In "Robinson Crusoe", how did Friday get on the island? in robinson crusoe

In
Chapter 22 of the book, Friday and another person are captives of
the cannibals who evidently come to the island to have their festivities and then leave by
canoe. One victim is killed, and the other, Friday, runs in the direction of Crusoe's
fortress.

Crusoe had previously had a dream of this very eventuality some
time earlier and is surprised that it is playing out in front of him.  He convinces the victim
that he is friendly, kills two cannibals who are pursuing the victim, and helps Friday hide in
his cave.

Friday then claims loyalty forever to Crusoe.

This savage seeing a little chance for life darted away from his
captors He ran very fast right toward my home I was dreadfully frightened when I saw this for I
thought all the savages were after him...By a great deal of coaxing I got him to come to me at
last He threw himself at my feet and placed my foot on his head to show me that he would be my
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After Gregors death, his father says, €˜Lets give thanks to God! He crossed himself, and the three women followed his example (Kafka...

Ever
since Gregor's transformation, his family has come to see him as a burden. He is revolting to
look at, unable to work to support the family (he had been the main breadwinner for a while),
and makes having guests over very awkward since he is so hideous. Though his sister and mother
try to be compassionate, their disgust overcomes their ability to love Gregor. They no longer
see him as a human being. After confirming his death, the Samsas start focusing on what they
will do about their daughter Grete's future, all but forgetting they ever had a son.

So when Gregor dies, the entire family is relieved rather than grieved by the loss.
Though there is some indication that Mrs. Samsa is a little grieved when she is tempted to make
the cleaning lady stop poking Gregor's corpse with her broom, overall, they are more than happy
to be free of Gregor and view his death as a mercy from Godthough more a mercy for themselves
rather than the poor, tormented, and lonely Gregor. It is a selfish relief they feel, and their
crossing of themselves, not to mention their uncharitable behavior regarding their son, seems
rather unchristian and highly hypocritical.

What racial and ethnic tensions emerged in the West because of American expansionism?

America, in the
mid-1800s was a very racist country, with legal slavery and a long standing policy of
extermination of Native Americans.  What's more, due to large waves of Irish and German
immigrants, a xenophobic (anti-foreigner) movement and political party began at that time.  My
point being that racial and ethnic tension didn't emerge at the time, but was rather embedded in
society to begin with.

However, Manifest Destiny and the Gold Rush brought
tens of thousands of Chinese immigrants to the west coast, California in particular, and as they
looked differently, spoke a different language and were not Christian, they were very easy to
discriminate against.  Chinatowns on the west coast were simply anti-Asian
segregation.

The large influx of miners and settlers in the newly conquered
western territories pushed Natives off of their tribal lands and hunting grounds, so there was
inevitable conflict between whites and the Sioux, Pawnee, Crow, Apache and Nez Perce tribes,
among others, and anti-Native sentiment rose along with it.

Lastly, there was
a great deal of tension between the Tejanos, Californios and white American settlers, who
suddenly found that they occupied the same land and that Latinos had lost most of their rights
to it.

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In Of Mice and Men, why is Lennie responsible for killing Curley's wife?

is
responsible for killing Curley's wife because he did it.

In , Lennie is
sitting alone until Curley's wife enters.  Both of them start to talk, and Curley's wife
launches into a discussion of her own failed dreams.  As they talk, the discussion moves into
how they both like "soft things" to touch.  Curley's wife points to her hair as an
example and how she has to brush it over and over.  To prove her point about the softness in her
hair, she lets Lennie touch it.  Excited to touch something soft, Lennie holds her hair and then
starts to brush it with his fingers, tightening his grip in the process. Curley's wife struggles
and as she does, Lennie's hold becomes vise- like.  The escalation causes her to scream, with
Lennie panicking and placing his hand over her mouth to silence her.  As she struggles to
escape, Lennie forcefully shakes her.  This causes her neck to break.

As he
stares at her dead body, Lennie realizes what we already know.  He recognizes that he is
responsible for Curley's wife's death: I done a real bad thing...I shouldnt of did that. ll be
mad."  Lennie runs away from the scene of the crime because he knows that he "done a
real bad thing" in killing Curley's wife.

In Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, can Friday ever be Crusoe's equal?

In 's
novel , Crusoe begins his adventures traveling to several places before he
is shipwrecked. On his way with business partners to take slaves in Africa (you might think his
own experience as a slave might have affected this decision), his ship is
destroyed by a violent storm and he becomes a castaway on an island alone: all of his companions
are lost. Over time, Crusoe has a religious awakening when he becomes extremely ill. However,
this does not include any transformation regarding his station in life and the station of the
black native, Friday, who Crusoe eventually saves from cannibals. Crusoe is never able to
realize the value of Friday as a man because of his skin color. Friday comes to represent the
prevailing attitudes of English...

Describe the most up-to-date model of the atom before the alpha particle experiment.

Hello,
let's answer your question!

Before Rutherford proposed his
model of the atom, the most up to date model of the atom was the one proposed by by J. J.
Thomson in 1904, the so-called "Plum pudding model".

At the time, Thomson knew that atoms were made up of negatively charged electrons. But
since atoms were also known to have a neutral electric charge, Thomson had to assume that the
atom also had "something" in it with a positive charge to balance out the negative
charge from the electrons.

With this in mind, Thomson thought of three models
that would best fit this description:

1. Each electron would have a
   positive charge as a pair;
2. The electrons would orbit a central region of
   net positive charge;
3. The electrons would occupy a region of
   net positive charge, as if there was a "soup" with positive charge in this
   region.

Thomson decided to go with the third
option for his model, where the pudding in the name came from.

The model lost
its place to the one proposed by Ernest Rutherford in 1911his student at the time. He conducted
an experiment where he shot alpha particles (helium nuclei) into a sheet of gold and observed
the trajectories of these particles. The data lead him into discarding his professor's model, as
it didn't describe the data as well as it should.

Rutherford's model was
similar to the second option first proposed by Thomson. In this model, the atom was made up of a
central positively charged particle (the nucleus), which would have electrons in its
orbit.

When the United States joined the Allies, why did the Allies concentrate first on defeating Hitler?

While the
Japanese struck first, public support behind the war was easier to mobilize with Hitler in the
European Theatre.  The previous post was quite accurate in the tactical advantage and military
alliance forged with the Europeans to go after Hitler first and the Japanese later on in the
conflict.  The threat that Hitler posed was one where individuals in the position of power were
able to mobilize those fighting to focus their efforts.  Many felt that Hitler was the
motivating force behind the Japanese attacks and posed the greater threat to the notion of
"freedom" in the world. In attacking Hitler first, few figured Japan to be a threat to
stand on their own.   This, and the fact that our allies were facing immediate and pressing
challenges from Hitler above all else, made it quite easy for the United States to harness all
of their efforts in the European Theatre before the Pacific.

What would the thesis statement of The Communist Manifesto be? Where in the book do you find it?

If there
is a single thesis statement in the Communist Manifesto, it is this, found
in the introduction to the document:

[N]ot only has the
bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the
men who are to wield those weaponsthe modern working classthe proletarians.

This statement sums up the core arguments of the
Manifesto: history is properly understood in terms of class relations based
on economic terms; conflict between social classes advances history; industrial development has
created the bourgeoisie and the proletariat; and history is moving inevitably toward the
destruction of the former by the latter.

The context for the
Manifesto was the revolutions that convulsed Europe in 1848revolutions
which Marx and Engels saw as harbingers of the open class confrontation that would destroy the
bourgeoisie. By this point, the authors argued, the bourgeoisie had become so powerful and had
so thoroughly ripped apart the traditional forces...

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What is the relationship between God and man in "The Pulley" by George Herbert?

Herbert
is using a pulley as afor the relationship between God and man. A pulley is a simple mechanical
device which you use to lift something up by pulling down on it. God lifts us up by withholding
the gift of rest and drawing us closer to Himself. The mechanical metaphor neatly encapsulates
the reciprocity of the relationship between man and God.

The central conceit
of the poem is God's act of creating human beings. God has a glassful of blessings he wishes to
pour into us as he puts us together:

So strength first
made a way; 

Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour,
pleasure.

The most important blessing, the gift of
rest, lies at the bottom of the glass. When God has finished bestowing the other blessings upon
us, he hesitates. Perhaps it might not be a good idea, God muses, to include this particular
blessing in the making of human beings:

'For if I should,' said he, 

'Bestow this jewel also on my
creature, 

He would adore my gifts instead of me, 

And rest in Nature, not...

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Although women gained rights, how did the media's representation of women change over time? Did it become worse or did it stay the same?

The exact
contours of an answer might exceed the space allotted here.  Certainly, I think that one would
have to concede that the media representation of women has changed over time.  One can see this
in the depiction of the leaders of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  In
her book, Where the Girls Are:  Growing Up Female with the Mass Media,
Susan Douglas makes the argument that there was a distinct media bias in how leaders of the ERA
movement were depicted in the mass media.  She contrasts the covers of news magazines that
depicted prominent figures such as Gloria Steinem and Kate Millett.  The cover of
Newsweek magazine that depicted Gloria Steinem features reflection that
demonstrates an adulation with "The New Woman" embodied by Steinem. This depiction is
one in which there was more discussion of Steinem's "hair and legs" than "with
her ideas."  The implication was that a woman who "looked like this" did not need
to be a feminist, and that "the new woman" still adhered to an external and
patriarchal notion of beauty.  In contrast the cover to a Time magazine
article on modern feminism featured an artist's drawing of Kate Millett as a "grim, ball-
busting ninja from hell" who "did not wash her hair enough."  In the analysis of
both media images, one sees how the representation of women changed in highlighting feminism,
but still doing so within the patriarchal focus in which women were still objectified as objects
of beauty. The content of their political and social ideas were secondary to a depiction that
would increase circulation of male- owned media avenues.

