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- 12131: Our Town
- ... wonderful intellectual break-throughs but we have also done very stupid deeds. Its amazing how a creature of such great intelligence could separate, segregate, discriminate, dehumanize, and enslave members of its own human race. The world as we speak is existing because of gender issues. Going back to days of Adam and Eve. When God asked Adam not to eat from the apple tree, it was Eve, with her feminine lure ... need is a man on their journey. A man basically just for protection. But the two girls decide to dress up Rosalind in drag for their trip. This issue of crossdressing brings out a whole new perspective of the play. The issue of crossdressing is a prominent feature in the plot of AYLI. The reason the issue of crossdressing has such influence on the plot is because most of Orlando’s ...
- 12132: Our Grandmothers
- ... attitudes and values are indicative of what a culture believes in and supports. By the time Othello was written the English were becoming more and more aware of the existence of other races in the world besides themselves. There had been a lot of travelling and blacks were beginning to be used in Europe for the slave trade. During the time the play was written, the Queen of England had banned ... as the plot would no doubt stand the same if you remove all the racist remarks, but I can't imagine approaching the play or the role from that perspective. For one thing, the Venetian world is somewhat racist, and Othello is widely considered the token "exception to the rule." More specifically , Iago knows how to fuel the racist fires in both Brabantio and Roderigo showing that those racist views were ... myth of women's insatiable lustfulness and women were seen as voracious monsters. It was thought that female sexuality was a threat to the patriarchal society, and must be safely contained. In the Encyclopaedia of World Mythology it says "Women in male eyes, are supposed to be contrary and mysterious creatures, bewilderingly combining all sorts of characteristics, as changeable as chameleons, and yet somehow vexingly in touch with reality through ...
- 12133: Ordinary People
- ... land. The metaphor of the tides and the sea is suggested by the sounds and view of the speaker's window, but Arnold uses Sophocles as another example of nature's strength over the entire world. Arnold uses this to illustrate the speaker's despair and helplessness over his situation. Arnold uses this writing to exhibit the conflict between the land and the sea, and how more than just land suffers ... and complete the story's mood. Arnold utilizes this part of the poem to advance from the sea to the "Sea of Faith" with "girdled furls" to expose hopelessness to "the naked shingles of the world". In the last stanza, Arnold ties all of the thoughts of the speaker together, while incorporating imagery, to illustrate how by examining nature and history, the reader has reached the reality of the inevitable. Arnold portrays how the speaker bitterly sees "the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams" "hath really neither joy, nor love nor light". Arnold's use of repetition here illustrates the despair and hopelessness of the situation. The ...
- 12134: On The Subway
- ... that could happen to anybody and contains many questions that many people ask their-selves everyday. I chose this poem because I liked the way that it was similar to everyday life in the real world. There is the speaker of the poem who is on a subway in the city and is a frightened by the appearance of another boy on the subway with her. In this entry it does ... her life. I think that she should never had judged this boy, because she does not know him. Work Cited Henderson, Gloria Mason, Bill Day, and Sandra Stevenson Waller. Literature and Ourselves. 2nd ed., 1997. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishers.
- 12135: Chrysalids 2
- ... not only affects the plot of the story but also the main characters in the novel. The most obvious thing is that David, Rosalind and Petra are saved. They have a chance to learn, experience new things they never saw or heard before. Mike and Rachel stays behind but hopes to come to the big city were things are different. Some characters died in the final chapter when the helicopter makes ... characters or the surroundings in a story. In this novel these three points were influenced by mental telepathy. This type of story could be an example how people were in the past (in the really world). It is an idea what could really happen if a nuclear war would become a reality.
- 12136: On The Road
- ... need something more than the dull harmonies of the generally prosperous society. During the winter of 1947, the reckless and joyous Dean Moriarty, recently out of another term in jail and newly married, comes to New York and meets Sal Paradise, a young writer with a sharp group of friends. Dean fascinates Sal, and this friendship begins three years of journeys back and forth across the country. Sal had heard all ... and better. Every character he meets is not only an individual, but also a summary of a region. Everything is described in superlatives. "Incredible," the best, the hugest, the sweetest, "the prettiest girls in the world", Denver is the Promised Land, San Francisco is an even greater "vision", the Nebraska farmlands are like the Nile Valley. Sal envisions the people and places around him in grand terms, but he is quite ...
- 12137: Oliver Twist
- ... to Oliver's rescue. Nancy sees in Oliver the innocence of her own childhood being robbed by Fagin's deceiving malpractice. Nancy provides the story with a second chance for Oliver into a proper, honest world. It costs her, her life, but she prospers in helping Oliver as well as doing a lot of justice for society. Able to save Oliver from evil and putting evil itself in prison, Nancy triumphs above all her devilish acquaintances and is the pivoting point of Oliver's return to safety. Not only as a way to introduce new plots in the tale, but as well as the theme's greatest support, she is a genial character that could have only been created after much planning and thought. Fagin was a jew described by ...
- 12138: Comparison Between Grapes Of W
- ... be trapped socially. His old age also accounts for his social entrapment. Since he is unable to move freely, he is restrained from any sort of social functions. Grampa s inability to cope with his new surroundings is another factor. Since he cannot adapt to his new surroundings, he is unable to interact with the people, and therefore cannot socialize. Entrapment in any way leads to destruction. Mary s bad reputation, her actions, and her insanity are all examples that lead to her death. Grampa s old age, his physical disabilities, and his inability to cope with his new surroundings are the reasons for his entrapment. Mary and Grampa face physical, emotional, and social entrapment, which proceeds to their downfall. Therefore, no matter what the reason is, all the physical, emotional, and social ...
- 12139: Of Mice And Men
- ... Lennie form a small friendship that would had developed more has the book been longer. Another soul not included with the ranch clique, Curley’s wife, whose name is not mentioned in the book, is new to the ranch as well. She married Curley just weeks before Lennie and George arrived. The ranch hands do not accept this lonely soul into their social group because she is new. However, the ranch hands also do not accept Curley’s wife because she obviously is so lonely that the only way she can get attention is by flirting. The only one who does not dismiss ... George and again advises him to find Lennie before Curley catches him. This type of friendship symbolizes a sort of father-son relationship, with the "parent" watching over the "children," or in this case, the new ranch hands. Lennie, George, and Candy together demonstrate another small friendship that mainly falls out of pity for the old man Candy. When Candy hears of George and Lennie’s idea to buy a ...
- 12140: Of Mice And Men
- ... day when he and George will buy their own farm. Candy is an old man with only one hand. He probably does the cooking and cleaning and he likes to gossip and tell stories to new men. He has an old dog who used to help work around the farm and the men are constantly nagging him to let them shoot the dog and put it out of it's misery ... to put their earnings together and buy a farm of their own, George shares his dreams with Lennie and offers him a place in a society o does not want the Lennie's of the world. In the climax of the book George has to make a decision he will never forget for the rest of his life. It takes every ounce of courage he has to kill his frienq but ...
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