What is the difference between Impressionism and Expressionism in literature?

To answer your question, one must first define both
Impressionism and Expressionism.

Impressionism was a period
which emerged in the Nineteenth century and was prominent during the 1870s and 1880s.
Impressionistic literature characteristically detailed the author's impression (idea,
opinion, or feeling about something) regarding a scene. Impressionism is sometimes
related to symbolism given that impressionists characteristically offer a description of
life using emotions and sensations.

Expressionism was a
period which emerged during the late Nineteenth century and moved into the early
Twentieth. This movement was most prominent from 1910 to 1925. Expressionistic
literature characteristically detailed

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distorted objective features of the sensory world
using symbolism and dream-like elements in their works illustrating the alienating and
often emotionally overwhelmed
sensibilities.

While both
movements relied upon the senses, Expressionists focused upon the overwhelming aspects
of emotions while Impressionists used emotions to describe life in
general.

Basically, Expressionists are using their emotions
to define their words and Impressionists are using their words to define their
emotions.

What are some conflicts in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from chapters 1-15?

The most significant conflict from the first fifteen
chapters is the one that pits Huck against his father. Huck is abused, verbally and
physically, by his drunken father, Pap Finn.

Pap wants to
take over the upbringing of his son and find a way to get Huck's money. Huck is
endangered by his father and so must escape from him. 

This
external conflict leads Huck to devise a plan to fake his own death and head down the
river. 

An internal conflict that appears in these early
chapters relates to Huck's moral dilemma. When Huck meets Jim on the island and hears
Jim's story, he realizes that he is going to have to choose sides. He wil either side
with Jim, keeping his secret and helping his run away, or he will side with "society",
agreeing with its laws and morals and turning Jim in. 

Huck
is divided about what the right thing to do is in this situation. He chooses to side
with Jim but remains conflicted.

Are death and sucide a part of the confessional mode in Sylvia Plath's poetry?

Typical characteristics of Confessional poetry are
:

-The use of "I"
stories

-Descriptions of personal life (including family
trials and personal struggles)

-Craft was true to poetic
conventions and forms

The most famously known
Confessionalists were Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia
Plath.

Given that the poetry of Sylvia Plath dealt with
themes common to typical works of the Confessionalits (suicide, death, and mental
illness), Plath definitely fits properly into the category of the
Confessionalist.

Her poem "Barren Woman" deals with her
inner feelings about her depression. In the poem "Daddy", Plath openly talks about
murdering her father (perhaps figuratively based upon personal interpretation "Daddy, I
have had to kill you"). The poem "Cut" includes Plath's feelings on injuring herself
superficially to ending her life- "I have taken a pill to
kill."

Simplistically, any work in which one openly
discusses and states personal feelings regarding their own life and the happenings in
their life would be considered Confessional.

Do you think Duncan's remark about inverness is ironical? Comment in the light of Banquo's dialouge.

DUNCAN

This
castle hath a pleasant seat; the air
Nimbly and sweetly
recommends itself
Unto our gentle
senses.

BANQUO

This
guest of summer,
The temple-haunting martlet, does
approve,
By his loved mansionry, that
the heaven's
breath

Smells wooingly
here: no jutty, frieze,
Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but
this bird
Hath made his pendent bed and procreant
cradle:
Where they most breed and haunt, I have
observed,
The air is
delicate.

These
are the lines with which act I scene VI of Macbeth begin. King
Duncan, Banquo and others have just arrived at the gate of Macbeth's castle,
Inverness. Duncan's remark is highly ironical because he expresses
a deep sense of sweet calm in amn innocent admiration of the castle and its environment.
But he can hardly apprehend that the castle which he designates as "a pleasant seat" is
soon going to become a horror house of death for him. Duncan's lack of knowledge in this
regard and his spontaneous remark contrary to the impending event make the words spoken
by him so ironical.

Banquo's response is also a piece of
verbal irony. He too does not apprehend anything about Macbeth's
foul ambition as being activated by Lady Macbeth. Banquo continues in the same vein as
Duncan has just spoken. He refers to the " temple-haunting martlet" having
built its nest in some corner of the castle, believing it to be a safe and secure place
full of rest and peace, suitable for procreation and caring the little ones. Banquo too
refers, like Duncan, to the "nimble" and "sweet" air, and feels it to be
"the heaven's breath". But we know that in
actuality the castle is soon going to turn into a veritable
hell.

What impression does Lockwood get of Wuthering Heights and its inhabitants when he leaves for home for the second time? chapter 2

In chapter 2 of Emily Bronte's Wuthering
Heightswe find Lockwood in a very awkward situation. He enters Wuthering
Heights and, from the moment he goes inside, he sees some of the weirdest relationships
and behaviors that he has yet to see in his life.

The first
thing that strikes Lockwood is the treatment that he is given: Nobody cares about the
fact that he has just come inside from a snow storm, that he is cold, that he needs
lodging, nor that he should be treated at least with some respect as a guest. This is
what would have been typically expected of hosts during Victorian
England.

However, he gets the exact opposite: He is let in
with disdain, ignored for the most part, and openly able to take a part inside the
family drama and dysfunctional structure.

First, he meets a
disheveled young man who constantly argues with a beautiful fair-haired woman. She, in
turns glances at Lockwood with anger and contempt. Things are obviously not well between
the two young persons.

Right after he is quite mistreated
by them, in comes the scary and powerful person of Heathcliff. Heathcliff is the most
hateful of them all. He treats both Cathy and Hareton (which are the names of the young
woman and the messy-looking young man) as servants. However, Lockwood can tell that they
cannot be servants because they sit at table with Heathcliff. As Lockwood inquires
about everyone's identity he receives more and more ugly remarks. In the end, he
realizes that Cathy is Heathcliff's daughter-in-law, that her former husband is now dead
(Heathcliff's son), and that Heathcliff seems to hate
her.

In a similar note, Hareton Earnshaw is also treated
like a butler and Heathcliff makes a clear note that Hareton is not his son. This is
indicative that Heathcliff also thinks very lowly of
Hareton.

In all, Lockwood witnesses a very dysfunctional
family whose members hate each other, and who live under the same roof, eat at the same
table, and share lodgings for whatever mysterious
reason.

It is understandable that Lockwood absolutely
leaves with a horrid impression of these people and vows never to return to Wuthering
Heights again.

