Analyze the quotation “ i ask, gentlemen, sir, what means this material array, if it’s purpose be not to force us to submission? can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? has great britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation for navies and armies? no sir, she has none.

In chapter 6 of frankenstein, how does victor’s perspective on his life change from the time he reads elizabeth’s letter until the following summer? write a response in which you identify victor’s perspective regarding his life toward the beginning and the end of the chapter. explain and support your response using evidence from the text.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

The book the lord of the rings by j r r tolkien, in which the main character must go on a journey to destroys magic ring, is an expample of which plot archetype