What mood did Orwell create before writing about Julia and Winstons capture in 1984?

As the scene progress closer to the place where they are captured, the mood increases
in ominous undertones.

spends a great deal of time just prior to the capture
reading Goldstein's book. In it, he ponders the Thought Police, his government's necessity of
DOUBLETHINK, and how people are controlled by insanity.

He dozes withand then
wakes to a song being sung from below: "It was only an €˜opeless...

What does the third stanza tell the readers about Annabel Lee's position in society?

The third
stanza provides the following crucial information: the youngwas of a higher social class that
the speaker. When her family gets wind of the fact that Annabel Lee is in love with the speaker,
they are unhappy. They are not going to let Annabel Lee marry beneath her social station.
Therefore, they arrive and take her away from the speaker, separating the two lovers:

So that her highborn kinsmen came

And bore
her away from me

As a result, Annabel dies of a broken
heart.

The romantic love between the two young people is thus pitted against
the practical concerns of the older family members, who do not want their kin involved with
someone whoin their eyesis the wrong kind of person. The poem, told from the speaker's point of
view, comes down strongly on the side of romantic love.

The speaker, who
spends...

In his "I Have a Dream" speech, what did Martin Luther King, Jr. ask his listeners to do?

On
August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the middle of the nation's capital,
Washington, D.C., the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., gave what would be one of the most
important speeches in American history. Known to this day as his "I Have a Dream"
speech, King articulated a vision for the United States of America that we continue to this day
to strive to realize. This beautiful expression of a vision of a better future for all Americans
is all the remarkable for the indignities and brutalities that African Americans continued to
endure across much of the country. Together with his "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
penned from his jail cell earlier that year (specifically, April 16, 1963), King's statements
reflect an individual of unusually high integrity...

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Submit a one- to three-sentence thesis statement and a one- to two-paragraph description of your plan for the paper. The thesis will make a strong...

Among
the three possibilities that your assignment contains, one approach would address the third
example. It would be useful to examine eighteenth-century publications such as the English
popular magazines that developed from the increased social, public gatherings of coffee house
culture. These were The Tatler and The Spectator,
produced by Richard Addison and Joseph Steele from 1709€“1712, with some interruptions; in
combination, there were more than 700 issues. The author-editors, who generally assume pen
names, poke fun at many customs of the day, including the excesses and wastefulness of the
wealthy but also the pretentious social climbing of the rising middle class.

In The Spectator, the title refers to a fictional character
invented by the author-editors. Mr. Spectator writes a column that is aof other social columns
of the day, speaking from a detached but critical position: I live in the World, rather as a
Spectator of Mankind, than as one of the Species....

The papers have been
called the ancestor of modern magazines and occupy an important place in the historical
development of . They can productively be examined as foundational for contemporary popular
cultural communications, including blogging and podcasts. A comparative analysis might
accentuate the role of satirefor example in modern publications like The
Onionor the mass appeal of sensationalist papers such as the New York
Post.

If an economy is suffering from a fall in demand that caused deflation and if the central bank refused to provide a stimulus needed to raise aggregate...

There are
two ways in which the government can stimulate economic growth when there is a recession:
monetary and fiscal policy. Monetary policies are usually implemented by the central bank while
fiscal policies are used by the government.

In this case, the central bank
refuses to get involved, meaning that the government has no choice but to implement expansionary
fiscal policies. The government can increase aggregate demand by offering tax cuts. If the
government lowers the amount of tax that citizens and businesses pay, the economy will have more
disposable income. People will have an incentive to spend because they have more money in their
pockets. Businesses will hire more people because their profits have increased.

The government can also increase aggregate demand by spending more money on the
economy. Since the government budget can be limited, they may have to borrow money to fund the
extra spending. The government can either borrow from other countries or it can issue bonds to
local investors. The borrowed money is then used on infrastructure projects that create
employment and stimulate aggregate demand. Suppliers get business from the government, which
buys construction materials from them.

The government will implement the
expansionary fiscal policy up to the point where aggregate demand and supply are in equilibrium.
From there, free-market forces take control of the economy.

In your opinion, what is the most frightening aspect of the society in which Winston lives in? In your opinion, what is the...

Many aspects of the
society depicted in are frightening, but none more than the lack of
rebellion. Perhaps this is the same as saying that the scariest thing about this world is how
powerful - or all powerful - the government is in this society.

What are some internal/external conflicts in "The Minister's Black Veil"?

One
further example of external conflict you might like to consider is man v society. In refusing to
take off his black veil the minister is pitting himself against his congregation. His stubborn
insistence on wearing the veil, even when he's officiating at a wedding, places him at a
considerable distance from those he's supposed to serve. Among other things, this means that the
minister is unable to carry out hisduties properly, alienating him even further from his
flock.

Whatever the reason behind Hooper's strange behavior, his insistence
on wearing the veil can be seen as an assertion of the rights of the individual against the
community. Like everyone else Hooper is a social being, subject to laws, mores, and numerous
conventions. But he's also an individual, again like everyone else, and it's that side of him
that he asserts by refusing to take off the black veil.

Though the townsfolk
generally disapprove of the black veil, indeed, are deeply unnerved by it, they cannot
make...

What are some quotes that show being free or freedom in Fahrenheit 451?

In this
classic novel by , the government censors books and prohibits intellectualism. The novel's ,
Captain Beatty, is a staunch proponent of censorship and conformity. During a conversation with
Montag, Captain Beatty tells him,

A book is a loaded gun
in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who
might be the target of the well-read man?

Books, and
everything they convey, represent intellectual freedom and personal expression, both of which
threaten the government's authoritative reign. Beatty comparing a book to a loaded gun
emphasizes the lack of freedom in Bradbury's dystopia.

During a conversation
with Professor Faber, Montag is told,

Books can be beaten
down with reason. But with all my knowledge and skepticism, I have never been able to argue with
a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full color, three dimensions, and I being in and part of
those incredible parlors.

According to Faber, reading
and exercising...

What is the overall mood or tone of "Harrison Bergeron"?

Ollie Kertzmann, M.A.

While the tone of "" is detached and sarcastic, the mood changes to reflect
the reader's response to the actionit starts out curious, builds to a crescendo of excitement
and hope as Harrison makes his stand, and then bursts into resigned dismay after he's
stopped.

The tone of the story is reflected in the way the author
writes.takes a detached tone in his writing, describing the situation as if it's normalwhen, of
course, it isn't normal for a reader. He explains that society made everyone equal by
instituting handicaps that kept people from excelling in any way. It made things fair for
everyone.

The sarcastic tone comes largely from the ludicrous way people
have been made equal; Vonnegut doesn't directly criticize it, leaving the reader to make their
own decisions. There's also a sardonic tone with the way Vonnegut writes Hazel and George.
George argues against Hazel's desire for him to lighten his handicaps just a little at
homesaying that it...

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Describe the relationship between Eliezer and his father using details from the book to support your description.

