"I had...the comforting nearness of wealthy people." In The Great Gatsby, why was it comforting?The Great Gatsby, Chapter 1: "...a partial view of...

My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor’s lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dollars a month. the Great Gatsby, Chapter 1

It is ironically true that your study guide--and studies all across the Internet--does misquote the reference in The Great Gatsby, which is correctly quoted above. When you bear in mind that our hero narrator is in the bond business, "...so I decided to go East and learn the bond business"--as in stocks and bonds, as in Wall Street, as in very large investments of very large sums of money by very wealthy people who pay very large commissions to their bond brokers--then the consolation, or comfort, derived from the nearness (proximity: nearness) of wealthy people, or "millionaires," becomes clearer.

Our narrator obviously wants a career that will not only give him a little excitement (the adrenaline of investing on Wall Street) following his experience in the "Great War" but a lot of wealth as well. So, on two levels he may be consoled. First, he is consoled to be near millionaires whom he can envision as potential clients. Second, he is consoled by the reality of those who have partaken of his dream, which gives encouragement to the future realization of his dream.

What paintings did the artist Carl Spitzweg paint that were horrible or ugly?

As you may already know, Spitzweg is a representative of Das Bierdermeier. This style you can catch in many beer stein mugs, and even in the Lobel figurine collections. They consist on the bucolic or pastoral scenes in deep reds and blended yellows on a dark background.

The characters are often depicted in a satirical way, often old people with wide-open eyes, and weird looking mouths. Their eyebrows are always weird-looking with a tense expression in them. The characters are always in-task, arguing, talking, in action. 

From this description you could judge which paintings would be considered more satirical than others. One of them could be the Das Jagdunglück (The misfortune) and Aschermittwoch (Ash Wednesday). I personally do not like those, because they deviate a lot from The Bookworm, which is my all-time favorite and Der Ewige Hochzeiter.

Personally, however, I would have a hard time considering any Spitzweg horrible. Just performed in a different style.

What does Winston mean by, "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows"?

In Oceania the opportunity to think and do what is considered normal by society at large, was not the norm.  This was a society that pretty much brainwashed the citizens to believe anything that they said or did regardless of whether people actually knew what was right or wrong , that what was said or done by the party, was right.  

So to actually say that two plus two makes four and knowing that by saying it, thinking it and believing it is right without having to suffer any repurcussions in Winston's eye sight means having freedom.  Winston also believed that if one could believe what they deemed was right, and nothing happened to them because of their beliefs, then they had achieved freedom.

In the book Jane Eyre, Janes' trait is tolerant. How is this trait revealed in the text? Please give the chapter where you found it and the page...

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones (Jane Eyre) Jane develops tolerance from the various “teachers” she meets. These include Helen Burns and Miss Temple. But in relation to one scene and one quote regarding tolerance the following might suffice -As Mrs. Reed is lying on her deathbed, Jane once more attempts, as she did as a child  to reconcile with her aunt. Her aunt repels her with cutting remarks (page 357 in my edition). Jane, having more tolerance then many in her position after being insulted, states, “Love me, then, or hate me, as you will…you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God’s and be at peace” (my ed. Pp.357-358).

For a creative writing assignment, I have to be Horatio and say all the things I do. How do I approach this assignment?For example, "I am Horatio,...

I could do this for you but you learn nothing thereby. Open the book, and examine every scene in which Horatio appears. Write down the text of all Horatio's statements.  Who is Horatio?  A student at Wittenburg, a dear friend of Hamlet's, and what else?  What kind of guy is Horatio? Key: just before the play scene, what does Hamlet say to him? Hamlet describes Horatio, and makes it clear why he depends on him.

Where is Horatio at the tragic resolution of the play, and what does he try to do?  What job does Hamlet charge him with, before he dies?

"I am Horatio, a very close friend to the late Prince Hamlet. I came from my studies at Wittenburg to Elsinore, to attend Hamlet at the funeral of his father. I found him in a strange state of mind because - - ".

Go for it: if you read the play, you can do this.

In Kathryn Stockett's novel, The Help, where is Skeeter's black maid, Constantine?

In Kathryn Stockett's novel, The Help, Skeeter Phelan has special memories of the woman who helped to raise her: Constantine. When Skeeter felt she could not find a place in the house where she belonged, Constantine was there to rock and comfort her. When Skeeter returns home from college, she is shocked to find that Constantine has left. While Skeeter's mother tells her that Constantine gave up her position to live with family, Skeeter finds that something about her mother's explanation does not ring true, but her mother will not give her any further information.

At first Skeeter does not know who to ask for more information. When she and Aibileen begin their project, Skeeter tries to get Aibileen to give her the answers her mother will not. Aibileen refuses to do so for some time. However, as their book develops, so does Aibileen's trust of Skeeter; Aibileen is like Constantine in that she has raised seventeen white children and has felt that each was like her own. Perhaps more than anyone, Aibileen can understand the special bond that Skeeter shared with Constantine, and how bereft Skeeter now feels having been cut off from her without the opportunity understand why Constantine left so abruptly, and why Skeeter wasn't even able to say good-bye.

The truth is that Constantine's daughter was born looking like a white child. This created a great many difficulties for Constantine. If she was out of her uniform, she was questioned as to why she was in the company of a white child, in a society dominated by whites. There were social expectations of these black maids, and they had to adhere to the rules if they want to keep their jobs. Ultimately, Constantine is forced to put her daughter (who does not really fit in with the white or black communities) into a black orphanage, which is perhaps the hardest thing she ever had to do. Her hope was to be reunited with her daughter as soon as possible.

Her child is adopted and it is some time before they are reunited: in fact, when Constantine's daughter arrives, she comes to Skeeter's home where her mother is entertaining white women. Constantine's daughter acts as if she is white and mingles with the white guests—Skeeter's mother takes the young woman's audacity and defiant attitude as a personal affront. She demands that the woman leave. Constantine begs Mrs. Phelan to allow her daughter to stay with her, out of the way, in Constantine's little house. Skeeter's mother is so appalled that this black woman has presented herself as "one of them" ("polite" society) that she refuses. Constantine leaves with her daughter, not permitted to even write to Skeeter to explain.

When Skeeter finds out that something happened, she cannot believe that her mother was capable of doing what Aibileen had described. Skeeter's mom is still defiant about what happened. However, what hurts Skeeter the most is that she cannot be in touch with Constantine, who is lost to her forever. Constantine left to live a life with her daughter after so many years of separation, only to die three weeks after leaving the Phelan household.

This is the secret Mrs. Phelan has kept from her daughter. Skeeter feels as if she has lost a dear, dear friend—someone who was really like a mother to her.

What does the word Catholic mean & what is Roman Catholicism; also where in the New Testament are the biginnings of the church recorded?The Creed

As the previous post stated the word, "catholic" means universal. So, the catholic church is claiming to be the uinversal church.

When we add the adjective, Roman, we are referring to one expression of Christianity. Currently there are three major branches and at one point, there was a fourth: Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Protestantism and the Syrian church.

In terms of the beginning of the church, there is no one answer. So, let me give you a few different perspectives. First, some people will say that the chuch existed in the Old Testament, since they had faith in God. For example, they say that the assembly of God's people in the Old Testament equals the church. Second, some people will say that the church started with Jesus' ministry and his promises to build his church (Matthew 16). Third, others will say that the church came into existence through the works of the apostled who were commissioned by Jesus to establish his church (Ephesians 2:20).

Discuss the short story "Making Do"by Hogan.

Linda Hogan, a Chickasaw Indian writer, writes about the Native American woman in her struggles to find her identity.  The story “Making Do” recognizes the ordinary lives of women who have suffered great loss.  Their lives are fragmented and forever affected by events beyond their control.

The story is narrated by the author, a sister of the main character.The protagonist Roberta James has had three children with three different men, none of whom she married. After getting pregnant at fifteen, she learns to cope with what life hands to her. All three of her children die, and her lover leaves her.  Roberta has tried to deal with loss after loss.  After the death of her third child, Roberta needs time to heal.

After losing her children, Roberta feels alone and lonely.  Harriet, Roberta’s six year old girl, died from tuberculosis.  Her son died at birth. In describing the death of Wilkins, Roberta says, “He died of life and I know how that can happen.”  Finally, her little angel, Angela, died from unknown causes after telling her mother that she was going to die.

Everyone tries to console Roberta, particularly her grandmother Addie.  It is just too much, so Roberta strikes out on her own. She leaves and travels to Tropic, Colorado, and   finds a part time job.  Not surprisingly, Roberta has not found what she was looking for in a new place.  She is haunted by the spirits of her children.  Most of the time she stays in bed or walks the streets of the town when she is not working.

Every night she prayed to die and join her kids, but every morning she was still living, breathing. Some mornings she pulled at her flesh just to be cer­tain, she was so amazed and despairing to be still alive.

Her soul refused to leave what was not completed.

When the author finds out that her sister is barely surviving, she understands why Roberta is in such pain and grief.  The Chickasaw Indians have lost so much going all the way back to the “trail of tears.” Consequently, they hold on to everything they own. “We love our lovers long after they are gone, and better than when they were present.”

In explaining the history of the Chickasaw, the story takes on an essay quality.  The author recounts how her Indian family has lost so much that they become keepers of everything.  When Hogan and Roberta were children, they too had to learn to “make do.” They even used their legs for tic-tac-toe paper.

One of the ways that Roberta copes with her loneliness is by whittling.

Uncle James carves chains out of trees. We laugh and say it sounds like something they would do.

 When they felt hurt, the family would make art out of those feelings. Roberta was carving crows, mourning doves, and scissortails.  She sent some of the birds back to her aunt asking if she would put the birds on her babies’ graves.  Roberta was trying to carve the souls of her children into these birds.  “She was making do.”

The story’s simplicity should not take away from the importance of the message of the author.  When people lose valuable things in their lives, they have to learn how to cope and go one.  Sometimes, this has to be done when a person is by herself as was the situation of Roberta. 

The pain will lessen if the focus of the person is addressed toward something else: making wooden birds to go on the graves of the little children.  The title indicates the message of the author. People have to make do with what they have in life.

