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    Narration in The Turn of the Screw Henry James makes the governess the narrator because she keeps the readers’ interest by also being involved in the story as a main character. However, being involved on this personal level, it can make the governess exaggerate at times and be over-emotional. Her determined and curious nature makes her an ideal candidate to explore the mysterious happenings, however her imagination keeps the reader in suspense, as we are never sure how much she has exaggerated

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    Being the protagonist in Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov is subject to most ridicule and analysis for his moral ambiguity and outlandish views. After reading about his dreadful murder of Alyona and Lizaveta Ivanovna, many come to the conclusion that Raskolnikov is purely evil. His lack of guilt and belief of justification for his crime surely points readers in this

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    Ambiguity in O'Connor

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    Ambiguity in ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find ' In most short stories ambiguity is used to some extent. The level of ambiguity in each story varies, however the importance and value of that vagueness does not. Ambiguity often leads to elevating the thought put into reading the text, as well as numerous interpretations. In Flannery O 'Connor 's short story, ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find ', the ambiguous theme causes both deeper thought and different opinions about the text. Through the characters

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    a character can have is moral ambiguity. Moral ambiguity is defined as the identification of a person as either purely evil or purely good. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, has an innumerable number of examples of moral ambiguity written throughout the story. One character in particular, Daisy Buchanan, has specifically showed moral ambiguity, as she is one of the main characters. Daisy Buchanan is a morally ambiguous character whose ambiguity is significant to the story,

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    Moral Ambiguity in Beloved Toni Morrison’s classic novel, Beloved, can be briefly summarized as a story with woman who is living in both the horrible aftermath of slavery, as well as her action of murdering her baby child in an attempt to save her from slavery. This story is based on the true story of Margaret Garner, who killed her own child and attempted to kill her other children instead of willfully letting them all return to lives of slavery. While slavery is today clearly classified as wrong

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    7.3 – Neutralization of the fallacy: In paragraph 4 the author has violated the sufficiency criterion of a good argument. The author has violates the sufficiency criteria by committing the fallacy of false analogy. In paragraph 4 the author states, “In the mid 1940s – before publicly funded healthcare – my grand parents sold their car to pay the hospital bill related to my father’s birth, so “purchasing” the birth of a child is nothing new.” This is a wrong analogy. Just because you pay for hospital

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    spectrum of good and evil, and this “in between” often has a great effect on the work as a whole, revealing important themes and ideas. This gray area, when in relation to the actions and morals of a character, is called moral ambiguity. A character that embodies moral ambiguity is Victor Frankenstein. While many of Victor’s actions could leave him to be considered evil, there are many reasons why Victor is morally ambiguous and partially good, rather than purely evil. Examples of these reasons include

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    “Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win.” This quote by Eric Burdon sums up what it’s like to be a morally ambiguous character, and Euripides' Medea is the perfect example of that. Although Medea seems to be a good woman at heart, she struggles with her powerful emotions, and when she acts upon her anger, she seems more like a cold-hearted beast. During this play, the audience is pulled back and forth in trying to decide the true

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    not resist saying a few funny and at the same time disturbing remarks. This prompts the question as to how our preferences change depending on the situation. I liked Harris. This is perhaps a better example of ambiguity depending on the context rather than lexical or structural ambiguity. One of the next victims elected to be devoured was mister Morgan. The narrator comments on his redeeming qualities, that have little to do with how the gentleman tasted. There is no correlation between these two

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    Throughout many years, military deployment has affected the family system. Especially young children are effected by their parents shipping overseas since they are still are trying to figure out how to cope without guidance during their development into adult years. In this particular study, researchers examined adolescents between the ages of 12-18 to determine their thoughts about their parents going into war. More specifically, researchers wanted to study the children’s experiences with ambiguous

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