Carton’s Last Act In Charles Dickens classic A Tale of Two Cities‚ the character Sydney Carton can be portrayed in many ways. From certain perspectives he can be viewed as a person with no purpose in life‚ who found a short cut to death and gladly took it. Another way Carton can be viewed‚ is as someone who does good deeds for other people‚ but is over looked by others and his last good deed was dying for someone else. Although in the beginning of A Tale of Two Cities Sydney Carton is portrayed
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enter high school with my friends ‚ not knowing these would be the most drama filled ‚ fatiguing ‚ happiest and saddest 4 years of my life . I had no idea what being a teenager would actually be like ‚ all I knew was that I was finally going to be in high school and I felt grown and independent. I thought I could handle any and everything ‚ but I was completely wrong . Freshman and Sophomore year I was all about my friends and my social life. I was always hanging out with my old friends and building
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Act 1‚ scene 1 The music in the opening scene sets the theme Orsino opens the play with a lengthy monologue about love. He is a dreamer‚ very poetic. “If music be the food of love‚ play on”- Orsino It has been established that the main theme is ‘love’ It is a romantic comedy Technique- a rhyming couplet (two lines that rhyme at the end of a scene) a rhyming couplet is a summary of the scene (summarizing the previous lines) Act 1‚ scene 2 Act 1 scene 2 takes place in a ship wreck and the
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could influence my life forever. That is a lot for an 17-year-old to take on. However‚ In 30 years I will most likely be in the same boat as my parents. I’ll probably be trying to send my children through college‚ and making sure they have everything they need to make it in the world. However‚ what about my life then? Will I consider my life successful? The truth is‚ no one really knows where we are going‚ but I do know that I have an eventful future ahead. In order for me to see my life as successful
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Columbus the Last Voyage This film tells the story of how Christopher Columbus went on his many voyages to find and discover. However‚ this films tells the truth about his voyages not only discussing his successful trip of find the Americas but the other voyages as well. In these voyages he was not successful these trips were instead marked by disaster‚ accusations and of course betrayal. Columbus was still on the hunt to a fast route to Asia throughout this voyage he faced many troubles having
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Later in “The Last Night of the World‚” the wife gets out of bed and states‚ “Wait a moment…I left the water running in the kitchen…I turned the faucet off‚” followed by a thought from the husband’s point of view‚ “Something about this was so funny that he had to laugh” (Bradbury 4). The amused characters symbolize the acceptance of their death. The anticipation of death is typically not responded to with laughter‚ however‚ this response could be represented by the feeling of carelessness or why
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Michelangelo was the greatest master of the human figure in the Renaissance and in his detailed masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel he proved that he was exactly that. The Last Judgment was a monumental piece of artwork that has so many expressive meanings all elaborately placed together to make one huge masterpiece. Michelangelo embodies different stories combined into one that all have separate religious meaning. He expressed the church reform and shows nudity that was not highly accepted; on the
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John Toland’s book‚ The Last 100 Days‚ portrays the final occurrences of World War II in Europe in a way no high school textbook has ever been able to do. Unfortunately‚ there have been those whom I have encountered that have reduced The Last 100 Days to having the same dulling effects as one. However‚ upon reading it‚ my own opinions and conclusions were made. These will be covered more deeply upon first describing the author and then summarizing what I thought to be the major happenings of the
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Bus HomeThe Last Bus Home Rain was always a sign of tragedy‚ something bad didn’t happen every time it rained‚ no‚ but everything bad that happened to me in my life had happened on a day when it was pouring. Alight sprinkle never phased me‚ it was also raining that day. As I woke up in my warm & cosy queen sized bed‚ I remember feeling a cold shiver going up my back through my pink silky pyjamas. It was a typical December morning‚ it wasn’t snowing yet but it was cold and foggy. As I got ready
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suitors‚ and the meeting between Odysseus and his father. The main theme of book 23 is the meeting of Odysseus and Penelope. How Penelope tells Eurycleia to move her bed which makes Odysseus suddenly flare up and tells Penelops how the bed was made and how its unmovable. By doing so Penelope knows that this man must be her husband. After they get reacquainted‚ Odysseus tells Penelope where all he’s been on his wanderings. Main theme of book 24 is the suitors being led by Hermes in Hades. Agamenon
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