of the gamblers was angry and insulted the Virginian; He quickly drew out his gun and demanded a smile of the man that had insulted him. The Virginian is then told that only cowards are dangerous when they draw their weapons by the dealer. He replies back by saying‚ I wouldn’t worry for a brave man‚ your life is safe. Cowards always shoot before it’s necessary. While he was cleaning his rifle‚ the Virginian speaks to The Easterner than without warning fires a shot close enough to upset the Easterner
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make sense to most of the soldiers‚ but they still had hope in their country they believe in their country. They know that their country is leading them the right way. The real people who should be punished are those who dodge the draft. They are cowards. They should be the one who gets boo because they didn’t believe in their country; they didn’t have the true patriotism. The worst thing is the American people or the Hippies; they didn’t see the struggle the soldiers had to go to‚ most of
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Our beloved hero‚ leader and friend has been killed. Caesar was brutally murdered by the selected amount of despicable senators of the republic. People may feel beloved Caesar could have prevented it from happening if he had listened to augur Spurinna’s warning about how “The danger threatening him would not come later than the Ides of March” (Suetonius‚ 206). However‚ natural signs‚ mostly being birds‚ are what Augurs utilize to predict the future‚ which cannot be extremely accurate. Therefore it
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Boatright 3 Wilson starts to like Francis. Wilson takes his job as a hunter seriously. He acts professionally while in the field. At camp Wilson acts immorally with Margot. He does not feel badly about it. He feels if Francis was not a coward and would be a real man he would keep his wife out of other men’s beds. "In Hemingway the obsession with physical courage is clearly a personal problem. In "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" Francis runs away from a lion‚ which
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The scaffold is a huge symbol in “The Scarlet Letter” the scaffold is seen three times in the book and each time the four main characters can be seen. The scaffold represents a place where public humiliation takes place ‚this is a place where pence or punishment for sins happens. It also happens to be the place where Hawthorne shows the growth of each character. During each of the scaffold senses these four characters can be seen.At the beginning of the book we see Hester standing with Pearl with
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Macbeth’s tragic flaw is his infatuation with becoming a high power‚ and refusing to disappoint his lady by being a "coward". Lady Macbeth’s definition of being a coward‚ is playing fair instead of playing dirty. Lady Macbeth insists he is a coward‚ and he will not become of the high power if he does not play dirty. When he shows his disinterest in playing dirty‚ Lady Macbeth manipulates him by telling him he is not being a man. Because of Macbeth’s infatuation with becoming of high power‚ and his
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True Feelings In "Shooting an Elephant" written in 1936‚ George Orwell comes off as being a racist and a coward. I believe that he is not a coward. After reading the narration‚ you must picture yourself during that time in Burma. In the hunt for natural resources the British forced themselves upon the people of Burma. This caused great tension and hate against any whites‚ Especially the Burman priests who”...none of them seemed to have anything to do except stand on street corners and jeer at Europeans
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through with her appalling plans and felt no remorse for the actions her husband accomplished. “Coward! Give me the daggers! Sleeping and dead people are like pictures of themselves. Only children fear a picture‚ even of the devil. If he’s still bleeding‚ I’ll smear the faces of the servants so it will look as if they did it.” (II‚ ii‚ 52-57) In fact‚ Lady Macbeth’s merciless words of calling her husband a coward when he is timid to return the murder weapons to the crime scene‚ displays her ruthless and
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A scutcheon is a crest of arms‚ that is‚ a general token of status. Falstaff means that honour is often waved about and trumpeted‚ but rarely means anything about the individual that claims to possess it. Characters like Falstaff‚ Hal and Henry all recognise the worth of honour but are all aware that it is only a implement to look better in the eyes of others‚ it has no real use‚ especially if you die trying to claim it. Although Falstaff has no use of the common code of honour‚ he will go to
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and the character in the poem were both coward and failed to act. While Hamlet’s failure to act is much different to other characters in literature such as in “Mulan”. When Mulan acted quickly‚ the results were beneficial in contrast to Hamlet who had failed results because he did not act. Hamlet’s failure to act ended his life. Mulan acting on her courageous belief gained pride and honour even though she was a girl and was looked down upon. Hamlet was a coward and that led to many consequences‚ which
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