In the beginning of the play Nora is shown as a woman who acts and is treated like a young girl. Her husband treats her accordingly‚ he gives her nicknames which highlights how he views her as a little girl such as “my little squirrel” (164). Nora contains no concerns of how Mr. Helmer belittles her and treats her like a little girl‚ for everything she does she does out of love for him
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immensely from that of Dr. Jekyll who participates in charity work and has an upstanding role in society. Mr. Hyde creates a great amount of sympathy in the book. The first feelings of sympathy come within the first chapter. You feel sympathy for the young girl that Mr. Hyde tramples in the middle of the street for no apparent reason at all. The reason the sympathy is felt is because Mr. Hyde feels no remorse for what he did. “I am naturally helpless. No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene.” (Stevenson
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Death Of a Salesman Arthur Miller does manage to engage our sympathies with Willy in the first act of the play to a certain extent. He does this in many ways such as using Willy’s speech‚ his troubled mind‚ the way other characters treat him and by using themes like the past. To begin with‚ Willy Loman seems like a normal‚ yet exhausted businessman. This is until he starts to contradict himself by saying of Biff that he’s “a lazy bum!” A few seconds later in the scene‚ his line is “There’s
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Final for The Great Gatsby: The final for this book will be a written essay using evidence to prove your point. You will also be showing off your abilities to use academic English (vocabulary and sentence structures) and functional grammar. You will be required to use at least one example of parallelism and use both the semi-colon and colon. Choose from one of these prompts to write your essay: a. Is F. Scott Fitzgerald writing a love story that embraces American Ideals‚ or a satire that
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“The Great Gatsby” The Jazz Age was a period in which there was an increase in economic development. This period was economically prosperous; however‚ moral bankruptcy was pervasive. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald employs some of the characters as symbols of morality. Nick Carroway is portrayed as an honest man‚ while Jordan Baker is portrayed as a dishonest and materialistic woman. Nick is a good man who was raised in a family where moral values were essential. He is a nonjudgmental
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perfect ovals ... but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual wonder to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size."(9) In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald creates different worlds‚ where many different people live amongst each other. The areas of East Egg and West Egg in Long Island find isolation not just geographically‚ “separated only by a courtesy bay” (9)‚ but more significantly
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Great Gatsby & Atonement Explore how Fitzgerald presents doomed love in ‘The Great Gatsby.’ How does ‘Atonement’ illuminate this key aspect of Fitzgerald’s novel? In your response consider the authorial use of form‚ structure and language‚ context and some critical views. Give primary focus to the core text. 1920’s America was very much a materialistic society revolving around money‚ love being a simple emotion‚ unimportant and always coming second to luxury. This obsession with wealth
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Medea‚ in ’Medea’‚ and Nora‚ in ’A Doll’s House’‚ are both women who seem to suffer badly at the hands of their husbands in two male-dominated societies; the former in ancient Greece‚ the latter in nineteenth century Norway. Each does something important for her husband involving personal sacrifice‚ for which she expects certain treatment in return‚ but when this is not forthcoming‚ how do they react? Do they accept the roles of conventional wives‚ demure and weak? Or do they rebel and behave unconventionally
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Biff is one of the most troubled characters in Death of a Salesman‚ along with his father Willy. Whilst the Play mainly focuses on the tragedy surrounding the decline and death of his father‚ Biff’s story is arguably also a tragedy: going from having everything he could possibly want‚ with many universities interested in Biff‚ people throughout his school looking up to him as a role model‚ and generally his life being good to being sent to jail‚ moving from one low pay job to another‚ and finding
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Dunbar and other African Americans felt discrimination and imprisoned which is described in this poem. In Sympathy‚ it uses a caged bird as a metaphor for what it means to be a black during the 1800s. In the first stanza Dunbar states he knows how the caged bird feels. Also how the caged bird is missing out on the beauty of freedom. In the second stanza “I know
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