What does the abbey represent in "The Masque of the Red death" by Edgar Allen Poe?

The abbey is described as being "castellated", which suggests that it might represent both government and religion that people often turn to for safety. As both a castle and an abbey, it is supposed to be a place where "the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion." The doors are even welded shut from the inside so no one can escape. However, it also is bizarre in its layout, especially the rooms in which the ball is held. Unlike most castles or abbeys, one cannot see what lies ahead because "There was a sharp turn at every twenty or thirty yards. . ." and each room in this part of the castle has a different color. Most critics suggest that the rooms each represent a different stage of life. With that in mind, the entire castle probably represents the life that many people think is safe and secure. Unfortunately, the courtiers learn that even when they feel the most safe, death is very close. No matter how satisfied they were that they could not be touched by catastrophe, death itself sought them out and killed them.

In The Canterbury Tales, which three pilgrims' inner natures are revealed by their outer appearances?

The Squire is young and has potential to be as noble as his father, the Knight. He has been trained in all the services, music, and other areas considered to be honorable.  However, as a youth with rosy cheeks, short robes, and curly hair, he enjoys the ladies-- so he sleeps as little as the Nightingale.

The Monk owns many things he shouldn't-- dogs, fine horses, nice clothing.  He spends a lot of time hunting and being involved in material worldly pursuits.  His mantra is not to follow the Monks whose footsteps he follows in since the world is a great big place to play and he's all about it with his symbols of material wealth.

Almost every character in the Canterbury Tales is described in such a way that his/her inner nature is revealed by his/her outer appearance.  Careful reading and knowledge of the time period will help you detect the hints that Chaucer is giving his reader as "just reports what he sees and hears".

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction

I am not sure that I understand what you are asking for as you have not actually asked a question.

If you are asking for reaction to the above statement, I definitely agree with this statement in any field of endeavor that I can think of.  Even if you try your hardest and are not afraid to take risks, you are very likely to fail if you have no purpose or direction.

An example of this can come from sports.  It has long been said (though some say this is a racist characterisation) that African national soccer teams have a great deal of effort and courage but lack purpose and direction.  In the days when that was said the most, these teams would typically fail in the World Cup finals.  Nowadays, as the level of their coaching (and the level of coaching their players receive at club level) increases, their results have improved.

This seems to me to be a good example of how purpose and direction are necessary for success.

A balloon contains 3.6 x 10^25 helium atoms. How many moles of helium atoms are present?I dont know how to do this question and my chemistry...

A mole is just like saying you have a certain amount of something.  When you say you have "ten" of something, it could be cats or atoms or pencils or ducks.  You could say you have "ten thousand" of those same items, but instead of using standard notation for the number (10,000) you could use scientific notation, 1 * 10^4, which is exactly the same amount of items. (The numeral 4 tells you how many zeros to place after the 1.)  You could be a little more than half a millionaire, and have $600,000, or 6 * 10^5 dollars.  To have a mole of something means to have a very large specific number of items, and it's roughly 6 followed by 23 zeros, or 6 * 10^23.  To be a bit more precise, a mole is actually 6.02 * 10^23, and all it signifies is how many of something, dogs, oranges, molecules, or atoms you have.

To say a balloon has a mole of helium atoms in it means it contains 6.02 * 10^23 atoms of helium.  If a balloon has 3.6 * 10^25 atoms, it means it has more than a mole of atoms (since 25 zeros means its a larger number than 23 zeros.)  To find out exactly how many moles, a bit of division is required.

First, take the first part of each number and divide, so 3.6/6.02, which gives you .598.  Now take the second part of each number, and in order to perform a division, subtract, so (10^25 - 10^23) which equals 10^2.  Put the parts together to get .598 * 10^2. But 10^2 is just 100, so the number could also be read as .598 * 100, or 59.8.  So your balloon has 59.8 moles of helium.

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, what are some qualities the author conventionally assigns to men and women?How does the writer satirize...

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In the first paragraph, Wollstonecraft asserts that “those beings who are only the objects of pity” will soon become “objects of contempt.” Wollstonecraft sees “pretty feminine phrases” as a means by which men soften women’s “slavish dependence.”

We become aware of her energetic repudiation of such language as she goes on at length attacking “flowery diction.” After asserting that elegance is “inferior” to virtue, she indicts “pretty superlatives” that create a “kind of sickly delicacy” and make domestic pleasures “insipid.” She italicizes “fascinating,” presumably in order to call our attention to an example of the diction she repudiates.

By rejecting elegant phrasing in favor of the “important object” of communicating “experience and reflection,” the author emphasizes that her purpose is to be realistic: “I shall be employed about things, not words!” Her serious tone is intensified by her contempt for “the turgid bombast of artificial language.”

In paragraphs 5 and 6, the author describes marriage in terms that suggest wives’ responsibilities are not being met. After noting that marriage is “the only way women can rise in the world,” she refers to the childlike activities of wives (dressing, painting, nicknaming), and then asks, rhetorically: “Can they be expected to govern a family with judgment, or take care of the poor babes whom they bring into the world?” Wollstonecraft’s attitude toward women is critical. She notes their “fondness for pleasure which takes place of ambition, and those nobler passions that open and enlarge the soul” But she does mention “individuals” who are exceptions owing to their intellect.

Remarks in paragraph 3 leave no doubt that the author is deeply committed to her topic: “Animated by this important object, I shall disdain to . . . polish my style: --I aim at being useful. . . . “

The author acknowledges that women’s education has been “more attended to than formerly,” but complains that though women acquire “a smattering of accomplishments,” they sacrifice “stren gth of body and mind” to “libertine notions of beauty” (par. 5). She says that such training has made them “insignificant objects of desire—mere propagators of fools!” As for family life, women are “taken out of their sphere of duties, and made ridiculous and useless when the short-lived bloom of beauty is over.”

The author suggests that the attribute of “artificial weakness” has made women cunning. She adds this challenge: “Let men become more chaste and modest, and if women do not grow wiser in the same ratio, it will be clear that they have weaker understandings.”

Wollstonecraft’s argument suggests that “the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex.”

This essay achieves audience identification in the first paragraph by appealing to women as “rational” creatures who can stand alone . Later the author uses analytical commentary to attack artificial language, misdirected education, and fondnes s for pleasure—all of which illustrate the subversion of reason or of strength.

What happened when Jess tried to go to Terabithia alone in Bridge to Terabithia?

When Jess goes to Terabithia alone for the first time after Leslie's death, he finds that the creek has fallen well below the level at which it had been the last time he saw it. The rope he and Leslie used to swing across it into their magic land is gone, of course, but there is a large branch which has washed up into the bank, and Jess hauls this to the narrowest place on the creek to use as a bridge. Stepping carefully across foot by foot, he lands a little upstream from Terabithia. P.T. paddles across the water to join him, and the two, boy and dog, enter the castle stronghold together.

At first, Jess is angry, because he does not know what to do to make the magic come alive like it did when he was with Leslie, but after thinking about her awhile, he is inspired to make "a funeral wreath for the queen." Entwining spring beauties into a pine bough, he fashions a fitting wreath, and lays it in the sacred grove in Leslie's memory. Jess experiences a sense of closure with this action, and "a tiny peace wing(s) its way through the chaos inside his body."

Suddenly Jess hears May Belle crying out, "Help! Jesse! Help me!" She had followed Jess and was stuck on the branch laid across the creek, too afraid to move backward or forward. Jess goes over and helps her get back to the other side, showing a gentleness and sensitivity to his little sister that he had not had the maturity to show before. Jess' experiences with Leslie, and the tragic reality of her death, have been an important catalyst in his growing up and coming of age (Chapter 13).

How does Hamlet’s encounter with Fortinbras and his Captain make Hamlet feel guilty?act 4 sc 4

Fortinbras moves towards his objective and is willing to face death on no stronger evidence that faith that he is right.  Such is the strength of his conviction that his troops will gladly follow.  He compares his own journey seeking truth before acting and has come to believe that Fortinbras is the better man for it.

It presents truth as a faith, exclusive of evidence... something is true because we believe it to be true. A contemporary example would be the American incursion into Iraq which was based largely on the belief in WMD rather than any real evidence. Like Iraq, Hamlet learns a different perspective in the next act.

His encounter with Fortinbras presents a perspective but that doesn't make it true.  Remember, Hamlet only believes that Claudius killed his father, but by the final scene has come to recognize that belief is insufficient to justify killing him.  In the final scene, Hamlet executes Claudius for the two crimes he can prove rather than the one he can't.

In a classic demonstration of an eye for an eye, Claudius dies by his own instruments.  If the wine and sword are not poisoned, then Claudius, Gertrude, Laertes and Hamlet will live.  The outcome is the proof and in that is justice.

I need one literary device for chapters 3 5 6 8-11 if possible a quote for the literary device from the book "Narrative life of Frederick...

Chapter 3 of Frederick Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass includes the line: "Its excellent fruit was quite a temptation to the hungry swarms of boys, as well as the older slaves, belonging to the colonel, few of whom had the virtue or the vice to resist it." The word "swarms" is a metaphor.

Chapter 5 includes the line: "The children were then called, like so many pigs, and like so many pigs they would come and devour the mush; some with oyster- shells, others with pieces of shingle, some with naked hands, and none with spoons." The phrase "like so many pigs" is a simile or an analogy, if you will. I still think that simile is the more accurate answer.

These literary devices are extremely easy to find. You only need to read the brief chapters. Each one is full of many such devices.

What are the Moon phases and their influences on Earth?

The word "lunatic" derives from the latin word "luna," which means moon.  The word "moon" itself comes from Anglo-Saxon;  the modern English word "month" comes from "moonth," describing one cycle of the Moon's phases around the Earth. During full Moon nights, substantial sunlight is refected off the Moon surface towards the Earth, bright enough for people to be walking around in the middle of the night acting crazy.  There are about 13 of these lunations, or full-moon periods during the course of a solar year. Only during a New (or Dark) Moon can a solar eclipse occur.

