Introduction1. The argument between Sly and the hostess demonstrates the position of power between them. The hostess is in a higher social standing than Sly‚ who is merely a drunken tinker. However‚ Sly refuses to accept this fact and he argues with the hostess because he feels that as a man‚ he should be in a position of power. The theme of female submission is apparent throughout the play. 2. The Lord ’s deception of Sly demonstrates the theme that a person ’s behavior is influenced by his or
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The Woods Dante’s Inferno opens in the setting on Good Friday in the year 1300. The voyager-narrator‚ Dante Alghieri‚ is lost in a dark forest in the middle of the night. Dante doesn’t recall how he came into the woods and blames it on how he was so full of sleep at the point where he abandoned the right path. Right as he is about to lose hope‚ he sees the sun rising over the mountainside and as he attempts to reach it‚ Dante is stopped by three beasts; a leopard‚ a lion‚ and a she-wolf. Dante
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Jane Eyre is a young orphan being raised by Mrs. Reed‚ her cruel wealthy aunt. One day as punishment for fighting with her teasing cousin John‚ Jane’s aunt imprisons her in the ‘red-room’ – the room in which Jane’s uncle died. Whilst being locked up in the ‘red-room‚’ Jane claims that she sees her uncle’s ghost and faints. She woke up to the company of Bessie and Mr. Lloyd who both decide that Jane was to be sent to the school and to Jane’s delight‚ Mrs. Read agrees. The school is extremely unhygienic
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The Story takes part in an alternate‚ futuristic version of Great Britain which is ruled by a corrupt and abusive totalitarian government. The people living in London are repressed and barley have any rights. One young lady doesn’t care because she doesn’t like the system. So one night‚ when she is on her way to a good friend‚ she is walking around the streets of London and gets caught by the fingermen (the futuristic‚ corrupt policemen) who want to rape and kill her. At first Evey is trying to fight
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The play starts on opening night for Max Bialystock’s latest play‚ and latest flop‚ Funny Boy. Max is devastated as he recounts his previous failures and vows to return as “The King of Broadway”. The next morning‚ his accountant‚ Leo Bloom‚ arrives at Max’s office to audit his books. Just as Leo’s dream of being a producer slips out‚ one of Max’s “Investors” arrives and Leo is forced into a bathroom. They play one of their sex games and Max persuades a check from her‚ before finally‚ she leaves.
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Half-full or Half-empty? How many of us grew up believing in Peter Pan philosophies that thinking happy thoughts would make everything better? Or at “every clouds has a silver lining”‚ “the glass is always half-full?” and that no matter how awful life is has been “there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” Otherwise‚ you were at varied enormous principle‚ raised on the belief that by thinking the worst of everything and everyone‚ you’d be better prepared for disappointment… Psychologists
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The novel‚ like the movie‚ follows the story of Dorothy‚ a young girl who lives with her aunt‚ uncle‚ and dog Toto on a farm in Kansas. One day a cyclone sweeps up the farmhouse. Dorothy and Toto are caught inside the house‚ but they survive the storm. When the house is set down again‚ Dorothy and Toto find themselves in Munchkin Country‚ located in Oz. The house lands on the Wicked Witch of the East‚ killing her. The Munchkins are delighted to be freed from their evil ruler. The Good Witch of the
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This story takes place in an unnamed coastal city in India during 1975-1984. This novel is told in third person and is about a chain of circumstances that tosses four very different people together into one small apartment. A college student‚ Maneck Kohlah‚ rents a room in the apartment of Dina Dalal‚ a widowed seamstress in her forties. Dina also has two additional boarders; Ishvar Darji and his nephew Omprakash; tailors fleeing low-caste origins. They do not get along but as a series of unfortunate
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The Nine Guardians �Nine Guardians� takes places in the State of Chiapas‚ in Mexico‚ where from the remains of the Mexican revolution came the presidency of Lazaro Cardenas. His presidency takes places between 1934 and 1940‚ during the time this novel takes place. Cardenas expropriated foreign-held properties‚ distributed land to peasants‚ and instituted reforms to benefit indigenous people and Mexican workers. Cardenas found it unfair for the Indians to not be treated as equals‚ so he demanded
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The backdrop of World War II in A Separate Peace emphasizes the microcosmic war that is occurring in Devon. Military language that is used emphasizes the parallelism of the actual war and Gene’s war throughout the novel. Man’s destructive actions portray man’s inhumanity to man; eradication and killings of the war depict how cruel man can be. Finny’s inability to cope with the cruelty of this world causes him to become oblivious to what’s actually happening. Gene’s constant hatred and envy leads
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