What is the meaning of "Man should build bridges rather than walls"?

Imagine you are trying to get somewhere, to go visit a friend, but along your journey you run into wall after wall that barricades your path.  It would make getting to that friend much more difficult.  Instead imagine that same journey, and at every obstacle, like large rivers, difficult ravines, etc., there was a bridge there for you to cross.  That would make getting to your friend much easier.  If you take that idea and put it into symbolic form, people should be doing all that they can to build bridges to friendships, relationships, happiness, prosperity and freedom.  If someone's goal is to achieve their dream of becoming a writer, for example, a way to build bridges for that person is to encourage them, give them outlets for their writing, and find chances for them to practice.  That would be building bridges.  If instead you were to discourage them, criticize their work too much, and stunt their dreams, then that would be building walls.

This thought, of building bridges, not walls, can be applied to almost any situation.  If you are trying to get straight A's, building a bridge to get there would be to study hard, pay attention, get help when needed, and form bonds with others who can help.  If you were to build walls instead, you might let your fear of talking to the teacher get in the way of asking help, or your shyness get in the way of forming study groups, and your not wanting to study get in the way of doing well.  Those would be walls that you have built that impedes your success.

I hope that those examples help to explain the quote a bit; good luck!

What are some character traits for Juliet and examples?Example: Juliet is loyal because she sticks by her husband even after he kills her cousin...

You might want to focus on concrete details first before you go on to make judgements about Juliet's character. Also, what I suggest you do is focus on how her character changes throughout the play - there is definite evidence that the Juliet we meet at the beginning of the play is very different from the Juliet at the end of the play who is willing to plunge a dagger into her breast for love. Here are some ideas to get you started.

We are told in the play that Juliet is not quite fourteen, which means she stands on the cusp between childhood and adulthood. When we first meet Juliet, she is presented as an immature, obedient child, who obviously has not thought much about marriage, and says to her mother that she will try to love Paris. She is also uncomfortable with the Nurse's repeated references to sex. She also, however, shows her determination and resolute nature in these first scenes. She is able to quiet the nurse with a word in Act I scene iii where her mother is unable to quiet the nurse, and in her response to her mother there is a note of passive resistance.

It is when she meets Romeo that Juliet takes a definite step towards adulthood. Although she is head-over-heels in love with Romeo, she is still able to maintain an objective stance and criticise Romeo for his tendency to romanticise their love and for his rash decisions. After Romeo's banishment, she makes a rational decision to take her union with Romeo as her new focal point and to make all other decisions based on this. It must have taken a lot of courage for her to reject her parents and former social position when everyone was encouraging her to marry Paris and keep her marriage with Romeo a secret, yet in her choices and her daring in taking the potion of Friar Lawrence we see a steely determination and resoluteness that is completed in her decision to end her life because of the intensity of her love for Romeo. In this play therefore we see the development of a young child into an eminently capable, strong and resourceful woman.

How does Sense and Sensibility reflect Austen's world?

Sense and Sensibility accurately reflects Jane Austen's world or society, in that it depicts the need for women to marry for financial security.  Elinor and Mariane, the sisters in Sense and Sensibility, live in the country, the same as Austen's familyy did, and even though they are a learned family, they are part of the professional class, where women had very few options, except to marry up into the landed gentry class.

"In Sense and Sensibility, they socialize with and marry into the landed gentry, the next higher social class. Social assimilation and upward mobility of this sort is a major theme in many of Austen's works."

Austen's emphasis on the need for women to marry for financial security is a common theme in her work, an attitude that dominated the 19th century in which she lived.

Elinor and Marianne both are lucky enough to fall in love, and even though Marianne marries an older man, she is perceived to be in good hands, both financially and emotionally with Colonel Brandon.  He is very much in love with Marianne.  

Elinor, who falls in love with Edward.

"However, he must marry a woman of his mother's approval to come into his fortune. Austen writes, "He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing."  

Jane Austen, who fell in love with a young man herself and was not permitted to marry him because of their different social classes, fully understands what both Elinor and Mariane experience.  Elinor is given the ideal, she marries the man she truly loves, while Marianne, spurned by her true love, Mr. Willoughby who ends up marrying a rich socialite in order to please his aunt and secure his inheritance, marries a rich older man, Colonel Brandon.

