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    Hamlet’s Treatment of Ophelia and Gertrude Modern folklore suggests women look at a man’s relationship with his mother to predict how they will treat other women in their life. Hamlet is a good example of a son’s treatment of his mother reflecting how he will treat the woman he loves because when considering Hamlet’s attitude and treatment of the Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s play‚ Hamlet‚ one must first consider how Hamlet treated his mother. A characteristic of Hamlet’s personality

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    I understand why you are torn when comes to gerrymandering‚ but for me I don’t think it’s fair. As the the definition of gerrymandering it is “redistricting to benefit a particular group”. What I really don’t like about it‚ is states get divided the way the congress wants and it changes at every . Even if the states gets redistricting in a weird way and it doesn’t make sense by looking at the map‚ as long as the district ends up with equal population. I don’t think the way it’s proportioned to make

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    piece of the conflict emerges later‚ but it’s a doozy: About halfway through the novel‚ Jordan Baker reveals that Jay Gatsby fell in love with Daisy some years before. He’d like Nick to invite Daisy to tea so he can see her. Nick helps reunite the two former lovers. Now we’ve got the conflict of Tom’s violence‚ conflict with Daisy and Gatsby’s love‚ and some potential conflict between Nick and

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    the newfound acceptance of homosexuality‚ the border between male homosocial relations and homosexual relations has become fuzzy. The distinction between male homosocial and homosexual desires are what I will be exploring in My Fair Lady. In the classic movie My Fair Lady the relationship between Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering displays both homosocial and homosexual characteristics‚ and models the triangular desire defined by Eve Sedgwick. Higgins invites Colonel Pickering to his house

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    the reader and Miss Ophelia directly influences her ability to criticize this character. Miss Ophelia being the only character to have any development is a way to curry favor with all the Northern women who were reading it at the time who were insulted. Stowe making Miss Ophelia more sympathetic at the end of the novel is a way to say to the readers ’if you think slavery is wrong and want to change it then you are a good Christian‚ if you don’t then you aren’t’. Miss Ophelia is portrayed not as racist

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    Shakespeare’s Ophelia is a complex character in her own right. She is controlled by her male relatives and isn’t set free truly till madness sets in. She is loved like a daughter by Queen Gertrude‚ first loved and then abused by Hamlet and above all used as a bargaining tool by Laertes and Polonius. In Shakespeare’s time the way her father and others treated her wouldn’t have been uncommon and the shock would have come from her bawdy behaviour when she went mad whereas a modern audience would

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    Molly Fox Molly Fox @02927528 Honors English 12 Description – G.A. 17 September 18‚ 2013 Ophelia Parker’s Moment with Chanel—(Writer’s Choice Piece) Ever since I was a little girl‚ all I wanted to be was rich and famous when I grew up‚ which I guess comes from being born and raised in New York City. Whenever I went through the illuminated metropolis‚ I would always see the most glamorous women

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    “It might take a year‚ it might take a day‚ but what’s meant to be will always find its way.” ~Anonymous Fate and destiny are supernatural concepts that many take the time to consider while others disregard as notions beyond scientific understanding. The quote above represents the idea of providence; events that are intended to occur will occur and no one can stop them from taking place. In his writings of The Scottish Play‚ Shakespeare suggests that individuals have the ability to make choices

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    Don’t Deny Destiny Question 11: What role does fate play in Romeo and Juliet? Shakespeare refers to Romeo and Juliet as “star-crossed lovers.” We can not deny the fact that they are ‘destined to be together‚’ it is just something that the reader must accept. Fate is inevitable throughout the whole play; Shakespeare never gives readers an explanation as to why there is a feud between the Capulets and the Montagues‚ it is rather an undeniable aspect of the world of the play.

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    After waiting anxiously in a two mile car line‚ which seemed more like ten miles‚ we were finally at the gate waiting to buy our ticket of fun and joy for the county fair‚ which was no different each year that came around. While waiting for my pass to paradise‚ which seemed as if we were in the same spot for hours‚ I could not stop thinking of all the fun I was going to have once we pass those rusty old gates that were separating me from heaven. What most worried me though‚ was if I would actually

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