The Scandinavian Drama: Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts
.... love for the child born of that horrible relationship--her boy Oswald, her all in life. He must be saved at any cost. To do that, she had sacrificed her great yearning for him and sent him away from the poisonous atmosphere of her home.
And now he has returned, fine and free, much to the disgust of Pastor Manders, whose limited vision cannot conceive that out in the large world free men and women can live a decent and creative life.
Manders. But how is it possible that a--a young man or young woman .....
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Beloved: Sethe's Motivation For Killing Her Baby
.... baby because, in Sethe's mind, her children are the only good and pure part of who she is and must be protected from the cruelty and the "dirtiness" of slavery(Morrison 251). In this respect, her act is that of love for her children. The selfishness of Sethe's act lies in her refusal to accept personal responsibility for her baby's death. Sethe's motivation is dichotomous in that she displays her love by mercifully sparing her daughter from a horrific life, yet Sethe refuses to acknowledge that her show of .....
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Tale Of Two Cities: The Wine Shop Chapter - Element Of Secrecy
.... Because there are strangers in the taver, Mme. Defarge warns her husband with gentle coughs and raises her eyebrows to get his attention. Mme. Defarge said nothing...but coughed just one grain of cough. This, in combination with lifting her darkly defined eyebrows suggesting to her husband that it would do him well to look around the shop.(pg. 28). The reader, at this point, becomes aware of the same secrecy between the Defarges but is unsure why.
Charles Dickens certainly used the wine shop to i .....
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The Metamorphosis
.... much as he liked.” Gregor’s sister is the only member of the family who seems human in her treatment of Gregor. She treats him fairly well by bringing food to his presence, showing that she still has solicitousness. “He had been of the opinion that nothing at all was left over from his father’s business” The family now has a financial problem, Gregor is unable to work and he is struggling against his own form, his own identity. Gregor, who was once fairly self-sufficient, must now rely on his parents .....
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The Narrator And Sam Cavanaugh: Dolls To Control?
.... on a car ride around the college area. After much persuasion and against his better judgement, the narrator takes Mr. Norton to a run down Black neighborhood. Then he takes Mr. Norton to a bar and risks his health and life. When Dr. Bledsoe found out about the trip the narrator was kicked out of school because he showed Mr. Norton anything less than the ideal Black man.
The next example in Invisible Man that implies the narrator and all black men have no control or say so in their lives is when the nar .....
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How To Justify Spending Money On Oneself In A Pair Of Silk Stockings
.... to spend the money on herself to be able to cope with her everyday life. She always put her children first, but this time she thought of her own self-identity.
The Need of Spoiling Yourself
A dilemma that many people are familiar with is the questions whatever to save or to spend the extra amount of money they have in their pockets. Everyone has a desire to spoil themselves every once and a wile, because of the need of feeling important, attractive and appreciated.
Mrs Sommers reacted in a way .....
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Literary Analysis Of Lennie
.... does not cup his hands for a drink, he without thinking, plunges his entire head into the water leads to support to the idea of a slightly slow, child-like, innocent man. The lack of looking if the water was running shows Lennie’s position as a character with little or no common sense. He just does things less carefully than he should, though without negative intent. Also, Lennie is portrays himself as a very caring individual. While he enjoys his drink, he had to make sure his friend George would no .....
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Ordinary People: Loss
.... you don’t believe it.” He looks for answers elsewhere. Cal begins searching within himself for a conclusion. “I’m the kind of man who…?” He can’t answer this question without being too painfully truthful; afraid of finding something he doesn’t want to see. He begins noticing imperfections in himself. “He has noted this about himself lately: He drinks too muck when they go out. Because drinking helps.” Cal finally comes to a conclusion that there was nothing he could have done to prevent the death of his .....
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The Code Of Chivalry In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
.... While riding along, Gawain comes to a castle where he is greeted warmly by the lord and lady of the castle. The lord and Gawain decide to make an agreement to give each other whatever the other receives over the next three days. On the third day of this agreement, Sir Gawain receives a magic green girdle from the lady of the castle that is said to keep him from harm. Fearing the Green Knight, Gawain lies to the lord of the castle about what he has received that day keeps the girdle. Gawain was not .....
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Madame Bovary: Emma's Desire To Control Her Surroundings
.... She and the other girls would go to an old maid to hear fantastic stories about “love, lovers, mistresses, persecuted women… gentlemen brave as lions, gentle as lambs, impossibly virtuous, always well dressed, who wept copiously” (Flaubert 57). When Emma married Charles, she expected this perfect man whom she had pictured from the many romantic novels she had read. It is these fairy-tale illusions that slowly bring the world crashing down on her.
Emma’s illusion of love and grandeur came from her know .....
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Emerson's Self-Reliance
.... ever heard the saying, "if a tree falls in the woods, would it make a sound?" Well if you have, you will notice a lot of similar things in it and Thoreau's saying, "the sky is less grand when it shuts down over less worth in the population." They are both saying that if something happened and nobody was around would it have the same affect as it would if many people saw it. Thoreau was saying that the sunset is not as beautiful when only a few people see it. I think that a person would have to questio .....
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Silent Spring: Pesticides
.... to understand how pesticides were being used in the past. Furthermore, one must go a step further to conclude why the past measurements were considered to be inappropriate thus bringing us to the measures being taken today. In the past, we were not quite sure what long-term effects, if any that pesticides might have. When applying pesticides one must take into consideration the amount that actually remains on the plant as compared to the amount that is washed away by rain, carried off by wind, or absorbe .....
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The Diary Of Anne Frank
.... sister, she was very nice and didn’t speak out and was very proper. The Frank’s weren’t the only ones in this attic, there were other people such as the Van Daans. Mr. Frank let them stay because they needed a place to hide and since they had helped him out so much in the past by actually teaching Mr. Frank German, he felt it was the least he could do. The Van Daans had a son which Anne later became interested in. Peter was the only person who Anne could understand and knew that Anne could understand .....
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Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None
.... But the actual killer faked his death in the middle of the 10 indians dying. He knew the last indian would himself.
So basically, the book is based around a poem and others not knowing what to do with themselves and almost believing they were the killers do to everyone accusing each other. That's why the story Agatha Christie wrote is twistful. She always seems to add a twist. This book makes your mind think and respond quickly back and forth. The story sorta sends goosebumps around you because you can .....
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Justifying The Ways Of God To Man: Paradise Lost, Book III
.... from thence
Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell
Of things invisible to mortal sight (Hughes, 51-55).
Milton's lack of sight is an asset here. We are forced as readers to look upon this scene with the same physical blindness that Milton had. He makes it clear that we could not see it anyway. Instead we must seek inward illumination, which we all possess and need only to utilize.
One cannot be sure that God even places much value on mortal sight. A.B. Chambers (1963) wrote that in Heav .....
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