Ezekiel uses alliteration to describe the moment of the sting: ’Parting with his poison’. He alludes to evil in the phrase ’diabolic tail’‚ comparing the scorpion to the devil. The poem is written in free verse with different line lengths and no rhyme…The theme of the poem is presented through an incident in which the poet’s mother is bitten by a scorpion on rainy night. The villagers on hearing of this unfortunate event‚ come to see her‚ praying to god and giving all kinds of justifications for her suffering
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Theme is a lesson which can be learned from a story and sometimes two different stories can share the same theme. Story “Shining houses” and movie “Up” also share one of the theme‚ theme of how conflicts between young and old generations can evolve and how destructive it can be. In both works one of the character would face misunderstanding from modern society. In “Shining houses” the young generation wanted to build new community‚ visually perfect community‚ however they were so focused on physical
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Themes of A Doll House In Henrik Ibsen controversial play A Doll House there are many themes that are intertwined into the story of Nora‚ Torvald Helmer and Krogstad. Themes that if not looked for in a complex play as this would be over looked. These themes are the sacrificial role of a woman‚ gender‚ and the unreliability of appearance. The first theme in the play is probably the most obvious because this is based completely off what Nora does in the play the theme is the sacrificial role of
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Night of the Sorpion’ is a poignant poem that evokes the strong hold of superstition within our social psyche. Ezekiel recalls the night when his mother was stung by a scorpion. With the onset of the monsoons‚ the ten hours of warm and steady rains had compelled the mysterious scorpion to crawl into the house and hid itself beneath a sack of rice in the dark store room. Without any mercy‚ it raised up its lethal‚ venomous and diabolic tail and stung Ezekiel’s mother in one of her toes while she was
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“A Doll’s House” By Henrik Ibsen In Henrik Ibsen’s play‚ “A Doll’s House”‚ the character Nora Helmer is a character subjugated to the wills and desires of her husband‚ Torvald; to him she is merely an object which he possesses. At the end of Act III however‚ she has become sufficiently independent to arrive at her decision to leave the children‚ her husband and what life she had behind‚ as she slams the door on the family home. A significant transition of power has occurred and this is one of
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Crook”‚ it seems as Jimmy‚ the protagonist changes. Also in the fable‚ “The Scorpion and Turtle” no change occurs as the scorpion breaks his promise and stings the turtle. In both the play and fable‚ the main idea is not to trust a person a person too quickly because people can lie and might trick you. Progress is impossible without change‚ and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. In the fable‚ the scorpion doesn’t change and is not able to cross the river since he killed the turtle
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The main theme of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” is behaviour that is based on the opinions of others and not being true to yourself. Many of the characters demonstrate this type of behaviour‚ but the character this theme most significantly applies to is Nora. Nora is Torvald’s loving‚ yet childish wife‚ who he treats as his puppet. As the story goes on‚ we begin to realize that Nora is actually a strong an independent woman‚ but Torvald does not allow her to express those qualities. This essay
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NIGHT OF SCORPION - THE CRITICAL APPRECIATION --------------------------------------- Night of the scorpion written by Nissim Ezkiel is an interesting poem and the poet brings about a very appealing contrast between good and evil in it; altogether giving the poem an essence of equality. The poet makes it a trouble-free task for the readers to visualize the scenes with the appropriate use of various imageries. He has also done a marvelous work of adding various different senses into the
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it is the latin word for Scorpion. It is literally translated as the creature with the burning sting. The reason it is so interesting is not because of it’s shape‚ because it is the brightest constellation there is. In the northern hemisphere‚ Scorpius is on the southern horizon. Ancient Greeks considered the claws of Scorpius as the Libra constellation. One myth about Scorpius is that Orion and his mother wanted to hunt every animal on the planet‚ so Zeus sent a scorpion to kill them; after it won
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NIGHT OF THE SCORPION lesson plan Learning objectives: • To be able to comment on the punctuation used by a poet and how this punctuation helps us to understand the poem’s ideas • To be able to identify and rhythm and the pace of a poem and explain the impact of these on the reader’s understanding KEY WORDS THIS LESSON: punctuation rhythm pace repetition STARTER: (10 minutes) Remind the students of what being a successful group discussion member actually means‚ using the first
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