How would "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" change if the point of view was changed?

Hemingway's narration in this excellent story seems
deliberately designed to be detached and removed from the story, offering little comment
upon the action that occurs. The point of view is ostensibly third person omniscient,
but we "see" little thanks to the narrator. Consider the description of the cafe, for
example, which we know little about apart from the information that it is clean and
well-lit. We are told little about the waiters and what they think or feel, and are left
to judge them, and the story as a whole, by ourselves, without any ideas or pointers
from the narrator. Such a detached and objective view is key to Hemingway's style, and
places the burden of interpretation on the reader.

Changing
the point of view by, for example, telling the story through the eyes of the older
waiter would move this story from being profoundly impartial to profoundly partial. We
would see so many things much more clearly and in more detail, but this would change the
role of the reader from having to make a judgement about this tale and its characters as
it would mean that our experience is impacted by the character of the waiter himself.
This would profoundly impact the story and our conclusions of
it.

What is the point of view in "The Grave" by Guy de Maupassant?

When looking at the point-of-view in Guy du Maupassant's
"The Grave", one could very easily become confused. Typically, the use of the pronoun
"I" would lead one to believe that the point-of-view is first person. Here, it is not
the case.

If one were to look at the opening of the story,
they would realize that the story is narrated in third person given the use of the
pronoun "he" and the use of the proper names "Vincent" and
"Courbataille".

The appearance of the pronoun "I" is used
so that the narrator can remit to the reader what Courtbataille said while in
court.

Therefore, while "I" is used throughout the story
(typically notating a first person narration), here, it is used to quote what a
character, Courbataille, says when defending himself.

What historical perspective can be used to explain how Edna deviated from her roles as devoted wife and mother in The Awakening?

One way of responding to this question would be to focus
on the historical context of the novel and the way in which the 19th Century saw an
increasing change in the status and importance of women. The Women's Rights Movement
really begain in this century, and argued for women to be recognised as having their own
needs, desires and identity as separate to their husbands and protested against the
injustices of a patriarchal world. Thus we can argue that Edna's response to her
"awakening" and the discovery of her own desires and wants reflects the stirrings of
many women at the time, who found themselves stifled as individuals and women in a man's
world and desired the freedom that Edna tried to gain for
herself.

Edna's transformation throughout the novel
therefore mirrors the sense of rising indignation and self-discovery that many women
underwent. A revealing quote comes in Chapter 19, where Mr. Pontellier comments on the
changes in his wife:

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It sometimes entered Mr. Pontellier's mind to
wonder if his wife were not growing a little unbalanced mentally. He could see plainly
that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and
daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to
appear before the world.

Here
we see a man's view of his wife's own increasing sense of self, regarding it as being
symptomatic of mental insanity. He is blind to the way in which the wife he knows has
not actually been Edna's true personality, but a mere "fictitious self" that she has
assumed to fill the expectations of society. Edna's casting off of this "fictitious
self" thus provides a parallel with the rising sense of injustice experienced by many
women in the 1800s.

Write a critical analysis of the poem "The Lady of Shallot" by Lord Tennyson.Please give me a critical analysis of the poem explaining the theme of...

One of the themes of "The Lady of Shalott" is directly
tied to symbolism present in the poem. 

At its center, the
poem is probably about the role of artists and the creative process.  The Lady as artist
is totally isolated from reality.  Her view of the world is limited to what she sees in
the mirror.  She does not experience reality, but only a two-dimensional reflection of
it.  She is, symbolically, an artist who is out of touch with reality.  She is not
allowed to experience reality for herself, but only to view it through her
mirror.

When she is drawn to reality (by Lancelot's
singing, by the way--another art form) and looks out the window her art "explodes," for
want of a better word.  Her art crashes in the face of reality.  The mirror cracks,
symbolizing the failure of imagination alone to accurately reflect reality.  The reality
of Camelot cannot match her art portraying Camelot. 

