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- 2331: The Power and the Glory
- ... starts to kill innocent people in hopes to find the priest. You can not help but feel sorry for the priest because of the lieutenant. Another character in the novel is Brigitta. Brigitta is the child of the priest, who obviously is illegitimate. The priest wants badly to love the child, but he can’t. He is caught between his child and the sin he has committed. She also,... “Stands for the early corruption of innocence.”(Alott, 174). This alone makes us pity the poor whiskey priest. Another character in the novel is the mestizo. ...
- 2332: Mary Shelly's Frankenstein
- Mary Shelly's Frankenstein Frankenstein is a father figure and the "monster" is the abandoned child. The monster is like Adam from biblical times and how he was abandoned but still had someone who loves him and is a father figure. Unlike the monster who has no family and no one ... or a mother figure his violent nature might have not come out so prominent. The absence of good in the monsters life has an affect that could never be reversed and never helped. If a child has no guidance how can he or she grow in love and learn how to live responsibly and adapt to the rapid changes of the world and life. You can not learn life lessons and ... no love or guidancce. Mary Shelly shows her own fears for life and children and her fear of not having or being a good mother. She wants to express any parents need to make there child life safe and easy to live. Any parent would be worried about there childs well being and how they live and adapt to others. Every one wants the best for there children and will ...
- 2333: A Comparison of the Misguided Desires of Gatsby and George
- ... like an old worn out sweater. My last example of how George was misguided in his vision for wealth, was his decision that ultimately lead George to his destruction. Alice, being pregnant with George’s child, refused to be dropped like a sack of old laundry. She found out about Angela and she threatened George that she would reveal all and then commit suicide unless he agreed to marry her that ... So completely had she been for him an ideal, a Holy Cause, that to accept her for a woman with a real life and a real past (a past complete with a husband and a child) was no longer a possibility. In a basic sense, Gatsby had not only idealized reality, but had replaced reality with the Ideal. Secondly, Gatsby's insistences that he could indeed "repeat the past" was an ... as she existed; he wanted his Golden Girl, his Golden Dream from five years before. That this Dream had actually lived with another man for five years, and - even more intolerable - had actually borne a child by him - had no part in his vision. One could not, after all, imagine a "dream girl" in a state of pregnancy. Gatsby, again, had devoted all his "magic" to an image which no ...
- 2334: Depression 4
- ... even childbirth. About 20 percent of women experience an episode of depression, known as postpartum depression, after having a baby. In addition, people with serious physical illnesses or disabilities often develop depression. People who experience child abuse appear more vulnerable to depression than others. So, too, do people living under chronically stressful conditions, such as single mothers with many children and little or no support from friends or relatives. V TREATMENT Depression ...
- 2335: Social Criticism in Literature, As Found in George Orwell's Animal Farm and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
- ... especially the French Revolution, begins by criticizing the aristocrats' treatment of the poor people of France. In the seventh chapter of book two, the Monsieur the Marquis had accidentally driven his carriage over a young child, killing him. Instead of worrying about the child's welfare, the Monsieur's reaction was to worry about his horses: "One or the other of you is for ever in the way. How do I know what injury you have done to my horses."(Dickens, 111) He deemed their lives inferior and insignificant, as illustrated when he threw a gold coin to the child's devastated father as compensation. The Monsieur the Marquis revealed his true sentiments to his nephew: "Repression is the only lasting philosophy. . . fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the ...
- 2336: Jane Eyre
- ... constantly occur between Jane and John Reed. John emerges as the dominant male figure at Gateshead. He insists that Jane concedes to him and serve him at all times, threatening her with mental and physical abuse. Mrs. Reed condones John's conduct and sees him as the victim. Jane's rebellion against Mrs. Reed represents a realization that she does not deserve the unjust treatment. Jane refuses to be treated as ... how bad little children go to hell. When asked how to prevent going to hell, Jane gives a roundabout answer. Jane knows Mr. Brocklehurst wants to hear that she will pray to become a better child, but instead Jane replies: "I must keep in good health, and not die." (26). Jane further references his appearance in chapter four: "What a face...!" thinks Jane, "what a great nose! and what a mouth ...
- 2337: Jane Eyre: Somewhere, The Dark Sheds Light
- ... constantly occur between Jane and John Reed. John emerges as the dominant male figure at Gateshead. He insists that Jane concedes to him and serve him at all times, threatening her with mental and physical abuse. Mrs. Reed condones John's conduct and sees him as the victim. Jane's rebellion against Mrs. Reed represents a realization that she does not deserve the unjust treatment. Jane refuses to be treated as ... how bad little children go to hell. When asked how to prevent going to hell, Jane gives a roundabout answer. Jane knows Mr. Brocklehurst wants to hear that she will pray to become a better child, but instead Jane replies: "I must keep in good health, and not die." (26). Jane further references his appearance in chapter four: "What a face...!" thinks Jane, "what a great nose! and what a mouth ...
- 2338: Its A Wonderful Life
- It’s a Wonderful Life Picture a young child full of life and happiness. The love of his parents shows through his eyes, smile, and tears. Some people would like to think that those things about a child are exactly what make life wonderful. People who think that way have no idea how right they are. Its a wonderful life to know that your parent’s dreams live on in you. The dream ... that her son will be a doctor. The dream of a father; that his son will some day become a major league baseball player. Most of all when its all said and done, that a child can say as a man, "Its a Wonderful Life". "It’s a Wonderful Life" are true stories about events that took place in my life that will be with me forever. I can remember ...
- 2339: Gimpel the Fool: Golde vs. Elka
- ... it’s a waste of time talking to you” (Aleichem 92). Throughout Gimpel and Tevye’s lifetimes, they grew accustomed to their wives. The both loved their wives a great deal; no matter how much “abuse” they took from them. Gimpel spoke very highly of his mean-spirited wife. “She swore at me and cursed, and I couldn’t get enough of her. What strength she had! One of her looks ... whereas Golde was said to have had a family, and a grandmother. Golde was a woman devoted to her family. Her daughters and husband were her whole life and extracurricular activities. Elka had a bastard child before her marriage to Gimpel, and then bore six more children out of wedlock. She was completely indifferent to Gimpel, cheating on him every chance she got, with any man she could find. Was Elka ...
- 2340: Gynephobia
- ... it can be treated with proper therapy and sufficient time. Irregular traits in the male character are becoming more and more common everyday, and the ones related to gynephobia are all tied-in to past abuse by the female sex. The molding of masculine young breed is a crutial and sensitive era that will, in the long run, reflect a male's future personallity and train of thought. Problems associated with genephobia reflect mixed and underdeveloped feelings such as fear, shyness and a sence of inferiority towards women. Such symptoms are the results of past psychological and/or physical abuse from this opposite sex. Quite often in a male's teenage life, abusive mothers and other female members of the family account for a large percentage of the abuse being done to these innocent juvenile males. Another large and common offender to men in this sensual epoch of growth are the unusual agressive and dominant female characters who possess negative and often destructive ...
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