Eliezer's
initial description of his father is a neutral one: he seems to indicate that there is a
distance of sorts between himself and his father, but the boy is nevertheless respectful to him
and does not give any evidence of the (in our conventional view today) typical dynamic of at
least an undercurrent of conflict with him. There is nothing to suggest his father is anything
other than a basically good man, in spite of his reserved nature:

My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feelings,
not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of
his own kin. [p. 4, trans. Marion Wiesel]

One has to
acknowledge that in the European culture of that time, even if there was anything negative in
their father-son relationship, children generally did not express it openly; to do so was
considered unseemly and disrespectful. But Eliezer actually seems to have bonded more with
Moishe the Beadle than with his father; the latter attempts to dissuade him from his studies of
Kabbalah, which Moishe encourages. It is significant that Moishe is Eliezer's entry point into
the boy's chief interest, Jewish religious studies, but is also the only townsperson in Sighet
to warn the others that they are in danger, though at first no one believes him.

When Eliezer's group is deported from Sighet and arrives at Auschwitz, Eliezer now no
one but his father to bond with and to prevent his total isolation in the terror that surrounds
him. The men are separated from the women and Eliezer is never to see his mother and sister
again. From this point it does not matter if any disagreements or distance have existed between
father and son; such petty concerns, if there had been any to begin withwhich were barely even
hinted at in the first part of the narrativehave vanished in the face of the grim struggle for
survival. But it is precisely the issue of survival that ultimately causes Eliezer's alienation
and guilt. The horror within Eliezer is that he realizes his father has become a drain upon him.
Under these circumstances in which people are forced into an animal-like fight to remain alive,
even the closest familial connection is instinctively negated in the end, at least when one
honestly confronts the feeling inwardly. In the night, when his father had died and Eliezer
awakens to see that another sick man has replaced his father on his cot, Eliezer cannot even cry
for him:

.....it pained me that I could not weep. But I
was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble
conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last ! ....

Yet Eliezer's further recognition, on the final page, is that he has been emptied of
feeling and, in fact, of life. He has not only been severed from his father emotionally, but his
own human vitality has been destroyed as well, when, "from the depths of the mirror, a
corpse was contemplating me."

In Swift's Gulliver's Travels, what special attributes does the Emperor of Lilliput possess which set him apart from the common folk?

Well, I'd
say generally speaking, the Emperor of Liliput is depicted as very much equivalent to the great
monarchs of Europe, in terms of his features (he's described with "an Austrian lip"
for example), his style of dress, and the opulence of his palace and court. In all these
respects, Swift is crafting an image which reflects that of the great princes and monarchs of
Europe (and Gulliver describes him accordingly). Physically, he's described as taller than the
typical Liliputian with "strong and masculine" features and as being "then past
his prime, being twenty-eight years and three quarters old" (Chapter 2). Perhaps more
important than his appearance, however, is his pride, and the ways in which Swift uses him as a
way of satirizing the ambitions and excesses of European monarchy. After Gulliver destroys the
fleet of Blefuscu, the Emperor intends to use Gulliver to conquer them, and when Gulliver
refuses to participate in this act of military aggression, the Emperor's relationship with
Gulliver takes a stark turn towards the worst.

Explain the language technique in this Animal farm quote: "That evening Squealer explained privately to the other animals that Napoleon had never in...

In this
quote,uses a language technique called indirect quotation. The story is not repeating exactly
whatsaid to the other animals but simply summarizing the highlights of it, which is exactly what
indirect quotation does.

We know enough about the animals at this point to
realize that this must have been a much longer conversation. First, many of the animals are not
very intelligent, and it can take many repeated explanations for them to grasp even a simple
concept. Second, we know that Squealer, a skillful propagandist, likes to talk.

By providing the highlights of the conversation through indirect quotation, Orwell does
not interrupt the flow of his story or bog the reader down with too much information. Through
this technique, he keeps the tale moving at its usual rapid and compact
pace.

What is the importance of Odysseus's bed in Homer's Odyssey?

A cautious
Penelope, sought after by many clever suitors, uses the bed that she and Odysseus shared for so
many years to trick Odysseus into proving his identity. The bed, carved from a tree that has its
roots in the foundation of the house itself, is immovable, much like Odysseus and Penelope's
loyalty to each other. Only Odysseus knows that it can't be moved without destroying it, and so
Penelope knows that when she tells him she's had the bed moved, the only man who would be
outraged by this confession is her true husband, the one who built the bed himself and kept the
secret. Odysseus's anger is confirmation. Thus their marriage bed is not only a staple of the
plot, but also a symbol of their enduring relationship, which has been strong enough to survive
a separation of more than twenty years.

In Penelope's hands, the bed also
helps reveal the qualities that she and Odysseus both share, and which have perhaps made their
marriage such an unusually successful one (a rarity among Greek heroesjust look at how
relationships worked out for Paris, Heracles, and Achilles). Both husband and wife share a
propensity toward cleverness that is particularly unusual in the story. Odysseus is one of the
few Greek heroes to epitomize brains over brawn. Even more remarkable is Penelope, whose womanly
craftiness is most unusually accompanied by great virtue and purity instead of moral or sexual
corruption.

The bed also represents the equality between husband and wife,
similarly unusual in Classical literature; Odysseus tests Penelope many times before he is
willing to believe that she has remained faithful and not encouraged (or secretly accepted) any
of the suitors who plague her. With the bed, Penelope shows herself Odysseus's equalshe won't
simply believe he is who he says he is! She wants to test him, too, and will do so before she
accepts him.

Summarize the poem "My Bus Conductor" by Roger Mcgough. I read it with a little understaing. I need more clarity.

This is a sad
poem.  A bus conductor is a member of the railway's train crew.  This particular
bus conductor is getting older and is sickly, having only one kidney.  They are going on strike
because the bus conductors feel they are being overworked.  That means that there won't be any
money coming in for a while because when people go on strike, they don't get paid.  But he loves
his job, and knows that his time is short in this business.  Now, little things that he used to
take for granted suddenly take on a deeper meaning.  Each bus ticket now takes on a special
shape and texture.  He holds money "as if it were a rose" and puts money he collects
for tickets in his bag "as a child would put it into a gasmeter".  He doesn't tease
the factory girls like he used to and, instead of getting upset at the drunk who snores, and the
old man who talks to himself and gets off at the wrong stop, he chooses to ignore them. They are
no longer important.

He goes back to the bedroom car on the train and watches
shops and pubs he has seen many times passing by perhaps for the last time. There is a question
mark at the end of that line denoting uncertainty whether it will be the last time.  The same
streets he has seen so often look different now, as if he were wearing new glasses and could see
things more distinctly. 

He thinks about a career that is nearly done.  One
day it will all come to an end.  One day he will either clock on (time card) and die and never
clock off or he will clock off one day, go home and die, and never clock back
on.

Did leadership and technology help Germany win early victories in World War II?

Yes, the
German's grasp of military tactics (good leadership) and their technological advantages helped
Germany win early victories.

The German university system was the finest in
the world at the time, especially in the sciences, and the vein of preexisting knowledge was
used to good advantage in giving the Germans cutting-edge military technology. For example, the
Germans developed the first mass-produced assault rifle. It was called the Sturmgewehr 44 and
provided the Germans a tactical advantage in combat. The Germans also developed the first
three-turret tank, which gave them an advantage in allowing a tank commander to survey the
battlefield from a turret.

As time went on, however, the more sophisticated
German tanks were more...

Who are the Radleys? What do their house and yard look like?

The Radleys
are a reclusive family, which is considered very odd in such a social community as Maycomb.in
particular never emerges from the house, causing all sorts of rumors to swirl. Their property is
quite near the Finches, adjoins the school yard, and is centrally located in the town.