Explain the resolution of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Author Harper Lee ties together the two parts of
To Kill a Mockingbird in the final chapters of her novel. Part One
primarily deals with Jem's and Scout's fascination with the unseen Boo Radley, who they
finally realize is not the ghoulish night prowler that local rumor portrays. By the end
of the first half of the novel, the children have given up their games and attempts to
make contact with him, allowing Boo the privacy that he desires. Part Two centers on the
trial of Tom Robinson and its aftermath. It is apparent that Tom is innocent of the rape
charges and that Bob and Mayella Ewell have concocted the tale. Tom is convicted and
later killed; Bob is not satisfied with the final results, however, and he makes threats
against Atticus and his family. On the fateful Halloween night, the two plots are tied
together when Bob attempts to make good on his threats, attacking Jem and Scout on their
way home from school. It is then that Boo finally decides to make his first appearance
in the novel, coming to the children's rescue and killing Bob in the process. Bob's
death is a fitting end for the man who has caused Tom's death, and Boo becomes the hero,
saving Scout and Jem and earning the eternal thanks of Atticus. In the end, Scout comes
to better understand two of Atticus' favorite lessons: That it's a "sin to kill a
mockingbird" and how one must step inside another man's skin before first judging
him.

What is the significance of having the made-up Terrance Mann in the film, Field of Dreams, as opposed to J.D. Salinger as the reclusive writer...

I think that the very idea of Salinger appearing in film
would have caused a litigious nightmare that the producers would have not wanted for the
film.  I think that Salinger was so protective of his privacy that to be included in
film and in such a public way would have been a vision of nightmarish proportions for
the producers. They must have understood this.  Salinger threatened legal action through
his lawyers against Kinsella in the publication of Shoeless Joe. He
backed off of this claim because of financial reasons.  However, one also would have had
to figure that the mercurial Salinger saw something in the last name of the author as
being mentioned in one of his own writings decades before.  He relented on this end to
be a character in the book, but instructed his lawyers to specifically prevent his
likeness from being present in a film of the book.  The filmmakers understood this,
reason being why Terrence Mann represents every bit of Salinger in the film.  The book's
depiction of Salinger is a bit gentler, but the desire for reclusivity is all there as
well as the disenchantment that he feels about the results of his writing.  Terrance
Mann is also perfect because he is of a different race than Salinger, helping to enhance
both the differences as well as the similarity to him.  Salinger probably did more to
enhance his publicity by demanding not to be in the film, as nearly everyone watching
understood who was being portrayed.  To this end, it is significant that Mann is in the
movie and not Salinger himself.

When equality and liberty meet conflict, which one goes first?I want to support equality.

I love the way this question is phrased.  It's quite
classic and really epic in its phraseology.  I do think that some level of specifics are
needed in terms of time period, historical context, some level of conditions are all
needed in order to really effectively answer this
question.

Specificity is needed because there might need to
be a clear distinction that indicates there is a potential tradeoff between the two. 
Usually, both concepts have been presented to complement one another.  For example, the
American Revolution stressed both in The Declaration of Independence.  Both equality and
liberty were seen as needed ends that were being denied by the British government and
both served as animating forces in need for the colonists to be free.  In the French
Revolution, both were mentioned as complementing symbols that were being denied by the
Monarchy.  There has been a tendency to see equality as something whereby freedom is
applied to all.  In this context, both are seen from a historical point of view as
complementary to one another, a necessary partnership that has ushered change into a
political and social setting.

If there is a simple answer
to the question, it would have to be that it depends.  Part of the reason it depends
lies in the strength of the political authority and what fundamental beliefs the
political structure wishes to enforce.  Governments sometimes have used one as a
potential "cover" to enforce their own agendas at the cost of the theoretical
principle.  For example, Nazi Germany asserted the fundamental liberty of the German
state, the fatherland.  In this assertion of a collectivized notion of freedom
predicated upon inequality, "freedom" came at the cost of others' inequality.  In
American History, the end of the Civil War and the passage of the Civil War Amendments
provided a national base of "equality" from the most theoretical point of view.  Yet,
there was still a sense of inequality and denial of individual liberty for people of
color that was not rectified for nearly a century after the end of the Civil War
conflict.  In both settings, the political institution paraded one concept in an
inauthentic manner to the detriment of the perceived expectation of the other idea.  It
is for this reason why more detail and more specificity is needed in a greatly worded
question.

In "The Open Window," what are some questions Vera asks Framton about the peole and her aunt?

As the story opens, and we are given some crucial
background information regarding Mr. Framton Nuttel and his reason for sojourning in the
countryside amongst strangers, Vera very astutely asks two questions that quickly
establish how much he does and doesn't know about where he is. If we look at the story,
whilst her aunt is getting ready to descent, we can see that Vera asks these two
following questions:

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Do you know many of the people around
here?

Then you know practically nothing about my
aunt?

It is only when we
reach the end of the story and re-read these questions that we recognise the cunning and
astute nature of Vera. She asks these questions, cleverly disguised as polite,
conversation-making questions, which allow her to ascertain whether Mr. Framton Nuttel
would be a suitable victim of one of her incredible fictions. Having gained sufficient
signs of his complete ignorance about Vera and her family and environs, Vera identifies
that Mr. Framton Nuttel is something of a blank canvas to work on and subjects him to
the full power of her storytelling talent.

I need to find a real life example of an internal conflict that has been resolved constructively preferably or at least had some form of positive...

I think that you might want to look at how individuals in
history have dealt with internal conflicts and the manner they approached in terms of
seeking resolution.  A great example of this might be with President Obama.  In his
memoir, Dreams from My Father, he deals with the conflicts that
arise from race/ ethnicity. It is a very good study of how individuals must approach the
internalized nature of social conflict and how one endures multiple emotions in such a
process.  Obama details the internal difficulty in trying to understand how race/
ethnicity play a role in one's identity, even if one is not aware of it.  This helps to
bring out how individuals have to approach conflicts on an internal level, even if they
are socially based.  Obama never asked to be involved into the discourse on race and
ethnicity as a child and as an adolescent.  Yet, it was something that he was forced to
reckon with on an individual level because it impacted his sense of being in the world. 
It might be interesting for you to examine through the book how he approached this
internal conflict and how he sought to resolve it constructively into the sense of
identity he holds as an older person today.

Please critique my answer to a question about societal change and agents of conquest in Guns, Germs, and Steel. Question is: How do the...

