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- 531: Biblical Allusions and Imagery in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- ... the Land. (New York, NY: M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1986), p 110-11. 14 Hunter, "Steinbeck's Wine of Affirmation." p. 46. 15 Maxwell Geismar. "John Steinbeck: Of Wrath or Joy," in Writers in Crisis: The American Novel, 1925-1940. (New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1961), p. 265. 16 Davis, Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Grapes of Wrath. p. 4. 17 Hunter, "Steinbeck's Wine of Affirmation." p. 40 ...
- 532: Anna Karenina: Foreshadowing
- ... may be the conflict in the plot. The day after the great ball Anna announces that she must leave. Dolly expresses her gratitude toward everything Anna has done to help her in her time of crisis. She tells Anna that she does not know of a person with a greater heart. Anna tells her that Kitty was depressed because Vronsky spent the evening with her. She exclaims that it wasn't ...
- 533: An Analysis of "Heart of Darkness"
- ... had taken the lid off something horrible in the very depths of man which he could not explain when he returned to the world where basic instincts had been carefully smoothed over. Faced by a crisis, he even denied what he had seen to Kurtz's Intended, though he was appalled by his lie as bringing with it a betrayal of truth which was essentially a kind of death. In "Heart ...
- 534: David Korten's "When Corporations Rule The World"
- ... Korten makes important points to opening the eyes of society to making changes to the free market and the multinational corporations that rule over it. He points out the effects of the threefold of human crisis, the deepening of poverty, the social disintegration and environmental destruction. At the heart of this destruction is the corporations. The are unaccountable for the polluting and driven by an addiction to economic growth, the serve ...
- 535: Biological Determinism
- ... from the fact that he was an outsider who did not belong anywhere, who never found a safe and secure place in a society. The environment he lived in, the unfairness of German society, the crisis in his family made him mad and furious This is an influence of a society made him a bloody criminal of the 20th century. Hitler's remarkable power as a speaker and the will to ...
- 536: Pride and Prejudice: Irony
- ... compared with her prettier sisters, the author notes that: "it was suspected by her father that she submitted to the change without much reluctance." (pg.189) Mr. Bennet turns his wit on himself during the crisis with Whickham and Lydia: "let me once in my life feel how much I have been to blame. I am not afraid of being overpowered by the impression. It will pass away soon enough."(pg ...
- 537: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Summary
- ... girl who at first docent even know her own identity. Being rose by her Nanny in a house full of white people, you could see how this could have been the start of an identity crisis. Janie was always treated like a white person during her youth, the people Nanny worked for dressed Janie as if she was white, they sent Janie to school with the other white children, and Janie ...
- 538: Cultural Literacy According to E.D. Hirsch
- ... culturalism and multi-lingualism. He acknowledges the importance of the numerous cultures and ethnicities of which United States is comprised. Hirsch mentions the "hyphenated American: the Italo-American, the Polish-American, the Afro- American, the Asian-American and so forth." He points out that he is in favor of each minority's protection, nurture, and respect; however, he strongly feels that people need to decide what "American' means on the other ...
- 539: Morrison's Jazz: Characters' Actions
- ... who kills his girlfriend, but this also is abolished when the extenuating circumstances of his history are described. Dorcas plays the role of the piteous, innocent woman who is stuck in the middle of this crisis at the beginning, but is relieved of this generalized characterization through her actions towards Joe and her search for self-satisfaction. Even though the history that is recounted in this novel is more gossip than ...
- 540: Eliot's Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and Sweeney
- ... decides that he lacks the will to make his declaration. "I am not Prince Hamlet," he says; he will not, like Shakespeare's character, attempt to shake off his doubts and "force the moment to crisis." He feels more like an aging Fool. He is able only to dream of romance. He is depressed "I grow old" and will have to "wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled" into cuffs. He ...
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