We learn from Miss Maudie that the elder Mr. Radley, Boo's father, had a religious
conversion that made him mean and judgmental.

The house itself fits the
community's perception of the family as strange and other. Asdescribes it, it seems to be the
classic haunted house. It is in disrepair. It needs paint and has rotting shingles. Its green
shutters are always tightly closed. The picket fences is ramshackle and seems to be leaning this
way and that, while the yard itself is weedy and not well kept.

It is
anything but an inviting house. The many questions surrounding Boo that are unanswered lead the
children , Scout, and Dillto exaggerate him into a frightening monster as they...

For Sandra Hill's piece titled "Just How Aboriginal Are You?", find out the influence or ideas behind the work (with evidence from the work).

Sandra
Hill is a female, Australian Nyungar Aboriginal artist whose work explores issues of race and
belonging. Hill was taken away from her parents at age seven and placed in an orphanage and
raised by non-Aboriginal foster parents. Such policies and practices, often called child
removal, were formerly very common in Australia, and her mother and grandmother had lived
through similar experiences. In addition to creating art works that explore these themes, Hill
has written and spoken about the effects of growing up so far removed from her family and
heritage. The title references self-questioning about identity; many of the children were
biracial and sometimes grew up not knowing they were Aboriginal.

On the left
side of the painting is a light gray background with a dark gray silhouette of a figure wearing
a dress, resembling a drawing that might be found in a childrens book; this resemblance
encourages the viewer to identify the figure as a female child. On her torso is a large
question mark, which instead encourages the viewer to question that identification and, by
extension, all assumptions they might make about the figure.

On the right
side is a brown background and another figure with the same silhouette but in tan with a brown,
snake-like design covering the entire figure. In colors and style, this figure suggests the
Australian countryside, where many Aboriginal people live, and the motifs and styles that
Aboriginal artists often use. The snake design suggests the Rainbow Serpent sacred to Nyungar
people; it also resembles a road or path, suggesting travel or the distance between a family and
the removed child.

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What were Winston Churchill's objections to the Munich agreement ?

While
Churchill objected strongly to the Munich agreement, he had earlier made positive statements
about Hitler, saying, according to Richard Holmes's book In the Footsteps of
Hitler "I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between communism and
Nazism, I would choose communism" (185). He initially hoped, as many did in the early
1930s, that Hitler, once he settled in and settled down, might prove a good and stabilizing
influence on Germany. Churchill later, of course, changed his mind as Hitler increasingly showed
his true colors and failed to normalize. From the mid to late 1930s, Churchill pushed for
British rearmament, fearing that Germany would attack England. It is worth noting that Churchill
was in his sixties at this point, had vast government experience, was widely traveled, and was
not naive about how the world operated.

When Chamberlain signed the Munich
agreement, essentially giving Czechoslovakia to the Germans in an attempt to prevent a war,
Churchill opposed the pact both because it was dishonorablehe said it brought "shame"
to Englandand because he believed it was only forestalling, not preventing, the war he
recognized was inevitable. He thought it would only make the situation worse later to appease
Hitler rather than confronting him militarily over Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
 

What are some quotations in acts 3€“5 of Othello that show a character's deception of another character?

Shakespeare's is full
of deception. Iago is upset that Othello gave a promotion to Cassio instead of him, and so he
seeks to bring both of them down. In act three, his strategy is to plant seeds of jealousy and
doubt in Othello's mind. In scene three, Iago does not outright say that Desdemona is having an
affair with Cassio, but he suggests the possibility by asking about their relationship and
telling Othello to be careful:

Look to your wife; observe
her well with Cassio.

This is deceptive because Iago
knows that Desdemona is innocent, but he crafts his words carefully to make Othello suspicious
of his wife.

Iago's wife Emilia plays a part in the deception, although she
is not fully aware of consequences of her actions. Iago has told her he wants Desdemona's
handkerchief, so when Emilia picks it up off the ground, she decides to give it to her husband
instead of returning it to her lady.

I am glad I have
found this napkin:
This was her first remembrance from the Moor:
My wayward
husband hath a hundred times
Woo'd me to steal it; but she so loves the
token,
For he conjured her she should ever keep it,
That she reserves it
evermore about her
To kiss and talk to. I'll have the work ta'en out,
And
give't Iago: what he will do with it
Heaven knows, not I;
I nothing but to
please his fantasy.

Iago does not tell his intentions to
Emilia. If he had, she would not give him the handkerchief. Iago deceives his wife, and she
deceives Desdemona. In the following scene, Emilia pretends she does not know where the
handkerchief is:

Desdemona:
Where should I lose that handkerchief, Emilia?

Emilia:
I know not, madam.

Now that he has the
handkerchief, Iago is able to place it in Cassio's tent so Cassio will have it. Iago knows
Othello will see this as proof of the affair. Iago has Othello hide, while he talks to Cassio.
Iago talks to Cassio in a manner that to the overhearing Othello, it sounds like they are
speaking of Desdemona. But Cassio is also deceived by Iago, and is speaking of the camp follower
Bianca.

Iago: Ply Desdemona
well, and you are sure on't.
[Speaking lower]
Now, if this
suit lay in Bianco's power,
How quickly should you speed!

Cassio: Alas, poor caitiff!

Othello: Look, how he laughs already!

Iago: I never knew woman love man so.

Cassio: Alas, poor rogue! I think, i' faith, she loves
me.

Othello: Now he denies it faintly, and
laughs it out.

In act four, scene two, Othello confronts
Desdemona about her infidelity, and she tells the truth: that she is innocent. He is deceived,
and so he does not believe her. Desdemona seeks advice from Emilia and Iago. Although Iago has
orchestrated this whole lie, he pretends he knows nothing when talking to Desdemona:

Iago: What's the matter,
lady?

Emilia: Alas, Iago, my lord hath so
bewhored her.
Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her,
As true hearts
cannot bear.

Desdemona: Am I that name,
Iago?

Iago: What name, fair lady?

Desdemona: Such as she says my lord did say I
was.

Emilia: He call'd her whore: a beggar in
his drink
Could not have laid such terms upon his callat.

Iago: Why did he so?

Desdemona: I do not know; I am sure I am none
such.

Iago: Do not weep, do not weep. Alas the
day!

Emilia: Hath she forsook so many noble
matches,
Her father and her country and her friends,
To be call'd whore? would
it not make one weep?

Desdemona: It is my
wretched fortune.

Iago: Beshrew him
for't!
How comes this trick upon him?

These are
just some quotes that show the web of Iago's deception.

Please analyse this old ballad from northen Scotland, KEMP OWYNE, with all its sound devices, imagery and style. The author is anonymous. Thank you.

"Kemp
Owyne" follows the traditional ballad form of being a song with a developing plot in which
a character describes critical moments which build to a final dramatic event that resolves any
and all conflicts. The moments which reveal the conflicts and resolution are arranged in
quatrain stanzas with rhyming second and fourth lines. The ballad reveals, rather than just
tells, by describing the critical moments in the sequence of events: An evil stepmother curses a
pretty maiden, casting her into the sea as a...

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An ice block of (60*40*30)cm is floating on water. What portion of ice should be outside the water if the density of ice be 0.75 gm/cubic cm.

