truly cares for Pip as well. This is ironic in the sense that the better person had the worse outcome in life. Dickens is urging readers to realize that judging people solely based on their social class is wrong‚ because people are worth more than just how much money they
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Gabler. Hedda is having a conversation with her friend Judge Brack‚ and it is through this conversation that readers are made aware of the dissatisfactions Hedda has toward her husband her reasoning for marriage in the first place. Although this passage does not include direct interaction between Tesman and Hedda‚ Hedda instead reveals thoughts and feelings she would otherwise not say when conversing with her husband. It is then that Hedda’s honest feelings are disclosed. Hedda initially describes George
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primitive and uncivilized. In the novel Lord of the Flies written by William Golding‚ a group of boys end up on an island after a plane crash. The boys quickly begin to organize their own civilization that works for only a bit. Golding shows us his idea of how savage humans can go without authority from law‚ adults‚ punishment and order in a society. The society will quickly break down. Once they start to become savages everything falls. In Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding applies savagery to shape the
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you kingdom” (III ii 17-19). King Lear tells the elements that he doesn’t blame them and instead blames Goneril and Regan because he gave them land. At this point of the play‚ the readers can now see the similarities between King Lear and Edmund in how they are both being portrayed as a low person in society who has received no respect. Both King Lear and Edmund main desire are to be accepted and loved‚ but due to the unjust and uncontrollable treatment they received‚ they turn to nature and its laws
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male authority. Another observation is the difference in how women act in front of men and how they act behind closed doors. Women play their roles perfectly when they are expected to but when they are in private they tend to express their true opinions. Out of all the three women Emilia is rather feisty. She is hugely opinionated and unusually honest. Iago massively underestimates her and as she is very intelligent she figures out exactly how men view women. She continues to make it her job to defend
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to protect Romeo‚ who is too absorbed in his relationship with Juliet. Lord and Lady Capulet are very strict and demand a lot of respect from their only daughter‚ Juliet. Juliet feels so pressured to abide by her parents’ rules and orders that she does not tell them about her marriage to Romeo‚ even when they arrange a marriage to another man for her. Despite this‚ they do hold an indirect affection for her—as they feed‚ clothe and arrange a marriage for her—but their affection is only shown once
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Santiago knows how dangerous sharks can be to fisherman and their bounties. “They were hateful sharks‚ bad smelling‚ scavengers as well as killers‚ and when they were hungry they would bite at an oar or cut the turtles’ legs and flippers off when the turtles were asleep
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being buried right in front of his eyes. He baffled that all his efforts to save his one true love were all for nothing. Hamlet also states “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum” which shows how deep Hamlet’s love for Ophelia goes. Hamlet has paid dearly on his quest to kill Claudius and now he has lost the love his life which he himself caused. Hamlet’s love toward Ophelia is endless‚ and he now regrets what he has done and wishes it was all
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Steinbeck’s‚ The Pearl is an illustrative novella that shows readers the repercussions of greed‚ and how desire can control someone’s life. In this story‚ Steinbeck vividly describes the journey of a native man named Kino‚ and details how his life is driven off its tracks by a foreign emotion. As the title suggests‚ the tale winds through Kino’s life before and after he finds a magnificent pearl‚ and demonstrates how his desire for something better eventually tears his family apart. This novella reveals the
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society meaning men were higher than women however there is one exception who is respected by the men in the town because of her high status and that woman is Mrs. Rebecca. Being a women at the time and being respected by the men in the town just shows how high her status is an example of this is shown when Putnam and Proctor are having an argument and Mrs. Rebecca joins in and the stage directions say “he defers to her” which shows he respects her. This shows us that even within a patriarchal society
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