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 he .....
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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 boo .....
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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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Book Report On Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"
.... the part of the shameless "buffoon" for attention, even though the
attention he receives is negative. Because he has no respect for himself,
he can have no respect for others, either. He has no respect for women,
for example; he is a despicable "voluptuary," and he satisfies his lust at
any cost. He drives his wife to madness by bringing "women of ill-repute"
into their house right in front of her. Even more shockingly, he rapes a
mentally retarded woman, who later dies giving birth to his i .....
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Essay On Jim In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
.... Finn and Tom Sawyer were planning to free Niger Jim.
He was owned by Tom Sawyer's aunt and uncle. Before Tom arrived to his
uncle's farm Huck was already there and he stopped Tom before the Phelpses
saw him. Tom hid until that night when they planned to break Jim out. But
being the one for excitement that Tom was he derived a plan that would for
sure get them caught. He left a note on the Phelps's porch that something
was going to happen. As Huck and Tom freed Jim Mr. Phelps fired a shot and
it hit .....
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Faulkner's "The Unvanquished"
.... in their practical bearings, that the function of thought is to
guide action, and that truth is preminently to be tested by the practical
consequences of belief. Bayard Sartoris was a pragmatist. He 'let his
conscience be his guide'. Telling his father about Drusilla's attempt to
seduce him and refusing to avenge his father's death are two good examples
of this. In the beginning of the novel, Bayard is shown to be simple minded,
but as time passes on and Bayard grows into a young man, his mind devel .....
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The Scarlet Letter: The Symbol Of The Scarlet Letter
.... for herself if she had chosen to hide her
sin in her heart. Though it was ordered for Hester to wear the letter, it
was still her own choice to make it in a vivid scarlet, "so fantastically
embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom." Hester chose red as the color
of her brand of shame, to declare to the rest of the townspeople that she
is prepared to acknowledge her sin, instead of denying it; she could have
chosen to wear her "A" in a plain and nondistinct color, to escape the
townspeople's disdai .....
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Essay On Romanticism In Frankenstein
.... Movement is one of the most important literary periods in
history; affecting the literature, music, and art of the period. It
encouraged spontaneity, and acting with emotions, not common sense. In the
more classical style of writing, writers addressed their books to the upper
class, but now writers addressed the common man and his problems. Their was
a new feeling of spirituality. People were seeking eastern concepts of
nirvana, transcendentalism and being one with nature. People wanted to
experien .....
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Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress": The Essence Of Time
.... phases of time in an attempt to frighten her into
having sex with him.
All three stanza's in the poem represent a different time frame.
The first gives his mistress a feeling of unconditional love. He leads
her to believe he would give all he has to her as long as time will permit.
During the second stanza, Marvell plays on her fear of getting old. He
warns her that her beauty isn't everlasting and that she will end up
unhappy alone if she doesn't give in. Marvell's use of optimum time, the .....
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Evaluation Of The Lord Of The Flies
.... is heard,
but is quickly discounted as a nightmare. It will later be a major theme in
the book. On the mountain, fire is created, but only through the use of
Piggy's glasses. After Jack goes off to hunt and comes back, Ralph
discusses the problems of people not working with Jack. Simon goes into the
jungle alone and contemplates. The boys become used to the daily tasks on
the island. The small children play all the time while the older ones do
most of the work. The first flash of Jack's future warrior .....
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Native Son: Bigger
.... of Mary
Dalton, portrays him under a form of slavery, where the white society
governs his state of being. While he worked for the Daltons, "his courage
to live depended upon how successfully his fear was hidden from his
consciousness"(44), and hate also builds on top of this fear. Once he is
in contact with Mary, his fears and hate pour out in a rebellious act of
murder, because to Bigger Mary symbolizes the white oppression. In
addition, he committed the act, "because it had made him feel free for t .....
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Everyone In A Man For All Seasons Is Pursuing Their Own Ends. What Makes More Different?
.... in the play particularly concerned with his goals, regardless
of the path he must take to reach them is Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is the
personification of pragmatism and is willing to do anything, providing the
end sees him satisfied. "…our job as administrators is to make it as
convenient as we can," Cromwell states in reference to the King's divorce
and the pursuit of More's support. He is "…the King's ear," and is thus
responsible for all the menial tasks which the King would otherwise have to
per .....
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Humanity's Fall In "The Garden Of Eden"
.... does not clarify it by
stating it outright. Milton definitely portrays Satan's evil in Book four
by asserting that Satan is hell and that evil is his good because good has
been lost to him. (Bk. 4, lines 75, 108-110). Satan's moral state further
decays in Book nine as detailed in a soliloquy at the beginning of the book
by Satan. Satan recognizes his descent into bestiality after once being in
contention with the gods to sit on top of the hierarchy of angels. He is
unhappy with this "foul descent" and .....
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