A block of
ice with dimensions (60*40*30) cm^3 is floating on water. When a body floats on a fluid a force
is exerted on it that is equal to the weight of the liquid displaced by the body. In the given
problem the density of ice is equal to 0.75 gm/cm^3. The density of water is 1 gm/cm^3. If a
fraction x of the block is submerged in the water when it floats, the force exerted by the
weight of water displaced i.e. x*60*40*30*1 = 60*40*30*0.75

=> x =
0.75

75% of the block has to be submerged in the water before the buoyant
forces equal the weight of the block.

25% of the block remains
out of the water.

What cinematic innovations changed the course of film history?

One movie
which had a tremendous effect on cinematic techniques is The Birth of a
Nation, a controversial film in which D. H. Griffith portrayed the epic in covering a
period before the Civil War to the rebuiding of the South after this horrific war. After
watching this film President Woodrow Wilson remarked, 

"It's like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so
terribly true."

This 1915 film first uses such
techniques as night filming, tinting, panning, close-ups, panoramic long shots, and high angle
shots.

Another early film that was very innovative is the 1941 production of
Citizen Kane by Orson Welles.  This film combines several innovative
techniques that have since been employed in many a film:

1. 
   Single source lighting - Since the movie was meant to be a
   figuratively dark film, single lighting is employed. This casts shadows and places characters
   often in...
   
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Describe Dr. Jekyll's fascination with Mr. Hyde's lifestyle in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Before Dr.
Jekyll created the drug that would separate the good and evil sides of man, he actually lived a
dual life. He pretended to be an upright person, but he occasionally "laid aside restraint
and plunged in shame." According to Jekyll's letter, when Jekyll became Hyde, he was aware
of Hyde's experiences and remembered them when he returned to his Jekyll persona. On the other
hand, Hyde was only vaguely aware of Jekyll when Hyde was in the ascendancy.

Stevenson is quite abstract...

What are some examples of figurative language in the Odyssey?

One type of
figurative language that is used often in  is. Personification is when
animate or human-like qualities are given to an inanimate object or concept. For example, saying
"the flowers danced in the wind" is personification. The flowers are being
personified: they are not actually dancing, but their movement is being likened to...

What is a detailed description of Stephen Dedalus's aesthetic theory?

One of
the most important events regarding Stephen's theory of aesthetics is when he explains it to his
friend Lynch in Chapter 5. In this section, it is evident that he is still trying to get his
theory straight in his own mind. There's a specific section of Chapter 5, from the point where
Joyce writes, "They lit their cigarettes and turned to the right," through the end of
that section, where he says: "Her heart, simple and wilful as a bird's heart." The
section is about 12 pages long. In this section is where Stephen explains his theory to
Lynch.

As...

In "Good Country People," why does Joy change her name to Hulga?

Interestingly, O'Connor's selection of names for her characters works to establish
their significance in the story. Joy Hopewell has changed her name to the ugly name of Hulga
because she perceives nothing of beauty that exists in the world. Unlike her mother, Hulga does
not believe in "good country people" and she feels herself intellectually superior to
others.

However, her experience with Manley Pointer forces Hulga, who thinks
that she can seduce him, to realize that her convictions about being able to control her life
are, indeed, faulty. She has planned on seducing Manley Pointer, the false bible salesman.
However, contrary to her expectations, it is Manley who reduces Helga to a begging woman after
he takes her artificial leg and descends the ladder from the hay loft.

Helga
tries to...

What mood does Poe evoke in "The Masque Of The Red Death"?

Poe's "" is characterized by a tone of foreboding. Though the story takes
place at a party, and the crowd is mostly festive, there is an ominous undertone that is
sometimes even felt by the characters in the story. Of course, by the end of the story, all of
the revelers will be dead from the plague. 

The story begins with a
description of the "red death" and the physical horrors it wreaks on the human body.
For example, "Blood was its Avatar and its sealthe redness and horror of blood." After
feeling pain and dizziness, the infected person would then experience...

How does the case Loving vs. Virginia relate to Kindred?

The theme you want to
focus on in response to this question is interracial marriage. Note the way that Rufus
stridently states that black-white marriage is "against the law" in his world. What is
ironic about this is that interracial marriage was only made legal in the Supreme Court's 1967
ruling of this case. In 1958, in Washington, Richard loving (white) and Mildred Loving (black)
returned to Virginia. There, they...

How I would use early management, classical approaches, behavioral approaches, quantitative approach, and contemporary approaches in my personal life?

There are
many types of early management theories. Some people put both classical and early management
theories together. In your case, you can use the scientific management theory to explain early
management theory. You can use scientific management theory when doing your chores. Find out how
long it will take you to perform each chore, then create a process that will allow you to finish
them quickly and efficiently.

For the classical approach, you can use Webers
or Bureaucratic theory of management. This theory of management emphasizes on hierarchies. You
can use this theory in your personal life to get things done in the office. People respect
authority. If you are a manager that wants your employees to perform an urgent task, you can use
your authority to make sure that they do the task.

Behavioral management
approach emphasizes that managers should be more concerned for their workers. You can use this
theory in your relationships. Listen to the people around you and try to understand their
feelings. When you treat your friends and relatives that way, they appreciate the concern and
feel closer to you.

Quantitative theory emphasizes on the use of numbers for
efficient decision making. You can use this theory to make financial decisions. Create a budget
and stick to it. That way, you avoid financial problems.

A contemporary
theory that you can use is systems theory. This theory insists that you should pay attention to
your environment when making decisions. For example, before you go outside, check the weather.
If it looks as if it might rain, carry an umbrella.

The Ghost Dance Is it a fair statement to say that the Ghost Dance represented the human instinct of survival?

It was also an
attempt to demonstrate independence and exert some control over their fate.The people had given
up hope, but were also trying to connect with their culture and have something of their own,
something that they could control.]]>

Why does Charles become a well-known character to the family?

becomes a
well-known character to the family because every day, on his return from kindergarten, Laurie
delights in sharing Charles's latest exploits with his family. On his first day, for instance,
Laurie comes home and tells his parents that Charles was "fresh" to the teacher. As
the days go by, Laurie shares even more with his parents about Charles's behavior, telling them
about how Charles hit the teacher, yelled loudly, and refused to do exercises.

In addition, for Laurie's parents, Charles's exploits are shocking, given his young
age. Laurie's mother, in particular, worries that Charles is a bad influence on her
son.

Despite her reservations, Charles's exploits become a source of
fascination to Laurie's parents. Each day, they are eager to learn of his latest misdemeanors
and, by the third week of kindergarten, Charles has become an "institution" in the
household.

What they fail to realize, however, is that Charles is nothing
more than a creation of Laurie's. He creates this alter ego so he doesn't have to tell his
parents what he has really been up to in kindergarten.

How important is the character "Pickering" in Pygmalion? Does he help to disprove Higgin's theory about class distinctions and the gaps between people?

Although
Professor Higgins is determined to turn Eliza Doolittle into a lady of quality, it's actually
Colonel Pickering who starts off this Cockney flower-seller's remarkable transformation by
treating her like a lady long before she becomes one. On that first day she rocked up at Wimpole
Street, as Eliza later reflects, Pickering called her "Miss Doolittle," something she
simply wasn't used to. As she freely admits, it was from then on that she started to respect
herself.

In that sense, one can see Pickering as a foil for Higgins, in that
he highlights certain aspects of the Professor's character traits, most of them thoroughly
disagreeable. Higgins, despite hailing from the same social background as the Colonel, most
certainly does not treat Eliza with anything like the same degree of respect. On the contrary,
he sees her as nothing more than a lower-class harridan, pulled out of the gutter to be the
guinea-pig in his latest brilliant experiment.

