Background of “Sir Gawain and The Green Knight”.
- WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
What are the romantic elements in Yeats’ poetry?tell me the poems in which romantic element can…
Many of Yeats’ poems were influenced by his romantic feelings for Maud Gonna, with whom he had an unrequited, prolonged love affair. These feelings inform his work, and some of them poems are…
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- SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
Background of “Sir Gawain and The Green Knight”.
I am assuming that you are asking for the “pre-story” behind this piece of literature. According to this story, Gawain is one of the knights among Arthur’s crew. They are in the midst of a…
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- THE AWAKENING
Why did Edna marry Leonce in The Awakening and is he a model husband?
In chapter 7 of the novel it is revealed that Edna marries Leonce on “accident.” That seems like a rather strange idea, but as the paragraph follows, the situation becomes more clear. Edna was…
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- SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
Sir Gawainis not seduced by the green Knight’s wife, is he?
In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Bartilak’s wife attempts to seduce Gawain as a test of his honor. Over the course of three days, she gets progressively more aggressive in that attempt. One…
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- SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
According to the Arthurian legends, Morgan Le Fay is Arthur’s half-sister. She is a priestess, and has spent much of her time at Avalon with the other mystical women of the time period. When…
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- JOHN MILTON
What did Johnson say about Milton’s political ideology?
The divergences between Milton and Johnson are well documented. Johnson, who extensively wrote on Milton, is often described as an antagonist to the author of Paradise Lost. He certainly…
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- LORD OF THE FLIES
In Lord of the Flies, when do the boys lose their civility? And what are some of the events that…
I think this happens in chapters 11 and 12. In chapter 11, Roger dislodges the boulder that kills Piggy and crushes the conch shell. The conch shell is the symbol of civilization and when it is…
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- THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES
What are some quotes that explain how Lily feels about her mother in the beginning of The Secret…
The very first chapter holds some key answers to this question. Based on her narration in this chapter, is is obvious that Lily misses her dead mother and still loves her. More than this, it is…
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- HISTORY
What are the Allen Committee Proposals in Gideon’s Trumpet?I can’t find it in the book
your gay
- WALDEN
What is the answer to the question Thoreau asked in Chapter 2 about the poem of a shepherd?”There…
To me, what Thoreau is saying is that we should pity or maybe even scorn such a shepherd. That shepherd would be living such a mundane life that Thoreau would think it wasn’t really much of a…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
What did Atticus mean when he said “if you had been on that jury, son, and eleven other boys like…
Atticus says this to Jem in Chapter 23. He says it when Jem is criticizing the jury system; when Jem is saying that the law ought to be changed to take power from the juries. What Atticus is…
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- EDGAR ALLAN POE
How does Edgar Allan Poe convince readers that everyone has an interest in stories about death…
In his short stories, Edgar Allan Poe manages to convince the reading public that individual readers are interested in stories that have to do with death and dying largely because he develops and…
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- HISTORY
What were the military goals of the Ottoman Empire?
The Ottoman Empire had both specific and general military objectives. As with all empires, the Ottomans looked to end threats to their holdings, to take colonies or subject rival countries and…
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- GUIDE TO LITERARY TERMS
What is “foregrounding,” which is a major stylistic device amongst creative writers?
Foregrounding is a literary concept borrowed from Russian Formalism and developed by formalist Jan Mukařovský who called it aktualisace, which has been translated to English as foregrounding….
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- THE KUGELMASS EPISODE
Examine the significance of the attitudes toward women are reflected in The Kugelmass Episode?
I think that one aspect of the significance in which women are displayed in Allen’s work is that it raises questions about the socially defined roles that women must play. Allen constructs Emma…
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- AS YOU LIKE IT
Please help me create a character sketch of TOUCHSTONE in AS YOU LIKE IT. EXPLAIN TOUCHSTONE AS…
Your question is quite broad, so I will try to give you some background from which to build your own analysis of Touchstone. First, he is either referred to as a “clown” or a “fool.” These terms…
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- POETRY
What are the techniques like alliteration used in this lines?’Forlorn! the very word is like a…
You’re asking for poetic or literary devices in these two lines of poetry, and you’ve already identified one of them–alliteration. Alliteration (the repetition of beginning sounds) is found in…
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- ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
I need your expert opinion on Remarque’s style of writing and how you think it contributes to the…
(Follow the link below–there is citation information at the top of the page.) In All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque uses simple, direct language to create Paul’s voice. In addition to the…
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- THE LADY OF SHALOTT
Who cursed the Lady of Shalott in “The Lady of Shalott”?
