... a withered flower blooming from the very corruption of the grave, the memory of that fair girl, who, eighteen years ago, had sought the shelter of Monk-Hall, lay hidden, fast entwined around the life-cords of his deformed soul." Ellen is the fair girl, and these feelings that he had with her ... Avenging Justice "you, with your prostituted talents, gathering round your guilty souls, so many witnesses of your utter degradation, or Devil-Bug, the doorkeeper of Monk-Hall, in all his monstrous deformity of body and intellect, yet with one redeeming memory, gleaming like a star, from the ch...

• Word Count: 1860
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• Grade Level: High School

... all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about." (Kidd 148) In a fictional novel by Sue Monk Kidd, Lily Owens is a white young female that is living with black women during time of racial oppression, who has ran away from home, and also a ... he expresses contempt for Lily's confession of hatred towards him. "You can hate me all you want, but she's the one who left you." (Kidd 39) Albeit, he had been expressing sardonic humor towards Lily's suggestion of maternal love from Deborah, he had kept Lily with himself rather than give her t...

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• Grade Level: High School

... a world turned upside down. In Rabelais' world, everything is opposite. This entire work is a radical critique of society. In creating the plans for the monk's abbey, all extremes have been taken to their opposites. Rabelais writes: The monk then requested Gargantua to institute his religious order in an exactly contrary way to all others. First of all, then, said Gargantua, you mustn ... 't build walls round it. For all other abbeys have lofty walls (murs). Yes, said the monk, and not without reason. Where there's a mur before and a mur behind, there are plenty of murmurs, envy, and mut...

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... Camillo and Link's interracial marriage (mixing of two different colors in races.). This color scheme is even used to describe the town whereas the monochromatic descriptions in the book are used solely in Abbie and Bill's presence (both characters who prefer one race over the other and oppose their co-existence ... a more positive character in the novel, and therefore used by Petry to imply the mixing of colors. This is in contrast to the monochromatic descriptions of Abbie such as "Abbie had on the gray bathrobe, dark gray, the one she called a fright and horror because it was so big ....

• Word Count: 1612
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• Grade Level: High School

... explains to the king, "There's one thing I do love, my prince, and that I"m sure of. Doing what I have to do and doing it well" (44). He also tells the young monk, "if it's worth doing it's worth doing well" (113). Becket does not take the job of Archbishop lightly. He begins to love serving the honor of God because it is ... his emotion more, admitting to the king, "In so far as I was capable of love, yes, my prince, I did" (104), and is able to show his openness to the young monk by being his mentor. Becket is liberated when he begins to love the honor of God because it gives him a se...

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... as the Jazz Age was all sparkle and no substance, so is Gatsby as the image of Christ. Many allusions are buried deep within the novel. Some of the first descriptions on Gatsby are linked to biblical images. Gatsby is described as having "a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life" (Fitzgerald 6). Like Christ promises life eternal, Gatsby has also seen the ... , the garden scene represents when Jesus was raised from the dead and Mary Magdalene did not know Jesus but mistook him for a gardener. (John 20:13-16). Even the physical descriptions that are used, leads to a Christ-like ima...

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... fantastic worlds that have magical properties and set the story apart from reality. The Princess Bride is set in a land of "giants- "beasts of all natures and descriptions- "truth- "passion- and miracles-(p.17). There are descriptions of places like the "cliffs of insanity "(p.11) and " the zoo of death-(p.29). The use of the superlatives to reveal contrast abounds: Buttercup is the ... ...

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... is very unique because it does not resemble the world we live in. The movie takes place in sixteenth century England, and the differences of clothing, lifestyle (no indoor plumbing, infested with rats), and speech is totally different from ours. However, the forces that operate in the world of ... century England would look like physically, with the close proximity of the buildings, no sewage disposal except for out of a window, and the clothing that an actual Englishman would where back then. Also, the influence that a few individuals would have on the masses due to the power, ... t...

• Word Count: 1874
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... water because he could not swim, and also because he was scared of love. He never experienced it, so it frightened him. When he finally falls in, he felt Mabel clothing and pulled her up. This means that when he fell into the pond, he found love. It was like fate had pushed him into the water to meet the woman ... on her best dress of black voile,?(The Horse Dealer's Daughter pg.992) expresses her happiness and eagerness to start something new. Before she fell in love, she never wore clothing as elegant as this dress. This is something new to her and something she wants to try out. Her ...

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... physical deprivation confronts her. "Despite terrible deprivation, however, Jane is given something at Lowood gar more prescious than the food and clothing she had at Gateshead: a sense of her own worth-(Berg 44). Living in a "crowded schoolroom and dormitory- with clothing "insufficient to protect [them] from the severe cold- adds to the "semi-starvation and neglected colds- that torture the students (Bronte ... , creates a positive development in her character because she learns to persevere. Jane realizes she can live without the luxury of her own bedroom, the comfort of all the layer...