In his respectful treatment of
Eliza, Colonel Pickering shows us that it is possible to be a member of the social elite without
treating the lower orders like dirt. If only Higgins would learn this
lesson.

What is Charon's reaction to Dante's attempt to cross the river of Acheron?

Charon has
absolutely no intention of letting Dante and Virgil on his boat to cross the river of Acheron.
See, the thing is, they aren't dead, and Charon's boat is strictly for dead people. You can't
cross into hell if you aren't dead, after all. Virgil is insistent, though, and tells Charon
that it is willed that he and Dante will cross, and so Charon shouldn't question them. This
response gets Charon to calm down and allow them both onto the boat but also upsets the dead
souls who are also waiting for the ferry because it causes them to think of God, who has cast
them down to hell and who they cannot think of without being filled with
rage.

What are some language techniques Shakespeare uses in Romeo and Juliet?

Tamara K. H.

Language techniques are literary terms that specifically
define the way an author uses language to express meaning and illustrate a point. There are
definitely many different language techniques to become familiar with, and Shakespeare certainly
uses many of them. Two categories of language techniques are figurative
language and rhetorical schemes. We can spot many
language techniques by looking at the first scene
alone.

The use of puns is one example
of figurative language. Puns happen when we use a word that sounds
exactly like another word that has a different meaning. The two Capulet servants use many puns
in their opening lines. For example,

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Economically, our country had recovered from the stock market disaster of the 1980s and was booming. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan warned...

There are a
number of ways to think about the economic growth of the 1980s and 1990s.  Let us look at two
important issues that are involved in this topic.

First, there is
controversy over what caused this economic growth.  Conservatives tend to argue that it was the
Reagan tax cuts that caused the growth of the 1980s.  Liberals do not think that Reagan deserves
this credit.  Similarly, there is conflict over...

In The Glass Menagerie, Tom says he is "more faithful" to Laura than he meant to be. What does he mean by "faithful"?

Tom as
narrator closes the play with aexplaining what his life became after he stormed out of the
apartment in St. Louis, leaving his mother and sister behind. The theme of his speech is that no
matter where he went or what he did, he was never really free of the past:

. . . all at once my sister touches my shoulder. I turn around and
look into her eyes . . . .

Oh, Laura,
Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful...

What are examples of internal and external conflicts in "The Lovely Bones"?

Susie's
mother, Abigail Salmon, can be used as an example of both internal and external
conflicts.

Abigail struggles internally with dissatisfaction with her life.
She loves her husband and children, but she does not want to be a wife or a mother. She studied
English literature in college and had plans to become a teacher. She sat in cafes and smoked
European cigarettes and thought of herself as avant garde. But she fell in love and got married
instead, and soon she had two small daughters. But she still held on to her dream of teaching
and planned to do so when both girls were in school, but she became pregnant again and put away
her dreams. Susie talks about seeing this dissatisfaction only once while she was alive, on the
morning of her birthday, when she got up early, discovered that she had gotten a camera, and
noticed her mother sitting on the back porch. Susie describes her as the real Abigail, as if the
mother she was used to seeing was only a facade.

The external conflict that
Abigail and all the characters must deal with is Susie's murder. At first, Abigail is unwilling
to admit that Susie is dead. She keeps holding out hope. But when Susie's hat is found, she has
to realize that Susie is gone. This conflict sparks Abigail to act on her internal conflict and
make a change in her life.

"""A trivial comedy for serious people"€”how appropriate is this subtitle for the play?""

gave his play the apt subtitle "A Trivial Play for Serious
People." This subtitle sets the tone for the play in the sense that its seemingly
paradoxical combination of words employs a technique that Wilde has his characters use
repeatedly in their dialogue. The mix of verbal , epigrammatic expressions, andreverse our
expectations and aid Wilde in poking fun at his shallow upper class characters.

Further, the play's subtitle is appropriate because it describes Wilde's comedy of
manners perfectly. The play is a, and as such, it proves to be a sharp critique of the values
and the marriage practices of the Victorian elite. However, the characters are extremely
superficial and silly, as is the marriage plot of the play. Two men, Jack and Algernon, decide
they want to marry two women, Gwendolen and Cecily, whom they do not know very well, and both
men want to be baptized under the new name Ernest, because the women both prefer
that...

Why do you think Scout cries when she realizes who saved her?

I think
there are several reasons for 's tears upon realizing that it is , her secluded neighbor, who
saved her and her brother, , from Bob Ewell's attack. Ewell had falsely accused a black man, Tom
Robinson, of raping his daughter, Mayella Ewell. Mr. Robinson's attorney was Scout's father, .
Angry with Atticus for defending Robinson, Bob Ewell attacked Scout and Jem while they were
walking home from the Halloween pageant in the dark. Boo rescued Scout and Jem, killing Bob
Ewell in the process.

When Scout discovers that it is Boo who saved her and
Jem, she may cry first as a delayed reaction to the terror of the attack. After that, her tears
are probably due to relief that she and Jem are safe. I also believe she cries because she is
happy that Boo is not a product of the neighbors' tall tales and that he is not a danger to
anyone. He is actually a nice guy and a good friend to both Scout and Jem; he had been leaving
them little presents in a tree in his front yard. Relief that her friend is one of the good guys
surely accounts for some of Scout's tears as well.

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During the wedding in Act II of Our Town by Thornton Wilder, the choir sings Blessed Be the Tie That Binds. Discuss the impact of the song on...

 The
beautiful hymn Bless Be the Tithe That Binds purveys s theme i. Men are
gregarious and require human relationships to flourish. The song permeates the play during
important aspects of human connections.

The three verses of the song
juxtapose the phases of a man and woman relationship and the acts in the play. 

• Act I=Daily life
• Act II=Love and Marrriage


• Act  III=Death 

 

'The fellowship of kindred minds/ is like to that above.'

Act I

The audience is introduced to the
characters in the play: the Webb family, the Gibbs, the Stage Manager,  and other minor
characters.  The important word in the  first verse of the song is kindred
which means people who have a common belief.

The other important phrase is
Christian love.  That is the connection that Wilder asserts throughout the play. Although the
song is a Christian hymn, Wilder does not stress the Christian aspect, but rather the
significance of love between human beings. 

The first act shows several
kinds...

What narrative technique does Orwell use in Animal Farm?

wrote the
novel in a very interesting and fitting point of view. Authors will select
a perspective to write from, either using first person, to show things through the eyes of one
character, or third person, to act as an outside perspective. The third person narrator can be
omniscient and know everyones thoughts and attitudes, or it can be limited to one
individual.
Whatchooses to do is select several characters and portray the narrative
through each of them as a third person narrator. This allows the reader to see multiple angles
of the story, as well as acts as a good representation for the theme of Communism in the
novel.

Regarding American Gothic, what makes the painting balanced?

The composition of Grant Wood's American Gothic is almost as close
to being symmetrically balanced as a picture can be without actually being symmetrical. The male
figure takes up more of the foreground than the female, but this is balanced by the absolute
centrality of the pitchfork and the hand that grasps it. Again, the white clapboard house behind
the couple is not quite central to the composition, but it is balanced out by the red building
seen over the man's left shoulder. Even the amounts of pale blue sky and white cloud on each
side of the painting are similar, the same amount blocked by the man's domed head on one side
being obscured by the house and trees on the other.

