The Scarlet Letter: Pearl - The Living Symbol
.... from the hand of God, to
work in many ways upon her heart, who pleads so earnestly, and with such
bitterness of spirit, the right to keep her. It was meant, doubtless, as
the mother herself hath told us, for a retribution too; a torture to be
felt at many an unthought-of moment; a pang, a sting, an ever-recurring
agony, in the midst of a troubled joy! Hath she not expressed this thought
with the garb of the poor child, so forcibly reminding us of that red
symbol which sears her bosom?'"(110-111).
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The Lord Of The Flies: A Picture Of Our Society Today
.... and survival must occur in any form. Our society is much like this
as today's society is also about survival and what choices we make to
survive.
The mini-society started off peaceful. The purpose was to set a
signal fire and live off fruit until help came. The conflict came when
the fire and hunting could not be committed to at the same time. As the
fire was a 24 hour task and hunting needed the whole party, the party
started to take sides. Ralph's fire would be the sensible thing to do to
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Lord Of The Flies: The Vision Of God
.... that he could live forever and did not dwell on the same surface as
the humans, but god still lived in heaven, which was thought of as a
tangible place in the sky, and still was thought to be in the shape of a
man.
This idea was challenged by another Hebrew prophet, Jeremiah. He
was the first to convey the message that god was holy, apart from the world,
and did not meddle in mortals lives. This change was brought about by the
change in morality by the monotheistic Hebrews. With the as .....
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Courage, Intelligence And Strength In The Client, Dragon, And Beowulf
.... overcome evil. Beowulf of the story Beowulf is an example
of how even hundreds of years ago, heroes used the same traits as today.
Heroes of every culture of all ages share courage, intelligence and
strength.
Courage is a prominent feature of all heroes. Within these three books,
each character, Mark Sway, Dirk Pitt and Beowulf, display signs of Courage.
Mark Sway was a courageous boy at his age of 9 years old. Mark would never
quit from continuing with an idea of his if it was for good: "`We can' .....
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The Martian Chronicles: "Yours Will Be Mine Soon"
.... men land and go knocking from one door to the next saying that they
were from Earth. Each martian tells them to go to another person.
Finally, the men come to a house where a man gives them a key and says
they "will be taken care of" in the next room. They enter only to find
that they are locked within an insane asylum. They are taken next to the
ship and then killed. In the third expedition, the group lands and at
first think they are on Earth but traveled back in time to the year 1920.
The ca .....
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Themes In Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil
.... mental barrier that it creates between the minister and his environment,
and the guilt that it expresses. Many people believe that the face provides
information about a person's underlying characteristics and, therefore,
about his or her probable behavior. Thus, by wearing the veil, the minister
takes away the basis on which people can predict his behavior. This is the
main cause of the minister's isolation, although he is made unpredictable
already by the mere act of wearing the veil. Part of the frig .....
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The Metamorphosis: Society Split Into Different Sections
.... transformed into a gigantic
insect" (P862, Ph1) that Kafka meant something underneath the surface.
Awakening from uneasy dreams could mean awakening from an uneasy, labored
life by quitting it all. His transformation could mean how society can
compare him to a cockroach for his giving up on them and treat him as if
he was less than human.
Gregor has obviously had a life of hard labor at a job that he
finds to be unbearable; as he states "Oh, God what an exhausting job I've
picked" (P862 Ph4). He feels t .....
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"The Miller's Tale" And "The Reve's Tale": Similarities
.... to "The Reeve's
Tale." In that tale the Miller lets John and Alan, two scholars, who lost
their horse from the Miller's own doing, stay at his house. However, since
the two boys are "Headstrong…and eager for a joke" (110), Alan proceeds to
rape the Miller's daughter, while John sleeps with the Miller's wife. It is
apparent that these situations are very similar, in that the scholars are
having adulterous sexual intercourse with both the Carpenter's and the
Miller's wives. This similarity shows how the Mill .....
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"Minister's Black Veil" : Hidden Sins
.... do not understand or
even accept the veil over his face. Hawthorne pictures the parson wearing
the black veil and delivering his sermon along with a confused congregation
including a elder woman who says, "‘I don't like it,…..He has changed
himself into something awful only by hiding his face'"(294). Others cry, ‘
"Our parson is going mad'"(294)! The sermon in which he speaks that day is
"…darker than usual…"(294), and also gives a gloomy feeling. The parson
speaks of a secret sin; the audience soon re .....
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The Canterbury Tales: The Monk
.... life to follow the
tradition of the church. He ignored the old and strict ways because he
liked the modern world and the indulgent lifestyle. He completely ignored
the rulings of St. Benet and St. Maur.
The Monk was motivated by greed and the trappings of the modern
world. He put aside all the church rulings that did not suit him, and
indulged in all the things the world had to offer him in terms of comfort.
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Analysis Of The Most Dangerous Game
.... such excellent geographical features to support this struggle. Some
examples are the dense trees, trails, and some quicksand. This setting
also makes the two characters display all the skills and tricks they have
learned over the years, and then wage war against each other. The setting
plays a sufficient role in the story's overall development. Without this
setting the story would not reveal the game of “cat and mouse” which is
going on. The setting holds the bulk of the action in it, the stor .....
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"The Gift Of The Magi": Theme Of Love
.... her hair
to buy a chain for Jim's watch, but it was ironic that Jim had sold his
watch to buy combs for Della's hair. They each wanted to give a gift
related to each other's most prized possession and they both were willing
to sacrifice their most prized possession. Neither gift was useful at the
time but it was a sign of their love.
This theme not only relates to this short story but it relates to
life. For example, Mother Theresa gave her love for the world, but she was
not rich. She had more to .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden Caulfield's Perception And Gradual Acceptance Of
.... decked with decorations and holiday splendor, yet, much to Holden's
despair "seldom yields any occasions of peace, charity or even genuine
merriment."3 Holden is surrounded by what he views as drunks, perverts,
morons and screwballs. These convictions which Holden holds waver very
momentarily during only one particular scene in the book. The scene is
that with Mr. Antolini. After Mr. Antolini patted Holden on the head while
he was sleeping, Holden jumped up and ran out thinking that Mr. Antolini
was a .....
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The Natural: Fate
.... off his
career and the end of his pitching. Strike one!
I guess that he didn't learn his lesson because one night while
Roy's new so-called friend Bump leads him to a hotel room knowing that his
girlfriend Memo is lying buck-naked on the bed. When Roy notices her there
he doesn't stop and think,”Hold on a second their is a naked woman in my
bed mabey I should turn on the light and ask her what she's doing here” No,
he just jumps into bed and runs the bases. So one day Bump dies and Roy
thinks that Me .....
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Madame Bovary: The Origin Of Emma And Nora
.... the socio-economic status and
background of the two authors. It is also good to at least have an idea
about the society in which they lived. Then it is possible to see why they
had certain viewpoints and how these viewpoints had an effect on the
personalities and actions of their characters.
Gustave Flaubert was born on December 12, 1821 in Rouen, France to
a wealthy surgeon. As a boy he was well aware of the incompetence in the
medical profession, and the middle class “lip service” which he portray .....
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