The Use And Nonuse Of The Theory Of Repressive Hypothesis In Indian Camp
.... examine the private life of other people and dig up dirt about their sexual life. Revelation of sex related secrets about other people promote extraordinary interests among masses and are handled with extreme pleasure (143). This obsession with sexuality is a definite violation of the limits of the society. " It stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it (repression) except at a considerable cost: nothing less that a transgression of laws, a lifting of prohibitions" (Foucault 14 .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Sin-Stained Conscience
.... Dimmesdale when Roger Chillingworth questions him about his thoughts on sinners and their secrets. Feeling full well the torment of his own secret, Arthur proclaims that those who hold such "miserable secrets…will yield them up that last day…with a joy unutterable." By this expression, Arthur offers a glimpse into his tortured heart and shows how heavy a burden his secret is. When Chillingworth further inquires about such sinful secrets, Arthur holds his hand to his breast, a motion that he carrie .....
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Man's Journey Into Self In The Heart Of Darkness And Apocalypse Now
.... into the wilderness, they discover their true selves through contact with savage natives.
As Marlow ventures further up the Congo, he feels like he is traveling back through time. He sees the unsettled Wilderness and feel the darkness of it's solitude. Marlow comes across simpler cannibalistic cultures along the banks. The deeper into the jungle he goes, the more regressive the inhabitants seem.
Kurtz had lived in the Congo, and was separated from his own culture for quite some time. He had once .....
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Herodotus' The History
.... cities, their families, their gods, and for their own freedom and dignity. Thus, the theme of The History of Herodotus is the struggle between the East and the West. The East, represented by the Persian Empire, signified tyranny and oppression. The West, represented by the Greek city-states, signified freedom. As Herodotus interprets the Persian Wars we see the beginnings of Western Civilization and the association of that tradition with freedom.
The Greeks had always been aware that foreign, barbarian .....
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Austen’s Marriages And The Age Of Reason
.... to Mr.Collins, Lydia’s to Wickham, Jane’s to Mr. Bingley, and Elizabeth’s to Mr.Darcy. Through these marriages, Austen will explain what makes a good marriage and what one must posses in order to fulfill the requirements of the age.
Mr. Collins will be the inheritor of the Bennet family’s home when Mr. Bennet dies. When Mrs.Bennet hears Mr.Collins may be interested in one of the daughters she is ecstatic because this will ensure that the home stays with one of her girls. Mr. Collins hears that Ja .....
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Old Man And The Sea: Themes
.... 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 that .....
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Treasure Island: Teamwork Overcomes Greed
.... However, after hearing about the pirates’ plan of mutiny for them, the Squire knows he and the Captain must put aside their differences. They know that they need each other to survive and they have to get along and cooperate if they want to live. This shows the high maturity level of both these characters. Although most like to think age shows maturity level, the pirates are perfect examples of grown men who have not learned enough to live a life based on good morals and values.
Secondly, Jim Hawk .....
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The Jungle
.... workers but were just money hungry.
Many workers had hazards to their jobs four examples of this would be; one wool pluckers lost fingers from acid. Second the workers who used knife lost or had hardly any fingers left especially the tumb. Third workers who worked in chilling rooms had rheumatism. And finally those workers who made tin for the cans had badly cut hands and, chances of getting blood poisoning. This proved that bosses did not care if workers were sick our had chances of dying as long a .....
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The Theme Of Catch 22
.... sweating, his eyes, as though he were in the grip of a blind fixation, burning feverishly, and his twitching mouth slavering. He moaned calmly as though in remote instinctive distress and kept repeating ‘Illegal Tobacco, Illegal Tobacco” (Heller 421). This obsession with profit comes up as a major theme throughout the Bible and the book of Job is not an exception. Job’s friends bring up several times that if Job was less greedy maybe he would not be stricken with such a terrible plight. Job’s frie .....
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Where Should The Line Be Drawn?
.... for the General Electric Company, is reassigned, the family moves to move to Berlin, Germany. After World War II, Howard is secreted by the CIA back to New York to escape extradition for crimes committed while under cover. Howard eventually turns himself in and is sent to Israel to be tried for war crimes. In the novel Mother Night, Howard’s crimes are not justified by his position in the CIA. Werner Noth, Police Chief of Berlin and Campbell’s father-in-law, believes that Campbell is a spy from the b .....
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The Scarlet Letter And Symbolism
.... father – what is this being which I have brought into the world” (Hawthorne 89)? Pearl would harass her mother Piyasena/Pine 2 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 she do .....
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Lord Of The Flies: The Personification Of Evil
.... calls it a “scar” to demonstrate that the island, or on a greater level, the earth, is a living thing. The personification shows how man has no regard for his surroundings and will, for example, cut down hundreds of acres of rain forest to make a neighborhood. While exploring the island, Ralph says, “’this belongs to us’” (29). This statement epitomizes mans attitude towards our planet. People believe that because it’s not bolted down and nobody has written their name on it, they own it. Like th .....
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Objectivism In The Founterhead
.... everyday. Keating said that if you became what people wanted you to be then you would have them right where you want them. Keating must have wanted them playing with his soul then. Because when a person becomes what people want him to be he opens up his soul to be influenced. When a person gives pieces of your soul to too many people he is left with an empty shell. In effect that person becomes a virus, living off the souls of others but never re-obtaining a soul for himself. As a “virus” Keat .....
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Gregory (Panos Ionnides)
.... honor belong? To Headquarters? To Gregory? Well, this changed, not only in direction but also in intensity. At first, the Executioner mentioned his first experiences of killing the enemy-soldiers headquarters had handed down to him. He described them as "delicate assignments". The first time, he said he threw up. The second, he was ill for days, the third, drank a bottle of alcohol, the fourth, a few glasses of beer, the 5th he joked about it, and finally the sixth, remorse, for it was Gregory fe .....
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The Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglas
.... to command the highest wages given to the most experienced calkers" (134), he is able to give the reader a more true picture of slavery. His poignant speeches raised the ire of many Northerners, yet many still felt the slaves deserved their position in life. Douglass, for his own safety, was urged to travel to England where he stayed and spoke until 1847 when he returned to the U.S. to buy his freedom. At that point, he began to write and distribute an anti-slavery newspaper called "The North Star .....
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