Other colors are also
evenly distributed between the two sides, with the dark clothes of the man and woman
predominating in the foreground throughout the bottom two-thirds of the painting and the amount
of green treetop being approximately equal on both sides. The couple have similar physiques and
similar faces,...

What are the motives and conflicts of some of the characters in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex?

falls into a
conflict withbecause Oedipus accuses him of treason. Oedipus believes that Creon has been
plotting to take the throne since the reign of King Laius. He believes that Creon paid bandits
to kill King Laius and now Creon is allowing Oedipus to be blamed for Laius's murder. In fact,
Oedipus believes that Creon has paidto deliver false prophecy blaming Oedipus of Laius's murder
as well as the horrible prophecy that he will realize he has had children with his own mother.
Hence, we can say that Creon's conflict is man vs. man. However,
despite Oedipus's belief, Creon's motives are actually pure. Creon
is actually loyal to the king and quite content with the power Oedipus has extended to him, as
we see in his lines:

For now I have everything from you
without fear; but if I myself were ruler, I'd do much against my will. How then could tyranny be
sweeter to me than trouble-free rule and sovereignty? (615-619)

Hence, we see that Creon's conflict is man vs. man, but his motives for action are to
heal the city, make peace with Oedipus, and live peacefully in the city under Oedipus's
rule.

is a character that has a conflict with
fate and a conflict with herself as well, making her conflicts character vs.
fate and character vs. self. Jocasta is a
victim of fate. When she learned of the prophecy that her son would
one day kill her husband and sleep with her, she thought she was taking measures to prevent the
fulfillment of the prophecy by having her son killed. However, instead, the shepherd to whom she
gave him took pity on the baby and gave him to someone from Corinth who gave the baby to King
Polybus to raise. Because Oedipus continued to live, he fulfilled the prophecy even though
Jocasta had believed for a long time that the fulfillment of the prophecy was impossible. Hence,
Oedipus fulfilled both his and Jocasta's fate. Since Jocasta tried to escape her fate, we can
say that one of her conflicts is with fate. However, she is also in conflict with herself
because in the beginning of the play she believes as she has believed for years that she had
escaped her fate. Regardless, as the play progresses, she hears enough evidence to learn the
truth, which drives her to commit suicide, showing us that another one of her conflicts is
character vs. self. Jocasta does everything she can to escape hearing the truth, even trying to
convince Oedipus not to send for the shepherd. Her motive is to protect her husband from the
truth, as well as herself.

Which of the following did the Ku Klux Klan try to do? A help Africans find land to farm B control the south through land ownership C prevent...

Of these
options, the best is C.  A major goal of the KKK was to prevent African Americans from
voting.

The KKK was organized mainly to destroy the power of the Republican
Party in the...

What is Romeo and Juliet's destiny in Romeo and Juliet?

's
destiny is to die a tragic death by her own hand. We know this because it explicitly says so in
the play's . It's all in the stars, apparently, an indication of the widespread belief in
astrology that characterized the age in which the play was written.

What we
don't yet know, of course, is how this all comes about and why. There's an awfully long way to
go before we reach that heart-rending moment when a distraught Juliet will stab herself to death
upon finding the corpse of her beloved . That gives Shakespeare plenty of time to devise a
suitably intriguing and convoluted plot that brings the star-crossed lovers together forever,
but only in death.

It's a measure of The Bard's considerable skills as a
dramatist that we're emotionally invested in , even though we know of their tragic fate. There
always seems to be the faintest hope that maybe, just maybe, the two young love-birds will avoid
their unhappy fate. That such hope exists at all is a testament to the immense skill with which
Shakespeare draws his two main characters and of the rich, intriguing plot in which he embroils
them.

What do you think Harper Lee's views on education are?

Given 's
first-grade experience, it would be safe to say thatthought education was something that
happened despite, not because of, the public school system. Scout enters
public school having learned to read on her own, almost by osmosis, from sitting on 's lap and
following along while he reads. She has learned to write from Calpurnia. Her teacher, however,
says it's wrong for her to read and write at home. Instead, the teacher, Miss Caroline, wants
the students to learn words from little cards she holds up and to read the stories she wants
them to read.

Scout is so outraged by the whole school situation that she
insists to Atticus that she won't go back. She doesn't want to give up her self-education.
Atticus strikes a deal with her, saying,

 If youll
concede the necessity of going to school, well go on reading every night just as we always
have."

He also tells her to try to see things from
Miss Caroline's point of view, and not to tell Miss Caroline about the deal she has made to read
at home. What the reader learns from this episode is that school is a place you tolerate and
work around, but that one's real education occurs outside its walls.

Examine how Ulysses can be seen as an escapist.

I think
that a fairly good case can be made foras an escapist.  Ulysses is shown to be one who wishes to
escape the condition of "life piled on life."  Ulysses' life back in Ithaca is one in
which the daily mundane compels him to escape.  This life of domesticity is a realm from which
Ulysses seeks escape.  There is much in the poem that shows his discontent for the social and
domestic responsibilities that accompany life in Ithaca. For Ulysses, there is nothing binding
Ulysses to his life back home.  He feels that Penelope is fine and that Telemachus is capable to
rule Ithaca without his father.  In the absence of that which binds, Ulysses feels compelled to
escape into the world of exploration and challenging elements that are set out on sea. It is
here in which he can be seen as an escapist.  The idea of life being one in which Ulysses yearns
"to strive, to seek, and to find and not to yield" are conditions into which he wishes
to escape.   It is here in which Ulysses can be seen as an escapist, willing to go anywhere and
do anything so long as it is not in Ithaca.

How does Scrooge show generosity in A Christmas Carol?

Scrooge is
positively giddy to be alive after his exciting, frightening, and transformative evening with
the ghosts. He says:

I am as light as a feather, I am as
happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry
Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world. Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!

He shows financial generosity by helping out the Cratchit family.
He anonymously sends the Cratchits the prize turkey for Christmas. He also surprises Bob
Cratchit with a raise, and he ensures that Tiny Tim gets the medical care he needs so that he
doesn't die. He also gives a large donation to the charity helping the poor, when the day before
he had said it would be better if the poor died off.

He shows generosity of
heart by smiling and saying Merry Christmas to the people he passes in the street. He shows
generosity of spirt by visiting his nephew's house for Christmas and being glad to see all the
guests, when the day before he had turned down the...

Why use simile?

Generally, a
writer uses similes to enable the reader to imagine in his mind what the writer is saying. This
is why a writer compares one thing to another with which the reader is familiar. The speaker
compares his love to a red rose that has just bloomed. We are all familiar with a rose, so we
are able to better understand the comparison. Most people are awed by the beauty of a
"newly sprung" rose, so we can understand how the speaker feels about his love. He
also compares to "the melodie/That's sweetly played in tune". Again, music is
universal, so we can all understand how the speaker feels. We can imagine how we feel when we
hear a beautiful piece of music played. It sends chills over us, and this lets us comprehend the
speaker's feelings.

What are three similes from the first two chapters of Of Mice and Men?

Ais a
literary device that makes a comparison between two different things using the words
"like" or "as." Throughout the novella Of Mice of Men,
Steinbeck utilizes numerous similes to describe characters and various settings of the
story.

