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- 21721: CHARLES BAXTER
- ... the small towns make think that I'm sitting right there looking at it. In both his novels and short stories, he uses the same approach, attract the reader by the true beauty of the world through his own eyes.
- 21722: Curiosity
- ... take chances. Reid uses symbols Have you ever heard the saying curiosity killed the cat (l. 1)? and allegory to disclose the theme that life can be more fulfilling if one opens the door to new and different prospects. In Curiosity, Reid describes the lives of cats and dogs as though they are everyday people. Cats, being the inquisitive ones, are willing to lead a life of risk-taking without weighing ...
- 21723: Hard Times
- ... workman, both as they are and as they might be." Hard Times did not receive as much critical acclaim as Dickens' other novels. This could be because it was written in serial form and a new chapter or episode had to be done weekly. It did however bring to the forefront the plight of the workers during the industrial revolution, of which many were aware, but it seems to have caught ...
- 21724: Conflict
- ... Daru as not only a man of loyalty, but one who maintains his moral convictions. Although unable to complete the duties of his position Daru remains at his post in the school house awaiting a new task. Daru's actions show he is a loyal and obedient servant of his government. As such he is expected to follows the orders given to him by his superiors. "And you will deliver this ...
- 21725: Hamlet Revenge A Chain Reactio
- ... d, and lack gall". Hamlet wants revenge at this time but he is questioning his willingness to kill Claudius, so he is calling himself a coward. Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave, That I, the son of a dear father murder'd, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must like a whore unpack my heart with words,(2.2.584-588) The greatest interior conflict ...
- 21726: William Blake's The Chimney Sweeper
- ... pep-talk, letting all the other chimney sweeps who hear his tale, "So if all do their duty they need not fear harm." This poem is not only a slice of life out of the world of two chimney sweeps, but it is a poem that is political in nature as well. Set in the 1800's, when the use of chimney sweeps in London were quite popular, this poem does ...
- 21727: The Tyger By William Blake
- ... origins. It seems that the Tyger is a result of something inhumane, whereas the Lamb is a direct product of Christ. According to the poet himself, the Tyger is somewhat immortal and out of this world: ..What immortal hand or eye./Could frame they fearful symmetry? (lines 3-4) Blake requires the reader to ponder the very roots of the Tyger; he leaves us with the impression that he was the ...
- 21728: Frankenstein
- ... fair child"(73). Victor concludes that he himself is nothing but "the author of intolerable evils"(88) and that he would live "in daily fear lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness"(89). Victor, as well as the reader, has a strong intuition that the monster will indeed commit additional monstrosities. William Frankenstein is only the beginning. "Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in ...
- 21729: Hard Times By Dickens, Structu
- ... two, titled "Reaping," Dickens uses the characters to continue to represent the different aspects of the Victorian Era that he mistrusts. This is demonstrated through the apparent discord of the marriage of Louisa and her new husband, Bounderby. Stephen is used to illustrate the frustrations of the working class as they were mistreated by the Utilitarians and the upper class. Tom Gradgrind Jr., the whelp, is shown to feed of the ...
- 21730: Poems of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge
- ... Lyrical Ballads and Rime of The Ancient Mariner, Wordsworth and Coleridge chose to focus on the "common man" instead of the self. They do not only concentrate on personal response and rejection of the outside world. Therefore, Wordsworth and Coleridge can not be accused on the charge of solipsism. William Wordsworth was very concerned with others in the subject of his poems as well as in his real life. In "Preface ...
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