Over time, a case
can be made that the depiction of women has changed, but still features a clear patriarchal
bias.  Women's depictions in the media are not proportional to the complexity of human
character.  The media depicts different visions of women, but they are limiting in their scope.
 Powerful depictions of women are narrow and one- dimensional, focusing on "ball
busting" strength that is meant to equate women's power with something undesirable.  The
flipside to this is an oversexualized notion of women's identity, one in which girls as early as
six years old begin to see themselves in seuxalized depiction.  While the media has depicted
more women, the depictions of women are static and reflective of a patriarchal niche that women
are supposed to fulfill.  In this light, one can see that the media's depiction of women have
changed, but are still limiting to the full range ofintrinsic to being a human being.  Recent
studies have indicated that "fewer than one in five experts interviewed by the media are
women, 46% of news stories reinforce gender-based stereotypes, and Only 6% of stories highlight
issues of gender equality or inequality."  These help to emphasize how there still is a
ways to go in terms of seeing an accurate depiction of women in the media's representation of
women.

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What are some similarities between the events detailed in George Orwell's novel 1984 and what has happened or is still happening in Libya?

Since Libya
was a totalitarian regime during the leadership of Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan society during his
period of rule almost inevitably bore some resemblance to the kind of society described byin his
famous anti-totalitarian novel . Some similarities between the two
societies included the following:

• Gaddafi liked to call himself
  the brother leader, among other titles, thus resembling the Big Brother emphasized in s
  novel.
• Gaddafis rule was rooted in a particular ideology described in his
  so-called Green Book. Similarly, in 1984, the ruling
  party has its own ideology and makes sure that that ideology is publicized and
  enforced.
• Gaddafis regime was very concerned (like...
  
  
  
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Discuss this quote: €˜She was. She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe . . . According to her views, she died...

In , Mrs.
Dubose criticizesfor defending Tom Robinson and adds some racist comments. She also criticizes
the Finch family. In their experiences with her,andsimply see her as an old, cantankerous woman.
Atticus has a different perspective, which he will reveal later in this chapter. In retaliation
for these comments, Jem cuts off all of Mrs. Dubose's camellia bushes. Atticus finds out and
sends Jem to speak with Mrs. Dubose about it. She "sentences" Jem to read to her six
days a week for one month. Jem wants nothing to do with her but he reluctantly agrees to do
it. 

Atticus stresses the fact that Mrs....

Tuesday 26 July 2011

What ethnic difference separates Nnaemeka and Nene in "Marriage Is a Private Affair"?

Ins
story, Nnaemeka is the son of Okeke; they are of the Ibo tribe. Nnaemeka falls in love with and
wants to marry Nene, a young woman who is of the Ibibio tribe; they had met while both were
living in Lagos, the capital of...

Please provide examples of figurative language in Books 1 and 2 of Homer's Odyssey.

One of the
most famous examples of figurative language in the Odyssey, repeated often,
is the phrase "rosy-fingered dawn." Instead of simply saying the sun rose or dawn
broke or the day began,employs a(a comparison that does not use the words like or as) that
likens the rising sun to rosy fingers. This metaphor paints a picture in our mind of what dawn
is like as the sun pokes it way up into the sky.

Homer usesas well. In
alliteration, words that begin with same consonant are placed close to each other. Homer, for
example, describes Odysseus's son Telemachus as follows, the many "s" sounds creating
a sense of rhythm:

He slung a sharp sword from his
shoulders, then laced
his lovely sandals over his shining feet.

Rather than just narrate events, Homer at times uses the literary
device of dialogue to create a sense of immediacy, as if we are there with the characters,
overhearing their words. For example, we feel the poignancy of Telemachus's simpleas he
speaks...

In "The Metamorphosis", what is the meaning and significance of the transformation depicted by Franz Kafka?

is like a nightmare
from which the hero Gregor Samsa is unable to wake up. It is as if he has been dreaming that he
was a disgusting insect like a cockroach and when he woke up he found that it was really true.
His condition symbolizes his life. He is a wage slave with no life of his own. He is being
exploited by his employer and his family, all of whom take it for granted that he is entirely
obligated to them. When it develops that he is no longer able to function as the sole
breadwinner of the family, their true feelings about him come out. His father especially treats
him brutally and nearly kills him. Only his sister shows a little pity, Gregor learns nothing
from his experience. He is willing to hide in his room and subsist on table scraps like a bug.
When he dies of neglect, the family members are forced to provide for themselves and are able to
do so successfully, proving that he was foolish not to have given priority to  his own welfare
and happiness.

Monday 25 July 2011

How is Bradbury's "The Veldt" an allusion to Barrie's "Peter Pan"?

A
literarywithin "" to the story Peter Pan would allude to one or
more of several things.

• Peter Pan was a playful rascal who never
  wanted to grow up.
• Peter Pan had a following of similar little boys who
  never wanted to grow up.
• They lived in a land past the second star on the
  right where they had non-stop adventures and outwitted a wily villain:


• Tinker Bell was Peter's friend and guide, with her magic pixie dust.


• Wendy and her brothers were invited to Never Land.
• She made the
  Lost Boys think of home and mother.
• Invited to stay in Never Land, Wendy
  and her brothers opted to return home.
• Peter Pan abandoned his parents for
  immortal childhood.
• Wendy and her brothers temporarily abandoned their
  parents for a short-lived adventure.
• The overall tone of this much beloved
  tale is lighthearted, fun and loving.
• Peter Pan is not perceived as being
  unbalanced and spewing hatred and danger.

"The Veldt"
shares some things in common, but they are antithetical opposites.

• The overall tone of is menacing, dark, threatening and dangerous.


• Wendy and Peter have gone past creating charming and over-indulged play scenes and
  become absorbed in creating angry, retributive scenes (for revenge and retribution).


• Their parents aren't abandoned for immortal youth, but for vicious
  retaliation.
• Their parents aren't abandoned: they are murdered.


• Wendy and Peter don't desire playful immortal youth; they desire control and power
  manifest through childhood's tools or toys.
• Peter and Wendy don't test
  their courage and resourcefulness against a wily villain; they antagonize, threaten, imprison
  and eliminate their well-meaning, though misguided parents.

As
the overall picture of each is set out in detail, one sees how there is similarity, but one more
readily sees how "The Veldt" is the antithetical dark
side of the Peter Pan tale. Where Peter Pan is innocently young and
adventuresome, Wendy and Peter Hadley are cruelly bent upon realizing their own dangerous
objectives.

So, to defend the idea that "The Veldt" is an allusion
to Peter Pan one must expand the definition of "allusion" to
include a negative or antithetical representation of a well know work etc. The current standard
definition of "allusion" applies to
those parts that call to mind a direct correspondence to or correlation
with the work etc alluded to.

title="Allusion. Literary Terms. lilia Melani. Brooklyn College">An
allusion: a brief reference to a person, event, place, or phrase. The writer assumes
[readers] recognize the reference.

To illustrate, if I
refer to "colored eggs in a basket," the allusion embodied therein calls forth a
direct recollection of the Easter Bunny. A negative, antithetical
image of an anti-Bunny who robs colored eggs form baskets is
not evoked. The only way a negative or
antithetical understanding might be evoked by an allusion would be if the negative
aspect were explicitly invoked in the language. For instance, I might say
"betrayed colored eggs in a basket"; this might call forth the
antithetical image of a villainous Easter Bunny.

While
it might be argued that Peter Pan inspired "The Veldt," it cannot
correctly be said that "The Veldt" alludes to the tale because there is
no direct correlation between the two--there
is an antithetical correlation, a light side to dark side, positive to
negative correlation. One might correctly say that "The Veldt"
references Peter Pan, since reference may be
of any sort: a positive reference, a negative one, an inverse reference, an antithetical one, or
a contrasting one.

In Canto 18 of Dante's Inferno, why is the priest in hell?

Dante
explores the numerous circles of Hell in this story, in each of which a different sin is
relegated. Throughout the story we have seen the punishments for a number of terrible sins, and
in18, we come to the area where fraud is punished. The eighth circle of Hell, one of the worst,
holds the eternal punishment for sinners guilty of fraud.

Within this circle
is the priest, normally considered a holy man, and Dante is shocked to find a clergy member here
in Hell. However, this gets to the heart of sinthat anyone can fall deeply into it. The priest
is guilty of defrauding his congregation, and this is what Dante wants to comment on in the
Catholic Church. He is angered at the amount of deception in the church and wants to condemn it
in this work.

How does government intervention in market distort market equilibrium?

Whenever the
government intervenes in a market it disrupts market equilibrium in some way.  The exact way
that it does this differs depending on how the government intervenes.

The
government can cause shortages of some commodity by setting a price ceiling for that commodity. 
If it does this, there is more...

