Warnings/Promises

because they are not of the same social rank. “Affection! Pooh! You speak like a green girl,” (1.2.101). This begins to upset Ophelia and makes her wonder Hamlet’s true intentions. When in reality, Hamlet does in fact love Ophelia. While Polonius is warning his daughter, Hamlet is beginning to devise a plan to avenge his father; the first part of his plan being to feign madness. Hamlet, trying to fool everyone, acts crazy beginning to scare even Ophelia. Some, not believing Hamlet’s madness,…

He was aware of several threats he was given; but thinking he's the king of the world Caesar chooses to ignore every sign and flips it to be fit in his eyes. One of the warnings was the Soothsayer’s stating, “Beware the ides of March” (I.ii.25). Simply ignoring it he continues with his day, then his wife Calpurnia has a nightmare of his death. She convinces him not to go to the senate, but then Decius claims, “Most mighty…

In the classic novel, A Tale of Two Cities, author, Charles Dickens, takes readers back to London and Paris during the time of the French Revolution and utilizes metaphorical comparison to comment on events of his current state in the 1850’s. As the story develops, it becomes evident that the motif of resurrection is highly prevalent and essential to the plotline, predominantly through the narratives of Sydney Carton’s life. However, it is not only the characters that undergo examples of this…

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The Gothic Life Northanger Abby offers an almost contradictory look at the Gothic style. On the one hand, Austen seems to criticize and parodies the common motifs of the Gothic as she offers a buildup of fictionalized gothic moments of suspense only to clash them against a humorous mundaneness of actuality. This is seen when Catharine arrives at the Abby. Instead of receiving an omen of murder increasing the suspense and danger surrounding a dilapidated castle, “the breeze had not… waft the…

One of the hardest elements to execute in storytelling is writing a character's death. It may be common for an author to kill the villain in a story or possibly even a minor character, but ending the life of a major character can serve to either enhance a story or possibly even ruin it. The line between a well-written character death and a poorly written character death is thin, but while it is easy to kill your characters, it is not always easy to write the consequences that follow a…

The evening of April 6 1994, marked the tragic assassination of the President of Rwanda, Juvenal Habyarimana. Which was to become the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide. The international community must bear the majority of the blame for the genocide as they became bystanders to the systematic killings of over 800,000 innocent Tutsis, largely women and children. The question then must be asked: how can such a calamity, with more than 7 Tutsi men, women and children killed every minute, last a…

Social Ecological on Unemployment According to Algernon Austin, “former director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE) Millions of African Americans live in communities that lack access to good jobs and good schools and suffer from high crime rates. African American adults are about twice as likely to be unemployed as whites, black students lag their white peers in educational attainment and achievement, and African American communities tend to…

develop protection by international relationships. To conclude his argument, he brings up Aristotle’s view of man, that humans are political and technical animals, and the image of 9/11 to show that to fix the problem, Americans have to return to our promises and fix the ones we broke. Schell restates that Americans now have been warned of these capabilities of…

ghost for a chance to have a more desirable future. Scrooge has shown alteration throughout the entire story, but has never realize his improvment. Scrooge now know he has changed and will do good when he goes back. On the same page, Scrooge makes a promise for his actions, “‘I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.…