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... him and yet he made her marry him anyway. He admits this while talking to her in the jail cell. "Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay." His second sin is allowing himself to become obsessed with vengeance against Dimmesdale]. "But, as he proceeded, a terrible fascination, a kind of fierce, though still calm, necessity seized the old man within its gripe, and never set him free again until he had done all its bidding. He now dug into the poor clergyman's heart, like a miner searching for gold; or, rather, like a sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the de ...

... is Kafka's structural organization of paragraphs. Most of the paragraphs are confusing and lengthy; some even more than one or two pages long. In chapter two when Joseph is speaking at the Court of Inquiry, he is abruptly interrupted by the shrieks of a woman. Kafka explains the scene in almost two pages, paying extreme attention to detail. Most of his descriptions seem unnecessary, redundant, and quite confusing. At one point he is describing the scene of one part of the room, then Kafka describes a revelation, which occurs to Joseph about the men to whom he is speaking. Ordinarily, an author would designate a separate paragraph to Joseph's revelation about the men and his situatio ...

... someone who gave her confidence, support, and LOVE. She drank to ease the tention before meeting friends, continued to drink once they got there to keep the mood light and conversation interesting, was always up for one more round, and was always the last to leave. If she was physically able she would drink alone when she got home, until she hit the point of passing out. More times than not she wouldn’t remember the end of the time spent at the bar or even the drive home, much less what she drank when she returned home. She would wake up in fog not knowing what had happened over the last few hours of the night. Sometimes she wouldn’t wake up alone and panicked before turing over to se ...

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... also thought that his older brother Darry hated him because he was too strict with him. But when Pony's best friend Johnny died of injury from the church fire, Pony began to be in denial about Johnny's death. He started to drop grades and fail classes, He became scatter minded. When he read Johnny's note to him, he got over it and wrote a book for an English essay, and he found out that Darry really did love him. Johnny was a quiet, scared and abandoned teenager, yet when he was with the gang he felt happiness and forgot all his troubles. But when he saved the five children from the burning church, for the first time in his life he felt like a real hero. When he was in the ho ...

... tale is the following: "‘Tis death for anyone in Mantua to come to Padua. Know you not the cause? Your ships are stayed at Venice, and the Duke, For private quarrel ‘twixt your duke and him. Hath published and proclaimed it openly. Tis marvel, but that you are but newly come, You might have heard it else proclaimed about (4.2.86-92.)." Tranio later argues how he can save the man's life: "To save your life in this extremity, This favor I will do for his [Vincentio, Lucentio's father] sake (And think it not the worst of all your fortunes that you are like Sir Vincentio): His name and credit shall you undertake, And in my house you shall ...

... usual “honey cake” and puts away her precious fur. As she does so she thinks she hears something crying. Her life is so inauthentic, made up of second hand gossip, and second hand furs, that she’s incapable of recognizing the true origin of her tears, which of course, is her grief and humiliation. She has never before seen herself as “odd, silent, and… just come from a dark little room or even-even a cupboard!” Her world is essentially lived in a shell and almost in seclusion. It is more natural for her to believe the crying comes from the fox’s glass eyes than from her own desolate eyes. Like all of us, she has hopes and dreams, particularly of being on stage. However, these hopes w ...

... Marlow "would have as soon expected restraint from a hyena prowling amongst the corpses of a battlefield." The cannibals action is "one of those human secrets that baffle probability." This helps Marlow keep his restraint, for if the natives can possess this quality Marlow feels he certainly can. Kurtz is the essence of the lack of restraint Marlow sees everywhere. Kurtz has "kicked himself loose from the earth." "He owes no allegiance to anything except those animal powers, those various lusts, those unpermitted aspirations lurking in the darkness of his inner station. Marlow also responds to these dark callings, and he almost becomes their captive. He confuses the beat of the drum ...

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... first meant to be: every bit as aggressive as women today in the pursuit of their goals and fulfillment. Yes, the Wife of Bath is a woman that we of this age can relate to, she speaks freely and openly, and displays none of the characteristics that would have defined a woman of that time, she is not subtle and demure, nor does she shy away from describing her sexual needs and desires. In her very descriptions of her life she depicts herself as something other than the norm, from the opening page where she is rebuked for having had so many husbands to the end, where she gains complete dominance over her fifth. Obviously for the time this book was written, this woman was coarse and comma ...