1 Night in Paris

Plot Summary and Personal Response Books 1-3 Summary The first book starts with a conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon, during the Trojan War. The Achaeans had plundered a nearby city and had taken the daughter of a priest of Apollo. The priest came with gold to plead for his daughter back, but Agamemnon refused. The priest called upon Apollo to bring his wrath down upon them, causing Apollo to unleash a plague. The plague raged until Agamemnon returned the girl. Agamemnon then claimed…

and Juliet met, they then instantly fell in love. But was it love or lust? It is lust. One reason that it is lust is because they get married the day after they met. In the play, Act I Scene 5, Romeo and Juliet meet at the Capulet's party. Then that night in Act II scene 2, they talk about how they want to marry each other. Then the next day in the play, which is Act II scene 6, they then got married. It is lust because they hardly know each other. They love each other mainly because of their…

1. External symbolism in Modernist fiction is akin to a detective examining a crime picture. Clues must be gleaned from the “big picture,” and then broken down into manageable pieces. The reader is unable to see the subject’s state of mind, and therefore must rely on physical evidence in the story. In Sherwood Anderson’s “Hands,” Wing Biddlebaum has been alienated from society when he is falsely accused of molesting young boys, and has been run out of town severely beaten. His hands that…

The famous tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is about two ill-fated lovers, Romeo and Juliet, from two feuding families. In Friar Lawrence’s soliloquy, he expresses that there is nothing on Earth that is so evil that it does not provide the earth with some special quality. This means that everyone, no matter what, will always have some sort of evil and good in them, but depends on what situation that they’re in, where they will show that evil or good. Through Romeo,…

Amidst his heroic return to Paris, for Honoria's sake, the first place Charlie visits is not the home of his sister-in-law where Honoria has been living, but instead one of the infamous bars of his past. This choice of action suggests Charlie’s priorities have not changed, placing…

It all started when Juliet wouldn’t marry Paris, which meant she was disobeying her father. Lord Capulet couldn’t handle his daughter being disobedient, so he said in Act III Scene 5, “Hang thee young baggage, disobedient wretch!” “But now I see this one is one too much, And that we have a curse…

if He did not ignore his feeling, Romeo would ignore him and still love and sneak around with Juliet. This is the case because of Romeo’s confidence and strong emotions. As demonstrated in Act 1 Scene 4-5, he is perfectly doing risky, borderline dangerous behavior to see the girl he loves. Also seen in Act 1 Scene 4, when Romeo is emotional he…

Vincent van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter who is considered to be one of the greatest Dutch painters to ever live. One thing van Gogh is known for is the emotion in his work. I chose to write this paper about van Gogh due to this. In Starry Night, van Gogh communicates his feelings of coldness and darkness in his life. Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. He was the child of Theodorus van Gogh and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Theodorus was an austere country…

One of Yves Tanguy’s most crucial paintings is Plusieurs ont Vécu (Many Have Lived) (see fig. 1). The medium is oil on canvas and it was painted in Paris is 1939, shortly before Tanguy moved to the United States. Today, this painting is located in the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. The subject of this painting is isolation and is one of Tanguy’s most famous post apocalyptic landscapes. The subject of isolation relates to the feelings of exile Tanguy felt before moving to the…

In the play Romeo and Juliet, Juliet takes multiple risks throughout the story that ultimately lead to her death. For example, she took the potion without truly knowing what could happen (Act 4 Scene 3) and married Romeo, the enemy family, after a night of knowing him (Act 2 Scene 6). Additionally, my mom, being at the prime age for risk-taking, took a huge risk by getting in the car with a drunk driver and it ended bad. As stated by the National Institute for Mental Health, the brains of…