How old was Romeo if Juliet is 13?

There is no hard evidence in the play to suggest how oldis. It is generally assumed,
however, that he and his friends are probably, while older than , not older to an enormous
degree. Consider the way they behave: Romeo, in particular, is still afflicted with the wild
passions of youth, declaring himself in love with Rosaline only to move on to Juliet after first
meeting her.and , meanwhile, are also given to violent outbursts and fights over their clans's
respective honor, and none of Romeo's friends are married.

It was common in
this era for women to be younger than the men they married, but Juliet does not seem intimidated
by Romeo, as she might be by a man much older than she is. Nobody has yet tried to marry Romeo
off to anybody else, and he is referred to by Tybalt as "boy." While Romeo's parents
do not play as...

How did eugenics influence Mary Shelley?

The term itself couldn't have influenced
Shelley, who wrote the first version of in 1818. Francis Galton is
credited with coining the term "eugenics" in 1883, and the movement really didn't pick
up substantial steam until the early 1900s. However, Shelley's work does show some
forward-thinking scientific analysis for ideas that really didn't exist in the early 1800s, so
it is possible to examine Frankenstein with the idea that Shelley may have had the roots of
ideas about eugenics, even though this was not a topic that had fully developed when she wrote
the book.

Eugenics is the philosophy that only the healthiest, strongest, and
most desirable people should produce offspring, to further those traits in the human
population.can be considered a "father" of sorts tohe created. Under the lens of
eugenics, we can then examine the features he chose for his new being:

How [to] delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care
I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as
beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and
arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly
whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that
seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled
complexion and straight black lips.

On one hand,
Frankenstein chooses these desirable traits (including an eight-foot frame) that humans might
prefer. The parts which Frankenstein chose to stitch together to create this being are
"beautiful." He is muscular and strong. He has long, "lustrous" hair and
perfectly white teeth. Frankenstein seems to understand that a beautiful creature is the most
desired outcome.

But he also learns that he cannot control all variables. The
creature's eyes are too watery, the skin turns out an odd yellow color, and his lips are an
unnatural black. Eugenics faces the same limitations, even in today's great scientific
advancements of genome mapping. While we know a great deal about how genetic coding works (which
Shelley was completely ignorant of) and which genes code for various human traits, diseases, and
abilities, we certainly still have much to learn. Intelligence, for example, is coded in at
least five hundred different genes.

Thus, Frankenstein's realization before
the term "eugenics" was coined is much the same as our own today. Humans are a complex
species, and tinkering with the creation of an ideal being can produce unexpected and even
unexplainable results. Frankenstein's attempts to create a beautiful being actually repulsed him
when his work was complete, and he could not account for the being's personality, which had
strong tendencies toward violence and revenge.

In Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, what are the most prominent literary/rhetorical devices?

Two
prominent literary devices thatuses in are symbolism and .  Allegory is a
rhetorical device that uses stories or pictures to convey hidden meanings.  Usually the meaning
is a moral or political one.  Symbolism is more or less the same thing.  In A Journal
of the Plague Year Defoe uses the rats as a symbolic stand-in...

Why is Mama so set against opening a liquor store in A Raisin in the Sun?

Mama is deeply
religious (as demonstrated by her heavy-handed philosophical clashes with ), and she looks down
upon drinking as a vice that makes one focus on the pleasures of the here-and-now, as opposed to
living one's life as ascetically as one can in order to reach the gates of heaven.  Also, Mama
has seen how alcohol has negatively affected the poor people in her neighborhood, one of whom
lives right in her apartment---her son .  She refuses to play any part in his scheme, as it will
mean that she will be a contributor to the destruction of her own people.

In Ernest Hemingway's story "Hills Like White Elephants," what is a "white elephant"?

The term
"white elephant" is commonly used to describe a useless or burdensome possession. In
Asianit is said that white elephants were sacred, but because of their sanctity could not be
used to perform any manual labor. Thus, the elephant became useless to its possessor and quite
expensive to maintain. The term white elephant is still in use today as friends or office
workers gather and give and receive white elephant gifts, mainly just for the fun of it. Most
people have these useless gifts around the house somewhere.

In Hemingway's
short story, Jig refers to the hills in the distance as looking like white elephants in her
conversation with the man. In this case, the term is a veiled reference to the unborn child she
is carrying. It becomes a way for the idea of abortion to be introduced into the story. That the
girl believes the hills look "lovely" seems to indicate she wants to keep the child. A
little later she even says they don't resemble white elephants, further strengthening her
argument that they should keep the baby. The man seems to disregard this comment and continues
to argue for an abortion.

Consider the difference in Romeos love for Rosalind and Juliet

does a great deal of
pining for Rosaline, and it all seems very dramatic and angsty.He says things like, "Love
is a smoke made with the fume of sighs" (1.1.197).He cries and mopes around, and even
worries his parents with his moods.He describes love as though it were something painful and
madness-inducing.However, Romeo also talks about her "chastity" being "well
armed," and he commends that she will not "ope her lap to saint-seducing gold"
(1.1.218, 222).In other words, then, it seems that Romeo may be less concerned with the concept
or feeling of love than he is with having sex with Rosaline.It is evident
that he may be driven by lust rather than love in his pursuit of her, and this is, perhaps, why
she continues to deny him.Later, when Romeo runs off after the Capulets' party,assumes that he
is still mad for Rosaline, and he makes some lewd comments regarding Romeo's
lustiness.

After he meets , however, Romeo appears to feel legitimately more
than lust.For example, when they speak in the balcony scene, he asks her if she is going to
leave him "so unsatisfied," a question that seems to have a sexual meaning
(2.2.132).Juliet asks what satisfaction he would expect tonight, and he explains that he wants
"Th' exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine" (2.2.134).He wants her to say that
she loves him as he has confessed his love to her.Romeo is not simply lusting after her and
trying to get into her bedroom; he actually wants to marry her.When she suggests it, he does go
to 's right away to see if he will sanctify the marriage.

What does Mrs. Parsons want from Winston in chapter 2 of 1984?

At the
beginning of chapter two, Mrs. Parsons asksif he can come and unblock her sink. Her husband is
away and she is unable to do it herself. Despite that he hates using his hands, Mrs. Parsons's
husband, Jim, is one of Winston's colleagues, and...