is a Moscow banker‚ married with a daughter and two sons. Unhappy in his marriage‚ he is frequently unfaithful‚ and considers women to be of “a lower race”. While vacationing in Yalta‚ he sees a young lady walking along the seafront with her small dog‚ and endeavors to make her acquaintance. The lady‚ Anna Sergeyevna‚ was also vacationing while her husband remained at home in an unnamed provincial town. They soon are engaged in an affair‚ and spending most of their time together walking and taking
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found particularly thought provoking was Lady Macbeth. Initially‚ she is manipulative and dominant in her relationship with Macbeth and she goads him into committing regicide but by the end she is powerless‚ desolate and stricken with guilt. She is self-deceiving because she believes she is man like and she wants power at any cost‚ but she cannot cope emotionally and goes mad because of her guilt. It is the mixture of fragility and strength than makes Lady Macbeth unique and interesting‚ and her utter
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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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cruelty…” This is the scene where Lady Macbeth shows that she needs to find the manpower inside her to able to betray the King. This quote shows that Lady Macbeth is truly evil as she is asking spirits to grant her the strength to hide her guilt and go through with her plan without any hesitation. One the other hand though‚ it also means that deep inside her‚ she isn’t how she’s acting because she asking spirits for this privilege. This quote proves that Lady Macbeth is the person who started Macbeth
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“Ladies & Gentlemen” Meerim Umetalieva Strayer University Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier is a sort of guide to the qualities expected of ladies and gentlemen of the court. Book of the work is a long conversation on the proper station of the court ladies. The discussion on the Court lady began from an argument over the proper way to tell a joke to a woman. The Court lady was to have cautiousness‚ continence‚ and fairness‚ to "shun affectation‚" be graceful and well mannered‚ modest
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In Anton Chekhov ’s "The Lady with the Dog" the exposition‚ or background information that ’s important to know for the story‚ is almost entirely given at the very beginning. Most importantly we learn that the protagonist of the story‚ Dmitri Gurov‚ disrespects females and‚ "almost always spoke ill of women‚ and when they were talked about in his presence‚ used to call them the lower race‚ ’" (Booth‚ Hunter‚ and Mays 218). This is important to know because it helps the reader understand how profound
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In the piece written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu‚ she writes a letter to her daughter on how she believes her granddaughter should be educated. Lady Montagu discusses how knowledge affects a woman’s life in that time period. She also discusses how she feels a woman should be educated. In order to effectively communicate her views she uses rhetorical devices. “True knowledge consists in knowing things‚ not words.” Lady Montagu wants her granddaughter to “read books in their originals.”
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Throughout the poem‚ Plath uses metaphors about the Holocaust to illustrate Lady Lazarus’s pain and suffering‚ and this may provoke sympathy in the reader. She decribes Lady Lazarus’ foot as a “paperweight” and her face is “featureless fine Jew linen” which may connote the narrator’s feelings of being heavy and undistinguishable from those around her. The poem may be an extended metaphor for depression. If the character’s foot is a “paperweight” then it would be difficult to move‚ and Plath may be
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visionary in the fight for the equal rights of women. Her original ideas and insight provided a new and more intelligent way to view females. Pizan’s work‚ The Book of the City of Ladies‚ provided women much needed guidance in how to survive without the support of a man. It is Christine’s literary work The Book of the City of Ladies that is most intriguing to contemporary readers. Christine was the first woman writer to possess the ability to identify and address the issues of misogyny in the literature
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A moment‚ much like life‚ is not fully complete until one realizes that it is fleeting. The curse of man is that after being gifted with advanced intellect and comprehension‚ he is now fully knowledgeable of the impending demise about to be suffered by him and his kind. No other creature on his planet has such a burden to bear. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things‚ and only the wise can see them. Wisdom is learned by three distinct means: by reflection‚ which is noblest‚ is first;
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