This depends a lot on how your own teacher understands the
meaning of this question.  When I ask this question, I am asking much more about the
second part of the question.  If this were my class, I'd say you overanswered the first
part of the question and really did not answer the second
part.

To me, the first part of the question can be answered
simply by saying that institutions of society become more complex and more organized
over time.  I'm not asking why this happened, just what the change
was.

The main part of the question, then, is something like
"why did becoming more complex and organized help societies get the agents of
conquest."  This is something you haven't answered.  You need to talk about why a
"state" (in Diamond's terms) has more agents of conquest than a band or a tribe does.  I
would say that complex institutions like centralized governments make a large society
possible.  A large society is capable of creating the technology that gives such
societies a huge advantage over primitive societies.  It is able to create the riches
that pay for these technologies.  In other words, to get "guns, germs, and steel" (and
writing and other such things) you need a large society.  In order to get a large
society, you need complex institutions of society.

So, I
would really not spend so much time talking about what makes societies become more
complex.  I would spend more time talking about why a complex society has more "agents
of conquest."

What is the effect of the ending in We?

The ending to Zamyatin's work is one where there is
difficulty in finding hope.  D-503 has become a being where there is no hope for
change.  The idea of "reason must prevail" is one whereby the individual's voice for
freedom and change has become subjugated by the totalizing force of political society. 
"We" has won, and the result is that D-503 is gone.  At the same time, O-90 has escaped
in order to have her child in primitive world of freedom.  The construction of reality
is one whereby freedom is something elusive, requiring individuals to risk everything in
order to have it.  O-90 has to escape in order to be a human being and raise her child
as one.  While there might be hope here, I think that Zamyatin is smart enough to avoid
such a expected hope.  The fact that O-90 has lived her life without freedom for so long
begs the question as to how easily she will be able to transform her life now that it is
with her.  The lessons that must be taught to the child must first be taught to her in
this new condition, one that is vastly different from the life she has led.  In this
ending, there is a shroud of mystery as to how things will progress and whether there
will be redemption for human beings.

Discuss the character of Jocasta briefly in the play Oedipus Rex.

Jocasta is the wife and mother of Oedipus. In her first
scene, she is extremely upset when Creon and Oedipus are arguing. She shames them,
reminding them that the country is in a state of suffering from the plague that resides
on the country. She stops the argument.

At first, Jocasta
is convinced that Oedipus could not have been King Laius's murderer. She claims that
highwaymen killed King Laius:

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She assures Oedipus that the oracle proclaiming
Laius's murder by his own son was false, since Laius was killed by highwaymen, and his
son had been left "to die on a lonely
mountainside."

With that
being said, Oedipus begins thinking about the man he killed on the highway. He remembers
killing a man on the highway. They send for the messenger who witnessed King Laius's
murder. He begins sharing the details.

While Oedipus is
adding up the details, Jocasta is also filling in the blanks. When she realizes that
Oedipus is her son and husband, she cannot bear to think upon
it.

Jocasta tries to stop the messenger form stating what
she has just figured out:

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Later in the same scene she tries to stop him
from questioning the messenger regarding his true father: "May you never learn who you
are!"

She is realizing that
Oedipus is indeed her son. She cannot bear to live with the fact. She goes to her room
and hangs herself.

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In her final speech she calls Oedipus
"miserable'' and says she will have no other name for him. Towards the end of the play a
second messenger reports that she has hanged herself, giving a moving account of her
wailing and physical expressions of grief during her last
moments.

Express the following in simplified form without zero and negative exponents (2a^3 b^-3 c^-1 / 3a^-2 b^-2 c^3)^3Show complete solution to explain...

According to exponential law, when powers are divided,
their exponents are subtracted.

n^a / n^b =
n^a-b

Take a look at each variable by itself.  Subtract the
exponents.  Remember that minus negative becomes
addition.

a^3 / a^-2 = a^(3 - -2) =
a^5

b^-3 / b^-2 = b^(-3 - -2) =
b^-1

c^-1 / c^3 = c^(-1 - 3) =
c^-4

The variables with positive exponents will be part of
the numerator and the variables with negative exponents will be part of the
denominator.

numerator: 
2a^5

denominator:  3b^1c^4

The
entire fraction, both numerator and denominator, is raised to the 3rd
power.

numerator:
(2a^5)^3

denominator:
(3b^1c^4)^3

According to exponential law, to find the power
of a power, you multiply the exponents.  Remember to also distribute the exponent 3 to
the contants.

numerator:  2^3 * a^(5*3) =
8a^15

denominator:  3^3 * b^(1*3) * c^(4*3) =
27b^3c^12

The final simplified answer
is...

(8a^15) /
(27b^3c^12)

In Freak the Mighty, how would you describe the climax?

In Philbrick's Freak the Mighty, the
climax of the novel happens very close to the end of the novel when Kevin (Freak)
dies.

A climax is:

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the moment in a play, novel, short story, or
narrative poem at which the crisis comes to its point of greatest intensity and is
resolved.

Therefore, all of
the conflict (the fighting with the Tony D. and his gang, the kidnapping of Max, and the
hospitalizations of Freak) all lead up to the death of
Freak.

After Freak dies, Max is able to understand what he
must do to survive without Freak. Max has become stronger, learned about true
friendship, and realized that he is capable of standing up for himself and
others.

Therefore, the climax of the novel is Freak's death
given the falling action and resolution are the places where Max comes to terms with
everything that has happened over his time with Freak.

What would be an effective synopsis of "Homeboy" from The Autobiography of Malcoln X.

Undoubtedly, one of the strongest elements of
The Autobiography of Malcolm X is how it reflects what it means to
be Black in America.  in this, the work operates as a form of social history. 
Certainly, "Homeboy" is a great study in this realm.  Essentially, this chapter
addresses how there is pain and suffering in both the conditions of the rural person of
color, seen in Malcolm's experiences in the previous chapters,  and the urban person of
color, seen in this one.

