How were domestic policies affected by American involvement in World War 1?

President Woodrow Wilson instituted policies specific to
WWI during his time in office. Among them
were:

1) The Espionage Act of
1917, and later, the Sedition Act of 1918,
made it illegal to dodge the draft, to aid an enemy nation during the war, and to
interfere in any way with American and Allied war
efforts.

2) Special agencies were established only for the
purposes of the war effort:

a) In 1917, The
War Industries Board was established under the leadership of Bernard
Baruch, a wealthy stock market investor in New York. This board was responsible for
coordinating industrial production during much of the
war.

b) The Food
Administration was established under the leadership of Herbert Hoover,
later the 31st President of the United States. The Food Administration promoted
Meatless Mondays, war gardens, and
Wheatless Wednesdays to help conserve food for the war effort.
Hoover's greatest achievement was in leveraging the efforts of American farmers to
streamline and expand the production of food. As a result of Hoover's efforts, America
produced enough food for the civilian, as well as military populations of the United
States. Additionally, America supplied the majority of the food to European
allies.

c) The Fuel
Administration was established to conserve energy; one of its most
notable efforts was the institution of daylight savings
time.

d) Nearly twenty four million men were drafted and
registered for the war effort based on the href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Selective_Service_Act_of_1917.aspx">Selective
Service Act of 1917. The Selective Service Act required all men aged 18-45 to
register at local polling stations. Wilson's Act allowed the United States armed forces
to match the numbers of those in Axis armies.

e) Unions
promised that its worker members would not go on strike during the war. Therefore, the
labor system achieved nearly full employment and good wages during this
period.

f) The United States' antiquated railway system was
nationalized for the duration of the war in order to facilitate the efficiency of moving
men and weapons for battle.

g) The Committee
Of Public Information was created by Wilson to mobilize public support
for the war and to manage war rhetoric in the United States. The Committee was headed by
George Creel, a journalist.

3) Private Organizations worked
with government agencies to aid in the war effort. The American Protective
League was one such organization. The League worked hand in hand with the
Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation to root out spies and war saboteurs.
However, the href="https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol49no1/html_files/bureaucratic_wragling_2.html">League
suffered from very specific challenges: overzealous private citizens often
overstepped authoritative boundaries, and attributed to themselves powers normally
reserved for CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) officers.

WHAT WAS THE ARMS RACE AND SPACE RACE AND WHY DID BOTH THE U.S.S.R. AND THE U.S. THINK IT WAS SO IMPORTANTFOR WEDNESDAY!!!LOL

Arms race and space race can both be considered to be part
of intense rivalry that developed between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. after the World War II for
domination of world politics.

The arms race concentrated on
developing offensive and defensive equipment of war. Nuclear war heads and long range
weapon delivery system dominated the arms race.

Over a
period both countries realized that this arms race was doing no good to any country. As
a result initiatives were taken to end the arms race. A series of meetings between the
Soviet Union and the United States, took place between 1969 and 1979 in an attempt to
limit the production and distribution of nuclear weapons. These meetings are called
strategic arms limitation talks (SALT). Though provision of the agreements reached
during these talks were never ratified by the USA, the provisions of the agreement have
not been violated. So we can say that the arms race has come to an
end.

Space race also became a part of cold war because
success in space was regarded a measure of a country's leadership in science,
engineering, and national defence.  This led to the two nations competed with each other
in developing their space programmes throughout the 1960's and 1970's. This race made
both nations to put in tremendous efforts in their space program, which perhaps was
influenced by need to demonstrate superiority rather than just achieve scientific
progress.

The space race gradually faded out with
realization of futility of the cold war. By the end of the 1970's, the United States and
the Soviet Union began to pursue independent goals in space. Subsequently some
collaborative programs in space exploration have also been taken by the two
countries.

In Act 3, scene 1, what inference can be made as to Mercurio wanting to fight Tybalt? And what is the dramatic irony?

In the Elizabethan time period, it was thought that a man
too much in love is not actually a man at all, he is "effeminate".  In this scene, Romeo
fights with his two selves - the more manly version that Mercutio knows who would fight
at the drop of a hat and the softer version that Juliet knows who tries to keep the
peace as he does not wish to fight with his new wife's
kinsman.

There is a lot of debate on this subject, but it
can be argued that Mercutio (his name means a mercurial nature) fights Tybalt on Romeo's
behalf both to restore Romeo's manliness and because Tybalt essentially calls him bi or
gay and says he's in love with Romeo.  It can be argued that this makes Mercutio
especially angry because it's true.  The dramatic irony there would be that Mercutio
fights Tybalt so Romeo doesn't look effeminate, but it is actually (according to
Elizabethan sensibilities) Mercutio who is effeminate.

The early leaders in indian nationalism came primarily from which class a.urban elites educated in the west b.labor leaders c. landed peasants...

The closest answer to the question would be
A, Urban elites educated in the
west, although this might not be entirely true. Most of India’s nationalistic
leaders were educated but not all of them got their education in the west. Some of the
notable national leaders include:

Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who
was also known as the Father of Indian unrest by the British. Tilak was a strong
supporter of self rule. He was born in a Chitpavan Brahmin family considered by other
Brahmins as a lower caste. He studied and graduated from Deccan College in Pune,
India.

Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi, known for his non-violent
and civil disobedience activities that helped his country achieve independence, Mahatma,
was born in a merchant caste family and studied law at the Inner Temple in
London.

Abul Kalam Azad, born in a family of scholars and
soldiers in Mecca, was a determined student who mastered six languages. He strongly
opposed British rule in India.

Ghaffar Khan, born to a
prosperous family in Peshawar Valley, he attended the British run Edward’s mission
school. He founded the Khudai Khidmatgar, which was a group of people who came together
to non-violently oppose British rule and oppression.

Other
nationalistic leaders include; Dr. Rajendra Prasad (first President of the Republic of
India), C. Rajagopalachari, K.B. Hedgewar and Jawaharlal Nehru (first Prime Minister of
India).

What factors contribute to Tom's initial refusal?

The factors that contributed to Tom's initial refusal to the Devil are as follows:

Tom didn't want to accept the Devil's offer because he wasn't sure whether he wanted to make his wife happy by getting all the wealth of Kidd, the pirate.  He wanted to  snub her because she has caused him so much turmoil over the years.  His greed and lust for power was great but his resentment for his wife was greater and this was enough to turn the Devil down on their initial encounter.  He is also not afraid of the Devil because his wife has made him so hardened about everything.  The Devil has burnt his signature into Tom's forehead to assure him, that he will keep his word.  Even though Tom doesn't disclose the terms of the sale of wealth, we can guess that he will probably have to sell his soul to get it.

Is Albert Camus' reconstruction of the Sisyphus myth in The Stranger approprate to Meursault's sisuation? How and why?

Scholars often refer to Sisyphus and Meursault as Camus'
Absurd heroes.  Absurd here does not mean silly or even so much the Theatre of the
Absurd often associated with Becket and others.  This is Camus' version of
Existentialism called Absurdism.  Both Meursault and Sisyphus find themselves in
seemingly futile and meaningless situations.  The Absurdist realizes that the universe
is not meaningless but humans are incapable of knowing it.  So, to cope with this humans
have to choose nihilism, false faith, suicide or acceptance.  Camus' Absurdist heroes
Meursault and Sisyphus choose acceptance. They embrace their situation and attempt to
create meaning for themselves.  And in finding meaning, via that search, each must do so
individually.

