What are some examples of Romanticism in Frankenstein, chapter 5?

Romantic
literature often focused on individualism, emotion, and a tortured hero who has broken the rules
of society, God, or nature.

In chapter 5, Romanticism is expressed through
the intense emotions of anguish and disgustexperiences upon seeing his creation. This sense of
horror overwhelms him. As he puts it:

Sometimes my pulse
beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank
to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.

Shelley shows how deeply Victor feels the pain of having created a
monster. His response is not rational, reasoned "what do I do now?" but a severe
emotional reaction of distress.

Second, the chapter shows Victor, the
isolated individual genius who has worked alone in his tower for several years to create life
from inanimate parts, as the tortured hero. Like Prometheus, who was punished for taking on the
privileges of the gods in giving fire to the humans, so has Victor overreached his human bounds.
This is a very typical thing for a Romantic hero to do: such a hero often attempts to do more
than mere mortals can achieve. Victor is punished and tormented for taking on the prerogative or
privilege of God in creating human life.

Shelley also points specifically to
Victor as a Romantic figure being punished for violating God's laws by quoting in this chapter
from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," another Romantic work in which the , the
Ancient Mariner, is punished for violating the laws of God and nature.

Describe the circumstances of the meeting with Jesus in chapter 8 of The Bronze Bow.

By the
time we reach chapter 8, Daniel has been learning more and more about Jesus and his teachings.
One of his close friends, Simon, has become so devoted to Jesus that he's left behind his shop
to follow him. Daniel and Joel set out to track Simon down, and on their journey, they hear
stories of Jesus's miraculous healing powers.

When Daniel and Joel finally
catch up with Simon, their friend greets them warmly and invites them to share a meal with him.
It is then that Daniel and Joel come face to face with Jesus for the very first time. Straight
away, they can see that there's something special about this man, as if he possesses some kind
of inner light. Jesus also surprises Daniel and Joel by dispensing with the ritual of cleaning
hands before eating.

Though both young men are impressed by Jesus, Joel is
still unsure of the truth of his teachings. His inclusive message is at odds with what Joel has
always regarded as God's truth.

What happens at the end of scene 10 in A Streetcar Named Desire?

Ollie Kertzmann, M.A.

At the end of scene 10, Stanley and Blanche fight and he carries her away to rape
her.

During scene 10, Stanley catches Blanche in a lie. He goads her on and
fights with her after she's continued on with her story that he knew wasn't true. As tensions
spiral, they fight. She wants him to leave and he insists that he isn't going to.

Near the end of the scene, Blanche threatens Stanley with a beer bottle. She breaks it
on the table and threatens to twist it in his face. He mocks...

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What made Young Goodman Brown change at the end of this story?

At the
beginning of the story,is presented as a loving husband. He refers to his wife as "a
blessed angel on earth" and is sad to have to leave her. Young Goodman Brown is also
presented, at the beginning of the story, as one struggling to resist the temptations of
evil.

Indeed, he follows the devil into the dark woods, and the further he
journeys into the woods, the further he moves away from his Christian faith. This idea is
emphasized by the fact that his wife is named "Faith." However, Young Goodman Brown
does try to resist the devil. He resolves repeatedly to turn back and return to his wife and
"cling to her skirts and follow her to heaven."

At the end of the
story, Young Goodman Brown is without hope altogether. He has seen, in the woods, too much evil
and too much hypocrisy to ever be happy again. He has seen elders of the church, pious teachers
of the catechism, and even his own wife among the devil's congregation. The devil has thus
revealed to Young Goodman Brown the supposed truth that "Evil is the nature of
mankind."

The devil affects this change in Young Goodman Brown, from
hope to hopelessness and from faith to faithfulness, because he shows him that all those people
he has "reverenced from youth," and "deemed...holier" than himself, are not
holy at all, but sinful and corrupt. When Young Goodman Brown believed these people to be holy,
he "shrank from [his] own sin, contrasting it with their lives of righteousness." Now
that he no longer has that righteousness as a contrast, or an example, he becomes hopeless and
miserable.

