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- 12341: Book Report on Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"
- ... that man is too "savage and vicious" an animal to have conceived of an idea "so sacred" as the idea of God. Yet Ivan cannot find proof of God's mercy and love in a world of suffering and depravity; he cannot accept a God that allows cruel people to exist and innocent people to suffer. Ivan also believes that God placed an intolerable burden of freedom on man; God expects ... weakness. Ivan believes that man can only be happy if his freedom to choose between heaven and earth, between good and evil, is taken away; he argues that man should renounce God and that the world should be run by a totalitarian government that take's away man's freedom and forces him to be obedient. He feels that men will "submit . . . gladly and cheerfully . . . because it will save them from ... life without God can only lead to destruction. Dostoevsky develops the theme largely through the description of Ivan's struggle between acceptance and renunciation of God; Ivan is, in fact, a representation of the Western world, which has dealt with the same struggle for centuries. Ivan believes that man's suffering and unhappiness are caused by the freedom that God gave him to choose between material objects and heavenly rewards. ...
- 12342: Eliot's Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and Sweeney
- ... face to meet the faces that you meet." He has always done what he was socially supposed to do, instead of yielding to his own natural feelings. He wrestles with his desires to change his world and with his fear of their rejection. He imagines how foolish he would feel if he were to make his proposal only to discover that the woman had never thought of him as a possible ... an enchanting song, but assumes that they will not sing to him. Prufrock is paralyzed, unable to act upon his impulses and desires. He will continue to live in "the chambers of the sea," his world of romantic daydreams, until he is awakened by the "human voices" of real life in which he "drowns." The "love song" of Mr. Prufrock displays several levels of irony, the most important of which grows ... the man in mocha brown. "And let their liquid siftings fall/ To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.", The nightingales and nature are indifferent to a man's station in life. We are born into this world as equals and will leave it the same way and the nightingales give no honor to anyone. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" were written by T. S. ...
- 12343: 1984: The Control of Reality for Control of the Masses
- ... ability to control history through a process called revisionism. This work is done in the Ministry of Truth, in the Records section, were Winston is engaged. Daily, people like Winston, destroy old documents and create new ones to cover policy changes. In addition, everything printed before 1960 has been destroyed by the Party. A good example of this is the work which Winston has to do in the Minitru one day ... He is a face on the wall, a voice on the Telescreen. According to Goldstein, the Big Brother will never die and is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world. Big Brother is a god under the control of the inner party. He can be made to say anything and what he is made to say directly propagates the Party's own agenda. Big Brother ...
- 12344: A Separate Peace: Contrasting Gene and Phineas and the Struggle for Power
- ... much. Phineas "might have rather enjoyed the punishment if it was done in some kind of novel and known way" (p.20). Even with negative actions, Phineas can enjoy a situation if it presents something new and different. It is this spontaneous and contradictory nature which Gene cannot understand and which ultimately contributes to his attempting to destroy Phineas. Gene Forrester, after being gone for fifteen years, returns to the Devon ... something mean or ugly. He responds to life with natural emotions and all things, except studying, come easily to him. He is not capable of such emotions as jealousy or envy. He lives in a world of happiness and joy and he communicates these qualities to the people whom he meets. Phineas was powerful in many ways: his strength, his spontaneity, and, most of all, his love.
- 12345: Romeo And Juliet- A Thin Line
- ... the infatuation of the opposite gender is a main observation in this play. The tragedy not only about love, but about growing up making the conscious choice between a best friend since kindergarten and a new girl who moved into the house across the street. Mercutio loved so much Romeo that he would lay down his life for Romeo. Consequently, Romeo would vow vengeance on Tybalt, who brought upon Mercutio's ... love. It is these "shades of gray" that make life interesting and full of spice. Without such confusion everyday, there would be neither Shakespearian Tragedy nor Comedy. We as readers are inspired to learn of new crisis and drama, yet we also know the template it ultimately must fit; as Tennyson so eloquently understood it, "'Tis better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." Works Cited ... Military Institute, 4 February 2000 through 17 February 2000. Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. The Riverside Shakespeare. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. Tennyson, Lord Alfred. In Memoriam.27. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996.
- 12346: Juanita Platero's "Chee's Daughter": Character's Environment Reveals A Great Deal About Personality
- ... setting is how he has a "garish blue door which faced north to the highway."(78) Navajo Indians face their hogans, homes, to the east so that they awake with the sun which symbolizes a new beginning. Lastly Old Man Fat's setting reflects his personality is when he has his grand-daughter, Little One, stand in a hogan so that tourists could "see inside a real Navajo home 25 c ... to have his grand-daughter shown-off like an exhibit. In the story two contrasting settings display opposite personalities. Old Man Fat's disrespectful, greedy nature clashes with Chee's respectful and unselfish ways. This world would be a whole lot better if it was filled with more people like Chee instead of those profiteering gluttons like Old Man Fat.
- 12347: Symbolism In The Old Man And T
- ... listen to what he had to say. When the old man would look at Manolin he would see himself at a younger age, someone who cared more about the elderly and their heritage than the new ways bestowed on them. Manolin symbolized the disciples of Jesus. The ones who would follow him to his death and then go out and preach his ways. He believes in the old man and takes ... his decreasing strength. For instance, when he needed strength on his long and strenuous voyage he thought of his dreams of the lions, and of them playing on the beach without a care in the world. With this in his mind it seemed to make him stronger and gave him the endurance to continue. The lions could also symbolize pride. Like the lions Santiago had pride. He was proud of his ...
- 12348: Bless me Ultima: The Growing up of a Young Boy
- Bless me Ultima: The Growing up of a Young Boy Throughout the book Bless me Ultima, Tony, the young main character in the story, lost his innocence when exposed to the harsh world since he learned what life is really like. Ultima is a good whitch whom tries to guide Tony by teaching him morals and lessons. Narsico is percieved as the town drunk, but is a good person. Tenorio is the demon in this story, as he wants to destroy Ultima. This book is about Tony's experience in adjusting to the rough world at a relatively young age. Narsico's death with Tenorio's desire to kill Tony made him realize his limitations and acknowledge the reality. Before these incidents, Tony imagined he could control incidents that happened ... religion. In the end, Tony realized everyone must think for themselves and judge on what they think is the best choice. This book was about Tony's experience growing up and learning what the real world can be like.
- 12349: Attitudes Toward Marriage in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
- ... not inflicted upon women, rather, women inflict these woes upon their husbands. In setting forth her views of marriage, however, she actually proves that the opposite is true: "Experience, though noon auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough for me To speke of wo that is in mariage..." (WBPro. 1-3) The Wife of Bath, in her Prologue, proves to her own satisfaction that the Miller's perception of marriage ... Cited Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The Canterbury Tales". The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. F.N. Robinson. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1933. 19-314. Huppe, Bernard F. A Reading of the Canterbury Tales. Albany: State University of New York, 1964. Robertson, D.W. (1962). "Concepts of Pilgrimage and Marriage". Critical Essays on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Ed. M. Andrew. 1st ed. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1991. 87-90.
- 12350: A Town Like Alice: Discussion
- ... Discussion Even though cultures differ, people are basically the same. This is a statement that depends a lot on what you mean with basically. I think people are pretty much the same all around the world but and they definitely could end up being almost the same if they was raised in exactly the same way and had the exact same possibilities in life. If the basic characteristics are those you have when you're new-borned then I think it's obvious that they are almost the same, some things are of course genetic but I believe that the main part depends on your way of living. It's not ...
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