Please name some of the Romantic elements of "The Tell Tale Heart".According to the school of Dark Romanticism

Romanticism is movement in literature that celebrates the expression of emotion and internal conflict.  It sought to idealize the human spirit and the human soul.  Dark Romanticism, like it sounds, focused on the darker side of that human spirit, and often dealt with emotions like grief and depression.  It also dealt with mental instability.

In this story, the mental instability of the character is clear.  He has no purpose for killing his master, except that the master's eye particularly bothers him.  The narration of the story provides readers with an in-depth examination of the narrator's emotions and his murderous thoughts.  The careful description allows readers to probe into the elements of human nature that lead someone to commit murder.  Also, the pounding of the heart that the narrator hears depicts the effects of the negative emotion of grief on an individual.  The first person point of view strengthens the character analysis and better portrays these emotions.

Can anyone tell me what happens in The Devils Arithmetic chapters 5-15? thanks

Chapter 5- Hannah wakes up to find that she is still in
the strange place in the past.  They tell her she has been sick so she is having thought
problems.  Shmuel discusses his upcoming wedding. She tells him that she is from New
Rochelle and her Hebrew name is Chaya. Yitzchak, the butcher, comes
by with his children to help prepare for the wedding.  Gitl is irritated with him for
leaving the children in the wagon.

Chapter 6- Hannah is
given a green dress to wear to the wedding.  She learns that she had spent ten weeks in
the hospital.  She is greeted by other relatives.  Hannah tells them about her life. 
The others think that they are stories to entertain.  She tells them about the movie
Yentil.

Chapter 7- On the way to the
wedding Hannah tells more stories about movies.

Chapter 8-
People emerge out of the woods to head for the wedding.  Hannah meets the bride to be. 
As they draw nearer to the synagogue they see automobiles and German soldiers.  Hannah
realizes that the soldiers are Nazis and she panics trying to tell the others.  The
Rabbi tells her that there are not 6 million Jews to be
killed.

Chapter 9-  Hannah is aware of their fate.  The
Nazis do not let the wedding party enter the synagogue.  Instead, the wedding party is
placed on trucks.  The bride still has on her wedding dress.  Hannah tries to tell the
others about the Nazis and what they will do.

Chapter 10- 
They have all been taken to the train station.  They are loaded onto trains after their
possessions have been taken.  Hannah keeps talking about the information that she
recalls about the Jews in Nazi occupied Europe.

Chapter 11-
They are unloaded at the work camp.  Men and women are separated. A dead baby is torn
form her mother's hands and tossed aside.  They are forced to undress and their hair is
shaved off of their heads.  They are sent to the showers.  Hannah is scared because she
knows the showers could man death.

Chapter12- They sit on a
bench naked for a long time.  Then they are given clothing. They are ragged and worn.  
She learns that she is wearing a dress that belonged to another Jewish man's daughter. 
Everyone is tattooed with a number on their arm.  They are shown the smoke that comes
from the ovens and told that it is Jew
smoke.

Chapter 13- The women are lied up and
inspected in order to be assigned their duties.  They are given some soup and bread. 
They have been starved for a longtime so even the little bit of soup feels good. 
However, they try to remain strong.

Chapter 14- Hannah
meets Rivka and learns that the girl’s parents have been killed.  Rivka has been in the
camp for over a year and learned tricks to survive.  She gives them their
everything bowls. She meets with the girls ad tells them her
secrets for surviving.   Rivka discusses that living in the camps is the Devil’s
game.

Chapter 15- Hannah learns that when a certain officer
comes to inspect the camp, the children run into the trash pile and hide so they won’t
be chosen to be put to death.  The rabbi is hospitalized and his son has been badly
beaten.

What are three of the most important events in the book The Witch of Blackbird Pond?

Three most important events of Witch Blackbird Pond.  Kit’s arrival in New England would the first, and this even would include her reactions to the place, meeting her new family, trying to share her clothes, and Matthew’s stern reaction to that.  This is significant because it provides crucial information about character and setting and establishes the conflicts that follow.  The second important event would be meeting Hannah, the “witch,” for she changes Kit’s outlook on life, connecting her to the sensuous natural beauty of her home in Barbados and in this way giving her a “home away from home.” This event introduces Hannah as the main symbol of the novel, a kind woman misunderstood and branded as “witch” because of being different, an “brand” which increases her outsiderness. Even though she remains on the margins of that community, however, she remains good and kind and teaches Kit how to be the same. The third event would be Kit risking her own life and reputation to save Hannah, doing what is wrong in the eyes of the community but what, in her heart, she knows is right. This results in the community naming her as witch, too, and propels the resolution of the novel.

At the end of the book Wiesel describes himself as a corpse. In what way did he die during the holocaust? night by elie wisel

Elie Wiesel, like many of the other survivors of the
concentration camps, were physically starved.  Their figures were nothing more than a
skeletal frame with skin on it when the camps were liberated.  In this sense Eli
physically resembled a corpse.

Mentally more things than
just Elie's body died.  His faith in God died away as he watched over and over the
horrors around him, experienced the inhumane treatment at the hands of the Nazi's, and
found no comfort from God.  He had been very spiritual before and longed to study more
and more about God, but after watching the young innocent boy hang, he stopped believing
in God because he could find no answers.

Elie's role as a
son also died away.  He had two parents and relatives when he went into the camps.  When
he came out his family had all been murdered.  In addition, he felt he had lost himself
as a son to his father because he had not stood up and helped his father and at times
wished he were not there to burden him.

Elie also died
because he was no longer the person he had been before he went into the camp.  His
experiences had changed him so dramatically and the changes of no longer having his
family or a place in his homeland left him with the need to rebuild his life and self as
a concentration camp survivor.

In chapter 9, why do Ralph and Piggy join the dance?

Ralph and Piggy join the dance because they are succumbing to their own weakness, exhaustion, and loneliness. A storm is coming, they are alone , and are tired of trying to keep the others from siding with Jack's tribe.

The fire and roasting pig are strong incentives for the pair, and weakness takes over, and they go. They are tired and hungry, and for a time , just want to quit resisting , and let someone else take care of them.

As the storm builds, the boys are ordered to dance. The excitement even affects Ralph and Piggy , so they dance until Simon makes his appearance.

The novel Wide Sargasso Sea is an answer or a reply to another novel. What was that novel, and what is the importance of this reply?

Wide Sargasso Sea is a response to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.  It is important because it presents a completely different perspective of the character of Edward Rochester's first wife. It also explores issues of postcolonialism and specifically the relationship between the West Indians and the English in the post-emancipation Caribbean, exposing the attitudes which allow the domination of one race over another. 

In Jane Eyre, Rochester's wife Bertha is depicted solely as a madwoman, subhuman, a dangerous and promiscuous monster locked away in the attic, and Rochester as the innocent and unhappy victim of an arranged marriage.  In Wide Sargasso Sea, Bertha is called Antoinette, a real person with needs and motivations for the things she does.  A child of mixed race, Antoinette has been an outcast all her life.  Although her marriage with Rochester is indeed arranged by others, it is his rejection and revulsion to her sensuality and mixed heritage which drives her to the brink of insanity. 

what is thoreau's opinion of life?

Thoreau believes that nature, humans, and God are united and that God is found in everything in nature and in people. He believed that in order for humans to experience God within themselves, they needed to go and spend time in nature. There he finds solitude and peace, away from the people in the cities who want to own things and be rich. Thoreau feels the activity in the cities deprives us of our spirituality, and one must go back to the solitude of nature to get it back. Thoreau also believed that people don't need buildings and priests and books to know God since God is within each person. He wrote, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

In "The Tyger," is the tiger portrayed in a negative, positive, or neutral light?

The tiger in Blake's "The Tyger" is presented in such a
way that none of the choices you offer--negative, positive, or neutral--really
fits. 

"The Tyger," from Songs of
Experience, and its companion poem, "The Lamb," from Songs of
Innocence, present opposite sides of the same existence, opposite sides of
the same creator, and opposite perspectives of the same existence.  Thus, the tiger is
not negative, not positive, nor neutral--it just is. 

