Lawrence's "Sons And Lovers": Relationships
.... depend on her, if she could, as it were, have him in her arms, how
she would love him."(137) However, this is never allowed to happen. Paul's
mother Gertrude already occupies this space in his life. Thus the
relationship between the two is a struggle for an identity. The
relationship is a struggle between Paul and his mother and Paul and Miriam.
The main conflicts between Paul and Miriam are between physical-
spiritual differences and his mother. Miriam holds spirituality very close
to her. Thing with M .....
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Sphere: Summary
.... lost
with the outside world. Killer shrimp, fire, and internal floods follow
the introduction of the squid. Barnes is eaten alive by the gigantic
squid.
After the climax and many deaths the few people left discover whoever
enters the Sphere is granted the power that everything they think or
imagine happens or is created. Either it's conscious or subconscious,
while they're sleeping or awake, or even if they really want it to happen.
They also it was planted by another world as a test of .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Willy Loman Is A Tragic Hero
.... The American Dream has long turned sour for him. At the begin ning of
his life, he remembers travelling in a wagon going westward. His parents
conque red the new frontier and succeeded. His brother Ben went "into the
jungle at 17 and cam e out rich at age 21". For a while, the American Dream
was alive in Willy too. He helped stake out new territory by selling his
goods, his son Biff was going to go to university w ith a scholarship and
he had a home with no apartments closing on him. But now, he was f .....
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Spook: Summary
.... will not let Mary
Ann come out to talk to Lola and Ross. But Muriel asks Mary Ann a few
questions to prove that she is educated. Mary Ann answers all of the
questions successfully. then Lola and Muriel get into an argument about
what is fair for Mary Ann. Muriel tells Lola and Ross to leave. They do
so with no argument.
That night when Muriel left to go shopping Mary Ann went out for a
walk. She came across a camp and went in. While she was in there a
teenaged boy saw her and called all of his fr .....
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The Stone Angel And The Fifth Business: Analysis Of The Main Characters
.... snowball he dodges around pregnant Mrs. Dempster who at the same
time gets hit on the head, causing her great pain. Dunny is just reaching
puberty and listening to his mother's reports on the premature birth of
Paul Dempster gave him the sense that he is directly involved in it.
Furthermore, he has been raised in a strict Presbyterian household that has
encouraged him to feel guilty about almost every lapse of duty.
So at the beginning of the two novels the reader learns that the
first feeling of .....
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Comparison Of Herbert's "Dune" And Asimov's "Foundation Series": Effects Of Technology And Belief Systems On The Individual
.... the individual or society.
Religion is the main idea in the book Dune. The author states the
different types of religions that come to pass since the beginning of this
age. Before the coming of Muad'Dib (a savior), the desert people on the
planet of Arrakis practiced a religion whose roots came from an
undetermined source. Many scholars have traced the extensive borrowing of
this religion from other religions. Many people were confused to find that
so many ideas in one religion easily reflect .....
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Pride And Prejudice And The Edible Woman: Negative Effects Of The Society's Influence
.... go introduce himself. Mrs. Bennet describes Bingly as “a
single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine
thing for our girls!” (51). Bingly is immediately acceptable due to his
money and connections, and Mrs. Bennet is already dreaming that one of her
children will marry him. In fact, “the business of her life was to get her
daughters married” (53). One of Elizabeth's close friends, Charlotte
Lucas, feels “happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance” (69).
She feels th .....
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A Book Report On Aldous Huxley's "A Brave New World"
.... in bottles. They are not born, but
decanted. Everyone belongs to one of five classes, from the Alphas, the
most intelligent, to the Epsilons, morons bred to do the dirty jobs that
nobody else wants to do. The lower classes are multiplied by a budding
process that can create up to 96 identical clones and produce over 15,000
brothers and sisters from a single ovary.
All the babies are conditioned, physically and chemically in the
bottle, and psychologically after birth, to make them happy citizens of the
so .....
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Summary Of Nathaniel Hawthornes "The Scarlet Letter"
.... Pearl.
As Hester endures this public disgrace, Roger Chillingworth, an old man new
to the village, asks members of the crowd about her and learns as much of
her story as is commonly known. When he asks the identity of the child's
father, he discovers Hester has refused to divulge this information. From
the balcony overlooking the scaffold, the young Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale
also asks for this information and eloquently appeals to Hester to publicly
name her partner in sin. She refuses.
Upon her .....
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Paulsen's "Canyons": A Summary
.... to talk to Brannon, about wanting it's soul
to be where it can rest. Brannon runs away with the skull, about the time
his mother called the police after finding it in his closet, and listens as
the voice speaks to him. It wants to be returned to the Sacred Place. All
the memories from the canyons the Apache warrior has come to Brannon, as
though he experienced before, but hadn't. Once the skull is put in it's
scared place in Dog Canyon, both Brannon and the skull can rest. Brannon
starts to hea .....
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The Ironies In Orwell's 1984
.... of a big brother is one whom is older and wiser
and helps the "littler siblings" -- this not the case with 1984's Big
Brother. The Big Brother in this novel completely watches over every move
a person makes keeping them controlled with fear.
The next type of irony is Situation irony, which is when a character
or a sequence of events appears to be headed one way, but it ends up as the
opposite of what was thought. One example of this is Winston's general
health. From the beginning of the boo .....
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Lord Of The Flies And Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: Similarities Of The Characters
.... thinking for the
group but is blind as a bat without his glasses. Piggy unlike Simon will
speak up more and always tries to think rationally. Simon is another smart
character although he is very quiet. Simon is perhaps the most mature
person on the island because he was able to tell that there was no such
thing as a beast but rather the fears that there might be a beast within
them. Simon is a complete opposite of Jack , he is more like a saint of
the group, a good example would be when they saw the de .....
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The Glass Menagerie: Symbols
.... considered in its building, but “the slow and
implacable fires of human desperation.” This is especially true of Tom's
apartment. His mother, devastated after her daughter Laura's failure to
cope in business college, becomes obsessed with finding her a gentleman
caller so that she can marry and be well supported. When this caller
finally comes, and it seems like it was meant to be, as they dance and kiss,
he announces he is engaged, and dashes their hopes. The ever-fragile Laura,
temporarily drawn out of .....
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Heart Of Darkness: The Symbol Of Ivory
.... meaning towards the end of the book.
The significance of ivory begins to move away from avarice and
takes on a purely evil connotation as Marlow approaches those hearts of
darkness: the Inner Station and Kurtz. Kurtz's relationship with ivory
seems to have been reiterated by every company member through the course of
the story. Of course Kurtz “harvested” more ivory than all the other
stations combined, and therefore it almost seems appropriate that Conrad
would use extensive ivory imagery in describ .....
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Symbolism In "The Pearl" By John Steinbeck
.... attempt to bring about wealthy reforms.
Even his conscience, which is symbolized by the music in Kino's head, tries
to warn him about his greed. This ‘music' symbolizes ones own conscience
in the real world. By the end of this relentless parable, the reader sees
the irony in the fact that even a good person can be led astray by his
feeling of inner responsibility to provide for his family (Warren 128).
Kino's actions, which are being motivated to raise Coyotito, his son, in
greatness leads to the death o .....
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