Scarlet Letter Essay
.... a 20th century woman. She knew that true love was more important than a phony, love-less marriage. Hawthorne appeared to make Dimmesdale an incredibly weak man; he could not confess his sin to the people, until it had almost killed him: “I am a dying man. So let me [take] my [shame].” Chillingsworth was the “Black Man.” His quest for knowledge turned him into a rational monster. After Arthur Dimmesdale becomes his object of obsession, he changes his name to emphasize his new .....
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Showing The Connection Between
.... life was based on cheating and lying. What he failed to realize was that although he would eventually possess the money and the objects he so heatedly yearned for, he would never be truly happy. Due to his obsession with the "American Dream" and his longing to forget his past, the reader is able to decipher that Gatsby was in fact, a fraud. His life was based on an unattainable goal, his past merely a figment in an unused imagination. He was not real in the sense that he never truly lived, and it could .....
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Sources Of Pleasure And Disqui
.... The most obvious example occurs when Oedipus Gouges his eyes out with Iocaste's broaches. This scene is vividly described by the Chorus of Theban Elders, "Deep, how deep you drew it then, hard archer, At a dim fearful range, And brought dear glory down". Not only is this scene physically disturbing, but it is emotionally disturbing due to the dramatic irony. Oedipus, before this, was blinded by his intellectual arrogance. Now, he has been humbled by fate and sees his mistakes, but is physically bli .....
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Streetcar Named Desire
.... night. Blanche turns on the radio, but Stanley
demands her to turn it off. Blanche refuses and so Stanley gets up
himself and turns it off himself. When Stanley’s friend, Mitch, drops
out of the game to talk to Blanche, Stanley gets upset and he
even gets more upset when Blanche flicks on the radio. Due to the
music being on, Stanley, in a rage, stalks in the room and grabs the
radio and throws it out the window. His friends immediately jump up,
and then they drag him to the .....
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Suffer The Little Children - S
.... to a class of third grade children who are, in the majority of the time, quiet, with frightened faces. The characteristics of Kings work demonstrate tension from the beginning to the end.
The structure of the story itself builds up, but the mirror image is building down. At first, Miss Sidley is in control of the situation: Behind her, none of the children giggled or whispered..., Like God, she seemed to know everything at once. The author compares her to God, which put her in a superior position, .....
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The Black Cat By Poe
.... any Poe story. The most obvious of symbolic references in this story is the cat’s name, Pluto. This is the Roman god of the underworld. Pluto contributes to a strong sense of hell and may even symbolize the devil himself. Another immensely symbolic part of “The Black Cat” is the title itself, since onyx cats have long connoted bad luck and misfortune. The most amazing thing about the symbolism in this story or in any other of Poe’s is that there are probably many symbols that only .....
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The Pearl Greed And Its Abunda
.... decease of his son, and the tension between Juana, his wife, and him, triggered Kino’s breakdown. Because Kino was exceedingly possessed by the prosperity the pearl might possibly produce for him, he even assaulted Juana, as a result of her recognizing that the pearl and the greed it caused was gradually diminishing Kino and her community’s lucidness. Although Kino assumed that selling the pearl would improve his family’s level of affluence; his dreams, and goals entirely counted on the .....
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To Kill A Mocking Bir
.... obvious. How would it feel to be the person to be convicted for something that person did not do?
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The Red Badge Of Courage
.... man, but it mentally matures them. War matures boys into a men is by experiencing new, unpredictable environments and adjusting to unfamiliar smells, sounds, and emotions. Think about it, being there on a battlefield witnessing deaths of friends and comrades would have to have an effect on a human being. Being in a war and to be around new faces, new personalities, confusion, and trauma would force one to adapt to an environment faster than you usually would. Just imagine leaving your country home .....
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The Sixth Extinction
.... leading to environmental problems, and; addressing the concept of redistribution of wealth, which like over population has been to some degree viewed as vital to formulating global-scale solutions. While 'The Sixth Extinction' serves an awesome purpose of educating its readers on man's mishandling of the natural world, and the consequences of our actions and inactions, there is however, no prescription given for any of the dilemmas aforementioned. Unfortunately, most, if not all the issues presented by .....
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The Stranger 2
.... her that it didn’t really matter and that if she wanted to, we could get married.” (Camus, 41) Marriage is an issue that would have no effect on Meursault. The only way it would matter to him would be if it made Marie happy, “so she took my arm with a smile and said she wanted to marry me. I said we could do it whenever she wanted.” (Camus, 42) Meursault becomes honest, but selfish with Marie. He honestly could not care if he was married to her. It would not affect him posit .....
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To The Lighthouse 2
.... feelings; it is as if he enjoys "drenching" Mrs. Ramsay and enjoys seeing her in mental anguish. However, Woolf later contrasts the callous Mr. Ramsay with a more sensitive and caring Mr. Ramsay:
So stiffened and composed the lines of her face in a habit of sternness that when her husband passed… he could not help noting, the sternness at the heart of her beauty. It saddened him, and her remoteness pained him. (64)
Therefore, here Mr. Ramsay is portrayed as a sympathetic and caring husb .....
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The Characteristics Of Mrs.dic
.... that Mrs.Dickinson is a bery demanding person. Demanding is not a bad thing, but she is doing it at a wrong way. She is have too much demands on Frederick. As Frederick cries, she demands him to stop cring. "Frederick, you can’t --- in the middle of Regents’s park". (P109) That is not a bad thing to do because Frederick is cring in a public place, but Frederick is still at a young age, and she is giving him a fearful mortificatoin which will make Frederick feel more "You really haven’t .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
.... failure of an uncivilized person. Pap is an alcoholic, a dead
beat and a racist. Nevertheless, society also considered Huck
"uncivilized" because he did not wear shoes, did not always attend school
and he smoked. Society criticized Huck as uncivilized due to physical
appearance when really Huck turned out to be more civilized than any
other character in the novel because he learns how to respect Jim.
Through the ironic critizims of society trying to civilize Huck, Huck
teaches us a .....
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The Canterbury Tales
.... most of the people are educated. The situation is not the same in my country, where a large number of people are still illiterate. They are so ignorant and credulous that people like Friar or Pardoner can easily deceive them. In the village, where I used to live in my country, most of the people were uneducated farmer. And there was a man in that village who claimed himself to be the saint from Allah (God), and said that if people pay him, he would pray for them, which would give them a better chance of h .....
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