... and I did everything I could. Once you kill they say it gets easier. He learned to kill but never how to deal with the killings "They come along and took him to the service. He fought for his country and looks what they done to him. Made a murderer out of him, to start with." That is what I think happened to John ... . He tried so hard to act like it didn't happen. He would never talk about what went on over their not to even his wife. He tried ... so hard that he would forget sometimes himself of the ... he saw. They devourer each into one and that is how he wanted to be with her. The ...

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... these sacred customs and have disrespected him and his station. They are not only trying to steal his wife and murder his child, but also they have consumed a great deal of his livestock and other products. These guests have overstepped their bounds in the sacred trust between host and visitor and should be punished. Not only have they disrespected Odysseus, but they ... would return and claim this vengeance. Over the course of the piece, several prophecies are made on Odysseus" return and that the day of reckoning for the suitors would come soon. These men who were supposedly loyal to ...

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... Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - "I will write your wife I will tell her everything I have told you. She shall not suffer. I will help her, and your parents too, and your child ... -----"" The words of Paul Baumer relate to the theme of the story in that they express how much destruction and suffering war causes whether on the battlefield or off. It is ... a mass enemy and disregard for innocent individuals is what I am seeing in my ...

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... At least that is what Kantorek drilled into their heads. He did not display the horrors of the war just how great it was to die for your country. Kantorek persuaded Paul along with many of his schoolmates to volunteer and join the war. In the first chapter you really understand how war can change a man. Half of Paul ... up his wounds and gives him water. It takes the man a couple of hours to die and Paul is still unable to leave the shell hole. Paul starts to talk to the soldier and explains he did not want to kill him. Paul also finds a picture of the man's wife and children. This brin...

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... untruthful manner and deceives his subjects. "Look like th'innocent flower, but be a serpent under't". He is supposed to do everything good for his country, but he only looks at his own interrests. After he killed the king, his fear of taking someones life was gone and he fell into a kind of trance. He wasn't afraid of anything anymore and nothing could ... to be and remain king and he lost all his other wishes. He lost all the people that were close to him by either killing them or making them to enemys by betraying them and his country. As his wife suicides he suddenly wakes up and re...

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... his father, leaving a cursed legacy on every member of his own family. Creon just becomes the king of Thebes, on the dawn of the day after the repulse of the Argive army from the assault on Thebes. Creon's nephews kill each other, one for his country and one opposing his country. Creon, being the next in line to be king, develops hubris traits and increasingly large sense pride and ... killing his bride. He misses and as a last resort he takes his own life with his sword. Creon gathers the bodies and goes back to his castle. There he finds that his own wife has killed herself, unable to...

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... heard of his many great battles and adventures, and loved him for that. He, on the other hand, was glad that a woman truly appreciated all that he had done for his country. Othello states in Scene III of the First Act, lines 166-167, "She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them."" This relationship however, would ... be a disgrace to Desdemona's father, the senator. He could not have his daughter married to a black man, even ... of his relationship lies in a "magical- handkerchief. Othello's mother gave him this and told him that when he is wed, to...

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... and good name. His resolution was made. He must go to Paris." Pg. 240. Mr. Defarge and his wife Mrs. Defarge both have desires to kill. By doing this they feel satisfied and that it is their duty to stand up for the people of Paris. Darnay and Defarge both show compassion and dignity in what they are trying to accomplish whether ... one else could have done and he was going to try to rescue Gabelle. Darnay had to leave everything behind including his wife, not telling her the whole truth of where he was going. "But, an affectionate glance at his wife, so happy and busy, made him resolut...

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... fun things in Milan, he went to the races and bet and took long walks in the park with Catherine. He was later sent back front to the line. He arrived to the line and found out that things weren't going all that great and that the attacks had failed. Hemingway's attitude at this point was one side(country) has to loose and everyone who goes ... he needed to escape and head to Switzerland. Henry and Catherine made it to Switzerland before the daybreak and weren't spotted by the border patrol. They had made it and they could be with each other forever. It was the day he would be a father....