Blake
did not believe in dichotomies; he did not believe in good and evil in the traditional
sense.  The world is not simplistic and neither are people.  Existence cannot be labeled
or categorized.  Human beings are not completely good, or completely evil, and
neither are the creator or nature.

The lamb represents
innocence and an innocent perspective.  The tiger represents experience and an
experienced perspective.  Neither is good or bad,
or negative or positive--the lamb and the tiger just are.  That's just the
way it is; that's existence. 

Furthermore, the same creator
that made the lamb also made the tiger.  And if he can make two creatures so opposite,
then the opposites that exist in the creatures, must exist in the creator, as
well.

Look at the reverence and awe revealed in the stanza
that opens and closes the poem:

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Tyger, Tyger, burning
bright,

In the forests of the
night;

What immortal hand or
eye,

Could frame thy fearful
symmetry?

The tiger burns
bright in the forests at night, and it takes some kind of immortal to create this
beast.  But there's nothing evil here.  A tiger isn't evil.  A tiger is a predator that
kills to eat.  Tigers don't kill for fun, people do that.  The tiger is presented with
reverence and awe. 

Also, the "Did he who made the Lamb
make thee?" line is a rhetorical question.  The line is the conclusion to everything in
the poem that's come before it, and makes the point that yes, the same creator that made
this fearful beast also made the lamb.  That is the
point. 

Just to be practical, if your assignment requires
you to choose between the three choices you mention, I'd suggest using
positive, even though, again, the tiger is just a fact of life, or
of existence.  But positive is certainly more accurate than either of the other two
choices. 

I am writing an essay on sameness and am having trouble with the thesis statement.I want to take the position against sameness, and I need 2...

The first thing you need to do is figure out why you are against sameness. Is it the loss of individuality? The lack of personal expression? One of the reasons why I would not want everyone to be the same is because it implies that someone else is in control and making choices about what is ok for you and what is not. Think of all we would lose if we could not express individuality. Would there be music? Would poetry not be written anymore? Could we root for our favorite team or wear our team's colors? Do some more thinking on the subject, and I'm sure you'll do fine.

Another thing, I know teachers say that you need to have some kind of "hook" to draw readers into your essay. My feeling is that if you express your beliefs in a clear and convincing way, you won't need to resort to using tricks; besides most of those "hooks" end up sounding a little corny!

What is the significance of the Dave Singleman story to this play?

In Act 2 of Death of a Salesman we find Willy Loman trying to convince Howard Wagner Jr, his boss, to allow him to take a desk job that would at least give him 50 dollars a week to be able to support the family.

By this time, Willy had already negotiated other ways to change his job, which Howard Wagner continued to ignore. As a last resort, Willy tells the story of David Singleman, a man after whom Willy wanted to design his life.

David Singleman is pivotal character because Willy had almost decided to join his brother and find his father when he suddenly meets Singleman in the Parker House.

His name was Dave Singleman.And he was eighty-four years old, and he’d drummed merchandise in thirty-one states.

Willly goes on to say that David was unlike any other salesman because he would call his buyers and finalize sales from his room without even leaving. David was 84 and, when he died, everybody attended his funeral. Unfortunately, Willy felt that he could have managed to copycat the life of another person just because he liked what he saw.

Willy preferred the idea of quick money and being well-known. He made that his own American Dream. We all know that this was perhaps not the best decision that he has ever made. Twice Willy’s brother had proposed to go away to make a fortune. Willy declined each time. He truly wanted to attempt the David Singleman formula.

in this story how is Zaroff civilized and how is he not?

Zaroff presents somewhat of an oxymoron. While being an extremely “civilized” higher class man in the sense that he is familiar with aspects of high culture, he gives a different meaning to the word civilized not the one most cultures see it as today.

“I have electricity; we try to be civilized here.”

In most cases civilized relates to social order by treating others well and following laws. The General sees the term civilization as keeping up with time and its technology. He believes that men are no more important than animals, if they are able to be hunted than they will be hunted.

In"52" Derek Walcott's lines "because we serve English, like a two-headed sentry/guarding its borders? No language is...

In my opinion, there is both personification and a caesura
in these lines from Walcott's poem.

I think that there is a
caesura in the lines you cite.  The caesura comes when there is the question mark after
borders.  At this point, there is a break that is caused by the rhythm of speaking, not
by the meter of the poem.

I think you can also argue that
there is personification here.  I think that the idea that English has borders is a
personification because a language does not have borders.  However, you can argue this
is not personification because English is being compared to a country, not a
person.

So if it has to be one or the other, I'd go with
caesura.

Why do you think Beowulf offers to help a tribe other than his own, in spite of the danger?

The protagonist, Beowulf, in the anonymous,
Beowulf, travels to a distant land to fight a threatening monster
in order to achieve fame and glory.

Like the ancient Greeks
of myth, Beowulf hopes to gain immortality through fame.  His passion is to be
remembered after he dies, and the way to accomplish this is by performing great, heroic
deeds. 

He does say that he's come because it's his duty to
help:

My
people have said, the wisest, most knowing

And best of
them, that my duty was to go to the Danes'

Great king. 
They have seen my strength for themselves. 
(244-246)

And that is
certainly a part of his reason for coming. 

But in general,
Beowulf has his legacy in mind.  He is so worried about his reputation that he even
announces that he will fight Grendel without a sword, since the monster doesn't use a
weapon.  He wouldn't want anyone to think less of him for using a weapon against a
weaponless monster.

Using the theme materialism, how is it shown throughout The Great Gatsby and how can it be related to modern day society?I am doing a power point...

That material acquisitions are of paramount importance to
Jay Gatsby is evident in the scene in which Jay Gatsby stands outside of his house under
the stars as though he wishes the universe to approve as he stares longingly at the
green light on the end of Daisy's pier.

When Jay Gatsby and
Nick go for a ride in his Rolls Royce, that great symbol of material success, the car
assumes mythological proportions.  The fenders are like wings, and the interior is
golden. Gatsby's house is often compared to that of a feudal lord in which luxuries are
on display; with its antiques, and leather-bound books there is the suggestions of a
nostalgia for the life of the British aristocracy.  Fitzgerald seems to suggest that the
wealthy of he era imitated in a superficial manner the old European social system that
they had left behind.

Today, many of the same things are
measures of success and importance:  luxurious cars, elaborate homes, designer clothes,
knowing the right people, etc.

What happened to the occupants of the house?

All family members are dead, because of an atomic war. You can see it in line 31("At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow, which could be seen for miles."). The family consists of 4 members, the two parents and two children. Besides, a dog lives in that house, but died during the plot of that story. So that the one left "living" occupant in that house is the robot mice.

The only thing, which remains to the family are their shadows on the wall.

Can we say that the play Hamlet is an artistic failure? Why or why not?There must be a difference of opinion between T. S. Eliot and other critics.

TS Eliot’s explanation of why Hamlet is an artistic failure provides a language to interpret works of literature in general.  He says “The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.”  In other words, the “objective correlative” in Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” for the emotion of guilt and remorse is the shooting of the albatross and the supernatural occurrences that follow, as well as the “eye” of the mariner as he tells his story.  Eliot argued that Hamlet lacked an “objective correlative” for Hamlet’s angst, that it was, so to speak, “over the top.”  “Objective correlative” is more than motivation, however, it is more of a metaphor (perhaps extended) that embodies the emotion the literature in question seeks to convey.

What actions are required by nurses when the patient reports an allergy? I am particularly interested in documentation and identification.

It is incumbent on the health care team to identify
patient allergies.  Actions on the part of the nurse would include the
following:

1.  Read the admission history and physical to
seek and identify patient allergies.

2.  Question the
patient yourself about allergies.

3.  Ensure that any
allergies are clearly marked on the outer cover of the patient’s chart.  It is also
safest to have the allergy indicated on the patient’s
bracelet.

4.  Make use of the bar code on the patient’s
bracelet to identify the patient during every encounter such as drawing blood or giving
medications/injections.

5.  During these encounters, ask
the patient to state their name.  Do NOT ask the patient, “Are your Mrs. Jones”.  A
confused patient might give an affirmative answer even though she is actually Mrs.
Smith.

6.  As you are about to give the medication, ask the
patient if they are allergic to that medication or similar medications.  Be sure to use
common names for the mediation that the patient would
recognize.