Camus imagines Sisyphus' tragic walk down the
hill and likes to think Sisyphus, while tragically aware of his hopeless existence,
embraces the futility and with scorn pushes the rock up the hill anyway pretty much in
spite and thus, creates his own meaning.  Meursault, likewise, scorns the priest, the
trial and society in general and chooses being a stranger to stay true to himself as he
also embraces the fact that any real meaning that may come to him, must come from
himself; not from the social mores or laws of society, no matter what destination this
leads him to.  They're both tragic heroes, strangers to everyone but
themselves. 

How do you describe the physical appearance of Prince Prospero?I'm curious because in our short story in class, there's no description. I haven't...

When considering Prospero's appearance, I consider this quote:

"for the prince was a bold and robust man"

This suggests to me a man of good physical condition.  He rushes through the rooms of the house after the intruder comes, with dagger in hand.  This also supports good physical condition. 

I picture a man of average height, broad shouldered and straight backed. 

What is the character of the Duke of ferrara?What is the character of the Duchess?

This is such a complicated but wonderful poem.  The Duke of Ferrara is a very selfish man who considers everything within his grasp "his".  He owns many things...the bronze statue, for instance.  The most important thing he "owns," however, is his last duchess.  She hangs on the wall as if she were still alive--no one sees her unless he approves, otherwise she is hidden behind the curtain for his eyes only.

The Duke is talking the entire time, and he reveals much of his selfish and haughty personality through what he says...and what he does not.  Read between the lines.  He tells the envoy of the New Duchess that he will not tolerate someone who does not live for him entirely.  So warn your man that his daughter better suck up to me or she'll end up on the wall like my last duchess.

The Duchess found pleasure in simple things.  She did not respect his gift of a very old and distinguished name, and she smiled at everyone...not just the Duke.  She appreciated it whend someone brought her flowers or fruit, or showed her any kindness whatsoever.  So, rather than lower himself to tell her that he didn't like this, he gave orders to "stop her smiles" altogether.  We understand that he had her killed.

Some critics read into this that the Duchess was cheating on the Duke, but I think she just enjoyed simple pleasures of life--sunsets and friendly people and juicy peaches, etc. 

what is wltons impression of frankenstein ?

The reader almost immediately recognizes Walton and Frankenstein as versions of one another...Frankenstein is sent to teach Walton the error of his ways so that Walton will learn from the mistakes Frankenstein made and not be doomed to repeat them.

At first, Walton sees Victor as a poor, hapless creature, half starved and very nearly frozen to death.  As he nurses Victor back to health, Victor begins telling him the tale of his life and the pursuit he is making.  Robert realizes that Victor is the intelligent, sensitive, creative, and ambitious person he craved for companionship of whom he wrote in his letters to Margaret.

Robert does learn from Victor and decides to return home when faced with mutiny from his crew.  Victor, however, probably would not have turned the ship around. 

about what do dr.gersholm bulkeley and matthew argue?the class is reading

Dr. Gershom Bulkeley is a Loyalist. As such, he is loyal
to the King of England and upholds the idea of colonial obedience to the crown. He is
rewarded for this loyalty by being made a justice of the peace for the
colony.

Matthew Wood is a colonist whose Puritan ancestors
have been given the right to worship as they wish and settle in the New World to make
his living. These rights were stated in the charter granting Connecticut the freedom to
practice whatever religions the settlers wish to and freedom to be English citizens
living in a colony that is to be self-sustaining. These rights are threatened with a
revoking of the charter, so the colonists steal the charter and hide it to keep these
actions from occurring.

The two are directly opposite in
their political views which will be reflected in the up-coming American Revolution. Even
though the two have a falling out, they remain friendly enough to help out in the time
of sickness and justice.

What is Laertes's advice to Ophelia? At this point in the play do you think he likes or dislikes Hamlet? Explain your answer.the question is in act 1.

Laertes acts as any older brother would for his baby sister.  Although it is hinted at that both Laertes and Hamlet have been "playmates" as young people of noble birth often are, where Ophelia is concerned, Laertes tells her that Hamlet is only interested in her for one thing and that she should protect her maidenhead and her honor by ignoring Hamlet's attentions.

When Laertes is told by Claudius that Hamlet has killed Polonius, Laertes' father, it is obvious that Laertes' feelings toward Hamlet are bitter and full of hatred.  He clearly wants revenge and agrees to plot with Claudius on how to get it.  However, as the duel is under way and Laertes realizes that Claudius is the more evil of the two (especially after Hamlet has made such a nice apology for killing Polonius and asks Laertes' pardon), Laertes has a change of heart toward Hamlet and admits the "villainy is here."  They are both doomed as they have mixed up swords in the duel somehow and they have both been wounded.  The poison will take its toll on both, leaving a long list of dead actors in their wake.  Hamlet kills Claudius, he and Laertes forgive each other, and both of them die.

What are some of Winston's fears in 1984?

Winston fears rats. This is first exposed in chapter 4 during one of his escapades with Julia in the room on top of Mr. Charrington’s junk shop. Julia spotted a rat poking its head from a corner of the room and this terrified Winston to the point of screaming. He then revealed that he feared rats more than anything else in the world. This same fear is what O’Brien eventually used to get Winston to betray his love for Julia. Winston had actually intended to keep his love for Julia in his heart forever but upon transfer to room 101 and additional threats of a cage of hungry rats, he betrayed Julia.

Winston also feared being executed for thought crime. During one instance, he encountered three men who were executed for treason which they allegedly committed during a party function when in reality they were in the same venue as he was during the alleged time of the crime. Winston, noting this experience as real history, had kept their photograph but later threw it into memory hole.

What’s the impact of natural images and descriptions on the narration of the events Lord of the Flies by William Golding

In William Golding's Lord of the
Flies,many of the natural objects and their descriptions are symbolic of more
meaningful objects or ideas.  Of course, the island appears to Ralph at first as a
Garden of Eden noticeably minus the temptation of Eve.  That he strips off his clothes
immediately indicates his feeling of purity as he gazes at the white surf that "flinked
on a coral reef," the dark blue open sea, the sandy beach with palm trees that together
"drew to a point at infinity.  Yet, amidst this openness and beauty there lurks the
creepers that cover the island.  And, there is "the darkness of the forest proper and
the open space of the scar."  As the boys learn, evil is present on the
island.

And, then, there are the rocks, those "objects of
preposterous time."  The pink granite makes a great platform that "thrust up
uncompromisingly through forest. It poses an obstacle to climbing, representing the
ages.  While little Henry plays with the small crustacea on the beach, some of the
oldest forms of life, Roger throws stones, also an ancient symbol, all around him. Later
in the narrative, Piggy, with his pink flesh is dashed against the rocks and his head
smashed, and it is the innately sadistic Roger who commits the
act.

Of course, the fire represents the boys' rescue.  But,
it also is symbolic of power.  Like the mythological Prometheus who steals fire from the
gods and gives it to man, Jack and the hunters steal the fire on the island as they gain
more control, for who holds the fire, has power. After losing the fire to the hunters,
however, the other boys are so excited about moving the fire to the beach that they work
as though in a frenzy.  This descriptive scene indicates their need for
safety.

The descriptions of the boys' mock pig hunt is one
that is pivotal to the narration.  For, with its screams and beatings, it is a prelude
to the real hunt of Piggy and Ralph, a telling description of the inherent evil in the
boys.  And, of course, the scene in which Simon slips away and encounters the Lord of
the Flies is central to the novel's meaning.  Simon stumbles through the undergrowth and
creepers until he comes to an open spot. "He knelt down and the arrow of the sun fell on
him."  When he happens upon the pig's head, it assures him "that everything was bad
business."