The
idea seems to be that an artist cannot accurately portray reality if too drastically
isolated from it.  Again, the poem is concerned with artists and the creative process. 
Perhaps that's why, from the writer's point of view, the Lady of Shalott cannot be
allowed to reach Camelot--Camelot, as she portrayed it, doesn't exist. 
 

What is a quote from Crime and Punishment that relates to the theme of guilt?

You might want to consider the way that Porfiry Petrovich
is used to comment upon the theme of guilt in Part IV, Chapter V when he talks to
Raskolnikov whilst he goes to Porfiry's office to reclaim his belongings. Note what
Porfiry says in this quote and how he refers to the implicit guilt of Raskolnikov and
the psychological aspect of the crime:

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What is it, to run away! A mere formality;
that’s not the main thing; no, he won’t run away on me by a law of nature, even if he
has somewhere to run to. Have you ever seen a moth near a candle? Well, so he’ll keep
circling around me, circling around me, as around a candle; freedom will no longer be
dear to him, he’ll fall to thinking, get entangled, he’ll tangle himself all up as in a
net, he’ll worry himself to death! ...he’ll keep on making circles around me, narrowing
the radius more and more, and—whop! He’ll fly right into my mouth, and I’ll swallow him,
sir, and that will be most agreeable, heh, heh,
heh!

The determined way that
Porfiry declares that Raskolnikov will be unable to ignore the "law of nature" indicates
the way that humans are unable to ignore their guilt, hinting very strongly that either
Raskolnikov will either be driven into madness by his guilt or obliged to confess to the
crime. The analogy that Porfiry draws between a criminal struggling with his guilt and a
moth drawn to a candle makes the inevitable outcome of such a process: guilt is a moral
force that cannot be denied or ignored, as Raskolnikov will come to
discover.

From The Book Thief, please quote three acts of courage by Hans, Liesel, and Rosa against the Hitler regime at the risk of losing their own lives.

Well, clearly the central act of courage displayed by
these three characters is the way that they agree to take in and hide a Jew, Max
Vandenburg, and conceal him in their house. This of course was an offence which could
have seen Hans and Rosa themselves carted off to a concentration camp for opposing the
Reich and Hitler's decree that all Jews should be
executed.

Hans as well notably chooses to give some bread
to a Jew who is being marched through the streets of his city, which was a very
foolhardy and dangerous thing to do. This of course means that he is beaten by a German
soldier for his act of kindness:

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A new hand held Liesel's now, and when she lookd
in horror next to her, Rudy Steiner swallowed as Hans Hubermann was whipped on the
street. The sound sickened her and she expected cracks to appear on her papa's body. He
was struck four times before he, too, hit the
ground.

Drawing the attention
of the German Nazis in such a blatant way was risky at best and potentially lethal at
worst.

Finally, consider Liesel's book-saving efforts,
rescuing book that were being burnt by the Nazis and preserving them. This again was an
activity that was highly dangerous and could have resulted in strict punishment or even
death from the Nazi authorities.

Pls help me with this equation, we must use grouping to get the answer: m^2 - 6mn + 9n^2 - 4a^2 + 4ab - b^2 (the sign "^" refers to the...

We'll create the following
groups:

(m^2 - 6mn + 9n^2) - (4a^2 - 4ab +
b^2)

We notice that within brackets, we'll have two
pwerfect squares that return the formula:

x^2 - 2xy + y^2 =
(x - y)^2

We'll manage the 1st pair of
brackets:

Let x = m and y = 3n => m^2 - 6mn + 9n^2 =
(m - 3n)^2

We'll manage the 2nd pair of
brackets:

Let x = 2a and y = b => 4a^2 - 4ab + b^2 =
(2a - b)^2

The difference between squares will
be:

(m - 3n)^2 - (2a -
b)^2

But we know that the difference between two squares
returns the product:

x^2 - y^2 =
(x-y)(x+y)

(m - 3n)^2 - (2a - b)^2 = (m - 3n - 2a + b)(m -
3n + 2a - b)

Therefore, the equivalent
product of the given expression is: (m - 3n)^2 - (2a - b)^2 = (m - 3n - 2a + b)(m - 3n +
2a - b).