YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Humor Essay by William Zinsser
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the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
for the deaths of her husband, Edward V, and her father, Henry VI. Nevertheless, he demonstrates himself as quite capable in prov...
/ Is an unlessond girl, unschoold, unpractisd; / Happy in this, she is not yet so old / But she may learn; happier than this, / Sh...
of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken...
Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...
as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...
man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...
like a tragedy at this point, but we are provided with simple comedic elements throughout. For example, there is the character of ...
will never get a husband if she behaves in such a way. This offers us a very powerful image of how the patriarchal system of Sh...
indicates that "The theme of loves difficulty is often explored through the motif of love out of balance-that is, romantic situati...
that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...
example, in his Art as Experience (1934) he explained that he understood art as the experience of focusing on the production of ob...
very easy to do so because she has been a kind and loving daughter. In truth, he had hoped that she would have married someone lik...
he would have no one to do this task for him. And, Iago could not have well done all the spying himself for that would have looked...
did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...
was irreparable. In I, Tituba, the Black Witch of Salem, the protagonist is the misunderstood Tituba, a real-life woman who had b...
the simplicity of the life that he foresees for himself, as well as its self-sufficiency. The sense of solitude that Yeats create...
of moral responsibility, freedom of action, individual effort and aspiration" (Frost, 1962, p. 50). While a pure empiricist wou...
the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...
a Denmark in decay, resulting from the marriage between Claudius and Gertrude, which enables the cunning brother to seize the thro...
"one of the first" hed "seen with the new-style rotating gumball-machine light, so that fascinated me. Every morning, this red-fac...
his own power and glory. One of them, Hamlet, is outraged by what he sees as his mothers betrayal of both his father and himself. ...
thou hast a mind that suits With this thy fair and outward character. I prithee, and Ill pay thee bounteously, Conceal me what I a...
his true intellect becomes completely clouded over and his ability to understand who and what he is becomes an even more distant p...
Information). Shakespeare certainly changed the characters names - but made few more changes. Greenes Pandosto, King of Bohemia be...
In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...
Encyclopedia, 5th edition, and notes that irony is: ". . . figure of speech in which what is stated is not what is meant. The user...
the novel. He points out that it has been generally accepted among scholars that Simon is an "analogue of Jesus Christ" and that h...
so heavily reliant on the patriarchal system. She is passive and obedient, indicating that she easily goes along with the society,...
dissects both the outer meaning of the object and what that object is meant to determine in a deeper sense; and how those objects ...