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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Giving up

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"I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on." The monster was an unwanted c...

Awww fatherly love

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"Nothing, at this moment, could have given me greater pleasure than the arrival of my father." Upon the arrival of his father, Vic...

Buzz kill

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“I almost felt as if I had mangled the living flesh of a human being.” Here we are, the monster is just about to get what he wants- a compan...

The spawns of Satan

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“a race of devils . . . on the earth.” Uh oh, this is all we need. Victor created the monster to be something that he was proud of. He wan...

Epiphanyyyy

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“...a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned" At this moment the creation realizes what he really is. ...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

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"I withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions " Page 75 Both the monster and Victor are the same person. If I had t...
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This is insane

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"THOUGH IN SOME WAYS AN IMMATURE WORK, ..." page iii Mary Shelley never seizes to amaze me. This eighteen year old created the mo...

its aliveeeeee

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"'Be calm! I entreat you to hear me, before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head. Have I not suffered enough, that you s...

Sisterly Loveo

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"Adieu! my cousin; take of yourself; and, I intreat you, write!" pg 43 Awww Victor's sister misses him, how sweet? Walton wr...

This guy is nuts

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"...I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures, such as no language can descri...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Winston surrenders

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"He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big brother." pg 298 How sad? Winston is overcome in his life by the Party. They...

How do they know this?

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"They show astonishing intelligence in knowing when a human is helpless." Page 285 The Party thinks they are God. Winston believ...

Under the Chestnut tree..

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"Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me-" Page 293 Parallelism eh? The lyrics of this song directly paralle...

Epiphany

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"It occurred to Winston that for the first time in his whole life he was looking, at knowledge, at a member of the thought police....

What is going on?

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"I don't know. Days, weeks, months- I think it's been months." Page 253 This is wild. The Party is playing games with Wi...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

How Sad..

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" 'Would you believe,' he said, 'that until this moment I didn't know what color your eyes were' ." This is te...

Say it ain't so

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"WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" PAGE 16 The slogan of the Party is a tough one to crack. All of these th...

What, When, Why, Where, How?

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"I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY." I believe this would be juxtopposition . Winston is trying to understand why the Par...

Reverse Personification?

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"They were like an ant, which can see small ojects, but not large ones." Page 93. This quote is depersonifiying humans. The old m...

Beautiful Language

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"The air seemed to kiss one's skin. It was the second of May. From somewhere deeper in the heart of the wood came the droning of ...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Willy, Happy, Biff

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These names are so immature and reveal an immense amount about the characters. Happy is a name that parents would call their children when ...

Flasssssshback!

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The Death of Salesman makes use of flashbacks frequently throughout the text. Whenever Willy is in a serious conversation with someone in h...

Drama Mamma

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The Death of a Salesman is a drama. Not only is it a drama in the sense that Willy dies in the end, but also because of his family. Yes, e...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

A dysfunctional family?

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When looking at the Wingfield family as a whole, I am think that Amanda, who I cannot picture as a grown woman because that is not an adult ...

Tommy boy

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Tom Wingfield is the protagonist of the play. He is the one who is the bread winner of the family. The story is told through the eyes of T...

What kind of play is this?

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When evaluating the type of play this can be viewed as, I think many different ideas are possible. With the two major types being tragedy a...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Not too shabby

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Upon starting Othello, I was apprehensive as to how I would get through this whole thing. I saw how many pages I would be reading, and how ...
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Dead or alive?

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Dramatic suspense is created best in the fifth act. Knowing the play is a tragedy assumes that everyone will die in the end. However, the ...

Themeeeeeee

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A theme of Othello is honesty. During this time period in history, there were no cell phones, internet connections, or instant messaging. ...
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