In Ambrose Bierce’s “The Boarded Window”‚ the building of suspense and the use of a cliffhanger creates an uncomfortable mood for the reader. Bierce starts her short story having the narrator tell a tale about a man‚ Murlock‚ who lives in a cabin deep in the woods with his wife. Murlock’s wife soon gets very ill and dies. Bierce starts the suspense by having Murlock show little to no emotion when his spouse passes. Murlock didn’t grieve for his wife at the time of her death because despite the fact
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Journal Topics for The Crucible As you read the play over the next few days‚ choose any 3 of the following topics and respond to them in a google document or on paper. Each response must be at least 250 words. You must include references to the text and provide support for all of your claims. Please use your best writing- no grammatical/spelling/capitalization errors- divide ideas using paragraphs etc. Each journal entry is 20 pts. You may do one more extra credit. Again‚ we are working on
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This scene takes place near the end of the end of the play. Ophelia has just died and her grave is being dug in the graveyard. Hamlet and Horatio come in and speak with the grave diggers. Later in the scene the funeral procession come through with Claudius‚ Gertrude‚ and Laertes. A major theme in this play is the conflict between action and inaction. Very few times in this play do the characters take action. It mainly a play of words and observation. So many scenes the characters stand‚ talk
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How is John’s relationship with Elizabeth different from that with Abigail? The relationship betwen John and Abigail had more physical chemistry and lust compared to that between John and Elizabeth‚ who kept a more estranged and distant relationship. This is seen from Abigail’s flirtatious relationship with John‚ with Abigail caught admiring John physique‚ “absorbing his presence‚ wide-eyed”‚ in comparison with Elizabeth‚ who simply “receives” John’s kiss and remains indifferent towards his warm
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information‚ putting an important character in peril‚ or the character must choose between two dangerous courses of action‚ or reversals. In the short story August Heat the author creates suspension through the use of foreshadowing and withholding back on some information and through assumptions. The story begins off and does not introduce the protagonist‚ but instead they introduce us to the settings. The author suggests
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In order to create a hypothetical utopian society‚ Aldous Huxley projects the future progression of technology and bases the direction of his novel Brave New World on those predictions. He shows how social standards and beliefs can be changed‚ and how a few upgrades over a few decades can cause society to be nearly unrecognizable‚ vastly dissimilar‚ and frankly quite strange from an outside perspective. Huxley predicts that technological advances can lead to views on birth‚ sex‚ and relationships
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The Crucible is undoubtedly one of the most interesting plays that has been written‚ and it is not that way only because of its creative story tale‚ but also because of the ideas that were conveyed through some of the characters. Arthur Miller wrote the play during the communist era and used the campaign of McCarthyism as the base of the story. In this period of Miller’s life‚ he was brought to court and had to confess to being a communist. While being held on trial‚ he confessed about himself but
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Throughout ‘The Crucible’ the theme of fear is used to show how much society’s behaviour is dictated by fear. Within the play‚ it becomes clear that most of the girls are afraid of being alone and will do anything to fit in‚ even if it goes against their beliefs. Similarly‚ in society this same behaviour occurs due to the fact that most people won’t speak out about an injustice they’ve witnessed if it means potential damage to their social status. Furthermore‚ some characters are afraid of their
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Miller‚ author of The Crucible. The Crucible was written in response of the accusation. In Miller’s play‚ he quickly made it clear what motifs he wanted to express the audience‚ which included law‚ religion‚ and accusations. ! In the crucible‚ the theme of reputation can be found at all corners. The citizens of Salem frequently fear for their public image because the word spreads fast and ruin their name. The first Act demonstrated this theme clearly when Reverend Parris who does not want his daughter
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client‚ named Molly escapes conviction‚ but he hires her as his housekeeper. Jaggers sadistically reminds Molly that he knows that she was guilty by showing her muscular and scraped up wrists to his houseguests. In the case in which he defends Molly‚ he does not have much of a defense for her‚ but he uses her size saying she is much too small to have murdered someone. In the informational book‚ Daily Life in Victorian England the author‚ Christopher Hibbert explains that because the police force was not
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