Although your question seemed to be limited to
patient identification and documentation of allergies, the following suggestions
regarding the nurse’s activity when allergic reaction occurs may be of
interest.

1.   If the patient is having an allergic
reaction, the nurse should immediately discontinue any medication that is being given at
the moment (such as IV medications or blood
transfusions).

2.  Report the possible allergic reaction to
the physician and note the reaction in your nurse’s
notes.

3.  Call for help if the reaction is severe or life
threatening.

4.  Institute treatment when appropriate which
could range from antihistamine such as Benadryl, use of adrenaline (epinephrine) or, in
severe reactions, life support measures such as intubation or
tracheostomy.

Your question is a good because it recognizes
that the commonest cause of adverse allergic reaction due to medication is from failure
to properly document the patient’s allergy, and/or correctly identify the
patient.

How does The Merchant of Venice illustrate the theme of appearance versus reality?

To address the question of how the Merchant of Venice deals with the theme of appearance versus reality, start by reviewing the play. To be specific, look at the following things:

Look at how Antonio acts towards Shylock when talking directly to him, versus how he acts when Shylock can't hear him.

Then do the same for Shylock. What does he say privately, versus publicly?

Then, consider Portia. She dresses up like a man, changing her appearance, in order to change reality. Look at that section.

Then look at the discussions of the laws. What do they mean--and what are they interpreted to mean?

Then look at which chest is considered the right choice, versus which one different people choose. There is a conflict there between appearance and reality.

Remember this line from the play: All that glisters is not gold.

What were the terms of the Civil Rights Act of 1875?

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was later declared
unconstitutional in 1883 by the Supreme Court. It stated that all Americans were equal,
regardless of race, as far as public accommodations and facilities were concerned. This
included places such as restaurants, theaters, public transportation, etc. It also
protected the right to serve on juries.

Later, in 1896, the
fight for civil rights continued in a case known as Plessy vs. Ferguson.
The Supreme Court ruled it constitutional for blacks and whites to have
separate railway cars as long as the accommodations provided were
equal.

Here is a portion of the Civil Rights Act of
1875:

Be it
enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall
be entitled to the full and equal and enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages,
facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and
other places of public amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations
established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless
of any previous condition of
servitude.

In chapter 2 of Hunger for Memory the author asks, "How did I manage my success?" What does that mean?

We normally think that once we become successful, we "have made it," and that success in itself takes care of the problems of life:  we feel secure in who we are, people admire us for our accomplishments, we make an impact on the world. Rodriguez reminds us that success is, in itself, not successful--it is how we use our accomplishments to understand our world and our lives that constitutes our real success. A bi-cultural identity always necessitates negotiation between both cultures that compose the individual; one needs to give meaning to the other to forge an integrated self. Rodriguez's difficulty is accomplishing that:  enabling his success in the Anglo world to give meaning to rather than alienate him from the other parts of his identity and what might constitute success there, that Hispanic part of his identity that connects him to his family and history.

In "The Scarlet Letter," chapters 11 and 12, what did Pearl ask Reverend Dimmesdale?

Pearl asks Dimmesdale if he will stand upon the scaffold during the day with her mother and herself.  To do so would be for Dimmesdale to confess.  It is Pearl throughout the novel that goads Dimmesdale into revealing his sin, and it is to her at the end that he turns when he finally does, looking for forgiveness.  At this point, however, Dimmesdale shrinks from the question.

What are the main points raised in Barthes' the death of the author and from writer to text?

This is part of the general
Deconstructive/Post-structuralist project: that is to decenter the source of meaning, to
show the multiplicities of meaning and interpretation. For Barthes (or Derrida), there
is no source: there's only destination. 

When Barthes says
the "birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author," he means that
the meaning of a literary text (or any writing really) is not limited to the Author's
intent. Previous historical understanding of an Author are: 1) the Author as a
communicator, a poet, or a shaman, one who is a conduit of some Truth from God or
Nature, and 2) the Author gives birth to a text, creates it; thus, all understanding of
a text ultimately leads back to the Author, the Creator of the text and therefore, its
meaning. 

Notice that Author is capitalized in this essay
and "reader" is not.  This is because previous conceptions of the Author are similar to
God in creating.  If the Author has that kind of "author-ity" over a text, the meaning
of the text is only of His/Her doing.  Writing is the medium and the reader is just the
passive receptacle for drinking in information the way a computer is programmed to
perform functions. 

Barthes sees the author in a different
light. For Barthes, the Author (and the modern New Critic who is more like a shaman
trying to understand that Ultimate, Transcendental Signified Meaning of the Author/God);
the Author is not the origin of the text's meaning. Barthes replaces the word Author
with scriptor.  The scriptor does not precede the text as an all-powerful
Author/Mother/God-Creator would.  The scriptor is simultaneous with the text as if
he/she were a character him/herself.  The scriptor, with respect to a text, is more like
an interpreter of history and culture, or like a chemist who takes chemicals
(analogously, ideas) and mixes them together: the result is the text/mix. Then he shows
what he's mixed to the reader.  What is the point of the mixture(text)? The point(s) or
meaning(s) are not limited to, or originating from the Author(scriptor). The reader, the
destination, is where the multiplicity (freedom) of a text's meaning is manifested.  The
reader(s) has the power to read the text in various ways; to limit the meaning to just
one Original Creator(Author) is not really a slight on God; rather, the limiting of that
meaning would be like saying, 'as soon as the text is created, it ceases to grow because
the meaning is 'fixed' and is only attributable to the Creator."   - As if the Author
were a parent, the text his child and the Author spent his entire life being the Only
influence on the text/child, therefore making it impossible for the child to grow or
interact with others (readers). 

But for Barthes, the
scriptor is not like a parent and the text is not like a child. Thus the meaning(s) of a
text is not limited to either.  The child is the reader.  "The birth of the reader must
come at the death of the Author." In a twisted but logical sense, the reader gives birth
to a text by reading it. The reader liberates it (and him/herself) by not limiting it to
some Original meaning.  This is part of a general philosophy that a reader or student is
not some passive vessel waiting to be programmed but an active participant in the
construction of meaning and history. 

What is the meaning of the title, "Nectar in a Sieve"

The title refers to the precariousness of life.  "Nectar" is the drink of the gods:  it is sweet, rich in nutrition, and in general refers to any delicious or invigorating drink. But what happens when put in a sieve?  It of course leaks through into the ground or what ever else is beneath it, but once it leaks through the sieve, it no longer has the power to give joy and vigor.  Such is the life of the protagonist:  it is rich but very precarious.  The rice she grows is constantly threatened by monsoons or other disasters, yet she loves it and loves to run her fingers through it for it represents life itself.  Thus, nectar is equated with rice which is equated with life, and the sieve constitutes all those things that make the nectar (rice, life) difficult to hold onto.

What is "The Age of Innocence" about?

The novel is about how individuals tackle the status-quo of New York society in the late ninetenth century.  The reader is presented with a series of characters, which when placed against eachother create such a paradox it is impossible to miss.  For a woman to question her "place" in society was unthinkable during the ninetenth century.  This does not mean it did not happen.  Wharton is brillant in her creation of Newland, May Welland his intended, and the Countess Olenska.  It is through these characters that Wharton questions the social status-quo between men and women.  There are several minor characters that she uses to give the story more depth, but more so to add to her commentary.  Ultimately the novel asks the bold question without actually asking it...if something is so important to you do you "rock the boat" or do you conform to what is expected of you.  We must remember in answering this question the cost is going to be high, no matter what the outcome.  Wharton's novel pushes the reader to confront a difficult topic, and in doing so allows the reader to assess their own truth.

What did Father want to do about the newchild?

The first answer does not say anything wrong, but I wonder
if you are not asking about what Father wants to do with Gabe late in the
book.

At that point (it's p 164 in my copy, Chapter 21),
Father wants to release Gabe.  As the first answer says, he had brought Gabe home to try
to get him to be less fussy.  But it hadn't worked.  Gabe had been given to a family on
a trial and he cried all night.  So even Father has voted to release
him.

When Jonas finds out that father wants to do that, he
takes Gabe with him when he leaves.

