Winston Smith
.... he receives the message he seeks: O'Brien wants to see him.
O'Brien indoctrinates Winston and Julia into the Brotherhood, and gives Winston a copy of Emmanuel Goldstein's book. Winston reads the book to Julia in the room above the store, but suddenly soldiers crash in and seize them; the proprietor of the store has been a member of the Thought Police all along. Torn away from Julia and taken to a place called the Ministry of Love, Winston finds that O'Brien was a Party spy as well; O'Brien spends month .....
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Winterbourne And Prufrock
.... observant consciousness from the impression she produced. He asked himself whether Daisy’s defiance came from the consciousness of innocence or from her being, essentially, a young person of the "common" class. After getting to know Daisy, he was confused about getting to know his and her emotions. It is far evident that Winterbourne does not come to conclusions about people easily. He was very much influenced by the biases of his upbringing in culture, and he questioned them occasionally.
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Witchcraft And Arthur Millers
.... of superstition and the hearsay can distort the truth. The Salem witch trials were horrifying and it changes many peoples lives. The belief in witches did not end with the strange excitement. This strange episode in the history of Massachusetts astonished the civilized world, and made an unfavorable impression on others.
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Witches Influence In Macbeth
.... by his own sense of guilt. This causes him to become insecure as to the reasons for his actions which in turn causes him to commit more murders. The witches offer great enticement, but it is in the end, each individuals decision to fall for the temptation, or to be strong enough to resist their captivation. The three Witches are only responsible for the introduction of these ideas and for further forming ideas
in Macbeth head, but they are not responsible for his actions throughout the play. Lad .....
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Woman As A Symbol In Chapter 2
.... further complicate his disposition. For example, when he says goodbye to Eileen at the tram; he knows he should kiss her, but he is mortally afraid to do so.
Again, like most boys his age, he thought understanding of women would happen in an instant:
Weakness and timidity and
inexperience would fall from
him in that magic moment (65).
This stems from the Irish Catholic culture that has surrounded him his whole life.
Also, sex before marriage was a sin- and anything that coul .....
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Woman Warrior
.... she becomes, the more feral she is. Meat also played a role in the connection between food and strength. During the beginning of her story she claimed she no longer needed meat. After she became starving, she breaks down and eats meat. “…I saw the rabbit had sacrificed itself for me. It had made me a gift of meat” (26). Her will was eroded by the hunger because as her hunger increased, she became weaker and her resolve was easier to destroy. When the narrator was not starving .....
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Women Hollering Creek
.... How awful it must be to always compare your love for your husband to that of a soap opera.
The arroyo is a creek that runs behind Cleofila's house. Cisneros uses the sounds and tales of this creek and compares it to that of the anguish Cleofila is experiencing. It is interesting to note that both the legendary woman who the creek is named after and Cleofila have experienced pain and rage. I think that the arroyo is in parallel with her life. For instance when Cleofila was first married, and .....
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Women In Beowulf And Lanval
.... are bound to their husbands, valued as “peace weavers”, admired for their physical beauty, and have no power except the small influence they may have on their powerful husbands. Both Lanval and
Beowulf show the bleak reality of the life of the subservient powerless women with few differences.
Beowulf is written in a male perspective. The mention of women is few and far between. The mere fact that they play such a minor role in this story is a good indication that women are
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Women In Early Lit.
.... Oedipus’ wife and mother, speaks:
And as for this marriage with your mother have no fear. Many a man before, you in your dreams, has shared his mother’s bed. Take such things for shadows, nothing at all- Live, Oedipus, as if there is no tomorrow! (1073-1079).
Here shows the power of persuasion that Jocasta has over Oedipus.
The women in these stories show power and use this to their advantage. They greatly influence the events that happen in these stories. These women range f .....
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Women In Hamlet
.... at his belief that the lady he loves is actually spying on him. Hence, he becomes outraged and starts to associate Ophelia with Gertrude, with whom he had already condemned when the Queen married his uncle no long after his father’s death.
Ophelia's personality and emotions very much suit those of her age: young, impressionistic and hapless. With these in mind, one can deduce why Ophelia went mad, which led to her watery funeral. In a nutshell, being young and in love with the prince, Ophelia was .....
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Women In The Book Of Genesis
.... He realizes his wife's beauty is something to be admired by all men; men that will kill to have her. Then after he lies to save his life he is reprimanded twice for trying to camouflage her as his sister. Abraham gets kicked out of Egypt when pharaoh learns that Sarah is his wife. Later, when Abraham and Sarah travel to Gerar and King Abimalech takes Sarah, God warns the king of his impending doom. Sarah causes trouble yet again. Genesis 20:18 says, "for the Lord had closed fast all the wombs of the .....
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Women In The Fabliaux
.... they decide to each present him with a gift as a reward for acting so honorably. The first grants him a loon. The second grants him the ability to make all cunts speak to him. The third, not wanting to be upstaged by the first and second, gives him the talent to make all assholes speak. It is here that the extents of the female imagination are demonstrated. The Chevalier finds these gifts to be so wild that he thought the girls were mocking him: “ ‘Those meadow girls made fun of me’ .....
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Women In The Odyssey
.... without her husband, her cleverness gives her some space to distance herself from the suitors and to remain loyal to her husband. Athen, the goddess, has intelligence and independent through the entire poem. Athena also has compassion for Odysseus, devising the plan to help him return home because she feels sorry for him. Athena also guide Telemachus on his journey. "You will not lack either courage or sense in the future, Telemachus, for we see now that there is a drop in you of your fathers fine spi .....
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Women Of The Color Purple
.... whenever she wants. She is a free spirit but she does have values and is a major contributor in the transformation of Celie. Shug enjoys her life and tries to spread the happiness to those around her. She is aware of her own physical beauty and uses it to control men. For women like Celie, it isn’t that easy. Celie’s father tells Albert, “She ugly. She ain’t smart either.” (9). This is where Celie develops her low self esteem. Shug tries to make Celie realize that she is a .....
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Womens Writing The Powe And Th
.... raising public awareness etc. Women have had to an up hill battle to have their writing published due to publishing houses reluctance to take a commercial risk on a new style(s) of writing. Publishers have also had to consider the divergence between academic and literary writing and the fact that “Jill average” on the street may be more interested in popular fiction than groundbreaking women’s writing. According to Toril Moi, “ ‘Feminist criticism’, … .....
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