How might computers contribute to unemployment in modern society?

If we as a
society maintain the view that computers (and not us) are responsible for social changes, then
we are using a deterministic view of technology which is not very productive. Instead, we should
turn back to social theories which state that the individual and the use he or she gives to the
technology is what is responsible for social change. This is what is called an
"instrumentalist" view of technology. If we all adopt the instrumental versus the
deterministic and reductionist mentality, we will see that, in the end, computers would not be
any obstacle in the process of employment or job creation. In fact, they may be the tool that we
all need to use malleably to enhance what we already have and expand our
possibilities.

Romeo And Juliet Hate Quotes

Threading
throughout theof is the conflict between Love and Hate. Expressive of this
is 's earlyinin which he speaks in oxymorons that prove to come true:

Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.
Why then,
O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy
lightness! serious vanity!
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of
lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it
is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this. (1.1.173-180)

Then, in Scene 5 of this first act,underscores the integral
connection of the two passions, love and hate as, when she learns Romeo's name, she
exclaims,

My only love, sprung from my only hate!

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is
to me
That I must love a loathed enemy (1.5.147-150)

In Act III, the juxtapostion of love and hate is again present in the confrontation
ofwith Romeo, who protests that his hatred for Tybalt has now turned to love:

Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee
Doth much
excuse the appertaining rage
To such a greeting. Villain am I none.

Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not. (3.1.51-54)

Of course, this love soon returns to hatred afteris slain.  And,
likewise, in , Juliet is tormented with the conflict of the two passions as her love for her new
husband finds hatred for his act of killing her beloved cousin Tybalt.  Her monologue ironically
echoes the contradictions of feeling expressed by Romeo in Act I:

O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a
cave?
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feather'd raven!
wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show!
Just opposite to
what thou justly seem'st
A damned saint, an honourable villain!
O nature,
what hadst thou to do in hell
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
In
mortal paradise of such sweet flesh? (3.2.76-85)

Indeed,
the theme of Love/Hate recurs in act after act of Romeo and
Juliet, tragically finding its violent end in death.

Sunday 24 July 2011

What are some examples of Lyddie being determined in the book Lyddie in Chapters 1 to 8?

is independent and
hard-working no matter what the challenge.

To say that a
person is determined means that the person does not give up.  Lyddie definitely does not give
up.  She faces challenge after challenge, and never backs down.  This is how she is able to go
from living on the farm on her own to working in a factory.

Lyddies father
left the farm in order to try to make money out west.  It was devastating to their mother.  She
turned in on herself, and left Lyddie to manage the farm on her own.  Lyddie became the only
adult in the family.  This was a challenge that she faced head on.  A perfect example of Lyddies
bravery and stubbornness is when a bear came into their house.

Lyddie glared straight into the bear's eyes, daring him to step forward into the cabin.
(Ch. 1)

This is a girl who not even back down from a
bear!  She reacted calmly and coolly to the situation, immediately ordering her mother and
siblings into the loft and then staring the bear down.

Lyddie also holds her
own on the family farm after her mother leaves.  Her mother simply cant handle life, and so she
goes to Lilys uncle and leaves her and her brother Charles behind to deal with the farm.  Lyddie
can handle it though.  She keeps herself and her brother alive.

The fact that
it is important to Lyddie to do things by herself is evident from the conversation with her
brother about asking their neighbor for help.

He should
know she was not going to be beholden to the neighbors for anything so trivial as her own
comfort. (Ch. 1)

Lyddie is determined to never be
beholden to anyone.  She does not want to have to rely on others and insists on doing everything
herself.  She takes on the family debt single-handedly, believing that it is her responsibility
and not her brothers or her mothers.

Lyddie likes to say, we can still
hop.  She is an optimist in some ways and a realist in others.  No matter what happens, she
takes things as they come.  She works hard at the tavern, but when she gets fired she finds
another job at a factory.  No matter what happens, Lyddie always keeps
going.

How Has The Constitution Lasted Through Changing Times

The
Constitution has survived for so long largely for two reasons. First and foremost it is
incredibly difficult to amend. As a previous educator has pointed out, the Constitution has only
been amended 27 times in all. This is no accident. The framers of the Constitution feared
radical change and so wanted to make it as difficult as possible to make amendments. They
worried that if the Constitution could be tinkered with too easily then its whole nature would
change, leaving the American system of government with a much weaker foundation.

That explains why the bar for the ratification process is set so high. Each proposed
amendment must be approved by two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives and
three-fourths of the states. By anyone's standards, these are very difficult hurdles to
surmount, as supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment have found to their cost.

The second main reason for the Constitution's endurance is its ability to adapt to
changing circumstances. For...

Where does the helium that is formed during hydrogen fusion go?

When too
much of a star's hydrogen has combined to form helium, the star begins to collapse. The
collapsing star has enough heat to fuse the helium atoms together into elements like carbon (and
oxygen, if carbon fuses to helium). Depending on the size of the star, these new atoms can
continue fusing to form elements with even heavier nuclei.

In white dwarf
stars, the core is all that's left, and the main thing present in that core is helium. If the
star was larger to begin with, it never forms a white dwarf. Instead, it continues fusion and
creates heavier elements (the heaviest of which is iron).

Once iron has been
fused, there's not much left for the star to do no matter how hot its core may be. It can either
form a supernova or a black hole.

All the helium that exists in our universe
comes from this type of fusion.

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Saturday 23 July 2011

In 1984, what do Winston's dreams about his mother, the golden country, and the dark-haired girl reveal about him?

I see 's dreams
about his mother and his betrayal of her a bit differently.  His grabbing the chocolate for
himself suggests that there are certain drives that are almost out of his/our control.  Stealing
food from your mother/sister is a horrible act, but it suggests a kind of malleability that
foreshadows what is going to happen at the end of the story.  Winston's betrayal ofis horrible;
"Do it to Julia" may be the saddest words in modern literature, but they are, in the
world of , unavoidable.  In the long run, the state "breaks"
everyone.  

I think that Winston's dreams of the golden country and the
dark-haired girl represent his "romantic" side, his belief that things can be better;
it is akin to his belief that if there is going to be "salvation," it will come from
the Proles.  These dreams show how little Winston is aware of the present reality and are tied
to his belief (which is contrary to his expressed knowledge) that he can keep the diary without
any consequences.  Perhaps it is these ideas that make his final undoing so
painful.

What scenes and details are most important in The Lovely Bones? I need to make a scene model of an important part/place of The Lovely Bones and also a...

 

You asked about details. I think it's easy to get carried away with the supernatural
elements of the crime. However it is just as important that the story is basically about love.
Love transcends death. Usually it has a figurative meaning, but here it's literal!

Wednesday 20 July 2011

Why does Mollie run away from the farm?

To answer this
question, take a look at Chapter Five. According to the narrator, Mollie has become increasingly
troublesome. She doesn't want to do any work and would rather spend her time gazing at her own
reflection in the drinking pool.

After an intervention from Clover, Mollie
disappears and...

Describe the relationship between Mrs. Higgins and her son in Pygmalion.

In the Shavian
play , the relationship between the characters of Mrs. Higgins and her son,
Higgins, is perhaps one of the most comedic in literature. We come to learn about the
relationship in Act Three, where we find Mrs. Higgins, a wealthy woman over sixty, during her
"at-home". This means that this is an afternoon for her to receive her friends, write
her letters, and maybe even entertain a person or two to tea. This is a proper tradition of a
lady of her class. 

This being said, we contrast her with her son, and here
is where the comedy begins. Her son, Higgins, is the epitome of the black sheep child. He
swears, is coarse, does not follow any sort of etiquette, has a cranky attitude, bursts into
places without being called, and essentially has been a bachelor for so long that he is not
willing to change his ways. 

On this note, Mrs. Higgins is, literally, his
foil, and her good manners and exquisite tastes make their dynamics totally dysfunctional.
During this Act, we can witness some funny instances where Higgins and his mother demonstrate a
relationship that resembles a comedic tag team. To Higgins, his mother is certainly
"Mom", and he clearly seeks her company every time he feels stressed. Contrastingly,
Mrs. Higgins does her best to keep Higgins away, for he embarrasses her and makes her nice home
look as coarse as he is. However, it is clear that she loves her son, and that she is past the
frustration of trying to change him. That is where the funny dynamics come from, and they are
clearly illustrated in their first dialogue:

MRS. HIGGINS:  class="stage">[dismayed] Henry  class="stage">[scolding him]! What are you doing
here to-day? It is my at-home day: you promised not to come.  class="stage">[As he bends to kiss her, she takes his hat off, and
presents it to
him].

HIGGINS: Oh
bother! [He throws the hat down on the
table].

MRS.
HIGGINS: Go home at
once.

HIGGINS:  class="stage">[kissing her] I know, mother. I
came on purpose.

MRS.
HIGGINS: But you mustn't. I'm serious, Henry. You offend all my
friends: they stop coming whenever they meet you.

Hence, we see a very unique relationship where the mother is aware of the
son's follies and the son is aware of his disconnect with his mother's world. However, far from
making this a problem to the plot, Shaw makes this a very comedic element makes us see a lighter
side of the stuffy Victorian family life. This is a unique trait of writers such as Shaw, and
Wilde, where they basically establish that family life does not have to be yet another social
acquaintance, but that mother and son can actually love each other and still accept each other's
deeply rooted differences. 