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... what to do. Had he acted faster he could have changed the course of events greatly. In Othello, Iago resents Othello because he believes the moor tried to cuckold Iago and his wife, Emila. Othello shows no ill will toward Iago during the play, instead he trusts him completely. Iago is very close to ... Othello as an advisor and has plenty of opportunities to exact his revenge because of the trust factor. Iago's revenge is seen by his telling Othello that his wife, Desdemona is cheating on him. Iago's story is made up of purely circumstantial evidence such as, stories of ... he sees Ca...

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... Claudius. Claudius is considered by some to be a good king, despite the means by which he obtained the throne. He did prevent Fortinbras from coming in and taking over the country. But you have to remember that Claudius is also a villain, a murderer, a traitor, and a liar. Claudius killed his own brother and married his wife just a few weeks later. There is no way that people could ... or should respect a person that does something of this nature. The reader is also ... shown later in the story that Claudius is not ... ...

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... him to be a brutal killer and as it is on behalf of his country. He is perceived as a hero, but it could be hinting to the audience that he has the potential to be a bloody murderer and a villain. The witches" revelation of the prophecy regarding Macbeth's kingship of Scotland can be seen as the beginning of Macbeth's transformation from hero to villain. When he is first ... is being faint-hearted and insults him; 'And live like a coward in thine own esteem'. Macbeth suffers humiliation from these words which encourage him to commit the murder. It is clear that Macbeth has to be persuad...

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... good because it maintain the integrity of the classic western style I believe Eastwood was going for. I didn't quite understand the connection between the worded captions in the beginning and the end. I think the movie would have been just as could had they left that out. There are more than enough hints and lines dropped through out the movie that show he still loved his wife and the impact she had ... on him. I also didn't understand all the lines and shots about Gene Hackman ... his life he still never hesitated with his current mission nor felt remorse for it. The Cinematography of...

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... of society and could lead to chaos among the kingdom. Therefore, if the U.S. doesn't "punish" Iraq, other countries may get the idea that they too can attack the U.S. In Iraq's defense, Creon regretted sentencing Antigone to death because chaos broke out in his own home when his son and wife died as a result of Antigone's death. In other words, there may be more consequences to ... "striking back against" or wiping out Iraq than we know right now. However, wiping out all of Iraq isn't the U.S.'s only option. The history of the Peloponnesian War as told by Thucydides provides another ide...

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... he deserves that name---" (Act I, Scene 2, line 16). Macbeth is also painted as a man of great stature and potential and the savior of his country with great potential for goodness. Lady Macbeth, his wife, describes Macbeth when she says, "It is too full o" th" milk of human kindness." (Act 1, Scene 5, line 15 ... ) Macbeth's character has lots of contradictions. His reaction to the prophesy that he will be king shows that he has a conscience. ... almost delirious. Macbeth says, "With all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood/Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather/The multitudi...

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... as well. Ambition motivates both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to commit dreadful deeds, and later, Macbeth's ambition turns into obsession. By the end of the play, Macbeth's ambition ultimately causes his ruin and that of Scotland. There is no doubt that Macbeth has ambition. His ruthless seeking after power is ... will become King, his interest is instantly aroused. Macbeth ponders over whether to believe them, and he agonises over whether he should kill Duncan to gain the throne. Macbeth lists all the reasons he shouldn't - "return/To plague th'inventor-, "I am his kinsman and his subject-...

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... received of Macbeth, stating that he fought well, he assumed that Macbeth was trustworthy. Through a twist of irony, Macbeth and his wife would be his murderers. Macbeth tells Duncan that he will be "the harbinger and make joyful the hearing of my wife with your approach.""(12) They are joyful at the king's approach because it is an opportunity to slay him. Duncan later says ... : "The love that follows us sometimes is our trouble, Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you How you shall bid god ... him and that he would rule for years to come. Ironically, the prophecies came true...

