to keep his general from becoming devoured in

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    Blackness In Othello

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    Published by: Rice University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/450520 Accessed: 01/05/2008 11:43 page 319 The most dramatic reactions to Othello’s blackness within the play are those of Iago and Roderigo in the opening scene. Their overt and vicious racism provides the background for Othello’s first appearance. For Iago Othello is "an old black ram" (I.i.88)‚ "the devil" (I.i.91)‚ and a "Barbary horse" (I.i.lll); the consum-mation of his marriage is a making of "the beast with two backs" (I

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    The Swim of Deception One day in midsummer‚ a group of friends‚ Neddy and Lucinda Merrill and Helen and Donald Westerhazy‚ are hung over and are complaining about how they drunk too much the previous night. Ned decides that he wants to go swim in the pools that are spread throughout his county and imagines himself to be an explorer. In the beginning of the story Ned is pictured as being happy; however‚ as the story progresses Ned realizes that the world he envisioned at first was not all it appeared

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    Deception In Ender's Game

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    sixteen year old Card. Although not publishes until late‚ Card emphasizes the intelligence of children throughout the book. In the novel‚ the deception and manipulation harden Ender’s personality and shape him into the symbolic representation of evil ingrained in the character of Peter. Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is constantly being influenced by the deception displayed in his teachers. Specifically‚ Day comments all the teachers alter Ender to become “…convinced that adults should be regarded primarily

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    Othello Summary

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    of money to spy on Othello for him‚ since he wishes to take Othello’s girlfriend‚ Desdemona as his own. Roderigo fears that Iago has not been telling him enough about Desdemona and that this proves Iago’s real loyalty is to Othello not him. Iago explains his hatred of Othello for choosing Cassio as his officer or lieutenant and not him as he expected. To regain Roderigo’s trust‚ Iago and Roderigo inform Brabantio‚ Desdemona’s father of her relationship with Othello‚ the "Moor" which enrages

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