The Scarlet Letter: The Scaffold's Power
.... speech shows Dimmesdale's need to
confess. This scene sets the stage for the next two scenes.
A few years later the event is again repeated. It is very similar to the
other and helps us understand the torment of Dimmesdale. As before the
tortured Reverend Dimmesdale goes first on to the platform. He seeks a
confession of his sins a second time by calling out into the night. He then
sees Hester and Pearl coming down the street from the governor's house. As
before, they are asked to go up on t .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Review
.... where she
was forced into a loveless marriage and hence she would be the "good guy," or
girl, as the case may be. Also the townspeople, the magistrates, and
Chillingworth, Hester's true husband, can be seen in both lights. Either they
can be perceived as just upholding the law -she committed a crime, they enforce
the law. On the other hand are they going to extreme measures such as wanting
to take Pearl, Hester's daughter, away just because Hester has deviated from the
norm, all to enforce an unjust .....
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The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber
.... hiding and waiting for the hunters to come after him. Before
the men go in after the lion, Macomber sat, "sweating under his arms, his mouth
dry, his stomach hollow feeling, wanting to find the courage to tell Wilson to
go on and finish off the lion without him." As the men enter the tall grass,
the lion came charging at them. The next thing he knows, Macomber is "running
wildly, in panic in the open, running towards the stream." Wilson finishes the
lion off with two shots from his rifle. Unfortuna .....
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Les Miserables: Jean Valjean
.... there to goto a town where he was not wanted. Still a criminal he steals
some silverware from a kind priest who gave him shelter. When caught, the police
ask the priest if Jean stole the silverware. To everyone's surprise the priest
said it was a gift this started his conversion toward a good life. After this he
tried to live a peaceful life. He started a new factory in a new town employing
several. Then a man in a city nearby was arrested under the name Jean Valjean.
Jean was faced with a tough .....
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Frankenstein: The Subjectivity Of The Character "Safie"
.... into how their religion and culture
affect them, Safie's religion and Arabian culture sculpt her into a subject with
feminist qualities juxtaposed against her fulfillment of European domestic
ideology.
Many theorists, such as Benveniste who said, "Consciousness of self [or
subjectivity] is only possible if it is experienced by contrast," argue that
one's subjectivity can only exist in their relation to the Other(85). The
subject's relation this "Other" depends on which aspect is being examined. For
exa .....
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The Subtle Humor Of Pride And Prejudice
.... irony, and satire, not only helped to provide
humor for Austen's readers, but they also helped Austen to give her own personal
opinion on public matters.
When an action is exaggerated on stage by an actor, it becomes all the
more noticeable to the audience. An author can exaggerate a character in order
to make fun of them. Austen exaggerates many of her characters and therefore
makes caricatures of them in order to emphasize their ridiculousness. Mrs.
Bennet is such a character. Her extremely unpl .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: The Theme Of Prejudice
.... and racism arise.
"Men hate each other because they fear each other,
and they fear each other because
they don't know each other,
and they don't know each other because
they are often separated from each other. "
-Martin Luther King
The stereotypes in this novel are fairly common but the fact that they
are accepted and used so openly in public is what ast .....
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Jack London's To Build A Fire: Theme
.... the character realizes "he had just heard his own
sentence of death." Jack London introduces death to the reader in this scene.
The man realizes "a second fire must be built without fail." The man's
mind begins to run wild with thoughts of insecurity and death when the second
fire fails. He recollects the story of a man who kills a steer to stay warm and
envisions himself killing his dog and crawling into the carcass to warm up so he
can build a fire to save himself. London writes, "a certain fea .....
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The Time Machine By HG Wells
.... showed him the changing times.
As he traveled through time he slowed down to take a closer look at the
changes that were taking place, but he never left his lab. Finally hestoped when
he saw a White Sphinx with wings that made it look like it was hovering. He
stopped to fasted and the time machine fell on its' side and he had to pull it
up by a bar onit's side.
He was walking through a forest with trees filled with fruit, until he
came to a large round building. Inside the bulding there was nothing .....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: The Use Of Clothing
.... dreams of the future.
He proposes marriage to her, and arranges a rendezvous at the bottom of the road
at sunup the next morning. Janie is torn because Jody "does not represent sun-up
pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke of the far horizon....The memory of
Nanny was still strong." (pg. 28) When Janie decides to leave the next morning
for, if nothing else, a healthy change, she looks down and sees the apron which
has stood for all the things she has had to do for Logan," and flung it on a
small bush bes .....
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The Story Of Sweetheart Of The Song Of Tra Bong: The Use Of Setting
.... holds Mary Anne with the highest regard. He romanticizes her relationship
with the war. He is so amazed with the fact that a girl can be seduced by the
lure of the wilderness that he begins to talk about her with the listeners as if
she were the attractive girl from school that everyone knows but nobody dates.
" 'You know…I loved her. Mary Anne made you think about those girls back home,
how clean and innocent they all are.' " (123) Rat is pushing his views upon
the listener. He is shaping how the s .....
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The Witching Hour
.... images and the vision after
his death, that he had a purpose, that he was sent for a reason. Something that
had to do with a doorway, and the number thirteen.
After isolation from the press of the burden of his powers, he found himself
wanting to go back on the deck of the boat where he was rescued. He wanted to
talk to the woman who rescued him, for he thought that she would let him touch
the boat to recover images that night. He discovered that this neurosurgeon, Dr.
Rowan Mayfair, was the veritable .....
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
.... all had souls that were to be treated with
compassion, and those who argued that God had created them superior to all
blacks. Keep in mind that Mrs. Stowe was living through all of what is in her
story. So while providing social, political, and religious commentary, she also
spatters her work with racism and subtle bigotry that would not be found in most
modern writing.
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel about how trust in God can conquer great
obstacles, including the pain of slavery. The main character .....
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The Things They Carried: Possessions Of Character
.... dreaming when
Lavender is shot, and so he blames himself for it. Lavender's death was
something which "He would have to carry like a stone in his stomach for the rest
of the war." He does not always pay attention to what is most important, his
men. Lt. Jimmy Cross burns all of Martha's letters at the end of the story,
trying to forget her, to erase the memory. Still, he carries her in his mind
along with the haunting memory that she was not involved. Martha is just a part
of the technicalities now, he .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper: A Woman's Struggle
.... (Kennedy and Gioia 424).
Guilman cleverly manipulates the setting to support her themes and set the eerie
mood.
Upon first reading "The Yellow Wallpaper," the reader may see the relationship
between the narrator and her husband John as caring, but with examination one
will find that the narrator is repeatedly belittled and demeaned by her
husband. On first arriving at the vacation home John chooses the old attic
nursery against his wife's wishes and laughs at her when she complains about
the wallp .....
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