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- 391: Anna Karenina: Characters and the Life Novel
- ... his life, Levin is essentially a realist, just as Tolstoy wishes to be in writing Anna Karenina. We first encounter Levin when he arrives in Moscow to propose to Kitty Shtcherbatsky. When Kitty refuses his proposal, Levin has been defeated in the first step he feels is necessary for personal satisfaction. After the refusal, Levin returns again to the county in hopes of finding personal satisfaction in the country life style ...
- 392: Anna Karenina: Foreshadowing
- ... one point in their life. Kitty told her that she was very unhappy and expressed great sadness when Dolly mentioned Levin. Dolly then realized that Kitty was really sad because she had refused Levin's proposal and now that Vronsky had left her she was ‘now ready to devote her love to Levin'. ( Page 138) Clearly depicted in them paragraphs above, foreshadowing is present in many key parts of the novel ...
- 393: Hester Prynne Sanction
- ... they rightly deserve. This justice comes in the form of Peter French's Hester Prynne Sanction. French's Hester Prynne Sanction is an “alternative type of punishment” , and is a well thought out and researched proposal. The solution takes a psychological approach to the problem. French notes that our legal system is “ guilt based, and guilt is an economic notion” , and that guilt has been looked at as a debt to ...
- 394: To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout's Development
- ... equality of all people in his daughter and his son, Jem, in many discussions, he for instance states that whenever a white man cheats a black man, the white man is "trash". He is very modest, which is shown in an incident in which he is asked to shoot a mad dog, which he manages to do with one precise shot, yet he never told his children of his great talent ...
- 395: The Subtle Humor of Pride and Prejudice
- ... character who seems very real. Mrs. Bennet is placed besides her husband to make her look all the more ridiculous and Mr. Collins, when placed especially by Elizabeth, seems to be unbelievable at times. His proposal to Elizabeth would not be as humorous without Eliza's reaction and response to him. Therefore, caricature, the exaggeration of character is an essential tool to Austen as means of portraying irony in the novel ...
- 396: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
- ... of Mexico. It is very hot and dry. The landscape, like one on the cover, is very typical for Mexico. III. The Power and The Glory, first published more than fifty years ago in a modest English edition of 3,500 copies, is Graham Greene's masterpiece, his most popular book. Based upon less than two months spent in Mexico in March and April of 1938, the novel of Greene is ...
- 397: C.S. Forester's Lieutenant Hornblower: Success and Failure
- ... place he had a brilliant idea to mount a nine pound cannon at the upper end of the peninsula to prevent the Spanish from escaping. This enabled them to turn down the terms of the proposal that the Spanish wanted and get what they wanted without giving anything to the Spanish. These achievements made by Hornblower is what later earned him the command of the Retribution, although his command of the ...
- 398: Of Mice and Men and The Pearl: Characterization
- ... tend. He is innocent and "has no meanness in him." In a sense, Lennie and George are both small men. They will never be famous or amount to anything great. Even their dream is a modest one. The ranch George is thinking about costs only $600. They will have just a few chickens and pigs and, of course, rabbits(Steinbeck, Mice 56). They will not have to work real hard. George ...
- 399: Religion in Jane Eyre
- ... the news of God, as a missionary, but he simultaneously commits a very sacrilegious act. He tries to force Jane to marry him when he states: "and do not forget if you reject it, (the proposal) it is not me you deny, but God"(411). St. John focuses his life on the acts of Religion and is not a happy person and is not easily able to lead a satisfactory life ...
- 400: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
- ... into a worldly, more confident woman, but however this is a gradual development. For example, early in the novel, the narrator has unrealistic romantic fantasies of her and Maxim. However, after Maxim's blasé marriage proposal the reality of the situation begins to dawn on her : 'And he went on eating his marmalade as though everything were natural. In books men knelt to women, and it was moonlight. Not at breakfast ...
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