What does Vera's interactions with Mr. Nuttel and the other characters in The Open Window reveal about her personality?

Vera's
interactions with Mr. Nuttel and her aunt, Mrs. Sappleton, show that Vera is an intelligent and
observant young woman with a strong imagination and an undetected malicious streak.

Vera enjoys deceiving people. For example, she takes spiteful pleasure in concocting a
false tale to frighten the boring Mr. Nuttel, who is suffering from a nervous disorder and is in
the country for a rest cure. She quickly ascertains that he knows nothing of the area or of her
aunt's family. She uses this information to concoct a particularly wicked story.

Using her sharp memory of exactly what her uncle and her aunt's two brothers are
wearing, she is able to convince Mr. Nutley that the figures he sees coming toward the open
window of the dining room are ghosts of dead people. This sends him fleeing from the
house.

When her aunt wonders why Mr. Nutley ran off so suddenly, the
imaginative Vera quickly concocts another story, telling her aunt that he has a fear of dogs,
saying that he developed it in India when he had to spend a night in a newly dug grave to escape
a pack of snarling and foaming strays.

Vera projects an innocence that
deceives people and prevents them from discovering her malicious intentions. People don't expect
her to have such a vivid imagination or such a capacity for spinning lies for no reason except
to amuse herself and to exert power over people.

When comparing and contrasting Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, how do Shaw and Miller use dramatic ironyin their works to...

It is
surprising that these two plays have been chosen for comparison, since, in my opinion they have
little in common in plot, theme, or dramatic technique. The one thing that links them is that
both are critiques of the capitalist system. Shaw skewers the pretensions of both academics and
the middle and upper class in their treatment of working-class people. Miller looks at the
system from within and portrays the victimization of a man who thinks he's part of the system
but in reality is left out in the cold when his usefulness to it has expired.

Shaw's dramaticin is that Eliza turns the tables on Higgins and
gains a degree of power over him. This is much more pronounced in the musical...

What are three characteristics of Winston Smith and Julia in 1984?

I think
that an interesting approach would be to give characteristics of both characters as a couple. 
The most elemental trait they share when they are a couple is that they seek to be discrete. 
They understand what is at stake in their relationship, in that their presence together is
forbidden by Big Brother.  The very idea that they would share emotions and moments of
sensuality that cannot be controlled or appropriated by Big Brother makes their status as a
couple dangerous, requiring the utmost in discretion.  I think that another trait they share is
that they both enjoy sexual activity.  Their penchant for sex is heightened by both of their
work and resentment of the government, where sex is only meant for procreation.  I think that
the last descriptor of them would be that their bonds are ruptured at the very end.  Both of
them end up betraying the other.  The meeting in the park reflects the nature of the ruptured
relationship between them.  Something that held so much in emotion, intensity, and commitment
was undermined by Big Brother, resulting in two people who can only say in the most plain of
voices how they betrayed the other.

How does Animal Farm relate to the Russian revolution?

This is an
intelligent question. is an . This means that the characters in the work
can refer to historical people.

Here are a few clear examples.refers to Karl
Marx. They are both great thinkers who invented a new political philosophy, workers unite, and
they both died before the revolution.

Animalism is communism. In short, in
both systems the government owns everything, at least in theory.refers to Trotsky, who had good
intentions,] but was chased away. Lenin chased away Trotsky, andchased away Snowball.

Napoleon, the often brutal leader of animalism, is Joseph Stalin. Napoleon uses the
dogs andto get his work done. This refers to the force and propaganda that Stalin used to
entrench his government. 

All of these characters show that what is happening
on the farm mimics what has happened in Russia. In this sense, the work is an allegory of the
Russian revolution. 

Crucible means test, trial, ordeal, formation by fire, and a vessel baked to resist heat. How is "crucible" related John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor,...

The
symbolism of the crucible relates to Elizabeth Proctor, who is put to the test and under an
extreme amount of pressure in the final two acts of the play. In act three, Elizabeth is brought
before the court and questioned about her husband's infidelity. Elizabeth struggles with the
decision to protect John's reputation or tell the court the truth. Tragically, Elizabeth lies
and John is arrested. Elizabeth is once again tested in the final act of the play. John asks for
her opinion regarding his decision to offer a false confession or die a martyr. Elizabeth ends
up telling John to follow his heart and refuses to intervene in his decision to preserve his
integrity.

John Proctor also experiences an immense amount of pressure to
confess to adultery and ruin his reputation in order to expose Abigail as a liar or allow the
corrupt court to try his innocent wife. After admitting to adultery, Proctor is arrested and
must decide whether or not to offer a false confession. In the end, Proctor...

How does Zinn's view of Roosevelt's New Deal, in chapter 15 of A People's History of the United States, differ from most histories' view? Most...

Though
labor unions certainly existed long before, the 1930s, under the cloud of the Great Depression,
were truly a hotbed for the rise of labor unions and a multitude of other rights groups and
organizations fighting for political, economic, and social change. This rise can be attributed
to such factors as massive unemployment, unsafe working conditions, low wages, long hours,
unsafe and unsanitary living conditions, the loss of life savings, and discrimination of all
types.

Now, though it may appear on the surface that all these unions and
other groups were fully united in their vision of what America could, or should, be, the reality
is that there were deep divisions spelled out along ideological lines. For example, there were
labor unions and other organizations that adhered strictly to Marxian economic and political
principles and envisioned a radical do over of society and economy via revolution. These
organizations were emboldened by the Depression, brought on by what they...

Evaluate several major points of convergence among the research on traits and skills, behaviors, influence processes, and situational variables in...

Research on
leadership styles and abilities generally focuses on a persons internal qualities, the
situations they are in, the behaviors they use, and the process by which they influence others.
Though these are separate variables, they certainly coincide in a number of strategic
areas.

Obviously, behaviors will overlap...