"The victor belongs to the spoils" -Anthony Patch (p.188) "There is only one lesson to be learned from life... That there's no lesson to be learned from life." ... Toward the end of the book, the broken, debt-ridden hero, Anthony Patch, "awoke in the morning so nervous that Gloria could feel him trembling in the bed before he could muster enough vitality to stumble into the pantry for a drink." ( p. 388 ) Gloria and Anthony Patch are seen as glamorous, an...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

She loved them, but said that while she was willing to die for them she couldn't give up anything essential for them. ... He is completely nave to think that she was going to Rouen for piano lessons. ... (Flaubert 375) This is from a scene right before Emma's death. ... When Emma commits suicide and Charles dies, Berthe is sent to live with Charles' mother. When Charles' mother dies, Berthe is sent to an impoverished aunt, where she is forced to work in a cotton mill. ...

• Word Count: 3600
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

King Lear is one of the greatest tragedy play written by William Shakespeare, which portrays the intense suffering from the blindness through Lear king of Britain and the earl of Gloucester. According to Dictionaries, blindness is defined as "unable to see and lacking of sight, but blindness that...

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• Grade Level: High School

The next word was death and the dictionary said that it was a noun describing the act of dying, termination of life. ... Before I went any further I told her that she didn't have to answer and I could have easily found someone to do this. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Jane Eyre is by far the best known of Charlotte Bronte's novels. The story is interesting and impressive because the heroine's personal character is quite different from the common run. In other novels, the heroines are always beautiful or powerful or rich, but Jane Eyre is only a short, penniless a...

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• Grade Level: High School

This was his first working experience in life, which was good because it also taught him lessons about life (384). ... Then in 1920 she died from her complications with the disease. ... After extensive travels he died in 1930 in a sanatorium in Vence, France. Ever since his great love for writing had expanded he never stopped writing, even in months before his death (Slade 71). ...

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• Grade Level: High School