... the Achaians and the plague likewise". Agamemnon who claims himself as the far greatest of all the Achaians shows fear to Achilleus by calling him a "good fighter though you be, godlike ". By defeating Agamemnon Achilleus proves to be the greatest Achaian soldier and the most respected because he stood up to Agamemnon the "wine sack, with a dogs eyes, and deer's heart; the King who feeds on his people". After the death of Patrokolos Achilleus returns to avenge his friends death in book XXII. In the Iliad Achilleus shows three sides of his personality a great leader towards his people, a brut ...
... led him to doubt, which led to inaction. "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all." Hamlet's "tragic flaw" is his inability to act on impulse. Stopping to think before acting cost Hamlet numerous opportunities to get revenge. He ironically passed up his most obvious opportunity when Claudius was praying in the church. He wanted to wait until Claudius was doing something that had "no relish of salvation in 't." We are like Hamlet, at times. the more we think of doing something, the more we find wrong with it. Hamlet decided to stay with his troubles in life rather than commit suicide and "fly to others" he knew nothing of. Sometimes, we are like that ...
... and getting it over with."(p. 19) I feel Peck’s point is to save the good things for last so that you can always have something to look forward to and an incentive to finish whatever task is at hand. Good scheduling skills and the lack of procrastination are very important in delaying gratification. Responsibility is very important in solving life’s problems. Peck says that we must accept responsibility for a problem before the problem can be solved. This is a fairly self-evident statement; however, many people feel if they put the blame for all their problems off on other people that the problems with miraculously go away. Perhaps they are s ...
... of a book that were sufficiently outstanding to be worthy of comment. Do not summarize the entire book and never actually reveal the ending. You may discuss the kind of ending or resolution, eg. Was it startling, unexpected, disappointing etc? In your introductory paragraph include enough information about the type of book it is, the title, author, setting, and theme so that the reader will get a quick idea of the general nature of the book. Working from your outline, which should include what you want to say about each idea you have selected for discussion, develop each paragraph around the main idea, your response to particular parts or aspects of the bo ...
... reading, only a literal reading which is broken up into three parts. A common technique that Plath uses in her poetry is the metaphor. An example of one lies within the first stanza of . Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Here the persona uses the simile "like a foot" to compare herself to a foot. Metaphorically she is describing how she has had to live her life without her father, entrapped in black sadness like how a foot is tightly enclosed within a shoe. The reader is positioned to see that life can become very grim growing up without an important figure in a person's li ...
... I enjoy Poe as well as his dark side. I don't really seem like the kind of person who likes the gloomy and melancholy aspects of writing but appearances are deceitful. The main deceitful appearance in the story is the dreaded house. (University of Texas) Poe uses life-like characteristics of an otherwise decaying house as a device for giving the house a supernatural atmosphere. At the beginning you can sense that the supernatural characteristics are present. Upon entrance the narrator sees inside the house as well as the peculiar behavior that dwells inside of it. The narrator seems to be very superstitious and wonders why there are certain things on the wall ...
... it was said that, a man, in some remote place against her wish, could have raped her aunt, but “No one ever talked of sex ever”. So even though she had sex against her will, she couldn’t have talked to anyone about it. “My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex” shows that she was not an immoral woman but someone who was forced into having sex. She could not let anyone know what was happening with her. She had no one to listen to her and understand her misery. She did not have anyone to rescue her out of the fateful situation. Her own family treated her as an “outcast”. They made her, the wrongdoer, be left alon ...
... bark at it. Yak is actually a big coward. You should see him skipping a fence (or rather; not doing it). It's a rare sight to see a dog running a kilometer to find the next gate, rather than to skip the fence. Even if the fence is holding the same low (sic) standard fences out here do. Cows, bulls and Elk is very good at one thing, namely making fences much lower than intended by the farmer, so our fences isn't that much of a challenge. But not so for Yak, the chicken dog. Anyway. Yak's latest fan is an animal he can handle, although he tends to keep a certain distance. One never knows.... The other night, when I was (finally, according to Yak) going to ...
... operating while the human masters are gone. When the fire broke out in the house the man made machines tried to put out the fire but they failed. The house was burned even the machines. When the bomb goes off the people of the town are doing normal activities because they don't know the bomb even went off. The people die from the bomb and all but one house is left standing. Ray Bradbury uses the conflict man v.s. nature to convey his theme that technology will outlive humans. In The "Masque of the Red Death", Edgar Allen Poe conveys his theme through the setting. The seven rooms of Prince Prospero's castle symbolize the life of a person. The seven rooms of the c ...
... tells him yeah and that he told him about how life was a game. Spencer plainly tells holden that thurmer is right. Then Spencer reads holden's paper he wrote about some egyption crap and aloudly reads the note that holden had written to him at the end of it. Spencer asks him if he's thought about his future. Then holden tells spencer that he has to go to the gym and says goodbye not feeling one bit like he was getting the hell out of pencey. Chapter three: *Holden reveals how much of a lyar he is. He didn't really have to go to the gym to check equipment he just wanted to get out of there. He then talks about where his room is at pencey and how its in a hal ...