The center of gravity in the Earth-Moon system is well below the Earth's surface, causing friction in the interior of the Earth, which is slowing its rotation, causing a longer day.  This effect is tiny, but cumulative.  While the Earth slows its rotation, the Moon slowly moves further away due to the angular momentum forces. Because these effects are so slow, nothing by normal means has been perceptible during all of human history.

More immediately noticeable to us are the "tides," but that word is almost a misnomer.  The Moon does not pull the world's waters back and forth; there's instead a permanent water bulge facing the Moon, through which the Earth rotates, giving us the appearance of water movement.  As different land masses rotate directly under the Moon, they also bulge, but much less than the water does. So the land, like the water, actually expands and contracts.

The most influence the Moon Phases have is not upon the Earth, but upon the people on the Earth. Watching this cyclicly changing celestial body inspired the creation of goddesses and religions, as well as songs and poetry into our own time.

I have to write an essay on Othello by william shakespeare about Iago. three body paragraph essay showing his most sinister acts ? Any suggestion ??

You can organize your body points act-by-act:

• Body 1: Act  I (Iago plays the race card against Brabantio and the Duke)


• Body 2: Act II (Iago plays the reputation card against Cassio)


• Body 3: Acts III-IV (Iago plays the jealousy, misogyny cards against Othello and Desdemona)

-OR-

You can apply "The Sixteen Villain Archetypes" to Iago, using quotes from the play as support.

Here's three of the major villain archetypes that apply to Iago:

I.  The Devil

the charming fiend, he gives people what he thinks they deserve. Charisma allows him to lure his victims to their own destruction. His ability to discover the moral weaknesses in others serves him well. Close your ears to his cajolery – he’ll tempt you to disaster.

II.  The Traitor

the double agent, he betrays those who trust him most. No one suspects the evil that lurks in his heart. Despite supportive smiles and sympathetic ears, he plots the destruction of his friends. Never turn your back on him -- he means you harm.

III.  The Schemer

the lethal plotter, she devises the ruin of others. Like a cat with a mouse, she plays with lives. Elaborate plans, intricate schemes; nothing pleases her more than to trap the unwary. Watch out for her complex designs – she means you no good.

In short, he's a traitor and backstabber to Othello, Emilia, and Cassio.  He's an Schemer / Evil Genius who cannot stop waging war, even after the war with the Turks is over.  He's  so evil that he who wants to destroy everyone, including himself.  Ironically, at the end, he survives as a mute.

What is the geography of each of these mountains?Mt. Baker Mt. Rainier Glacier Peak Mt. Adams Mt. St. Helens

Mount Baker is  a Cascadian volcano and it's surpassed by Mount Rainier.

Mount Reinier,which is the most dangerous and seismically active volcano (after Mt. St. Helens), is covered by 36 miles of glaciers which are the biggest inheritance of the Ice Age, found on one single mountain (a "single-peak glacier system").

Mount St. Helens is another Cascadian volcano, which until May 18, 1980, enjoyed a tranquil anonymity, being known and visited only by locals from the surrounding area. It became famous after the devastating volcanic eruption, whose story has travelled around the world, through the media channels.

Mount Adams is one of the largest Cascadian volcano and it is way bigger then any of the surrounding mountains, but way less active than the St. Helens, Rainier, and  Hood mountains ,from its neighborhood.

Glacier Peak  is one of the most isolated Cascadian volcano from the five major composite volcanoes of the Cascade Range.

Describe Cassius' and Casca's reaction to the storm.

Casca is terrified by the storm that opens Act 1 Scene 3. He says “never till tonight, never till now, / Did I go through a tempest dropping fire”(9-10).  He imagines there must be “civil strife” in heaven to produce such a storm. He goes on to say he saw other strange sights, all unnatural, such as a slave who held up “his left hand, which did flame and burn…and yet his hand … remained unscorched” (1.3. 16-19).  In short, Casca’s fear causes him to think the storm is an omen that nature is warning them about their intent to kill Caesar and his fear of the storm signifies his fear of killing Caesar  For Cassius, on the other hand, the storm is exhilarating: “I have walked about the streets, / Submitting me unto the perilous night,/ And….bared my bosom to the thunder-stone” (50-53). When he sees lightning, he puts himself right in its path, daring it to strike him, perhaps, or just to absorb its power and energy (54-55). He does not fear the storm, just as he does not fear killing Caesar. He is confident and perhaps arrogant as well.

Harold Pinter's plays are considered comedies of menace, intrusion and violence. What are the examples of violence in his "The Caretaker"?

In the play 'The Caretaker' by Harold Pinter, violence is very closely tied in with power. This starts right from the beginning of the play - Davies is rescued from a the potentially dangerous situation of a fight. Aston then leaves the tramp in another potentially dangerous situation - alone, with the potential for angry treatment by Mick.Then Mick does attack Davies and afterwards persecutes him with stories of turning him over to the police.These are all acts of overt or non-overt violence underlying the action. He bullies him some more by his intimidating non-stop questioning, frightening the old man and making him anxious and fearful. Mick then witholds the bag from Davies and a vaccuum cleaner is used to threaten him. Davies however is the one with no power and nowhere to go at the end.

Compare and contrast the structure & poetic elements of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 43" and Gerald Manley Hopkins "Gods Grandeur."

While both "Sonnet 43" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and "God's Grandeur" by Gerald Manley Hopkins are Petrachan, or Italian sonnets, Hopkins's sonnet more closely follows the structure of such sonnets.  For, in Browning's sonnet the problem is posed in the first line of the octave, but the answers begin with the second line rather than beginning the sestet.  But, in Hopkins's sonnet, the traditional form is followed with the octave presenting the problem of people ignoring God's grandeur continues throughout the octave and is not solved until the sestet in which Hopkins writes of how "Nature is never spent." Hopkins writes that man is spent from trying to save the men from the "smudge and shares man's smell."  In the sestest,  there is hope in the morning that "at the brown brink eastward springs" and " the bright wings" of the Holy Ghost that flies over Nature that is "never spent," giving hope to the reader for renewal.

Also, in contrast to the sonnet of Hopkins, Browning's includes almost no imagery.  Sonnet 43 has almost no sensory imagery; instead the poet relies upon other abstractions: "The ends of Being" or "ideal Grace." And, because of this reliance upon no sensory imagery, the repetition of "I love thee" becomes even more important. On the other hand "God's Grandeur" is explicit because of its imagery:  "flame out," greatness, "like the ooze of oil/Crushed!"

While the rhythm of Barrett's sonnet is regular, Hopkins varies his.  Lines 10-12, for instance are compressed and have an unusual grammatical structure. In Hopkins's lines, there is a variance from 5-6 stresses. Hopkins also varies from the traditional abbba,abba, cde,cde rhyme scheme as his last three lines have the rhyme ded, as do the last three of Browning's sonnet. 

Miss Browning employs repetition and parallelism in her lines, while Hopkins delights in alliteration and assonance.

Why is Alice Walker's novel entitled The Color Purple, and what does it have to do with beauty?

In addition to all of those connotations, purple also calls to mind bruises, and the protagonist of this novel suffers many, both literally and figuratively. It is the relationship between the bruise and the hope, the suffering and the rich nature of her life, that comprise the meanings of the title.

Please analyse Wordsworth's definition of poetry from his Preface to the "Lyrical Ballads.""Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful...

This often quoted sentiment from Wordsworth speaks directly to both his beliefs as a poet and a thinker of Romanticism.  The quote speaks to how Wordsworth feels poetry is to be created.  In stark contrast to the Neoclassical period which preceded Romanticism and was driven by wit and a sense of the intellectual, Wordsworth believes poetry as something to be created from the realm of the subjective.  The idea of a "spontaneous overflow" drives home the notion of the affect in both poetry and the creation of it.  While the mind does possess a role in this state of being, the artist must be in a synchronized mode with their consciousness from an affect point of view.  This is enhanced with the idea of recalling this emotional state from a point of recollection in tranquility, implying that the poet or artist cannot engage in this profess of reflection and rumination from a position in traditional and conformist society.

"A person will lose the fight for justice if the person is considered as insignificant by the public." Discuss this quote from To Kill a...

Atticus, the lawyer and father who defends Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white girl, recognizes that he is up against a jury that has already decided Tom's fate before they ever went to trial.  When Atticus loses the case, Tom tries to escape and is killed.  The town doesn't even blink at eye at his death.

Stated by Atticus at the end of the trial: "and so a quiet, respectable, humble Negro who had the unmitigated temerity to "feel sorry" for a white woman has had to put his word against two white people's."(204)

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box."(220)

After Tom was killed by the prison guards, Atticus relays the story to his sister and Calpurnia.  He makes the following statement about Tom's death.

"What was one more Negro, more or less, among two hundred of em?"(235)

What is the theme of the short story "Just Lather, That's All"?I'm looking for the theme, not the moral of the story etc. The theme... the thing...

I would go for Humanity vs. Inhumanity because, at that precise moment where both men are together at the barber shop and the Captain is telling the barber, who is an informant, all about what is going on in the guerillas, the two men are at level with each other in terms of deciding morally what is the fate of another human being under the circumstances.

So, that precise second where the barber contemplates slicing this inhuman monster, his own humanity was put to the test and so the two oppositional forces of the characters bring out the theme of the story, which is that the battle of humanity vs. inhumanity of war is the causative factor of the entire conflict.

What are the main conflicts and the theme/goal of Herman Melville's Moby Dick?

As a classic, Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" can be read on different levels.  On one level, it is a narrative about whaling and whales and one obsessed sea captain who seeks revenge again a levithian called Moby Dick who cost him his leg in a previous encounter.  This narrative is set in Nantucket, Massachusetts, a site renowned for its craggy seamen and fearless whalers, and is narrated by a young man who signed on the the enigmatic Ahab's ship in order to be gone "for a year or two."

But, since the narrative of the chase for Moby Dick does not occupy more than a fourth of the novel, Melville's work entails much more than the story of a maniac sea captain.  It is, rather, a metaphysical examination of the essence of nature.  For, as Captain Ahab declares early in the novel, what man sees of nature is but an inscrutable "pasteboard mask."  And, Ahab tells his crew that he would break through this mask in order to understand the meaning of existence behind it.  As what is termed a Dark Romantic, Melville and others like him perceived nature as a force that often works against man.  Moby Dick is the "pasteboard mask" that conceals the malevolent force against man, particularly Ahab who desires a rencounter with the "levithian" so that he may "break through that mask."  For, Ahab believes that if he can capture the great white whale, he can conquer the malevolent force against him.