Clearly, the images that are often symbolic and
the descriptions that many times foreshadow more serious future events are meaningful
forces for furthering Golding's narrative.

What's formalism, structuralism, poststructuralism, new historicism?

This is a tough cookie, I'll do my best
:)

First of all, the four terms formalism, structuralism,
post structuralism and new historicism are methodologies used to analyze
literature.

In formalism, the
tendency is to analyze text in terms of its style, nee, its form. The techniques used,
the mechanics, everything concerning the taxonomy of text is the focus. The way in which
the text was put together (say, for example verses versus prose, etc) is another focal
point.

In structuralism,
literature is reviewed through patterns. It is the conglomerate analysis of text that
tends to show similar behaviors. I would say that Jane Austen can be interpreted under a
structural analysis because her novels tend to show similarities in the making of the
characters, and the telling of the
story.

Poststructuralismis an
answer against structuralism, or better yet, an addendum to structuralism which claims
that it is hard to analyze text under the structural method when authors will always
tend to use their own interpretive practices, borrow styles, and interdepend on each
other's talents.

In other words, Jane Austen and Charles
Dickens were contemporaries so easily one could have "borrowed" any form of skill or
style from the other as part of their own writing processes, so you cannot just isolate
them as separate writers.

This is what takes us to-
New Historicism

This
fascinating methodology aims to re-discover history by using both context, culture and
general knowledge in order to put together a revised version of historical events in
real-life description.

For example, instead of examining
the poetry and writings of Shakespeare as a genius accident of the times, they take
minor writings, collect historical information of the time, look into lesser-known
Elizabethan actors, and ALL the information surrounding the times of
Shakespeare.

The findings of these types of researches show
that historians have many times just given a pedestal to historical characters and
attribute some unique qualities to them that are simply not as
unique.

The artist and his or her art are a symptom and a
product of their time and society, therefore, what Shakespeare did may not necessarily
be the works of a genius, but writings done as a result of his circumstantial
possibilities like many other writers do.

Why does Tim O'Brien (as the writer) "kill" Ted Lavender and not any other character?What is significant about his death?

I'm not sure what you mean by "kill."  O'Brien doesn't use
the active verb "kill."  It's the passive verb phrase "was shot," "was dead," and "was
shot and killed."  All of it is in passive voice.

The first
mention of Lavender's death is on page 2:

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Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried
tranquilizers until he was shot in the head outside the
village of Than Khe in
mid-April.

The death is
described matter-of-factly, in passive voice.  O'Brien describes the death as if it were
an everyday occurrence, like the rain or a new mission.  It's part of war.  It's
something else to carry.

There is no one physically
responsible for the death in Alpha Company.  We must assume that a VC sniper took
Lavender out with a head shot.  Morally, all the men feel guilty for it, Cross the
most.

Later, the third-person omniscient narration says on
page 7:

...now
Ted Lavender was dead because he lover her so much and
could not stop thinking about
her.

So, it is Lt. Jimmy
Cross who feels the most guilt for Lavender's death, not O'Brien.  He carries the weight
of the dead body literally and figuratively (on his
conscience):

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But Ted Lavender, who was
scared, carried 34 rounds when he was shot and
killed outside Than Khe, and he went down under an exceptional burden,
more than 20 pounds of ammunition, plus the flak jacket and helmet and rations and water
and toilet paper and tranquilizers and all the rest, plus the unweighted
fear.

O'Brien has Lavender
killed to serve several purposes: Lavender is a symbol of unweighed fear.  The function
of Lavender is to be a doppelganger, a ghostly twin to haunt Cross (a Christ-figure),
the one who feels the most guilt for his death.  The novel begins with a death here,
much like Hamlet does with the Ghost, and Lavender's death hangs
over the story and novel as a whole.  Like the Ghost in Hamlet,
Lavender will keep reappearing.  A major motif, as you know, is the ghost in
The Things They Carried.  Observe some of the titles of the other
stories: "Ghost Soldiers"; "Lives of the Dead"; "The Man I
Killed."

The purpose of storytelling, according to O'Brien,
is to bring the dead back to life through memory: it is to resurrect ghosts.  That is
both the painful and joyous task of a writer: to turn a war story into a love story by
honoring the dead.

Do you think Brinker's mock trial was a good idea in A Separate Peace? Why or why not?

In A Separate Peace, the mock-trial
is certainly cruel.  It is cruel to Gene and probably even cruel to Finny.  There are
better ways to handle such things.

At the same time, one
can argue that what Gene did needed to be exposed.  Although there are better ways to
expose him, one could argue, at least the trial results in his being
exposed.

An actual civil or criminal trial would have
worked much better.  Finny would have been surrounded by people who would have prevented
him from panicking and falling down stairs at an actual trial, for instance, and he
would have been somewhat mentally prepared for the
result.

Ironically, what Gene does to cause Finny's
accident is so unexpected and so hideous that none of the adults that are in a position
to question the accident even consider the possibility, as far as we know.  If they had,
Gene and Finny wouldn't have been left at the mercy of Brinker's arrogance, and the
result wouldn't have been as tragic. 

In the work of Theodore Dreiser, if Clyde Griffiths is the protagonist, then who would be the antagonist?

American Tragedy is a novel where the conflict is man vs. environment or, alternately, man vs. himself. The antagonist, then, would be not another person, but a situation, or a trait within the character himself that the protagonist must battle against.

If we accept that the conflict is man vs. environment, then the antagonist is the combination of social and hereditary constraints into which Clyde is born. Clyde is born in poverty to a family that is not especially resourceful or notable.  Though he longs for the American dream of success, he cannot escape his background to attain it.

If we look at the conflict as man vs. self, then the antagonist is Clyde's overwhelming desire to achieve material well-being and success, and the moral weakness that allows him to pursue his desire at all costs. He is so consumed with this craving that he is willing to commit murder in order to get what he wants.

In either case, consistent with the naturalistic philosophy underlying the novel, Clyde the protagonist is ruined by the antagonistic forces he faces.

How does Tom Robinson's trial in To Kill a Mockingbird relate to the poem "Strange Fruit" by Lewis Allen?

In To Kill a Mockingbird Tom Robinson
is a black man accused of raping a white woman. Everyone knows that Tom will never get a
fair trial because he is a black man. In the end Tom is convicted and eventually killed
although he was innocent. In the poem "Strange Fruit" we see the same kind of horrible
injustice. 

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Southern trees bear a strange
fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the roots,
Black bodies
swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar
trees.

These same words from
the poem can be used to illustrate the way the people of Maycomb thought. The mentality
of most of the people in Maycomb was one of ignorance and prejudice. Racism was an
everyday thing and black people were murdered on a daily basis. Strange Fruit is just
another example of how racism ruins people's lives. Strange Fruit is a short poem, but
leaves a lasting imprint once you read it.

Is "Young Goodman Brown" a negative and /or positive critique of Puritanism?

"Young Goodman Brown" casts the Puritan society in a negative light.  This is best seen in Hawthorne's critique of hypocrisy evident in Salem.  While the Puritans were incredibly hard working and resilient, they were deeply religious and viewed people as either elect (destined for heaven) or damned (destined for hell).  It appears that there was little one could do to move from one category to the other.  This, of course, would naturally lead to a great division in society.  Those who were elect would naturally view themselves as superior to those who were damned. 

Hawthorne criticizes this because it is ripe for hypocrisy.  Notice how Brown views himself as elect, yet he allows the devil to lure him deeper and deeper into the forest.  In fact, when he realizes Faith is in the woods, Brown becomes so enraged that he becomes the most frightening thing in the entire woods - including the devil and the black mass! 

