The World As Will And Idea And Young Goodman Brown: Symbols
.... for a nighttime journey in the woods. Meeting an older man with a twistered staff, he learns that others have traveled the path before him. Sick at heart, he observes a witches' Sabbath and discovers the presence of his own wife. The next morning Goodman Brown returns to Salem a changed man, stern, sad and gloomy, he believes that all are cursed. It is difficult for the reader to determine if the events in this story actually took place of was it a dream 'Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, .....
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Comparison Of Animal Farm To The Russian Revolution Of 1917
.... Animal Farm, clearly based on the Russian Revolution, did not keep nationalism from disappearing, a point Orwell makes clear. The animals, after revolting, are so proud, that they take a green table cloth and pain a white hoof and a horn on it similar to the hammer and sickle of the former Soviet Union (“Animalism”).
The animals on the farm do many other things that are very similar to what the people of Russia were going through in their everyday lives. Just like in the novel, the gun that sits at .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Symbolism In The Title, Names And Objects
.... I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.’” Finally Jem’s name was used to symbolize his qualities. Jem was like the valuable stone. He was rough on the outside but inside was nice. Jem was not always mature to other people in the beginning but at the end he treated all people like he was an adult. “How he could tell I was feeling bad under my costume I don’t know, but he said I did all right, I just came in a little late, that was all. Jem was becomin .....
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The Heart Of Darkness: Theme Based On Lies And The Good And Evil In Man
.... Conrad was a novelist who lived in his work, writing about the experiences were as if he were writing about himself. "Every novel contains an element of autobiography-and this can hardly be denied, since the creator can only explain himself in his creations."(Kimbrough,158) The story is written as seen through Marlow's eyes. Marlow is a follower of the sea. His voyage up the Congo is his first experience in freshwater navigation. He is used as a tool, so to speak, in order for Conrad to enter the story .....
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A Farewell To Arms: The Chaotic And Brutal World Of War
.... excitement, ultimately the experience of the war transforms him into a pessimist who has tasted the glory yet found it bitter in the end. Many critics have strong feelings about Henry as an individual because of his outlook on life in response to the many experiences that he faces with war, love, and death. However, many agree as a result of war, the character of Lieutenant Frederick Henry experiences a change in his morals and values.
In the novel, Lieutenant Frederick Henry volunteers as an army a .....
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“A Doll’s House” And “Ghosts": Style And Social Criticism
.... society is superficial by the words of the characters in both plays. Nora and Tovrald appear to only care about material things and appearances. Mr. Manders is exactly the same way. He only cares about what people think of him, not real issues. Ibsen also shows that people are narrow-minded. Nora even points this out to Tovrald when he is condemning Krogstad for one mistake. Mr. Manders is very narrow-minded in the way he thinks society should be. He has a very cut and dry outlook on the way life .....
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"How To Tell A True War Story"
.... and so far fetched that people don't believe it. The author Tim O'Brien says that, "Often the crazy stuff is true and the normal stuff isn't because the normal stuff is necessary to make you believe the truly incredible craziness" (461). After I did this a couple times, I was disgusted with myself and quit. I wanted to keep my memories of war to myself.
During the war I picked up the nickname Krebs and that is what I was known as. When I returned home everyone called me Harold and it felt strang .....
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The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: Good And Evil In Nature
.... as much as possible.
Unfortunately I am not as proud of my evil traits. I am a very sarcastic person. My sense of humor does not always make people laugh. At times I can also have an attitude. If you catch me at the wrong moment, beware! When I am extremely tired and overwhelmed, I get frustrated and take my anger out on the people around me. When I feel repressed I often have a bad temper. Sometimes at my job I feel overworked and exhausted, and I have no patients with customers. I try not to sho .....
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The Scarlet Letter
.... enveloped.
Hester receives many punishments for her adulteress affair. She has to spend time in jail as well as wearing the letter “A” and also raises her daughter without a father. This makes the punishments both private and public. Hester wishes she were dead but then changes her mind because she says to Chillingworth, “I have thought of death, have wished for it, would even had prayed for it, Yet if death be in this cup, I bid thee think again, ere thou beholdest me quaff it. See! It is even n .....
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Animal Farm: Socialistic And Fascist Governments
.... is the reason they revolted to begin with. This book is a strong social commentary against Socialistic and Fascist governments.
The book animal farm is a strong social commentary against communistic governments. The animals in animal farm are involved in a communist system, which is where the results of everybody’ work is spread around equally. Which in theory would work, but Wells is making a point through the character Moses. He makes a statement that some will not do work and still reap the be .....
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The Colors Of Daisy Buchanan
.... impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.”(17). White is also a color that I find to be lacking depth and substantial emotion. Much of Daisy’s personality is never really revealed in the book and the use of white helps to shroud her in more mystery, as its purity does not disclose any further information about her. However, white is inaccurate when trying to portray Daisy as pure, as she did cheat on Tom. “His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that .....
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The Black Box: Symbolic Of Death And Faded Traditions
.... the post office, and sometimes it was set on a shelf in the Martin grocery and left there.” Death is not something that people deal with everyday. Human beings deal with death very similar to the way that the towns people stored the black box. People place their experiences with death in different rooms and shelves of their hearts.
The black box also symbolizes the need for a new tradition and the reluctance of the townspeople to accept change. The black box is a symbol of the lottery itself. The ph .....
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A Rose For Emily: Emily's Life
.... her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad being left alone. She had become humanized" (219). This sounds as if her father’s death was sort of liberation for Emily. In a way it was, she could begin to date and court men of her choice and liking. Her father couldn’t chase them off any more. But then again, did she have the know-how to do this, after all those years of her father’s past actions? It also sounds as if the townspeople thought Emi .....
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Medea Is A Tragic Feminist Text
.... audience pity her however when she kills her kids they fear her ). Another component of a tragedy is that it contains a tragic hero who evokes both the audiences pity and terror and, due to their harmartia is led to their ultimate downfall. Medea is the tragic hero in this play and her tragic flaw is revenge and passion which, while challenging feminine stereotypes of the male dominant Greek society to achieve them, lead to her tragic downfall.
Jason betrays Medea by marring another woman (the pr .....
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"Miss Brill": Emptiness In One's Life
.... man's walking stick, and the women's embroidered apron. She paid extra attention to the ermine toque. She noticed the way the gentleman ignored the woman and then just walked away. Miss Brill imagined that the band knew what the ermine toque was feeling and played softly as the drum beat "The Brute! The Brute!" over and over. Her tendency to notice these things shows that she is melancholy with her own life and can find no other way to fill in her emptiness other than with the lives of other people. .....
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