Anger is a short madness” – Horace It creeps all over you; it crawls‚ teases and provokes you. Like soaking wet clothes it drags you down‚ replaces your mind with an explosion of incandescent neurons‚ brilliant oranges and reds cascade into view‚ deluding‚ confusing and trapping you into the temporary oblivion of insanity – like a bullet escaping the barrel of a gun your single thought of madness screeches through your cerebrum‚ you hear it in your intellect – the drums of war bellow as blood floods
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Lady of Letters’ in 1987. It is a dramatic monologue from the ’Talking heads’ collection and was written for Patricia Routledge. This satirical tragic-comedy is about a middle aged woman called Irene Ruddock who writes letters of criticism and the short period in her life when her letter writing is most malicious and trouble making. She is judgemental and likes to look down on people‚ as if she is better than everyone‚ when really she isn’t. Her mixed up life leads us away from the irony near the
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Scales 1! Katrina Scales David Miles ENC-1102 16 July 2015 A Yellow Rose It is likely that after reading short stories The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner‚ any sensible reader will feel disturbed in at least the slightest. Both texts contain neurotic women of unsound mind who have deathly obsessions. At first glance‚ these stories do not seem to have much in common; they have been written through opposite perspectives‚ one neglects to be chronological
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Yiddish Short Essay When watching the film‚ The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin‚ one word came into mind immediately‚ resistance. Resistance is defined as the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument. In this film along with the book Dignity and Despair and the movie The Pianist‚ there was a large portrayal of resistance especially in the ghettos. Each text depicted a different challenge of resistance they performed against the Nazi
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Short Story Scrutiny. Scepticism. Shock. It was all too familiar‚ the look on the faces in the room. An aboriginal female in a doctor’s coat. She glanced around the room as she sat down. The dullness of the grey walls seemed to absorb the lost hopes and dreams of the young men around her. The stale oxygen that lingered in the small room was slowly suffocating under the sterile smell of disinfectant. The only glimmer of light was a small corner of a window where the morning sun shimmered through
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4 short stories Romance: Plot and setting- character is living alone‚ doesn’t do anything with his time and his fathers money‚ and wakes up one morning watching TV and realizes that he needs to do something with his life. This character dropped out of school‚ but still loved his life even though he didn’t do anything. This character knows they have great athletic skill and decided to try out for a team. He barely makes the team as he goes through trouble working as a team and contributing to cooperation
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Beauty is defined as the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind‚ whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape‚ color‚ sound‚ etc.)‚ a meaningful design or pattern‚ or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest). However‚ beauty has been topic of debate in terms of its definition. In order to see what is special about pleasure in beauty‚ we must shift the focus back to consider what is special
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This short essay will focus on the “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe‚ in particular‚ his use of dramatic irony and the tragic disparity of awareness we‚ as the reader‚ are privy to. Poe uses irony to cast a sarcastic undertone over his dark story and create a personal‚ almost fraternal relationship between the narrator and the reader. Poe establishes this relationship in the story’s opening referring to the reader directly as ‘you‚ who so well know the nature of my soul’ (Poe). The
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The most important symbol in the short story "The Necklace" is the necklace itself. The entire story revolves around it. As we move through the story the necklace takes on different meanings as circumstances change. This is a story about a beautiful woman and a low-class man that sacrifice ten long hard years of their lives for a special night for his spoiled wife. Mr. and Mrs. Loisel were invited to an annual ball held by the Minister of Education. Mrs. Loisel had nothing to wear to
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where I was. When she finally stop talking to catch her breath I told her I was coming home. I went down the slide and walked towards my car. As I drove home I passed by the same bridge and remembered about being in conflict with my emotion doing that short time. But just like before I forgot all about it once I passed under it. When I finally walked inside the house which was greeted by yelling from my mother‚ I had an
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