Analysis of The Road Not Taken The literary work that captured my attention was Robert Frost’s‚ The Road Not Taken. This particular poem caught my attention because of the metaphor it presents. The narrator comes to a fork in the road while walking through the yellow woods. He considers both paths and concludes that each one is equally well-traveled and appealing. After choosing one of the roads‚ the narrator tells himself that he will come back to this fork one day in order to try the other
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Eugene Cooper Mrs. Jones English VI January 26‚ 2013 1. The theme of the story is‚ "never bight the hand that feeds you." I chose this as a theme because Macbeth was persuaded by his wife‚ Lady Macbeth‚ to kill King Duncan‚ a man who had trust in Macbeth. Toward the end of the story Lady Macbeth ends up committing suicide and Macbeth gets killed. 2. Macbeth is doomed not by fate but by flaw in his character because he was a weak person. Macbeth let Lady Macbeth tell him what to do and how
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Anthem Theme Essay This wonderfully crafted novel‚ Anthem by: Ayn Rand suggested many ideas concerning how effective and “perfect” utopian societies are. In the story our protagonist‚ equality‚ lives in a utopian society in the future however the societies technology isn’t very futuristic. All of what we have know has been stripped from the society to the point where they don’t have electricity and they use candles for light and primitive ways of farming instead of more productive ways to mass
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train letting her know that‚ he would never want to be redeemed; “If you’ve been redeemed‚ then I wouldn’t want to be.” (pg7) Hazel he is someone who dares to dream but shows no remorse towards the faith and belief that other people may have upon Jesus. His ignorant attitude is always against God‚ but ironically shows remorse with the hope he might receive some kind of sign as he walks with stones in his shoes. Hazel’s impulsive behavior increased‚ as he spoke of his new church. “I’m going to preach
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obsession and what he spent most of his time doing‚ distancing himself from Ralph and the others. Eventually Jack seperated from the group and created his own tribe full of hunters. The hunters later on in chapter 11 on page 181 kill piggy with no remorse as Jack says‚ "See? See? That’s what you’ll get! I meant that!". Jack didn’t stop there‚ he and the rest of the tribe go for Ralph next‚ starting a halocaust of the island‚"The fire was a big one...he could see the sun-splashed ground over an area
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The Stranger The Stranger written by Albert Camus‚ a Nobel Prize winner‚ tells the tale of a young man named Monsieur Meursault. In the beginning‚ Monsieur Meursault’s mother‚ Maman‚ has died. After getting a telegram containing news of Maman’s death‚ Monsieur Meursault heads to Marengo where his mother had been taken care of in a home. He is greeted by the director of the home who leads him to the mortuary to see Maman. Meursault attends her vigil that night and attends the funeral procession the
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close-knit gang of such Hutu genocide perpetrators was interviewed concerning their role in the genocide as well as their views concerning regret and forgiveness. While a majority of those interviewed admit their guilt in killing the Tutsis‚ their lack of remorse makes their apologies and actions largely unforgivable. This insincerity can be seen through their selfish concerns and motives‚ emphasis on receiving forgiveness from God rather than those victimized‚ and vision of a return to a completely unaffected
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Macbeth to witchcraft and consequently this is linked to evil. She invokes the spirits by repeatedly using the imperative Come therefore commanding them to ‘stop up th’ access and passage to remorse’ and go to her ‘women’s breasts and take my milk for gall’. This shows that she does not want to feel guilt or remorse and she wants to lose her feminine innocence by losing the milk and replacing it with a bitter substance produced from the gall bladder. The idea that this poison in her breasts would kill
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number of soldiers behind to protect the city from the incoming Japanese. Once Japan had breached through into the city‚ there was nothing left for the people of Nanking to do other than greeting the Japanese soldiers‚ only hoping to find refuge and remorse‚ because their government and army left them there to die. However‚ this was not the case. The first thing the Japanese did
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Justice Verses Mercy in maintaining a fair and supportive world Nothing more and nothing less‚ this is the basis of all consequence and reward in a just society. Although both justice and mercy together are needed to maintain a functioning society‚ the presence of justice is essential in order to maintain a fair and supportive world. Throughout the play King Lear‚ by William Shakespeare‚ many characters experience their own level of justice‚ both fair and excessive. Justice is essential
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