bold hero and great father that seeks to win the 10 year war with the Trojans and succeeds. Although‚ weaknesses lye in every man as a human necessity and even this ’Hero’ has one. To include‚ Odysseus bravely faced many trials by battling a giant‚ man eating‚ Cyclops that no one dare to come near. Yes‚
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smoothly. The point of attack starts off when Antigone and her sister‚ Ismene‚ are discussing Creon’s law to deny burial rights to their brother‚ Polynices. This quick start to the play helps get the story going and gets straight to the point. The exposition‚ or revelation of facts‚ begins as soon as the play does. Sophocles establishes his characters by using foils‚ a contrasting character who sets off or helps to define another character. Antigone’s foil‚ Ismene‚ helps to show Antigone’s stubbornness
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stand like shadows next to man’s great failures. Devil in the White City by Erik Larson captures the essence of man’s greatness in the contrast between the Columbian World Exposition of 1893 and the murders conducted in the summer of the fair’s reign by a man known as Dr. H. H. Holmes. The World’s Fair‚ as the Columbian Exposition became known‚ represents one of the crowns in Chicago’s history. This “White City” was a dream world – a collective imagining by America’s greatest architects of the time
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Exposition: Our story starts off in the Dark Ages‚ on a place called “Mount Villainy” in the worst winter‚ the European archipelago has ever seen. Our hero is a scrawny‚ red headed‚ intelligent‚ extremely clever‚ left-handed‚ master sword fighter‚ Viking named Hiccup who everyone say is “useless and weak”‚ owner of a small‚ green‚ mischievous‚ little dragon without any teeth named toothless (I wonder why he named it that). Conflict: After Fishlegs (Hiccups best friend) starts to acts strangely Hiccup
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tragic flaw? Tragic flaw is a failing of character in a hero of a tragedy that brings about his downfall. Oedipus appears to have many flaws on the surface namely his selfish temperament‚ curiosity and of course his hubris or excessive pride. Firstly‚ his superiority and projection of ego is proved in exposition‚ when Oedipus shows a paternalistic attitude towards his subjects by calling people ‘’children’’ about four times. Furthermore there is a repetition of ‘’I” in his speech
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“The chaser” was the short story written by “John Collier”. The story was based on the fantasy world of humans in which they talk about the love potion that made someone madly fall in love. In the exposition‚ they talk about the character Alan‚ who went to his neighbourhood to meet someone. He found one of the doors in an old street where the name of that person was written “obscurely” (3). He entered the room and found no furniture inside it instead of “a plain kitchen table‚ a rocking chair and
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distaste and empathy in the audience through his vengeful actions. Usurped by his brother and stranded on an island with his infant daughter‚ Prospero evokes compassion in his campaign for retribution‚ yet the actions taken to reach his objective are selfish. His noble yet ambiguous motives‚ driven by the belief that the ends justify the means‚ are eventually redressed and exemplify the concept of justice in forgiveness instead of revenge. At the start of the play‚ Prospero’s selfishness and absolute
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THE SELFISH GENE Richard Dawkins is Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Born in Nairobi of British parents‚ he was educated at Oxford and did his doctorate under the Nobel-prize winning ethologist Niko Tinbergen. From 1967 to 1969 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of California at Berkeley‚ returning as University Lecturer and later Reader in Zoology at New College‚ Oxford‚ before becoming the first holder of the Simonyi Chair in
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The Glass Menagerie The glass menagerie is a superb work of art by Tennessee Williams. It is a play that highlights the various realities and desperations of its characters in their response to a confused society. Williams has an admirable talent for creating a play that’s genre is serious and has a tragic ending; yet he keeps the story interesting to the audience whether it be through reading it as a text or in the theater. The story of the Glass Menagerie is an emotional recount of memories
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family members were killed.Brian found out that this was a giant‚ 500 pound bear who did this. He also knew that on its front right paw it was missing a toenail and that it had giant footsteps. This is how he tracked the bear‚ which is one of its weaknesses. Also if Brian can get a clear shot on the bear‚ then the bear would be dead or at least hurt. Another weakness is that this bear is huge so it is very lazy. Plot: exposition: There is only one main character in the book his name is Brian
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