The Scarlet Letter: Do You Dread Guilt?
.... handles it in a different way though,
to him its more of a "concealed sin." A example of this is, "It may be that
they are kept silent by the very constitution of their nature. Or - can we not
suppose it - guilty as they may be, retaining, nevertheless, a zeal for God's
glory and man's welfare, they shrink from displaying themselves black and filthy
in the view of men; because, thenceforward, no good can be achieved by them; no
evil or the past be redeemed by better service." Dimmesdale also has a .....
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Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christian
.... near the courtyard of Castle
Dracula, Van Helsing makes a (Holy circle) with the Host to keep vampires out
and to keep Mina safe in the (Holy circle). Another time when the Host is used
as a deterrence of vampires is at the time Van Helsing and the other men are
going to leave Mina alone in the house. Van Helsing touches a Host to Mina's
forehead and it burns into her head since she, herself, was unclean. Another
abstruction of the Christian religion would be the fact that Dracula sleeps in
a coffin a .....
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Stoker And Rice's Books About Vampires
.... , the Count can morph
into a bat and he can turn into a greyish-green mist. He uses these powers so
humans dont detect his presence. As a gas he can pass by humans without them
even noticing and as a bat he can cover more ground in a shorter amount of time.
Rice's novels mention nothing of being able to morph into a bat, mist or
anything else for that matter.
The ability to fly is used in each novel but they are used very
differently. In Dracula the count can fly but, in order to do this he must
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Book Report On "A Dramatic Death"
.... the play, he
had a sister and Steve was very careful to trust anyone during all the murder.
Emma was very fond of Steve but because she was Steve's sister's friend for so
long Steve treated her as a sister, which she didn't like. Emma became so fond
of Steve that she start doing all these gruesome things and in the end she went
to a mental hospital. Emma liked to be in the play a lot and she was said to
have a very over active imagination.
SETTING
The setting was in a small quiet town called Dorking, t .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences On Huckleberry Finn
.... Huck go to school, teaching him various religious facts, and
making him act in a way that the women find socially acceptable. Huck, who has
never had to follow many rules in his life, finds the demands the women place
upon him constraining and the life with them lonely. As a result, soon after he
first moves in with them, he runs away. He soon comes back, but, even though he
becomes somewhat comfortable with his new life as the months go by, Huck never
really enjoys the life of manners, religion, and .....
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The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires
.... this has been a
story of the west, after all-Tom
and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and
I, were all westerners and and
perhaps we possessed some deficiency
in common which made us subtly
unadaptable to eastern life.
In other words, after finding out what the east was really like, Nick lost his
interest in being in the east and returned to the west.
Gatsby came east looking for another type of money - Daisy. Gatsby and
Daisy had last seen each other about five years befo .....
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East Of Eden
.... and revenge the person commits crime and goes crazy they
then go through guilt. Guilt comes after the person is obsses with revenge.
"One, child refused the love he craves, kicks the cat and hides his secret
guilt:.(Steinbeck p.355) Guilt builds up and then hidden which only causes more
problems. Guilt is natural and is human nature but can be controlled."And with
crime guilt, and there is the story of mankind".(Steinbeck p.355) After anger
comes the revenge which leads to crime and then after the .....
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Edgar Allen Poe's Symbolism Of Death In "The Fall Of The House Of Usher"
.... writers in the Romantic period. Writers of
this period focused on life, emotions, and the existence of the human race.
Although Poe's work has many characteristics of Romanticism, "The Fall of the
House of Usher", falls into the Gothic category. "It is usually admired for its
‘atmosphere' and for its exquisitely artificial manipulation of Gothic claptrap
and decor"(Abel, 380).
Bringing forth the symbolism of death is a major part of this writing.
All of the characters in "The Fall of the Hous .....
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Eliot's Views Of Sexuality As Revealed In The Behavior Of Prufrock And Sweeney
.... him and he feels he deserves the classification, because he
has put on a face other than his own. "To prepare a face to meet the faces that
you meet." He has always done what he was socially supposed to do, instead of
yielding to his own natural feelings. He wrestles with his desires to change
his world and with his fear of their rejection. He imagines how foolish he
would feel if he were to make his proposal only to discover that the woman had
never thought of him as a possible lover; he imagines her .....
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White Lilacs
.... their will.
the secondary conflicts are:
- Rose Lee had to learn to set the table right. If she did not
she would be fired.
- Henry was mouthing off white people. This eventually led to
him being tared and feathered. His family had to find a place for him to hide
so nothing else would happen to him.
- The citizens of the black community (Freedom) had to find a
new place to go to school because the white people had burned the colored school
down. This happened because of the fact that n .....
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Hemingway's "In Our Time": Lost Generation
.... himself appears to
hold some personal attachment and emotion to each story. One could even
speculate that In Our Time's main character Nick, is in fact, Hemingway himself.
It seems as though no matter what age this novel is read at, it could be
discussed as a representation of the "lost generation." What is meant by the
phrase "lost generation?" Possibly it means the loss of a kindlier, friendlier,
period of time. Maybe it means a loss of familiarity, closeness and strength of
relationships; everyday thi .....
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Ernest Hemingway: Allegorical Figures In The Sun Also Rises
.... Lady Brett Ashley.
A. First appears with a group of homosexuals.
B. Wears man's hat on short hair.
C. Refers to men as fellow “chaps”.
D. All complete distortion of sexual roles.
E. The war has turned Brett into the equality of a man.
F. This is like Jakes demasculation.
G. All releases her from her womanly nature.
H. “Steps off of the romantic pedestal to stand beside her
equals. IV. Robert Cohn.
A. Women dominate him.
B. Old fashioned .....
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Hemingway's "For Whom The Bell Tolls": War's Affect On Man And Importance Of Time
.... go. Robert finally says
to her " The me in thee. Now you go for us both. Truly. We both go in thee
now. This I have promised thee. Stand up. Thou art me now. Thou art all
there will be of me. Stand up." (Pg.462) By saying this Jordan reveals how man
is never an individual but instead is made up of all the influences, experiences,
and memories that we have shared with others.
Furthermore This change came upon Jordan as a consequence of joining the
war. Before the war had started he had .....
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Escaping The Fog Of Pride And Prejudice
.... he proves not to be. She is precisely perceptive of
everyone except Wikham and Darcy.
At the Meryton ball, Darcy is very reserved. He refuses to dance with
Elizabeth when Bingley asks him to, saying that Elizabeth is not handsome enough
to tempt him. Elizabeth's pride is hurt and she characterizes Darcy as
disagreeable and proud. When Elizabeth first meets Wikham, she is blinded by
her prejudice of Darcy as she accepts everything harmful Wikham has to say of
Darcy. The plot of the rest of the b .....
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All The King's Men: Man As A Slave To Knowledge
.... says
that “man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the
stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (49).”
He is saying that everyone has something to hide, a skeleton in the closet.
Stark knows that everyone has some bit of knowledge to hide, and that the
knowledge makes man a slave as he tries to hide the bit of knowledge. Stark
often wields the power of knowledge to enslave others to do his bidding. He
finds the dirt on someone, the secret bit .....
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