sealed world of an emblematical wealthy man’s house in China. Nineteen years old Songlian‚ whose father has recently died and left the family bankrupt‚ is betrayed by her stepmother and is sold as a concubine of the Chen family‚ becoming the Forth Mistress of the household. Arriving at the palatial abode‚ she is at first treated like royalty‚ receiving the sensuous foot massages and lightening of the red lanterns‚ as well as the visit from her husband‚ Master Chen. However‚ Songlian soon discovers
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Damian Martinez 3/2/16 Mr. Walker English 11 H Pessimism of F. Scott Fitzgerald Romance is a beautiful thing in life and throughout the difficulties of these events some being very joyful and pleasant but not all love is quite pleasant. Many romantic relationships don’t last and come to a tragic end and the love may feel amazing while it lasts but it isn’t forever. In the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F Scott Fitzgerald a lot of these characters have many intimate relationships with others throughout
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Carpe diem is a main theme of “To His Coy Mistress.” Which of these lines best expresses this theme? A. “. . . though we cannot make our sun / Stand still‚ yet we will make him run.” B. “My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires‚ and more slow. . . .” C. “The grave’s a fine and private place‚ / But none I think do there embrace.” D. “. . . I would / Love you ten years before the Flood. . . .” What does this line from “To His Coy Mistress” mean? But at my back I always hear /
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Othello - English Essay The contrasting characters; Desdemona and Emilia‚ form an interesting and important relationship in the play Othello. Desdemona is very ‘sheltered’ from the ways of the world and Emilia is very ‘down to earth’ and ‘experienced’. From this difference we see a fascinating relationship between the two of them. In the given passage‚ we see that Desdemona takes a very honest‚ romantic and loyal stance towards Othello‚ (this is
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her and X. This monogram symbolizes Rebecca’s high social status that her personal belongings are so unique and tailor-made with her own name sewn on them. Rebecca’s presence is felt everywhere even though she has died. It is like she is still the mistress of
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duties‚ such as working in the kitchen‚ these menial duties normally consisted of preparing and cooking food‚ or providing food and nutrition as a wet nurse. Holly Blackford‚ author of “Figures of Orality”‚ an essay on the characters of the master‚ mistress and slave mother in Jacobs’ Incidents‚ makes an interesting case for Jacobs’ narrative‚ arguing that there is a reoccurring motif throughout the novel involving a woman’s sexuality and food. She states that “[the] status of the female slave in the
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Ekin Selin Arslan 21202230 HUM111- Assignment#2 Topic: Pg 263‚ l. 409-419‚ Book I‚ pg. 81‚ l. 131-41‚ Pg. 266-8‚ l. 524-98: compare the different male characters’ attitudes toward fighting over women. When and why are they willing to fight over women? Throughout the time that I read The Iliad‚ I have observed that generally all of fightings‚ wars are because of women or for women. In other words all fightings connects with a woman at some point. As a woman‚ I always wondered that are those women
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|Summary/Themes |Born Yesterday and Nettles | | | |Born Yesterday and Nettles are both written about adults’ thoughts regarding children and how they will survive in the world. | |Born Yesterday explores the poet’s feelings about the birth of his friend’s daughter and rejects traditional‚
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Lie to Me‚ Baby: The Necessity of Deceit Love is often the pivotal influence over people and their decisions‚ so much that the phrase ‘‘people do crazy things‚ when they’re in love’’ has been immortalized by The Walt Disney Company as a staple of romance. Similarly‚ the drive hidden behind that emotion extends to most relationships that fall within human capacity. The lengths a parent will go for their child or the loyalty a friend has for another being some poignant examples of the emotion
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Sahly College Lit. 5 March‚ 2015 Analysis of “To His Coy Mistress” When I read poetry‚ I usually get really confused on what the speaker of the poem is trying to say. I can never seem to understand what they are usually talking about so I have to read the poem like 20 time before I can understand them. There was one poem that stuck out to me and I actually understood it only after a few times reading it‚ the poem is called‚ “To His Coy Mistress.” I want to explain a little bit more in detail about
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