So my answer would be
that Father wants to release Gabe, the newchild.

Please give me an analysis of the poem "Aids" by May Sarton.critical analysis and explanations

May Sarton's poem about Aids addresses the limitations
that love has in a person's life.  When one grows up one assumes that love can conquer
everything life throws one's way.  However, when a person has AIDS the doors to love are
often closed as people turn away from the disease in fear. 

May uses a lot of imagery in her poem to help one
visualize the experience.  She also repeats words in order to emphasize
meaning.

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"Intention/ Here can neither move nor change/The
raw truth" (lines 4-6).

In
order to be able to be there for the person one must accept the disease and what comes
with it.

"a
new dimension/ Of love, a more demanding range/ Where despair and hope must intertwine"
(lines 2-3)

These lines
express the new level love must arrive at in order to help the
person.

"Death
is on the line" (line 6)

The
previous line throws itself at the reader so the reader will see the risk and what is at
stake.

"Our
world has never been more stark/ Or more in peril. It is very lonely now in the dark/
Lonely and sterile" (lines
11-14)

The author is trying
to convey that there is a need for hope in the middle of the tragedy.   The author uses
the word lonely repeatedly to place emphasis on the
feeling.

Yet, her intent in the end is to convey the sense
of hope that still exists.

What can the reader infer from the two Indian-head pennies?Chapter 4

The children have no idea where their treasures come from.  They find them in the tree and take them, assuming that the treasures are left there for them but with no real proof of this.  However, the gift of two pennies does provide that proof for the reader.  Whomever is leaving the items must be clearly targeting the Finch children - the two Finch children, as well as the only two children on the street.  This lets readers know that the gift-giver has some knowledge of the children, as if he is watching them and providing things he knows they will enjoy.

In 'To the Lighthouse', what are the major motifs/symbols? And what are the concerns of the novel?

If you look at the very beginning of the novel, one of the
symbols is the lighthouse itself.  Because of the fact that it is solid and unchanging,
unlike the weather (which the father is particularly concerned with) it can act as a
goal, something for people to reach out to in the midst of so many of life's
uncertainties.

Another symbol, in some ways, is the
marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay as it mirrors that of Woolf's parents own marriage. 
Their respect for each other's ambitions as well as the particular cares they have about
certain issues is well evidenced and is very similar to the reputation of Woolf's
parents.

For the concerns and themes of the novel, the
guide below is fantastic, but one of the main ones, as in most literature about that
time, is the impact of WWI on not only the political and economic climate but also the
psyche of the characters themselves.

How do the Nazi's portray the Jews?i know the answer to my question but I just want a answer that is very strong and intelligent. thank you

It seems the most successfull lie of the Nazi's was to
portray the Jews as the enemy.  Propoganda posters and videos (especially those shown to
the HJ - "Hitler Youth") showed Jews as liars and cheaters who were both money and power
hungry.

The most pervasive message was one of "Be afraid. 
Be very afraid."  Germans were made to fear the Jews and what would happen to their
country's identity, economy, wealth and government if the Jews were to gain too much
power.

I truly think many German teenagers actually
believed the threat of the Jews was not only real, but worth fighting for.  This is how
Hitler brainwashed an entire nation.

Could someone please make a sentence with sepulcher.

It depends how you are using this word. Shakespeare used
it as a verb, but we seem to understand it as a noun.

It
directly mean to bury, according to Shakespeare. However, I could
easily see it used as burial, or burial
location.

Here's how I would use it each
way.

The serial killer had to
sepulcher each object with any DNA connecting him to the
murder in order to hide the evidence of his crime.

The
sepulcher was off the dirt road, down the hill and across a
dreary churchyard strewn with tombstones and decaying
flowers.

See if those work for you.

In book 6 from The Odyssey, does Nausicaa believe her parents will help Odysseus? Why or why not?

Yes, Nausicaa believes her parents will help Odysseus. There are several reasons for this.

 First and most generally, the Greeks believed in the obligation of the host to the guest. This was called "xenia," and they took it very seriously. Odysseus is a guest.

Second, Odysseus is very wily. Even in their short encounter, he may have shown himself charming.

Third, Athena makes him appear like a god. These people were very status conscious.

Fourth, and perhaps more hypothetical, she's of a marrying age, and he's a godlike male. Perhaps she'd charm Daddy?

What is the basic difference between a Jewish person, a Catholic person, and a Christian person, they all worship the same God, but in different ways?

There are some other key differences in addition to and
more specifically than those listed above.

1)  Jews believe
that Abraham was the last prophet sent by God, and that The Prophet will come again, but
Jesus was not him.  They are still waiting for the Second
Coming. 

2)  The Jewish Bible, the Torah, is basically the
first five books of the Old Testament.  The parts of the Christian Bible after that are
not believed in or subscribed to by Jews.

3)  Jews
celebrate some different religious holidays, for example, they obviously do not
celebrate Christmas or Easter, but they do observe the Passover as Christians
do.

4)  Catholics also believe very strongly in the idea of
absolution of sin.  That those who confess their sins can be forgiven by God through a
Priest on Earth.  The Catholic Church is much older, and has a single religious leader,
the Pope, while other Christian denominations like Lutherans and Baptists do not. 
Catholics also believe in sainthood. Catholicism is one sect of Christian
religions.

What is the overall theme and message of The Da Vinci Code?

I think the theme will vary in the eyes of the reader. Many people saw this as an anti-Christianity story because it made attacks on the church. However, religion and church are two different things. What decisisions some people may make, good or bad, should not be reflective of all members of the church. According to the story, there were only a few involved in this corruption and those few did believe they were doing the right thing.

The idea of codes and was very interesting because it showed what facts and revelations are right under our noses that we do not even know to look for them or how to understand them. It is as though we have the power to find all the answers but we are not yet ready to do so. 

I think the strongest aspect is faith. Every main character has a strong faith in this story and each feels he is in the right.

In the Cask of Amontillado, what part did betrayal and deception play in Fortunato's demise in regards to friendship?

While I agree that Montresor is unreliable and betrays Fortunato, there is one moment that suggests some betrayal of Fortunato towards Montresor:

I broke and reached him a flagon of De Grâve. He emptied it at a breath. His eyes flashed with a fierce light. He laughed and threw the bottle upwards with a gesticulation I did not understand.

I looked at him in surprise. He repeated the movement - a grotesque one.

"You do not comprehend ?" he said.

"Not I," I replied.

"Then you are not of the brotherhood."

"How ?"

"You are not of the masons."

"Yes, yes," I said, "yes, yes."

"You ? Impossible ! A mason ?"

"A mason," I replied.

"A sign," he said.

What happens here is that Fortunato has made a sign associated with the Brotherhood of Masons, an society of men going back many centuries.  Fortunato realizes that Montresor has not recognized the sign and thus questions him about it.  Montresor says he is a mason, but he is obviously lying.  Fortunato's reply, however, reveals some betrayal of his true feelings towards his "friend".  He clearly feels superior to Montresor by saying "You?  A mason?  Impossible?"  So why treating Montresor as a friend, he betrays this friendship by assuming he himself (Fortunato) is more superior.

In Lord of the Flies, what is the significance of the chapter title "Fire Mountain"? What does it foreshadow?

Fire is an important symbol throughout the book. Fire can be a good or a bad thing, depending on whether it is kept controlled. This is representative of the boys as well. In this chapter, Chapter 2, the boys try building their first rescue fire on top of the mountain. The fire gets out of control, and the system of order the boys started also breaks down, getting out of control just like the fire. The breakdown of organization parallels the introduction of the "beast", introducing fear into the minds of the boys. This is the beginning of chaos on the island. The fire becomes a symbol of the power of brute force. Uncontrolled, the result is destruction.  The end of the chapter ends grimly since one of the small boys is presumed to have died in the fire. The boys learn that fire is power; used unwisely, it can only lead to death and destruction.

What is the the cause and the results of the Battle of the Cowshed in Animal Farm?

