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- 3821: Hysteria In The Crucible
- ... community. In the Crucible this can be seen when Abi and the other girls of Salem are found dancing in the woods. The dancing strikes fear of witchcraft, and the process of hysteria begins. The American Communist scare in the 1950's was initiated by the increased popularity of the socialist system of government. Because this system challenged the basic civil rights of Americans, this event involved the entire nation. In ... panicked. At this time in The Crucible, the town of Salem is in complete disarray. No one can take control, and the "mob" in effect has all the power. During the communist scare however, the American population is not the mob. Instead a small group of high-powered individuals seem to have the power which makes it hard to believe that these events even took place. Finally there is no hope ...
- 3822: Grapes Of Wrath 4
- Years Born: 1902 Died: 1968 Wrote: He wrote The Grapes of Wrath in 1930 s and released it in 1939. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. Nationality: He was an American author who lived in Salinas, California. He was educated at Stanford University. He first worked as a fruit picker, but then moved to New York. He didn t like it in New York so he ... known as Okies . The California farmers look down on the novel, and are quoted as saying that the Novel is of social criticism that fuses myth and symbol with its attack on a speech of American life during the 1930s. and In Steinbeck s work the false starts and turns, the thwarting problems of material and of the artist in the process of penetrating it, which usually mark the effort to ...
- 3823: Gatsbys Dream
- What is the American Dream? In the Webster's New World Dictionary, dream is defined as: "a fanciful vision of the conscious mind; a fond hope or aspiration; anything lovely, etc." In F. Scott Fitzerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the lead character Jay Gatsby defines the American Dream as: everyone can rise to success no matter what his or her beginnings. In the First chapter of the novel, Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story gives us a glimpse into Gatsby's ...
- 3824: Frankenstein Biography, Settin
- ... and tragic, if not more so, than her famous gothic novel. Mary's parents were themselves well-known in English society and somewhat notorious. Her father, William Godwin, was a radical theorist on the French Revolution. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a pioneer of women's rights and her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman caused considerable reaction at the time. Furthermore, she already had an illegitimate child, Fanny ... ways out of the limits of the genre for further development" (The Gothic Experience). With Frankenstein, Mary Shelley brought Gothic literature into the 19th century, and expressed the fears of her contemporaries that the Industrial Revolution would forever change the values and conventions they held so dear. Though intentionally a period piece, it was the future implications of Frankenstein which made it a timeless classic. Dr. Pelzer noted, "What lay at ...
- 3825: Eight Men Out
- ... the average viewer to see. It is very much a game of wage earners against employers, not the Chicago White Sox vs. the Cincinnati Reds. The Black Sox scandal was an important symbolic event in American history. The great American institution of baseball, which represented our finest traditional values, was revealed to be corrupt. As Steven Riess so appropriately states, "If baseball was no good, what hope was there for the rest of our culture ...
- 3826: David Lynchs Blue Velvet
- ... a smile on everybody s face. Naturally, the most important clichι is also included we see the white picket fence with ruby red roses against a bright blue sky, making out the colors of the American flag. There is, however, trouble in Paradise. First we witness a man who later turns out to be Jeffrey s father suffer a stroke and, after showing his helpless agony, the camera burrows into the ... provide the first visual clue of the dive we are about to make into the subterranean world under the pastoral life of normalcy. Our guide through this hell below and within is Jeffrey; an all-American boy who comes home from college to help out in the family business while his father is in the hospital. His finding a severed human ear is what sends him out on a journey to ...
- 3827: Animal Farm Comparison
- Most directly one would say that Animal Farm is an allegory of Stalinism, growing out from the Russian Revolution in 1917. Because it is cast as an animal fable it gives the reader/viewer, some distance from the specific political events. The use of the fable form helps one to examine the certain elements ... animals, watching the violent quarrel which follows from outside the parlour window, are unable any longer to distinguish the pig s face from the man s. The final moral is of course, that the animals΄ revolution has been betrayed by the selfishness and will to power of the pigs who, like the communist party in Russia, have controlled it from the beginning; and the living conditions of the animals are in ...
- 3828: An Analysis Of The Jay Gatsby
- ... his wealth to his beloved Daisy. His "beautiful shirts . . . It makes me sad because I've never seen such beautiful shirts before" (98). It seems silly to cry over simple shirts, but they symbolize an American Dream which people desire. These shirts represent the opulent manner of Gatsby's wealth and his ability to try and purchase Daisy's love, this time through the use of extensive clothing. Fitzgerald wisely shows ... he is trying to be. What he is trying to be is respectable, and his dirty money, his association, and his "gestures" nearly accomplish that. The realization that he can never buy Daisy Buchanan, the American Dream , or true happiness never fully dawns upon Jay Gatsby. Satisfaction must come from hard work and effort, not from an easy illegal job. Jay Gatsby tries to fool everyone by putting on a facade ...
- 3829: A Farewell To Arms
- ... you notice how every important event of the war is overshadowed by the strong love story behind it. The love story is circled around two people, Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley. Frederic is a young American ambulance driver with the Italian army in World War I. He meets Catherine, a beautiful English nurse, near the front of Italy and Austria. At first Frederic s relationship with Catherine consists of a game based on his attempts to seduce her. He does make one attempt to kiss her, and is quickly slapped by an offended Catherine. Later in the story, Frederic is wounded and sent to the American hospital where Catherine works. Here he finds a part of him he has never had before, the ability to love. This is where his feelings for Catherine become extremely evident. Their relationship progresses and they ...
- 3830: Cather In The Rye - Language
- ... true to the colloquial speech of teenagers. Holden, according to many reviews in the Chicago Tribune, the New Yorker, and the New York Times, accurately captures the informal speech of an average intelligent, educated, northeastern American adolescent (Costello, 1990). Such speech includes both simple description and cursing. For example, Holden says, "They're nice and all", as well as "I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or ... Cambridge, New York; Cambridge University Press, 1990. Gwynn, F. The Fiction of JD Salinger. University of Pittsburg Press. 1958 Salinger, JD. The Catcher in the Rye, Little, Brown and Co. Boston, 1951. Salzman, J. The American Novel: New Essays on the Catcher in the Rye. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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