Notice too how the devil tells Brown those around him - and even his ancestors - were not as pious as he thought.  He realizes prominent members of his own church are devil worshippers.  He realizes his father and grandfather also knew the devil and received his help.

It seems that Hawthorne, who had an ancestor who served as a judge on the infamous Salem witch trials, criticizes the Puritans for neglecting to realize that all humans are susceptible to sin, not exempt from it.

What is the universal meaning in Macbeth? And how are Macbeth and Lord of the Flies connected/or different?Help!

While the ambition for power is a theme shared by the play and the novel, and Jack and Macbeth both become corrupted by their desire for power, the two stories end differently.  Order is restored in both cases:  in Macbeth, through his death in a battle with Macduff definitively carrying on stage the head of the dead Macbeth, but in Lord of the Flies  the arrival of a ship interrupts a battle and saves Ralph’s life.  Macbeth is more optimistic:  the tragic hero learns his lesson before he dies, and we know goodness will rule.  In Lord of the Flies, we are not so sure, for when the naval officer looks away from Ralph’s tears and out at sea, Golding seems to suggest that the violence the boys lived is a fundamental part of human interaction that will not go away.

How is weather/season related to the action? If Gurov/Anna's affair heats up in Yalta's hot sun, why doesn't it cool down, in Moscow winter's snow?

Author's often use weather or seasons to symbolize the dominant themes of their work.  It is often the case that a passionate relationship will fade over time, and what seemed exciting and new at first becomes commonplace.  Thats the cooling off.  Either the couple will continue to find new things to enjoy about one another, or they will separate.  However, if the separation is forced, as it was here, it is easy to forget that feeling of familiarity and to be excited again when reunited.  The weather symbolizes the two stages most literally.  Hot for the passion, cold for the lack of continuing interest beyond the excitement and lust.

The Puritans also relied on their consciences. Show an exact quote from Act 1 showing this.Please include the page number and state which cover...

Hale also acts on his conscience.  Although he is called to Salem to look for witches, he really requires evidence of witchcraft, not just the words of the girls.  In Act I scene II he goes to the Proctor's house not because the court sent him but  "of my own, without the court's authority, "  to speak with Elizabeth because she has been mentioned in the court.  He continues: 

I am a stranger here, as you know.  And in my ignorance I find it hard to draw a clear opinion of them that come accused before the court.  And so this afternoon, and now tonight, I go from house to house... "

Here Hale shows his concern that he really know the people who are accused and he shows his conscience in desiring that knowledge.  Later, coming to the conlcusion that the court is only interested in hanging witches rather than in finding the truth, Hale denounces the trial and leaves coming back only to try and save the lives of the accused.

What does this quote from Hamlet's letter to Ophelia mean: "Doubt thou that stars..."?

The following lines are from the love letter Hamlet writes to Ophelia in Act 2 Scene 2 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. As a dutiful daughter, Ophelia passes this letter to her father Polonius who then reads it to the King and the Queen.

Doubt thou the stars are fire,

Doubt that the sun doth move,

Doubt truth to be a liar,

But never doubt I love.

It seems that Hamlet has been courting Ophelia who is unable to respond to his feelings because her father Polonius forbids her to do so. Polonius feels that this unrequited love is the reason behind Hamlet’s madness.

The most simplified and obvious interpretation of these lines is Hamlet’s hyperbolic assertion that Ophelia could doubt the most believable scientific phenomena and forces of the universe, but she should never doubt his love towards her.

Of course, the fact that the stars are only made of fire is questionable to astronomical sciences now, but at the time period of the play, it was treated with downright certainty. However, Copernicus challenged the fact of the movement of the sun and most of the Shakespearean audience would have suspected this anyway.

There is a possibility of semantic ambiguity in the poem if Shakespeare used the word "doubt" to mean "suspect". Hamlet's love poem, then, would ask Ophelia to go ahead and suspect all proven forces of the Universe but “never suspect that he loves (her)”.

This, confusingly,  generates complete semantic inversion of Hamlet’s use of language to express his feelings, which sounds more like a denial of love. Was Hamlet telling Ophelia to believe he loves her or to be sure that he doesn't? Is it a poem Hamlet wrote to express his love or to refute it? This ambiguity has garnered a lot of interest amongst literary scholars although Hamlet’s love to Ophelia isn’t the main focus of the play.

Why did the black girl (Connie) tell the guys to beat up Mike? Why does Mike not hate her, or black people for this?

Connie and Mike illustrate opposing reactions to being victimized by others.

Connie harbors a deep bitterness toward white people.  She has been a victim in a prejudicial society all her life, and has just been assaulted by a group of white men. Mike helps her, and there is a glimmer of hope that she might be able to rise above her preconceived ideas and see him as an individual when she thanks him in the car. As soon as she is back with her group, however, it is easy to revert back to mob mentality and conform to peer pressure, so she tells her friends to "kill the white bastard" (Chapter 2).

Mike, on the other hand, though he has just been brutally beaten by a gang of black youths, refuses to succumb to stereotyping and bitterness.  He knows that the gang that attacked him does not represent all black people, and is able to see people as individuals from perspectives other than his own. He is thus even able to understand the motivation behind Connie's betrayal of him, and actually sympathize with her.

Why is Antigone in trouble? Why does Creon believe that the gods are on his side? What was the belief of the Greeks concerning death?What was the...

The Greeks actually had an elaborate funeral ritual.  They believed that the shade (or soul) of the person left the body at the moment of death, but could not go to the underworld, Hades, until the body was properly cared for and buried.  It was usually the job of the nearest female relatives to prepare the body for burial so it should have been the job of Antigone and Ismene.  This fact makes it even more understandable that Antigone would risk all to bury her brother.   

Creon believes the God's are on his side because he believes that Polynieces was wrong.  It is not really Creon that Polynieces fought against; it was Antigone's other brother, Etocles.  Etocles and Polyneices were supposed to share the rule of Thebes after Oedipus, and had agreed to alternate power on a yearly basis, but when the year of Etolces was up, he refused to give over to Polyneices.  Polyneices then got an army from his father-in-law (from another city) and attacked Thebes to gain power from his brother.  Both brothers were killed in the battle and Creon inherited the throne.  Creon feels that Polynieces was wrong to bring an army against Thebes even if he had a rightful grievance.  It was a question of loyalty to one's city over one's family in his eyes.  Antigone disagrees.

What was the year when Leo Tolstoy started and finished War and Peace?

William L. Shirer wrote an interesting book about Tolstoy and his wife Sofya in which Shirer describes the composition of Tolstoy's most famous work, War and Peace. Tolstoy was an extremely fastidious writer. He wrote at least seven drafts of his long novel before submitting it for publication, and he was still making changes when the publisher started sending him proof sheets for approval. Tolstoy of course had to write everything with pen and ink. His handwriting was hard to read, as might be expected in such a temperamental and impetuous man. The only person who could read it was his wife. Without her assistance, the novel might have taken several times as long to complete. The published book is enormous, running in most editions to over 1500 pages. It was of course much larger in manuscript form. Tolstoy wrote the first draft and gave it to Sofya, who made a clean copy in her own neat and attractive handwriting. As she finished each day's copying she would give her pages to her husband, who would begin making corrections, revisions, and additions, creating a total mess of Sofya's work. When she had finished making a complete copy of the first draft, Tolstoy gave her back her bundle of papers with all his changes, and she began making a second complete fair copy in her own handwriting. Here is part of Shirer's description of their collaboration:

Just making clean copies of Tolstoy’s manuscript was a considerable job in itself. Apparently no one else in the house could make out his almost illegible handwriting. And making one clean copy was never enough, for Tolstoy would rewrite it and hand it back to her for copying again. Sonya once said she had copied the novel seven times. Since it runs to 1,453 printed pages in my edition, that means that her fair copy came to at least 3,000 manuscript pages. So she must have written down in her own careful handwriting 21,000 pages. And this does not include countless pages that Tolstoy, as his daughter Tanya noted, threw away.  William L. Shirer, Love and Hatred, p. 69

Few contemporary writers would show such dedication as Tolstoy, and few assistants would display such patience and loyalty as his wife Sofya.