Having remarked that the sea was his school, Melville's novel encompasses several themes, but the overriding one is man's search for meaning in his existence against the dark forces of nature, with the voyage of the Pequod being a metaphor for life.  In Chapter 58, Melville writes,

As the appalling surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-known life.  God keep thee!  Push not off from that isle, for thou canst never return.

Once someone has encountered evil--has left the Eden-like isle of innocence and has learned of life--he can never go back to his naivete, but must seek answers as Captain Ahab has felt compelled to do, risking his very life. himself.

what does "fair is foul, and foul is fair mean in macbeth :]in one of the scenes in macbeth what is the meaning of "foul is fair, and "fair is...

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the line "Fair is foul, and foul is fair," is first said by the witches in Act 1.1, and then echoed by Macbeth in Act 1.3.

Literally, the line means that what appears to be fair, is actually foul, and vice-versa when Macbeth echoes it.

Figuratively, though, the line accomplishes much more than the revealing of the literal meaning.  It introduces and contributes to themes revealed in the play, and also immediately reveals a connection between Macbeth and the witches.

At the time Macbeth utters the line, he is literally referring to the weather, as are the witches when they use it.  Macbeth at this point in the play is a war hero and loyal protector of his king.   The witches are grotesque and crass.  Yet, the separate speakers of the line are connected when Macbeth uses it.  This foreshadows their relationship.

Throughout the drama, what appears to be fair is often actually foul.   Duncan says Cawdor appeared to be loyal, just as Macbeth appears to be loyal.  Lady Macbeth warmly greets Duncan when he arrives at her castle, though she is planning on assassinating him.  Macbeth appears to Banquo as his ally, but he orders his death.  Macbeth is king, and appears to be telling the truth when he informs the murderers that it was Banquo, not Macbeth, who wronged them, but he is lying. 

Even when fair is fair, it is suspected of being foul, as when Macduff is suspected of treachery by Malcolm.

Opposites also appear in the play, echoing this quote.  The witches appear to be women, but have beards.  Macbeth, the warrior, feels pity and guilt before and immediately after he kills Duncan, emotions more often associated with females.  Lady Macbeth, on the other hand, asks to be unsexed, turned from female to male.

This single line introduces and contributes to much of what is revealed in the play.

What problem/conflict is the main character dealing with in The Giver?

Another possible answer is that the novel deals with being the same vs. being different. There's no doubt that Jonas is different from everyone else, and he is treated special, and different, and he's uncomfortable with that; lying is the thing he has the most problem with, but when he finds out that everyone lies, it devastates him. The fact that Jonas, or anyone, is different, causes problems with the society; Gabriel is nearly killed as a result of not fitting into the sameness.

It's important to consider, though, some of the things that this society is no doubt attempting to do by making everyone the same. People are to be healthy, intelligent, and everyone has a role in this society. The biggest problem with the society in The Giver, of course, is what happens to you if you're different, and most people would agree that it's not OK what this society does.

Dave Becker 

In Great Expectations, how does Pip react to driving by the prison with Estella?What does Pip's reaction indicate about his image of Estella as a...

In order to get better answers, you should tell us whatever you can about where in the book you think the answer is.  I am assuming you are talking about the part in Chapter 33 where Pip and Estella happen to be driving by Newgate Prison.  Pip has just been there the day before.

When she asks Pip what that place is, he pretends at first not to know.  In my opinion, this shows that he still places Estella on a pedestal.  He thinks that she is too good and too delicate to even have to think about such things as prisons.

You can see this attitude of his in this quote from the end of Chapter 32:

I thought of the beautiful young Estella, proud and refined, coming towards me, and I thought with absolute abhorrence of the contrast between the jail and her.

Why was mercy killing acceptable for George?At least 3 or 4 reasons why.

George and Lenny in the story "Of Mice and Men" have been together since they were young.  George has spent his life caring for Lenny.  He had at one time mistreated him which he admitted, but he does genuinely care/love Lenny.

To look at reasons to make his killing appropriate there are several reasons:

1.  George's shooting Lenny prevented Curley from torturing Lenny.

2.  George was able to give Lenny a good death.  By this I mean Lenny was not afraid, but died with the idea that things were going to be alright.

3.  George did not kill Lenny on account of contempt or anger, but because he cared about him.

4.  It was legal for him to end Lenny's life under the circumstances.  Law was often taken into men's own hands at the time in justification for murder.

5.  Lenny would have been found guilty of murder even if he had gone to a court of law.

What do you think the poem "Living in Sin" by Adrienne Rich is about?

Adrienne Rich uses a female speaker to show the loss of Romanticism in a premarital cohabitation that the speaker thought would sustain itself, but now she is having to clean up some of the mess and put away some minor demons.

The apartment is a metonym for the couple's relationship.  The speaker thought it would keep itself, but now--over time--she has come resigned to the fact that it is work, that much of the idealism about the new apartment (relationship) has worn off.  She's not condemning marriage or men, but she's having to become the domesticated woman that she had not envisioned she'd be.  The minor demons (her mother, or society) are bothering her in that she can hear them say, "I told you so."  She feels social expectations weighing on her and the pangs of guilt ("Living in Sin") are felt the morning after.  Indeed, relationships--married or not--are messy, and hard work, especially in the morning.

The poem reminds me of the scene in Act III of Romeo and Juliet, after the newly married couple has spent their first night together.  The scene takes place in the morning, like this one.  Juliet wants Romeo to leave before he is discovered; she is the Realist who worries for his safety.  Romeo, the Romantic, would rather be caught and killed than leave his love.  The honeymoon was over; it was the last time they would see each other alive.

This poem is obviously less tragic, but the dualities are the same, except the female speaker was once a Romantic (or she still is, but only at night), and now she is a Realist (in the morning).  The couples' nights are filled with passion, as evidenced by the cheese and three empty wine bottles.  But, by morning, the romance has worn off: the piano is out of tune; she's got to dust the table with a towel; he can't wait to leave.  The milkman's early morning wakeup call is a reality check.

How does Shakespeare use humor in the opening scene of Julius Caesar?

Shakespeare often uses simple people for comic relief in his plays. Fools, jesters, merchants, etc. In Act I of Julius Caesar, several "commoners" are milling about in the streets, not working, celebrating Caesar's latest victory. An exchange of words takes place between these commoners and Flavus and Marullus, who call them "idle creatures" and chide them for not working. They parry back and forth and, believe it or not, the exchange would have been quite humorous in Shakespeare's time. For example, the cobbler puns: "I am a mender of bad soles" - foreshadowing, in a humorous way, that there are going to be some "bad souls" in the play that will need mending. Read carefully the words of the "second commoner" and look for hidden meaning in his words. Shakespeare uses humor to foreshadow the tragic events that are to follow in the play.

What are some literary elements in Act 3?

The above post is very good, and I'd like to add three more points to it. These points are soliloquy, illusion and allusion.

First, come to the soliloquies. In the first scene of the act in Macbeth, we find Banquo uttering to himself:

"Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,

As the Weird Women promised, and I fear

Thou plyed'st most foully for't..."

These lines show that suspicion is being arisen and condensed in Banquo's mind regarding Macbeth's devilish deeds. He, further, asks to himself some rhetorical questions:

"If there come truth from them,

As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine,

Why by the verities on thee made good

May they not be my oracles as well,

And set me up in hope?"

And, these prove that, Banquo who was once indifferent to the witches' prophecies, has begun believing them. Surely, this paves way to a turning point in the character of Banquo. Besides, through Macbeth's famous soliloquy, "To be thus is nothing,/ But to be safely thus...", Macbeth's evil intention to finish the threats to his way - Banquo and his progeny - becomes more obvious.

Then comes the point illusion. In this act, here is a reference to visual illusion. In the fourth scene, Macbeth hallucinates Banquo's ghost during the feast which is an outcome of his inner stress and fear.

Allusion is another literary element used in act 3. In the first scene, When Macbeth soliloquises regarding his intention to kill Banquo, he alludes to Octavius Caesar (Augustus Caesar):

"My genius is rebuked, as it is said

Mark Antony's was by Caesar."

And, lastly I'll add an additional example of verbal irony which is quite important. Hecate, in her speech in the fifth scene, ironically utters: "security is/ Mortal's chiefest enemy", which is an indication to Macbeth. This ironical statement has two meanings. First, it means that, Macbeth, who is blindly driven by the prophecies of the witches, thinks himself secure for ever, and this over-confidence would make him more endangered. Secondly, Macbeth crazily wants to be assured of the throne and keep his power safe and secure at any cost; and, this obsession would bring more perils for him.

Why does Atticus decide to keep the blanket incident a secret in To Kill a Mockingbird?

After the children and Atticus return from the fire that consumes Miss Maudie's house, Atticus notices that Scout is wearing a blanket around her shoulders.  When he inquires about its origin, Scout answers, "I don't know,sir...I--" She, then, turns to Jem, who is even more puzzled than she.  But, Jem "babbles," and reveals the entire history of their doings at the Radley house including the placing of items in the hole of the Radley tree. Jem informs Atticus,

'Mr. Nathan put cement in that tree, Atticus, an' he did it to stop us finding things--he's crazy, I reckon, like they say....'

It is with this disclosure that Atticus changes his mind about returning the blanket to Boo, for he realizes that doing so may bring repercussions onto Boo as Mr. Radley would know that Boo has continued contact with the children, an act which he means to halt by already having stopped up the tree hole.

What happened to the communists after the protests of Bloody Sunday?

When the Bloody Sunday protests happened in 1905, the communists were not the main force behind them.  But the communists used the protests to help them gain some amount of power.  Specifically, they started to organize "soviets" in St. Petersburg in the later parts of 1905.

Before long, the soviets were outlawed and suppressed, so it's not as if there was this unbroken move toward power for the communists.  They really weren't heard from again until 1917, but the 1905 soviets gave them a model to use for 1917 when they actually had the chance to come to power.