1. In ,makeshand him the dead mouse he
has been petting. Lennie reluctantly gives the mouse to George and begins to whimper and cry.
George uses a simile to describe Lennie's reaction and compares him to an upset child by
saying,

Blubberin' like a
baby! Jesus Christ! (Steinbeck, 5).

2. At the beginning of , Steinbeck sets the scene on the
ranch by describing the dusty bunkhouse. Steinbeck utilizes a simile to illustrate how the
sunlight barely shines into the bunkhouse by writing,

At
about ten o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side
windows, and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing
stars" (9).

3. Later on in the chapter, George is playing cards, and
Steinbeck utilizes...

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I need to find two examples of consonance in the Annabel Lee poem

I am using
the definition of consonance that says that it is when you use the same consonant sound in a
bunch of words (more or less in a row).  The sound does not have to be at the start of the word
like it does in .

There are a number of examples of this in the poem.  Here
are a few:

• In the first couple of lines of the third stanza, we
  have this, was, reason, this, sea.  All of these have "s" sounds.


• Again, in the fourth stanza, you have was, reason, as, this, sea.  Again, lots of
  "s" sounds.

Identify and discuss the effects of irony in "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The greatestin
Hawthorne's story "" is that Young Goodman Brown, named after a grandfather who was
"an old friend" of the devil who walks the younger man to the black mass, is not good
at all.  Shocked at the hypocrisy of everyone else--Deacon Gookin and Goody Cloyse--Goodman
Brown is far darker in his soul than any of the others, whose names he finds
ironic without realizing that his own is the most ironic. For, it was "a
dream of evil omen for Young Goodman Brown."

A stern,
a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man did he become from the night
of that fearful dream.

After his night in the forest,
the irony is that Goodman Brown, the sanctimonious, self-righteous Puritan who
loses his faith more than any other, perceives evil in all with which he comes
into contact--Faith, the minister, the congregation, his children and grandchildren.

 

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson is accused of rape. What is rape?

Before the
twentieth century in the United States when the definition was broadened, rape was defined as
the crime of sexually violating a woman forcibly.

This charge of rape made by
Mayella Ewell against the quiet and kind Tom Robinson is the cruelest thing she could have done
to him. For within the 1930s setting of 's narrative, Jim Crow laws were in effect. One of the
perspectives of these laws was the imperative of keeping blacks separated from whites.
Restaurants, bathrooms, schools, churches, etc. were all segregated.

Also,
there was a fear among the upper classes of whites that blacks might "infiltrate"
white society if they were able to marry or have children with white women. Therefore,
"miscegenation" was unlawful. And, to enforce this law, lynchings took place whenever
any familiarity between a black man and a white woman was just suspected, let alone a fact. For
example, in 1931, there was a trial of nine black teenagers accused of raping two white women.
All but the youngest boy were convicted even though there was medical evidence that no rapes
occurred. Before "the Scottsboro Boys" (the crime was supposedly committed in
Scottsboro, Alabama) were even indicted, a lynch mob came for them. The arrest and trial of Tom
Robinson are influenced by this equally tragic history of innocent black men.

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Refering to "Composed upon Westminster Bridge," show why the speaker feels so awestruck and amazed at his first sight of London so early in the...

You might want to focus
on the way that the poem personifies the city of London, making it seem human. Note that we are
told that London "like a garment" wears "the beauty of the morning," the
river has "its own sweet will" and the houses are said to "sleep." Lastly,
the entire sight is personified in the last line as being a "mighty heart":

Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;

And all
that mighty heart is lying still!

If we examine all of
these characteristics, what seems to amaze the speaker so much is the city's beauty and
tranquility on this morning. The city throughout the poem is presented as being peaceful and
beautiful, as these three lines make clear:

Never did sun
more beautifully steep

In his first splendour, valley, rock, or
hill;

Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!

It is the sight of this "mighty heart lying still" in the beautiful morning
sunshine that produces this sense of calm and peace in the speaker, which makes him feel more
calm than he has ever felt in his life. This is a very novel perception of the city, for in
Romantic literature they were normally depicted as ugly and enchaining men rather than
liberating them. Wordsworth in this poem re-envisions the city, showing that it to can be a
sight of natural beauty and exploring how it can bring peace to the soul.

Describe how the hamartia in Oedipus makes him the tragic hero in Sophocle' drama.

I think
that the question brings out many different issues that need to be distilled in a distinct
manner.  In examining the definition of "hamartia," the understanding is that it
refers to a "fatal mistake" or some type of calculation taken by thethat proves to be
disastrous.  As per the definition, it "is rooted in the notion of missing the
mark(hamartanein) and covers a broad spectrum that includes accident andmistake,as well as
wrongdoing, error, or sin."  Hamartia, by itself, does not make a tragic hero.  I think
that the hamartia has to work in conjunction with the hero's tragic flaw that ends up being the
undoing of the protagonist.  In the case of , the hamartia was not knowing about his own
parenting lineage, causing him to kill his own father and sleep with his mother.  The hamartia
is not knowing about his background, while his pride ("") is his tragic flaw.  Both
hamartia and hubris are similar and verfy close to one another.  But, I think that the hamartia
is the genuine unknowing about his own condition and the hubris is the failure to heed to the
counsel that tries to bring it to his awareness in the form dismissiveness that Oedipus directs
at the oracle, , or advice from .  In the end, I think that the convergence of both concepts
help to form the tragically heroic condition of Oedipus in ' work.

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, why does Juliet go to Friar Laurence's cell?

In
Shakespeare's , we actually seego to 's cell twice.

The
first time she goes to Friar Laurence's cell is to marry . In Act 2, Romeo devises the plan that
if Juliet has permission from her parents to go to Friar Laurence's cell for confession, then
they can be married that morning, the morning after they meet. Nurse acts as Juliet's messenger
for Romeo's plans and we see that Romeo has laid out this plan when we see Nurse say the
lines:

Have you got leave to go to shrift
to-day?
...
Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence's cell;
There stays
a husband to make you a wife. (II.v.68-71)

The word
"shrift" can be translated as "confession," showing us that Romeo's plan is
for Juliet to meet him at Friar Laurence's cell under the guise of going to confession. We see
Juliet at Friar Laurence's cell in the next scene, the scene in which Friar Laurence conducts
the marriage ceremony (II.vi).

The second time Juliet goes to see Friar
Laurence in his cell also concerns marriage; however, ironically, she is trying to find a way
out of having to marrywhen she is already married to Romeo. Juliet, in desperation, asks for
Friar Laurence's advice, threatening suicide should he fail to be able to give her any, as we
see in the lines:

If in thy wisdom thou canst give no
help,
Do thou but call my resolution wise
And with this knife I'll help it
presently. (IV.i.53-55)

It is in this scene that Friar
Laurence devises the plan to fake Juliet's death with a potion, thereby preventing the sin of
having him conduct, and having her enter, a polygamous marriage. 

What technique does Swift use in Gulliver's Travels to produce satire?

pokes fun
at weaknesses and problems in people and institutions.

In
, Swift pokes fun at the European tendency to be violent, to judge by
surface appearances, to put vanity ahead of commonsense, and to generally behave
irrationality.

Swift uses two tried and true methods to make us laugh at our
own weaknesses: a clueless narrator and exaggeration.

