The Scarlet Letter: The Morality Issue
.... in what she did, but Hester Prynne was honest enough to herself to reveal the adulterous acts that she committed. She became more accepted in her community as she accepted herself and the “A” on her chest. We all have sins, but if we don not admit to our sins we won’t be forgiven. The reverend Dimmesdale said “But still, me thinks, it must needs be better for the sufferer to be free to show his pain, as this poor woman Hester is, than to cover it all up in his heart.” This statement is true because .....
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A Book Of Double Meanings
.... was a display of bravery, it infuriated the emperor, causing revenge to be vowed on Gulliver. Rather than being happy that both the empress and the palace are not in ruin, the littleness of the government and the people in general is displayed in this act. Another display of the littleness is the fact that Gulliver is used as the Emperor's absolute weapon, but the emperor only uses him to conquer his world of two islands. This makes the emperor's ambition seem extremely low. Swift also criticize .....
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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
.... and thoughts of what you think the monster could be run through your head like crazy. When they finally make an attempt to capture it, it disappears beneath the depths of the ocean.
One of the most suspenseful and mysterious parts of the book was when the characters were thrown into a big room inside the submarine that seemed to have no doors. At this point in the book the characters have no idea what was going on, neither does the reader. The only thing that happens during the time .....
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The Red Badge Of Courage: Fear Of First Battle
.... is called the loud soldier. When he is in the tent talking to Henry and conklin he talks about how he will not run and take on the whole army on by himself. When he is in the first battle he tries to run but is caught by an officer and made to go back and fight. His attitude changed from being confident to being scard of fighting.
Jim conklin is also a soldier in the 304th regiment who talks with Henry and tom. When Conklin was talking to Henry and Wilson about how they felt about fighting their first b .....
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Comparative Essay Between Heart Of Darkness And Apocalypse Now
.... says,"…he probably felt the need at last of asserting his self-respect in some way. Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly."(p. 13 Conrad) Soldiers in combat are forced to bring the evil within themselves out every time they go into battle. The scene in Apocalypse Now where Captain Willard first meets Lt. Colonel Kilgore exhibits the power combat has in bringing out the dark side in humans. The attitude the soldiers have towards their enemy in the scene shows how evil humans can be. Kilgore demo .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird
.... Boo was the one putting "gifts" in the tree. Boo even sewed up Jem's pants that tore on Dill's last night. Boo was the one who saved their lives. On the contrary to Scout's primary belief, Boo never harms anyone. Scout also realizes that she wrongfully treated Boo when she thinks about the gifts in the tree. She never gave anything back to Boo, except love at the end. When Scout escorts Arthur home and stands on his front porch, she sees the same street she saw, just from an entirely different perspe .....
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To Kill A Mocking Bird: Injustice
.... he was improperly accused, he just showed the level of respect which everyone deserves. He handled the injustice with a manner reserved only for gentlemen, which is a good description of what he really was.
The third person to suffer injustice in the novel was Boo Radley. Many accusations were claimed about him even though they were untrue. Just because he didn't leave his house, people began to think something was wrong. Boo was a man who was misunderstood and shouldn't of suffered any injustice. .....
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Chaplin's, The Kid
.... the worn condition of those shabby fingerless gloves, he tosses them away with the cavalier panache of a gentleman of leisure with a dozen other pairs of handwear at his immediate disposal. Just as he is about to surrender himself to the joys of his first smoke of the day, his tranquillity is shattered by earsplitting distress signals from the squalling infant who has been abandoned on the garbage heap, plaintively demanding to be heard by someone, anyone.
Taking one glance at that miserable child, .....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie Crawford
.... maid and a former slave. Janie, like her mother before her, was born of rape, and Nanny is committed to protecting her from the sexual and racial violence she and her daughter endured. She pushes Janie into marriage with an older man named Logan Killicks, a farmer with some property. Her life with Killicks is full of boredom and hard labor, so she runs off with Joe Starks, a handsome and well-off storekeeper who moves her to the all-black town of Eatonville, Florida. Even with the prestige and security thi .....
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Four Contrasting Viewpoints In The Sound And The Fury
.... perspectives, Faulkner is able to create an intricately woven plot that centers on the only Compson daughter, Caddy, and allows one to crawl inside the minds of his deeply disturbed characters.
April seventh, nineteen-hundred-and-twenty-eight…or is it? Benjamin, formerly Maury, presents a disjointed account of his life between his early childhood just around the turn of the century and up until 1910, mainly focusing on his relationship with his sister, Candace. His sense of time is nonexistent: he c .....
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Notes From The Underground: Underground Man
.... and knew their real normal interests then they would become noble and good. His only advantage would be in the good. The only reason he does bad things is because he does not know his own interests. The Underground Man does not really believe that though. He thinks only innocent, naïve people believe it is that easy. In reality, man knows his interests but continues to pursue other things.
The Underground Man has his perspective on life, which is for once close to the way it really is. H .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism
.... art still my father – what is this being which I have brought into the world” (Hawthorne 89)? Pearl would harass her mother over the scarlet “A” she wore. In time, Hester was subjected to so much ridicule from Pearl and others that she was forced into seclusion.
Pearl represents the sins of both Hester and Dimmesdale. Pearl is said to be the direct consequence of sin (Martin 108). Their sins include lying to the people about the affair that led to Pearl. Hester realizes what Pearl represents when s .....
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The Lady With The Pet Dog
.... He did not love her then, but after a few days he could not forget her. She was in his mind all the time.
Gurov did not like his wife and was unfaithful to her for a long time. When he meet Anna, I felt, she was the woman that he was looking for in his life. Anna is trapped between two men. One that make her feel like nothing and the other one that make her feel a live. Anna loves her husband but not in the same passion that she loves Gurov. Anna and Gurov Found love and passion in each other arms .....
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Ethan Frome: Themes
.... Frome meets the woman of his dreams. Mattie Silver who is Zenna’s cousin moves in. Throughout the book Ethan yearns to be with her but cannot because of his obligation to Zenna. Every waking moment he dreams of being with her. He even goes as far as lying to his wife to be alone with Mattie. Zenna is not very fond of Mattie, especially of her house cleaning skills. He does this when he tells his wife that he has to get money from Mr. Hale as an excuse not to give her a ride to the flats when she has .....
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1984: Symbolism And Irony
.... Winston is intrigued by a small paperweight. It is clear glass with a small piece of coral suspended inside. "The coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity in the heart of the crystal” The relationship of Winston and Julia was beautiful, but was also trapped and suspended in the world of Big Brother, like the coral. The name Julia is symbolic because it represents Juliet, a name that has a connotation of romance and love. This also gives significance to the passage where Winston wa .....
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