In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible the audience is supplied with an array of varying characters. Arthur Miller effectively categorizes the characters of the play into two juxtaposing categories; the accusers‚ and the accused. The accusers are led by the antagonist of the play‚ Abigail Williams‚ whereas the accused are led by the protagonist of the play‚ John Proctor. The audience sympathizes with John Proctor not only because he has been falsely accused‚ but also because he is a representation of the
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The Mask of Denmark Under the mask of a well governed country‚ there lays the terminal disease of Denmark. William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” portrays the image of disease which causes the deterioration of Denmark. The country had a king with the ability to keep the country healthy. Then Denmark experienced disorder upon his sudden yet unnatural death. Upon his death‚ the ghost of King Hamlet sent his son Hamlet to avenge his death. The entire kingdom is filled with hate and discouragement. The thematic
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Araby‚ like the other stories in Dubliner‚ ‘ has both penetrating realism and a symbolic function ‘ ‚ as Michael Thorpe has rightly observed is his brief Introduction to Joyce in Modern Prose . Graphic and authentic picture of life in the city of Dublin in the days of the author’s childhood and early youth constitutes the solid basis of reality on which the story grows and flourishes. This reality is squalid‚ vulgar‚ meaningless petty and unpleasantly paralytic. The Narration begins with a detailed
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First of all‚ the author introduces Hosseini and his work‚ The Kite Runner briefly. Moreover‚ the author give a brief introduction about image. In the following part‚ literature reviews on The Kite Runner was presented to readers‚ including the researches‚ at home and abroad. These researches mainly concentrate on the perspectives of betray and redemption‚ kite image narrative technique‚ political‚ religion and culture and so on. Though there are some papers make a research of the kite image‚ they
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The Crucible Guided Viewing Questions KEY Who are Reverend Parris‚ Betty‚ and Abigail? What is their relationship? Rev. Parris is the minister of Salem‚ Betty is his daughter‚ and Abigail is his niece. Who is Tituba? What is her relationship to the family? Tituba is the Parris’s slave from Barbados. What is wrong with Betty? Betty is unconscious after being caught by her father dancing in the woods with other girls from Salem. Why does Parris suggest calling in Reverend
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The Crucible Discussion Questions ACT ONE 1.) The irony in this statement is purely the fact that the very corruption that the church was trying to avoid is exactly what is became overcome with. The wrong and deceitful lies that the church wanted to evade became the basis for many accusations and convictions of innocent peoples. 2.) Mrs. Putnam’s 7 babies died very soon after birth except for one‚ Ruth Putnam. According to her‚ the devil (and those working with the devil) are the reasons
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The novel‚ Imagining Argentina‚ makes use of several rhetorical devices in order to express the themes it presents. The image of the Holocaust‚ for example‚ is repeated several times throughout the novel in order to express the themes‚ such as during the experiences of the main character‚ Carlos Rueda‚ and the thoughts of the narrator‚ Martin Benn. It is through the repetition of the image of the Holocaust that the author‚ Lawrence Thornton‚ conveys the predominant theme of Imagining Argentina that
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The image of the green light in the novel Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is a significant symbol which represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future. The novel starts and ends with a reference to the green light at the end of the dock. The first time‚ Nick sees Gatsby reaching towards the green light with the dream of being with Daisy who is across the bay. Daisy represents the American dream or Gatsby’s American Dream. The second time was when Nick goes to the beach‚ to the edge of
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With reference to two of O’Connor’s poems‚ analyse the DVI’s he employs to explore his themes Poet and Environmentalist‚ Mark O’Connor‚ expresses his admiration for the cyclical and resilient aspects of which nature is comprised. The persistence of nature depicts the ideas that nature is just as‚ if not more‚ dominant as man. His poems Turtles Hatching and To Kill An Olive explore these themes and elucidate O’Connor’s compelling perspective of nature. These two poems hold distinctively visual
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Imagery in the play Othello In the play Othello‚ Shakespeare uses imagery to illustrate the theme of racism. Shakespeare uses three different forms of imagery‚ each with a different purpose. Religious and colour imagery is used to suggest racist stereotypes and the idea that black races suffer from poor circumstance. In addition‚ Shakespeare uses animal imagery to express Othello’s position in the chain of being. All of this to show‚ that racism is unacceptable and cannot prevent the love of anyone
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