What is a tragic hero? A tragic hero is defined as a great or virtuous character in a dramatic tragedy who is destined for downfall‚ suffering‚ or defeat. All People make mistakes and everyone wants to be accepted ‚ but sometimes that just doesn’t happen and not all heroes are “Perfect”than you expect. John Proctor in The Crucible is a clever‚ and stubborn guy but as well as a respected man in Salem his name is very well honored.He goes to church pretty much every week. Proctor is a good father
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To a Passer-By The street about me roared with a deafening sound. Tall‚ slender‚ in heavy mourning‚ majestic grief‚ A woman passed‚ with a glittering hand Raising‚ swinging the hem and flounces of her skirt; Agile and graceful‚ her leg was like a statue’s. Tense as in a delirium‚ I drank From her eyes‚ pale sky where tempests germinate‚ The sweetness that enthralls and the pleasure that kills. A lightning flash... then night! Fleeting beauty By whose glance I was suddenly reborn‚ Will I see
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“My house is the green one across from the field at the foot of the mountain. I’m telling you that I saw it and the next day they said old man Basil was missing. I saw it carry him up the mountainside. When I called the sheriff‚ they wouldn’t even come out and talk to me.” The elderly woman finished pumping her gas and said. “I was looking out my window this morning and I saw a monstrous looking thing going across the field carrying something‚” the elderly lady said. “You probably saw a reflection
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As the 19th amendment was passed‚ women became more confident‚ stopped feeling like property‚ and realized that they could do more than just being a homemaker. Since men had left to go fight in the second World War‚ women needed to take over the work force. As the men began to return back to the states‚ some women refused to give up their current job. This resulted in women making up 23.6% of the American labor force. This jump primarily included single women‚ as only 10% of married women worked
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The Giver‚ a novel by: Lois Lowry is a descriptively written book that projected an image of what seems at first to be a “perfect” world‚ A world that thrives on “sameness” of the people and creatures within. The novel also shows the glory of color and memory. Something that we use everyday‚ But in Jonas’s world it was taken from them by the elders of the past. The first reason you should read The Giver is because of the amount of descriptive language. One example of descriptive language is in
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Judgement of a Man The fifteen year old boy in the poem “Fifteen‚” by William Stafford‚ makes a very adult decision when faced with a conflict of choosing maturity or immaturity. One day‚ this boy finds a motorcycle laying on its side‚ which Stafford describes when he writes‚ “I found back of the willows one summer day a motorcycle with engine running” (Line 2 and Line 3). There is no one around to catch the boy‚ giving the boy the option to steal the motorcycle or to find the owner and return
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The opening of a piece of literature is very important as it is responsible for creating the interest and anticipation that will drive the reader to carry on and enjoy it. Readers expect openings to include a couple of key areas like the setting‚ the introduction of characters and interest through a form of enigma or tension. Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love both conforms and challenges what a reader would expect of an opening through opening on what seems to be a climactic point of the book. Opening
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The poem is one of the best known popular pieces written by Lord Alfred Tennyson as poet laureate of England. In it we may find many of the favorite devices of the narrative poets: Alliteration‚ Inversion‚ repetition‚ balance and climax. The poem relates an incident which occurred during the Crimean war in 1854. England‚ France and Turkey fought the Russian forces. The battle took place at a small port Balaclava in Crimean. The British Light Brigade‚ a cavalry of unit of six hundred soldiers were
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and resentment “ELIZABETH: John‚ you are not open with me. You saw her with a crowd‚ you said. Now you- PROCTOR: I’ll plead my honesty no more‚ Elizabeth. ELIZABETH-(now she would justify herself): John‚ I am only- PROCTOR: No more! I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion. But I wilted‚ and‚ like a Christian‚ I confessed. Confessed! Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day. But you’re not‚ you’re not‚ and let you remember it! Let you look sometimes for
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Matthew Clare Ms. McIntyre British Literature Tuesday‚ September 25‚ 12 The Seafarer Each struggles with the storms of life. The long nights fighting the icy cold seas. Ideas fill minds with despair and doubt. Some struggle with the knowledge of coming danger‚ others with the fear of not knowing. “The Seafarer” is an elegy that compares the sea to the fear of everyman‚ of every struggle and hardship. However‚ contained in this elegy is also the answer to these fears. The author depicts
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