The Great Gatsby: Daisy Buchannon
.... Daisy becomes radiant and personable. When everyone has gone, she is a bored housewife, of no importance to the world wondering aloud what she is going to do with the rest of her life. She appears to be bored yet innocent and harmless. Yet her innocense is false. Simply a materialistic young girl and has little mind of her own is underneath all of that covering. Daisy rediscovers her love with Gatsby because of his nice shirts and large house. Daisy has been well trained in a rich family. She has gr .....
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A Summary Of The Plot Of The Iliad
.... to make him aware of his need of Achilles and his troops. Agamemnon, while hoping to be able to take Troy without Achilles' help, is conscious of the low morale of his army resulting from the plague and from Achilles' defection. He therefore resorts to a stratagem of reverse psychology. He will propose to his soldiers that they return home. He communicates this plan to the chieftains in council, with instructions that they should prevent the men's return, if the proposal is accepted. He assembles the tro .....
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Conrad Jarrett
.... the car, Conrad restricts his anger because he does not want his friends to look at him like he is crazy. Even when Stillman makes annoying comments about Jeanine Pratt, he still keeps the anger to himself. Yet another example of Conrad as a troubled character is his first meeting with Berger. He basically keeps to himself because it was his father’s idea to visit a psychiatrist and not his. Berger, patient doctor, however, is willing to keep at it until Conrad finally gives in.
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Tragedy And The Common Man
.... beings, but which apply to everyone in similar emotional situations.
Not Exclusive
More simply, when the question of tragedy in art is not at issue, we never hesitate to attribute to the well-placed and the exalted the very same mental processes as the lowly. And finally, if the exaltation of tragic action were truly a property of the high-bred character alone, it is inconceivable that the mass of mankind should cherish tragedy above all other forms, let alone be capable of understanding it.
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Imagery Words And Their Role In Literature
.... woman in the party. She spends a wonderful time there, “danced joyfully, passionately, intoxicated with pleasure, thinking of nothing, but the moment, in the triumph of her beauty, in the glory of her success, on cloud nine with happiness made up of all the admiration, of all the aroused desire, of this victory so complete and so sweet to the heart of any woman.” After the party, she discovered her necklace was lost. Since then, things change. There are no more beautiful words to describe Mrs. Lois .....
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Brave New World
.... The classes range from the Alphas, the Betas, the Gammas, the Deltas and finally, the Epsilons. The classes are ranked according to their physical appearance and mental capacity. During the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning’s speech to his students he tell them how by depriving certain embryos of oxygen will affect which class they belong to. “The lower the cast, the shorter the oxygen”(Huxley, p.9). It seems unfair that before you are born, your future is already written out for you. Th .....
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Filling In The Gaps: Ideology In Faulkner’s “Dry September”
.... to the story.
The Ideology
This first section of the paper will serve as an introduction to an ideological reading of the text. I have chosen secondary sources that represent an ascending scale of critical emphasis on ideology in “Dry September.”
Paul Rogalus, in an article to the Explicator, states clearly that “Minnie Cooper…has accused a black man, Will Mayes, of having attacked her…”(Rogalus 211) Rogalus goes on to examine the scene in the theatre as a ‘victory lap’ for Minnie Cooper; where .....
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Appearances Are Deceptive In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
.... slaves.
The Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons are examples of aristocrats that are not as they appear. Like a stereotype of an aristocrat they live in nice big houses, wear nice clothes, and own nice things. On the other hand they could be considered exactly the opposite. The Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons are soul enemies and the two families have been feuding for years but instead of settling it as gentlemen they go to violence as the answer. Violence in this case does not help the situation .....
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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: Is There Evil Inside All Of Us
.... made up of pure evil, like mini-me in the movie Austin Power The Spy Who Shagged Me. Edward Hyde was just that pure evil.
Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish; he gave an impression of deformity without any namable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice. (Stevenson 10)
In this novel it states that a potion can isolate your evil side. But does it tak .....
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Remember Me: Review
.... afterlife experience.
In book 1, Remember Me, Shari Cooper is an 18-year-old teenager on the verge of high school graduation. The reader meets a carefree girl who lives for the moment. She has the ideal life of sex, parties, friends, and a handsome boyfriend. Her parents are rich and did not hesitate to buy her an expensive, red sports car. She can't imagine her life getting any better. She has the immortal feeling of most teenagers until she is pushed from a balcony at a party and killed. Her s .....
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Philip “Pip” Pirrup’s Development
.... with genuine concern for the well-being of those he loves. Hence, Pip’s stages of shame and guilt, self-gratification, and finally altruism make Great Expectations a novel of moral education.
Although shame and guilt are often brought on by actions, it can also brought about by circumstances beyond the individual’s control. Pip’s first moral development stemmed from both such instances. His shame for Joe and himself for being common and mundane were first contrived soon after encountering Estella. Al .....
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Sin In The Minister’s Black Veil And The Scarlet Letter
.... most imteresting in Hawthorne’s texts is the wrestling between two belief systems. On the one hand, Puritanism bestows doctrine which valued the greater moral good of the community over an individual’s well-being. In this sense, the community/society remains the central voice over any individual’s thoughts and/or feelings. Puritans believe that humans are born sinners, enslaved by evil, and therefore, predestined in the eyes of God. God is the center of all, who chooses the elected few to be saved, so .....
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Just Whom Is Edmund Gosse’s Father And Son Written For?
.... which he is forced to live. Secondly, Edmund wants the reader to see his father as he did, with honor, awe, resentment and even shame. Edmund does this quietly, he does not shout his shame, he merely reiterates it as a anecdote of a story “...his very absence of imagination aided him in his work. (113)” .
Finally, Edmund, being able to portray this book as a portrait of someone other than himself, is a chance to humble himself, no matter what he says about the father, to the reader. All of thes .....
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The Plague
.... being punished just like Cain from the Old Testament. He believes that the plague, which is killing many also, is trying to lead the people towards the right path.
In Father Paneloux’s second sermon he says “my brothers, a time of testing has come for us all we must believe everything or deny everything. And who among you, I ask, would dare to deny everything”(Camus p.224). He believes that the plague is a test of faith. He wants the people to still believe in God. Through all that he has been thr .....
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Carver’s Characters
.... he said in one interview, "We were poor but we thought that if we kept working, if we did the right things, the right things would happen" (Gentry 123). Somewhere in the middle of this life he realized, very much like one of his characters, that things would not change.
What Carver deals with in almost all of his stories is the daily responsibilities of life weighing down on one's shoulders. "Almost all the characters in my stories come to the point where they realize that compromise, giving in, pl .....
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