The previous human owner of the Manor Farm, Mr. Jones, had
never given up hope that he would reclaim his property from the animals. So, Jones and
his men, "with a half a dozen others from Foxwood and Pinchfield," prepared to take back
the farm. Jones carried a gun, but the others were armed only with sticks. But the
animals were waiting. Snowball launched an attack, first with pigeons and then geese.
After the men scattered the fowl, they became overconfident, Snowball sent in another
group of animals, led by Boxer, and within five minutes the men had scattered. One man
was injured, and one sheep died. The animals had won the Battle of the
Cowshed.

What happens when Reverend Hale states that Abigail has always seemed false to him?

Not only is Hale dismissed by Danforth, but at that moment the girls go full fledged into their hysteria witchcraft act, accusing Proctor.  Abigail begins the hysteria with a weird scream and the other girls join in.  I believe that Abigail was threatened by Hale's remark and wanted to divert attention from him.  Furthermore, since she now perceives that her plan to gain Proctor by accusing his wife was not going to work, she wants to gain revenge by accusing him.  By the time Hale is able to get another word in, the moment is lost.  Any chance he had of being heard by Danforth was over once the girls started their act.

In "The Poisonwood Bible," what is the connection between Leah Price and her resentment towards the Bible?

Leah's resentment of the Bible is a complicated matter and is based on many factors.  Overall, the most powerful cause of her resentment of the Bible is that her father's faith leads him to make decisions that cause major negative impacts in her family members' lives and forces her to recognize the flaws in her father, whom she has previously idolized. 

Because Leah is a true "Daddy's girl", and sees him as a heroic figure, the realization that his decisions and views are not those that will best serve to protect his own family, including her, she becomes resentful toward that which causes him to form those decisions and views:  the Bible.  Leah's father's failure to act as protector of his family after bringing them into a challenging, and often dangerous, environment based on his spiritual calling is the downfall of his family.  When Leah recognizes that her father does not have much, if any, desire to minister to his family's needs, she realizes that his faith is what is burdening and harming her family.

What characters display guilt in Shakespeare's Hamlet? What are the quotes that indicate it?

Just as dstuva said so well above, the most guilty
individual in the play is King Claudius. Although he never comes right out and says he
is sorry for what he has done, he cannot pray and knows full well that he is a guilty
murderer and despicable liar.

And, yes, Hamlet, too, feels
guilty for not acting with more haste to exact the revenge that his father's ghost so
sorely needs.

But there is one more person who, although
she can perhaps be excused for her weakness, also bears some guilt and feels it. That
person is Hamlet's mother, Queen Gertrude.

After the
play-within-the-play and just after Hamlet spares Claudius' life while he is kneeling in
ineffectual prayer, Hamlet goes to see his mother in her chamber. He is pretty rough
with her and rightly so; she has, out of weakness and ignorance, married her dead
husband's killer. The ghost intrudes on the scene  in order to prod Hamlet to get on
with his revenge, and then Hamlet says to his mother (Act 3, Scene
4):

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HAMLET:

...It is
not madness

That I have utt'red. Bring me to the
test,

And I the matter will reword; which
madness

Would gambol from. Mother, for love of
grace,

Lay not that flattering unction to your
soul

That not your trespass but my madness
speaks.

It will but skin and film the ulcerous
place,

Whiles rank corruption, mining all
within,

Infects unseen. Confess yourself to
heaven;

Repent what's past; avoid what is to
come;

And do not spread the compost on the
weeds

To make them ranker. Forgive me this my
virtue;

For in the fatness of these pursy
times

Virtue itself of vice must pardon
beg

Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him
good.

QUEEN:

O Hamlet, thou
hast cleft my heart in
twain.

And with that last
line, Gertrude, at least in part, admits to some guilt in her actions. She then comes to
believe in her son and his cause and agrees to do her best to, finally, act with honor
and intelligence.

How does Anne Frank respond to imprisonment and loss of personal freedom and rights?The Diary of a Young Girl It's a essay question so it'd be...

In what is considered the most famous passage of
The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne writes of her
courage, saying that she can bear a great deal; she expresses, also, her
optimism:

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It's a wonder that I haven't dropped all my
ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.  Yet I keep them,
because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.   I
simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and
death.  I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever
approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions
and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this
cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again. (15 July
1944)

Anne's youthful
optimism, self-confidence, and imagination pervade throughout her diary.  For instance,
her entry of 2 March 1944 mentions her being in the attic with Margot; although they did
not enjoy their time as Anne had hoped, she positively states, "...still I do know that
she shares my feeling over most things."  One way that she retains these positivie
feelings is by minimalizing her world to the garret where she is confined.  There, she
has generated the relationships that she had when she was free: friendship, a
love-interest, parent-child relations, conflict with elders, and time alone for
introspection with a confidant that she has created in her diary named
"Kitty."

Discuss the problem of injustice that can be found in Frankenstein.

In Shelley's Frankenstein, injustice
is revealed mostly in the character of Victor.  He not only creates a monster and fails
to take responsibility for him, but then acts as judge and jury, condemning him even
after the "monster," as Victor refers to him, tries to talk to him.  And Victor, for the
most part, rejects his creation based on appearance
only. 

Innocents also suffer in the novel.  Justine is
mistakenly condemned for a murder she doesn't commit, and again Victor has a hand in
it.  He not only creates the monster, but knows Justine is innocent and doesn't
interfere.  Elizabeth fights for Justine's life, but Victor does
not. 

Rejected by Victor, the monster, of course, kills
numerous innocent people as well.  Fairness and unfairness are in play from early on in
the novel, beginning with Victor's first rejection of his
creation. 

Injustice caused by Victor is far-reaching in
the novel.

What is the moral lesson of the story, "The Lottery"?

One key theme of "The Lottery" is the danger of tradition and blindly following along. The characters in the story simply follow the tradition of the lottery because that is all they have ever done. They don't quite recall how the lottery started. They don't recall all of the original ceremonies. They just perform it as best they can because it has always been done.

An important character to note here is Old Man Warner. He proudly declares that he has survived 77 lotteries. When some of the younger village members bring up the idea that some other places have given up their traditions regarding lotteries, Warner states: "There's always been a lottery." Clearly just because people have always done something justifies its existence in Warner's eyes.

Certainly the villagers must believe murder and violence are wrong, for the village seems a nice, safe place. The villagers seem rational and peaceful enough too. Yet when Mrs. Hutchinson's 'wins' the lottery, the entire community doesn't hesitate to turn on her. No one - other than Hutchinson herself - seems to question what is happening, even-though one must assume that Hutchinson, as part of the community, has helped stone to death previous lottery winners.

See the links below - especially the last one - for more info.

In chapter 7 what quote suggest that Victor views the creature as a part of himself?

In Chapter 7 of Frankenstein, I think
this is the quote you are looking for:

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I revolved in my mind the events which I had
until now sought to forget: the whole train of my progress towards the creation; the
appearance of the work of my own hands alive at my bedside; its departure. Two years had
now nearly elapsed since the night on which he first received life; and was this his
first crime? Alas! I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, whose delight
was in carnage and misery; had he not murdered my
brother?

And perhaps this one
too:

My tale
was not one to announce publicly; its astounding horror would be looked upon as madness
by the vulgar. Did any one indeed exist, except I, the creator, who would believe,
unless his senses convinced him, in the existence of the living monument of presumption
and rash ignorance which I had let loose upon the
world?

This is a case of
metonymy and synecdoche: Victor uses phrases like "rash ignorance" and "the appearance
of the work of my own hands" and "my tale" and "its astounding horror" as substitutions
for both the monster (his creation) and a part of himself, his dark side or
alter-ego.

Indeed the monster is the product of Victor's
morbid thoughts, the sum work of his journal, and his own fears.  It's as if the monster
is an overgrown murderous child, an Id run wild.  The monster is indeed Victor's
doppelganger, his ghostly twin who has come to haunt his family as
revenge for abandoning him and not making him a mate.

What are the differences between Julia and Winston in their understanding of the “Party”?Part 2

Julia cares more about having fun and enjoying her life (her little trists with all her man-friends) than she cares about bringing down the Party.  If fact, Julia thinks Winston's ideas about rebellion and his faith in the Proles is a silly waste of time.