War and Peace looks intimidating because of its length and also because of all the characters with long Russian names. But it is actually not hard to read. It is broken up into short chapters and the chapters are divided into sections. The novel was written by a great genius, so it becomes engrossing and a memorable reading experience. It deals basically with Napoleon's invasion of Russia with 680,000 soldiers in the year 1812. The book has a majestic panoramic sweep, like a giant wave washing across the land and then withdrawing. Napoleon made it all the way to Moscow and then had to turn around and retreat through the snow and ice because of the terrible Russian winter and the fact that much of Moscow was being destroyed by fires. It seems like a foreshadowing of what was to happen to Hitler's mechanized armies in the early 1940s. 

How does Brinker stage a "mock arrest" of gene?

In Chapter 7 of A Separate Peace, Brinker stages a "mock
arrest" of Gene as they go to the Butt Room, a basement area where the boys smoke. 
Seizing Gene's neck, and pusing him into the Butt Room, Brinker
"announces,"

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Here's your prisoner, gentlemen...I 'm turning
him over to the proper
authorities.

One of the boys
asks what the charge is, and Brinker replies,

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Doing away with his roommate so he could have a
whole room to himself.  Rankest treachery....Practically
fratiricide.

Gene shakes
himself free from Brinker, who tells him he will have his day in court.  Gene then
says,

Shut
up!  I swear you ride a joke longer than anybody I
know.

This statement is a
mistake, Gene narrates becaus the radio suddenly became quiet and his voice rings out,
"galvanizing them all."  One boy asks, "So you killed him, did
you?"

Brinker qualifies his
statement:

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Well, not actually killed.  Finny's hangin
between life and death at home, in the arms of his grief-stricken old
mother.

Gene tries to diffuse
the situation by saying he just a "little pinch of arsenic in his morning coffee." 
Brinker will not let Gene out of the situation by declaring "We know the scene of the
crime."  Again Gene tries for humor, using a "funny French pronunciation":  "Yes, huh,
yes there was a small, a little contretemps at the
tree."

When a young boy asks Gene to tell them everything,
there is an "unsettling current in his voice, as though he believed everything," so Gene
gains confidence and continues his fabrication, saying he stole Finny's money, cheated
on his entrance test, blackmailing his parents; then, he made love to his sister....,but
when he can easily slip in the truth and have it disbelieved, Gene's throat closes on
him:  "I could never say them, never.

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I swung on the younger boy. 'What did I do
then?' I demanded.  I'll bet yhou've got a lot of theories.  Come on, reconstruct the
crime.....

His eyes sung guiltily back and forth, 'Then,
you just pushed him off, I'll
bet'

After getting the boy to
say the truth that he cannot, Gene has effectively defeated the crowd.  However, as they
go up the stairs one boy remarks,

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Funny, he[Finny] came all the way down here and
didn't even have a
smoke.

What begins as a mock
arrest almost becomes a trial for Gene.  In fact, it has for
Phineas.

Why is Pearl an appropriate name for the character?

Pearl's name is appropriate for a number of reasons.

A pearl is traditionally symbolic of something of great value.  Pearl is a child born in shame, looked upon as tainted or arguably of less value in Puritan society, yet by naming her Pearl, Hawthorne emphasizes her worth.  Indeed, isolated from her peers, she is high-spirited and close to nature, standing out in contrast to the drab, constrained children of the Puritan elders.  Dressed unconventionally in decorative clothing, she is a dynamic personality, shining brightly in the dull, gray landscape of her society. 

Also, in the Bible, a pearl is compared to heaven, something man will strive to achieve at great cost (Matthew 13:44-45).  Pearl likewise is conceived and born at great cost to her parents.

How are the ASB Ethical Standards lessening the expectations gap?

Research studies have shown and confirmed that there is a
gap between the expectations of the public and financial statements users and the
expectations of auditors. The gap includes a difference in expectations regarding the
responsibilities of the auditor. Studies show that investors have high expectations of
what the audit and auditor can achieve and assure, while auditors have lessened
expectations of what the audit can achieve and assure.

The
ABS (Accounting Board Standards) ethical standard requires ethical values like title="APB Ethical Standard, "Integrity, Objectivity and
Independence""
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integrity, objectivity and independence, which are projected as means by which
the expectations gap can be lessened.

Financial statements
are used by many people from suppliers to investors to banks for making financial
decisions relevant to the financial condition of entities. The primary purpose of a
financial statement is to provide the owners (e.g., stock holders) and financial
statement users of the financial entity with information on the state of affairs and
performance of the entity and to assist in assessing the stewardship of chief officers
and directors who are stewards of the entity the are entrusted
with.

The ethical values like integrity and objectivity
ensure that the auditor will provide thorough and honest unbiased information about the
state of affairs of the entity. While the ethical value of independence ensures that the
auditor will remain free of outside opinion, coercion or duress that might sway and
compromise the audit in any one person's or group's favor. Integrity enters in again to
ensure that the auditor won't yield to unethical and dishonest requests for the sake of
personal gain.

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In 1988, the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountant's (AICPA) Committee, the Auditing Standards Board (ASB),
sought to reduce the expectation gap with a series of Statements on Auditing Standards
(SASs), SAS No. 53 through SAS No. 61, collectively referred to as the "expectation gap"
SASs. ( href="http://www.allbusiness.com/accounting-reporting/auditing/833216-1.html">Auditors'
and Investors' Perceptions of the "Expectation Gap" by Stanley C. Martens.
2001.)

How do Lady Macbeth and the witches manipulate the influences they have upon Macbeth, and how effective are they?

The witches seem to be the best manipulators around. They take a man, Macbeth, who was being rewarded by King Duncan for his loyalty and courage in defending the Scottish realm, and manage to turn him into a murdering, power-hungry evil being, simply by saying, "someday you'll be king." (One could say, though, that Macbeth had to have some ambition in him already if he could be so easily swayed, while his friend, Banquo, stayed loyal to Duncan, despite being told his descendents would someday be kings.)

Lady Macbeth is, in my opinion, an even better example of a manipulator. She is determined that her husband not become weak in fulfilling their plan to kill Duncan and take the throne for themselves. She worries that Macbeth is "too full o' the milk of human kindness" - that he is really too good inside to follow through with killing Duncan. (Ironic, then, that she is the one later who cannot make herself stab Duncan as he reminds her too much of her father.)

Check out the links below for more complete information on these fascinating characters!

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. How can Albert Einstein have said this if, in...

The simple answer to your question is that Einstein was
referring to his struggles at learning math when he was younger.  Of course, he
eventually mastered the subject on a very high level and was able to use it as a tool in
his work as a physicist.

The deeper answer is that
mathematics always remained a difficult subject for Einstein because he recognized how
profound and difficult it truly is.  When a scholar truly recognizes the complexity of
his chosen field of study, it becomes harder, not
easier. 

For example, when you first learned about the
Civil War in 4th or 5th grade, you were probably taught that it was all about slavery. 
This makes it easy to understand the conflict about the North and South.  The problem is
that it is a very imcomplete picture of the truth.  When a scholar studies the Civil
War, he realizes that the truth is much more complex--and therefore, much more difficult
to understand. 