 

Why do you think Edwards give a vivid description of hell?

Edwards
vivid descriptions of Hell shock and terrify his audience.  He does the in order to not only
gain their attention, but to convince them to turn away from their wicked ways and to accept
God.  Edwards believed that the people were becoming complaisant and almost lazy with their
religion, so his sermon, a part of the Great Awakening, was intended to awaken them from this
laziness and terrify them into joining his church.

By describing Hell, he is
playing on their greatest fears.  No one knows when they may die, so he postulates that it is
God's decision when their time is up.

There is nothing
that keeps wicked men, at any one moment, out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.

Using this fear that at any moment their time may be up, Edwards
describes Hell as the worst possible place to live so that the congregation will be willing to
do anything to avoid spending their eternity there.

So
that every unconverted man properly belongs to hell; that is his place; from thence he is. John
8:23,"Ye are from beneath." And thither he is bound; 'tis the place thatjustice, and
God's Word, and the sentence of his unchangeable lawassigns to him.

How can I deconstruct the dream where O'Brien claims that they shall meet in a place where there is no darkness?

believes that the dream is referencing a time and a place where Big Brother's dark and
oppressive oversight will no longer exist.  Winston, and the reader, both believe it will be a
promised land of sorts or a revolution in which all of Big Brother's manipulation will be
exposed for all of the world to see.  A light will shine down and overcome evil.  It's a
familiar literary motif.  

Unfortunately, Winston has it all wrong.  The
dream isWinston's torture at the hands of .  That entire sequence will occur in a place where
there is no darkness. . . because a light is always shining down on Winston.  It's part of his
torture, and it helps break him back down into a completely compliant party member.
 

Tuesday 19 July 2011

What is the significance of the title of Shaw's Pygmalion?

Shaw took the
title of his play from an ancient Greek legend. According to this legend,was a sculptor who
disliked women and did not see any reason to ever get married. Nevertheless, Pygmalion grew
lonely and decided to create an ivory sculpture of a beautiful woman. This sculpture was so
beautiful, in fact, that Pygmalion fell in love with it.

Shaw's
Pygmalion therefore reflects this legend and the title pays homage to its
message. At the beginning of the play, Profession Henry Higgins has negative views of women,
just like Pygmalion. He believes that women are a "damned nuisance," for instance, who
"upset everything" when they enter a man's life.

Similarly, by
receiving elocution lessons from Professor Higgins, Eliza becomes a symbol of Pygmalion's
sculpture. At the start of the play Eliza is a flower girl but, by the end, speaks as well as
any duchess. She is indeed a creation of Professor Higgins, just like Pygmalion's beautiful
sculpture.

Monday 18 July 2011

In "The Black Cat," the narrator states that he doesnt expect the reader to believe his story. So why does he say he is telling it?

When at
the beginning of the story the narrator says that he neither expect(s) nor solicit(s) belief,
he, or rather the author, is doing so as a way to build up the reader's anticipation of the
story to come. The implication of the narrators assertion is that the story is very bizarre and
unbelievable. The reader will thus anticipate an extraordinary story and will be keen to read on
and discover for themselves whether it is believable or not.

He subsequently
explains that he is telling the story because he expects to die to-morrow and wishes to
unburthen (his) soul before he dies. This implies that the story which the narrator is about
to unfold weighs heavily upon his mind and perhaps even upon his conscience. He wants to tell
the story now so that he can be rid of it and die with a clean conscience and a peaceful soul.
In this way, the process of telling the story is, for the narrator, a kind of or, to use a
rather crude , like an exorcismwhereby he can rid himself of demons which are a burden upon his
soul.

Based on "Marriage is a Private Affair," what can you depict as the shared characteristic between the father and son?

The
father, Okeke, and son, Nnaemeka, in this story have presumably had a happy and fruitful
relationship prior to Nnaemeka's decision to marry a woman not of his father's choosingand,
importantly, not an Ibo. In terms of their adherence to the cultural norms of their tribe,
father and son are different; Nnaemeka lives in a more modern, cosmopolitan world, and does not
believe he can marry someone he does not love. However, in terms of their personality, there are
indications that the two are fairly similar.

Nnaekema knows his father well.
At the beginning of the story, he anticipates correctly how his father will react to the news of
his engagement. He also insists that, because his father is a good person and a...

What are the social issues found in The Pearl by John Steinbeck?

's
explores several different social issues. The most prominent is the
concept of greed and the destruction to which it leads. Many characters are overcome by greed,
from the doctor in the beginning, to the corporate pearl buyers who try to scam Kino, and to
Kino himself. Greed is pervasive throughout most of the characters in the novel.

Fueling this greed, however, is rampant poverty and destitution. This economic pit that
most of the characters find themselves in is a terrible way of life that is sustained by
corporate greed.

Criminal activity and violence are also explored in detail,
as Kino and his family have to run from and fend off thieves and attackers multiple times. At
one point Kino himself is reduced to murder to protect his family, but in the end he still cant
save his son, in spite of the wealth he would have received from the pearl.

What do you think was Dante's purpose in writing Inferno?

Dante
wrote  during a period of personal and political upheaval, and the work
reflects many of the issues in Florentine political life, literary history, and Dante's personal
life.

On a political level, Italy at this period was not unifiedunification
was not completed until 1871but instead consisted of various small states often involved in
rivalries against each other or affiliations with different larger European states. Florence,
Dante's native city, was caught up in a contest between two factions know as the the Guelphs and
Ghibellines, with the Guelphs tending to...

Sunday 17 July 2011

In Hamlet, what literary devices can you identify in the following passage? Please help me find metaphors, synecdoche, images, similes. It is...

athenaia86

Shakespeare's language is highly allusive, and 'shere is loaded with examples of the
literary devices you've asked about. It's worth restating the definition of each device before
you look for examples within the text.

A is
"ain which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally
applicable [1]." People use metaphors to compare one thing to another thing in order to add
more meaning to their words. For instance, the phrase "a blanket of snow" compares
snow on the ground to a blanket and adds the meanings of thickness, evenness, and softness to
the idea of snow.

's metaphors include (but are not
limited to):

• "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!"
  Hamlet is the prince of Denmark and neither a peasant nor a slave, but his metaphor implies that
  he feels himself to be powerless and undeserving of respect.
• "He
  would drown the stage with tears." Nobody's tears are sufficient to drown a stage. What...
  

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How does science fiction as a literary 'genre' distinguish itself from fantasy?

As a ,
Sciencedistinguishes itself from Fantasy in the elements of technology and science as opposed to
magic and the supernatural. Most of both genres have similar patterns with a human component,
different worlds, creatures or aliens and a quest.

With Fantasy, supernatural
forces, divine intervention and/or magic are major elements that make up the genre. They are
linked to the realm of that particular story line.

Science Fiction removes
the magic and the supernatural with science and technology. Whereas a wizard may heal the sick
through touch and a chant, in science...

In "Macbeth", what predictions do the witches make about Banquo?

The first and only time
the Weird Sisters interact with , they tell him,

Thou
shalt get kings, though thou be none.  (1.3.68)

In other
words, then, Banquo will never be king himself -- aswill -- but those in his line of descendants
will be kings.  In this way, he is lesser thanbecause he will never be king, but he is also
greater than Macbeth because he will sire children who will sire children who will be kings. 
His line will live on, though Macbeth's will die.  Banquo will not be as happy as Macbeth
because he will not rule himself.  However, he will be happier than Macbeth for the same reason
that he will be greater.

Though Banquo never again interacts with the Weird
Sisters, they do provide yet another prophecy regarding Banquo when Macbeth visits them a second
time.  Macbeth asks if Banquo's "issue [will] ever / Reign in this kingdom"
(4.1.108). answer him by showing him a line of eight kings, the last one holding a mirror.  Each
of these eight kings bears some physical resemblance to Banquo, and then, finally, the ghost of
Banquo, bloodied from his murder, smiles at Macbeth and "points at them for his"
(4.1.129).  The mirror held by the last one seems to signify that Banquo's line will go on and
on.

Saturday 16 July 2011

What Is Dignity

"Dignity" to me reflects the
self-respect you have for yourself. In this case, then, dignity comes from the choices you make
for yourself, in terms of how you choose to handle yourself on a daily basis.

We try not to embarrass ourselves, but dignity is more than that. For
me it means avoiding gossip: sharing it or listening to it. It means not listening to
prejudicial jokes or commentsI will simply walk away. I cannot abide listening to people
criticize or make fun of people who are less fortunate, whether it refers to living in poverty,
being homeless, being on drugs, having abortions, being overweight, etc. I can only
imagine how difficult the lives of others are. In this case, it's in
allowing others to have a sense of dignity as well.

And, as Atticus Finch
says, until I can spend some time in someone else's skin, how can I judge them? There are
exceptions: murderers and pedophiles. I just can't wrap my brain around those kinds of people: I
sense theinvolved but cannot put myself in those shoes.

For me, this all
comes back to dignity...putting my "best foot forward." It means setting examples for
youngsters, and letting other adults know what is important to me. I am also religious, so I
feel that setting a good example is especially important for that reason.

