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- 12031: Obasan Book Report
- I decided to read the novel by Joy Kogawa entitled Obasan. The novel was written in 1981 and told the details of how the Japanese were discriminated against during World War 2. The author s main purpose was to educated the reader on how hard life really was for her family and other Japanese Canadians living in British Columbia, and especially in Vancouver. Joy Kogawa ... Park, and also a political aspect of why this was happening to these people. All and all I would have to say this novel helped me a lot in understanding what happened during the Second World War. Before reading this novel, I would have to admit that I really did not even know this happened in Canada, which is really sad. I did know though that the Japanese in the United ... were sent from the west coast, but did not realize that it reached the west coast of Canada. Obasan is a very good novel for anybody who did not know what happened during the Second World War. I would recommend this novel to all Canadians, but especially to British Columbians. Obasan was on the most part well written and gives an excellent account of the Japanese reviews. Obasan was a ...
- 12032: Animal Farm
- ... and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches urging the working class to rebel, that can be compared to the barnyard animals in Animal Farm. The peasants of Russia, like the animals, believed that in the new society dreamt of by Marx and Lenin, Old Major, there will be no oppression because the working class will have all the money and power. This hope and Lenin's prompting led the revolt against ... right conditions, events like those portrayed in Animal Farm or particularly those events that occurred during the Russian Revolution can happen anywhere. We don t have to look to far to see how certain third world governments today are able to control their population with fear and intimidation; Syria, Iraq, Serbia, to name a few.
- 12033: Oedipus Rex 2
- ... philosophers have expressed their views about how the life of man is ultimately defined in their works. The Greeks have played their part in this quest. One of the great plays of the ancient Greek world that led the way for others was Sophocles Oedipus Rex. In this play, Sophocles shows us a chapter from the life of man. Throughout the book, he hints at the idea that life poses a riddle for man to solve thereby being a quest for the answer. He also hints to us that life is seemingly predetermined by the gods desires, giving rise to a fated world. Finally, Sophocles also believes that life is filled with paradox and irony. Given these difficulties, Sophocles regards the life of man with utmost respect and admiration. In Oedipus Rex, it is Oedipus who represents Sophocles ... universal for all men to live through this cycle, Oedipus dealings with riddles also plague him with tragedy, ignorance, and innocence. This makes him more of an inspiration to man. In Oedipus the King s world, it was the gods who set the fate for all. Both Oedipus and Laius had consulted oracles, which are derived from the gods without human intervention. Here, Sophocles seems to show us that life ...
- 12034: Macbeth - Scenes 1 To 3
- ... natural order and this suggests to the audience that, through out the play, the way things may not seem the way they really are.In Shakespeare s day there was widespread belief in the supernatural world and the existence of witches, so this opening scene would have shocked and even frightened the audience.In the following scene we switch from the shadowy world of the witches to the contrasting world of battle and action. Once again the audience is thrown into the middle of the action, a primitive and bloody battle, which is very common in Shakespeare s plays. King Duncan s first words ...
- 12035: Macbeth: The Decent Into Madne
- ... contributed to the deterioration of Macbeth was the prophesies, as told to him by the three witches. These original prophesies caused a chain reaction of events to occur within Macbeth, as well as within the world around him. Once aware of his own fate, Macbeth foolishly tried to control this entity, which greatly surpassed his own power and intelligence as a human being. His ignorance towards fate was the first element ... make way for his advancement as prophesied by the witches. He hires two men to murder Banquo and Fleance, those who posed a threat to his encompassing reign. With Banquo eliminated, Macbeth surges with a new sense of power. Though Fleance escaped, Macbeth felt no reason to worry at that point in time. This relates back to the recurring theme of eternal mortality which Macbeth displays. There is no doubt that ...
- 12036: Macbeth Remains A Shakespeare
- ... and unhappiness, which is personified in one of Malcom s speeches that makes us feel the pain Scotland is feeling: Malcolm: I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds. We feel sad for Macbeth s death, but we also feel happy that he was executed. His death restored the country from chaos ( the minions turn d ... character we still have sympathy for him because of his courage in the face of the inevitable. We knew that he was once an honourable person and throughout the whole play he still is a brave soldier who fights until the end.
- 12037: Monsters Point Of View
- "Monster's Point of View" The significance of the reason for existence in the world is a question that boggles the mind of every individual during one time or another in their lives. We all like to believe that we have a purpose in life, and we set goals to ... God who wanted us to exist, and showed unconditional love for our mere existence. But what if our creator hated us, believed that our existence was a mistake, and we had no purpose in the world. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, such a man existed, a man who was shunned by his creator as an outcast, a hideous beast who had no reason for survival. This man is simply known as ... is rejected and attacked by mankind. This rejection and "misery" is what the monster says made him a "fiend". The reason for the monster's misery relates to that of man's misery in the world. All men want to be accepted, exclusion and hatred are fears that drive people to misery. Many cases show that a father's rejection of his children lead the children to reject and hate ...
- 12038: Macbeth The Witches Role
- ... evil than we expected. They exit the scene by hovering "through the fog and filthy air." We are given a first description of Macbeth, as the captain reveals to the audience that Macbeth is a brave and loyal soldier. Once the captain returns from battle, he tells King Duncan that Macbeth was "Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel." Other descriptions of Macbeth include "brave Macbeth" and "Valour's minion", Valour being the favourite God of courage. All this reveals that Macbeth was brave, loyal and valient.On the other hand, whenever we see the witches, they are practising their evil, and as a result, we view them as vengeful creatures. When Macbeth and Banquo are returning from ...
- 12039: Metamorphosis 3
- Metamorphosis According to Webster s New College Dictionary, a metamorphosis is defined to be a marked alteration in appearance, condition, character, or function. Franz Kafka s Metamorphosis could not have a more appropriate title than it dons now. Virtually every round ... s discontentment with what his feels is the lack of control in his life by spontaneous transformation of a human being into an insect. Humans are at the top of the food chain in the world, and thus are in complete control. In contrast, insects have almost no control over their own destiny because they are small, unintelligent creatures that can be squashed between a human s thumb and forefinger or ...
- 12040: Marriage In The Canterburry Ta
- ... of marriage. Bibliography Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. London: Penguin Group, 1977. Cooper, Helen. Oxford Guides To Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Howard, Donald R. Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1987. Kittredge, G.L. Critical Essays On Chaucer s Canterbury Tales. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
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