• Word Count: 1900
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... has been reared in a Puritan home. The Puritan view stressed rules and regulations with regard to leading a successful "religious" life. Women were not a loud to wear any type of fancy clothing nor jewelry (Internet Source 1). To wear make-up was to be considered vain or a harlot. Men were not a loud to shave their beards. Bright ... clothing was not permitted because it drew attention to ones" self and this again was consider vain. Women were not permitted to cut their hair, and when out in public they ... ...

• Word Count: 2000
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... , what though bidd'st/ Unargues I obey; so God ordains, God is thy law, though mine: to know no more/ Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise" (p. 2016, ll. 635-39). Although they love each other, believing that the man is greater would lead to him thinking he is her owner, creating abuse. "Too much ornament, in outward show/ Elaborate ... ...

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... notions of love, sex, women, and motherhood; each topic significant in its own way to the author. Sadly, this poem has come under fire several times due to its graphic descriptions of sex and a woman's anatomy. To some, the networking of words used by Paterson seems to suggest strong and graphic sexual imagery. Paterson used the phrase "by its tiny pulse ... ...

• Word Count: 1696
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... for Logan but with the hope that it would bloom. Logan and Janie's relationship, just like Logan's house, was "absent of flavor" and a "lonesome place" (Hurston 39). Janie attempts to appease Nanny. She agrees to partake in an arranged marriage out of fear that if she didn't, she would follow in the footsteps of Nanny and Janie ... ...

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Love, lust, urge, desire, - all descriptions of feelings, wants, needs, etc. I like a lot of other teenagers this past year, have had to deal with it all. The love of one girl, but the desire for the ... ...

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... will always prevail over the other. Although the short story, "The Horse-Dealer's Daughter" by D. H. Lawrence, has some circumstantially based setting, the more prevalent form within the story is the descriptions of place. D. H. Lawrence makes several references about the dark, dreary, sullenness of the atmosphere. A direct relation to the dreary and sullen atmosphere is Mabel's persona. Mabel is the most dynamic ... ...

• Word Count: 1865
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... in the drama than anywhere else in Thomas. The Reverend Eli Jenkins remembers sadly the drunken father of his boyhood. Mr Waldo sings of his childhood. And there are wonderful descriptions of the children of the town tumbling out of school: Captain Cat at his curtained schooner's porthole open to the Spring sun tides hears the naughty forfeiting children tumble and ... ...

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... to have taken that away. Her jaded and lustful ways don't seem normal for a teenager and that is in conflict with the reader's inclination to want happier and more loving descriptions of a teenager's life. This conflict can make a piece like this difficult to read because it makes us realize that there is more to young women than we think. Maybe there ... ...

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... with either of them and when his brother past away Thornfield was left to him because his did not have a will. Jane only knew of Mr. Rochester from Mrs. FairFax's descriptions. Mrs. Fairfax described him as a person who kept to himself. She was happy and content in her new home, yet it has many mysteries that intrigue Jane. "Thornfield was a fine ... ...

• Word Count: 1889
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... His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us Nothing will be able to separate us from the Love of God. Rom 8:38-39: Neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to ... ...

• Word Count: 1400
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... of love ('to do whatever is the most loving thing' (Jenkins p.47)). In the Christian tradition this may be expressed as, 'Love your neighbour as you love yourself' (Matthew 22:39 The Holy Bible New International Version). Jesus said nothing about birth control, large or small families, childlessness, homosexuality, masturbation, fornication, premarital intercourse, sterilisation, artificial insemination, abortion, sex, foreplay, petting and ... ...

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... five days after their first meeting. She never pretended to be in love with him. Instead she thought that "anything, anyone at all would be better than returning to Ayemenem" (P.39 Arundhati Roy) Even though she wrote to her parents about her decision they never cared to respond to the letter. Ammu and her husband moved to Assam. She was beautiful ... ...

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... , Valentin's final words are a morphine-induced rambling in which he finally fully enters Molina's movie world. His prose are more poetic than usual, but verge on contrived and superficial; his descriptions are very reminiscent of Molina's film narrations. Here, he weaves a movie-like fantasy where he disregards his previous concentration on the future and reality; instead he focuses only on "this ... ...

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... of who she is. Preparing food is the only way, Tita, a female has an opportunity to give outlet to her feelings highlights how women are viewed in the household setting. Descriptions of heat and fire infuse the narrative as expressions of strong or intense emotion. Because heat is the medium that causes food to undergo chemical change, considerable amounts of it ... ...

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... reunion with his partner Clarissa after a six-week separation. Although at first this seems unnecessary, the importance of the affairs preceding the balloon accident quickly becomes apparent. McEwan uses these descriptions to clarify the relationship between Joe and Clarissa, as the reader is up to this point uninformed of their situation. Joe's rational and cynical view on life is highlighted on ... ...

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