At the beginning of the story, Young Goodman Brown had some faith
in the goodness of people, personified in the figure of his loving wife. By the end of the
story, the devil has taken this faith from him. Thus, when Young Goodman Brown dies, he is
"borne to his grave a hoary corpse" and, we are told, "his dying hour [is]
gloom."

What messages is Steinbeck is trying to get the reader to understand about isolation/loneliness in Of Mice and Men?

Steinbeck's
has a lot to say about loneliness. In fact, even the town near where the
men work, Soledad, means "solitude." Even though they work in the town of Solitude,
they are not alone.

I think one thing Steinbeck is trying to get his readers
to understand is that people need each other, even if the relationships may not fit the
conventional paradigm that society might expect.andare the obvious example here. One man is
short and "street-wise", while the other man is huge and simple-minded. All the same,
the two men need each other, compliment one another (one provides "the brains", the
other provides "the brawn"), and share a common dream.

Another
thing Steinbeck wants us to know about loneliness is that sometimes people can be together and
yet still be alone. Curley and his wife are the main example here. They are husband and wife,
yet their relationship is clearly damaged, even though they have only been married a very short
time. Curley's wife has already "got the eye" after only a few weeks of marriage.
Curley is already jealous of his wife and doesn't even seem to know where she is half the
time.

Carlson said casually, Curley been in
yet?

No, said Whit. Whats eatin on Curley?

Carlson
squinted down the barrel of his gun. Lookin for his old lady. I seen him going round and round
outside.

Whit said sarcastically, He spends half his time lookin for her,
and the rest of the time shes lookin for him.

Curley burst into the room
excitedly. Any you guys seen my wife? he demanded.

 

Thus, in Steinbeck's novel, we are presented with a number of
characters who experience lonliness in a variety of ways. In the end, though, I think Steinbeck
realizes that people need each other, despite their feelings that sometimes they want to be
alone:

George looked quickly and searchingly at him. I
been mean, aint I?

If you don want me I can go off in the hills an find a
cave. I can go away any time.

Nolook! I was jus foolin, Lennie. €˜Cause I
want you to stay with me."

 

What are the positives of the Trail of Tears?

There were
not good things that came from the Trail of Tears, especially for those who had to march to
Oklahoma.  The Indian Removal Act that brought on the removal of the Five Civilized Tribes from
the Southeast to Oklahoma killed up to one third of the native people who went.  If there was
any "pro" to the act, I would say that it strengthened the executive branch.  Andrew
Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law but there was a legal challenge that went all the
way to the Supreme Court, Worcester v. Georgia.  In this case, John
Marshall ruled in favor of the Cherokee.  The treaties signed with the Cherokee were a moot
point, as they were deals between the state of Georgia and the Cherokee nation.  Per the
Constitution, a state cannot sign a treaty with a nation--it's the Senate's job to ratify
treaties.  Also, only a minority of Cherokee chiefs signed the treaty.  According to the Supreme
Court, the Cherokee should get to stay. Jackson did not act on the ruling; since he is the
enforcer of the law, per the Constitution, that was his prerogative.  The Cherokee and other
Southeastern tribes had to go to Oklahoma, where many died and many more lived in poverty and
lawlessness, as the Indian Territory was considered a haven for criminals in the period after
the Civil War.  

In Ralph Ellison' short story "Battle Royal," what is the significance of the fact that the narrator mixes up the terms "social responsibility" and...

The white
audience, which has been mocking the black narrator during his speech by having him repeat the
word "responsibility" over and over, falls ominously silent when he replaces
"responsibility" with "equality." They are not amused at all by the
substitution.

Though the narrator quickly corrects himself, the incident
shows that the white people who are "rewarding" him with a scholarship to a black
college and briefcase have no intention of granting him equality. In fact, they are hostile to
the idea and the whole evening reinforces the idea that they are keeping him in his
place.

Booker T. Washington used the term social responsibility rather than
social equality to try to accommodate whites. He knew how adverse most whites at the time were
to racial equality and tried to be meek so as not to inflame white anger. Social responsibility
was a code term, implying that black people wouldn't try to claim equality but would work hard
and try to make themselves useful to white people by...