Winston is obssessed with the past (the paperweight,the old songs, books, pens, inventions) and the beauty of the way things were before the Party took over and subjected everyone to their overly controlling rules and laws.  The Proles, to Winston, are an excellent example of this.  They are free enough to sing and enjoy life beyond the stifling control of the Party--it is with these people who can love, sing, move around and speak with whomever they please that Winston puts his faith.  They are the ones who will rebel and overthrow the Party.

They both rebel in their own way, but they do not have the same ideas about how that should occur or what should happen once the Party no longer exists.

When driving along parked vehicles, how far away should you be from any parked vehicle?

There is no law or rule that answers your question.
Generally speaking, you have to stay far enough away from the cars so as not to hit them
with your car. You also must stay on your side of the road, you can't cross the middle
line of the road just because you are driving along parked cars. Safe driving practices
would dictate that when you are driving in this situation you should slow your vehicle
down to a safe speed. There is always the possibility of course that someone may open
the door of one of the parked cars to exit. You should be prepared for this and be able
to stop your vehicle quickly if the need arises.

What does Polonius want Reynaldo to find out about Laertes’ life in France?The question is in Act 2, scene 1.

First, he wants Reynaldo to find out which Danes are currently in Paris, who they are staying with,  how they are managing it, and what they are doing there. The Danes he speaks of are Laertes' friends. He wants Reynaldo to pretend to know Laertes well enough that these friends will confide in Reynaldo as much information as possible about Laertes. He also wants Reynaldo to, as tactfully as possible, paint Laertes in a bad light to his friends. He is not to cause any huge scandals, but he is to make his friends dislike him, therefore confiding all sorts of information. Polonius wants to know where Laertes is staying, who he is staying with, what he is doing, how he can afford it, how much it all costs, everything he can find out.

The role of economics in national development?With focus in Ghana as country

I do not know anything about Ghana, but I will make some
general observations on this point.  I hope this will be of some use to
you.

Economics is, of course, very important for national
development.  It is impossible to develop as a country if you do not have an economy
that is growing.  A growing economy allows people to get better jobs, make more money,
and set their offspring up to do better than they themseles
have.

However, there are other things that matter a lot for
national development.   For example, politics matter.  A country with an unstable or
corrupt government is not likely to develop well.  Corruption, especially, is a major
issue for many developing nations -- one that makes it hard for them to maintain
economic growth.  Politics in developing nations are often unstable as well, leading to
a great deal of uncertainty for businesses that might want to invest in a given
country.

Once Jonas receives the snow and sledding in The Giver, how does he feel?

When Jonas receives the snow and sledding he has several responses.  First he is surprised.   It was such fun and he had never really experienced that type of fun before.  He also feels bad when he realizes that the Giver no longer has that memory.  He also feels inquisitive.  He has so many questions about the experience. 

After dreaming about the experience that night, he also begins to feel his alienation from his friends.  Heknows that this experience is something he cannot share with them and that it separates him form their lives.

Discuss conflict and characterization in the play Dutchman.

The conflict in this wonderful play by Amiri Baraka is clearly the conflict between Lula and Clay, beginning with her seducing him, her racist comments, and clearly coming to a climax with the stabbing, and ultimate death of Clay.  The racial tension is fraught throughout the play.  Clay and Lulu are the only real characters in the play (the others on the subway play a minimal role), therefore the characterisation that you're looking for much be of them:

Clay is a typical bourgeois black male, so predictably bourgeois that Lula is able to tell his life history by the evidence of his dress (a too-narrow suit coat), his demeanor (decorous, tentative), and his style of speech (middle class, intellectual, full of pretensions). 

The Caucasian Lula is a thirty-year-old femme fatale who alternately seduces and insults Clay. She is a mythical apple-offering Eve to his clumsy and naive Adam. Lula is the embodiment of Western Civilization, seductive and ferociously greedy, relentless, but also psychotic, lonely, trapped by her own cultural identity.

What is a summary that I can write for the movie Sleepy Hollow?

Is your assignment only to watch the movie and write a summary about it? Or is it to compare it to the actual book by Washington Irving? How long does your paper need to be?

I would suggest, if it is an open-ended assignment (where you get to choose what exactly you're writing about), that you compare and contrast the book with the movie. The movie Sleepy Hollow is vastly different from the book, and comparing and contrasting the two would make for a very interesting paper. Be sure, as with all paper, that you have an introductory paragraph in which you let your reader know what exactly your paper is about. Continue with supporting paragraphs - if you compare/contrast, you could have one or two paragraphs about the movie, then one or two paragraphs about the book, then one or two paragraphs describing their similarities and differences. Then end with a concluding, summarizing paragraph.

Be sure to check the links below for more information on both the book and the movie. Both book and movie are entertaining (the book is quite short and should only take about 1-2 hours at the most to read and understand) and should make for an interesting paper to write.  Good luck!

In what ways does Nora change from the beginning of the play The Doll's House to the end?I guess I was just wondering the degree to which Nora's...

For the greater part of the play, Nora is just what her husband wanted. He delights in her flighty, birdlike personality. Nora is the perfect accessory for his career and lifestyle. Nora has kept secrets from him because she feels it is best not to upset him. Torvald is usually unaware of Nora, and in reality, treats her like a fond pet. He pats her head, has silly little names for her, and thinks she is the person he needs her to be.

Once Nora's secrets come out, Nora realizes these things about her husband. She has asked his forgiveness, explained why she took the loan, yet is rejected. Nora realizes that she is not a partner in her marriage, and leaves to establish a real identity for herself, not just that of wife and mother.

Nora finally tired of being little more than a plaything. She realized that she deserved a man who would love and accept her in all circumstances, and clearly Torvald was not that man.

In Chapter 22 of the Kite Runner, what type of langauge does the author use?

The author uses a combination of interior monologue and narration which allows us to experience what Amir is thinking, seeing, hearing, and feeling, from his point of view.  The sentences are short and simply constructed, and become choppier as the action speeds up, allowing us to feel the sense of urgency and pulsing forward motion as the situation becomes more dangerous and culminates in the brutal fight between Amir and Assef.  The language is descriptive and almost impressionistic' using his words sparingly, the author gives us snatches of what Amir perceives during the fight - the crack of his bones breaking, the glint of the brass knuckles, the taste of his own blood - and leaves us feeling as breathless and battered as his character. 

What is the style and tone of Witch of Blackbird Pond?

The author uses a realistic style because the novel is historical fiction. The point of view is most third person limited, for we generally see the action from Kit's point of view. "Tone" is the attitude of the author toward his or her subject, characters, and/or readers. Tone is often produced by diction, imagery, and figures of speech. In her description of the meadows, Speare's tone is not dark but hopeful and romantic for she indicates the possibilities in life. Seldom does the novel criticize the Puritans for whenever she shows the bleakness of their lives she does so through Kit's point of view, which we know is limited in understanding. Sometimes Speare's tone is humorous, and often it is approving.

What is the meaning behind this quote from Hamlet "Goodnight Sweet Prince"? Is it an indication of Horatio's death; is it a suicide?

Horatio certainly does not die at the end of the play, although he does attempt to commit suicide by drinking the last of the poisoned wine in the cup. He tells Hamlet:

I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.
Here's yet some liquor left.

But Hamlet takes the cup away from him, saying:

Give me the cup. Let go. By heaven, I'll ha't!
O God, Horatio, what a wounded name,
"Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!
If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story.

Shakespeare is really mainly concerned about the impression that will be left with his audience. If Hamlet died without leaving someone behind who could explain what had happened from start to finish, the audience would feel somewhat dissatisfied with the conclusion. All the principals would be dead--Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Hamlet. It would look to the courtiers as if Hamlet murdered Claudius and also murdered Laertes with a poison-tipped foil in their duel. But if Horatio remained alive, he could explain everything to the people in the court, to the commoners, and to the new king Fortinbras. Horatio knows everything that happened, including Hamlet's meeting with his father's ghost, which he personally observed. Horatio knows that Claudius was guilty of murdering his brother and seizing his crown and his wife. Horatio witnessed Claudius' behavior at the play within a play, where the king revealed his guilt. What Horatio has not personally observed, he has learned directly from his friend Hamlet. It was therefore essential that Horatio remain alive to leave Shakespeare's audience with a feeling that there was a full and proper closure.

