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- 6241: Hercules
- ... they only kept the females and taught them to be warriors like themselves. Queen Hippolyte had one special piece of armor. It was a leather belt that had been given to her by Ares, the war god. She wore this belt across her chest and used it carry her sword and spear. Eurystheus wanted this belt for a present to give his daughter. Hercules again had company on this mission, for ...
- 6242: Hedda Gabler
- ... with. My pistols, Jorgen. General Gabler's pistols" Jorgen - "For goodness' sake! Hedda darling! Don't touch those dangerous things! For my sake, Hedda!". These pistols are a symbol of masculinity and are associated with war, a pastime which women are excluded from other than in the nurturing role of nurses and are thus not tolerated by society. Tesman implores Hedda to cease playing with them, but even his "superior" position ...
- 6243: Hedda Gabler
- ... with. My pistols, Jorgen. General Gabler's pistols" Jorgen - "For goodness' sake! Hedda darling! Don't touch those dangerous things! For my sake, Hedda!". These pistols are a symbol of masculinity and are associated with war, a pastime which women are excluded from other than in the nurturing role of nurses and are thus not tolerated by society. Tesman implores Hedda to cease playing with them, but even his "superior" position ...
- 6244: Heart Of Darkness - Colonization
- ... unjustly) as a little bordering on cruelty" (NA 1051). All of the gruesome imagery used in "A Modest Proposal" has earned it the reputation of being one of Swift’s most potent attacks in his "war on a class of civilized people who often behave like animals" (McMinn 149). Joseph Conrad details a narrative of oppression emphasizing the horrible treatment of African natives during the colonization of the Congo. The Europeans ...
- 6245: Heart Of Darkness
- ... of Africa, he realizes a difference in the perception of certain events by him and his comrades on the boat. As Marlow’s boat pulls up to the Outer Station, he sees a man-of-war shelling the continent, which is quickly clarified, by a pilgrim, to be a front against "a camp of natives - he called them enemies! - hidden out of sight somewhere" (Conrad 78) Marlow felt a "touch of ...
- 6246: Harrison Bergeron
- ... government ultimately has total control over not only everyone’s lives, but their minds as well. The motive behind the governments controlling society is the idea that an equal society will eliminate hatred, envy, and war. While this does prove true, the numerous side effects, such as loss of identity, lack of originality, and conformity begin to arise. In actuality these governments are creating a society with zombie like creatures, which ...
- 6247: Greenspan - The Case For The Defence
- ... of the book, I came across various examples of how society today is being powered by the overwhelming rise of feminist demands. Although Greenspan himself does not prefer to enagage in a verbal or emotional war with many of these women, he does not deny wishing he could just establish a section of the criminal code for them. In the chapter called Out Of The Mouth Of Babes, Greenspan is found ...
- 6248: Great Gatsby
- ... he killed a man’"(65). He explained to me that Gatsby is an Oxford man. Nick didn’t really believe him. He also received a Metal of Valor, Gatsby did, for his service in World War One. All this seemed to calm nick down. He focused on the better things rather than the bad. He then informed me about Gatsby’s desperate fight for Daisy. It has gone so far that ...
- 6249: Psychology-Dreams
- ... dreams, in which the dreamer re-enacts a traumatic situation in his/her life, could be interpreted in terms of an attempt to resolve current emotional problems. This is particularly true for the sufferers of war neurosis (Haskell, R. 1996) Lucid dreaming is a type of paradoxical mental state in which the dreamer becomes aware that he/ she is dreaming and in some cases deliberately takes control of the situation. Lucid ...
- 6250: Frankenstein - Rejection By Society
- ... monster. He knew that his dream of living with them "happily ever after" would not happen and with the encounter still fresh in his mind along with his first encounter of humans, he "declared everlasting war against the species, and more than all, him who had formed [the creature] and sent [him] forth to this insupportable misery." The wicked being's source of hatred toward humans originates from his first experiences ...
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