What was Garrison's motto in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass? What did this mean?

This can be found in the book's preface, which was written
by William Lloyd Garrison.  At the very end of his preface, he gives his motto.  It
is

-"NO
COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH
SLAVEHOLDERS!"

What this
means is that Garrison is a very radical abolitionist.  He is much more radical, for
example, than Abraham Lincoln ever was (and this was written before anyone had ever
heard of Lincoln).

What he is saying is that Northerners
should never accept being in the same country as slaveholders.  He is saying that they
should not compromise to stay together.  What this means is he thinks they should ban
slavery immediately.

IT SAYS IN MY ECONOMICS TEXTBOOK THIS: "NOTICE THE MONEY SUPPLY HAS INCREASED.WHEN JENNY BORROWED 900 AND THE BANK PUT THAT AMOUNT IN HERCHECKING...

No, it is not correct.  Your book is
right.

When the bank loans money out to Jenny, she has
money that did not exist before.  Presumably your book mentions some other person who
deposited probably $1000.  We'll call him Chuck.  When the bank gave $900 to Jenny, they
did not take money out of Chuck's account.  He still has $1000 in the
bank.

If they took his money and lent it, they would not be
creating money.  But they did not take his money.  They created new money based on his
deposit -- secured by his deposit.

If the bank actually
took away your money and lent it to someone else, no one would ever put money in the
bank because it would be too hard to know when you would be able to get that money
out.

Is Brutus still a fatalist in act 5 of Julius Caesar?

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings," Cassius says to Brutus when he tries to convince him to join the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar (1.2.141-42). Here we see Cassius reject fate, and Brutus ultimately agrees with him, taking responsibility for keeping Rome “free” by killing Caesar to prevent him from becoming a despot.  This is one reason we can understand Brutus as a tragic hero, for if he blamed everything on fate, he would have learn nothing.  At the end of the play he chooses to die nobly, on his own sword, because he knows he cannot win and has not brought the freedom to Rome that he thought he would by assassinating Caesar.  Antony calls him a great man at the end of the play for this very reason: he did what he thought was right, took responsibility for that, and died for that.  Had he attributed everything to fate, he would not have been a great man.

What motifs are used and for what purpose?

It seems that people are thinking and offcourse there was something fishy which led you write this question otherwise there is no need for it. 

This book was basically written and then promoted for pure political purposes and for cultural promotion purposes. Afghanistan has its own identity, history, culture, language and pure people.

The western media by all means promoted this novel to justify the US going to Afghanistan. 

Secondly, this book promoted all the Iranian culture, lanugage and traditions and even their poets and stories. There was nothing from Afghanistan that any Afghan could proudly say that this novel benefitted us culturally even a bit. This book was banned in Afghanistan because it was so violently written against one major group of people of Afghanistan "the Pashtuns". Husaini has tried to prove Pashtuns as Taliban but people are not blind and crazy to trust any fiction of someone's personal frustrations. 

He never lived in Afghanistan after the war started therefore, this book was the repetition of the same old tune of the news that we read and see. The book was written in a way that one felt many times as if we had already seen this seen in a movie or we could predict what would happen next. 

Finally this man is a lucky one who wrote down his personal furstration in such a time where forces in Afghanistan needed to make every common person understand about why they went to Afghanistan, indirectly. And they did through Kite Runner. 

The poem "Ode to my socks" by Pablo Neruda is written in what poetic form? How does this form contribute to the meaning of the poem?

The simplicity of the poem is surprising considering that it is an ode, which traditionally is a solemn and elaborately structured poem. Choral odes of ancient Greece (so called because they were sung by the chorus during the performance of a drama) had a three-part structure of strophe (literally "turn"), antistrophe ("turning the other way"), and epode ("added song"). This structure marks a turn from one intellectual position to another and then a recounting of the entire ode subject. Neruda to some extent follows the conventions of the ode. He chooses a subject to praise (albeit one that is traditionally not the subject of such lavish exultation). His first "turn" is to celebrate the socks' beauty by comparing them to jewel cases, sharks, and so on. He "turns the other way'' by saying what he did not do with the socks. Finally he offers a moral to the story by explaining obliquely why these socks are worthy of his admiration—and why he is in fact worthy of them.

In "Ode to My Socks," as again he does in his odes, Neruda uses very short, irregular lines. This emphasizes their simplicity, forcing a slower reading and making the poems sound more like natural speech and less artificially "poetic." But they are very clearly poems from their structure.

How does Hemingway's use of language (diction and tone) reveal the two character's attitudes toward their situation in "Hills Like White Elephants"?

It is clear, when Jig says "every day we make it more
impossible" (paragraph 71) that she is no longer thrilled by the American’s wishes, as
she might have been at one time. Her annoyance with him, requesting that he not talk
(paragraph 98), indicates her frustration with continuing to hash over their division of
opinion. Hemingway handles the dialogue with the skill of a master. The language he
gives his characters is simple and ordinary. A major quality of his control is that he
arranges things so that there is no need to fill the page with the many "he said" and
"she said" phrases that in other stories are as obvious as speech prefixes in a play.
His great skill is that readers can nevertheless identify the speakers easily because
the speeches are so closely connected to the clearly delineated interests and wishes of
Jig and the American. Readers learn in paragraph 42 that the American and Jig have
earlier been discussing the possibility of an abortion. The dialogue in the story up to
this point has been largely a diversion from this topic. From Jig’s attempt to explain
the resemblance of the hills to white elephants, however, it appears that she is
thinking seriously that she has been gaining little ground in explaining her position to
the American about not wanting an abortion. At the story’s end, when she smiles at him,
it would appear that their opposing interests are irreconcilable. It may well be that
each person has made a determination about the future, and that their decisions do not
take the other person into their plans. We may presume that if they had made a joint
decision, the story would have described it. As it is, the two are not reconciled, and
so we must conclude that their dispute has caused their permanent alienation.

What news did Gandalf receive that made him decide to rejoin Bilbo and the dwarves in The Hobbit?

We discover that Gandalf has re-entered the narrative
after leaving the dwarves at Beorn's house when Bilbo decides to steal the Arkenstone
and take it as bargaining power to Bard and the Elves to prevent a war. When he goes to
the Elvenking and Bard, Gandalf reveals himself, and although he does not tell Bilbo
straight away why he returned, we discover later that he clearly had heard of the
amassing of the armies of the Goblins and the Wargs. Gandalf chooses to reveal this news
to prevent a confrontation between the Dwarves and the elves and
men:

"Halt!"
he called in a voice like thunder, and his staff blased forth with a flash like the
lightning. "Dread has come upon you all! Alas! it has come more swiftly than I guessed.
The Goblins are upon you! Bolg of the North is coming, O Dain! whose father you slew in
Moria. Behold! the bats are above his army like a sea of locusts. They ride upon wolves
and Wargs are in their
train!"

With this news
Gandalf is able to divert the animosity and unite the Elves, men and Dwarves in the
Battle of the Five Armies.

Who brought the Hitler article into class in To Kill A Mockingbird and why does he have trouble understanding?

This is in Chapter 26.  No one actually brought in an
article about Hitler, I do not think.  But the kid who starts talking about Hitler is
Cecil Jacobs.

It is not clear whether he brought an actual
article, but he is definitely the one who brings up the subject.  Before him, little
Chuck Little brought something that he thought was an article.  Sadly for him, it was an
advertisement.

But Cecil knew better than Chuck.  He had a
real current event to talk about, but it never actually says he brought the article with
him.

