Parallelism Essays

  • Flawless Use of Parallelism in Shakespeare's King Lear

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    Flawless Use of Parallelism in King Lear Many twists and turns characterize the television soap operas of today. Subplots are a distinctive trait of these daylight dramas, for they keep audience on the edge of their seats. Subplots keep the material fresh and the audience wanting more. Shakespeare uses secondary plots as a literary device to greatly dramatize the action of the play and to spark a contrast to his underlying themes in King Lear. The secondary plots can incalculably improve the

  • Narrative vs. Montage

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    montage aspects of a film are deliberately placed to invoke specific thoughts or feelings. Such techniques can be employed to even go so far as to provide an alternate connotation to an event than what the average viewer would normally formulate. Parallelism is a method designed to do just that. This technique allows directors to have his audience associate a single action or event with a secondary action or event. The Strike parallels the slaughter of a cow and the execution of factory workers to generate

  • The Themes of Robert Frost's Mending Wall

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    Wall is the cycle of the seasons. Several phrases refer to the seasons, particularly in a repetitive, cyclic way: "spring mending-time," "frozen ground-swell," "once again," "spring is the mischief in me." Another theme is parallelism or the lack of it. Sometimes this parallelism takes a physical form, associated with the wall, as we imagine the two men walking parallel paths: "We meet to walk the line." "We keep the wall between us as we go." "One on a side." It is a mental wall, though, as well as

  • Simultaneous Multithreading

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    with two critical challenges. First, memory latencieshave increased dramatically in relative terms; and second, while it iseasy to spend extra transistors on building additional execution units,many programs have fairly limited instruction-level parallelism, whichlimits the extent to which additional execution resources can be uti-lized. Caches provide a partial solution to the first problem, whileout-of-order execution provides a partial solution to the second.In 1995, simultaneous multithreading

  • Greek And Inuit Mythology

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    Parallelism in Greek and Inuit Mythology The very early creation legends are difficult to trace to their original sources, since they were passed along by word of mouth from one generation to the next. There are many different legends about the origin of the earth, some similar to those told in other cultures. It is interesting that most of these legends can be tied together in one or more ways. The Greek and Inuit tribe versions of early existence are related in many ways. In both interpretations

  • Epic of Beowulf

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    than life hero, who becomes leader of his people. The overall tone of Beowulf is predominantly Christian, "owing to a vision of evil in the world, a belief in the power of Fate to rule human destiny, and resignation to the certainty of death." Parallelism between fate and providence, constant battling between good and evil, and the virtues of consideration of others, moderation, and unselfishness all support this overall Christian tone. "Beowulf is more than a conflict involving monsters, but it

  • Neutral Diction in Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

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    diction. Stevens emphasizes neutral diction using parallelism and repetition, the sameness of the syntax, and an ironic change in wording. Nevertheless, the emotion of the poem is only brought about by Stevens' specific use of neutral diction. "None are green, or purple with green rings, or green with yellow rings, or yellow with blue rings." A common theme runs throughout this poem, which is linked together through the author's use of parallelism and repetition. Stevens chose to provide the poem

  • Inherent and Instrumental Values in Ethics

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    through them. The paper identifies and explores what appears to be a threefold relationship between inherent and instrumental values. First, their mutual inseparability is found to be based in the very concept of instrumentality. Second, their parallelism in the relevant respects is seen also to be rooted in their instrumental relation. Third, and very significant, the inherent and instrumental values are discovered to be reversible so that what were inherent values can often become instrumental

  • Monism vs Dualism

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    problems inherited by psychology. In both philosophy and psychology there have been several attempts to reconcile the mind and body. On the dualism side of the argument, psychophysical parallelism and psychophysical interactionism have been advanced as explanations for the workings of mind and body. Parallelism has it that mental and physical events are independent of one another but occur simultaneously. Philosophers such as Leibnitz, for example, held that the activities of the mind and body were

  • James Baldwin's Story Sonny's Blues

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    James Baldwin's Story Sonny's Blues James Baldwin?s story ?Sonny?s Blues? is a deep and reflexive composition. Baldwin uses the life of two brothers to establish parallelism of personal struggle with society, and at the same time implies a psychological process of one brother leaving his socially ingrained prejudices to understand and accept the other's flaws. The story is narrated by Sonny?s older brother whom remained unnamed the entire story. Sonny's brother is a pragmatic person, a teacher

