"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"‚ is one of the best American short stories and is considered Ambrose Bierce’s greatest work. First published in Bierce’s short story collection "Tales of Soldiers and Civilians" in 1891‚ this story is about Peyton Farquhar‚ a southern farmer who is about to be hanged by the Union Army for trying to set the railroad bridge at Owl Creek on fire. While Farquhar is standing on the bridge with a rope around his neck‚ Bierce leads the reader to think that the rope snaps
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Balancing the Good and the Bad Is it possible to create a balance between good and bad? When looking at someone’s journey through life in the Heart of Africa‚ it can greatly demonstrate the effects they have on others around them. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness looks into the views on the good and the bad in people through how Mr. Kurtz is viewed by his peers. Kurtz’s balance of good and bad helps to enhance the the novel by creating an impact on everyone he meets. As Kurtz gets older‚ he shows
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living with her uncle‚ Abigail was a servant in the Proctor household. Abigail was soon dismissed by Goody Proctor after the affair. Abigail held onto this for some time‚ for she loved Proctor. So much that one night her and many other young girls from the town went into the woods and Abigail drank blood‚ or a charm‚ to kill John Proctor’s wife. “You did‚ you did! You drank a charm to kill John
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Finney’s contemporary antislavery activists‚ who argued for immediate freedom of slaves‚ trusted and followed Finney. However‚ Finney was a revivalist and evangelist. Finney must have contacted a tension between a revival ministry and an antislavery activity. How did Finney respond when he got at such a tension? How did Finney evaluate people who exhausted all effort to antislavery activity? Finney plainly had priority of evangelism even though he was enthusiastic about immediate abolitionism. Finney’s
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Before analyzing the way in which Carter created a Gothic story from the tradition fairy-tale of Bluebeard‚ we must first understand the meaning of ‘latent content’. Freud explains latent content to be ‘the forbidden thoughts and the unconscious desires which appear in the manifest content but are disguised and unrecognizable.’ However‚ in saying this‚ the manifest and latent content can sometimes be indistinguishable (referred to as ‘Infantile dreams’); much like in the case of Carter’s The Bloody
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the story the author wrote about dinosaurs attack on the mainland. Later in the story they revealed how the dinosaurs got on land. The author chose to write this way because he wanted to give the readers background information about what he was going to write about. This is so he could create a suspense about the story and to keep us guessing what was going to happen next. The book is written from
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Luke Dawson How does Steinbeck make the Fight scene Dramatic? Mention uses of * Use of foreshadowing * Animal Imagery * Other Language Techniques The fight scene takes place in the barn where Lennie is looking at the new-born pups‚ and Curley ran into the barn with the impression that his wife was cheating on him with Slim. The scene is already made slightly dramatic by portraying Curley‚ who has previously been portrayed as a small thug‚ as a bit of an idiot‚ as there was no proof
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How does Shakespeare make Lady Macbeth’s Character dramatic and interesting? Shakespeare makes Lady Macbeth more dramatic and interesting by making her seem unlike the average woman of the Elizabethan era and giving her the opinion that she is physically and mentally stronger than Macbeth. Lady Macbeth claims that Macbeth doesn’t know what he is talking about and that he was acting as if he was drunk when they agreed to the murder‚ and as such she is insulting his intelligence and loyalty.
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How does Dickens create sympathy for Pip? ‘Great expectations’ is a novel written during and set in the Victorian era‚ a time in which status‚ class and money were extremely important and where a discrepancy between the rich and poor was evident. The novel follows the ill-fated life of the protagonist in the novel‚ ‘Pip’. Dickens writes in such a way that each character is a subject of either sympathy or scorn. Dickens implies that Pip is a subject of sympathy through his use of guilt and
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How does Robert Frost create sympathy for the boy in ‘Out‚ Out-‘ In the ballad Out‚ Out- the boy suffers a fatal injury‚ which makes us feel sympathy towards him. Robert Frost does this by including his personal opinion‚ using the reaction of other people and the boy’s life style in the text. First of all the author inputs his personal opinion in the boy’s destiny‚ which makes us feel sensitivity towards the boy and also a sense of anxiety for him. Before the incident‚ the author said “Call it
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