Finally, dignity means you don't always have to have the last word. Sticks and
stones...Honestly, if I feel I am right, I have a hard time just walking away. But dignity
includes having enough self-respect and belief in being on the right path, that it shouldn't
matter if I have the last word. (Working on that...)

Dignity should not mean
being a snob. To me, it's more about the choices I make, and those choices
don't have to be the choices of others. I can only be responsible for me.

What is the old life of an old man in Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well Lighted Place"?

Like most of s
stories, A Clean, Well Lighted Place is full of dialogue and not much summary or description.
Hemingway writes in a very plain, spare style that leaves more to the imagination of the reader
than most writers would dare to do.

In A Clean, Well Lighted Place the
reader is not given much information about the old man. He is sitting at a table drinking
brandy. We learn from the waiters conversation that he comes in very frequently and often stays
until he is drunk. They dont want him to get drunk because sometimes when he does so he leaves
without paying.

When one of the waiters says he wants the old man to leave so
that he (the waiter) can close up and go home to be where his wife is, we learn that the old man
once had a wife also. This is actually the only fact we get about the old mans old
life.

The implication, based on the waiters conversation, is that the old man
is lonely because he no longer has a wife to go home to and that he likes the caf© more than he
would like a bar. We do find out that he recently tried to commit suicide by hanging, but that
was not part of his old life since it happened recently.

Hemingway actually
seems more intent on describing the older waiter than the old man customer. We see that he has
compassion for the old man, and that makes him a sympathetic character. However, we do not learn
anything about the old waiters old life, only that he too has no one to go home to and suffers
from insomnia.

What is another image that conveys a predicament similar to the plight of the sinner that Edwards speaks of and why?

In
describing God's wrath, Edwards spares few details in evoking the rage and anger of the divine. 
As a leader of the Great Awakening, Edwards was fairly convincing in his assertion that God was
angry at the colonists and their secular ways that sought to advance society without the
controlling influence of God.  Attempting to prove this, Edwards suggests that higher powers
will exact revenge on human beings for straying from the path of the divinely ordained.  He
employs the image of angry archer to vividly portray the desire of the divine to rectify the
lack of spirituality in the Colonists:

The arrows of death
fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.God has so many different
unsearchable ways of taking wicked men out of the world and sending them to hell, that there is
nothing to make it appear, that God had need to be at the expense of a miracle, or go out of the
ordinary course of his providence, to destroy any wicked man, at any moment.

Such an image highlights the anger that Edwards seeks to use in
hisof God and justice will be exacted in a precise and deliberate manner, like an archer
delivering an arrow from his quiver.

Friday 15 July 2011

What Is The Omnivore's Dilemma

The Omnivore's Dilemma is the question posed at the beginning of 's book:

What should we have for dinner?

Pollan goes on to explain that this question is much more complicated than it appears.
He not only tries to answer the question, but also to explain why it is so complex and has vast
ramifications for the world.

An omnivore, by definition, can eat "just
about anything nature has to offer." In this situation, it is only to be expected that we
start to worry about what we should eat. The vast number of potential choices is matched by the
equally huge range of advice proffered by...

How did the professor stumble upon the Egypt game?

The
professor stumbled upon the Egypt Game while looking for something in a storeroom in the back of
his antique shop. 

Since he was not used to being in the storeroom, his
curiosity was piqued when he heard a noise coming from outside the storeroom. The text tells us
that the storeroom overlooked an abandoned yard surrounded by a fence and that there was a
dilapidated lean-to shed in the yard. 

Since the storeroom window was caked
with grime, the professor had to rub out a spot in the thick coating of dirt before he could
look through the glass. As he looked through the...

Please can you give an example of a metaphor in The Witch of Blackbird Pond?

If you are looking for
metaphors and other examples of figurative language, a great place to start is the description
provided of the changing seasons in America. The author uses a number of different types of
figurative language to convey the beauty and the differences. Consider the description of fall
at the beginning of Chapter 14:

After the keen still days
of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth. Before Kit's eyes a miracle
took place, for which she was totally unprepared. She stood in the doorway of her uncle's house
and held her breath with wonder. The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic
red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a
carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the colour shouted and
sang around her. The dried brown leaves crackled beneath her feet and gave off a delicious smoky
fragrance.

Now, hopefully you will have noticed that in
this quote there are a number of different examples of figurative language. Note how the
description brings fall to life in all its beauty by appealing to as many of the senses as
possible. We have theof the leaves "crackling," enacting the sound, and we have theof
"the fields stretched like a carpet of jewels," helping us to imagine the visual
beauty of the fields in all of their bright colours. Remember, though, that adiffers from a
simile in that it asserts a comparison between two objects without using the word
"like" or "as." Thus, the oaks that "glowed yellow and bronze" is
an example of an implied metaphor, because the oaks are being compared to gold and bronze,
precious metals, because of their beautiful colour.

Hopefully this will help
you identify other metaphors in this great book. You might want to think about the description
of winter that is provided later on in the novel and see if you can find any examples of
metaphors there. Good luck!

How would you describe Bruno's father throughout chapter 5 of The Boy In The Striped Pajamas?

Bruno's
father is a Nazi commandant. Under orders from the Fuhrer ('Fury' to Bruno's nine year old
ears), the whole family must move to Auschwitz ('Out-With' to Bruno) as Bruno's father has been
selected to oversee operations at the death-camps there.

Bruno's father is
used to being obeyed, both by his family as well as by soldiers under his command. For example,
Bruno is never to enter his father's office for any reason; it is 'Out Of Bounds At All Times
And No Exceptions.'

Bruno describes his father as a meticulous man. His
personal appearance is impeccable and his voice authoritative; his uniform is pressed to
perfection and his hair lacquered carefully. Bruno's father looks every inch the commandant that
he is. He doesn't have to raise his voice even when he is giving an order. An example of his
quiet confidence is displayed when he dismisses his soldiers with a well-placed joke.

Your suggestions and your encouragement are very much
appreciated...Here we have a fresh beginning, but...

Thursday 14 July 2011

In what way were Dimmesdale and Chillingworth victims? Of what? in the book we were using, it had litttle side notes to help readers understand...

andcould be considered victims in two areas. First, they were victims of's self-absorption. In
Chillingworth, Hester entered a loveless marriage to which she did not stay true. Her infidelity
was a reflection, not on herself alone, but also on her husband. Being a "cuckold" (a
husband whose wife has cheated on) was a dishonorable position for that time period. It
implicated him in being inadequate as a husband in many ways. There is almost the
sense...

How is Romeo a tragic hero in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

In addition, the tragic
hero must make some kind of error in judgment that leads to a
reversal of his fortune and his own
destruction. Whencomes between the duelingand no matter how good
his intentions arehe does, indeed, reverse his fortune. He thinks that he can simply stop the
fight, but he errors in failing to realize that Tybalt would do something dishonorable. Tybalt
stabs Mercutio under Romeo's arm when Mercutio cannot see him, causing Mercutio to curse both
the houses of Capulet and Montague. Then, Romeo feels compelled to slay Tybalt in order to
avenge Mercutio. For this crime, he is banished to Mantua, and he only gets to spend one night
with , his new bride. Then, in order to cheer her up after the death of her beloved cousin,
Juliet's parents decide to arrange a hasty wedding so as to produce some cause for joy. This
compels her to fake her own death. When Romeo does not get the message from, he goes to her tomb
and takes poison so that...

What are two poetic devices presented in the poem "Richard Cory," that helped to enhance the poet's work.

Here's the
poem:

Wheneverwent down town, 
We people on the
pavement looked at him: 
He was a gentleman from sole to
crown, 
Clean-favoured and imperially slim. 

And he was always
quietly arrayed, 
And he was always human when he talked; 
But still he
fluttered pulses when he said, 
"Good Morning!" and he glittered when he
walked. 

And he was rich, yes, richer than a king, 
And admirably
schooled in every grace: 
In fine -- we thought that he was everything 
To
make us wish that we were in his place. 

So on we worked and waited for the
light, 
And went without the meat and cursed the bread, 
And Richard Cory, one
calm summer night, 
Went home and put a bullet in his head.

Henry David Thoreau said "men live lives of quiet
desperation."  None more than Richard Cory, it seems, whose suicide is not necessarily a
shock to those in the town, but rather a source of morbid fascination and gossip.

The poem appears simple, straightforward, and
conventional: there is no , no , no symbolism, no lyric self-expression.

Rather, the key is the speaker's tone: he is a reporter
giving us the news.  The poem reads like an obituary.  It confirms what all the townspeople
already know, but it seals Cory's death in black and white print for posterity--a detached
epitaph for the ages.

The two key poetic devices
are  and humor which relies on the
contrast between the image of Cory's stoic exterior  and the violence of his death.  If a longer
piece, the poem would be Horatian , .

Critic Ellsworth Barnard says it
best:

The first two lines suggest Richard Cory's
distinction, his separation from ordinary folk. The second two tell what it is in his natural
appearance that sets him off. The next two mention the habitual demeanor that elevates him still
more in men's regard: his apparent lack of vanity, his rejection of the eminence that his
fellows would accord him. At the beginning of the third stanza, "rich" might seem to
be an but not inthe eyes of ordinary Americans; though, as the second line
indicates, they would not like to have it thought that
in their eyes wealth is everything. The last two lines of the stanza record
a total impression of a life that perfectly realizes the dream that most men have of an ideal
existence; while the first two lines of the last stanza bring us back with
bitter emphasis to the poem's beginning, and the impassable gulf, for most peoplebut not, they
think, for Richard Corybetween dream and fact. Thus the first fourteen lines are a painstaking
preparation for the last two, with their stunning overturn of the popular belief.