Jane Austen 's world is present in every word of Sense and Sensibility.   

On what page number can I find this quote in the The Importance of Being Earnest:"Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the...

The actual page number will differ depending on the publication; however, this quote usually comes approximately nine pages into Act I of Oscar Wilde's play (and because I am getting my version from an anthology of English Literature, it's on my page 640).  Regardless, this quote comes in the middle of the conversation between Lady Bracknell and Jack ("Ernest") Worthing.  Jack, who calls himself "Ernest" in the city, has just asked Gwendolen to marry him.  Lady Bracknell, who proclaims that Mr. Worthing is not on her very important list of eligible bachelors, is not thrilled at this prospect of marriage. 

Right before the quote you mention, Lady Bracknell becomes glad to hear that Mr. Worthing smokes because "a man should always have an occupation" (Wilde 640).  Going even further, Lady Bracknell is glad to hear that Mr. Worthing is twenty-nine.

Lady Bracknell. A very good age to be married at.  I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.  Which do you know?

Jack (after some hesitation). I know nothing, Lady Bracknell.

Lady Bracknell. I am pleased to hear it.  I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.  Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. (640)

Lady Bracknell, then, is the character who says these lines.  Lady Bracknell puts a great stress on this quality of what she calls "natural ignorance."  Here she explains that ignorance is easily taken away because, once one learns anything, ignorance is gone.  Lady Bracknell becomes less and less fond of Jack ("Ernest") Worthing, especially after learning that he has no real relations to speak of.  This is unacceptable for a good, Victorian lady in regards to marriage.

What hints are given in Section 1 that "A Rose for Emily" takes place in the South?

There are other hints, too, in Section I. For example, the mayor, Colonel Sartoris, "fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron (288), and also a reference to the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers. 

Additionally, all of Miss Emily's servants are "Negro," and in the North, servants were less likely to be so.  The prevalence of African-American servants in the South was largely a function of the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of slaves, who seldom had the financial wherewithal to leave the areas in which they had been slaves.  Many former slaves stayed with the plantations on which they had been enslaved, continuing to be field workers or house servants. 

Who was "not born of woman" in "Macbeth" and why?

In Act 4, scene 1, Macbeth returns to the witches to consult them about his future. It is at a time when he has become paranoid about his security and wishes to hear their assurances. The witches call up different apparitions and the second apparition informs him:

"Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth."

This statement emboldens Macbeth and he says:

"Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee?"

It is ironic that Macbeth refers specifically to Macduff here, since he discovers to his utter dismay later, that Macduff was not "of woman born".

When the two confront each other on the battlefield in Act 5, scene 8, Macbeth warns Macduff:

"Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;
I bear a charmed life, which must not yield,
To one of woman born."

Macduff replies:

"Despair thy charm;
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb
Untimely ripp'd.

Macduff informs Macbeth that he had not been naturally born, i.e. he did not pass through the birth canal but was prematurely removed (ripped) from his mother's womb - so it could not be said that he was 'born' in the true sense of the word. It was an unusual and unnatural act. It could be that Macduff's mother was incapable of bearing her son by natural means which compelled the surgeons of the time to perform, what we call nowadays, a Caesarean Section.

Macbeth is shocked and dismayed by this information and realizes that he had been fooled by the witches. They had deliberately misled him - an example of the equivocal and paradoxical nature of their predictions. He declares:

"Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cow'd my better part of man!
And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee."

When Macbeth refuses to fight, Macduff commands him to surrender but Macbeth prefers not to. They fight and Macbeth is killed.

What is the Point of view?

Point of view is the perspective or angle from which a story is told. The narrator may be using a pronoun like "I," indicating a first-person narrator, typically a character in the story, telling about events in which he was probably involved. This point of view has the advantage of being more believable because the character, whether a major, minor, or merely a witness, actually experienced the events.

If the narrator, on the other hand, is not part of the action but merely observes what's going on, he or she may use pronouns like "he,""she," or "they" to refer to characters. This detached perspective may come from a narrator who is not a character at all in the story, merely a voice created by the author to tell the story. This point of view is called third-person.

Two other terms used to describe point of view are omniscient and limited omniscient. An omniscient narrator can tell what all of the characters are saying, doing, and thinking. A limited omniscient narrator, however, can reveal only what other characters are doing and saying, not their thoughts.