The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism Of The Letter A
.... in Puritan society banishes her from her normal life. The Puritans
view this letter as a symbol of the devil. The letter also put Hester
through torture: "Of an impulse and passionate nature. She had fortified
herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely
wreaking itself in every variety of insult but there was a quality so much
more terrible in the solemn mood of popular mind, that she longed rather to
behold all those rigid countenances contorted with scornful merriment and .....
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Symbolism In The Glass Menagerie
.... also represents the fragile relationships among all the
characters.The glass unicorn is most obviously a symbol of Laura--
delicate,sadly different,an anomaly in the modern world.The glass motif
recurs throughout the whole play in many other forms.When Laura dropped
out of college she constantly visited the zoo,a glass house of tropical
flowers that are as vulnerable as she is.During Laura's and Jim's brief
romantic encounter,Laura is gaining more confidence about herself.It seems
as if she is starting t .....
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Janette Turner Hospital: 4 Vivid Female Characters In Her Two Novels
.... Her mind is never firm enough to challenge the
present state. So she makes her choice in the order of morality. She
stays with her husband and leaves for India with him. It is more likely
that the fate designated Juliet's future. She is married to Dave on her
own accord. Therefore, she does what a good wife is supposed to do.
1. Reviewed in : Booklist v.79 p.994 Apr 1, 1983
2. " The Ivory Swing " p.18
In Kerala, where David is on sabbatical to study primitive India .....
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Talk So Kids Will Listen And Listen So Kids Will Talk: A Review
.... use the Denial of Feelings: "There's no reason to be upset," to the
person there is, you might see things differently so it doesn't affect you
as it does that person. Another favorite response people use is The
Philosophical Response: "Look, life is like that." This just makes most
people mad. Pity is heard by a lot by people and it makes the listener
feel more pitiful. In the book it tells the reader that you, the listener,
do not always need to respond and it can be helpful if you do not .....
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Tarrou: The Plague's Only Hero
.... to record
anything (109); a duty which Rieux and Tarrou fulfill. Grand produces two
sentences and does nothing to fight the plague, which McCarthy interprets
as a parody of Rieux's inability to explain the plague (109-10). Cottard
wholeheartedly embraces the plague, revels in it, and attempts to profit
from it. The rest of the people either waste their time, waiting for the
end (the old man spitting on the cats, the bean-counter, etc.) or join the
sanitation squad, under Tarrou. Nobody takes a sta .....
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The Odyssey: Telemachus And His Development
.... eating away at his estate. Telemachus knows what the suitors are
doing is wrong but yet does not do anything about it. Telemachus foolishly
hopes that his father will come and clean up the mess that the suitors are
to blame for. Telemachus knows that his father would handle the situation
with the suitors in a much more aggressive manner than he does. Odysseus
would kill all of them for being treacherous beings, while Telemachus does
nothing but whine. Telemachus says "how his noble father mi .....
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The Cause And The Loss: Comparison Between "Mice And Men" And "Flowers
.... His lifelong ambition, to become smart. When the chance came
he took the offer readily, unprepared for the changes in his life it would
bring. "And what was that Joe and the rest of them were doing. Laughing at
me. And the kids playing hide-and-go-seek were playing tricks on me and
they were laughing at me too... I felt naked" (page 30). All of a sudden
Charlie realized everyone had always laughed at him, not with him, and he
suddenly ashamed/naked. In his innocence he had requested "smartness" and
w .....
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Analysis Of "The Tell-Tale Heart": First Person Point Of View
.... person point of view, Poe was able to show how the
narrator feels. An example of this is when the narrator uses the phrases
at the beginning to question his existence. The narrator wanted to know
if he was mad, or not. Phrases such as "I heard all things in the heaven
and in earth" (62), tells the reader that the narrator indeed is mad, yet
the narrator thinks himself not. In the following statement, "If still
you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise
precautions I took f .....
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Summary Of Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
.... Her father who drank too much came to understand that the Durbeyfield
family could very well be the descendants of a royal family known as
D'Urberville. Motivated by greed of becoming part of a higher class, with
no thought for Tess, her mother and father made the conscious choice to
send Tess to the D'Urberville mansion to acquire work and marry a wealthy
man.
While employed at the D'Urberville mansion, Tess was confronted
with her first major social dilemma whose name is Alec D'Urberville. The
y .....
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Tess Of The D'Urbervilles: Analysis Of Angel And Alec's Attitudes Toward Tess
.... Alec d'Urbervilles.
Angel and Alec have very different attitudes toward Tess. Angel
first loved Tess for her innocece: "What a fresh and virginal daughter of
Nature that milkmaid is (176)." After he came from Brazil, Angel realized
that "The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its
achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among
things done, but among things willed (421)." Angel loved Tess for her
intentions in the forest not her actions. The beautiness of Tes .....
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Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
.... of Tess, and
even before we learn more about her, we know that her family is not well
off and that her father seems to be a bit of a drunk. Next, she is, to a
degree, railroaded into going to claim kinship to the d'Urbervilles.
"ŒWell, as I killed the horse, mother,' she
said mournfully, ŒI suppose I ought to do
something. I don't mind going and seeing
her, but you must leave it to me about
asking for help."
Tess .....
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Bennet's: The Executioner
.... named Ed, and
Elaine. Unfortunately, Bruce got intoxicated, but still decided to drive
the others home from the bar. On the way home, Bruce began arguing with Ray,
(the only sober one), and the car was steered of the road into a tree.
Raymond was killed by the accident. However, everyone thought that Bruce
was not intoxcated at the time, and the car just accidentally swerved off
to the side.
Throughout the next chapters, Bruce keeps facing the guilt of killing
Ray, and tries to admit to everyone t .....
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Lord Of The Flies: The 13th Chapter
.... decided to abanden the boat. Everybody got in
the life rafts and watched the boat slowly sink till there was nothing
left to watch.
After a few days at sea the kids and officers land on an island.
As soon as they land on the island Jack and his "group" get together and
tie up the officers with vines on the local trees. This is Ralph's worst
nightmare come true. After they are done Jack tells Ralph, "either your
part of the group or your an outsider and that my group will hunt you for
the rest of your l .....
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A Review Of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
.... widow might have caught them leaving in the middle of
the night. Twain shows their resourcefulness when he writes, "Directly I
could just barely hear a me-yow! me-yow! down there. That was good! Says I,
me-yow! me-yow! as soft as I could, and then I put out the light and
scrambled out of the window on to the shed." This shows the boys
resourcefulness and intelligence.
I think it is sick that the group of boys made their own gang. The
gang planned to rob people, kill people and take people for ransom. Twai .....
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A Summary Of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
.... Huck go to school, teaching him various
religious facts, and making him act in a way that the women find socially
acceptable. Huck, who has never had to follow many rules in his life,
finds the demands the women place upon him constraining and the life with
them lonely. As a result, soon after he first moves in with them, he runs
away. He soon comes back, but, even though he becomes somewhat comfortable
with his new life as the months go by, Huck never really enjoys the life of
manners, religion, and .....
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