Wednesday 13 July 2011

What purpose does an alter ego serve? Thanks!

An alter ego serves many
different purposes. First, it allows a person (not specifically only authors) to escape form
reality. Another purpose of the alter ego is to allow a person to find them self as defined by
their own terms, definitions, characteristics, and stereotypical thoughts.

In
regards to Laurie, in Jackson's short story "," Laurie's creation of an alter ego may
function in both of the ways described above.

First, Laurie may be wanting to
escape from the fact that it is he who is behaving badly in school. He may be fearful of the
punishment which surely awaits if his parents find out that "Charles" is him. Second,
Laurie may be feeling out his parents and how they would react if they did know that
"Charles" was Laurie.

Second, Laurie may be trying to find himself
as a gender specific person. The name Laurie is typically reserved for girls/women, not boys.
Laurie may be struggling with the fact, even as young as he is, that his name has misidentified
him. He is not a girl. Unfortunately, some may have assumed this. One can almost picture the
teacher calling Laurie's name on the first day of school and being caught off guard when a boy
raises his hand. She may have even stated that she thought he was a girl.

Therefore, to negate any other mistakes, Laurie's alter ego assumes the name Charles.
There is simply no way that a person could not know that a name Charles is a boy's
name.

What are some examples of figurative language in Act III, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet ?

As the
climactic scene of the play, Scene 1 of Act III opens with literary techniques:

The first public place was the site of much
acrimony; this location on a day that is hot portends danger as words such as
"hot," "brawl," and "mad blood" are
used.

• and Chiasmus

comparesto a
sman ready to fight by the second drink using a simile:  

Thou artlikeone of
those fellows that when he enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword
upon the table and ...by the operation of the second cup draws him on the drawer, when indeed
there is no need.

Mercutio counters with a simile himself
(first bold phrase) as well as usingwith the /m/. And, the phrase in which "as soon moved
to be moody" is balanced against the following phrase that is inversed, "as soon moody
to be moved," is a rhetorical device called chiasmus.

Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as any in
Italy, and as soon moved to be moody, and as soon moody to be
moved.

This device is also used in
Mercutio's longer speech beginning with "Nay...." 
Then, there is another
simile:  "Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of
meat"

It is
ironic that Mercutio scolds Benvolio for his anger when he will soon explode into invective
against .

• Wordplay

Of course,
Mercutio banters words with Tybalt excercising wordplay, taunting him with seemingly playful
remarks:

TYBALT:  You shall find me apt enough to that,
sir, an you will give me occasion.
MERCUTIO: Could you not
take some occasion without giving?

• Puns

Mercutio plays on the double-meaning of
"consort" in his retort to Tybalt

TYBALT:
Mercutio, thou consor'st with ,--
MERCUTIO:
Consort! what, doest thou make us minstrels? an
thou make
minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but 
but discords: here's that shall make you
dance. 'Zounds, consort!

Anotherthat Mercutio uses is on
the word "grave." When he tells Romeo :ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a
grave man," he means both no longer joking, but "serious" and also
"dead."

Mercutio affords
submitting to Tybalt's insults the qualities attributed to people: "O calm, dishonourable,
vile submission!"

Mercutio
makes reference to "King of Cats," a sobrique that he has given Tybalt. when he calls
Tybalt a "rat catcher."

After the enraged Romeo kills Tybalt, he calls himself "fortune's
fool," a metaphor (comparison in which one thing/person is equated for another quality,
person, thing) for his being a victim of fate.

What are 2 ways that Holden protected Phoebe in The Catcher in the Rye?

One of
the centralin The Catcher in the Rye is 's desire to
protect the innocence of childhood. In this way, his relationship with his younger sister, , is
pivotal to the story.

Holden often confides in Phoebe and believes she is one
of the few people in his world that isnt a phony. In one scene, Holden reveals his innermost
desire:

Thats all Id do all day. I€˜d just be the catcher
in the rye and all. I know its crazy,...

Tuesday 12 July 2011

Describe three main arguments that Diamond makes in Guns, Germs, and Steel and cite the evidence to support his answer.

In this
answer, I will present three main arguments that Diamond makes in that are
all pieces of support for his main overall argument.  In other words, these three arguments are
not the main thing that Diamond is trying to prove in his book.  Instead, they are pieces of
evidence to prove that main argument.

One argument that Diamond makes is that
culture does not determine which groups of people become wealthy and powerful.  He says, for
example, that Europeans did not conquer Native Americans because the Europeans had a better
culture.  One piece of evidence for this is found in Chapter 2 of the book.  There, Diamond
shows that the Maori and the Moriori were both Polynesian people who shared the same original
culture.  The two groups then split as the Maori ended up in New Zealand and the Moriori in the
Chatham Islands.  He argues that the Maori became much more powerful and had a different kind of
society than the Moriori because the two groups ended up in different environments.

A second argument is that the people who started to farm were those who lived in places
with the most domesticable plant species.  In other words, people in the Fertile Crescent
started to farm before those in North America because they had more plants that they could
potentially grow, not because they were culturally superior.  One of Diamonds major pieces of
evidence for this is found on p. 140 where there is a table that shows more than half the best
grain species in the world were found in the Fertile Crescent.  This shows that people there had
a much better chance to start farming than people elsewhere.

Finally, Diamond
argues that luck explains why some people domesticated animals and others did not.  In other
words, we cannot say that Europeans domesticated horses because they were better than Africans,
who did not domesticate zebras.  Instead, Diamond argues in Chapter 9 that the vast majority of
animals cannot be domesticated.  One piece of evidence is that even Europeans who went to Africa
were never able to domesticate zebras.  Again, then, it was simply luck that put some people in
places where there were animals that could be domesticated.

Elements Of Novel

theresachavez

1. Narrator- The mind from which all
   aspects of the story are necessarily told 
2. Theme- one or more direct or
   indirect statements about the human condition as evidenced through the work as a
   whole
3. Plot- the series of events which make up the story, traditionally,
   conflict, , , and conclusion
4. Setting- the place, the time, and the social
   circumstances of the work.
5. Tone- The general attitude of the author toward
   the characters or the subject matter of the book.
6. Characters- the sentient
   or non-sentient beings alive or dead who are the actors of the events
7. Point
   of View- perspective from which a work is told, 1st 3rd; omniscient, limited

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Monday 11 July 2011

Was it wise for Jem to tell Scout not to tell Atticus about Bob Ewell?

In the end,
it wasnt wise forto keep the threats of Bob Ewell quiet.  If Jem orhad told, he might have taken
the revenge Bob Ewell wanted more seriously.  Atticus was a little naive in this situation; it
was especially uncharacteristic of the Atticus who seemed to have so much insight into people
throughout the story.  Atticus should have taken the break in at Judge Taylors...

Describe one ethical framework in bioethics, how it works in specific situations, the pitfalls, and the advantages.

A
main framework of bioethics attempts to balance the four main principles of bioethics. These
principles are:

1. Autonomy: respect for a patients individuality
   which urges the caretaker to both ensure that the patient fully understands the treatment course
   and the risks and to allow the patient to make choices without coercion or coaxing;


2. Justice: consideration of fairness that urges the caretaker to strive to equitably
   distribute benefits, risks, costs, and resources as well as the burdens of new technology and
   research;
3. Beneficence: a moral standard which obliges the caretaker to do
   good, act for the benefit of others; and
4. Non-maleficence: another moral
   standard that requires the caretaker to cause no harm to the patient or society in
   general.

When these four principles are balanced in order to
form a framework of bioethics, caretakers will be called, first, to ensure the patient
understands the treatment options clearly. This means that the team must take the time to
carefully communicate care options to patients. At the same time, caretakers must be active
listeners, ensuring they fully understand the patientss values and wishes, so that they can best
inform and advise the patient. Finally, in this framework, caretakers must remain up to date on
training and understand current best practice and the ethical implications, so they can best
weigh the considerations of justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence whenever they provide
care.

This framework provides guidance that can push caretakers to be
cautious and thoughtful when they treat patients and allow for more patient-centered care;
however, it does have limitations. Despite, caretakerss best efforts to explain medical
prognoses and risks to a patient, many times, patients will not fully grasp these concepts.
Sometimes, this will be because many patients are not trained medical professionals. Other
times, this will be because the illness has set limits on the patientss ability to understand
these types of discussions. Therefore, the caretaker may be relying on a designated proxys best
estimation of what the patient would want.

Other considerations, such as
non-maleficence, also cause complications in this framework because of the competing forms of
harm that may occur. For instance, when a patient is given hope about a certain treatment that
has low success chancesthe harm in not trying the treatment is a physical harm. However, the
harm in trying the treatment and failing may cause the patient both a physical and emotional
harm (such as sadness or depression). Many times, it will not be easy for the caretaker to weigh
harms and be certain of which path causes less harm.

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What was the record for the phone marathon in The Pigman?

