In This excerpt from Tis Pity She’s A Whore, Giovanni is confessing his love to Annabella, by setting her apart from other girls, stating how good her forehead is and how exceeded even the goddesses. Not caring about how he is her brother, they both go to their chamber as the scene concludes. In this scene, John Ford makes use of several Stylistic features such as metaphor, allusion, mythological allusion, simile, and Foreshadowing to create relate to characters, plot and thematic development. Body
one of his sons perished, whereas in the Bible, all of them survived. Noah and his family stayed in the ark while the rain flooded the earth and killed every living creature that was left behind (Fairchild, “Noah's Ark and the Flood - Bible Story Summary”). When the water subsided and there was land, they came out of the ark to worship God. Pleased with what they have done, God made a promise that he would never again destroy the earth with flood.
Nguyen English 2 HP, Per. 3 Ms. Zinn 29 August, 2015 Nonfiction Assignment Name of Author: Benedict Carey Date: August 29, 2015 Title of Nonfiction Read: “For the Worst of Us, the Diagnosis is ‘Evil’” Publication Date: February 8, 2005 I. Factual Summary: In the article on The New York Times, “For the Worst of Us, the Diagnosis is ‘Evil’”, author Benedict Carey describes of how predatory attackers commit some of the most heinous and horrific crimes, but are only labeled “evil” when their actions defy
In the article “Ophelia: Hamlet’s hapless girlfriend is reborn,” Lisa M. Klein analyzes Ophelia and her relationship with Hamlet. At first, she questions who Ophelia is with the simple “Who is Ophelia?” question, then goes into depth with a quick summary of who she is throughout the play. Ophelia is Hamlet’s girlfriend who becomes distraught when Hamlet rejects her love and even kills her father. She kills herself by falling into a brook and drowning. After questioning Ophelia and different possible
– I beseech you, pity the mother who has all your affections, and not one legal right to protect, guide, or educate, the child of her bosom! By the sick hour your child; by those dying eyes, which you can never forget; by those last cries, that wrung your heart when you could neither help nor save... – I beseech you, pity those mothers that are constantly made childless by the American slave-trade! And say, mothers of
Name: Chad Nakagawa Period: 4 Title and author: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Number of pages in book: 532 pages Section 1 Page Range: 1-105 Dates Read: 10/3/15-10/4/15 Original Summary: On Sunday, October 26, 1991, Clare Abshire and Henry DeTamble officially meet for the first time at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Clare invites Henry to dinner and explains that she knows about his time travel condition and that she has known the older time traveling
Summary “Politics and the English Language” is George Orwell’s critique of the shape that modern English is taking. He draws upon specific aspects of contemporary writing detrimental to the language including over-used metaphors, removal of simple verbs, use of passive voice and fancier, meaningless words, and “ready-made phrases” (Orwell 278). In his mind, this decay of language is correlated to foolish thinking, and thus its elimination is vital. Orwell picks on five passages, which range from
Summary: In Chapter 1, Hudson addresses the distorted views of democracy from modern-day Americans. He makes it known how simplistic the perception of average people is when talking about what democracy truly means. He explains how separation of power within the government lessens the power of American citizens within the country. At the same time, he discusses how political officials alter the ideology behind a true democracy into what we have today. Hudson describes what a true democracy entails
Writers are obsessed with the idea of a hero who can perfectly display the values of the society well enough that the story can inspire its audience for centuries. In the epic poem Beowulf, written by an unknown poet, the hero Beowulf embodies the Anglo-Saxon standards so well that the story has been told aloud and read for centuries. The famous Greek play Antigone, written by Sophocles, has also endured the test of time. These stories have endured for many years and still are able to hold an influence
statement summaries the whole outcome of been evil. Throughout the film, Gregory was winning. However, at the end he failed and failed wholly. The screenshot below shows when Gregory was begging for mercy at the end, but Paula told him, “If I were not mad, I could have helped you. Whatever you had done, I could have pitied and protected you. But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without