Gulliver, as his name
implies, is gullible. He accepts everything he hears on his travels and tends to repeat it
verbatim without any questioning of how absurd it sounds. He also quite openly describes the
absurdities and violence of European warfare and society and is surprised when his hosts, such
as the king of Brobdingnag, find Europeans hopelessly barbaric and bloodthirsty.

Swift also exaggerates. His Lilliputians, for example, are externally attractive,
tiny, doll-like people; and their minds are especially petty. This pokes fun both at thinking
pretty people are good inside and at the similar pettiness of British...

What is a quote that can prove theocracy existed in Salem (from Miller's "The Crucible")?

In the
Puritan society of Salem, the elected officials and court authorities genuinely believe that
they are endowed by God to rule over the community and their legal system is based on religious
law. This form of government is known as a theocracy and the ruling officials believe that they
are divinely guided, which gives them unlimited, complete authority. Deputy Governor Danforth
and Judge Hathorne manipulate the theocratic system of government to exercise their authority
and condemn numerous innocent citizens based on false accusations. In act four, Reverend Hale
insists that Deputy Governor Danforth pardon the accused citizens and Danforth responds by
saying that he has already hanged twelve citizens. When Hale continues to urge Danforth to
pardon the citizens, Danforth responds by saying,

"While I speak Gods law, I will not crack its voice with whimpering. If
retaliation is your fear, know thisI should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the
law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes" (Miller,
129).

Danforth's response reveals Salem's theocratic
system of government. Danforth believes that he has been specifically elected to exercise God's
law on earth and refuses to acquiesce to Reverend Hale's wishes. Danforth is resolute in his
decision to hang the accused citizens and firmly believes that his rulings are guided and
supported by God.

In the poem 'Americanized' by Bruce Dawe, what is so frightening about playing with American 'toys'?

The
frightening element about the child playing with American "toys" is that it is a
substitute for anything real.  The mother and child relationship is not one predicated upon love
and tenderness.  It is based upon emptiness and repetition.  The mother is a figure that seeks
to create the child as a clone of herself.  The playing with American toys is ato convey how
American notions of consumer identity are overtaking the world.  The toys the child plays with
are not non- descriptive toys of constructive creativity.  They are American name- brands,
corporations whose desire to control the market and construct a generation of consumers is
synonymous with the removal of individual uniqueness and identity.  Toys like Pepsi, spam, hot-
dogs and gum are reflections of this consumerism that deadens the individual sensibility.  The
mother is a product of this as she tells her child to essentially emulate her own being:
 "I think young, I think big, therefore I am."  Dawe sees the consumerist tendencies
of the mother has having been forged from her own fascination with her "American
toys."  Like a sacred testament, such consumerist credo is being passed from mother to
child.  This is where Dawe feels that there is something frightening about the child playing
with American "toys."  A new generation of soulless consumption is being created,
manifesting  the child's cries in the early part of the poem.  There is an emotional void
between mother and child.  Rather than reflect on this condition, playing with American
"toys" precludes any introspection.  Something scary exists in
this.

How does the Raven's entrance change the tone/mood of the narrator?

Haunted
by demons, Poes narrator is at the mental crossroads of nostalgia and melancholy. His resting
awareness involves disturbed ruminations of lost love, personified by Poes iconic object of
doomed passion, . From there, his voice shifts to an to a more existential expression or query:
that of humanitys fate as a pawn of the Unknownthat the mystery at the bottom of life can never
be resolved.

Grieving is a strange, psychosomatic experience; its
characterized by the abrupt onset of waves of sadness. (In Poes time, what we conceive as
clinical mental illness, would have been thought of as more of a spiritual malaise.)

s appearance coheres his phantasms from a passive to active concern. Materially, and in
the text, this is indicated by the difference in the refrainfrom essentially This it is, and
nothing more to the definitive and finite Nevermore!

This refrain
formalizes the tenses and underscores the borderline of passive and active, all of which dont
represent conventional past and/present tense as much as provide emotional markers for the
narrators different flights of fancy or his state.

What do you believe are the advantages and disadvantages to a trial with a jury?

Instead of a
jury, what then?  Bench trials may have their purpose, like proceedings for a traffic violation,
but for important civic and criminal proceedings, juries are the superior system, since
involving a jury limits the power of the judge.  For all the points mentioned, juries have their
problems, but having the citizenry participate in court proceedings serves to underscore the
principle of government by and for the people; in short, it is a democratic institution.  Juries
have to power to determine was is factual, and decide accordingly upon guilt or innocence; the
judge states and executes the law.  However, juries have a key power little discussed which
provide a check on the other branches of government, namely, they have the power of
nullification.  Legislatures are, in theory, random collections of citizens that make laws. 
Juries are a random collection of citizens that may nullify law -- in other words, determine
that a law broken in a civil or criminal proceeding should not be a law at all.  This was to
provide a judicial check on the legislature--that if a bad law is enacted, and people are put to
trial because of it, even if guilty by the codification of the law, the jury can determine that
no crime or civil infraction occurred because that particular law shouldn't exist, and their
nullification effectively repeals that law. This power allows juries to exercise a check and
balance and helps insure a well functioning democratic government.

What are some stereotypes about the Cunninghams in To Kill a Mockingbird?

The
Cunningham family is portrayed as a respectable group of country folk, who live outside of
Maycomb and make their living on the farm. Despite being relatively morally-upright, honorable
people, there are numerous negative stereotypes applied to their family. Aunt Alexandra claims
that the Cunninghams are trash and will be bad influences onand . Her class prejudice prevents
her from accurately judging Walter Cunningham Jr. as a humble, responsible young boy.

There is also the stereotype that the Cunninghams are ignorant fools. However, Walter
Jr. informsthat the only reason he continues to fail school is due to the fact that his father
desperately needs his help on the farm. Essentially, Walter Jr. does not have the opportunity to
learn in school,...

In the novel Holes, what are the plot and climax?

The book
, by , tells the story of 14-year-old Stanley Yelnats, whose family has
been cursed with bad luck for generations. The curse began when his great-great-grandfather,
Elya Yelnats, failed to fulfill his promise to carry Madame Zeroni up a mountain. Stanley is
affected by the curse when he is falsely accused of stealing shoes donated by a star basketball
player to an orphanage and ends up being sentenced to Camp Green Lake. At the camp, boys are
required to dig a hole five feet wide and five feet deep every day. The counselors claim the
digging is meant to "build character" and ask the boys to bring them anything they
find. Stanley begins to suspect they are looking for something in particular when they are
uninterested in a fossil he finds but interested in an empty lipstick tube. It turns out that
the camp is searching for a treasure stolen from Stanley's cursed great grandfather, also named
Stanley Yelnats, by outlaw murderer "Kissin' Kate" Barlow.

When
Stanley's friend Zero runs away, Stanley decides to leave the camp to try to find him. When the
two reunite, Stanley breaks the curse on his family by carrying Zerothe great-great-grandson of
Madame Zeroniup a mountain, fulfilling Elya Yelnat's promise. Theoccurs when the two return to
the camp: they enter one of the holes and find the treasure, a suitcase marked "Stanley
Yelnats," but the warden finds them and points a gun at them just as poisonous lizards
swarm the hole. The two are saved when Stanley's lawyer shows up to exonerate him. Zero and
Stanley are both freed from Camp Green Lake and split the treasure, consisting of jewels and
bonds, to help their families.