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- 5611: A Doll's House: Role of Women as the Comforter
- ... due to her subordinate role in society. The character of Nora is not only important in describing to role of women, but also in emphasizing the impact of this role on a woman. Nora's child-like manner, evident through her minor acts of disobedience and lack of responsibility compiled with her lack of sophistication further emphasize the subordinate role of woman. By the end of the play this is evident ...
- 5612: A Review of Huxley's Brave New World
- ... be boring - even when the biochemical substrates of boredom have vanished. Admittedly, BNW enforces a much more benign conformism than Orwell's terrifying 1984. There's no Room 101, no torture, and no war. Early child-rearing practices aside, it's not a study of physically violent totalitarianism. Yet its society is as dominated by caste as any historical Eastern despotism. BNW recapitulates all Heaven's hierarchies (recall all those angels ...
- 5613: Summary of Wuthering Heights
- Summary of Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights is a twisted love saga, almost a carbon copy of every other book we have read this year and last. Heathcliff, adopted as a child, was loved by his father and scorned by his siblings. He plots a way to get them back in the most personal way. Not the hip flask, drunkard, the pocketbook...that's right Mr. Forbes ...
- 5614: The Scarlet Letter: Where The Blame Falls
- ... mortified. Hester is charged with committing a very serious sin among the Puritan's, called adultery. She does not wish to be punished for her one minor mistake. Hester pleads to let her keep the child, and the Puritans let her. Towards the end of the book, She removes the scarlet letter, and throws it on the river bank. Hester receives her punishment for adultery. Hester must stand up on the ...
- 5615: An Analysis of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... trappings of the town, and live sloppily, doing whatever he wanted to do. "It was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day." (24) After some time, and being unable to endure the abuse of his father, he runs away. Huck is as dissatisfied by one extreme as he is by the next. Huck chooses not to take sides on any matter, but instead be indifferent towards it. Huck ...
- 5616: The Effects of Setting on Character in "The Masque of Red Death" and "The Shawl"
- ... was selfish in a way that he would let everyone else die but he would hide until it was all over. Stella's selfishness was brought out when she took the life out of the child. She took her shawl to keep herself warm. She felt her life was more important than someone else's. The adjectives used to describe the characters and setting were alike. All were negative, sometimes deathly ...
- 5617: The Children in "Sons and Lovers" by D. H. Lawerence and "What Maisie Knew" by Henry James
- ... fate is sealed. Unconsciously she knows what is about to happen and she will have to live with the pain of knowing that her parents did not want her, thus, allowing others to raise the child. Similarly, D. H. Lawrence, in his novel Sons and Lovers, portrays the main character, Paul, as being emotionally poor. Emotionally, Paul is impoverished because of his feelings for his mother. The passion they feel for ...
- 5618: Summary of The Andromeda Strain by Crichton
- ... town, noting that the blood had clotted solid in the arteries and veins of the victims, that death is mostly instantaneous, and that some victims live long enough to kill themselves in bizarre ways. A child is found with his mouth full of modeling glue, while an older man is found in full battle dress with a gaping, bloodless hole through his head. They find the satellite in the town doctors ...
- 5619: The Odyssey: Telemachus And His Development
- ... of his parents were going off to the Trojan War. But the name proves to be ironic, for the epic ends with Telemachus taking part in two battles. Not having any father figures as a child severely effects Telemachus. He becomes a timid, shy and spineless boy who is greatly pampered by his mother. He is not helped by being the son of a world- famous father- a difficult reputation to ...
- 5620: An Analysis of Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Devil and Tom Walker
- ... And last the way they both got what they wanted. In Rips case he wanted to get rid of his wife and his jobs. He goes to the forest to escape from his wives verbal abuse. He gets his wish by getting a new life basically. In Tom case he wants money and doesn't want his wife. He meets the devil and the devil wants to make him a deal ...
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