What had Hester unknowingly done in fashioning Pearl's outfit?

Hester's actions in regard to dressing her child in beautiful, colorful garments can be interpreted in several ways, and these different interpretations all can be supported by the literature. The psychology of Hester's actions, for instance, should be considered, since Hawthorne's understanding of human psychology shapes so much of the novel and the characters' behaviors. The extravagant way Hester dresses Pearl, in complete contradiction to Puritan values, suggests an emotional rebellion on Hester's part.

Hester endures her terrible punishment on the scaffold. She stays in Boston and wears the scarlet letter. She submits herself to daily humiliation, shame, and ostracism. However, at the first opportunity, she declares her abiding love for Dimmesdale and makes plans with him to leave and start a new life. This indicates clearly that Hester has chosen to remain in Boston only to be near him. There is no genuine repentance in her for having loved Dimmesdale. The stern, punishing Puritans have not broken her spirit.

By dressing Pearl so ornately, Hester rebells against the gray society that represses her. Her actions reveal that, like Dimmesdale and Chillingworth, her outward appearance does not "match" her inner identity. In psychological terms, she makes her "child of sin" beautiful in what seems to be an act of passive aggression. Pearl's appearance reflects her mother's genuine self.

In "The Tell-Tale Heart," what does the heart beating symbolize?

To me, the beating heart in "The Tell-Tale Heart" symbolizes the murderer's conscience and/or his guilt.  It seems as though this man  knows that he has committed a horrible crime and the guilt is literally destroying him, eating him up inside like a living creature fighting its way out.  Though a manifestation of his mind,the beating heart is real enough to him to drive him to the verge of insanity and to an admission to the crime.

What advice does George give Lennie for getting along with Curley in Of Mice and Men?

In a nutshell, he tells him to stay away from his wife, only known in the novel as Curley's wife.  Curley is excessively protective of his wife and suspicious and jealous of anyone who tries to interact with her in any way.  When Lennie expresses to George that he thinks Curley's wife is "pretty", George realizes that Lennie may get in trouble by showing any interest at all in Curley's wife, so he wants to assure that Lennie doesn't interact with her.  In addition, George feels it is best that he stays out of Curley's way because Lennie often tends to unintentionally get in trouble whenever he opens his mouth.

What are 6 quotes for good vs. evil, with 3 for good and 3 for bad?

Here are a few more quotations:

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things. 

The tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart.; [Ultima] bore herself with dignity, and although she was very small she was ready to do battle with all the terrible evil about which I had just heard.

I knew I had witnessed a miraculous thing, the appearance of a pagan god, a thing as miraculous as the curing of my uncle Lucas . . .This is what I expected God to do at my first holy communion!

I realized that the owl had been with me throughout the night.  It had watched over all that had happened on the bridge.  Suddenly the terrible, dark fear that had possessed me was gone.

What made Tom visit the Ewell's house in the first place?

I assume that you are asking about the time that he went to the house and Mayella claimed that he raped her.  You can find his version of these events in Chapter 19.

According to Tom Robinson, Mayella called him inside the fence and up to the house to help her out.  She said that a screen door was falling off its hinges and she wanted him to fix it.

She had often, he said, called him in to help with various things.  He always had to pass by the Ewell home to get to the places where he worked for Linc Deas.

Compare and contrast the novel and the film "The Chocolate War."

Likely the biggest change from the book to the movie is in the outcome of the final fight and the participants in it.  Jerry fights Archie, instead of Emile, and instead of losing the fight in rather spectacular fashion, he wins it and feels bad afterwards.

This is a rather large deviation from the ending of the book and suggests some very different things.  Instead of Archie remaining the leader of the Vigils and them remaining in power, there is some breakup and loss of their power in the movie version.  Some argue that this completely perverts the author's intent in terms of the story.  Perhaps it was karma that then made the film rather unsuccessful!

In Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant," what is the Burmese attitude about imperialism?

Shooting Elephant.  In the first sentence of the story the narrator is explicit about the Burmese attitudes toward him as a representative of the imperial power:  “In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very bitter.”  He goes on to say how people spit on him, jeer at him, and generally insult him.  On calling him to shoot the elephant, they are in a way testing him, which is why he carries out the deed:  to try to save face in a hopeless situation that he finds morally wrong and constantly embarrassing.

In Trifles, why did Mr. Hale stop by the Wrights' house (he was the one who discovered the scene)?

Mr. Hale goes to John and Minnie Wrights' house because he wants to talk to John about sharing a party phone line.  During the play's time setting and because of the isolated area, it was not uncommon for neighbors to have a party line.  If you have seen old movies where the residents of a house or apartment have to connect to phone numbers through an operator, this is what a party line is like.  Mr. Hale needs the Wrights or another neighbor to share the line with him so that it will be affordable and practical.

While this might seem like an insignificant incident in the play, it is actually quite important.  John Wrights' negative attitude toward have a phone line installed demonstrates the extent to which he has isolated his wife.  Not only do the Wrights live far away from others, but John has also hindered Minnie from being involved in normal social activities (singing at church).  His denial of yet another means of outside human contact coupled with his killing the one thing that brings Minnie joy (her bird) prove too be the final impetus for Minnie to kill him.

Name and describe the three men who rule after Caesar's assassination in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."

The three men who rule Rome after Caesar's death are Antony, Lepidus, and Octavius Caesar.

Antony was a friend of Julius Caesar's and was dismayed over his death; however, he was smart enough not to tell the conspirators that immediately after the assassination! He knew that he needed to bide his time and use his funeral speech for Caesar as the way to turn the people against those that murdered Caesar. Antony is smart, loyal, and not given to rash acts of passionate nature - he uses his common sense.

Lepidus is actually a rather minor character in the play's action. According to Octavius, Lepidus is a "tried and valiant soldier" (4.1), to which Antony replies, "So is  my horse." Antony expresses concern over whether Lepidus is really up to the task of ruling Rome:

"This is a slight, unmeritable man,
Meet to be sent on errands." (4.1)

Octavius Caesar is the heir to Julius Caesar (his great-nephew)because JC did not have children. Octavius is very opinionated, as mentioned above in dealing with Antony's thoughts on Lepidus. In addition, Octavius decided to follow his own military strategies at the Battle of Philippi, rather than take orders from Antony, which lets us know that these two are not going to rule Rome peaceably together.

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What is the thesis or central message for "Common Sense," by Paine?I just finished reading this, and am way confused, what was the central message...

Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" was one of the major factors in bringing about the American Revolution.  The main thesis or central message of the book was A) that monarchy was a bad form of government and B) that the American colonies should become free from England and form their own country.

Before Paine wrote this pamphlet, the idea of rebelling against England was not very strong in the colonies.  Neither was the idea that monarchy should be abolished.  Instead, most people wanted to remain part of Britain, under the king, but with better laws and a bit more self-government.  Paine's writing convinced large numbers of Americans that it would be better to be independent and to no longer have a king.

Why did Japan decide to bomb Pearl Harbor?

The overall reason for this is that Japan wanted to have an empire in East Asia.  They needed the empire as a source for raw materials and as a place for excess population to go and live.

The Japanese believed that the US would try to stop them from taking this empire and so they felt they would need to neutralize the US fleet to give them time to capture the empire.

When the US stopped selling them oil in 1941, they felt that they had to move soon before their stocks of oil ran too low.  That is why they chose to attack Pearl Harbor -- to neutralize the US fleet so they could win an empire before their oil supplies ran out.

What really happened to Connie? Did she die?

Yes, the reader is meant to think that Connie is murdered at the end, for two reasons. First, because Oates said she based the story on a series of murders of young girls in Arizona during the 1960s. Second, the last sentence gives us the impression that Connie is headed to her grave: "'My sweet little blue-eyed girl,' he said in a half-sung sigh that had nothing to do with her brown eyes but was taken up just the same by the vast sunlit reaches of the land behind him and on all sides of him--so much land that Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was going to it."

What are the different kinds of love (i.e. loving oneself) explored by Shakespeare in the play Twelfth Night?

The different kinds of love include loving oneself (Malvolio being a good example) and loving others, but with regards to loving others, I think there are a variety of different loves seen throughout the play.

There is the "love from afar" that Duke Orsino feels for Olivia - one that ends up not standing the test of time...a fleeting crush, so to speak.  There is the familial love of Viola for her brother, Sebastian, who she assumes has died at sea.  We see that same type of love with Olivia's decision to remain in mourning for her dead brother for seven years.

There is also the love a servant holds for his master - Antonio decides to follow Sebastian to help him, despite the threat of death he's under for returning to Illyria.

Finally, there is the "love to end all loves" - the romantic love which we find in happy endings.  Olivia and Sebastian pair up, while Orsino and Viola are a match as well.  And "all's well that ends well"!

Which characters have an actual motive for killing Sam Westing in the book The Westing Game?I know that Sam Westing dies of natural causes but if...

Several characters have personal connections to Sam Westing and many of them are not positive experiences.  Each of the following characters have potential motives for killing Sam Westing:

• James Hoo: Westing stole and tried to sell his idea for paper innersoles for shoes.


• Erica Berthe Crow: is Sam Westing's ex-wife.  She could have any number of personal reasons from the marriage to kill her ex-husband and claim his inheritance.


• Grace Wexler: a distant neice of Westing, she might have killed him because of her family connection to the inheritance.


• Mr. Theodorakis: he was the childhood sweetheart of Westing's daughter.  The affair was broken up by the girls mother.  A distant motive might be tied to some sort of payback for a broken heart.


• Sandy McSouthers: Worked in the Westing Paper Plant for two decades and was fired by Westing personally, and given no pension.

In the poem "An Ordinary Day" by Norman Maccaig what is the meaning of the line- A cow started a moo but thought better of it. pls explain the...

