English 1B 19th September 2012 Love: How Is It? Life has lots of emotions: happiness‚ sorrow‚ guilt‚ frustration‚ love‚ and so on. Love is the one emotion which brings in huge changes in our lives and a different kind of emotion begins with it. How can we describe it? Describing love is very hard because in every phase of life‚ characterization of love can be varied. In childhood‚ through romantic films and stories‚ we started to get feeling that love is passionate and when people will be
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Have you ever craved to be the center of attention? Spun a lie to feel important? However what happens when that certain lie begins to spiral out of control? In The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ this complex situation happens to Abigail Williams; she is a mere child of seventeen years old‚ who frightens her peers due to her belligerent behavior. Therefore‚ when she begins to falsely accuse townspeople of being witches‚ her peers begin to blindly imitate her. Their duplicity soon has their whole town
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Tituba: "Scenes Of Schizophrenic‚ Ego Centric‚ Paranoiac‚ Prima Donnas" The times of the witch trials in Salem‚ Massachusetts were tough and cruel. Arthur Miller makes this very clear in his play based on true events‚ "The Crucible" (1952). Though Miller fictionalized many things in his play‚ it was indeed based on true events. There have been many documentaries‚ stories‚ films‚ and reports written about the Salem witch trials‚ some of them support the thought that the Devil was truly loose in
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Appearance Does Not Show Your Character In the book The BFG by Roald Dahl‚ the fact that the BFG is a 24-foot tall giant‚ does not mean he acts like one. On page 17‚ the BFG captures Sophie and as the story goes on a couple more pages‚ Sophies learns who the BFG actually is. Sophie was frightened that the BFG had captured her because she thought he was a scary human eater‚ but she learns that he is not and they create a friendly relationship. Sophie learns that even a 24-foot tall giant
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The Crucible play has many characters‚ but how could one forget Abigail Williams? Abigail has the most influence over her friends and this is shown throughout the play. She is very proud and manipulative in any situation. Her character stands out and shows the readers how her character portrays the time period of the evil in the witch trials. Abigail Williams is not a victim of her society. She is very manipulative and has control over all her friends in the play. Abigail treats the girls very poorly
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The character of Abigail is often accused of being one-dimensional. She doesn’t express one shred of remorse the entire time‚ making her seem almost inhumanly diabolical. However‚ even though Abigail’s actions are ruthless‚ they are in some ways understandable. Miller slips in an interesting detail about Abigail’s childhood that gives us a clue as to where her mercilessness might stem from. When she was younger‚ Abigail witnessed both of her parents murder. She tells the other girls‚ "I saw Indians
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Crucible Essay In abnormal times or times of hysteria‚ one can easily be tempted to seek out a scapegoat‚ and if a sensible place of blame is not found‚ a somewhat ridiculous idea can be resurrected. These beliefs are held to be true‚ especially by those directly affected by these strange events‚ or those with an ulterior motive. The character of Abigail in The Crucible by Arthur Miller exemplifies this. She is also represented in the poem‚ “Witchcraft was hung‚ in History‚”‚ by Emily Dickinson
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For Hours and Hours and Hours “Its all your fault‚ don’t deny it.” he was calm collected and obviously aware of the victory to come. “No... I did nothing‚” my sister yelled at him‚ oblivious to how childish she sounded‚ rage was hidden in her voice. Honestly I don’t know why she stays with him‚ they argue when nothing is wrong. He can’t even support himself‚ I don’t know why she tolerates him forgetting dates and birthdays. She could do so much better‚ but I guess shes afraid to lose him.
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Orla Brennan How are women presented in "An Inspector Calls" and why are they presented in this way? In the play‚ all the women are portrayed as delicate characters- particularly Sheila who the men feel needs protecting from all manner of things like the information that a girl has committed suicide. Set in 1912‚ the woman in the play would have been seen as possessions to their husband and did not work or have careers due to the patriarchal society. However‚ it would have been acceptable for
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Explore how love and lovers is presented in Romeo and Juliet and The Labrotory. Love. Love is a feeling of a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone‚ An intense feeling of deep affection. Love in Romeo and Juliet is a brutal‚ powerful emotion that captures individuals and catapults them against their world‚ and at times‚ against themselves. In The Laboratory love is presented as a unpleasant feeling‚ filled with jealousy‚ obsession and overall revenge‚ which is also a dramatic monologue which
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