Compare and Contrast paper After reading a book and then watching the movie based on that book‚ generally people will say they feel disappointed because the movie lacks its heart and substance. Even though the movie The Scarlet Letter‚ directed by Roland Joffé‚ is based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel‚ it offers different characters and plot than the novel. However‚ the book captivates people more. In both‚ the story takes place in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ in seventeenth century. The Scarlet Letter
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with Laura resembles the poetic stance Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) adopted toward Beatrice in his Vita Nuova and Divide Comedy. At times‚ the virtuous lady acts as a guide to his distressed soul. Themes: • the beauty of the idealized‚ virtuous mistress • hyperbolic praises of golden hair‚ white skin‚ red lips‚ blue‚ gray‚ or clear eyes; features often compared to natural or celestial objects; Ovidian myths play a big role‚ especially Diana and Acteon‚ Apollo and Daphne • In Italian lauro=laurel
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Although his mistress was kind and let him be taught how to read at the start‚ her husband told her not instruct him. It made her change her character to a person with a lack of emotional response for other people. But again‚ slaves were not supposed to get an education
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portrays the speaker as a noble human being because he is anxious to please God. In the book The Divine Poems‚ writer Helen Gardner supports this fact as she argues‚ "His Maker is more powerfully present to the imagination in his divine poems than any mistress is in his love poems" (Pg-2). Overall‚ it seems that both these poems operate on many different levels as the rhyme scheme in both poems varies from iambic tetrameter and pentameter to the Petrarchan sonnet form. Donne employs wit as well as complex
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(pg26) Tom seems to be in control of the relationship with his mistress and is rather assertive. The mistress is rather submissive to Tom and obeys his ‘requests’. Tom will be a major character even is his mistress is not knowing how they interact will develop Tom’s character more. (words:48)
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(192). He refers to the “first step” being the fact that his mistress gave him a glimpse into the world of intellect and opened his mind to reading and writing. By the time she stops instructing him he has already discovered a desire to learn. Because he numbered the step‚ it is accurate to assume that there must be more steps following the first one and that the process of learning is much more complicated. He also states that his mistress gave him “the inch” (192) by teaching him the alphabet and
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marrying Moll for money‚ but he can only marry Moll with the condition that he marries his landed niece” from Wales to the Yellowhammers son Tim. This ties him into the second marriage‚ the marriage between Tim and Sir Walter’s niece who is really his mistress. Before he arrives at Cheapside he specifically instructs her to lye about who she is and she must pass for a pure virgin (I. i‚ 86). His servant Davy makes a comical remark saying how is she going to pass for a virgin when she is clearly a prostitute
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If she had stayed at Thornfield with Rochester‚ she would have become his mistress‚ and despite loving Rochester with all of her heart and wanting to be with him‚ she ran‚ knowing that being his mistress would be morally wrong. Jane couldn’t be Rochester’s mistress‚ even though most women would have accepted the opportunity to be with Mr. Rochester‚ even if only as his mistress‚ because it meant security‚ wealth‚ comfort‚ and love. Rochester put Jane’s strength and determination
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injustice‚ great dramatist concern for the people and hatred for the oppressive ruling class. Kuan Han-ch’ing’s nobility of characters represent kindness‚ courage and spirit of self-sacrifice. Tou-Ngo served as a payment for her father’s debt to Mistress Tsai. She and her mother-in-law are bullied by Sai Lu Yi‚ an unscrupulous physician. He almost kills Dou’s mother-in-law by strangling her. Zang saved them and offer Tou Ngo to marry but she refused. Zang plot a murder scene by poisoning Tou Ngo’s
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Nick Caraway moved to west egg outside of NYC to work in stocks and bonds. While he is there he meets a man named Gatsby who is his neighbor the he also meets a man named Tom who is living in an illusion in east egg and then going to NYC with his mistress and takes her from her reality while leaving his wife at home. The elitist mentality of Tom makes him think that it is ok to cheat on his wife and have someone else cheat on their husband so he can live the way he wants to. One literary device shown
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