Chapter 1 - Five Years Later 1. In the following quotation‚ Dickens compares Tellson’s Bank with England. List the qualities‚ both positive and negative‚ that he attributes to the old bank and that he also attributes to old England. Be sure to include the bank’s position on capital punishment. “In this respect the House was much on a par with the Country; which did very often disinherit its sons for suggesting improvements in laws and customs that had long been highly objectionable‚ but were
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The Essence of a Revolution There have been countless revolutions in the world‚ all having different causes and outcomes. Many are known for their violence‚ and the unnecessarily bloody way in which revolutionaries try to overthrow the system they disagree with. The French Revolution is widely known for its brutality and for the extreme rage that the revolutionaries felt because of injustice and oppression. Because the French Revolution is so fierce‚ memorable‚ and complex‚ many authors
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towards the lower estates. The nobility were only doing what they were taught to do and did not care for the people beneath them. Monsieur the Marquis says “Why does he make that abominable noise? Is it his child?” (Dickens 114) when a child gets in the way of his carriage and ends up killing him . The nobility thinks that they can buy their way out of everything. Monsieur the Marquis‚ Charles Darnay’s uncle who lives in England‚ says to the civilians “that you people cannot take care of yourselves
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Edgar Allen Poe’s: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story‚ "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"‚ a classic detective story is played out in a seedy Paris suburb. The story begins as the narrator meets Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin‚ a poor but well-read young man. As they become close friends‚ they live together in seclusion‚ departing only briefly each evening to take introspective strolls along the dark Paris streets. Soon both the reader and the narrator begin to see Dupin’s
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Cited: 1) Virginia Scott. Moliere: A Theatrical Life. Cambridge University Press‚ 2002. 2) Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov. The Life of Monsieur De Moliere. New Directions Publishing Corporation‚ 1986. 3) Henry Trollope. The Life of Moliere. Kessinger Publications‚ LLC‚ 2007. 4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molière
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front of everybody. In the whole story “The Necklace” Mathilde asked for a dress if he wanted her to go to the dance. So Loisel got his 400 francs he was saving up for a rifle and gave it to her. Explaining one of guy’s short story “The Jewels of M. Lantin ”(Guy 3) “He takes her necklace to a jeweler who tells him that it is very valuable.” In “The Necklace” when Loisel went the the jeweler to find out how much the necklace cost he told Loisel that it was worth 40 thousand francs. But Loisel got the
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family who is beyond well off; they send their children to school‚ have two cars‚ and they have a working-class butler. When it comes time to evacuate when the German troops begin to invade France‚ Madame Pericand and her family are already prepared. Monsieur Pericand‚ her husband‚ exclaims‚
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Characters of Count of Monte Cristo Edmond Dantès-The protagonist of the novel. Dantès is an intelligent‚ honest‚ and loving man who turns bitter and vengeful after he is framed for a crime he does not commit. When Dantès finds himself free and enormously wealthy‚ he takes it upon himself to act as the agent of Providence‚ rewarding those who have helped him in his plight and punishing those responsible for his years of agony. Lord Wilmore- The identity of an eccentric English nobleman that
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and Poirot‚ along with his partner and the police squad‚ is charged with the case. After a few consecutive murders‚ clues began to be found as to who “ABC” actually is. A surprising plot twist occurs at the end which has the reader questioning how Monsieur Poirot eventually discovered this careful killer. According to Stanford’s Suggested Reading List‚ this book is considered a “must read.” Although the novel has its high and low aspects‚ the plot‚ setting‚ characters‚ conflict‚ and theme deem this
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Jean Valjean spent nineteen years in prison‚ and for that whole time he fostered a hate for all the world. Hugo tells us that this prolonged hatred made him capable of two types of evil. Firstly‚ he could commit instinctual unpremeditated actions of evil. Secondly‚ he was also capable of deliberate‚ grave‚ premeditated evil (366). While Jean Valjean’s coping mechanism was not very healthy‚ it did offer Valjean stability‚ but all ballasts were thrown overboard when Valjean encountered the Bishop
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