play has dark sorrowful themes throughout‚ and many of it’s characters die. Hamlet’s friends betray him‚ he begins to go mad and contemplate suicide‚ he kills Polonius believing it to be Claudius and because of that his love‚ Ophelia goes mad and drowns. The play ends with justice being found‚ yet Hamlet‚ the hero is also killed. Nearly all of the main characters die including King Hamlet‚ Polonius‚ Ophelia‚ Gertrude‚ Laertes‚ Claudius‚ and
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“The importance of Modernism was in its ability to unite the masses by illuminating common feelings of disillusionment and rebellion through artistic forms.” Argue with reference to two poems of T.S Eliot and one additional text of you choosing. Rebellion and Disillusionment were fundamental feelings expressed by Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They came about as a result of a myriad of factors including; industrialisation‚ urbanisation‚ technological advances‚ militaristic
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When the film O Bother Where Art Thou first started‚ I was unable to make any correlation between that and The Odyssey‚ but as it progressed I soon was able to follow the plot and match creatures to their ancient Greek counterparts. As Odysseus encountered many monsters‚ mystical creatures‚ and gods‚ Ulysses (the main Odysseus like character in O Bother Where Art Thou) had many of his own encounters with Odyssey like creatures. While O Bother Where Art Thou is based on The Odyssey they still have
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“Woman Hollering Creek”‚ La Llorona plays a big part in the Spanish tales. La Llorona is a tale of a woman who drowned her children after allegedly being abused by her husband. In hopes to save her children from the misery of abuse‚ she chooses to drown her children in a lake and proceeds to kill herself. The story of La Llorona ties into the story “Woman Hollering Creek” because Cleofilas begins to find herself stuck in the same position of La Llorona. According to the article “La Llorona” the author
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darkness consumes the innocence of the world. Through continuous use of imagery‚ Munro describes the deterioration of the conflicted mental states of the protagonists. This struggle between right and wrong is seen when Marlene and Charlene decide to drown Verna. “Verna’s head did not break from the surface… she was turning in a leisurely way‚ light as a jellyfish in the water. Charlene and I had our hands on her‚ on her rubber cap” (Munro 12). The actions of the protagonists show the
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Though understand the flashback Robbie had of when he taught her to swim and she had pretended to drown because she challenged his love for her‚ in thinking that if he saved her he loved her as she loved him which was misunderstood in the mind of a ten year old searching for love. I believe it is looked at by Cecilia as a better situation that Robbie
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An interesting section of T.S. Eliot’s "The Wasteland" is that headed "Death by Water‚" a section that has engendered some argument about its meaning and about whether or not the death of Phlebas is intended to be real or symbolic. The poem uses sound in an interesting way to draw ideas together and to create a musical lilt. In the first line‚ the repeated "f" sound carries over to the first word of line two‚ evoking the idea of death‚ the image of the sea‚ and a connection between the sea and the
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trying my hardest and not succeeding. This greatly affects my work at school and in life itself. Learning from failures and gaining experience/wisdom is something I am missing out on. When I fail‚ I feel devastated. I don’t learn anything‚ I just drown my sorrows by eating an entire tub of
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Lyman tries to help his brother by damaging the car so that Henry could find solace in fixing it‚ but it is a short lived respite for Henry. That spring they decide to take the now fixed car for a ride to Red River. Henry decides to go for a swim‚ and drowns as the current takes him away. Lyman tries to go in after him but soon looses sight of his brother. Unable to locate Henry‚ Lyman pushes the car into river. He watches the car until the headlights go out. In Lyman’s mind‚ he thought that if
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mass will increase as the water will move into the potato by osmosis causing it to expand. In tube B‚ C the potato will also increase in mass and volume but not as much as in tube A. In tube D we have a very concentrated solution so water will be drown out of the potato by osmosis causing it to shrink‚ i.e. decrease in mass and volume. Conclusion: Tube A= pure water: water moved into the potato cylinder by osmosis . It caused the potato to expand‚ as a result the mass
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