The song of Beowulf Beowulf is one of the most famous poems in old English It is about three thousand lines long and the story revolves around three battles In the poem, Beowulf, a warrior from Geats.
The song of Beowulf Beowulf is one of the most famous poems in old English It is about three thousand lines long and the story revolves around three battles In the poem, Beowulf, a warrior from Geats comes to the rescue of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes whose land is being attacked by a monster, Grendel Beowulf succeeds and defeats Grendel To show his prowess, he even kills Grendel with his bare hands However, the tension of the story escalates, because Grendel's mother is now on the warpath to get revenge As the story progresses, Beowulf kills Grendel's mother in her liar with a sword that giants of a past time once used After this victory, Beowulf returns home to Geats Fifty years pass However, there is one final battle There is a dragon that plagues his people because of stolen treasure More importantly, Beowulf now has to defend his people He fails at first, but then with the help of Wiglaf, a servant, chases the dragon into its lair and kills it However, in the process, Beowulf receives a fatal wound and dies Finally, he is buried by the sea Hamlet The play begins with the recent death of King Hamlet, who was Prince Hamlet's father Following his death, the king's brother Claudius, who was the uncle of the young prince, was crowned the King of Denmark After assuming position as the new king, Claudius married Queen Gertrude, Prince Hamlet's mother The young prince is outraged by the actions of Claudius and vows revenge Not long after the death of his father and marriage of his mother and uncle, the ghost of King Hamlet appears to the prince Previously, others in the kingdom believed that the king died because of a snake bite, but the ghost reveals that the king was murdered by Claudius Hamlet then puts on a play for Claudius that reenacts the death of the king The play concludes with Gertrude drinking from a poisoned cup, Hamlet stabbing Claudius and Hamlet being stabbed by a poisoned blade Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked after a severe storm He was the only survivor, and he immediately began to build a shelter and search for food for survival He tried to salvage as much as possible from the shipwrecked ship and save things that he thought was useful He began to write in a journal so that he would be able to remember what happened to him while he was on the island He learned many useful skills, including fishing and farming During his time on the island, Crusoe began to talk to God and reevaluate his religious beliefs After 15 years on the island, Crusoe discovered footprints in the sand but no signs of people Years later, he spotted cannibals on the island He spotted them again sometime later and noticed a victim escaping Crusoe presumed the victim had managed to survive a shipwreck he spotted earlier in the year Crusoe saved him, named him Friday and taught him how to speak English Crusoe and Friday were eventually rescued from the island after they helped the captain of the ship escape a mutiny Once in England, Crusoe discovered that he was wealthy He married and had three children, but Crusoe still wanted to continue his adventures Happy Prince The prince in the story is no living prince He is the statue of a dead prince decorated with gold leaves and precious stones He is known as the Happy Prince because there is a smile on his lips But the smile gradually gives way to tears The Happy Prince cannot help crying over the scenes of misery in the houses of the poor He decides to help them with his gold leaves and costly stones The little swallow acts as his messenger, and he gives away all his wealth The Swallow was on his way back to his homeland when the prince had detained him to help the poor He still wished to go back but now it was too late The intense cold killed him Thus the little swallow lost his life in helping the poor His death broke the prince’s heart So the swallow and the prince perished for a noble cause But their death was not the end It made them immortal That is why the angel selected the dead swallow and the lifeless heart of the prince as the noblest things on earth The story teaches a very useful and very true lesson We learn that God loves those who love their fellow human beings The man of property The Forsytes are a prime example of upper-middle class London in the late Victorian era Descended from a successful working man, the ten siblings that make up the elder generation of Forsytes live in the lap of luxury, yet are constantly conscious of their position and their possessions The first book in the Forsyte Saga primarily revolves around Soames Forsyte, one of the younger generation Soames is wellto-do, and has possesses everything he could possibly want – except the affections of his wife, the beautiful but reserved Irene Soames intends to move to the country, as a means of kindling some intimacy in their marriage, and he hires the young and struggling architect Phillip Bosinney, the fiancée of his niece, to design and build him a spectacular house at his property at Robin Hill However, the