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    blocks and get off at--Elysian Fields!” (Williams 6) Although her exact route is not continuously brought up throughout the text, it has a greater purpose that if not evaluated, can often get overlooked. Desire is defined by dictionary.com as “to wish or long for; crave; want.” The streetcar throughout the text symbolizes Blanches journey of desiring to start over, hence why she gets on a streetcar named desire to get there. The author, Tennessee Williams is trying to show the deeper meaning behind

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    Every day we hear about violence in the news, about terrorists, shooters, and robbers that we do not associate with ourselves. However, hidden within everyone is that innate evil as is shown through Golding’s story. The novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is set on an uninhabited island where a group of young British boys find themselves stranded without any adults. Overcoming their joy, the boys develop a society of sorts, finding ways to survive and get rescued. However, the civilization

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    Kaitlyn Booth Humanities Dr. Davis November 20, 2017 Barn Burning Critical Essay In William Faulkner's "Barn Burning," the audience gets a glimpse of the ongoing trouble between a son and his father. The son, Sarty, must decide what is best for himself instead of standing up for his father's wrong choices. The father, Abner, is a jealous, unforgiving, unapologetic, and disrespectful man. However, Sarty overcomes the negative actions and rises against his family to do what it truly right. The theme

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    The narrator states how he faces many struggles such as the bad circumstances, “bludgeonings of chance” (Henley), and shades of horror. In the poem “Invictus,” William E. Henley shows that the narrator had one focus: to stay the man he knew he was and to be positive throughout the struggles he faced, yet, in the play “Macbeth,” by William Shakespeare, the author writes how the main character Macbeth was a strong, brave and a loyal man, but by the choices he made, ruined his life. Both articles show

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    Not only does Ann Radcliffe use the gothic trope deception and destruction William Godwin uses it as well throughout his novel Caleb Williams. However, Godwin uses deception through political systems and through the two main characters, Falkland and Caleb Williams. Falkland is an urban landowner and hires Caleb Williams to “transcribe, arrange certain papers and partly write his dictation letters of business, as well as sketches of literary composition: he performed the functions of a librarian as

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    In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the character Jack shows excessive pride which leads to conflict on the island. He shows pride by talking down to others, promoting himself to chief, and by talking himself up. Jack’s pride cause much of the conflict in the book. Jack’s pride represents how people are evil and immoral when all rules are taken away. Jack shows pride by electing himself to be chief so he can be in charge. “‘I ought to be chief,’ said Jack with simple arrogance, ‘because I’m

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    Groupthink Occurrences in Lord of the Flies In Lord of the Flies many kids are stuck on an island due to a plane that crashed. Ralph and Piggy are main characters and they both give in to groupthink. In this book, especially groupthink has more negative consequences than good ones. Groupthink is an occurrence that happens with a group of people where if many people are agreeing with something they don't wanna be the outcast and disagree. An experiment called the Asch experiment was done in 1951

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    Lord of the Flies is a novel written by William Golding. It is about british schoolboys who are stranded on an island after their plane is shot down. They are on the island with no adult supervision. Their group is civilized but turns to savagery. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses the characters of Ralph, Jack, and Roger to symbolize that there are violence, evil, savagery, and good that exist in every society. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses Ralph as the symbol of civilization

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    Title: King Lear Author’s Background (Source: “William Shakespeare.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 5 Aug. 2017, www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-9480323.): William Shakespeare was born around April 23, 1564. He was an English playwright, actor, and poet. He was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon in England, and got involved in theatre by the time he was 20. From there, he worked far and had success in being an actor and a playwright until his death around April 23, 1616. Date of

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    that lasted from about 1750 to 1870. This period included philosophy, art, music, literature. Romantics believed that men and women should not be guided by rules placed on them by society but led by warm emotions that promoted a sense of freedom. William Blake was one of the poets that began the Romantic Age who promoted self-expression but was weighed down by the importance and standards of religion. (Forward, 2014) Literary work during Romanticism had a strong emphasis in implementing nature, emotion

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