Malcolm is immersed in the urban
setting.  This is one that is synonymous with superficiality, the life of ongoing
partying, drugs, gambling, and promiscuity in sex.  In this chapter, the hedonistic
urban setting is shown to have debilitating impacts on people of color.  "Homeboy" shows
how such a false construction of power actually contributes to individuals having little
chance of success in the future.  On one hand, Malcolm feels happy about being in a
setting that is predominantly Black in his life in Roxbury.  Yet, in recollection he
understands that this stress this community placed in the superficial pursuits of
happiness were self- destructive.  The chapter details how such self- indulgent pursuits
cannot lead to anything significant or substantial.  Instead, he recognizes that the
urban life for those who are of color is filled with a desire to be something or someone
else, as seen in "zoot suits" and "conking" hair, and dominated with pursuits that are
not lasting and do not possess a sense of permanence in being.

How can I paraphrase the following quote while including what it means. "Then it occurred to me that none of the books in the class or in any of...

The quote refers to the fact that all readers come to a
text with different backgrounds, histories, circumstances, and
upbringings.

The quote can be paraphrased in the following
way:

I
finally understood that every book, movie, and magazine, I had ever come across, failed
to depict my own house. It seemed that everyone I knew could find their own lives in
those things. I
cannot.

Basically, what you
are trying to say is that no book you have ever encountered details the events which
happen in your own life, your house.

The tragedy of this is
that authors try to find some aspect of a person's life which they can depict in a text
so that the reader will engage in the novel (or text). When a text does not offer a
reader any aspect to relate to, the reader typically fails to gain a deeper
understanding of the text.

What is the difference between text and discourse?

While there are instances where and individuals who use
text and discourse as basically synonymous terms, there is a difference in their
definitions as regards agents (who and whom) and purpose fulfilled. In text, agents are
not a critical factor: there may agents, there may not be. For example, in CERN press
release text, there are none: information is being reported, that's all. In a novel's
text, there are agents, such as Elizabeth and Darcy in Pride and
Prejudice, who carry on a conversational discourse amongst themselves that
the reader observes. The propose of text, therefore, is to relay or communicate
information and may often be
non-interactive, meaning the reader of
the text is an observer.

While
discourse is used in a nontechnical
sense to mean conversational communication, linguistics, narratology and literary theory
have developed a technical meaning to
discourse. It is this meaning that
confuses the issue of the difference between text and discourse. To start with,
conversational discourse as between you and your friend or Elizabeth and Darcy is a
behavioral event, called a recognizable speech event, that has individual purpose.
Contrastingly, discourse in linguistics, narratology, and literary theory is a social
event of multi-layered communication in a variety of media (verbal, textual, visual,
audial) that has an interactive social
purpose.

To study text, you study the written words that communicate
some information: structure, theme, meaning, rhetorical devices, etc. To study
discourse, you study who is communicating with whom through what medium and for what
social purpose. Let’s use this answer as an example. To study or analyze the
text, you will note the overall structure and (most
importantly!) you will grasp the meaning of the content as it answers your question. To
study or analyze the discourse, you will determine who is
communicating with whom through what medium and for what social
purpose.

Let's analyze discourse together. In this answer I am
communicating with you through a textual medium--but not you alone. I am also
communicating with the larger social group made up of anyone who reads this after you
do--and the discourse goes two ways as you or others comment upon, makes notes about,
talk about, etc. my side of the discourse. This answer builds an intricate social
network of participants in a multiple-direction interactive  discourse. What is the
purpose of this discourse? Well, that is more complex; there may be many levels of
purpose.

Of the many, the most obvious purpose is to answer your
question and differentiate between text and discourse. Another purpose is for me to
articulate ideas about concepts that are important to me. Another purpose is to respect
your--and other readers--personal background and educational system while I do so. This
is discourse: it has multiple interactive layers and it has multiple complex social
purpose.

The same analysis can be applied to your conversation with
your friend and to the text of Pride and Prejudice: you can find
the multiple layers in various media that comprise the social event and the various
purposes of discourse. In summary:
Text is a behavioral non-interactive event restricted to your experience with
understanding its characteristics and its meaning or information as its singular
purpose. Discourse, in any medium, is a social interactive event with many layers of
communication and many layers of purpose.

Can you explain the relationship between agriculture and the development of technology in Guns, Germs, and Steel?

The best place to find an answer to this question is
Chapter 13.  There, Diamond gives two reasons why agriculture leads to the development
of technology.

The first reason comes from the fact that
agriculture generally makes people stay in one place rather than roaming nomadically. 
When this happened, people could accumulate more possessions since they didn't have to
carry them everywhere with them.  They could then have more of a use for technologies
(Diamond gives the example of a loom) that were not
portable.

The second reason comes from the fact that
agriculture makes more food available.  Farmers can produce enough to feed themselves
and their families and still have a surplus.  This surplus
can feed specialists who can do things like creating and using
technology.

In these two ways, agriculture leads (Diamond
says) to the development of technology.

Do you blame The Postmaster for his decision to leave without Ratan?

Yes, I have no problem blaming the postmaster for what he
did to Ratan.  I try not to speak in absolutes, as a rule, because there are always
different levels to individual action.  Yet, I do believe that the postmaster does
deserve a great deal of blame for abandoning Ratan.  I think that Tagore does an
excellent job of showing the love that an orphan has for someone who gives a fragment of
human emotion. Ratan suffers from a typical abused child condition.  She shows absolute
loyalty and devotion to one who shows even the slightest of affection towards her.  In
this, she demonstrates complete dedication to the postmaster.  She attends to his needs,
takes care of him when he is sick, and does not ask for anything in return.  His
teaching her to read and write was only to sustain his time there and not be bored. 
There was no other reason for him to do this.  She repays this debt and then
some.

When she asks him to take her with him, his reaction
of laughing is indicative. The postmaster does not even show her the slightest of
respect in acknowledging her request with a response.  He dismisses it, and, in the
process, dismisses her.  In this instance, Tagore shows the fundamental distinction
between those that have power and those who do not.  At that moment, Tagore displays
what it means to be an insider and what it means to be an outsider.  It is within this
singular entity that the postmaster's character is on display.  When he offers her money
at the end, her need to run away is a representation of so much.  The sadness, longing,
and shame of being treated as nothing more than a servant is what strikes her.  He does
give her at least the decency of a thought while he is on the boat.  Yet, his
rationalization that hearts are broken and people suffer as a fact of life does little
to console her.  If nothing else, it is an excuse for him to not have to face the
consequences of his actions of abandonment.  It is here where I sense that there is
blame for him to be given.  It is here where I think that Tagore elevates Ratan to a
heroine status.  The fact that her wandering around the village in the vain hope of the
postmaster's return is a reminder to the reader that at some point in one's life, one
will feel the sting of abandonment as Ratan does.  At least for an instant, Ratan is a
central figure.

