Summary: Act I‚ scene i Antonio‚ a Venetian merchant‚ complains to his friends‚ Salarino and Solanio‚ that a sadness has overtaken him and dulled his faculties‚ although he is at a loss to explain why. Salarino and Solanio suggest that his sadness must be due to his commercial investments‚ for Antonio has dispatched several trade ships to various ports. Salarino says it is impossible for Antonio not to feel sad at the thought of the perilous ocean sinking his entire investment‚ but Antonio assures
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good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me - just as the Father knows me and I know the Father - and I lay down my life for the sheep." - John 10:14 Religion is frequently categorized as the sanctuary for the human psyche. Often times‚ people strive to strip bare their emotional inhibitions in order to more adequately bond with their creator. They seek to present themselves as humble innocent lambs to a divine creator who has forever promised to love and protect them as a shepherd-his
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The Odyssey Summaries Book 1 In the book‚ "A Goddess Intervenes" it involves Muse and talks about Odysseus’ life with the Nymph‚ Calypso. He says how for years he was held captive on and island with Calypso. After‚ finally getting away he was able to start his journey home. Muse‚ daughter of Zues‚ tells the story through a song. Talking about Athena wanting to help Odysseus to find his way home. Book 5 This book‚ "Calypso‚ The Sweet Nymph" was about Odysseus trying to get back home and on the
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Cain Summary Summary (Masterplots‚ Fourth Edition) print Print document PDF list Cite While Adam‚ Eve‚ Abel‚ Zillah‚ and Adah pray to God‚ Cain stands sullenly by and complains that he has nothing to pray for because he had lost immortality when Eve ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge. He cannot understand why‚ if knowledge and life are good‚ his mother’s deed has been deemed a deadly sin. Abel‚ Adah‚ and Zillah urge him to cast off his melancholy and join them in tending the fields. Alone
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Young Nymph going to bed’‚ take away from the beauty of the two poems. Beauty and aesthetics can be defined as “Nothing more nor less‚ than sensitivity to the sublime and the beautiful and an aversion to the ordinary and ugly”‚ this means that beauty can be absolutely anything which is beautiful as long as it is not ugly or ordinary‚ this may seem harsh‚ much like the poems by William Shakespeare and Jonathan Swift. In both poems; ‘Sonnet 130’ by William Shakespeare and ‘A beautiful young nymph going
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Epithalamion Summary Epithalamion is an ode written by Edmund Spenser as a gift to his bride‚ Elizabeth Boyle‚ on their wedding day. The poem moves through the couples’ wedding day‚ from the groom’s impatient hours before dawn to the late hours of night after the husband and wife have consummated their marriage. Spenser is very methodical in his depiction of time as it passes‚ both in the accurate chronological sense and in the subjective sense of time as felt by those waiting in anticipation or
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NICK THE FLAWED NARRATOR NICK CARRAWAY has a special place in this novel. He is not just one character among several‚ it is through his eyes and ears that we form our opinions of the other characters. Often‚ readers of this novel confuse Nick ’s stance towards those characters and the world he describes with those of F. Scott Fitzgerald ’s because the fictional world he has created closely resembles the world he himself experienced. But not every narrator is the voice of the author. Before
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Summary [icon] | This section requires expansion. (March 2012) | During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands‚ Anne Frank received a diary as one of her presents on her 13th birthday. She began to write in it on June 14‚ 1942‚ two days later‚ and twenty two days before going into hiding with her father Otto‚ mother Edith‚ older sister Margot‚ and another family‚ Hermann van Pels‚ his wife Auguste‚ and their teenage son Peter. The group went into hiding in the sealed-off upper rooms of
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Disguise Theme in three Plays : Il Volpone‚ The Second Shepherds Play and The Merchant Of Venice It was the 16 century when the idea of disguise started to be used in many plays.. It is used as an escape from the characters personalities and sometimes for comic effect. The disguise becomes very comical as in the time it was written only men could act on stage. This could lead to much confusion and comedy in the roles of those in disguise. Disguise can give the freedom to a character to act
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"[W]hen thou doest alms‚ let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth" counsels the Bible‚ thus setting the precedent for all well-meaning members of western society concerning their charitable intentions (Matt. 6.3). Humanity’s motivation to aid others‚ regardless of the outcome‚ is oft times spotted by the subtle struggle between selflessness and selfishness. Flannery O’Connor captures this classic conflict between good and evil in Southern Grotesque fashion through her characters‚ the
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