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    Oftentimes Many people in the world wonder if loneliness is really something that everyone goes through or is something of little significance, but it is. In the book “Of Mice and Men” There were many important themes that had significance to the book. “Of Mice and Men” emphasizes that loneliness is in many people including Curley’s wife, George, Lennie, Slim and many other characters in the book. Loneliness was portrayed in many different ways like in the scene where Curley’s wife was talking…

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    The Rocking-Horse Winner Symbolism Essay Big mouthfuls will only make someone choke, just as heavy pockets will make a man drown. Throughout D.H. Lawrence's The Rocking Horse Winner there are several symbols centered around greed. The story is based around a boy named Paul and his short life. On Christmas, Paul received a brand new rocking-horse, and he used it to wondrously predict the winner of the local horse races. Paul gambled his way to great fortune, yet there never seemed to be enough…

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    1. It is observed that Menen in The Prevalence of Witches blatantly displays the nature of both evil and good and exposes the superstitious beliefs and false mysticism that were customary in Limbo. It is substantiated with the juxtaposition of multiple ideologies of different religions by bringing together the various characters like Catallus (British Officer), Cuff Small (American misguided missionary who has converted only one person over the years being a missionary), the local village…

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    Choices (Draft) All humans are created equally and are born with free will. Every person has the natural right to be the author of their life, meaning that they can make their own choices and pursue their dreams. Nevertheless, humans bent nature to their will by adopting slavery, a practice in which humans are owned and are brutally forced to work. In the excerpt “Learning to Read and Write,” Frederick Douglass masters the literacy skills he needed to fulfill his role as an…

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    Keats’ short and tragic life left him with less options to enjoy and celebrate the colours of nature and fruits of love. His odes are communicate a host of emotions which strived to find expression. Keats’ preoccupation with self, his fear of pain and death, his unfulfilled desires of love, his tendency to escape from the agonising present to nature or to a world of fancy are some predominant emotions which find their place in different forms in his poetry. Through all his odes, there runs a…

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    How do Steinbeck and Gilman explore the themes of isolation, confinement and loneliness within Of Mice and Men and The Yellow Wallpaper? Isolation, confinement and loneliness are major themes within Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper. Without isolation, confinement and loneliness, the novels would have an entirely different consequences and outcome. With the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper and Lennie from Of Mice and Men being isolated in the setting of the novels,…

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    He introduces the poem with the buzz saw rattling, the breeze drawing across, and the sun setting and describing the five mountain ranges one behind another. The tone used here is calm, but it immediately changes when the tragic accident occurs to a depressing and sorrowful tone. The poet uses examples of figurative language like personifying the saw, "the saw leaped ... leaped out at the boy's hand" and onomatopoeia, 'snarled and rattled'. The poems use a range of literary devices to convey…

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    “Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here” Marianne Williamson. The fear of the world didn't just come out of nowhere, fear came from a source and the source of the fear came from the people. Author; Suzanne Collins takes on this heavy topic that “fear is learned” in her book The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a book that foreplays a government that picks kids age 12-18 from 12 districts and sends them to an arena to kill each other. Collins originally wrote the book to…

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    The Scarlet Letter is a very well known book written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In The Scarlet Letter two of the main characters, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale become victims of punishment. They both suffer the punishment imposed upon them by others as well as self-imposed punishment. Hester Prynne is the victim of both types of punishment given to her by her community and the punishment she imposes on herself. After Hester is discovered to have committed the act of adultery, she is…

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    Henry David Thoreau was an American author, philosopher, professor, naturalist, transcendentalist and historian. He is known as one of the best American authors for his great ideas. During his life, Thoreau’s writings were not so significant. He fought for the abolition of slavery in United States of America in 19th Century. People who claimed Africans’ slavery thought that they did not have souls. In their view, Africans are some merchandise. Thoreau’s most famous writings are…

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