MacCaig writes a lot about observing and being observed and the dynamic interaction between the two.  Is he taking his mind for a walk or is his mind taking him for a walk?  I don't see this so much as a reference to Descartes who compared the mind to a ghost controlling the body (machine).  I take it to mean that, as there is no way to separate the speaker from his mind, in terms of doing or thinking or observing, there is no way to separate the observer from the observed: you can't have one without the other.  And it is reciprocal when other minds are involved. As limited as a cow's mind might be (relative to a human's, as far as we know), the cow is observing as well. Maybe the cow thought better of it because it felt self-conscious mooing in front of all this natural splendor, or maybe the cow just had a moment of existential freedom and simply preferred not to moo for no other reason than choice. The overall point, for me, is that the cow is observed by the speaker but the cow also does some observing. And that means the cow is aware of itself and the world around it. Awareness of being observed and observing: kind of a round about way of showing interconnectedness.

What are the characteristics of modern poetry?

There are so many things to say on this subject. I would ask you to elaborate on the following points:

1. Modern(better call it Modernist) poetry is more predominantly intellectual/cerebral in its appeal, rather than emotive; Eliot and Pound would be the examples;

2. It is chiefly imagistic and involves symbolism, often private in nature; you can think of Eliot and Yeats;

3. It is often full of allusions of sorts, and inter-textual references; again Eliot is a great master;

4. It is impersonal, anti-romantic, innovative in attitudes and approaches to life; opposed to the Romanticist poetics of spontaneity and imagination;

5. It is often lexically, semantically and grammatically challenging for the uninitiated readership;

6. It rejects traditional versification and metrics to opt for free-verses and various experimental forms.

What is the mood of the short story, "Rules of the Game", by Amy Tan?

Good question! When thinking about the mood of a short story we can also consider the content of the story to help us determine what mood is adopted. This short story, like "Two Kinds", features the conflict between a Chinese mother who has immigrated to the States and her daughter, born in the States, who wants to forge an individual identity for herself. The mood can thus be said to capture the increasing resentment of Waverley against her mother for her insistence of showing her off but also her increasing defiance and stubbornness in her desire to be her own person. To me, a key passage is at the end of the story, when Waverley imagines a chess game to explore the conflict between herself and her mother:

In my head, I saw a chessboard with sixty-four black and white squares. Opposite me was my opponent, two angry black slits. She wore a triumphant smile. "Strongest wind cannot be seen," she said.

This imagery and the mood employed shows the reader how Waverley feels and views her mother's intrusion - she is depicted as a dangerous, frightening figure with "two angry black slits". The very last line of the story, "I closed my eyes and pondered my next move", seems to capture the defiance expressed by Waverley throughout as she considers what her next move in this "game" will be to beat her opponent (her mother) and achieve independence.

You may want to consider reading the book from which this short story is taken - The Joy Luck Club, which is an excellent book developing the conflicts between four sets of Chinese mothers and daughters.

What species live during the pennsylvanian time period?nope

The term Pennsylvanian was first used by H.S.Williams in 1819 and refers to state Pennsylvania, which the rocks of this period were well exposed and contain abundant coal.

The land flourished with luxuriant plant growth. In addition to horse tails, scouring rushes, club mosses, the woody plants appeared and attained the height of over 100 ft. The most common trees were scale trees. The insect life was most abundant. Dragonflies, Cockroaches etc. attained maximum size. A Dragon fly with a wing span of 20 inches has been unearthed from Belgium.

Amphibians expanded and became more abundant. Labyrinthodonts having somewhat lizard like appearance came into existence. The first reptiles, called stem reptiles, also appeared in Pennsylvanian period. Seymouria from Texas is considered to be the amphibian ancestor to reptiles.

Is Doctor Faustus misled by the devil or is he willfully blind to his situation in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus?

As to whether Faustus is misled about or willfully self-blinded to his situation, it is difficult to argue either of these points from the text. Marlowe's text makes it rather clear that Faustus is deliberate and precise in his calculations, considerations and estimations that lead to his choices. He knows precisely what he does not want and why. He knows precisely what he does want and why. He knows precisely what his end objectives are and why.

First, he is a distinguished scholar of every academic field there was. He has come to a juncture where he is to choose one field to devote his professorship to, to choose what to profess. He evaluates the essential foundations of each field and rejects them based upon disagreement with or flaws in the fundamental logic or premise of each. 

Next, he examines the thus untried field of magic, necromancy, and enumerates its various strong points. Marlowe shows here that (1) Faustus craves further and deeper knowledge: he is still at heart a scholar, though an insatiable one; and (2) Faustus craves earthly rewards that he has previously set aside in the pursuit of knowledge: he now wants unlimited power and wealth to accompany his unlimited knowledge.

One thing that Faustus is is that he is deluded. He is deluded about what kind of and what degree of authority he has over the forces of Hell that he calls upon with his chants and incantations. He believes he can command according to his fancy. This deluded belief is strengthened by the apparent ease with which he confines Mephistophilis to his will on their first encounters. What Faustus does not understand is that it is Mephistophilis who confines Faustus and that it is Lucifer who confines Mephisto. This is where the mistaken flaw in Faustus's plan lies: he does not understand the powers that he is calling upon.

Another reason it is hard to argue either position is that Marlowe includes the Bad and the Good Angels and the Old Man who describe his situation quite well from both perspectives.

GOOD ANGEL.
     Faustus, repent; yet God will pity thee.
EVIL ANGEL.
     Thou art a spirit; God cannot pity thee.
FAUSTUS.
     Who buzzeth in mine ears I am a spirit?
     Be I a devil, yet God may pity me;
     Ay, God will pity me, if I repent.

Assuming that the question really relates to why Faustus refuses salvation in the end, the real reason he fails to accept salvation is that he has a mortal fear of suffering. Once Mephisto begins to threaten violence, Faustus quails with fear and succumbs to Mephisto's power over him. So while it is difficult to argue that he was blinded or misled, it is textually arguable that he was deluded about who would hold power over whom once his contract with the devil was signed: they had power over him, he was to find.

MEPHIST.
    Thou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thy soul
     For disobedience to my sovereign lord:
     Revolt, or I'll in piece-meal tear thy flesh.

In chapter 7, why is Nick so pleased with Gatsby's honesty about Oxford?

Gatsby is an enigma.  Stories are flying about concerning this hidden and secretive man.  Where did his money come from?  Who was he before he arrived, a rich socialite, into the lives of the Long Island elite?  When Nick is at the party, he hears many different versions of Gatsby's life and dealings.  To hear Gatsby talk openly and honestly about anything satisfies Nick's curiosity and concern about this "friend" he has acquired.

In what way has Giles Corey reacted to percieved conflict in the past? Analyse the significance of his observation - Quote below..."why am i...

We can see that Giles has responded to conflict in the past by suing people.  He says that he has been in court 33 times, I think it is, and every time as a plaintiff.  In other words, he sues people a lot.

I think that what he means by the quote you cite is that people tend not to agree with him.  He is saying that they argue with him a lot.  To me, this means that he is something of a argumentative guy.  He is always in conflict with people and always suing them.  Maybe this is one reason he ends up getting in trouble -- a lot of people do not like him.

Was Macbeth a man of great worth?

Altogether, the human body, if you add up all the chemicals contained therein, is worth about $4.50.

I give yo this flippant answer because, really, who's to say whether or not a person is of great worth? Worth what to whom? A rich man is said to be worth a lot. A poor man is said to be worth a little. But how much is each man worth to his wife? To his children? To his boss? to the Internal Revenue Service? To his credit card company?

Yes, "worth" is a strange and variable concept for sure.

Early in his reign, the real Macbeth (yes, he did exist) was a very good King. He was thought of as being of great worth to Scotland. Later, when he resorted to extreme measures to control his country, he was thought to be a tyrant; his worth to the nation was diminished.

In the play Macbeth, Macbeth started out at the top of his game; he was a brave and victorious warrior. King Duncan considered him as worth more than almost any other, save Banquo. Duncan says to Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 4):

Would thou hadst less deserved,

That the proportion both of thanks and payment

Might have been mine!

He's worth so much that Duncan can't repay him for all he has done for King and country.

But by the end of the play no one in Scotland or England considers Macbeth to be worth anything; they see him as worthy of killing and nothing more.

Are John Isidore and Mercer the same person?

Isidore and Mercer are not the same people, yet this would be a very good thesis/critical analysis of DADOES. Isidore, the special chickenhead who questions his surroundings and by the end of the novel lives more simplistically rather than being engulfed in consumerism and Mercer, the "God" figure of this story, constantly having to climb up the mountain to make humans and animals connect as a universal being, can be seen as one. Based on the beliefs of Mercerism that is...

What is the main mood in the court scene in the Merchant of Venice, and how does the writer create this?

Strangely enough, even though a man (Antonio) could be facing a gruesome death, and later another man (Shylock) loses everything that is dear to him, including his faith, the mood of the court scene in Act 4 is intended to be rather comedic and ironic.  Shakespeare relies on Shylock's and Portia's characterization to establish and maintain the mood. Shylock's refusal and rather clownish insistence on his unusual payment request is difficult for the court to take seriously.  Additionally, the audience knows that the young doctor of letters is actually Portia; so her comments to Bassanio (her clueless new husband) are rather comedic, and her outwitting the savvy Shylock are ironic.

What modern audiences should see from this scene, however, is that while Shakespeare writes the courtroom incident with irony and a comedic tone (his audience would have laughed at Shylock's seemingly stubborn and pathetic nature and even at his downfall), the scene should not come across as funny today.  A person's being forced to give up all his worldly goods to a daughter who betrayed him, being humiliated in front of the city's leadership and his archenemy (even when his enemy defaulted on a business deal), losing his only livelihood, and becoming sick at having to relinquish his religious faith because of others' prejudice are not experiences for others to laugh at.

Is Herrick's poem "To the Virgins..." more persuasive than Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress?"since the poems are similar

The answer to your question concerning these two carpe diem poems is probably a matter of opinion, and probably is determined by the values and ideas a reader brings to the poems. 

Marvell wants to sleep with his lover.  Herrick is giving advice to women to marry while they are young so they can find good matches or avoid not finding a match at all.

I think which poem is seen as more successfully persuasive depends on what one thinks of sex and marriage.  Certainly, a woman absolutely against sex outside of marriage would probably not be persuaded by Marvell's rationalizations, for instance.

At the same time, one should remember that these metaphysical poets, as we call them today, are having fun with their poems.  The style and the stretched metaphors and unusual imagery are humorous and entertaining.  I mean, really, how serious are we supposed to take "vegetable love"? 

