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- 4881: A Book of Double Meanings
- ... by their names, the distinguishing mark of the parties is the height of their heels. Within these two parties, Swift criticizes the English political parties, and the Prince of Wales. Swift also mocks the religion war that was going on in England, through the use of the war between Lilliput, and its nearest neighbor, Blefuscu. Swift uses the terms High Heels and Low Heels to compare the meaningless battles of the Whigs and Tories, such as the height of heels. Gulliver’s first ...
- 4882: The Sun Also Rises: Thoughts of the Lost Generation
- ... also consider the thoughts that go through Jake as well. Jake’s view of life consists of a more sophisticated and complicated than that of Robert Cohn’s. Jake, after all, has been through a war and has lost his adolescent idealism and Cohn still conducts himself like a boy. At the opening of the novel, Hemingway illustrates the differences between the values of Jake and Cohn. The differences involve a ... of her walking up the street and of course in a little while I felt like hell again" (Hemingway 34). Lady Brett Ashley serves, as a challenge to a weakness Jake must confront. Since his war experience, Jake has attempted to reshape the man he is and the first step in doing this is to accept his impotence. Despite Brett's undeniable love for Jake, she is engaged to marry another ...
- 4883: King Lear - Good Vs. Evil
- ... be lost, the raw nature in the play is unharmed. The good exists even while the evil dominates the world. Good will not only exist if evil dominates, good will also outweigh evil eventually. The war which was lost by Cordelia and Lear, the good side, showed evil win (ACT V, ii). However, good over powered it after the war by Duke of Albany. The good in the play first was diminished to almost nothing but in the end more good was able to defeat evil in the play. When the two sisters began fighting ...
- 4884: Christa Wolf
- Wolf, Christa (1929- ), German novelist and essayist, known for her novels about Germany during World War II (1939-1945). Born Christa Ihlenfeld in Landsberg an der Warthe (now Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland), she studied at the Universities of Leipzig and Jena from 1949 to 1953. In 1951 she married writer Gerhard Wolf ... Germany, and a woman who stays. Two of her later novels, Nachdenken über Christa T (1969; The Quest for Christa T, 1971) and Kindheitsmuster (1976; A Model Childhood, 1982), examine the final years of World War II and the early development of the GDR. The first of these novels describes the life of a woman and her early death from leukemia, which is described as a psychosomatic response to circumstances in ...
- 4885: The Good Earth: Summary
- ... nations was increasing. Much of the trade was illegal, as the British and other Westerners profited by smuggling opium into China. The Manchu government tried to stop this operation with soon resulted into the Opium War from 1839-42. China lost and was forced to sign a treaty ceding Hong Kong to the British. This was a product of the power dynamic of the West over China. Also, trains made their ... West’s power dynamic played a small role in Wang Lung’s life but had a noticeable effect. For instance, Wang Lung’s second son stated the price of grain has risen suddenly, for the war is to the south of us now and nearer every day, we must hold our stores of grain until later for the price will go higher and higher as the armies come nearer to us ...
- 4886: The Great Gatsby
- ... main characters, Jay Gatsby, aspires to continue the same love story, from years past, with Daisy Buchanan. However this proves to be an unfeasible objective because of present situations. Before Jay Gatsby left for the war, he was very much in love with Daisy. As he returns, Gatsby hopes to proceed with the relationship, and expects Daisy to drop her current role as a mother and wife. “Not seeing, no we ... them from being together. Before Gatsby left, society prevented the two from happiness because of economical standings. Daisy was raised with money and Gatsby came from a lower class. However, when Gatsby returns from the war, he comes back with an abundance of inherited money. Now, society prevents the two from having a relationship, because of the fact that Daisy has already married. This does not prove to be an obstacle ...
- 4887: The Hiding Place: An Analysis
- The Hiding Place: An Analysis Corrie Ten Boom recounts her horrific tale of her experiences during World War II in Holland, in her novel, The Hiding Place. The real life nightmare begins with the 100th anniversary of her families watch shop. From the first paragraph it is evident that ten Boom is a ... I can obtain half the passion that ten Boom had throughout the entire novel I would be proud of myself. I think that ten Boom should be commended and respected for her actions during the war. She did what she felt needed to be done and relied on God to help her do it and stay safe. She was a real life heroine.
- 4888: The Great Gatsby: Nick Carroway Was A Good Narrator
- ... before. Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once. Also, there is one more lady said that Gatsby was a German spy: It is more that he was a German spy during the war. Nike heard it, but when Nike had a chance to have a lunch with Gatsby, he told Nike, he was an Oxford man and show him that fought in World War One. Then Nike knew Gatsby was not a German Spy nor a murderer. Furthermore, at the end of the novel, when Daisy drove Gatsby's car and killed Mrs.Wilson in a car accident, Nike ...
- 4889: Charles V
- ... 1530 to become the Holy Roman Emperor. Charles was going through a lot and he soon started feeling the pressures of his obligations and to add to his pressures, he would soon be going into war with France, a big competitor and persistent enemy. Charles V went through many wars, but his most were with France. The Valois kings fought the emperor for the leadership of Europe in general and for the domination of Italy in particular. Though in 1525 Charles s army defeated and captured Francis I of France at the Battle of Pavia in Italy it was thought that the war was over. But when the peace compromise was final and Francis was released, the Italian wars began again. In 1535 the Spaniards captured Milan and confirmed their domination of Italy. Finally, in stages, between 1555 ...
- 4890: Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christianity
- ... Dracula on. This person Vlad the Impaler ( also known as: Vlad Tepes and Dracula) gave Stoker many of the ideas on which to base his character, Dracula. Vlad Tepes grew up in a time of war and corruption. Vlad Tepes like his father developed a ferocious and merciless warlike personality. The resemblence of Vlad Tepes personality to that of Dracula’s is very much similar. Dracula has an evil personality like that which Vlad Tepes grew into.Vlad Tepes began to rule Transylvania through a time of bloody massacreing and war. He started to torture people in his ruthless ways. Vlad Tepes once impaled his own army on stakes. This shows the true evil and ruthlessness Vlad Tepes practiced. It was said that he would drink ...
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