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... perfectly good, as seen with both Oedipus and Laius. In Oedipus and the Sphinx Oedipus" bravery and courageousness is shown by how he saves the town by killing the Sphinx, "Oedipus pledged to rid the country of the terror, and so he set out to find the Sphinx" (Sophocles 1), therefore setting him up to be the town hero and King. Oedipus becomes King, and hero of Thebes; he ... many people that were dependant on him, and loved him. After his own son murdered Laius, his wife Jocasta was left all alone, as well as his children. Laius's kingdom was also left without a King, and therefore th...

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... realize that Claudius inadvertently kills many people including his wife. Claudius made all the right moves to get to power but however didn't make the right ones the stay in power. He killed off his brother and married his wife making Hamlet his stepson. What he did wrong though was not letting Hamlet travel out of the country and just not ever let him come back. Since ... Hamlet was the next in line for the crown it was on ongoing battle for not ... only his father but the crown also. This leads to Claudius" decision to ... ...

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... realizes that being crowned King doesn't seem so distant to him anymore. Thinking out loud to himself, Macbeth says, "Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor: The greatest is behind" (280). Macbeth is realizing that if he is Glamis and Thane of Cawdor, becoming King is more of a reality rather than ... Initially, Macbeth is a brave and heroic man who fights for his country. Eventually, he is torn between desire and conscience resulting in reluctance to kill Duncan, the King. The craving for power makes Macbeth's ambition grow, leaving him on the side of desire, rather than conscience. Lady Macbeth be...

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... set of circumstances will look at objects differently. In this story it is the men who are clueless and the women who have the insight into what really happened between John and Minnie Wright. The setting in A Jury of Her Peers is rural Midwestern at the turn of the century. The women living rural country at that time would not be highly educated and normally be relegated to ... hearth and home. Mrs. Peters is described as somewhat of a timid lady and did not seem to fit the image of a sheriff's wife. Mrs. Hale on the other hand is the hearty farmer's wife and well suited for her role ....

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... moment he laid his eyes on her. Paggallous was the only child of King Meggellous of Idonia, a little country near the sea. She was beautiful, inside and out, intelligent, humorous, and can hunt as well as a man can. Many kings, princes, and royalties ... wanted to marry her, but she found all of them boring. She just wanted to be treated normal. Paggallous loved to sneak out of the palace dressed up as ... she finally told Zeus who she was. Zeus promised that he would take care of her and his child. When the child was born, Paggallous and Zeus named the boy Paggeus. Unfortunately, Hera...

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... an outsider. She was originally from Colchis, but fled to Corinth when she disobeyed her father, aided the great hero Jason, and murdered her brother. She was also forced to kill her children, her husband's wife, and his father in-law. A woman under great turmoil, Medea is forced to make numerous decisions ... brother, but she killed her children as well. The deceit of her father was completed by killing her brother and hacking him to pieces in order to escape with Jason, whom she would eventually marry. Seen as a traitor to her own country, she was immediately exiled. How could she deny...

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... 's murder (she did not know of Banquo's yet). Macbeth's rule was that of violence and chaos: Men must not walk too late'. He brought the way that he had lead before hand, as a warrior, into the ruling of the country, with fear and strength, confusing his people: we hold rumour from what we fear, yet know not what to fear'. His subjects and other ... , Macbeth and Lady Macbeth pretending that they know nothing of the murders and covering up their little mistakes. Later it is Lady Macbeth hiding her fears from Macbeth and Macbeth killing Banquo without his wife's consent. From then on it se...

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... 1 Sc 7-Li 13-16). In this quote Macbeth debates whether he should kill Duncan, he is aware of how murder will open the door to a sinful world. At the same time he admits that the only reason for killing Duncan is his ambition to be king. "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"(Act ... of Duncan feels guilt from his crime. Macbeth thinks that no water can clean his hand because his hands will turn the entire sea red. Macbeth now has turned from a hero of his country to a murder of his kinsmen to get what he wants. Although Macbeth does not have perfect contro...

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