What specific historical allusions is Huxley trying to make in Brave New World?

Huxley takes the title of his novel Brave New
World from Shakespeare's The
Tempest:

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"O wonder!...How many goodly creatures there are
here!...How beauteous mankind is!...O brave new world that has such people in
it!"

Names are also
symbolic:

• A.F. ("After Ford"): time is kept
  according to Henry Ford's assembly line
  technology.


• Bernard Marx: named after Karl Marx, a
  proponent of the socialist/communist state


• Lenina: named
  after Lenin, the cruel head of the U.S.S.R.


• Hemholtz
  Watson: "named by Huxley after John B. Watson, the founder of the Behaviorist School of
  psychology)"


• John: a "Noble Savage" based on the work of
  the Romantic writers (Rousseau) who said that:


• a person
  raised in a primitive world, away from western civilization, has a purity of heart that
  civilized people lack (although Huxley does not portray the primitive world as a
  paradise)


• Neo-Pavlovian conditioning: kids are negatively
  conditioned to hate books and nature using the methods of Ivan Pavlov's work with
  conditioning of dogs


• Caste system: loosely based on the
  Hindu Caste system which also has five levels (priest, warrior, merchant, artisan,
  outcast)


• Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy: a spoof on football
  which requires elaborate equipment and played in a large
  field.


• Soma: "an intoxicating drink prepared from a plant
  and used in Vedic ritual, believed to be the drink of the gods."
  

What is the significance of Benjamin's cryptic remarks from not sharing the self-congratulatory atmosphere in Chapter 3 of Orwell's Animal Farm?

Benjamin is a steady as a rock. Benjamin's remarks are
significant in that he understands that it is not wise to believe in a perfect world.
While the other animals are thinking that life is better without Mr. Jones, Benjamin is
the same old donkey. He does not change. He is steadfast. He does not work harder or
less. He is dependable no matter the circumstances.

Truly,
wisdom comes with age. Things are not always what they seem. Benjamin has insight from
all his years of experience. He does not get overly excited about the changes and
rightly so. He does not take on more than his work load as Boxer does. Benjamin will not
get let down when the changes occur. He will not be disappointed or confused because he
does not allow his expectations to be more than what they should be. He does not expect
things to be better. It is what it is. That is Benjamin's
attitude.

Benjamin lives a long time because he does not
over work himself. He paces himself and gets the job done. He realizes that he will not
be appreciated any more or less for his work ethic. In many ways, he is probably more
content because he does not raise his expectations to an unrealistic
level.

In his cynicism Benjamin
survives:

He
is a sad cynic who believes that whatever the animals do, conditions on the farm will
remain equally as
bad.

Benjamin is right.
Things on the farm never change for the better. He rarely gets disappointed. Only when
his friend Boxer is taken away to be slaughtered does Benjamin seem upset. If only Boxer
had adopted Benjamin's attitude, he would possibly still be
alive.

According to old Benjamin, things never would change
on the farm:

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Only old Benjamin professed to remember every
detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much
better or much worse--hunger, hardship and disappointment being, so he said, the
unalterable law of
life.

Perhaps, Benjamin knows
best. None of the other animals had ever seen a dead donkey.

Explain the following lines in "The Rape of the Lock"? "whether the nymph shall break diana's law,or some frail chaina jar recieve a flaw, or stain...

The following lines appear in Canto Two, lines 105-106, of
Pope's poem "The Rape of the Lock."

Canto Two delivers the
main conflict of the poem. Belinda is a beautiful woman with locks of hair that many
desire. While out on a boat, Belinda's locks are looked upon by the Baron. The Baron is
so obsessed with Belinda's locks that he had previously built an alter so that he could
ask for success in obtaining the locks.

At the end of the
canto, the following lines appear:

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Whether the Nymph shall break Diana's
law,

Or some frail China jar receive a
flaw,

The lines refer to the
charge the nymphs have in regards to Belinda. In Canto One, the lines depict the fact
that nymphs have been charged with the position to watch out for and protect Belinda
based upon the fact that Ariel has had a premonition that harm will come to
Belinda.

The lines simply mean that, regardless of the laws
set, the nymphs will do what ever needed to protect Belinda so that the "frail China
jar" (Belinda) will not be damaged.

"Present fears / are less than horrible imaginings." Describe Macbeth's state of mind as he makes his way to Duncan's chambers in Shakespeare's...

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, I expect
that he is at war with himself during the "dagger scene." As he makes his way to
Duncan's rooms, he cannot help but think about Duncan—a man he has served faithfully on
the battlefield. Macbeth loves his King, who is also his friend and his cousin. He has
tried to stop the chain of events by telling his wife they will go no further with their
plans, but she rips him apart, insulting his manhood and badgering him into
acquiescence. This speaks to Macbeth's inner-weakness, his ambition (which is his
character flaw—his "tragic flaw"), and Lady Macbeth's ability to manipulate this husband
who at the start of the play seems so dedicated to her—even as she insults
him.

Macbeth is quite aware that what he is about to do
will compromise his immortal soul: the Elizabethans believed that killing a King was a
mortal sin. Only God can ordain who sits on the throne: not a mere man. (Macbeth
addresses this awareness in Act Three, scene one.)

It's
safe to assume that Macbeth's mind is beginning to fragment: it may well be the witches
that present the image of the dagger that seems to float through the air, leading
Macbeth on his way to kill the King. However, when he returns to his wife after the
murder, we see that he was not at all prepared for the task he carried out. He is
undone: raving and hysterical. He even comes back carrying the bloody murder
weapons.

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LADY
MACBETH:

… Go, get some
water

And wash this filthy witness from your
hand.

Why did you bring these daggers from the
place?

They must lie there. Go carry them, and
smear

The sleepy grooms with
blood.

MACBETH:

I'll
go no more:

I am afraid to think what I have
done;

Look on't again I dare not.
(II.ii.59-66)

Killing
is not unknown to Macbeth, but cold-blooded murder is. It is in
this part of the play that we see the last of the good-hearted man who left the
battlefield in Act One, scene three. From this point on— and he admits that he expects
to see this change—he will find murder easier each time he commits it. He will even
leave Lady Macbeth out of his plans and carry out some of the most barbaric acts one
could imagine: like killing Macduff's wife and children.