In “The Lady of Shalott,” no information is revealed concerning who cursed the Lady, why she is cursed, or how long she’s been cursed. The “history” of the curse is left ambiguous. This means, of…
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- SCIENCE
Why is red colour used in the danger signals? Is there any scientific reason for this? If so,…
The primary reason why the color red is used for danger signals is that red light is scattered the least by air molecules. The effect of scattering is inversely related to the fourth power of the…
- THINGS FALL APART
Explain this quote from Things Fall Apart – “Amalinze was a wily craftsman, but Okonkwo was as…
With the use of these colorful descriptions, the author is comparing Amalinze, the famed wrestler, to Okonkwo, the young upstart who was finally able to beat him. Amalinze was known as “Amalinze…
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- ESSAY LAB
I need to write an english essay (450 words) on “Life” and have no idea on where to even start….
What kind of an essay? Does the mode matter (narrative, descriptive, expository or argumentative)? Good writing doesn’t necessarily “just flow.” Contrary to popular belief, good writers are not…
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- THE EIGHT
ComparisonThe Eight was an enjoyable book, and I’ve tried to describe it to others–without as…
I haven’t read this book, but after reading your question and then the summary offered by Enotes, I am intrigued to jump right in. I enjoy thrillers and mystery novels, especially if there is…
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- HARD TIMES
How is Dickens’ novel Hard Times represent a failure of Thomas Gradgrind’s philosophy?
Gradgrind’s emphasis on “fact not fancy” is proven to be a failing philosophy when it is the only way in which one lives their life. This might not be as present with Gradgrind as it is with his…
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- FAHRENHEIT 451
Allusions in Fahrenheit 451, their sources and why the author used the allusion???
Fahrenheit 451 contains several Biblical allusions. One is in “The Sieve and the Sand” when Faber reads from the book of Job. This book of the Old Testament is the story of Job – who is the victim…
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- MATH
THE NO. 10 TO THE POWER OF GOOGOL IS A GOOGOLPLEX. IT TAKES ONE FIFTH OF A SEC TO WRITE A ZERO…
1 googol = 10^100. 1 googlplex = 10^(10^100) Time to write 1 1/10 seconds. Time write one zer digit = 5seconds. Number of digits in agoogolplex = 1 one foolwedy one googol zero. So the time…
- SCIENCE
Why does not use DNA as a template for translation, whereas RNA can directly use for encode…
It is a little difficult to understand your question as phrased, but I think you are asking why cells don’t directly use DNA to encode for proteins, and instead go through the middle step of…
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- GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL
What do you think Diamond is saying about the future of human history as a science?This question…
What Diamond is saying is that he thinks that people really should not think that history is so much different from the sciences. He is saying that the study of history can be pretty “scientific”…
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- LORD OF THE FLIES
What was the significance of the boys’ ages? What might these ages represent in society today?…
Golding most likely chose preteen boys to show a more rapid decline into savagery. Older children, or adults even, would be more conditioned to act a certain way, more inclined to mimic the laws…
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- SEAMUS HEANEY
Comparision between the poems PUNISHMENT and CASUALTY by Seamus Heaney
punishment and casualty both have similar figures of speech like enjambment, personification, simile, metaphor, caesura, and many more. therefore the style of writting is very similar and the…
- LITTLE WOMEN
Ultimately why was Amy a better choice to marry Laurie in Little Women? Why was Amy chosen rather…
As much as I like Laurie, I don’t think he would have ever been intelligent enough for Jo in the long run. I can only say this now that I am actually married. It turns out, the puppy-love crushes…
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- FRANKENSTEIN
Victor, is he really selfish?In every character analysis I read of Victor Frankenstein, the first…
In response to your last statement, that’s one of the great things about literature: it’s open to interpretation. If what you think is different from the criticism, it doesn’t mean that you’re…
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- THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Whate is the meaning of “the divine quality of mercy”?it is a theme in merchant of venice there’s…
This line is spoken by Portia when she has just told Shylock that he must be merciful towards Antonio with regard to his debt. She gives a long speech about the quality of mercy and how it blesses…
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- OF MICE AND MEN
What forms and features are present in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men that convey Modernist…
Modernism is, of course, extremely broad and far reaching. One element of Modernism that plays a part in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is Marx’s revelation that class systems are created, not…
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- MATH
x^2 + 2x -8 > 0 find x values.x^2 + 2x -8 > 0 find x values.
