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Made My First Shortest Part One
2,154 wordsAs the unfriendly, ice-cold wind travelled precipitously over the neglected heath, I made my first brave step towards the enormous entrance leading into the settlement of those abandoned souls. While I continued at a steady pace towards the screeching, corroded gateway I felt the irregular and jagged rocks as they were slowing me from reaching up to the gate. The closer I seemed to get towards the overpowering, fully grown gateway the darker the area became with the stealthily moving shadows. Wh...
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Early Nineteenth Century Eligible To Vote
1,471 wordsBritain aimed to become a democratic country throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By 1928, a democracy was very close to being achieved. For a democracy in Britain, there had to be universal suffrage, where every man and women have the right to vote regardless of class. Also a secret ballot must be in place to prevent corruption. Equal sizes of constitutions need to be enforced, with regular elections and elected members of government. In a democracy, the voters must have civil rig...
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Julius Caesar Great Chain
826 wordsWilliam Shakespeare is famous for his use of language and puns, his jests and motifs. The characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet use language to communicate ideas, distort truth, and manipulate other people. In Hamlet there are numerous recurring ideas, which serve as motifs. One of these recurring images is disease. The characters use the imagery of disease in correlation to sickness and rottenness. Sickness enters Denmark when the Great Chain of Being is disrupted. Early in the first scene, when F...
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Act Ii Scene Hamlet Prince Of Denmark
933 wordsIn the play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, it preformed the essential need of Hamlet, the protagonist and his ambiguity about the murder of his uncle Claudius, the new King. The essential revenge was something that was absolutely necessary that Hamlet should have done. Claudius, King Hamlets brother, murdered King Hamlet, Hamlets father. Hamlets ambiguity came in when he was not sure if he should kill Claudius or not, because he was scared of getting caught and being punished. Essenti...
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Death And Corruption In Hamlet
1,694 wordsHarold Blume said it best when he said, "Hamlet is deaths ambassador to us. " Throughout Hamlet, we have the images of death, decay, rottenness, and corruption pressed upon us. The imagery corresponds with the plot of the play perfectly, all culminating with the gravedigger scene. The corruption images illuminate the actions of the people in Claudius' court, beginning with Claudius' own actions. The beginning of the play lets us know that it is winter with Fransisco's statement that it is "bitte...
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Mr And Mrs End Of The Story
1,118 wordsI have chosen The Metamorphosis as my subject for this paper; I will take a close look at how the death of Gregor Samsa opens the doors to understanding the story. I will give examples of irony through Gregor's metamorphosis and how this irony brings together the conclusion of the story. Through his death we see the truth behind his parents, which in it's self is ironic. It is difficult to pinpoint one specific thing to write about in the story; there are just so many things that can be brought ...
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Line Of The Poem Langston Hughes
841 wordsThe Dreams Deferred Dreams Deferred The poem, A Dream Deferred, by Langston Hughes, accurately and descriptively portrays the attitudes of African American people during the mid 1900 s. Hughes expresses the possible responses of African Americans to their dreams being deferred by means of metaphors and similes. The first thing the reader needs to do to understand this poem is find out what a dream deferred means. Deferred means to put something off or to postpone it. In this poem, Hughes asks th...
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Quot Or Quot Double Standard
1,354 wordsWhat About Polonius? One of the main characters in the play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, is Polonius. Polonius is the father of Laertes and Ophelia and is also the right hand man to the king, Claudius. He is a man who is nosy and is constantly babbling about something, yet is a loving father and a loyal servant to the state. Or is he? What exactly is the nature of Polonius? How important was he to Shakespeare's epic play? Did he really have to die? What about Polonius? The audience is...
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Nurse And Women Women And The Nurse Death
521 wordsMedea -A Friendly Enemy Death is my wish for myself, my enemies, my children (Euripides translated by Robinson Jeffers, Medea 11). Medea is hungry for death. She wants to taste it on her lips and wishes others to do the same. The value which Medea gives death is to use it as a weapon against her enemies. On the other hand, the women and the nurse fear death. Death, to the women and to the nurse is something that should not be wished for. O shining sky, divine earth, Harken not to the song that t...
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