What aspect of Reverend Hale's character is shown when he stands by and watches Elizabeth being taken away?

To a great extent, Hale's faith in the system is shown
when he watches Elizabeth being taken away.  The scene is rife with emotional tension
all over the place.  John Proctor is screaming and protesting that he is going to get
his wife released.  Corey and Nurse stand on in mute shock.  Cheever is convinced he is
doing his part as an officer of the court and Herrick reluctantly must put her in
shackles.  Hale stands by and assures John that everything will be fine once the legal
process runs its course.  This shows Hale to be both a part of the machinery of Salem
and unaware of its motivations.  He has already spoken to both Proctors and should have
gained an understanding that the unity and symmetry that he initially was promised by
the likes of Parris is simply not present.  At the same time, Hale does not think of
objecting to Elizabeth's arrest when the evidence of the poppet is so flimsy.  It is
here where I think that Hale's character as being an apologist and part of the system is
evident.  He fails to question why a housewife is being arrested because of a small
doll.  He does not stop and ask what is being passed of as meeting an evidential
burden.  He simply accepts it as part of the legal configuration because in Hale's mind,
if the ruling bodies deem it acceptable, it must therefore be acceptable.  I think that
this aspect of Hale's character is brought out in this scene.

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, how do domestic animals interact with plants to increase crop production?

Diamond gives the answer to this question early in Chapter
4.  It is on page 88 in the paperback edition of the book, the page after Figure
4.1.

Diamond tells us that there are two ways in which
large domesticated animals interacted with plants to increase crop production.  First,
the presence of domesticated animals gave farmers fertilizer.  The dung from the animals
could be used to fertilize the crops, making the crops more productive.  Second, the
animals could be used to pull plows.  Before animal-pulled plows, people could only till
the soil by digging at it with sticks.  Once plows could be pulled by animals, more
areas of land (and better quality land) could be
cultivated.

In these two ways, large domesticated animals
interacted with plants to increase crop production.

What techniques are utilised to portray the 'change' in "The Road Not Taken"?

What change is it that you are refering to in this great
poem? Do you mean the way in which the final stanza suddenly projects the speaker into
his own imagined future when he will look back and think of the choice he made? I will
assume this is the case, but please respond to my answer if I have not understood your
question correctly.

Let us focus on the final stanza and
its content:

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I shall be telling this with a
sigh

Somewhere ages and ages
hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and
I--

I took the one less travelled
by,

And that has made all the
difference.

I think one of
the major techniques that is used in this final stanza is that of repetition. Note the
way in which the third line is basically a copy of the first line of the entire poem.
This of course helps to conclude the poem but also leads towards the way in which this
is a momentous decision that the speaker has to make. It helps us focus on the way in
which this one decision has "made all the difference" in terms of the future of the
speaker's life. Choosing the path "less travelled" has resulted in one specific kind of
future, whereas, it is suggested, if he had taken the other path, he would have had a
different kind of future.

The use of the word "sigh" in
this last stanza greatly interests me. It seems to point towards a kind of introspective
rumination about the kind of life that the speaker would have experienced had he
selected the other path. The title of the poem, focusing on "The Road Not Taken,"
likewise reinforces this view. To me, this captures the way in which we can often find
ourselves haunted by the decisions we have taken in our lives and the way that they have
resulted in our present realities. Major life decisions like not marrying or marrying
somebody, moving to a different city to take a job or refusing such an opportunity could
radically impact our lives, just like the two paths that lie before the speaker. Perhaps
the final stanza indicates a change of tone to a more introspective, meditative
wondering about different possible futures that the speaker could have enjoyed, but at
the same time sadness regarding the way that such alternative futures have been
irrevocably lost with the choice of one path over another.

What is derivative of function sin(1+x)*cos(1-x)?

We'll use the product rule to determine the derivative of
this function:

(u*v)' = u'*v +
u*v'

We'll use the chain rule to differentiate the terms of
the product.

Let u = sin(1+x) = > u' =
cos(1+x)

Let v = cos (1-x) => v' = -(-1)*sin(1 -
x)

The derivative of the function
is:

y' = cos(1+x)*cos(1-x) +
sin(1+x)*sin(1-x)

We'll transform the product of
trigonometric functions into products:

cos(1+x)*cos(1-x) =
(1/2)*[cos(1+x+1-x) + cos(1+x-1+x)]

cos(1+x)*cos(1-x) =
(cos 2 + cos (2x))/2

sin(1+x)*sin(1-x) =
(1/2)*[cos(1+x-1+x) - cos(1+x+1-x)]

sin(1+x)*sin(1-x) =
(cos (2x) - cos 2)/2

y' = [cos 2 + cos (2x) + cos (2x) -
cos 2]/2

y' = cos
2x

The derivative of the given function is:
y' = cos 2x

what does the quote you arent a true bee keeper if you dont get stung mean?

In a word, involvement. In order to truly take care of
bees, a beekeeper needs to have hands-on contact with the hives, cleaning and adding
frames and adjusting arrangements for temperature and collecting honey and insuring the
health of the inhabitants and other procedures that are not always appreciated by the
bees. Upset bees indicate that they are not happy with the beekeeper interfering with
their hive by stinging!

The message behind the quote
applies to more than just beekeeping. In most endeavors, the person who truly succeeds
in any realm of effort is the person who risks getting injured or making mistakes or
failing at first. The important thing is to learn from getting stung or being laughed at
or loosing out. Taking the lessons from those kinds of experiences and applying the
knowledge to future efforts enables one to eventually become a true beekeeper - or
whatever other aim one has.

What theory does the writer use in this novel?Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Recognized as the first animal autobiography of
consequence, Anna Sewell's Black Beauty was intended as a book to
enlighten people about the human treatment of animals, especially horses.  This
narrative places the cruel practice of fox hunting, as well as the inhumane, but
fashionable use of the bearing rein into the awareness of the public.  Sewell's skillful
use of detail helps the reader sense the cruel bit biting into Beauty's mouth and the
strained and painful agony he feels under the bearing
rein.

In writing Black Beauty, Anna
Sewell hoped that people would react to the inhumane practices of her day.  In fact, the
publication of her book had the greatest effect upon the human treatment of horses than
any other publication; it brought about the end of the traditional and fashionablel
practices that caused horses to suffer.  in addition, it has brought more humane
treatment of cats and dogs, too.

Why is the title of "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" written in question form?