Please tell me the example of product line, product mix, product extension and product filling of the particular company.

Product line, product mix, and product line extensions are terms frequently used to refers to different aspects of the range of products offered for sale by a company. I am not aware of a term like "product filling" associated with this. Also it appears the term product extension in the question refers to product line extension. I have explained below each of the three commonly used terms.

Product Mix:

Product mix, also called product assortment is the term with the most wide coverage. It includes all the products that are sold by a company. Some company may have just a few or even only one product in its product mix. For example a cement plant may sell just one type of cement. Other companies, such as a large chain of retail stores may contain tens or even hundreds of thousands of products in its product mix.

Product line:

All the products sold by a multi-product company at times can be classified in broad categories which are called product lines. The most common example is the different product lines that are usually sold by large retail companies like Wal-Mart. Typical descriptions of product lines used in retail industry include apparel, green grocery, dry grocery, household appliances, personal care items, and so on. A company may have just one product line in its product mix, Alternatively it can also have multiple product lines. For example, we have  retailers that specialize in only one line such watches, and white goods. WE also have store that sell from the same retail outlet both these lines of product, plus many more lines.

Product line extension:

Product line is a relative terms. It refers to addition of items to a product line beyond the previously sold items in the the line. For example, a company selling cosmetic products selling just one variety of cold cream, may decide to extend the cosmetic product line by adding two new varieties of cold cream that are meant to be used by people with extra dry and extra oily skin.

Discuss the use of wit and irony in Pride and Prejudice.

In Pride and Prejudice, wit is the allure of the narratorial voice and irony is the lens through which the errors, transgressions, foibles and follies of the characters are seen and the brush with which their lives are drawn. Wit in the 18th and 19th centuries (even though Jane Austen's first and subsequent novels were published in the 19th century, they were written in the 18th century) encompassed a larger idea than humorousness. Wit entails a great intelligence, one that can express ordinary observations with an original insight born of mental acuity and one that see the differences between what is expected and what is actual and can find and convey the ironic mirth in the comparison of the two.

Jane Austen's gift is for witty irony. She has the ability to drawn on her small piece of "ivory" true to life characters, complete with all their flaws, who are beloved to Austen's readers precisely because they are seen truly with their good and their bad...with certain exceptions. However, even the unlovable exceptions like Mr. Collins and Lady De Bourgh are revealed under the light of irony with such a delicate hand that they aren't wholly despised.

The opening line of Pride and Prejudice is the most oft quoted example of Austen's witty irony. She says: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." The wit is most evident in the words: "It is a truth universally acknowledged...." For one thing, universal truths are usually very large ideas that are very serious and very important. To think of rich bachelors "wanting" wives in that context is always worth a chuckle. The irony is most evident in the idea that wealthy single men are in search of wives. In truth, it is probably universally acknowledged that wealthy single men are the last ones to go looking for wives.

Wit in Pride and Prejudice provides intelligent glimpses into human nature and life choices through original juxtaposition of ideas and astute observations. Irony in Pride and Prejudice presents human truths and realities through situations, beliefs and narratorial observations that shows an opposing reality to what is expected to more clearly enlighten what is actual.

Could someone please give me some resemblances between "A Rose for Emily" and "The Tell-tale Heart" (by Poe)? I know this is all about A rose...

I can see quite a few similiarities between the stories. 

1)  Both Emily and the narrator live with someone.  Emily lives with her manservant (though he is not there 24 hours a day) and the narrator the old man, but they are essentially alone. 

2)  Both committ murders.  Emily kills Homer with rat poision, the narrator either smothers the man or gives him a fatal blow, it is not clear exactly how he does it. 

3)  Both "hide" their crime, Emily by keeping the corpse in her bedroom, the narrator by burying the old man under the floor boards.

4)  Both crimes are eventually discovered. 

5)  Guilt is a factor.  The townspeople in "Emily" know they have neglected one of their own; in "Heart" the narrator's guilt gets to him so much that he finally blurts out his confession. 

Who are the characters in "Split Cherry Tree"?The characters

The narrator: a young man fearful of and embarrassed of his father; he thinks his father will shoot his teacher.

He tells Professor Herbert:

"He might be called a little old-fashioned. He makes us mind him until we're twenty-one years old. He believes: 'If you spare the rod you spoil the child.' I'll never be able to make him understand about the cherry tree. I'm the first of my people to go to high school."

Professor Herbert: the principal of the school who punishes the narrator for breaking down the cherry tree.  Later, he will show the boy's father the microscopic world, which will induce an apology from him.

He tells the narrator:

"You must take the punishment.  You must stay two hours after school today and two hours after school tomorrow. I am allowing you twenty-five cents an hour. That is good money for a high-school student. You can sweep the schoolhouse floor, wash the blackboards, and clean windows. I'll pay the dollar for you."

The boy's father: uneducated, working class, old-fashioned, conservative, uses his gun to solve problems, suspicious of liberal education.  He will help his son pay off the damage by the end.

He says:

"I'm a poor man. A bullet will go in a professor same as it will any man. It will go in a rich man same as it will a poor man. Now you get into this work before I take one o' these withes and cut the shirt off'n your back!"

In Act 5 scene 5 how does Macbeth react to the news that his queen is dead?

Macbeth's reaction to the death of his wife is very different from what we, as an audience expect from a man who shared a very intimate and close understanding with his better half. Macbeth, early in the play, derived trememdous insipration from, and was heavily influenced by his wife, Lady Macbeth, who then, seemed to be one of the most ruthless, power-hungry female characters created by Shakespeare.

However, it were the circumstances coupled with his loss in faith concerning his kingship and lack of military support that caused him to evolve into a different individual who reacted to his wife's death in a very stoic fashion.

He said that she was to die some day or the other. He also said that death was like an 'illusion' and that the passing of everyday brought a man closer and closer to his impending death. He says that death is like an actor who worries about his time on stage and then ultimately is never heard from ever again, in other words, all achievements, fulfilled dreams and conquered hopes in one's life pose no barrier to the coming of death. He also says that death is like a story told by an idiot full of enery and emotional disturbance, but devoid of any true meaning.

Classical economists belive that lower wages will create jobs. But during a recession when firms are facing low demand and not producing a lotwhy...

The question makes some assumptions which are not valid. Classical economics does not say that lower wages will create jobs or increase employment. Based on principles of classical economics, we can only say that the the number of people opting to take up paid employments, rather than engage in some other economic activities like farming or business, and their wages are determined by the interaction of market forces of demand, supply, and prices.

Also, we must remember that every principle of classical economics is not 100% valid. Though classical economics plays a very important part in understanding the economic behaviour of individuals and societies, there are many limitations of classical economics. To begin with most of the principles of classical economics are valid under some specific conditions, which do not always exist in reality. Second, there are many aspects of behavior which are not covered by it.

Recessionary behavior is one area which is not covered adequately by classical economics. And the suggestion of increasing employment as a means of overcoming recession is not justified based on classical economics. This method of overcoming recession has emerged out of principles of economics put forward by Keynes in 1922's and later as an alternative to purely classical economics.

The idea of hiring people and not reducing wages to overcome recession is supported on the grounds that such an action will eventually stimulate demand leading to improvement of profitability of industries also. Of course, this is not the only means of overcoming the recession. It is only one of several measures and all these must mesh together well to be effective.

Who are three characters in Macbeth that have internal conflicts, and what are they?

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, and Banquo are faced with internal conflicts.

Macbeth is ambitious and wants the throne, but feels guilty about killing Duncan to get it.  He worries about his eternal salvation, about how humbly Duncan ruled, and about how his reputation has greatly increased lately and he doesn't want to risk losing that. 

Lady Macbeth feels guilty for her part in Duncan's murder.  She is a driving force behind it.  This leads to the murders of Banquo and Macduff's family, though she doesn't play a direct part in those.  This guilt leads to her mental breakdown and suicide.

Banquo strongly suspects Macbeth of treachery.  Yet, he has no proof and he is Macbeth's friend.  He is also conflicted because his heirs were predicted to be kings, and he treasures the thought of that happening.  He, however, behaves nobly and does not let ambition lead to treachery as Macbeth does.

What are some biblical allusions in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

There are two main biblical allusions found in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. The first allusion is found in chapter four of the novel and the second found in chapter fifteen.

In chapter four, Victor is defining the importance of his success in re-animating life. For Victor, the re-animation of life insures that he will be blessed as a "creator and source." Essentially, Victor defines himself as a god. Given Christian ideology supports and believes God to be the only one who is able to create life (outside of giving birth), Victor sets himself up as a god. This, more specifically, speaks to Genesis and the creation of the earth and life on earth.

Chapter fifteen, on the other hand, offers a far more direct allusion to the Bible. In this chapter, the Creature is telling of his own history. Upon reading Milton's Paradise Lost, the Creature realizes that he is like both Adam and Satan. The Creature states that his is like Adam because there was "no link to any other being in existence." Also, the Creature likens himself to Satan in regards to the fact that "for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me."

In one abstract sense, one could regard Victor's initial creature as "Adam" and the Creature's mate as "Eve." While never called "Eve," one could see the allusion to both beings in the novel.

Another aspect which proves to show biblical allusions is Victor and Walton’s search for forbidden knowledge. This speaks to Adam and Eve’s taking from the Tree of Knowledge which God forbid them to do. For this, Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden. Coincidentally, both Victor and Walton are on a similar path. Luckily for Walton, Victor has already been “banished” for taking from the “tree.” Therefore, while Victor must face his consequences, he is able to save Walton from doing so as well.

What is the major symbol and its meaning in "The Minister's Black Veil"?

The black veil that Rev. Mr. Hooper refuses to remove is the main symbol in this story. It is symbolic of many things. It is symbolic of death-which is happening to Hooper. It is also symbolic of mourning, possibly the mourning of the sins of mankind. Hooper himself explains that the black veil is symbolic of mankind's secrets that are hidden. There are many ways that the veil could be seen as symbolic.

Critics have suggested that the veil is symbolic of Original Sin or Hooper's pride.

