ROMEO AND JULIET COMPARISON IN THEMES • The overriding theme‚ of course‚ between the two stories – Romeo and Juliet and The West Side Story is love – deep‚ intense and passionate love that defies friendship‚ family and everything in between. This point is reinforced when Maria later disregards the death of her brother‚ Bernardo‚ at the hands of Tony and agrees to marry him‚ consummation sealing the deal. • In the original play‚ Romeo is a pre-buscent teen‚ portrayed as a romantic‚ yet
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Oates’ short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” we follow the main character Connie as she faces an inner transformation. The author introduces Connie as a vain and inexperienced adolescent who seems to daydream about things she doesn’t quite understand as she has more of a naive idea of what adulthood is all about. She takes pleasure in having control over everyone and everything around her. These ideas as well as her security are shaken when the liminal enters the story and introduces
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Innocence “Where Are You Going Where Have You Been?” presents many themes and symbols to the reader. One that jumped out at me while reading the story was the overall feeling of innocence. Joyce Carol Oates shows us innocence from the very beginning of the story to the end where Connie loses self-control and power. From the first paragraph of the story we learn that Connie is a young fifteen year old who longs for attention and acceptance. I was able to relate to the story better when I paused
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Prepare to Read Thank You‚ M’am Take itto the Net Visit vvvvvv.phschool.com for interactive activities and instruction related to "Thank You‚ M’am‚" including • background • graphic organizers • literary elements • reading strategies 170 ♦ Meeting Challenges Preview Connecting to the Literature In "Thank You‚ M’am‚" a boy learns an important lesson about kindness and trust from a surprising source. Before reading‚ think about an unexpected act of kindness you have done for someone or someone
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and explain what the lines mean. 1. Everything about her had two sides to it‚ one for home and one for anywhere that was not home...." The first quote is from “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ written by Joyce Carol Oates. It is in reference to Connie‚ who is a teenager. She is no longer a girl‚ yet she is not a woman. She would leave home she looking one way and arrive at her destination another way. 2. She would have been a good woman . . . if it had been someone there to shoot her
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written by William Shakespeare‚ one of the main themes that are important is revenge. It was a motive not only for our main protagonist‚ Hamlet but also for other characters such as Laertes and Fortinbras. All three characters‚ in their own ways‚ have attempted to seek revenge for their own cause against another. Having lost their fathers‚ Hamlet‚ Laertes‚ and Fortinbras take vengeance on those who killed them by using extreme measures of violence and belligerence. For instance‚ Hamlet had lost
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I have found both advantages and disadvantages of owning a Quad and / or a Dirt bike. I am undecided of witch bike is better because they both are so well in design and uses in there own way. I heave rode both and could see and feel the difference in them but they seem so much a like. The looks of both bikes are so much a like but still so different; for example they have tires‚ an engine‚ an handle bar‚ brakes on handle bars and foot pegs. There are differences and they are‚ the dirt bikes have
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anxiety. For the protagonist Connie‚ this distress is expressed in her dreamlike encounter with Arnold Friend. In the short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?‚” Joyce Carol Oates used the interaction between her two main character‚ to reveal the internal fear and conflict of a fifteen year old girl maturing into a young woman. Oates chooses narrate her story in the third person giving us a glimpse in to Connie’s thoughts‚ her lonely isolation form her family‚ and her daydreams of
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work - Play Genre - Tragic drama Language - English Time and place written - London‚ mid-1590s Setting (in play) - Cities of Verona and Mantua‚ Italy Time (in play) – 14th or 15th century Characters – Romeo‚ Juliet‚ Friar Lawrence (friend of both Romeo & Juliet)‚ Mercutio (Kinsman to the Prince‚ Romeo’s close friend)‚ The Nurse (Juliet’s nurse‚ cared for Juliet all her life)‚ Tybalt (Juliet’s cousin)‚ Capulet + Lady Capulet (Juliet’s Mother + Father)‚ Montague + Lady Montague (Romeo’s Mother
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