What foreshadowing exists in Frankenstein?Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

In addition to frequent sybolism, as stated in the
previous response, Shelley makes particular use of narration to divulge elements of the
plot. Whenever Victor is particularly positive about a friend or family member, disaster
is just around the corner. In Chapter 18, for instance when Clerval joins Victor, Victor
describes him as "alive to every new scene, joyful when he saw the beauties of the
setting sun, and more happy when he beheld it rise and recommence a new day." No one
this happy lives long in this novel. Another good example is Elizabeth's letter in
Chapter six  regarding "little darling William" and his adorable "little dimples." I her
very next letter, just a few pages later we learn that "William is
dead!"

Shelley reminds us that Victor is
narrating his story to Walden aboard the ship. Often, Victor uses apostrophe ("Oh,
Henry!") and lets us know how terrible he feels about some later tragedy in the story.
Victor has a wonderful memory and is precise about his account of events. It seems that
he cannot help but give us some spoilers along the way, though.

Why does Rainsford agree to play General Zaroff's game?

Rainsford agrees to play General Zaroff's game because he wanted to see if General Zaroff would keep his word and let him go if he survived three days of the hunt.  It is always important to follow the word of a "gentleman and sportsman." I also think that Rainsford wanted to see if he could match wits with Zaroff.  Zaroff says it is like a game of "Outdoor Chess."  It all depends on the moves and how you outmaneuver your opponent, which Rainsford definitely made all the right moves.  Rainsford knew if he didn't agree to the hunt that Ivan would enjoy diposing of him, but I think he felt he had a better chance using his wits to win.

Reference: The Language and Literature Book by McDougal Littell.

why do many Muslims and Arabs hate the government of the United States? Do they hate the American people?

Speculation as to why Muslims and Arabs hate America: I
can't give you answers to your questions, but I can tell you my experience which may
give you some perspective on the issue.

I worked for about
a year in the Saudi Arabian embassy in Wash., DC.

There
were Saudiis there who hated the U.S.  One declared to the Americans there one day that
he hated America and would kill Americans if he could.  There were others who did not
hate the U.S.

The ones who hated were arrogant,
self-righteous, aloof people.  The ones who did not hate were friendly, conversational,
relaxed people.

I suspect the former practiced puritanical
Islam and the second practiced their religion for the moral guidance that it gave to
them.

I think I will make another point: The American
popular culture embraces modernity and opposes tradition.  America is engaged both
governmentally (such as the Iraqi war) and nongovernmentally (such as rock stars and
Hollywood movies) in spreading its modernity all over the world.  There is even a big
cultural "war" here in America between the forces of modernity and the forces of
tradition.  The bulk of Muslims are traditional people, though it seems to me that the
very ones who hate us are the ones who have abandoned much of their traditional ways and
embraced much of the ways of modernity.  I may be wrong.  These are just my
impressions.

What is the meaning of the comment about "the wrong end of [the] little telescope" (paragraph 24)? How is that comment a suitable conclusion for...

The first part of the story presents the women in very narrrow ways, usually from the point of view of each other or, alternatively, from the point of view of a narrator who observes a distance herself (always third person). They are referred to as “the dark lady,” “the other lady, “her companion,” and so on, for they do not know each other at all.  The simile of the telescope makes use of the idea that in looking through the wrong end of a telescope the vision becomes reduced, more narrow, rather enlarged. Such is the view each has of the other.  In the two previous paragraphs, Mrs Slade “refects” that “she felt her own unemployment” more than her friend, suggesting she perceives her self as more important and with greater sensibilities, while Mrs. Ansley thinks “Alida Slade's awfully brilliant; but not as brilliant as she thinks," an equally belittling remark.

What is the plot of The Miller's Tale?

The plot of The Miller's tale is a hilarious lovers triangle between Alsion, her boarder Nicholas and  a parish clerk named Absalom.  The plot is further complicated by the presence of Alison's husband John.  Nicholas and Alsin launch a crazy plot convincing John that there is going to be a flood and that they will die unless they follow his instructions to set up tubs to float away in.  Once John falls asleep in the tubs, the lovers have their tryst.  Contributing to the hilarity, Absalom comes to call and begs for a kiss from Alison, and she complies but not in the way that Absalom expects.  In the end all three of the men look ridiculous in their machinations to have Alison. 

List six important events in 1984, and describe how Winston felt about them.

At the beginning Winston is a man desperate to feel something, anything. The iron grip of the totalitarian party has sucked the life out of Winston. He spends any "free" time he has by sucking back vile Victory Gin to forget about is monotonous inconsequential life. In desperation, Winston buys a contraband diary in a futile effort to feel and record something.

1. Winston buys diary. He does not know what to write or to whom. He does feel an "awakening" of sorts.

2. Winston sees Julia and is deathly afraid of her. He thinks she is most certainly part of the thought police.

3. Winston gets note from Julia. It says "I Love you". Winston feels many intense emotions for the first time.

4. Winston meets Julia and they have "hot loving". Winston feels young again but living on borrowed time.

5. Winston and Julia meet with O'Brien thinking they can be part of some brotherhood to revolution. This is what Winston has dreamed of but never thought possible.

6. Winston was right, it was not possible. Winston and Julia are caught. O'Brien tortures Winston for about four chapters. Winston feels his brain getting fried and all the terror of room 101.

At the end Winston is not really Winston anymore. He swills back Victory Gin and plays chess with imaginary opponents at the Chestnut Tree Cafe. He drools allot and thinks he loves Big Brother.

Is John really freer than the world state members? How is he conditioned in his own way?

This question, like so many others, hinges on what "freer" means.  If you are a determinist/behaviorist, perhaps there is no such thing as freedom, so the question is irrelevant.  You might want to read B.F. Skinner's "Beyond Freedom and Dignity."

To my way of thinking, John is freer because he is aware of a larger range of options than the citizens of BNW.  They know only what they are programmed to know (although the Island indicates that the programming is less than perfect), so there is little to no chance that they are "free."  The real question is "Does John's wider knowledge really provide a wider range of choices than those of the citizenry?"  Does his upbringing give him a seeming range of choices that are easier for us to identify with, but give him a very small range of options because of his "formation"?

I know that he is the character that 'seems' freer, but I'm not sure that he really is.  I do suspect, however, that his version freedom is much more attractive to us than the alternative.

What does Odysseus do to cause the Cyclops to become careless; and when the cyclops asks Odysseus' name, what name does he give?

Odysseus offers the Cyclops three bags of wine.  The
Cyclops drinks the wine without thinking of the possible repercussions of this and
passes out.  This directly allows Odysseus and his men to blind the Cyclops after he
passes out.  Prior to this, Odysseus tells the Cyclops that his name is "Nohbody".  This
works out perfectly later in the story after Odysseus and his men sharpen a tree branch
and stab the Cyclops in the eye.  When this happens, the Cyclops tells the other cyclops
that "Nobody" hurt him after Odysseus and his men stabbed and blinded
him.

What are the details from Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of A Brave New World?Why are some females allowed a normal, sexual development? What...

One of the most important ideas in these chapters centers around the application of the principles of mass production and human reproduction.  The endless references to "Our Ford" remind us of his application of the assembly line to manufacturing.  The first two chapters of the novel take Ford's discovery and link it to birth ... so much so that the trip down the assembly line is made to echo the more "normal" trip through the birth canal.  The normal, if somewhat uncontrolled or random birth process, has been replaced by a totally controlled, totally planned "scientific" process.

This is the Brave New World where nothing happens without a purpose, even though they do not know enough science to make sure it works all the time.  From the very beginning of life, the trip through the imaginary birth canal, control is the main issue.

George Herbert Love III . love bade me welcome ..........please explain and paraphrase this poem ?

This is a love poem, but it is about the love of
God.

Love called to me, yet I was reluctant (my soul drew
back), the author says. What drew him back was the guilt of his sin. But Love (God) drew
him to God again, sweetly, providing for his needs (asking if I lacked anything). He
tells God he is unworthy to even look at Him (I cannot look on Thee), yet God lovingly
took his hand and said, “I was the one that created your eyes!” The poet replies, “Yes,
but I have ruined them” (with his sin), and God replies, “Who bore the blame?” This is a
reference to the Christian belief that Jesus bore the blame for our sins by dying on the
cross. The poem ends by the author telling God that he will serve him, and God inviting
him in to “taste my meat.” This last part is a reference to Christian growth. The Bible
says that when we are new in our faith, we are like children and can only drink milk (we
are only ready for the most basic tenets of the faith), but as we grow and our faith
matures, we are ready to chew on the “meat” of really understanding the
scriptures.