What are all of the problems in Peter Pan?

I am assuming that you are asking for the problems
(conflict) in Peter Pan.  

The most
obvious example of conflict in the story is that between Peter Pan and Captain Hook; the
two characters hate one another and their "crews" follow the examples set by the two.
 Another problem is Peter's desire to overcome his human nature and stop aging, which is
possible in Neverland but means that he misses out on a basic understanding of "normal"
life.  Peter is faced with an emotional attachment to Wendy, in addition, but is
challenged by her unwillingness to simply abandon the real world in order to exist in
the magical world of Neverland.  Basically, Peter cannot have it
all.

What is the symbolic significance of Paul's riding the rocking horse of the repeated statement "there must be more money"?From "The Rocking-Horse...

There are several different answers that could be
considered when thinking of what it means that Paul continues to ride the rocking
horse.  He begins to spend a great deal more time on it as the stakes get higher and
higher.  It reaches the point where he has to return to his boyhood home and ride for
hours and hours to determine the winner of the derby and in the end, it kills
him.

Because of the fact that the horse is not mobile, and
that in some ways it demands more and more of Paul until it takes away his life, it is
perhaps a symbol for the emptiness of the incredible quest for money that seems to drive
so much of our society and determine so many people's perceptions of whether they are
happy or not.  The horse never takes him anywhere and he has to constantly appease it in
order to have this odd talent, so Lawrence could be suggesting the futility of that
quest.

It could also simply be the manifestation of the
mother's lack of an ability to love and the way the boy is trying so hard to make his
mother happy.  She hasn't provided him the kind of environment or opportunity to
progress or grow past this childhood rocking horse so it serves as a physical
manifestation of this lack of love or nurturing.

Please comment on Mrs. Slade's statement from "Roman Fever.""I was wondering how two such exemplary characters as you and Horace had managed to...

Mrs. Slade and Mrs. Ansley are not true friends.  They are competitors in a devious, envious world of high-class aristocracy.  Mrs. Slade, and people like her, are constantly paranoid that others will see them for what they truly are, so they continually belittle others in order to make themselves appear more important, worldly, or glamorous.

In this comment, Mrs. Slade is basically commenting on how Mrs. Ansley hurridly married Horace after she became with child.  This was a disastrous situation in the days when this story was written, unlike today when unmarried young women have children out of wedlock and they almost flaunt the accomplishment.   In Mrs. Slade's time, being pregnant and unmarried was something to be ashamed of and perhaps even shunned as a result.

Mrs. Slade's comment also is meant to belittle Mrs. Ansley.  Mrs. Slade has been jealous of her "friend" since they were girls competing for the same man...Mr. Slade.  Her comment illustrates how she admires Mrs. Ansley's daughter and even wishes her own daughter were more like her--vivacious, beautiful, and the "dynamic" life of the party.  How is it that such a wonderful girl could be the product of Horace and Mrs. Ansley? 

The best line of the whole story is Mrs. Ansley's answer to that question when she answers that her daughter's father is Mr. Slade...conceived that night at the colosseum. 

In what ways does Hamlet appear to change during act 4?

Hamlet becomes increasingly erratic in his behavior. This causes quite a bit of questioning on Hamlet's sanity. His lack of avenging his father's death has turned into despair. His reluctance to act is lessening by the end of act IV, and in act v he will be ready, at last.

What is the moral of The Call of the Wild by Jack London?

The Moral to this story is Survival of the fittest.  If you cannot survive, people, or dogs for that matter, will simply forget you. civilization vs. primitive nature is also another aspect of this story that is significant here.  when buck was back at Judge Miller's place, he was civilized and now that he is in the Klondike, it is a dog eat dog world out there. let the best dog win, or strongest, for that matter.

Who are the main characters in Julius Caesar? How are they characterized?

Brutus is indeed in many ways the protagonist of the play, despite its name.  He is portrayed as a noble man, a true Roman who wants to put Rome first.  He is a complex character but is a rigid idealist whose ideals don't seem to have a strong philosophical background.  This leads him to make mistakes.  First he allows himself, partially through pride, to be convinced to kill Caesar for the good of Rome, then he allows Antony to live and to speak at the funeral which hurls Rome into turmoil.

Antony is probably the second major character in the play.  He is loyal, intelligent, and politically savvy.  His speech at the funeral was my first introduction into Shakespeare and remains a favorite to this day. He is the opposite of Brutus in many ways: being flexible he is able to make key decisions quickly and wisely.

Caesar also plays a major role though he dies midway through the play.  He is also proud and may have the ambition he is accused of.  But, he is also concerned with Rome, and particularly with its average citizens as is evidenced by his will.  He loves his wife and is almost willing to stay home for her, but his pride gets the better of him and he goes to his death.

Cassius, the final major player, is jealous and ambitious.  He also has a good knowledge of human nature and is able to use that to bring Brutus into his plot to give his plot validity in the eyes of Rome.

What are the dis-similarities between Sonnet 29 and Sonnet 30?I'm writting a term paper on the similarities and the dis-similarities between...

Sonnet 29 has a specific audience, a you, who is so loved by the speaker that even though he, the speaker, has many difficulties in his life, just thinking about the love of his friend makes him feel “wealthy.”  The sonnet repeatedly uses images of wealth and status to describe his sad feelings. In Sonnet 30, however, the speaker does not describe his unhappiness in terms of an “outcast state” who desires what others have, as does the speaker in 29. Instead, he mourns lost friends and past times, and in general the sense that he is getting older. Youth seems to be the great loss in sonnet 30 and regrets for a life that he might live differently if he could, and so when the speaker thinks of his friend here, his “losses are restored,” which refers more to experience in general rather than the “outcast state” in the other poem.

hi i need to write an essay but i need a quote from the Romeo and Juliet play to describe count Paris?? any ideas?

In Act One, Scene Four, Juliet, Lady Capulet and the Nurse are discussing how Juliet feels about getting married.  The young County Paris has asked Lord Capulet for Juliet's hand in marriage and he has directed his wife to seek out Juliet's opinion of this proposition.  Lady Capulet proceeds in Lines 90-103 to compare the characteristics of County Paris to a richly, decorated book:

"Read o'er the volume of Young Paris' face, Examine every several lineament, And see how one another lends content; And what obscured in this fair volume lies Find written in the margent of his eyes.  This precious book of love, this unbound lover, To beautify him only lacks a cover.  The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride For fair without the fair within to hide. That book in many's eyes doth share the glory, That in gold clasps locks in the golden story; So shall you share all that he doth possess, By having him making yourself no less".

Lady Capulet is using an extended metaphor in her compaison of County Paris to a book and she feels Juliet should definitely read this "book" from cover to cover.

"The Yellow Wallpaper" traces the emotional deprivation of women in that century. How has the writer achieved this?

The narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" is the victim of a
patriarchy, a male-dominated society.  She is suffering from post-partum depression, but
no one understands her emotional state or takes her complaints seriously, or at least
not seriously enough.

The men in the work assume they know
what's best for her.  Her husband even forbids her from seeing her
baby.

They do not understand that the narrator has a
fertile and imaginative mind.  By closing her away they are dooming her.  When deprived
of a legitimate outlet, her imaginative mind begins to see patterns in the wallpaper,
and soon those patterns begin to reflect her own situation:  that of a woman locked
away, unable to free herself.  And that is the picture and symbol of women in a
patriarchal society. 

Write a critical analysis and summary of the sonnet "Amoretti 34" by Edmund Spenser.