heart of another is the one thing that can never be truly possessed, and Soames only slowly begins to realize that all of his wealth and status is not enough to buy him a loving marriage Tom Sawyer As Tom begins the dreaded task of whitewashing, he sees Ben Rogers approaching When Ben teases Tom about not being able to go swimming and being forced to work, Tom points out that it is not exactly work if he is enjoying himself, and he makes a great show of applying whitewash and then stepping back to admire his own effects When Ben wants to try his hand at whitewashing, Tom pretends to be reluctant until Ben offers him first the core of the apple and then the entire apple Other boys show up boys who "came to jeer, but remained to whitewash," and by the middle of the afternoon, the fence is whitewashed (by the other boys), and Tom finds himself a rich man, having collected marbles, a part of a Jew's harp, a kite, and many other items as payment from the boys doing the work One Thousand Dollars The short story One Thousand Dollars by O Henry is about a young Gillian that must be providing the report how to use money one thousand dollars Gillian has a rich uncle but her uncle died From this will, he's uncle want a report of how Gillian can use this one thousand dollars if Gillian have this money Gillian meets some people, he want to know and ask of them if they have one thousand dollars He went to Old Bryson at his club to ask how to use one thousand dollars After that, he also met Miss Lauriere in theater stage She also gave an answer as to how to spend a thousand dollars Mr Gillian asked the taxi driver to answer the same questions but the answers he is also not the way he wanted to spend the money However, no one can help him Then, he saw the blind man had more than one thousand dollars in the account Gillian made a sudden decision to give all the inheritance money to Miss Hayden Finally, he visited Miss Hayden at the library He also told her that he loved and gave one thousand dollars Miss Hayden refused to love the Giilian but received the money Then, he wrote the account shows how he spent one thousand dollars and are ready to provide a report on the accounts to the lawyer Tolman Then he discovered that there are conditions of his uncle who said that if he used the money prudently, fifty thousand clear would be given to him However, he was not concerned with conditions set forth Giilian tore the reports before read by the lawyer Tolman and left happily A farewell to arms At Pavla, the site of the battle, Henry and the drivers he commands— Gordini, Passini, Manera and Gavuzzi—wait for the battle to begin while sitting in a bunker The men fall into a philosophical argument While all the men hate the war, Henry argues that defeat is more terrible than war, and that if the entire Italian army just stopped fighting everything would be worse Passini disagrees, arguing that the war will never end until one side decides to stop When the men get hungry, Henry and Gordini run out and grab some macaroni and cheese from another bunker As they return, the shelling begins and they rush back to their dugout The drivers are eating the food when suddenly a mortar shell hits their bunker, killing Passini and wounding Henry in the leg The remaining drivers carry him out on a stretcher and a medical captain examines his leg Henry is in terrible pain as they load him into an ambulance to leave the battle Daffodils In this poem,"Daffodils" the poet describes the soothing effects of the sights of nature In his view, nature gives the relief to the poet when he is in grief Once the poet was wandering lonely like a cloud Suddenly he saw a large number of flowers named daffodils growing on the bank of the lake under a tree The flowers were waving in the cool breeze The flowers seemed to be dancing happily The beauty of daffodils was more charming than the waves in the lake The poet was very much delighted to see this beautiful sight When the poet reached home, he often remembered the sight of daffodils Their sight left soothing effects on the poet He felt great pleasure and joy to remind the sight of daffodils Gulliver’s travels In Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver describes his four voyages Gulliver first travels to the island of tiny men called Lilliputians He is accused of treason and sentenced to death after putting out a fire with his urine, but escapes before having to face his punishment Two months later, Gulliver embarks on a second voyage This time he travels to the land of the gigantic Brobdingnagians, where he is exhibited like a freak and made to fight animals An eagle drops him into the sea where he is picked up by a British ship and returned to England On his third voyage, Gulliver visits a series of islands devoted to abstract things like mathematics, abstract ideas, and magic On his fourth voyage, he visits the land of the Houyhnhnms, who enslave the repulsive human-like Yahoos He is expelled after the Houyhnhnms deem they cannot have a partly-rational Yahoo like Gulliver He makes a boat and is picked up by a Portuguese ship On his return to England, Gulliver is so disgusted with human beings that he refuses to associate with them, preferring the company of horses