Why is the gang important to Johnny?

Also, the gang protects Johnny.  When he was beaten up by the Socs and left almost dead, the gang were the ones to find him and the ones to care for him.  From that point on, they look out for him.  They prevent each other from doing anything to hurt Johnny's feelings.  Dally turned on Ponyboy, hitting him, when he angrily yelled at Johnny.  Also, they make sure that Johnny doesn't go anywhere alone so that he doesn't get jumped again.

What is the theme of Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts"?What is Auden's attitude toward this theme or what is the tone of this poem?

Poets are visual artists with their imagery just as the
great masters replicate scenes with paint.  W. H. Auden feels  admiration for the Old
Masters which he expresses in his poem “Musee des Beaux Arts.”  The title of the poem
refers to the Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels,
Belgium. 

The painting that Auden refers to is “Landscape
with the Fall of Icarus” by Pieter Brueghel the elder. The painting reflects the myth of
Icarus who made wings from wax and went to fly.  His father warned him not to go to
close to the sun or the wings would melt. Icarus in his enthusiasm goes to close and
falls into the water.  The picture portrays the scene with everyone ignoring the
disastrous fall. The only indication of Icarus’s problem is his legs sticking up out of
the water.

Auden’s poem reflects understanding of mankind
in the paintings of the great artists of the past.  The poet notes that these artists
had a special  intuitive insight into the reactions of man to disaster. He refers to
three different paintings: the painting portraying the birth of Christ; the crucifixion
of Christ; and the painting of the death of
Icarus.

Theme

All of these
great paintings have something in common that the Old Masters
understood: man’s indifference to man.  When there are
paintings that portray the suffering of Christ or his birth, there will be children or
people in the picture who seem not to care what is happening in the rest of the
picture.  People eat and drink, dogs continue to act like dogs, and children continue to
play unconcerned that in the middle of the scene some great tragedy is
occurring.

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…and the expensive delicate ship that must have
seen 
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, 
had
somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on. It turns out that when bad things happen to
people, other people are usually looking the other
way.

In extending this theme
 promoted within the poem, the poet's addresses
the passivity that some people feel with regard to the
suffering of others.  Children may  be expected not to understand the “human condition”
in a tragic situation.  On the other hand, adults who bury their heads in the sand so
that will not have to address the difficulties of other people shows an unacceptable
coldness.  

There are other people who handle others’
sorrows by saying that they are minding their own business are displaying a marked
indifference to their fellow man. A person does not need to be a hero, but he should at
least show some degree of empathy and
assistance.

To add to his theme, Auden
points out that man’s lack of support for another is not a new
issue. Humanity has been  indifferent since ancient Greek times to the
time of Christ to the world today. Disasters, tragedies and sufferings are a part of
life; they happen any time. But life has to go on.

Analyze the way in which the buzz saw is characterized in Robert Frost's "Out,out--.Address the relationship between people and their objects of...

Frost's poem is based on a true incident which is believed
to have happened in April 1915; Raymond Fitzgerald, the son of Frost’s friend and
neighbour, lost his hand to a buzz saw and bled so profusely that he went into shock,
and died of cardiac arrest in spite of the best efforts of the doctor.  Frost’s title
invites us to compare the poem’s shocking story with Macbeth’s speech on learning of his
wife’s death:

The key to understanding the theme of Frost's
"Out, out-" lies in the intertextual reference to Shakespeare's "Macbeth"
Act V Sc.5, where Macbeth soliloquizes bitterly on the futility of life
after he learns of the death of his wife:

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Out, out, brief
candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor
player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is
heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and
fury,
Signifying
nothing.

Frost's poem
ironically comments on the death of a small boy who dies tragically at such a young age
because of an accident when he was sawing wood.  His life is compared to a "brief
candle."

When the boy's sister announces that it's supper
time, the boy is distracted and even before he realizes it the saw has cut off his
hand:

His sister stood beside them in her
apron
To tell them "Supper." At the word, the saw,
As if to prove
saws knew what supper meant,
Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to
leap—

Frost has anthropomorphized
the inanimate object 'saw' by giving it human attributes - 'knew' and 'leaped.' the word
'buzz-saw' itself is an example of onomatopoeia - the buzzing sound of the machine
saw.

The last two lines contain
the message or moral which Frost wants to convey to his readers. Frost's message is that
anything can happen at any time. There is no absolute safety or security for human life.
The next minute is not ours and we may be alive one minute and dead the very next
minute. The only thing that we can do is to go on with our lives. Just because the small
boy died it does not mean that all the others will die in a similar fashion. The death
of the small boy cannot be an excuse for inaction. So, the others continue with their
work and lives even after the death of the boy:

No
one believed. They listened at his heart. Little--less--nothing!--and that ended it. No
more to build on there. And they, since they
Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.

Describe Gunpowder.

Gunpowder is Ichabod Crane's horse.  The old steed has clearly seen better days.  Iriving writes:

He was gaunt and shagged, with a ewe neck and a head like a hammer; his rusty mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral; but the other had the gleam of a genuine devil in it. Still he must have had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder.

Crane's horse may well be a reflection of the man himself:  past his prime a bit short-sighted.  Like his horse, Crane still has some "genuine devil" in him, as his actions reveal.    

In "The Most Dangerous Game," what is the internal conflict of Rainsford/Zaroff and how does it affect them?

Let's take a moment to review what an internal conflict is...  

A conflict is the struggle between two opposing forces.  Stories have external conflicts, like character vs. character / character vs. nature / character vs. society / or character vs. himself (outward things he or she does that hurt him/herself).

However, you are asking about internal conflicts, so let's move on to those.

Internal conflicts occur when a character has a decision to make.  The struggle he/she encounters while deciding what to do is an internal conflict.

I like to tell my students that an internal conflict takes place within a character's heart or head. 

Therefore, when considering "The Most Dangerous Game," the most significant internal conflicts occur 

• when Zaroff decides whether or not to include Rainsford as a peer and fellow hunter of humans or hunt him like he has hunted the other shipwrecked men who have washed up on his island


• when Rainsford has to decide whether or not to join Zaroff in his hunt(s) as a means to save his own life

We can look into each of these further to prove the depth of their internal conflict.

When considering the first example, the reader knows that Rainsford's presence at Zaroff's table presents to the general a very unique and thrilling circumstance.  Zaroff respects Rainsford's famous hunting skills and has read his books. In his mind, he is likely thinking that Rainsford will understand his new hunting technique if anyone will. His internal conflict is evident when the narrator says, 

"But there was one small trait of the general's that made Rainsford uncomfortable.  Whenever he looked up from his plate he found the general studying him, appraising him narrowly."

Why would he be doing this?  Because he is trying to decide whether Rainsford is the kind of hunter who could appreciate the new form of hunting that he has "invented."  If he is, then Zaroff has found an admirable companion for his new sport; if he is not, then Zaroff will have to treat this fellow hunter with the same disdain that he does all the other men who find themselves shipwrecked upon his island.  It is that contemplation--that decision--that is his internal conflict.

When considering the second example, Raisnford converses with Zaroff about his sport for quite a while, mostly because he cannot believe that he has run into such a man. He calls Zaroff's implication that he hunts humans a "grisly joke."  Further, he says he "will not condone cold-blooded murder." In spite of this protest, and probably because it had little effect on Zaroff, Rainsford has trouble sleeping over night.  This evidence suggests that Rainsford has to decide how he will go about saving his own life: should he join Zaroff, though it literally repulses him, as a means to spare himself?  How will he get himself out of this predicament? This struggle is his internal conflict.

The beauty of internal conflicts is in their link to the human condition--we all have moments when we struggle with what to do and/or how to do it. Sometimes it's our heads that cause our angst, and sometimes it's our hearts.  

For more insight into Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game," see the link below.