A look at "Amoretti 33" helps to orient "Amoretti 34" in
the ongoing love story of Edmund for Elizabeth. Critics agree that Edmund Spenser is
chronicling his own--sometimes fruitless--pursuit of the love of Elizabeth. Bear in mind
that Edmund Spenser had been married and had two children by his first wife, so there
was a great age difference between Spenser and Elizabeth. Since she was reputed a beauty
of a noble spirit and good heart, she had suitors her own age for Spenser to complete
against for her affections.

"Amoretti 33" expresses
Spenser's grief that his unrequited (unreturned) affection for and attachment to
Elizabeth was driving him to distraction, as the saying goes. He bemoans that he is
failing Queen Elizabeth by not being able to concentrate on writing The Faerie
Queene. He says his wits are troubled by a tedious "fit" of a proud woman who
spoils his spirit. He ends by declaring he must cease his writing until he has won her
or until someone lends him another heart ("brest") to get along
with.

In "Amoretti 34" things are not much better. He
starts out with a ship at sea that cannot navigate by the stars because clouds of a
storm have blocked the sight of them, so it has gone "out of [its] course" and "doth
wander far astray." The oppositional turn at the concatenated lines 4-5 (astray-ray) is
that he turns from the metaphoric ship to himself, thus explainingit by saying that he
has also lost his way because Elizabeth's metaphoric light is covered with clouds of a
storm and so he wanders in "darknesse and dismay" with perils blasting around
him.

The oppositional turn of the second concatenated rhyme
in lines 8-9 (plast-past) is that Spenser turns from expressing despair to expressing
hope that when the storm is past Elizabeth--the "lodestar" of his
life":

will
shine again, and looke on me at last,
with louely light to cleare my cloudy
grief,

Spenser states in the
final rhyming couplet in Lines 13 and 14 that until his lodestar is out of her stormy
disquietude, he will wander full of care ("carefull") and without comfort, with a sorrow
that he keeps to himself while doing sad penance ("pensiuenesse"). Obviously, Spenser
did something to cause a great rift in whatever uneasy friendship he had with
Elizabeth--uneasy because of his love and her indifference--and he is remorseful,
repentant, lost and longing.

The structure is the
Spenserian sonnet structure of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet, all equaling 14
sonnet lines, linked with concatenation at lines 4-5 and 8-9. Concatenation is the
rhyming scheme Spenser used in most of the amoretti. The advantage to concatenation is
that (1) the quatrains can be linked by subject matter and topic and (2) the
oppositional turns that take place at the concatenated lines add emotional tension and
psychological revelation to the sonnets.

The rhyme scheme
is the Spenserian sonnet scheme of ababbcbccdcdee with concatenation at lines 4-5 and
8-9. Concatenation allows the subjects and topics to link and the rhymes to link as b is
repeated in the second quatrain and c is repeated in the third quatrain. Other sonnet
forms require separate subjects and separate rhyme schemes (abab cdcd efef
gg).

What are the rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution of "The Most Dangerous Game"?

The rising action begins with Rainsford trying not to drown in the ocean and making it to the island and Zaroff's Gothic mansion. Rainford meets Zaroff and finds out he is to be hunted and the hunt begins, leading to Rainsford's fight for his life in the jungle.  The falling action seems to take place right along with the climax during which Rainsford is waits for Zaroff in his bedroom and the two fight to the death.  The story ends with the reader assuming that Rainsford apparently wins the fight and gets to sleep in Zaroff's bed. We can assme Zaroff is dead. Brenda

Who is Scyld-Scefing?

Beowulf starts as a grand epic of history, similar to the Old Testament, with lists of important people, their heritage, and their lineage. In this vein, the story does not start with Beowulf himself, or even with Grendel's attacks; instead, it sets the background of King Hrothgar's ancestor Scyld, the great king of the Scyldings. Scyld (Skjöldr, a figure of disputed origin) was a legendary figure, traveling from Asia (possibly with a retinue, possibly alone as a child) to become the first king of the Danes, and a figure akin to gods. Beowulf begins with a recount of his exploits, and finally his funeral.

So the carle that is young, by kindnesses rendered
The friends of his father, with fees in abundance
Must be able to earn that when age approacheth
Eager companions aid him requitingly,
When war assaults him serve him as liegemen:
By praise-worthy actions must honor be got
'Mong all of the races. At the hour that was fated
Scyld dies at the hour appointed by Fate.
Scyld then departed to the All-Father’s keeping
Warlike to wend him; away then they bare him
To the flood of the current...
(JNO: Lesslie Hall, Ph.D. (J.H.U.) from gutenberg.org)

Scyld is notable in the story because of the examples he sets for the other major characters. Scyld is an undefeated king of his people, a champion among his vassals, and a man of valor and chivalry. He fights for his people, defends his lands and his honor, and when the gods appointed his time, he died and was buried at sea. Hrothgar, his descendant, strove to the same ideals, as does Beowulf, who more closely resembles Scyld in manner and deed. Scyld's presence in Beowulf serves to set the stage and familiarize the reader with the type of story as well as its scope.

What are the advantages of the use of epistolary technique in Mariama Ba's So Long A Letter?

the advantages of the epistolary technique is to allow us the readers to see the narrative as a form of 'gossip' between Ram and her bestfriend. it serves to show that women are better at riting their feelings as it may be hard to share their losses orally. another advantage is to show the contrast of Ram and her friend to whom she writes, it gives her the confidence to portray her feelings as well as to highlight the effects that men/ her husband had on her and other women. so in essence it serves as a window from which to veiw society from a feminist perspective as it relates to the exploitation of women in Sengal (a representation of women worldwide)

What alternatives does Carson propose to the use of chemicals to control unwanted pests & plants?

Carson proposes an alternative approach to pest control that poses no risks to both the environment and humans. These alternatives are called "biotic controls", and are divided into three specific methods.

The first method would use chemicals found within the insects themselves to repel the insects or trap them. Instead of using a poisonous and harmful chemical, it uses the insect itself to control the pest population. This is an environmentally acceptable means of pest control.

The second method would require sterilizing male insects and introducing them into the pest population. This would gradually reduce the volume of the pest population.

The third method uses both natural bacteria and insect predators to kill off pests. Allowing insects to kill each other off does not harm the environment the way pesticides do.

How would a feminist critic analyze "Young Goodman Brown"?How does Hawthorne portray Goody Cloyse and Faith in society?

Another feminist approach might take into account nineteenth- century notions of the cult of domesticity that imagined woman as the vessel of purity and goodness. ( Remember that although the story takes place in the seventeenth century, Hawthorne wrote it in the nineteenth.) This ideology of womanhood informs making the wife a metaphor for Brown's Faith, and the pink ribbons in her hair call attention to her femininity in that respect. In leaving the domestic hearth and venturing into the wild (anything away from the home, which by the mid-nineteenth century included the world of industrial capitalism), men "relied on" the ideology of the domestic woman to compensate for and balance their activities and as a means to sanctify the home. When Brown loses "Faith," he loses that notion of "good woman," which causes a lack of faith in everything else he sees and lives.  Feminist critics would argue that the cult of domesticity--the purity and goodness of womanhood--was a powerful force that gave meaning to male activities.

What do the Puritan magistrates hope to accomplish with this punishment? (The punishment for Hester Prynne of Adultery)

Due to the fact that there is no proof that Hester's husband is still alive, and therefore she could technically be a widow, coupled with her young, beautiful appearance, the magistrates feel that "branding" her with the scarlet letter is adequate punishment. Hester will be reminded daily of her sin, as she is never to take of the letter in public. It also serves as a public notice, everyone she comes into contact with, will see her sin. Knowing she will be humiliated every day(or so they think) seems just punishment.