x^2 + 2x – 8 > 0 First let us facotor: x^2 + 2x -8 = (x+4)(x-2) > 0 Then we have two cases: In order for the function to be positive, then : (x+4) > 0 AND (x-2) > 0 ==> x > -4…
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- SCIENCE
I am embarking on a project in which I hope to demonstrate that salt makes ice melt. The…
Anyone who lives in a section of the country where highways freeze probably knows that salt is sometimes sprinkled on the roadways to promote melting of the ice. From this knowledge, or other…
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- THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
Looking for a symbol in The Catcher in the Rye.I have to do a summer assignment, and I need just…
One of the symbols in the novel The Catcher in the Rye is near the end: the carousel in the park. Holden goes home to see his sister Phoebe and he takes her to Central Park. While there, Phoebe…
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- DEATH OF A SALESMAN
When Linda says “Life is a casting off” what does she mean?What type of rhetorical device is this…
Rhetorically speaking, the device is a metaphor because the phrase states that one thing takes the place of another. In this case, life is not life, but a casting off. What Linda meant by this is…
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- A TALE OF TWO CITIES
What do you think Dickens is saying about death and resurrection in Carton’s final vision of the…
In A Tale of Two Cities, Sydney Carton has an idealized, romantic love for Lucie Manette. Since he cannot marry her as she loves Charles Darnay and marries him, Carton settles for a platonic…
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- ROLAND BARTHES
Explain the essay “The Death of the Author” by Roland Barthes.
When evaluating a selection of literature, Roland Barthes in his 1967 essay, “Death of the Author” felt that the author should be set aside. His argument emphasizes that the author is the…
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- THE SNIPER
Is the setting of the Story important to the events that occur in “The Sniper”?
The setting of “The Sniper” is quite significant because in order for the story’s plot and surprise ending to work, it has to take place in a place and during a time when relatives–even…
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- THE GOOD EARTH
When Wang Lung becomes swept up with the mob and enters the rich mans house is the gold he gets…
With revolution in the air and confusion and fear abounding, the gift of money from the fearful man to Wang Lung contributes greatly to his fortune. For, the next day Wang Lung and his family…
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- MACBETH
What mistake is Macbeth making at the end of this scene? What words and processes help to build…
Macbeth makes many mistakes: in judgment, strategically, and in what we today would call public relations. I assume you’re referring to the mistake his wife points out, which would fall into the…
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- REFERENCE
What are five names for a horse that mean fast?for example flash or nitro
There are probably any number of names that might fit the bill. My first thought is Lightning. There must be many more!
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- ARTS
How have Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists used symbolism to transform oral…
You should research Tracey Moffatt who’s an Aboriginal Australian artist who does a lot of works about how adolescence suffers. In one her collections which she made a second series called Scarred…
- GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Describe the residents of the house at Mill Pond bank in Chapter 46 of Great Expectations by…
In Chapter XLVI of Great Expectations, Pip goes to the house at Mill Pond bank to locate Provis. After some difficulty, Pip finally locates it; the name Whimple is on the door. However, after Pip…
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- GREAT EXPECTATIONS
In chapters 9-10, How have Pip’s expectations changed? What does he expect now?Great Expectations…
Prior to his going to Miss Havisham’s, Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook have felt that Pip would have the opportunity to gain some kind of fortune. However, after his visit, and the cruelty of Estella and…
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- GREAT EXPECTATIONS
In Chapter 9-10, Why do Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook believe Pip’s tale?Great Expectations by Charles…
Uncle Pumblechook of Dickens’s Great Expectations is a stereotype of the rising middle class that aspires to be wealthy and to imitate what Dickens considered a frivolous aristocracy. In short, he…
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- GREAT EXPECTATIONS
In Chapter 8 of Great Expectations, how do Pip and Estella interact?Is there proof?
When Pip is escorted by Uncle Pumblechook to Manor House, also called ironically, Satis House, Estella is short with Pumblechook and condescending to Pip. Sarcastically, she tells Pip who looks…
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- BUSINESS
I need a 500 words opinion on producers duties to the consumer?
I would think that much of this can come from any discussions, handouts, readings, or instructor analysis that has been presented to you. You might have to incorporate some of these elements in…