  • Sling Blade

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    than man. The two become soul mates. Karl related to Frank through his childlike manner as well as his parental setup. Frank’s mother was a widow dating an alcoholic, abusive man, Doyle. Karl saw himself in Frank and decided to watch over him. The parallelism between the two characters was shown throughout the movie. The love they shared will save them. The “boys” faced their troubles on a simple level. They avoided the complications of adult views and judgments. Karl had read the Bible and believed

  • Edgar Allen Poe: The Raven

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    involving a beautiful woman. The apparent tone in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” seemingly represents a very painful condition of mind, an intellect sensitive to madness and the abyss of melancholy brought upon by the death of a beloved lady. The parallelism of Poe’s own personal problems, with those of the narrator in “The Raven,” his calculated use of symbolism, and the articulation of language through the use of the raven’s refrain, the reader becomes aware of Poe’s prominent tone of melancholy.

  • Achilles Parallelism

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    Throughout the tale, Achilles’ depth in character grows through the use of parallelism. The use of parallelism helps set up contrasting moments in order to emphasize the difference in characteristics. Achilles’s downfall, and overall revival, was displayed by parallelism. At the beginning of the story, Achilles was seen as a great hero that would do anything for the people of Greece. In order to set up his character, parallelism was used by comparing him to the actions of Agamemnon. In book one, Agamemnon

  • Parallelism In Sisera

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    extent of Lowth’s parallelism and goes further than what he previously conceived and through the analysis of this Hebrew poetry that describes the death of Sisera at the hands of Jael, many instances of parallelism are used along with this order of consequentiality and repetition and patterning in order to convey a vivid sense of imagery. Each verse within the passage exhibits its own form of parallelism and beginning with Judges 5:24, there is an example of synthetic parallelism, specifically staircase

  • Parallelism In Fargo

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    Most notably the film uses parallelism quite a bit. The characters that are deemed evil often have a more aggressive or even organized demeanor than those who are good. In this sequence we do not really encounter any evil characters, but the good characters all are easily comparable

  • Synthetic Parallelism

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    judgment as a time when all the secrets of individual lives will be disclosed. The sins people commit with impunity, thinking they are hidden, will be revealed (Mt 10:26, cf. Lk 12:3). In Matthew 10:26, Jesus describes this judgment using synthetic parallelism: Do not be afraid of them, for… there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed; [there is nothing] hidden that will not be made known. Figure 7. Matthew 10:26 Synthetic Parallel Structure Structurally

  • The Visit Parallelism

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    play, The Visit, by Friedrich Durrenmatt multiple lessons can be learned from the actions of the character’s, one of these are the greed can consume people, changing their morals, and making them do things they otherwise wouldn’t have done. The parallelism in this play showed the changes in the morals of the town and characters throughout the story. One of the parallel scenes is when Claire comes into town, when Claire leaves town. The town have gone through major changes, in time between Claire being

  • Parallelism In Othello

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    Lorenzo compare ancient stories of mythological lovers. Ironically, the two extend this comparison to themselves. One reason this is ironic is because all of those stories are tragedies; one would expect Jessica and Lorenzo to follow suit, after such parallelism. However, the newlyweds seems as felicitous as ever, with no brewing signs of betrayal or death. Contrary to expectation, this couple may escape the tragic ending remarkably hinted at. Throughout the final act, Portia proves that the plot is truly

  • Chekhov Parallelism

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    don’t only just concern humanity but the world itself. In his stories, he presents settings that are static and unchanging. Interestingly, the characters lives are often presented as static as well, trapped in situations without an escape. The parallelism Chekhov develops between the environment and the characters works to emphasize the characters’ plights. This technique is plainly evident in the short story “A Little Game”, where Nadenka is trapped reliving a winter’s sled ride. While the narrator

  • Wuthering Heights Parallelism

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    Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Wuthering Heights tends to be more negative, having more of the action and irrational characters, whereas Thrushcross Grange tends to be much more positive with its aesthetic appearance and civil characters. Opposing parallelism is exhibited throughout Brontë’s Wuthering Heights by the decisions made by the characters in each house and the two houses themselves, however, they don’t act as opposites in every situation.