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    Exit scene of Oslec and Antonio * Antonio and his new girlfriend had an argument with Samantha but during the commotion Antonio offended his girlfriend and Oslec defended her thus after that they ran away together never to go back. i. Yaya Matilda and Simang * Simang asks Yaya to buy her celery and another stuffs and reminding her not to buy cheap stuffs. j. Simang and Antonio * Simang and Antonio were in the Party and Simang always boasts about New York and insulting her hometown

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    Shakespeare's Monk

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    Shakespeare’s Monk If there is one thing that Matthew Lewis’ novel The Monk: A Romance teaches us about writing‚ it is that William Shakespeare was an amazing creative author. Just about every facet of Lewis story is‚ at least in some part‚ borrowed from Shakespeare’s work. The most obvious allusion to Shakespeare in The Monk: A Romance‚ is the plot line of Lewis’ novel and Shakespeare’s work Measure for Measure. The story of Measure for Measure centers on Lord Angelo‚ who is given control

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    memories of his father drinking. The narrator describes “waltzing” with his father in the family kitchen until pans slide from the kitchen shelf” (5-6) and “Still clinging to your shirt” (16). This may indicate how a young boy was dependent on his father‚ or maybe the boy just didn’t want to stop playing with his father. The narrator also recalls how his “mothers countenance could not unfrown itself” (7-8)‚ meaning his mother didn’t find this “waltzing” to be too amusing. In the line “”But I hung

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    Theodore Roethke once said‚ “Love is not love’s vulnerable”. Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” is a short poem about a dance between the father and the son. In each line‚ there are many consonance which makes specific words to be important or strong. This makes the dance to sound like a fight which in fact many readers might mistakened by a coverup of a fight. Even though the poem has strong words‚ there are deeper analysis that shows the son and the father actually having a nice dance. From this‚ there

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    The Castle of Otranto

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    Title: The Castle of Otranto Author: Horace Walpole Year: 1764 First Gothic novel: horror‚ romance‚ fiction‚ fear. Motto of the book: Fathers’ sins are hereditary. Gothic novel - an English genre of fiction popular in the 18th to early 19th centuries‚ characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror and having a pseudo-medieval setting. (shocking people‚ gloomy‚ dark‚ depressing‚ also mental fog‚ different symbols‚ voices

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    In Book III of The Republic‚ Plato addresses the basic principles of education and the role of censorship in a just nation. He begins by compiling that education should consist of music‚ and poetry for the rational part of the soul‚ and physical education for the spirited part of the soul. Both together generate a harmony in the soul which is‚ the ultimate goal of education. Plato then states that education in music and poetry begins before the physical training. He then describes that beginning

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    My Papa Waltz

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    Roethke states‚ The whisley on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. (Roethke 1-4) This child disregards the smell of whiskey and chases behind clinging

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    "Inside is where the son and father will always be holding hands"(Adam Johnson). All children one way or another have a special bond between them and their father. But‚ a father and son form an unbreakable bond. It’s natural for a father to groom his son and teach him things he himself faced when he was once young. The poem "My Papa’s Waltz" by Theodore Roethke entails a memory of a small boy and father perceived to be having a good time and having a good time and dancing despite the father being

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    the most and wasn’t able to trust her mother Dolores because she stole the book the white man was teaching the class about. Feeling isolated and unloved she asks her teacher “Is it weird I can hear pip’s voice‚ like really hear him” (jones 181). Matilda`s able to remove herself from isolation by opening herself up to Dickens book and the protagonist in that book. This form of literature must have been a strong influence to her because she was able to visualize herself with the protagonist of the

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    TJ Waller Mrs. Pinchback AP English 12 18 November 2013 Explication One: “Mad Girl’s Love Song” “Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath dramatizes the clash between perception and reality in the mind of a speaker who has lost a love so vital to her world that she begins to question her own sanity. No formal setting is introduced‚ which supports a theme of mental instability as it can be inferred that the entire poem is taking place within the speaker’s mind as she struggles to determine the

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