The title presents us with a question that is answered
during the course of the story and also points us towards the way in which the story
serves as a kind of parable, which is a short, simple story that presents us with some
kind of moral lesson. Of course, the question is very careful to ask how much land a man
needs, as opposed to wants. This is crucial to
the understanding of the story, and is also refered to at the very end of the story in
its final paragraph, which ironically answers this
question:

His
servant picked up the spade and dug a grave long enough for pahom to lie in, and buried
him in it. Six feet from his head to his heels was all he
needed.

The question is thus
answered: a man only needs enough earth to be buried in, which of course ironically
contrasts with the vast stretches of land that the ever-more greedy Pahom desires. This
of course supports the theme of the story, which is that unchecked ambition and greed
destroys people. It was Pahom's desire to secure ever-greater plots of land that
directly lead to his death and made him unable to enjoy the simple pleasures of life
that he had. Having the title expressed as a question thus focuses our attention as
readers on the moral message of the story and also points towards the irony of how this
question is answered.

In William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, what are two examples (each) of symbolism, foreshadowing, and irony? Please provide full citations.

Symbolism, foreshadowing, and irony are three important
techniques used by William Shakespeare in his great tragedy
Othello.  In fact, one needn’t read very far into the play to
discover at least two examples of each
technique.

Symbolism, for
example, appears when Iago tells Brabantio that Othello and Desdemona are “making the
beast with two backs” (1.1.113).  Rather than simply stating plainly that Othello and
Desdemona are having sex, Iago uses vivid imagery and symbolism to suggest that Othello
and Desdemona are behaving monstrously and unnaturally (at least from the perspective of
Iago and Brabantio).  They are, he suggests, acting like irrational beasts rather than
like rational human beings – a claim that is ironic since
no one will behave in a more monstrous way in this play than will Iago himself.  Further
symbolism can be seen when Brabantio calls
out,

Give me a
taper . . .

Light, I say, light!
(1.1.138,141)

Brabantio seeks
literal light, but he also seeks symbolic enlightenment concerning the truth of the
charges against Othello and his daughter. Ironically, the
enlightenment he receives will darken his life and actually lead to his early death. 
The “light” he seeks here is part of a larger pattern of symbolism of light vs. darkness
that runs throughout the play.  (Later, Othello will both literally and symbolically
“put out the light” when he kills Desdemona
[5.1.7]).

Foreshadowing also
appears very early in the play, as when Brabantio, having discovered that Desdemona and
Othello are indeed married, feels betrayed and warns
Othello,

Look
to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:

She has deceived
her father, and may thee.
(1.3.287-88)

This warning, of
course, foreshadows Othello’s later murderous suspicion that Desdemona has indeed been
unfaithful to him. Ironically, however, Othello does not
really use his “eyes to see” Desdomona as she truly is (loyal and faithful) but rather
is deceived by Iago, not by Desdemona.  Further ironic
foreshadowing appears when Iago tells Roderigo that human
beings “have reason to cool our raging motions” (1.3.325) – a statement that foreshadows
Othello’s “raging motions” as well as his later failure to use his
reason.

Meanwhile, much of what Iago says throughout the
play exhibits irony, as in the words just quoted.  Iago
himself is full of “raging motions” (particularly in his vindictiveness toward Othello),
so it is ironic that he should counsel anyone else about giving in to passion. 
Moreover, Iago uses “reason” only in the most debased and corrupted senses of the word. 
Instead of using reason to “cool” rage, Iago uses reason to promote rage in himself and
others, whom he thereby manipulates.  This is why the term “Honest Iago” (1.3.289) –
which is used repeatedly throughout the play – is one of the most ironic terms in all of
Shakespeare.

How are the plot elements in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas influenced by the conflict that drives the text?

I am not sure that Boyne's work can actually function as
effectively outside of the Holocaust conflict that is present.  Everything in the work
is driven by the Holocaust.  Bruno's family having to be moved to Auschwitz is what sets
the story in motion.  The fact that Bruno refers to it as "Out- With" is another
implication of the Holocaust.  Bruno's seminal instruction of not to go on the "other
side" of the fence is something that reflects the condition of the Holocaust.  The
ambivalence that Maria feels early on and conveys to Bruno is Holocaust- based.  The
discoveries that Bruno makes about life in Auschwitz are all based upon the Holocaust. 
His friendship with Shmuel is poignant because both boys are alike, but the Holocaust
creates them as entirely different.  The zenith of the story, when Bruno honors his word
to help Shmuel find his family, is a poignant one because of the horror of the
Holocaust. Bruno's death is a result of the Holocaust creation of the gas chamber.  His
family's mourning, and his father's horrific realization, are all reflections of the
Holocaust's legacy on those who survived it and the ending with which Boyne concludes
the narrative about how this story "could not happen" today are all reflections of how
the Holocaust setting and the conflicts it presents drive the
story.

A square is inscribed in a circle of radius 7m. Find the area of the square.

To determine the area of the inscribed square, we need to
know the length of it's sides.

The diagonal of the square
is passing through the center of the circle and it represents the diameter of the
circle.

The diagonal of the square splits it in two right
angle isosceles triangles.

Since the diagonal represents
the hypotenuse and the legs of triangle are equal, then the other two angles of triangle
measure 45 degrees.

We'll use sine function to determine
the length of one leg of triangle.

sin 45 =
opp./hypotenuse

Let x be the length of the leg and the
hypotenuse is the diameter of the circle, which is 14
m.

`sqrt(2)` /2 =
x/14

`sqrt(2)` = x/7

x =
7`sqrt(2)`

Since we know the length of the side of the
square, we'll determine it's area:

A =
`x^(2)`

A = 7`sqrt(2)`
*7`sqrt(2)`

A = 98
`m^(2)`

The requested area of the square
measures 98 `m^(2)` .

Describe the difficulty and/or ease with which Arnold transferred to his new school in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

DIFFICULTIES: The other kids made fun of his name. He
wanted to be called Junior, and that seemed strange to them. After hearing his name read
as Arnold Spirit, they thought that was funny too. Junior is ignored by the pretty girls
and the jocks even though he desperately wants to be one of them. As time goes on at his
new school, he feels more and more alone and loses more and more of his heritage every
day.

EASE: Eventually, Junior comes to realize that he is
in fact more intelligent than most of the kids at the new school and this is evidenced
by who he makes a friend. Gordy is the local school nerd who accidentally stuck up for
Junior and this seals the beginnings of their friendship.