Dennis holds
the record for the longest conversation in the phone marathon game.  He had once picked out a
woman "who lived alone and was desperate to talk to anyone".  Dennis told the lady
that he was calling because he had heard that she gave good advice, and he had a problem
concerning a "hideous skin disease" which was certain to lead to his death if he did
not find a cure.  According to Dennis, a rat had bitten off his nose when he was a baby, and
skin grafts had not taken.  Dennis had been able to keep the woman discussing his problem on the
phone for two hours and twenty-six minutes, which was the record for the longest conversation in
the game.

The phone marathon is a game that John, Lorraine, Dennis, and
Norton sometimes play when they are bored.  They take turns closing their eyes as they run their
fingers down the phone book, and they must call the number at which they randomly stop and try
to keep the person they call engaged in conversation for as long as they can.  On Wednesdays,
the group can play at Dennis' house because his parents are not home, and on Sundays they use
the phone at Norton's place because his parents do not mind if they gather at his house.  John
and Lorraine's houses are off-limits for the game because both their parents have issues with
their children tying up the phone in this manner.

It is Lorraine who chooses
the Pigman's name from the phonebook during a game of phone marathon.  She had actually cheated
a little bit, peaking when she was going through the book; she had chosen the Pigman because he
lived on nearby Howard Street, and she had already thought up a ruse by which she could start up
a conversation with him (Chapters 3-4).

Sunday 10 July 2011

Why didn't the Thebans avenge the king's death in Oedipus Rex?

As 's
opens, the city of Thebes is wracked by a plague that has led to a host of
ills: the crops are blighted, the livestock barren, and the death toll mounts by the day.
Tormented by the suffering of his people, Kingdispatches his brother-in-law, , to seek an answer
to the city's terrible quandary from the Oracle of Delphi. The priestess tells him that the
pollution of the city will only be cleansed when the murderer of Laius, the city's former ruler,
is found and the king's death avenged.

As an impatient Oedipus questions
Creon about the death of Laius, in lines 119€“133 of the , the latter man tells as much as he
knows, explaining why the killers were never originally brought to justice:

Oedipus: And was there no one, no witness, no companion, to tell
what happened?

Creon: They were all killed but one, and he got away, so
frightened that he could remember one thing only.

Oedipus: What was that one
thing? One may be the key to everything, if we...

What were the three religious practices one could find in Mecca before Muhammad's revelations?

There were several
religious practices in Mecca before Muhammed and the start of Islam. For example, some people
followed a polytheistic religion. Arab polytheism involved worshipping deities such as Hubal at
the Kaaba in Mecca. The Kaaba, a granite cube that is Islam's holiest site, was, in the time
before Muhammed, the location of hundreds of idols, according to some historians. 

In addition, various forms of Christianity were practiced in Mecca,
including Miaphysitism (which maintains that Jesus Christ, humanity, and God are one), and its
rival sect of Christianity, Nestorianism (which maintains that there is a separation between the
human and divine forms of Jesus Christ). Judaism was also practiced in the region, as Jews had
migrated to the area since the Roman era, as was Zoroastrianism, the religion practiced in Iran
before Islam. 

Saturday 9 July 2011

What is Blanche's conflict between the forces of illusion versus reality?

In Scene
10, when Blanche is being pursued by Stanley, the stage directions indicate that "Lurid
reflections appear on the wall around Blanche." These reflections "move sinuously as
flames along the wall spaces," and the wall becomes "transparent." Through the
wall we can see a "prostitute" struggling with a "drunkard." A little later,
as Stanley bursts through the bathroom door, and as Blanche backs away, terrified and desperate,
the sound of a "blue piano" can be heard, and the sound "turns into the roar of
an approaching locomotive."

The reflections and the transparent walls
and the music are all projections of Blanche's emotional and psychological reality at this
moment in the play. Though they are visible and audible to the audience too, they are not
representative of objective reality. In this sense, they are illusions. This method, whereby the
appearance of the stage is manipulated to reflect a character's inner reality, is commonly known
as "plastic theatre."

At this moment in the play, Stanley corners
Blanche, like an animal cornering its prey. It is implied that, after the scene, and offstage,
Stanley rapes Blanche. When the reflections appear on the wall, looking like flames, they
constitute an illusion which conflicts with reality in that they are not objectively or
literally real. However, the illusion of the flames actually mirrors reality more than it
conflicts with it. The flames mirror Blanche's inner reality in the sense that they represent
the danger that she feels is closing in on her. Blanche's inner reality here is arguably far
more pressing, and far more significant, than the literal, objective reality of the
play.

When the walls become transparent and we see the drunkard wrestling
with the prostitute, this too is an illusion, but this too mirrors Blanche's reality as much or
more than it conflicts with the objective reality of the scene. The drunkard here represents
Stanley, and the prostitute represents Blanche. Indeed, throughout the play Blanche sees
herself, through the eyes of others, as a prostitute, or at least as a woman who has been
promiscuous. The illusion of the prostitute and the drunkard thus represents the reality of her
own perception of herself.

Friday 8 July 2011

How do Antony and Octavius treat Brutus's body in Julius Caesar?

When the
victorious Antony and Octavius view Brutus's dead body on the battlefield at Philippi, they both
speak of him with praise and respect. Marc Antony says,

This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators, save only
he,
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;
He only, in a general honest
thought
And common good to all, made one of them.

Antony previously accused the conspirators of being primarily motivated by envy in his
funeral oration. Envy has been defined as "the resentment which occurs when a person lacks
another's superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the
other lacked it" (Parrott).aroused this painful emotion in other men because he was
superior to them in many ways. Aristotle defines envy as "the pain caused by the good
fortune of others." Brutus, according to Shakespeare's Marc Antony, was the only
conspirator who was motivated by patriotism instead of envy.

Octavius concurs
with Antony and even goes so far as to have Brutus's body kept overnight in his own
tent.

According to his virtue let us use
him,
With all respect and rites of burial.
Within my tent his bones to-night
shall lie,
Most like a soldier, order'd honourably.

Thursday 7 July 2011

List the factors that can increase labor productivity and give an example for each one using the production of computer games as an example.

In order to
increase labor productivity, we have to increase the amount and/or the quality of capital that
we use.  We use labor and capital to make products, so the only way to increase the productivity
of labor is to make the capital better and/or increase it.

One may to make
the capital better is to invent better tools.  In the case of the production of computer games,
if the games come on physical DVDs, we could increase a workers productivity by having a machine
that will burn more DVDs per hour. 

Another way to increase worker
productivity is to have more capital. Lets say that we notice that the worker is tending one DVD
burning machine, but that they actually have time to tend two.  We buy another DVD burning
machine and increase the workers productivity.

Not all capital consists of
machines.  Workers skills and ideas are part of what is called human capital.  If we educate or
train our workers more effectively, we can increase their productivity.  For example, if we have
programmers coming up with code for the new computer games, we can increase their productivity
by giving them more training so they will know more about coding.

Finally, we
could increase worker productivity by doing a better job of managing the workers.  Let us say
that we have a manager who antagonizes the programmers or lowers their morale.  By changing that
managers style of management, we can make the workers happier and hopefully increase their
productivity.  This is particularly true of people who are doing brain work.  We could also
manage the workers better by finding more efficient ways to use the capital that we have. We
might, for example, split up the job that the workers are doing into more specialized tasks,
allowing each worker to do their job more quickly.

All of these are possible
ways to increase labor productivity.

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Evaluate the integral : `int_(0)^(pi/2) cos^5 x dx`

The value of
`int_(0)^(pi/2) cos ^5 x dx` has to be
determined.

`int_(0)^(pi/2) cos ^5 x
dx`

=> `int_(0)^(pi/2) cos^4
x*cos x dx`

=> class="AM">`int_(0)^(pi/2) (cos^2 x)^2 *cos x dx`

=> `int_(0)^(pi/2) (1 - sin^2x)^2 *cos x
dx`

=> `int_(0)^(pi/2) (1 -
2*sin^2x + sin^4x) *cos x dx`

Let class="AM">`sin x = y`

class="AM">`dy = cos x* dx`

class="AM">`sin 0 = 0` and `sin(pi/2)
= 1`

The required integral is changed to:

`int_(0)^(1) 1 - 2*y^2 + y^4
dy`

=> `y - 2y^3/3 +
y^5/5` between y = 0 and y = 1

=> class="AM">`1 - 2/3 + 1/5`

=> class="AM">`8/15`

The value of
`int_(0)^(pi/2) cos ^5 x dx` = class="AM">`8/15`

Wednesday 6 July 2011

What is the purpose of reading a short story?

Sometimes I think
you can learn more from short stories than novels, simply because the author gets to his/her
point much quicker and is more concise with descriptions.  Authors don't write just to write.
 Authors have a purpose.  Authors have a point they want to convey, whether it be a moral lesson
or an insight into life that gives a new perspective.  Short story authors want you to gain from
their experiences and enhance your life.  They want you to learn lessons through their mistakes,
their successes and their relationships.  I've always thought that if an author knew that he/she
made the reader examine life more closely which led to an improvement in that life, then he/she
would consider the short story a success.  That, in my opinion, is the purpose of reading short
stories.

Tuesday 5 July 2011

What is a summary for Chapters 14 and 15 of "Lyddie"?

