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An Analysis of "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" In Edgar Allan Poe’s 1841 short story of "Never Bet the Devil Your Head‚” Edgar Allan Poe begins his tale by describing how he has been under criticism because his tales do not have morals. In response to his critics‚ who he refers to as "ignoramuses‚" Edgar Allan Poe writes "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" which is the story of a man who is offering to bet the devil his head that he can do this or that. One day‚ the narrator (presented as the author
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Never Bet the Devil Your Head is an attack on transcendentalism‚ more than once the narrator calls transcendentalism a disease afflicting Toby Dammit. In fact Edgar Allan Poe is know for admitting a distaste for transcendentalists‚ whom he coined "Frogpondians" after the pond in the Boston Common. In particular Poe ridiculed their writings by describing them as "obscurity for obscurity sake.” At the most literal level‚ Never Bet the Devil Your Head is about a man who routinely ends his sentences
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The Huntsman Assess the character of Yegor Vlassitch to show how arrogant he is which ultimately brings in his separation with his wife. “The Huntsman” brillantly conveys the complex texture of two lives during a meeting on a summer day. The characters are Yegor Vlassitch and his wife Pelagea who meet after a decade of separation. In their brief conversation both of them appear to be opposite in their ways of life but accidentlaly united by wedlock while Yegor is haughty and proud of
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made a bet? Did you ever have a bet that involved cutting off your pinky? In the short story “Man From The South” by Roald Dahl‚ there is an old man that makes a bet with a boy in his younger twenty’s. If the kids lighter can light 10 times in a row‚ he gets a Cadillac‚ if it does not light 10 times in a row he loses his pinky. The theme for this book is to be careful with what you bet‚ because it can cost you something very precious. In the beginning‚ when the old man first offered the bet‚ the
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The Pearl‚ by John Steinback‚ recalls a parable in the bible. In the novella‚ the pearl is the central symbol‚ and unlike in the bible‚ is never clearly defined. Kino‚ Juana‚ and Coyotito are affected the most by the product of the pearl. At first‚ the pearl is seen as a stroke of divine providence‚ but through-out the novella‚ it will bring misfortune. The flawless pearl is deceiving and its true essence contrasts between its apparent‚ good outcome‚ and its intended‚ bad outcome. When Kino finds
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One could often hear politicians to be regarded as charismatic or charming. However‚ seldom‚ if ever‚ does one associate these adjectives with a political system. The lack of connection between the two words did not stop a great philosopher‚ Plato‚ to describe democracy exactly with one of these terms: “Democracy … is a charming form of government‚ full of variety and disorder; and dispersing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike” (Plato 214). The underlining message of the quoted sentence
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Anton Chekov is well known for expressing the human spirit through vivid storytelling. In Exile embodies the totality of the human condition; from its seemingly blissful Elysium to its hellish disfavor‚ Chekov gives the reader and Tartar a choice. Peter is a cynical social hermit who is a strong anarchist and believes to have found nirvana for all people on earth. Tartar is a young 25 year old man‚ yet he was described to appear as a mere child as his appearance at introduction was disheveled and
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The Ironies of Orwell’s 1984 The novel 1984‚ by George Orwell‚ has many examples of irony throughout it. The two major types of irony: verbal irony and situation irony‚ are demonstrated again and again in this novel. In the following essay I will discuss these types of ironies and give examples of each from the book. The first type of irony is verbal irony‚ in which a person says or does something one way‚ but the true meaning is the opposite. One of the first example of this irony is discovered
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The title‚ “The Lottery” is ironic for this story because during a lottery a person usually wins a prize. Wining a lottery is normally considered positive. When someone wins a lottery‚ that person is thrilled and extremely happy. Although in the story wining the lottery is not a positive thing because the person that wins the lottery would face a painful death. The only thing that the winner of the lottery would get is pain and grief‚ as the villagers would hit her with stones. The description in
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