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    false step in one daughter will be injurious to the fortunes of all the others; for who .... will connect themselves with such a family" (Austen ). Jane Austen satirizes Mrs. Bennet since she is searching for a rich individual for her girls and she does not care about the joy her of girls and is simply pursuing the riches and the high class refined

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    Revolution through when Mr.Jones was kicked out of his farm and how he was a bad ruler and the animal didn’t like him. Mr.Jones was a horrible farm owner he forgot to feed the animals and didn’t take care of his animals.The animals were fed up with Mr.Jones and how he didn’t care about them anymore so they kicked him out of the farm and celebrated that he was now gone.That is exactly what happened to Czar Nicholas with the people of russia and how he didn’t really care about them so

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    as important of a character as George‚ Lennie or any of the other men on the ranch. It could also be referring to how during the great depression women were oppressed and treated less equally. Steinbeck may have portrayed women in this light to allow the reader to recognize the inferior role of women at that time. The lack of name demotes Curley’s wife to insignificant status. In chapter four she joins Crooks‚ Lennie and Candy whilst on one of her ‘looking for Curley’ routines‚ where she says‚ ’They

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    In the opening of the play‚ how does Miller seek to create an atmosphere of hysteria and tension? Do you find the opening effective? Premiering in 1953‚ Arthur Miller’s the crucible was a scathing attack on the Communist scare of the era in the guise of a dramatization of the witch hunts that took place in Salem in the 1960’s. Throughout the beginning the play follows how fear of death‚ The Devil and the unknown causes people to submit to madness and how the sense of guilt could cause them

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    This scene takes place near the end of the end of the play. Ophelia has just died and her grave is being dug in the graveyard. Hamlet and Horatio come in and speak with the grave diggers. Later in the scene the funeral procession come through with Claudius‚ Gertrude‚ and Laertes. A major theme in this play is the conflict between action and inaction. Very few times in this play do the characters take action. It mainly a play of words and observation. So many scenes the characters stand‚ talk

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    and to put into perspective of what if that actually happened. Creating suspense is difficult because you need to know the correct timing to add the twist into the topic. Some ways W.F. Harvey created suspense in “August Heat” was by foreshadowing‚ how he viewed things‚ and revealing the situation. W.F. Harvey had no hesitation by introducing the story with foreshadowing. “Penistone Road‚ Clapham‚ 20th August

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    The Brush by the Salinas River is one of the most important locations in the entire novel. Steinbeck creates a beautiful and natural setting by his use of figurative language. “Willows fresh and green with every spring” and “leaves lie deep and so crisp” create an image in the mind of the reader that evokes a calm and peaceful mood. Steinbeck then uses the setting to introduce the two main protagonists. The arrival of the protagonists interrupts the harmony of the river bank‚ but before any sign

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    The ideas surrounding utopian and dystopian societies are popular because authors use the context and setting of dystopian novels to voice their opinions about local or global politics. Everyone is seeing the news about black lives matter and how women should have rights and racism and sexism and ageism. But when the authors see the news they’re like‚” Oh‚ I’m going to tell everyone my opinion about racism and sexism and ageism except in the form of a book because that’s the only way people will

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    How does Steinbeck explore different attitudes to women in of mice and men? Steinbeck explores different attitudes to women in of mice and men. He does this by having only 3 different roles for women in the book‚ a wife/mother‚ an actress or a prostitute. Women have only 3 different roles in the book‚ a wife/mother‚ an actress or a prostitute‚ they are not valued because they are not physically strong‚ and in the depression‚ those who could work were viewed with higher respect. In fact‚ they are

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    rule of Sultan Suleiman. The Ottoman Empire was slowly starting to weaken due to the attacks from the Safavid Persians and the failure to conquer Vienna. The Empire had already started disintegrating and the military had started to become corrupt. How could Roxelana improve/save the Ottoman Empire? What is your plan? Roxelana could have saved the Ottoman Empire by not revealing Mustafa’s plans to overthrow Suleiman. That would have made it possible for Mustafa to become the next Sultan‚ and the

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