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…to sleep in, so his servants took turns keeping her awake and denying her the sleep that she so desperately needed. When the tailor brought in what seemed to be a very pretty cap, Petruchio refused to let Kate have it, despite her incessant pleas to keep…
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…because this is a very formal plea. This is the first time I have seen Desdemona beg and say outright that she has never looked upon another man and that even if Othello kills her she will not stop loving him. This is the speech that shows how much Desdemona…
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…a desperate plea from his son, Haemon. Haemon pleads with Creon to exonerate Antigone of her sentence. He says: For whoso thinks that wisdom dwells with him,/That he alone can speak or think aright, Such oracles are empty breath when tried./The wisest man will let…
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…and impassioned by the plight of John Brown and certainly the idea of slavery on a broader scale, and this feeling was obvious in his “Plea for John Brown.” Probably most telling to Thoreau’s change in narrative voice in these two pieces was Thoreau’s anticipation…
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…the situation. I say most moral because there really is no right choice here. Any ac! tion taken will most definitely be wrong to at least one group of people. Here no plea can be made to universal morality because neither belief in its specific sense appeals to any…
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…of Cassius’ shrewd strategy is his forging of letters written supposedly by the commoners to Brutus, urging him to rise against Caesar. He knows that if the citizens appeal to Brutus, he will heed their pleas. Cassius is very sure of himself and has little doubt…
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…and therefore contain a much lighter tone. This is proved several times in each poem. However, often the exclamation mark induces naivety and innocence because it is used as a plea. This is shown in “Little Boy Lost (Father, father, where are you going?):”…
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…restriction of the land constituted taking without just compensation. The South Carolina Court of Common Pleas agreed with Lucas and awarded him $1,232,387.50. The Supreme Court of South Carolina disagreed with the lower court, and saying that the restrictions…
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…with fragility and pain. Isobel's quest finally ends facing her lion, and her reaction is as powerful and hopeful as the conclusion of Elem Klimov's Come and See. Thompson's play is a wrenching plea for forgiveness and transcendence, or, as director Jeff Meyers has…
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…storms or tsunamis - than someone caught off-guard by an earthquake in a city. A resident of Florida posted desperate pleas on the Family Gardening message board, under the thread of “How do I get the sand out of my lawn? HELP!” after one particularly heavy…
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