How does Dickens employ the motif of secrets in at least 3 different ways in a tale of two cities?
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if i remember correctly, charles didn't tell lucy that he was a noble right away-- there's one secret\n\nall of the names on mrs. dufarge's knitting are in a secret code-- there's two\n\nall of the revolutionaries are called jaques to keep their names a secret--there's three\n\nmost likely not the best three to choose at all from the novel, but it's been a long time since i read it
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It means the story of the novel is set in on basic element. Everything that’s happening leans into one specific part of the story
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It is a book that is a great murder-mystery story w/ hidden codes.  It talks about these secret brotherhoods (which ARE real) and a secret that they must protect.  I don't believe anything they say when they talk about Mary Magdeline, Jesus, or Sarah.
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Haven't read it, but tip:\n\nLook for when he gives human qualities to objects\nExample: the wind slapped me across the face
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You could use The Merchant of Venice for a project on gender roles.  Many critics agree that the nature of Antonio and Bassanio's relationship is homoerotic, and perhaps one-sidedly so.  The women in the book play a unique role in the fact that they provide the final judgement of Shylock, but their opinions/logic are only considered because they dress as men.  Lorenzo also admires Jessica in an erotic way when she dresses as a boy.  There's also the anti-Semitic facet of the text, if you wanted to go that route, as well as the role of merchants, money-lending, greed.  There is a wide range of criticism on this piece, because a lot of the themes and elements are somewhat ambiguous.
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1.Lucy rescues her father and helps him regain his health.\n\n2. Jerry Cruncher is the "Resurrection Man" who exhumes dead bodies to sell them for experimentation.\n\n3. The Third Estate is resurrected when the peasants overcome the nobility and gain power over them.\n\n4. Dr.Manette rescues Charles Darnay early on in the novel when Darnay is accused by the rebels.\n\n5. Sidney Carton saves his souls and is therefore resurrected when he sacrifices his life for Charles Darnay.\n\nThese a the most important examples of the motif and/or theme of resurrection in A Tale Of Two Cities.
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1) Romeo and Juliet is set in Italy in the 17th century, WSS is set in new York City in the 20th century;\n2) The two lovers (Romeo & Juliet) both die; in WSS, Maria survives to accuse society (providing a neat sum-up for the audience);\n3) In WSS, there's a lot more singing and dancing;\n4) The function of Friar Lawrence from R&J is fulfilled in WSS by Doc, the drugstore owner, except that he doesn't marry the lovers, and he provides no theatrically-convenient "sleeping potion."\nThe mechanics of the stories (as well as the theme of the pointlessness of feuds) are essentially the same.
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Go to www.sparknotes.com, look up the story, look especially at the section called quotations,  themes, and motifs.
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That's a fantastic story and Joseph Conrad was a brillaint writer (English wasn't even his first language, yet he wrote all his works in English). I haven't read "The Secret Sharer" in many years but if memory serves, the narrator's comment refers to his own sense of not really fitting in with the officers and men on his ship. Despite his high rank (wasn't he the first officer?) he felt isolated from his fellow officers and that actually helped him identify with the titular character. (I won't give away anymore of the plot in case anyone cares to read it and doesn't want the ending spoiled.)
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This book is indeed permeated with symbols.If you want ,W Golding uses Robinson Crusoe's Myth but in a reversed variant:to be more specific if Daniel Defoe wants to show the way from primitivism to civilisation,W Golding points to the fact that human beings can easily turn back fom civilisation to primitivism.If you read the book you can see the boys spliting into 2 groups :the one led by Ralph and the other led by Jack.While one group enjoy order and discipline and always want to keep the fire burning so as to be finally rescued,the other group want to rule by fear and terror ,they like to go hunting and paint their faces!Let's take things in turn:The fire is a symbol of hope(because this is the only way they can be seen from the island)When the other boys steal the fire is because they have been transformed by the forces of the evil inside themselves,they have been guided by the primitive instincts inside them.Then we have the conch or that shell that Simon is going to carry whenever there's a meeting on the beach.It's a symbol of order and respect for the one who's talking(they could talk only if they touched the conch showing they have an opinion referring to that problem in discussion)Then Simon is wearing glasses which a symbol ,too,It stands for wisdom and intellingence and for civilised world with rules and obligations.Simon agrees that the fire should burn all the time on the island but he's bullied by the rough boys who are rebelling against order.While doing this they have steps behind to primitivism.So they go hunting wild pigs and invent stories about a creature on the island just to scare the others.The fact that they paint their faces like the savages  shows that they run away from who they are,they want to hide their true identity so they can be free to do what they want :fight,hunt,steal and even kill!\nThe pig's head put in a stick in the middle of the forest is in fact the lord of the flies,i.e the lord of terror,of evil forces lying in human beings.It';s symbolical for the bad boys on the island and it's opposite the conch .\nW.Golding knows very well the psychology of kids.He uses a very simple topic but he finally manages to reach complex things in this book which is part of metafiction literature.\nHope you understood something and if you didn't read the book ,please find some time and do it ...it's magnificent!
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It's kind of an analogy.  The openings lines say that the characters in the play are all like a fiddler on the roof- "trying to scratch out a pleasent, simple tune without breaking his neck."  Basically it's saying that life can be difficult and dangerous, like being on a roof, but you have to find a way to keep your balance while you play your tune.