In Chapter
14,returns to work before she is fully recovered from being hit by the shuttle.  The working
conditions at the factory are taking a toll on everyone - Amelia returns home, and Betsy, who
has had a terrible cough, gets very sick and must be put in the hopital.  At work, to her
chagrin, Lyddie is given a new girl to train, an "Irish papist" named Brigid.  The
girl is inept, and Lyddie finds it hard to be patient with her because her own piecework is
compromised.  Luke Stevens pays a surprise visit, and delivers a draft from Ezekial Freeman for
fifty dollars.  Lyddie, hoping it is enough to pay the debt on the farm, writes to her mother to
ask the total sum due.

In Chapter 15, Lyddie gets another visitor - her Uncle
Judah.  He and her Aunt have put her Lyddie's mother in an asylum, and brought little Rachel to
stay with Lyddie.  They plan to sell the farm to pay for Lyddie's mother's care.  Rachel,
terrified and underfed, does not speak, and Lyddie doesn't know what to do with her.  She begs
Mrs. Bedlow to let her stay at the boardinghouse for a fortnight, and writes in desperation to
her brother Charles.  As the man in the family, only he might be able to do something about the
farm.  Brigid continues to slow her down at work, but Lyddie is shamed by her impatience and
manages to be more helpful to her.  Overwhelmed by circumstances, Lyddie has frightening
dreams.

How does The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde show implications of exploring ones curiosity?

Laurine Herzog

is about a scientist, Dr. Jekyll, who is curious to find out if
he can separate his evil side from his good side. The consequence of this curiosity is a potion
which does just that, and the consequences of the potion are violence, misery and death. The bad
side of Dr. Jekyll manifests as Mr. Hyde, and Mr. Hyde has an insatiable appetite for evil.
Eventually, Mr. Hyde becomes so strong that he destroys Dr. Jekyll. The moral of this story is a
familiar one. It is the same moral that can be inferred from the biblical story of Adam and Eve
in the Garden of Eden, from the Greek myth of Icarus, or from Mary...

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Monday 4 July 2011

What was the purpose of the British Declaratory Act of 1766?

The
Declaratory Act of 1766 was mainly passed by the British parliament so that the British Empire
could keep and reaffirm its political power, authority and influence over the Thirteen Colonies.
The declaration was basically a continuation of the Stamp Act of 1765, which guaranteed that
the...

What does Scrooge mean when he says, "There's more gravy than of grave about you?"

The
actual quote, to put this bit in context, from Stave One of the text is:

You don't believe in me, observed the Ghost.

I don't, said Scrooge.

What evidence would you have of my
reality beyond that of your senses?

I don't know, said Scrooge.

Why do you doubt your senses?

Because,said Scrooge, a little
thing affects them. A slight disorder of thestomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested
bit of beef, a blotof mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone
potato.There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you
are!

This statement is Scrooge's way of belittling the
apparition of Marley that is before him.  He does not believe in ghosts, so there must be some
other explanation for this vision of Marley that is before him.  He suggests that his
disagreeable stomach, after his eating something that does not sit well in his digestion, has
affected his senses so that Marley has appeared before him.

Scrooge is
presented here as a very mundane, very practical fellow.  It will take the convincing of Marley
and Three Spirits for Scrooge to begin to believe in the power of the things that he cannot
perceive with his five senses alone.

Dickens explains Scrooge's
"gravy" comment with these words:

Scrooge was
not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish
then. The truth is, that he tried to be smart, as a means of distracting his own attention, and
keeping down his terror; for the spectre's voice disturbed the very marrow in his
bones.

So his play on words -- Grav-y /
grave -- is also a joke meant to try to get the upper hand in a situation that
is, in fact, putting Scrooge in the position of being terrified.  Could it be that he perceives
that something amazingly life-changing is on the horizon for him?  If so, he is correct. 
Scrooge is in for the alteration of a lifetime.

 

What ironies arise in Scene 1 of Oedipus Rex?

It is vital to realise
how dramaticruns throughout the entire play and is essential to its effect. Thus it is no
surprise therefore that there are a number of ironies that appear in the first opening scene of
this classic , and it is important for you as you study this work to pay attention to these
various ironies and how they develop throughout the play as a whole. My own personal favourite,
however, is whenreceives word fromabout what is causing the plague, and pledges himself to find
the murderer of Laius, all the time not realising that he is engaging on a search for
himself:

Then once more I must bring what is dark to
light.

It is most fitting that Apollo shows,

As you do,
this compunction for the dead.

You shall see how I stand by you, as I
should,

To avenge the city and the city's god,

And not as
though it were for some distant friend,

But for my own sake, to be rid of
evil.

It is important to note the reference made to dark
and light, which are two key symbols throughout the play, and also give rise to a final terrible
irony. For it is by bringing "what is dark to light" that Oedipus condemns himself to
darkness when he blinds himself because of the awesome reality of the truth of his
tragedy.

Sunday 3 July 2011

What is Stargirl's motivation in Stargirl?

The
answer to this question could go two different directions. If the question is a broad question
that is asking about's overall motivation about life in general, then I believe that her
motivation is simply love. She loves everybody equally, and she...

Saturday 2 July 2011

Why are employees' behavior and performance important in a company?

These things
are important to a company because they determine how productive the company will be.  Nothing
is more important than that.

Companies make money by being productive.  They
make money by...

In Part One, Chapter Eight of 1984, what do the proles consider to be a "serious piece of news"?

In this chapter of
,learns that the proles consider the lottery to be a serious piece of news.
He realises this after observing three prole men as they read a newspaper. Judging from their
expression, he thinks that they are reading and discussing some bad or serious news, like
politics or the war, when, in fact, it is just a conversation about the lottery.

In Oceania, the lottery is a serious event for the proles, as Winston
explains:

It was probable that there were some millions of
proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was
their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant.

The fact that proles take the lottery so seriously tells us much
about the nature of life in Oceania. It demonstrates, for example, that the proles present no
serious threat to the Party because they are easily distracted from their inferior social
position by the lottery. In addition, that the Party only awards the small prizes (and gives the
bigger ones to "non-existent people") shows that material wealth is important to the
Party and that its members do not want to enrich the proles, for fear that it will improve their
socio-economic position.

What are the main arguments involved in the Orientalism debate?

"" was a neutral term referring to the study of the Middle East and Asia by
Western scholars, untilpublished his book, Orientalism, in 1978. This
single work turned "Orientalism" into a pejorative word in academic circles, since
Said argued that Western depictions of "the East" (his principal focus is on the
Islamic Middle East) have typically been condescending, ignorant, and focused on a notion of
"the exotic" and "the other," which defines Middle Eastern culture only in
Western terms. This was true even of authors generally considered liberal or progressive, such
as George Orwell, who produced work in which only Western characters were permitted to be
complex, while those from the East were relegated to the status of comic sidekicks or pasteboard
villains.

Said's book attracted great controversy as soon as it was
released. Early critics included Bernard Lewis and Albert Hourani. Lewis accused Said of combing
the work of serious scholars for a few discreditable...

Friday 1 July 2011

How is the quote about Galatea and Pygmalion found in the Sequel of Pygmalionrelate to the events discussed in the Sequel? The quote is: "Galatea never...

Shaw's is based on the
tale of "Pygmalion" the sculptor in Ovid's (Roman poet)
Metamorphoses, which is fifteen tales written in Latin in heroic hexameter.
In Ovid's "Pygmalion," the sculptor creates a statue and calls her Galatea, then calls
upon the goddess Venus, the goddess of Love, to bring her to life so he might wed her. In Ovid's
story, as stated by Shaw in the "Sequel" of Pygmalion, Galatea
can never fully overcomes the barrier between herself and Pygmalion, feeling that he is godlike
and in some ways unlike her.

Shaw applies this Ovidian point to his play and
prohibits Liza from becoming romantically attached to Higgins even though, as Shaw says, that
while "Eliza's instinct tells her not to marry Higgins. It does not tell her to give him
up." Shaw is suggesting that to be true to his source, Ovid's "Pygmalion," he has
to keep a barrier between Liza and Higgins, and the barrier must in time demonstrate some of the
friction and some of the same sort of dislike as exists between Ovid's Galatea and
Pygmalion.

Shaw accomplishes this by having Higgins about twenty years older
than Liza; by making him an unquestionable bachelor; by providing an "irresistible rival in
his mother ...  who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness,
and a cultivated sense of the best art ... to make her house beautiful"; by making him
ill-temperedly brusque and rude. On top of which, he gives Liza a sufficiently deprived and
constricted background so that she is unable to understand Higgins words when he sincerely
addresses her about (1) equality of address to persons and (2) his affection and respect for
her

(Act V: "You call me a brute because you couldnt
buy a claim on me by fetching my slippers and finding my spectacles. ... I think a woman
fetching a man's slippers is a disgusting sight ... If you come back, come back for the sake of
good fellowship; ... .").

Therefore, she goes all
her days--though remaining attached to and dependent on Higgins (and Pickering) for affection
and advice--believing in her own opinion of Higgins (which is that he has no respect and only
wants her to fetch his slippers and find his glasses) and quarreling with him to the point that
Pickering must ask her to be a little more gentle with Higgins. In this way, Shaw relates the
"Sequel" to Ovid's story of Galatea and Pygmalion.

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