Epilogue

of the epilogue in Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” is debated in David Matual’s essay In Defense of the Epilogue of “Crime and Punishment.” Matual starts the essay by including some arguments that have been made against the epilogue, condemning “it as an undesirable addition.” An argument by Simmons says that it is “neither artistically palatable nor psychologically sound,” and Shklovsky claims that the characters in epilogues “are dead as far as the author is concerned, for “epilogues are…

You Like It for my peers who have not read the play. This summary would mainly focus on Rosalind, how she ended up dressed as a man, her interaction with her love, and the marriage at the end. This will then lead into talking about the epilogue. For both epilogues, the focus will mainly be on…

structure The Odyssey is an epic. Epilogue- 1. A closing section of a novel or play. 2. A short speech or poem to the audience by one of actors of a play. 1. The book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling portrays an epilogue at the end of the novel. The epilogue explains where all of the main characters are 12 years after the battle of hogwarts. 2. The play MacBeth by William Shakespeare illustrates an epilogue in a play. MacDuff exhibits the epilogue with his stanza “What…

characters, Hester Prynne and her daughter, Pearl, as well as towards the seventeenth century Puritan society – which reinforces his criticism of the religious institution. Through the use of compassionate and empathetic phrasing, epilogue, and lexical…

In As You Like It, there are many scenes where Shakespeare shows a switch of gender roles in society. In the Elizabethan time period, women and men who didn't follow the society standards were frowned upon. Shakespeare took that idea and ran with it and made much commentary throughout the play. Shakespeare was a feminist because he made a main character pose as a man, defied the stereotypical society, and created many switches in gender roles. Although this play was written in the Elizabethan…

was because it shows the climax of the movie. Batling comes to get Lucy, kills her, then the Yellow Man kills Batling, then he kills himself. The main characters of the movie, close the movie on a tragedy way. The epilogue, shows images that are related with the prologue; the epilogue plants the idea that the Yellow Man leave his land with a purpose and in some way, he did accomplish…

Babylon's blazing rise to power, like a rocket soaring high into the sky, was launched by its brilliant king, Hammurabi (1792-1750 B.C.). Bold and visionary, he conquered cities from the Nineveh region to the Persian Gulf, and then devised a code of laws to unify and rule the empire he created. The Babylonians believed that the gods bestowed justice and that kings were the gods' earthly agents. An inscription on a majestic, eight-foot-tall, black basalt stele (stone slab) that details…

The epilogues are more like metaphors that tie in the relationship between the complexity of the lives of bees and people. One example is the epilogue before chapter one which states, “The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After…

Promised Land by Gish Jen, we are told of that exact story. Not implausible, there are scores of Asian-American athletes, politicians, authors, and actors who climbed to fame in the 1960s and 1970s. Not impossible, just suspiciously convenient. The epilogue of Mona in the Promised Land is believable yet altogether unsatisfying as it doesn’t provide adequate resolution to any storyline set up in previous chapters: the Sherman debacle is glossed over, Callie follows her mother’s wishes to become a…

by stating what he has seen and from America’s research and data. Towards the end, Desmond’s attempt to prove why low-income families should be given universal vouchers due to the right to liberty strengthens his credibility and argument. In his epilogue, Desmond first talks about what home is and how it makes…