The Crucible
.... getting all the attention and exercising power via initiating and adamantly continuing these "witch trials". Finally John Proctor, the rationalist, shows that when people like Rebecca Nurse and Elizabeth Proctor who are the saintliest of people are accused of being witches, something must be wrong. Mary Warren has a difficult decision to make. She has realized that her whole way of life has been based on injustice. However, how can she extricate herself from Abigail and her friends, not to mention her new .....
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Pecola
.... Pecola turns to society for identification she finds that they judge her from the outside only.
“She looked at Pecola. She saw the dirty torn dress, the plaits had come undone, the muddy shoes with the wad of gum peeping out from between the cheap soles……Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything” (p80)
Thus she thinks it is only the outside that counts. She thought that if she were able to change the colour of her eyes to blue, that being a symbol of beauty in a white culture, her .....
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Character Development In Dead Poets Society
.... because the reader is permitted to invent his own opinions and use his imagination based on what the author has previously bestowed. For example, with the character of Charlie Dalton, the reader assumes that he is handsome and ?preppy?. The reader creates a picture in his (or her) mind of a very attractive, Matt Damon-type (he is so hot), above average high school male. Contradictory, in the movie, Charlie is shown as a rather average, scholarly gentleman, leaving no room for the imagination take ove .....
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Okonkwo: Overwhelmed By His Past
.... his past, he believes that he is one step closer to overcoming his fear of becoming like Unoka. This eventually develops to be his ultimate goal in life. As time progresses, he becomes obsessed with the concept of being different from his father, beginning his life having nothing.
With a father like Unoka, Okonkwo did not have the start in life which many young men had. . . . But in spite of these disadvantages, he had begun even in his father’s lifetime to lay the foundations of a prosperous futu .....
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The Scarlet Letter: The Theme Of Punishment
.... another couple. Although she does the job willingly and rarely ever looks back to the horrid past behind. The scarlet letter was constantly worn by Hester with pride and dignity. Hester knew that what was done in the past was wrong and that the scarlet A was the right thing to do, therefor it is worn with a sense of pride.
The child, Pearl, is "a blessing and as a reminder of her sin." As if the scarlet A were not enough punishment there "was a brat of that hellish breed" which would remind .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Women In Society
.... is like a premonition for the transformation that takes place in herself while she is there. In this way the house still is the cocoon for her transformation. It does not take the form of the traditional symbol of security for the domestic activities of a woman, but it does allow for and contain her metamorphosis. The house also facilitates her release, accommodating her, her writing and her thoughts. These two activities evolve because of the fact that she is kept in the house.
One specific char .....
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"The Heptameron"
.... are told.
In "The Heptameron," marriage seemed to be one of the most difficult things to obtain. It was a duty in which you had to find a suitable person of the same class. As story 42 points out, someone of the higher class could obtain someone as a mistress but not as a wife. Marriage always had to be approved by your mistress. No matter how much one loved another, it also had to be consented between both sides of the family. You could not remarry until mourning was done. And a couple could not b .....
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Social Injustices In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
.... world we live in, and only the journey down the river provides us with that chance.
Throughout the book we see the hypocrisy of society. The first character we come across with that trait is Miss Watson. Miss Watson constantly corrects Huck for his unacceptable behavior, but Huck doesn’t understand why, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it" (2). Later when Miss Watson tries to teach Huck about Heaven, he decides against trying to go ther .....
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Views Of The Church In The Canterbury Tales
.... saint Augustine, and his views. Chauncer doesn't like the way he acts so the monk is shown as a man of the church who doesn't follow the basic ways of the church.
The next character is the Parson. Chauncer depicts the Parson as a smart man who is into studying. He is one of the few people Chauncer portrays an a good manner. Pardons is also is a holy minded man who is a person who can priest and praise Christ who is really the only devout Christian in this story. He doesn't look down on any men he d .....
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Jane Eyre - Miss Temple's Influence On Jane
.... to command (perhaps unconsciously) respect from everyone around her, “considerable organ of veneration, for I yet retain the sense of admiring awe with which my eyes traced her steps”. Even during their first encounter Jane is “impressed”… “by her voice, look and air”.
Throughout Jane’s stay at Lowood, Miss Temple frequently demonstrates her human kindness and compassion for people. An Example of this is when after noticing that the burnt porridge was not eaten by anyone, she ordered a lunch of br .....
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Charlie Gordon Is Algernon
.... Strauss and Professor Nemur, were presenting to the scientific world, even Charlie thought so, "No one in this room considered me an individual," (Keyes 111). They both had to undergo similar tests everyday, and day-to-day, Algernon and Charlie were changing in comparable ways. Charlie and Algernon, were always being watched carefully, everything about them; their results, abilities were always recorded. Therefore, this proves that both, Charlie Gordon and Algernon are used as objects in an experimen .....
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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
.... at him and kill him. His physical appearance brings out the worst evil in other people. Since Hyde represents evil, he is symbolically represented as being much smaller than Dr. Jekyll.
I believe Dr. Jekyll created Hyde because he had a theory that man has a good side and a bad side. While investigating this, he developed a potion that could release the evil in a person in the form of a totally different person. Then this person could commit any evil act it wanted, and then drink the potion to retur .....
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The Shining: Summary
.... help in case of an emergency by telling Danny to yell in his mind and he'll come right away.
After a few months the Torrances finally settled in and Jack was finally getting in some writing time to work on his novel. Just when everything else was going well, Jack was drifting near an edge. He wondered into the ballroom, up to the bar and ordered a drink as if a bartender would give him a drink, when he looked up he saw that there was a bartender and all. He asked the bartender what he was doing there, w .....
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The Awakening: A Woman's Fight For Independence
.... this to be a woman's rightful job and duty. A woman should act and look "proper" at all times. This is what Edna is fighting against in this novel. She feels that, though many women agree with this "known" rule, it isn't fair. For six years Edna conforms to these ideas by being a "proper" wife and mother, holding Tuesday socials and going to operas, following the same enduring schedule. It is only after her summer spent at Grand Isle that her "mechanical" lifestyle becomes apparent to her. She sees .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Character Analysis Of Piggy
.... ideas without asking questions: when he suggested moving the fire to the beach, he just wanted a ship passing by to see them. Piggy mimicked adults, he did not run about in a savage nature, he was good. Being the only boy that wasn't violent, shows how diverse Piggy was from the other boys on the island. "I got the conch I tell you" Piggy screamed in attempt to gain the boys' lost attention, "I tell you I got the conch."
Good finally prevailed and Piggy gained the boys' attention. Never once .....
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