The Crucible
.... hung over the population. The setting of The Crucible helps add to the conflict and sets up a fertile environment for associated guilt (Weales 58).
Examples of associated guilt as presented in The Crucible are the hangings and convictions of nineteen men and women and two dogs in Salem in 1692. Their bodies were buried in shallow graves or not at all. The trial of these people are perhaps the most disconcerting single episode in American history. The trials were started when several girls accused .....
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The Life Of Ava
.... the loved ones she knows during her ten years in Atlanta just smile at her and walk in the opposite direction, Ava Johnson decides to sell her hair salon and moves to San Francisco but wants to summer in Idlewild, the small town in northern Michigan where she grew up.
Now just a half-abandoned dot on the map, Idlewild offers the only safe haven for Ava, now nearly 30. Telling herself she's just visiting her older sister, Joyce, for a few weeks before she moves on to San Francisco, sophisticated Ava is .....
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The Metamorphosis: Complexity And Irony Of Man In Society
.... regarded as fruitful and useful. The irony lies in the realization that Gregor’s change is merely external, and despite his obvious inability to further produce, he is disregarded as a social burden, unable to sustain his role in the system. His mind however, his intentions remained that of his old self. But on account of his inabilities his family is revolted by him, and feeling immensely burdened, they sentence him to a life of isolation.
In the meantime, Gregor’s sister Gretta embarks on her own m .....
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Social Criticism In Literature, As Found In George Orwell's Animal Farm And Charles Dickens' A Tale Of Two Cities.
.... that, unfortunately, human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some of us, overly ambitious. Both these books are similar in that both describe how, even with the best of intentions, our ambitions get the best of us. Both authors also demonstrate that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of "the ends justifying the means" are deplorable. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, ". . . to discredit the Soviet system by showing its inhumanity and its back-sliding from ideals [he] valued . . ."(Gardner, 106) .....
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Thomas More’s Utopia
.... of the reign of King Edward IV. When Thomas was five years old,Edward IV died and left throne to Edward V. He then died shortly after and Richard III became king. Thirty years later, More would become Rchard’s biographer. Two years afterwards King Richard III was slain in
the Battle of the Roses. Henry VII later became king (The World Book Encyclopedia 802).
During the reign of Henry VII More grew into manhood. His father was John More, a barrister of Lincoln’s Inn. After schooling at St. Anthony .....
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The Old Man And The Sea
.... in it. It is dark and treacherous though, and every day there is a challenge. A similar story tells about a tidal pool with life called `Cannery Road'. This part of the story has to deal with figures of Christ. It mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin, his helper, comes to his aid with food and drink. Also a point that might be good is tha .....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie's Love Life
.... herself. Yes, she would love Logan after they were married. She could see no way for it to come about, but Nanny and the old folks had said it, so it must be so.” (Hurston 20). Janie’s marriage to Logan proved that love can not be arranged. “She knew now that marriage did not make love.” (Hurston 24). In the early part of Janie’s first marriage, she was treated properly and only did basic house chores. After a while, Logan started to make her do more demanding chores. He even stated that she would .....
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The Worn Path Of Life
.... inner thoughts and feelings as she makes her way through the pinewoods, brandishing her homemade cane which is fashioned from an old umbrella handle. The weather is cold; it's mid-December, and the ground is frozen. Phoenix's cane taps the frozen earth as she walks along, "like the chirping of a solitary little bird."
Phoenix is very old and very small and dressed in a cotton striped dress that reaches to her shoes, which are untied, the laces dragging the ground. Her head is "tied in a red rag" a .....
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The Lady With The Pet Dog: A Review
.... to another. With every new affair it would erase the pain of the last affair and excite him with something new. This lasted until one day he saw a woman wearing a beret walking a white Pomeranian. He lusted after her. He would see her in a public garden and in the square several times a day. Dmitry gets to know the woman as Anna, which then turns his lust of women into passion for Anna.
Dmitry’s passion begins as he starts to learn about Anna. He recognizes that they have a lot on common. They are both m .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper: The View From The Inside
.... machines.
From the beginning of the story forward the narrator speaks of how her husband and other influential men in her life direct her so that she will recover quickly and I believe this to be the initial sign that the feminist perspective will be presented throughout. The narrator shows how although she has a formed opinion (and probably successful idea for her treatment), she is still swayed by her husband's direction with the following passage, "I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had les .....
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Narration In Haircut And Cask Of Amontillado
.... someone and said that a man was dead when he wasn't.
In "Cask of Amontillado", the narrator is Montresor. He tells his friend that he has some wine for him to try, even though there is no wine and he is leading Fortunato to his death. "‘I have my doubts,' I replied; ‘and I was silly enough to pay the full Amontillado price without consulting you in the matter. You were not to be found, and I was fearful of losing a bargain.'" Montresor tells Fortunato this lie to lure him into the cellar, but th .....
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Huck Finn
.... a game and as an adventure, This sometimes makes things more difficult than they actually are. An example of this is when they are planning to rescue Jim. Tom wants to dig Jim out with a spoon and make this spectacular escape and Huck decides bake some tools used for escaping into a pie and get Jim out that way. Another example is at the beginning of the story when Tom decides to play a trick on Jim by hanging his hat above is head while he is asleep on the tree. Tom Sawyer often tricks people into belie .....
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The Good Earth: Wang Lung's Character
.... of family and adaptation to simple life. For example, Wang Lung showed extreme respect and appreciation for his wife in a time when women were considered to be no more then slaves. In the early chapters of the novel when Wang Lung was poor, he gave O-lan four silver pieces so she may return to the House of Hwang in grand style. He also offered to pay five thousand silver pieces for her recovery after he discovered she had a "fire in her vitals"(170). He then spent the rest of her days by her death bed .....
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Daily Life Of The Aztecs
.... the natives about two centuries to totally develop this area. There were two main centers in this area, they were Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco.
The city was split into four sections. This method of dividing the city had governmental advantages. In these four sections there was a temple built and a military chief appointed to each section. The military chiefs also known as the calpullec was elected four life, this was confirmed by the emperor. The chief was elected by his fellow citizens. The cal .....
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The Necklace: Madame Loisel
.... and from the “ugliness of the curtains.” All those things that another woman of her rank would never even have been conscious, “tortured her and made her angry.” Even the sight of her servant would cause her to daydream of “two great footmen in knee breeches who sleep in the big armchairs, made drowsy by the heavy warmth of the hot-air stove.” “She thought of the long salons fitted up with ancient silk, of the delicate furniture carrying priceless curiosities, and of the coquettish perfumed boudoirs ma .....
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