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Considered one of the great English literaries of our time, Charles Dickens captured the imaginations of his readers with timeless characters, such as Ebenezer Scrooge and Oliver twist, and rich story telling in books such as Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.  His popularity today is as strong as ever and evident by the fact that none of his works have ever gone out of print.\n\nThere is a start......
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In the novel as well as in the drama, it is human nature and human action that we see. The difference between these sorts of fiction lies not merely in their outward form; not merely in the circumstance that the personages of the one are made to speak, while those of the other have commonly their history narrated. Unfortunately many dramas are but novels, which proceed by dialogue; and it would not be impossible to write a drama in the shape of letters\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/314/507.html
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Star-crossed lovers; met at her daddy's rave.\nRome and Jules were diggin' on each other.\nJulie to him her betrothal vow gave.\nTybalt's bad news (cousin, not her brother).\n\nThey hooked up; Friar Laurence on the sly.\nTybalt wasted Rome's boy Mercutio.\nRome's vengeance; to Mantua he must fly.\nJulie and Paris; wedding bells (oh no!).\n\nFriar Laurence's scheme; plan he had laid.\nJules fakes death, will marry Paris never!\nRome's taken in! Julie falls on her blade.\nThe true lovers together forever.
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Do you mean the story of THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER by the brothers Grimm?\n\nThere was once a shoemaker, who worked very hard and was very honest: but still he could not earn enough to live upon; and at last all he had in the world was gone, save just leather enough to make one pair of shoes. \n\nThen he cut his leather out, all ready to make up the next day, meaning to rise early in the morning to his work. His conscience was clear and his heart light amidst all his troubles; so he went peaceably to bed, left all his cares to Heaven, and soon fell asleep. In the morning after he had said his prayers, he sat himself down to his work; when, to his great wonder, there stood the shoes all ready made, upon the table. The good man knew not what to say or think at such an odd thing happening. He looked at the workmanship; there was not one false stitch in the whole job; all was so neat and true, that it was quite a masterpiece. \n\nThe same day a customer came in, and the shoes suited him so well that he willingly paid a price higher than usual for them; and the poor shoemaker, with the money, bought leather enough to make two pairs more. In the evening he cut out the work, and went to bed early, that he might get up and begin betimes next day; but he was saved all the trouble, for when he got up in the morning the work was done ready to his hand. Soon in came buyers, who paid him handsomely for his goods, so that he bought leather enough for four pair more. He cut out the work again overnight and found it done in the morning, as before; and so it went on for some time: what was got ready in the evening was always done by daybreak, and the good man soon became thriving and well off again. \n\nOne evening, about Christmas-time, as he and his wife were sitting over the fire chatting together, he said to her, 'I should like to sit up and watch tonight, that we may see who it is that comes and does my work for me.' The wife liked the thought; so they left a light burning, and hid themselves in a corner of the room, behind a curtain that was hung up there, and watched what would happen. \n\nAs soon as it was midnight, there came in two little naked dwarfs; and they sat themselves upon the shoemaker's bench, took up all the work that was cut out, and began to ply with their little fingers, stitching and rapping and tapping away at such a rate, that the shoemaker was all wonder, and could not take his eyes off them. And on they went, till the job was quite done, and the shoes stood ready for use upon the table. This was long before daybreak; and then they bustled away as quick as lightning. \n\nThe next day the wife said to the shoemaker. 'These little wights have made us rich, and we ought to be thankful to them, and do them a good turn if we can. I am quite sorry to see them run about as they do; and indeed it is not very decent, for they have nothing upon their backs to keep off the cold. I'll tell you what, I will make each of them a shirt, and a coat and waistcoat, and a pair of pantaloons into the bargain; and do you make each of them a little pair of shoes.' \n\nThe thought pleased the good cobbler very much; and one evening, when all the things were ready, they laid them on the table, instead of the work that they used to cut out, and then went and hid themselves, to watch what the little elves would do. \n\nAbout midnight in they came, dancing and skipping, hopped round the room, and then went to sit down to their work as usual; but when they saw the clothes lying for them, they laughed and chuckled, and seemed mightily delighted. \n\nThen they dressed themselves in the twinkling of an eye, and danced and capered and sprang about, as merry as could be; till at last they danced out at the door, and away over the green. \n\nThe good couple saw them no more; but everything went well with them from that time forward, as long as they lived.
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It is not a poem. It is originally from the novel by Charles Dickens,  A Tale of Two Cities.  It is the opening sentence to the novel.  The actual quote is: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.   It is one of the most famous lines in all of literature and quoted very often.  I believe the sentence concerns the French Revolution.
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Tom's mom, Amanda, continuously tells Tom to "wish on a sliver slipper of a moon" which alludes to Cinderella and the fairy tale of living happily ever after. She wants the best for her kids. Tom's desire, like the trick he sees of the magician escaping the coffin without removing the nails, is to escape his family and his responsibilities without having any regrets. At the end we learn he leaves but it's not what he expected it to be, so he didn't get to the moon and he didn't get the fairy tale he was hoping for. He instead got away and is haunted by the memory of his sister and mother. \n\nThe play mirrors William's own life. He too left his sick sister whom he was very close to and felt great responsibility for--she was mentally ill--and after leaving his job working in a shoe factory and his family, his parents had a lobotomy performed on his sister that left her incapacitated for the rest of her life. This left Williams with a life of regret and guilt which is a major theme in all of his works.