Kafka’s Cautionary Balance Between Loyalty and Total Devotion Typically‚ loyalty is seen as a worthy quality to have; everyone wants to have loyal spouses and friends‚ and betrayal is usually not an ideal situation. However‚ total devotion is much more extreme than this‚ and is detrimental to oneself. Kafka reveals that while loyalty is not necessarily a negative thing‚ total devotion is what ultimately causes the sacrifice of one’s own purpose. Loyalty to one’s family is perhaps one of
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without her parents. This means that she had to be extra brave to go to a place she has never been too. She had no clue what could happen if she entered that tunnel‚ and she used courage and braveness to get her through it. The “Not really” part also shows you that she has doubts. She may be scared‚ but she’s still brave enough to go through with
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How does Shakespeare gain audience sympathy for Macbeth? In late 1905‚ Shakespeare’s Macbeth was performed for the first time in Hampton Court. At the time‚ King James I was in power‚ and it is widely believed that Shakespeare wrote Macbeth in order to flatter him‚ as the previous year The Gunpowder Plot had shown an attempt on his life. In the play‚ King Duncan gets murdered‚ which would have been quite disturbing for King James I to watch. By the end of the play however‚ King James I would have
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“Sympathy for the Devil?” How does Mary Shelley persuade the reader to pity Frankenstein’s Creature? Mary Shelley published Frankenstein in 1818. At that time‚ the Gothic Horror genre was becoming increasingly popular. The Gothic Horror genre combined the genres of horror and romance and is often associated with dark castles‚ murder and monsters. The idea for the novel came about during a dream while Shelley and her husband Percy were staying with Lord Byron. She then used that dream as a basis
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He is treated like an animal because his living conditions are similar to a zoo. People come and see him when they want “a person or‚ several people‚ are there”(17). The child is show off like a caged animal. Since they show him off as a caged animal they keep him in some thing simulate to a cage. He lives in a small room about “three paces long and two wide”(17)‚ which is about the same length of a caged for an animal. Some animal cages are bigger
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How does Shakespeare create sympathy for Romeo and Juliet? Shakespeare creates sympathy for the two protagonists in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ skilfully using emotive language‚ sonnet form‚ alliteration and metaphor. Before the play begins‚ the audience are told that it will end in a disaster. This creates an emotive reaction in the audience throughout the play as they are reminded of the fate of the two young lovers. This is emphasised by the fact that the protagonists foreshadow their own
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Every single person endures‚ it’s how much you can endure until you break that makes people’s endurance different and unique. Weather you’re mentally enduring talking politics with your opinionated family on Thanksgiving or you’re enduring the physical pain of a gunshot wound‚ you continue to endure the pain and see the day through. Endurance is the ability or strength to continue‚ especially despite fatigue‚ stress‚ or other adverse conditions. In Ernest Hemingway’s book‚ The Old Man and the
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Dominance is the power and influence of others. It is a characteristic of highly social animals‚ such as humans‚ in which individuals compete intensely with one another for food‚ mates‚ territory‚ or any other resource‚ including money. This is evident in social relationships between family members‚ friends‚ and even enemies. This relationship is perfectly showcased between Montresor and Fortunato in Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Cask of Amontillado.” Montresor recalls the events of a murder that happened
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story writen by Liam O’Flaherty the genre is suspense. It is about a Republican Sniper that is fight in the Irish civil war. He uses increasing pace‚decreasing pace‚and rapid succession of conflicts to create suspense.The author uses timing words to create suspense. The author uses increasing pace to create suspense by highlighting the amount of danger he is in and his actions. With enemies watching the sniper risked a smoke. ‘Placing the ciggerate between his lips he stuck a match and inhaled the
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daughters‚ Oedipus is banished. Throughout the whole play Oedipus struggles with seeing and realizing the truth. Oedipus’s is so blind that he doesn’t see clearly till the end when it’s all laid out to him. At the beginning of the play Oedipus shows blindness by cursing the murderer without knowing
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