Do you support or refute this belief? Answer in a few sentences.Many people have some common beliefs about earthquakes. One of these is that...

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph. The word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event — whether a natural phenomenon or an event caused by humans — that generates seismic waves. Earthquakes are caused mostly by rupture of eological faults, but also by volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear experiments.

Earthquakes generally occur along breaks in the rock mass known as faults, and most occur in regions near plate boundaries. Some 80 percent of all earthquakes occur near convergent plate boundaries, triggered by the interaction of the plates.

In the book "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, what happens when twins are born?

Whenever a set of twins is born, one is released and the other is allowed to live.  The way they determine which one lives is by weighing them.  Whichever one weighs more, no matter by how small a margin, is kept and the other is released.  We find this out towards the end of Chapter 14.

The reason they do this is because they need to have the right number of kids born in their society each year.  If they allow twins to live, they will have too many kids and there might not be enough food for everyone.

How does John Keats's Poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" illustrate Romanticism?

For the Romantics, poetry was the highest form of literature because it most easily expressed the concept of the "sublime" (a thrilling emotional experience that combines awe, magnificence, and horror).  Romantic literature also emphasizes the dream, or inner reality of the individual.  To express the inner reality of the consciousness of the individual, imagery and symbolism was often employed.

In John Keats's "Ode to a Grecian Urn," the poet clearly expresses the sublime as he contemplates the beautiful urn with its painted lovers and expresses a nostalgia for the Classical era of the past:

What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape/Of deities or mortals, or of both,/In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?/ What men or gods are these?  What maidens loth?

Here, too, Keats expresses an awe for the beauty of the musicians and the two lovers on the urn, images that suggest the timeless beauty of art.  There is a perfection in this art because the musician will always play, the lovers always love.  The trans-formative element of Romantic poetry is also present here as the poet perceives how there is a truth to beauty that goes beyond what is.  And, here Keats expresses his theme:  There is mortality to all things, including beauty.  In lines 11-14, for instance, Keats draws the distinction between ideal nature of art and the flawed and fleeting nature of life:

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/ are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;

Thus, there is a tension between the temporal(men) and the eternal (god).  Employing the symbols of "trees," for Nature, "song" for Art, and "Bold Lover" for procreation, Keats explains this tension between what is on the urn with what is real.  For the urn, "truth is beauty, beauty truth," since it is frozen in time.  But, for the poet who knows that beauty does not last, the truth is not restricted to the images on the urn; for the poet, teased out of thought, realizes that the lovers will never consummate their love, but will remain in only their moment.   And, here the poem becomes more melancholy, a characteristic often found in Romanticism.

Stressing the power of the imagination, John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" reflects the thinking of the Romantic in its reflections upon the Classical beauty of the ancient urn and its transcendental properties of transporting this imagination to understanding truths of Nature and Art and Humanity.

Why was the Vietnam War viewed differently from previous wars the United States had fought?The Vietnam War alienated many young people during the...

Vietnam War resulted in the loss of millions of human lives, with serious damages and unprecedented environmental disasters, human destiny broken and  a new disease occurrence in the collective mind: Vietnamese syndrome.

In South-East Asian jungles, America recorded a historic military defeat.

In Washington, in residential headquarter, is a unique monument in the world: Memorial dedicated to the 58,000 American troops fallen for their country, on a battle field, at tens of thousands of miles away from home. The monument is unique because, unlike others, is not built aiming the sky, but was built below the ground level.

Vietnam War came, at a time, to split until the climax, the American society, trained in a wide debate with pros and cons, and made an American president, Lyndon Johnson, to lose the battle for renewal of presidential election.

Please give a short summary of Chapter 12.

The main action in this chapter concerns Bernard and his relationships.

At the start of the chapter, Bernard is holding a reception to show John the Savage off to a group of important people. Unfortunately for him, John refuses to come out and be put on show.  This makes Bernard sad.  But his sadness makes John like him better -- it seems more real than how he had been before.

At the same time, Bernard is trying to patch up his friendship with Helmholtz Watson.  Watson forgives Bernard, which makes Bernard feel envious of what a good guy he is.

Finally, Helmholtz and John meet and get along well.  This makes Bernard jealous as well.

Why is George a lonely character?

We all want relationships in life. George has a best friend in Lennie and that's great, but being handicapped, Lennie doesn't offer much back. George gets nothing from anyone.

In our culture, we have a lifelong relationship we try to turn to: marriage. No, it's not necessary for happiness, but it avoids lonliness for most. (Yes, you can be lonely in a marriage too.) But the point of marriage is lifelong companionship.

George can't even get a date. "If I didn't have you I could get a girl..." he says over and over. George longs for a woman, but no woman is going to understand that he has this crippled attached to him.

Is there any proof that the narrator of "A Rose for Emily" is female?

An interesting question. My first thought was no, that the narrator was male, because of the authority with which he/she speaks and the period in which this was set, but also because the narrator distances him/her self from women, saying, for example, "The two female cousins came at once." It is hard to imagine a woman referrring to other women as "female." However, upon reflection, I'd say the narrator distances him/herself from men as well, writing, for example, "Already we knew that there was one room in that region above stairs which no one had seen in forty years, and which would have to be forced. They waited until Miss Emily was decently in the ground before they opened it."

In this period, men would have been the ones opening the door, so this seems to distance the narrator from men as well. I'd say this is an intentionally sexless narrator, like a disembodied spirit, but that it sounds a bit more male.

What are some of the themes in Shakespeare's As You Like It?

In As You Like It, one theme is love, while another theme is nature. In Shakespeare’s play, nature serves as a sanatorium of sorts for those that enter the Forest of Arden. Just as people many years ago sought the comfort, fresh air and health of the country or nature, so do the characters of As You Like It, seek similar refuge in the forest. The Old Court is filled with jealousy and conspiracy. It is not a healthy place for any of the characters to be due to envious family members and their selfish actions toward others in court.

Since Duke Senior is banished by his brother Duke Frederick, he retreats to the Forest of Arden. Though his daughter Rosalind remains behind, she upsets Duke Frederick and is also banished from the kingdom. Celia, Duke Frederick’s daughter, decides to flee with Rosalind to the Forest of Arden; however, Rosalind does so disguised as a man- Ganymede, while Celia sports the new name of Aliena. The forest is where they and Orlando- son of Sir Rowland and brother to Oliver, Adam- an old servant, flee to as well.

Orlando flees the jealousy and conspiring Oliver who means to kill him. Interestingly enough, the Forest of Arden is also where Orland leaves his message of love to Rosalind, now disguised as Ganymede. After purchasing pastures and herds from the shepherds- Corin and Silvius, Celia and Rosalind begin a new life for themselves. Touchstone also starts anew, and falls for Audrey- a country wench. Nature provides an adequate and open space for wooing and the mind to wander. The minds of the characters within the forest begin to think in a more free fashion than it would in the Old Court.

Ganymede convinces Orlando to woo him as he would his beloved Rosalind. The hope is that it would give confidence and practice to the young Orlando while also showing him that love begins in friendship. If he is able to woo a friend like Ganymede, he would see that it would be just as easy to woo Rosalind and win her friendship along with her affections. Lucky for Orlando, he’s killing two birds with one stone seeing as Rosalind and Ganymede is the same person.

In the end, we see how love spawned by the visit to the Forest of Auden, leads to resolutions by the end of the play. In the end, Orlando saves Oliver from a lion which leads to the brothers resolving any differences. Oliver also takes a liking to Celia after telling both her and Rosalind the tale of the lion. Rosalind then reveals that she is really Ganymede, thus ensuring the love of Orlando and Rosalind. Finally, marriages take place uniting both family and kingdom. The renewal of family bonds and love forge a New Court with the offspring leading the way with new love and fresh minds.

What does Abby tell Proctor about the events in the wood?

Abby, who still has strong feeling for John Proctor, confesses that the events that took place in the forest involved simple dancing and charm rituals, or as she refers to it "sportin'".  Proctor still has feelings for her as well, although he is much better at controlling them.

Dancing in those days was considered sinful, a sign of possession by the Devil or evil spirits, so being found out could lead to serious trouble, perhaps a public whipping.  So the girls lied about it to protect themselves and the lie just grew and grew.

The involvement of Tituba, the slave, in the performance of charm rituals would have been even more serious, and for this reason, they blame all of the events initially on her.

Is this parallelism/exposition/foreshadowing/or setting?In Beowulf, the narrator says that it was not Grendel's "fate to finish the feast / he...

I'm guessing that you're right. It's probably foreshadowing. The foreshadowing here is the narrator speaking to the audience, giving a hint of what is coming in the story. Grendel thinks that he'll be feasting on the sleeping men, but the narrator and reader both know that Beowulf is there, ready, to face down the monster. Foreshadowing can be seen a gentle hint-dropping from narrator (or author) to reader about what is going to happen as the story advances.

One way to check the answer to your question, of course, is to rule out the other possibilities. Parallelism is the use of similar elements or phrases, such as the paired prepositional phrases in "over hill and over dale." Setting is usually defined as the time and place in which a story is set. Exposition is usually defined as the place in the story (often at the very start) in which the setting and any necessary background information are given (e.g. the "crawl" of text in the opening of the first Star Wars movie).

Can you write an introduction about sonnet 18?

Do you mean Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

SONNET 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

This sonnet is one of Shakespeare's most famous ones because it is pretty easy to understand. It is a metaphor for his love or, as some have suggested, a dear friend. The "love" or "friend" is the summer day. The sonnet points out all the parts of a beautiful summer day that remind him of his love/friend.

The summer day has some negative aspects, however, whereas his love does not. His love "is more beautiful than a summer day" - and he explains why. His love is more temperate; sometimes a summer day can get too hot. Sometimes summer winds "shake" away the beautiful May buds. Finally, unlike the summer day, which has an end, the poet says that his love for his friend will live forever because this love is immortalized by the poet's verse.

There are some cool metaphors: the eye of heaven is the sun. "The eternal lines" are the poet's verse, etc. The sonnet has a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg - very regular. It is written in iambic pentameter and the couplet at the end sums up the theme, that as long as there are people on earth to read the poem, his love will live on.