What is the theme of "A Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost?

The theme of this poem centers around choices, and which
ones bring us the fullest life as human beings.

In "The
Road Not Taken," we see someone in the woods at the fork in the road...pondering which
way would be the better one to travel.

The one path is one
he has traveled before...so it would be safe, and easy to travel. The other path is
unknown, and will be scary to travel because there will be more obstales in the way. The
author chooses to take "the road less traveled", and he concludes that this has made
"all the difference."

We assume then, that the moral or
theme of the poem is that choosing individuality...stepping out of the comfort zone and
being a nonconformist...following ones own heart and dreams...is what makes life full
and rich.

How does Maniac define a home in Maniac Magee?How does Maniac define a home?

If we look at Chapter Twelve, which is when Maniac Magee
finds his first more stable "home" compared to the shed in the park, we can see that
Manic Magee defines home as being an address that is recognised in the eyes of the
world. Note the way that he is unable to go to sleep in the Beale's house until he has
performed one very important operation:

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Before maniac could go to sleep, however, there
was somethign he had to do. He flipped off the covers and went downstairs. Before the
puzzled faces of Mr. and Mrs. Beale, he opened th front door and looked at the three
cast-iron digits nailed to the door frame: seven two eight. He kept staring at them,
smiling. Then he closed the door, said a cheerful "Goodnight," and went back to
bed.

Maniac Magee finally had an
address.

For a boy so used to
instability and having moved around so much, we can see the importance of an address and
the way that it symbolises a fixed abode and stands in opposition to his itinerant
lifestyle. However, if we look at the final chapter, when Maniac Magee is sleeping, in
all places, in a buffalo enclosure, when Amanda drags Maniac Magee back to his home, we
can see that home to him means something much more important. It is somewhere where he
belongs and is loved and is accepted without question.

What are some controversial issues in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian?

Racism is an obvious issue.
Rowdy, Junior's friend was almost racist against his own kind as he was mad at Junior
for being open to spending time with white people. The mascot at Junior's new high
school was an Indian which certainly felt a little racist to
him.

Education is inequitable.
On the reservation, it feels like education only occur for the students who want it, and
at that, not many do. Most Indians drop out anyways seems to be a common
attitude.

Government
assistance is a consistent issue that dominates the text as medical help,
type of glasses, and the welfare benefits or lack thereof are regularly referred to in
Junior's narration.

Alcoholism
is a consistent controversial issue on the reservations. In this story in particular,
Junior's dad's friend Eugene is considered a regular drunk driver who Junior actually
rides with during the novel at one point to get to
school.

Violence is a system
of managing behavior on the reservation. Parents express violence on children, and
children establish pecking order among each other in this
book.

These are the major controversial issues you will
find in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time
Indian.

In Guns, Germs, and Steel what is the relationship between food production and complex societies-does one lead to the other?Guns, Germs, and Steel...

In Chapter 14, Diamond tells us that there is not an
either-or answer to the question of which of these things leads to the other.  Complex
societies do not lead to food production or vice versa.  Instead, Diamond tells us (on
page 285 in the paperback edition) that these two things "stimulate each
other."

Of course, food production is needed to get a more
complex society.  There is no way to get a large and complex society without it. 
Diamond says that very few societies make it to the level of chiefdoms without food
production.  However, complex societies also make it easier to have food production. 
The existence of an organized government can make it possible for there to be public
works like irrigation systems that make food production more
possible.

So, the causation goes both ways.  Food
production and complex societies lead to one another.

How are the themes of witchcraft and rhetorical power portrayed in the play in relation to the main characters?

In terms of rhetorical power,
Iago uses imagery to twist what is said or understood. For example,
time after time, he allows Othello to believe something other than reality by
introducing a hypothetical situation or failing to use names. Other times he flat out
lies. For example in Act iv.i, he lets Othello imagine a "kiss in private" and being
"naked in bed with a friend". Both of these connote Desdemona and Cassio, but neither
name is ever mentioned. Other rhetorical devices that Iago uses include
puns and rhetorical questions. One line
captures both of these:

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Lie - with her, on her, what you
will.

Iago is playing with
the word "lie" to mean sex here in Othello's mind. Ironically, we audience members know
that it isn't true and an untruth is a lie. He leaves the end of the comment "what you
will" meaning that Othello can believe whatever he wants or can imagine. Iago is
purposely being non-chalant to let Othello get worked up about this affair that is
actually not happening between his wife and Cassio.

The
theme of witchcraft also comes through in this same scene.
Iago is thought to be a representative of the Devil and the religion or practice of the
Devil would certainly be witchcraft. Here, after causing Othello's mind to run so wild
that he falls into an epileptic siezure, Iago demonstrates witchcraft in two
ways:

My
medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught:
And many worthy and chaste
dames even thus,
All guiltless, meet
reproach.

First, he notes the
work he has done as "medicine". One of the first images people experience in thinking
about witchcraft has to do with a big black cauldron or spells being cast.
Medicine is an allusion to each of these. Then, his work is to
defeat the righteous. The words credulous, worthy, and
chaste all speak to goodness, the enemy of
evil.

What does purple mean (represent) in Emily Dickinson's poem "A slash of blue"?What does purple symbolize in this poem? Why does she uses the color...

Emily Dickinson refers to the color purple in many of her
poems ("There is a flower that bees prefer", "Wait Till the Majesty of Death", and "We
like March", and "It will be
Summer--Eventually").

Typically her use of the color purple
lends itself to aspects of nature which many of her poems revolved around.  Many times
the color purple was the only color used in the poem. The poem "A slash of blue" is very
different in this aspect; purple is not the only color used in the
poem.

The poem is speaking to Dickinson's appreciation of
the morning sky. For Dickinson, the morning sky is a painter's canvas. The colors which
are used to depict the morning sky are blue, gray, scarlet, purple, ruby and
gold.

For one to understand the use of the color purple in
the poem, one must look at the meaning of the color
purple.

Purple
is the color of good judgment. It is the color of people seeking spiritual fulfillment.
It is said if you surround yourself with purple you will have peace of mind. Purple is a
good color to use in
meditation.

The relevance of
this definition is that Dickinson seems to be in search of piece of mind and meditating
as the sun enters the sky creating a mixture of many different
colors.