to the hospital. In the hospital‚ Fantine hallucinated seeing her daughter in nowhere. Valjean came. In Fantine’s last breath‚ she gave the authority to Valjean to take care of her daughter. Cosette became slave in Thenardiers house. Monsieur and Madame Thenardiers mistreated her. Luckily‚ Valjean came to save Cosette while Javert hunt him. Valjean sent Cosette in school. Years after‚ Cosette became pretty matured girl‚ Marius Pontmercy‚ the son of Georges Pontmercy‚ a colonel in Napoléon’s army
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particularly reflect these themes are lines 17-20‚ “Signs are taken for wonders. ‘We would see a sign!’/The word within a word‚ unable to speak a word‚ /Swaddled with darkness. In the juvescence of the year/Came Christ the tiger”‚ lines 27-33‚ “By Madame de Tornquist‚ in the dark room /Shifting the candles; Fräulein von Kulp /Who turned in the hall‚ one hand on the door./Vacant shuttles /Weave the wind. I have no ghosts‚/An old man in a draughty house Under a windy knob” ‚ and line 51 “These tears
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Children DBQ In early modern Europe‚ various assumptions were made about children and how to raise them. Some families went with detachment‚ tender love‚ or cruelty. All of these assumptions‚ more or less‚ affected child-rearing practices. In the 1550s in Florence‚ Italy‚ Benvenuto Cellini describes a time where he visited his natural‚ born in wedlock‚ son. “..when I wanted to leave he refused to let me go.. breaking into a storm of crying and screaming” “I detached myself from my little boy
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“All conflict in literature is‚ in its simplest form‚ a struggle between good and evil.” This means that all conflict in any work is basically just a fight between the forces of good and evil. The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne show that this statement is true. The Crucible agrees with the lens because in Puritan society of 1692 in Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ hunts are being held to find those who have sinned and practice witchcraft but unfortunately innocent
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------------------------------------------------- A Tale of Two Cities: Themes Tyranny and Revolution Much of the action of A Tale of Two Cities takes place in Paris during the French Revolution‚ which began in 1789. In A Tale of Two Cities‚ Dickens shows how the tyranny of the French aristocracy—high taxes‚ unjust laws‚ and a complete disregard for the well-being of the poor—fed a rage among the commoners that eventually erupted in revolution. Dickens depicts this process most clearly through
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During early modern Europe‚ children were viewed in many different ways which changed how parents chose to raise their children. During the 1500’s‚ the mortality rates for children were high‚ therefore children were viewed as if they were adults and very precious if they survived‚ many people believed that they needed to treat children harshly to make them strong. In the 1600’s‚ children were raised tenderly as they were rational beings that could use reason. Children were viewed in many ways
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In Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby” race and prejudice is a prevalent subject that surrounds the entire piece. The amount of hostility Armand shows toward Desiree after the realization of the baby’s mixed heritage stems from Armand’s own self-hatred. He resents his heritage; he wants nothing more but to continue on his family name but cannot without having a child that appears full white. This ultimately leads to Desiree’s suicide as well as the death of her young child. While the ending is obviously
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sits on the banks and muses on the deplorable state of world.The poem rerurns to riverwhere maidens sing a song of lament.”Death by a Water”‚the fourth section‚describes a death Phoenician iying in the water-perhaps the same drowned sailor of whom Madame sosostris spoke.The last section was “What the Thunder Said”.Here the narrator cries for rain and finally it comes. Style of the poem The style of the work in part grows out of Eliot’s interest in exploring the possibilities of dramatic
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theatrical comedies. A wealthy patriarch named Orgon falls under the influence of a hypocritical religious devotee named Tartuffe. Orgon becomes obsessed with him and religious ideals. Some of the characters of this comedy are Orgon‚ Elmire‚ Tartuffe‚ Madame Pernelle‚ Dorine‚ etc. Plot Orgon and his mother fall under the influence of the hypocrite - Tartuffe‚ a man who claims to be holy‚ but is really a fraud. Orgon’s wife and his brother in law and other relatives try to understand the truth about Tartuffe
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more charitable reading of the Bible would come later in reflections on the New Testament interpretation of adultery law‚ namely‚ that the public need not step in to punish a crime when we ourselves have our own sins to be judged. Each person suffers enough already for his or her own sins. More so in our society‚ it is so taboo‚ when you consider the historical context of marriage‚ isn’t being shocked by adultery a bit of an overreaction? Of course‚ no one can deny that when you lie and do something
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