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    If her own mother thinks that her daughter is ugly‚ then so does Pecola. She lives her life believing that she’s ugly and loathes herself because she’s black which is what she thinks makes her ugly. At the beginning of the novel‚ when Pecola is still residing at the Mcteer home‚ Mama Breedlove makes it known to the reader that “That old trifling Cholly been out of jail

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    portrays a little girl by the name Pecola as the main character in his Novel‚ The Bluest Eye. Pecola thinks she is ugly because she is black and so is people around her. She is abused‚ neglected and she feels hatred within herself. She interacts with people both grown-ups and kids and they have shown her that she does not fit in their community. With the mentality of her being ugly‚ Pecola thinks by having blue eyes then her life would change and she would be termed be beautiful. She has been exposed

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    Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote this poem ‘Pied Beauty’‚ which used the tone of contradiction to convince readers to praise and be thankful to God‚ as He had given us whatever we have. On the other hand‚ ‘Hunting Snake’ written by Judith Wright created the tone of tense by illustrating the reactions of the poet and her companion when they met a hunting snake on their walk. Great senses of imagery were created in both the poems ‘Pied Beauty’ and ‘Hunting Snake’. First difference between two poems

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    reader to become engrossed in the perspective of the people of Halifax‚ creating a vantage point not usually seen in most historical depictions. In almost every description of the Mont Blanc‚ MacLennan painted a distasteful picture of the vessel “An ugly little craft of little more

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    Antigone‚ Anouilh signifies the importance of the French war-time existentialist creed of the importance of determining one’s fate based upon one’s view of life. Perhaps the clearest indication of this comes when she tells Creon: “Yes I am ugly. Father was ugly too. But Father became beautiful”[Passage A‚ line 21]. This refers to Oedipus’s catharsis in Sophocles’s trilogy‚ whereby he blinded himself and went out onto the roads as a beggar to repent for his unwitting crimes of killing his father and

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    stonemasonry and the art of sculpture; he was also worshiped as the God of technology‚ artisans‚ and sculptors. He is the blacksmith of the Olympian Gods. Appearance: His is the only God considered ugly‚ according to the standards of the Gods. He was so ugly that when his own mother so how ugly he was‚ she threw him out of Mount Olympus. She was thrown to the of the sea and during his fall he got injured in one leg and when his leg healed‚ it healed deformed causing him to be lame as well as the

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    are the five ugliest animals in the world! 5. The Monkfish It took a long time for people to warm up to the idea of eating monkfish. With their numerous razor-sharp teeth‚ slimy spike-covered bodies and ridiculously oversized heads‚ monkfish are so ugly that some countries have had to ban them on account of customers being too intimidated by their looks. It’s fortunate‚ then‚ that

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    The story “The fish” by Elizabeth Bishop is important that it portrays that beauty transcends physical existence and falls into the experience that the viewer has with the subject that is being displayed. The poem is in past tense because the point of view is coming from the main character after he realized he had a great appreciation for the fish and its beauty. The story portrays a story of a fisherman who has the rare opportunity to meet an amazing creature. This is why he describes the fish

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    of being rough with Romeo. He is telling Romeo that if love hurts him‚ he should hurt it back and defeat it. “Give me a case to put my visage in. A visor for a visor”! This statement tells us how Mercutio thinks he is an ugly person‚ thus asking for an ugly cover mask for an ugly face. 7. These violent delights have violent ends‚ And in their triumph die‚ like fire and powder Which as they kiss consume. This quotation is spoken by Friar Lawrence to Romeo. Romeo and Juliet

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    Modern art was born ugly. “The first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly was taking by Matisse and the 1910 Salon des Independents in Paris was described by an American critic as a drawing that was crude beyond all belief‚ the colour was as appalling as the subject. Which brought a shock to Henri Matisse himself by his creations‚ however‚ in the dawn of 20th century‚ Henri Matisse was well held in high esteem as the father of modern art‚ interestingly‚ and Pablo Picasso was as well sleeping

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