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…to help her with Romero: "Oh, darling, please stay by me. Please stay by me and see me through this" (Hemingway 188). * Of course, any other person with a good heart could not turn down such a plea, but the actions after her cry for help show that Jake…

…"No one enters suit justly, no one goes to court honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity" (The Bible, Isaiah 59: 4). The events of the trial for Stanilas Urek, a character in Sol Stein's novel…

…identity, and despite his pleas, another five days in jail for disturbing the peace," to finally be resolved. This unfortunate "mistake" causes Lionel to drop out of university and leads to his "third mistake," taking a job at "Bill Bursum's Home Entertainment…

…advice. Because Pilate sentenced Jesus to death despite the pleas of his holy wife, men should not look down upon women as lesser and weaker than themselves. Lanyer effectively proves that women deserve an equal status with men. She also successfully makes…

…the mercy that Portia regards as a "gentle rain from heaven" (IV, i, 181) despite pleas from all others present, thereby confirming for the Christians, though perhaps only in vexation, that he is "an inhuman wretch" (IV, i, 4). Shylock's eventual defeat…

…wife in his scheme. The imagery Iago uses is again crude and materialistic, he will persuade Othello that Desdemona pleads for Cassio for her "body's lust", and without her knowing it, her conviction in Cassio and her pleas for him to be forgiven by Othello…

…at Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, then has us look at the ontradictions- a plea for tolerance and a reason for violent opposition. Lee has made himself the kind of filmmaker working to tell black stories that have usually been ignored by Hollywood. Indeed…

…arrogance causes him to refuse to listen to Kent’s plea to look deeper into the true hearts of his two eldest daughters. Even after the king tells Kent to mind his own business, Kent continues to try to reason with him. Kent exclaims, “See better, Lear and let…

…-committal response to Wolsey's question is also characteristic of his desire to be silent for the remainder of the play and, despite Wolsey's continuing plea that he should ignore his "own, private, conscience" (Bolt 12) for state reasons, More is unable…

…at the social mores of his time, to the fiction of Dickens whose plea for reform did not go unheard and pushed a program for reformation into action. Yet literature with its power to move masses can also go bad, for instance, the misinterpretation of Marxist theories…