PAPER Topics

... be What thou art promise'd: yet do I fear thy nature, It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition…(I.V.15-19) This shows how little Lady Macbeth cares about her husband's wishes. This is very ironic since normally it is the man who does not ask for approval. Even when Macbeth disagrees to her plan, Lady Macbeth starts taunting her husband and calls him a coward: "…Art thou afeared/To be the same in thine own act and valour/As thou art in desire?…"(I.VII.39-41) This decision is Lady Macbeth's downfall as she goes crazy with guilt for the murder of Duncan and Banquo. "You see her eyes are open./ ...

... south the tradition and society is more important which is the individual is more important! He makes them learn everything by themselves, Therefore she tells us how she is getting educated. Jim was a very active boy, He has manners. He was the son of atticus. Scott was the daughter and narrator of Atticus. Atticus was a well known man. He was brave because he shot the dog. He was a lawyer. Calpurnia was the housekeeper of atticus, always helping out the kids when they needed them. Boo Radley was given a monster image by the kids. He is one of the true mocking birds in this story. He said Scott at the end. Tom Robinson, He was another Mockingbird. He used to help out people. He felt pity ...

... 1. The war was getting worse as the days went by, and the soldiers were dying quickly. The commanding officers felt it was best to convince young men to enter the war to support and fight for their country. They were not told whom they were really fighting for, or the cause. In Paul’s case, Germany was under attack from many sides, and it was best for him to head for the front lines and defend his fatherland. Paul was almost “brainwashed” and was completely convinced that he was doing the right thing. “Once it was different. When we went to the district commandant to enlist, we were a class of twenty young men, many of whom proudly shaved for the first time ...

... meals, the ever changing faces, never to be seen again, people with whom one has no chance to be friendly” (Kafka 13). Gregor, working to pay off his family’s debt, has resigned himself to a life full of no pleasures only work. Kafka himself paralleled this sentiment in a quote taken from his diaries noting that no matter how hard you work “that work still doesn’t entitle you to loving concern for people. Instead, you’re alone, a total stranger, a mere object of curiosity” (Pawel 167). Gregor submerges himself in work and becomes a stranger to himself and to life. Any type of social contact beyond porters, waitresses or bartenders was non-existent. He had once met a “cashier in a hat sho ...

... house "there [are] beautiful curtains on the windows, white with pictures painted of castles."(101) The curtains painted with castles give the family a false feeling of being elite. When you think of castles you think of queens and kings and aristocracy. Ironically they think of others who lack the few finer things like curtains with castles on them to be lower class then themselves. These minor details make them think they are above everyone else. Along with this false notion of aristocracy the Grangerfords also possess a false knowledge of academics. When Huck asks one of the Grangerford sons to spell his name, The 13 yeah old son spells huck's false name "G-e-o-r-g-e J-a-x-o-n."(96) H ...

... Puritanism bestows doctrine which valued the greater moral good of the community over an individual’s well-being. In this sense, the community/society remains the central voice over any individual’s thoughts and/or feelings. Puritans believe that humans are born sinners, enslaved by evil, and therefore, predestined in the eyes of God. God is the center of all, who chooses the elected few to be saved, so everyone must contribute to a moral well-being of the community in order to ensure that those elected few will remain pure enough for Heaven. The Puritans commune with God through the Bible, interpreting its doctrine word for word. The Bible is Truth, the Absolute law. Therefore, Puri ...

... to think of better times at low points in their life in order to cheer themselves up so that they are able to deal with the problems they encounter, but Willy Lowman takes it one step further. His refusal to accept reality is so strong that in his mind is transported back in time to relive one of the happier days of his life. It was a time when no one argued, Willy and Linda were younger, the financial situation was less of a burden, and Biff and Happy enthusiastically welcomed their father back home from a long road trip. Willy's need for the "drug" is satiated and he is reassured that everything will turn out alright, and the family will soon be as happy as it was in the good old day ...

... and also raises her daughter without a father. This makes the punishments both private and public. Hester wishes she were dead but then changes her mind because she says to Chillingworth, “I have thought of death, have wished for it, would even had prayed for it, Yet if death be in this cup, I bid thee think again, ere thou beholdest me quaff it. See! It is even now at my lips.” Hester is responsible for her adulteress affair with Dimmesdale. She deals with her guilt by staying strong and helping others. The narrator tells us, “such helpfulness was found in her so to do and to symphasize that many people refused to interpret “A” by it s original signification, They said that it mean ...

... career has taken him to a great many places. He has seen military service in Egypt, Lithuania, Prussia, Russia, Spain, North Africa, and Asia Minor where he "was of [great] value in all eyes (l. 63). Even though he has had a very successful and busy career, he is extremely humble: Chaucer maintains that he is "modest as a maid" (l. 65). Moreover, he has never said a rude thing to anyone in his entire life (cf., ll. 66-7). Clearly, the knight possesses an outstanding character. Chaucer gives to the knight one of the more flattering descriptions in the General Prologue. The knight can do no wrong: he is an outstanding warrior who has fought for the true faith_according to Chauce ...

... the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird," he is referring to the notion that a mockingbird is a harmless creature and does nothing but sing and bring happiness to the world. Harper Lee takes the title for her novel from this passage because the imagery of the mockingbird is comparable to the characters of both Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. These two characters are "harmless songbirds" who are sinfully destroyed. This statement also definitely shows that the kids (Jem and Scout) have respect for Atticus. The building of a snowman by Jem and Scout one winter is very symbolic. There was not enough snow to make a snowman entirely out of snow, so ...