deprive me‚ For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base? … Legitimate Edgar‚ I must have your land. Our father’s love is to the bastard Edmund As to the legitimate. Fine word—“legitimate”! Well‚ my legitimate‚ if this letter speed‚ And my invention thrive‚ Edmund the base Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper. Now‚ gods‚ stand up for bastards!” speaker: Edmund soliloquy analysis: Edmund is devising a plan to make his father
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The Tragedy of King Lear: A Comparison of Psychological and Physical Deceit and Disguise In many of Shakespeare’s works‚ he suggests that appearances are not reflective of reality and uses this idea to develop many subplots in his works. He is notorious for constructing these false identities to advance the plotline and create unsuspecting twists. As his plays progress‚ different characters employ different strategies to promote their actions‚ with some opting to psychologically deceive
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Essay Comparing Prometheus to Christ Prometheus Bound is a Greek mythological play written by Aeschylus. Prometheus was a Titan who gave the gift of fire to humans‚ fire not only meant little things like heating and cooking food‚ but it also represented a move forward for humans. Prometheus also gave humans the gift of hope. There is a man who can be compared to that of Prometheus‚ Christ. Both have mad an enormous impact on the human race. Although Christ was a human and Prometheus a Titan
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It carried a stigma and a disgrace to the young mothers and their immediate families. The young mothers were often considered sinners and the children born out of wedlock were referred to as bastards or illegitimate. The horror and the disgrace that was immediately associated with giving birth to bastards or illegitimate children‚ kept teenage pregnancy at the lowest minimum (Sprague‚ C.‚ 2009). In the 20th Century‚ the attitude of society toward teen mothers and their children or teenage pregnancy
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Sylvia Plath’s "Daddy" Essay When Sylvia Plath’s father‚ Otto Plath‚ passed away in 1940‚ she was deeply devastated. Plath was only eight years old when her father died‚ and she was absconded with a large poignant hollowness. It was then that she began writing poetry as an outlet for her feelings. Many of Plath’s poems have been persuaded by experiences from her own life; "Daddy" is no concession. Throughout Sylvia Plath’s poem "Daddy"‚ she uses prevailing images to declare
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this place as a place that always stays the same. While Holden was at the museum killing time‚ he met two students‚ who were ditching school. " "No school t’day‚" the kid that did all the talking said. He was lying‚ sure as I’m alive‚ the little bastard. I didn’t have anything to do‚ though‚ till old Phoebe showed up‚ so I helped them find the place where the mummies were" (202). This was the first time Holden talks about kids like this. While he was helping them to get where the mummies where he
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feelings‚ emotions or me. It has built my introverted and tense character. He has an abundance of time as he is ‘in between jobs’ (as he prefers to call it). I was silly to think that he would change‚ that he would come with me today. Black-hearted bastard. Scattered deaths. Like jagged‚ dirty hailstones all over the footpath. Some lay alone‚ some in groups of several millions. I always wonder who was to blame for these sizable piles of cigarette butts. Was it an overpowering man with a distinctive
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He clenched his fists and strongly exclaimed himself. ’’You crazy bastard‚ I always said without you I could do whatever the hell I wanted‚ take my fifty bucks at the end of month and spent the whole damn night in a cat house for all I cared! Though I know you didn’t do it out of meanness‚ I had to shoot you‚ I couldn’t let them hurt you‚ I didn’t want too‚’’ George stood up nobly and said firmly‚ ’’I’ll get that weak bastard‚ Curley‚ for you. I’ll get him Lennie.’’ With that he gracefully left
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around‚ it wouldn’t of happened how it did. My mother pulled it off‚ I was out at sea fighting you god-damn Jap sons a-" "I’m an American‚" Kabuo cut in. "Just like you or anybody. Am I calling you a Nazi‚ you big Nazi bastard? I killed men who looked just like you-pig-fed German bastards. I’ve got their blood on my soul‚ Carl‚ and it doesn’t wash off very easily. So don’t you talk to me about Japs‚ you big Nazi son of a bitch (404)." Carl then realizes how race had been affecting him for
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Lisette‚ and his best friend‚ Elijah Whiskeyjack. When Xavier realizes that Lisette was a hired prostitute‚ paid for by Elijah‚ he becomes furious and loses his will to live and survive. He says “‘I do not give a shit anymore‚’ I say in Cree. ‘ Let the bastards shoot me’” (255). This passage is from when he is caught for deserting the army and sneaking off for two days in order to find Lisette. This shows that Xavier has lost all will to survive‚ because he has found out about the truth regarding Lisette
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