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- 6441: Symbols in The Great Gatsby
- ... that he met while he was young. Gatsby was not of a wealthy family and therefore Daisy would not marry him. Gatsby devoted his life to getting what he needed to win Daisy. After the war Gatsby became a bootlegger to attain what he needed to win Daisy. In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses various colors, objects, and gestures as symbols to portray the lack of moral and spiritual ...
- 6442: 1984: Control is Power
- ... live, eat, work, and sleep. As time goes on and they start to control more people they are just going to get more powerful. People had to live in dumps and walk the street of war zones. If you did something wrong the party would know. Orwell's setting was very effective in showing how the party controlled all people. It was a little drastic, but it was very in depth ...
- 6443: To Teach or Not To Teach?
- ... help people to understand the concept better and deal with its many implications. As Morton Fried states "The removal of such literary works from the classroom, however, would be a strategy of defeat on the war against racism." (Fried) Racism is built on ignorance, therefore banning the book's insights would only perpetuate that ignorance and be a victory for racism and not a loss. To consider banning this novel simply ...
- 6444: The Catcher in The Rye: Chapter by Chapter Summary
- ... was movie but he doesn't actually really like it. After the movie is over, he starts walking towards the Wicker Bar, where he was supposed to meet Carl Luce, and keeps thinking about the war. Chapter 19 ---------- Holden has a few drinks before Carl turns up. Carl was supposed to be his advisor at school, but all he ever did was talk about sex. Holden wants to know who he ...
- 6445: Man's Evil Nature in Lord of the Flies
- ... on an uninhabited island without adults, even they are capable of murder. This is the scenario depicted in the British author, William Goldings novel, Lord of the Flies, written and published in 1954 during World War 2. Comparing the characters of Jack, Ralph, Piggy and Simon with Freud's theory of id, ego and superego, one can prove that man has an underlying evil nature. The characters are represented with Jack ...
- 6446: Hughes' "Black Voices oby the Tales of Simple": Jessie Semple
- ... his discontent of the black man's world, yet in showing these feelings Hughes never portrays himself to be angry, overcome by fear, or overwhelmed by racial paranoia. During these desperate and hard years (post-war years), Semple who is from the urban ghetto is himself free of the problems that plague many ghetto dwellers during this time. Semple is a man who avoids the inhibititions of welfare, crime, and drugs ...
- 6447: Davis' "Fifth Business": Death of Boy Staunton
- ... was one of these people. Leola was born in Deptford as was Boy. They grew up together going to the same school, and fancied each other throughout the years. When Boy came back from the war, they fell in love, got married and remained that way until the day Leola Staunton killed herself (due to Boy neglecting her). Throughout their marriage Boy wanted Leola to be something she could not. Leola ...
- 6448: Cry, The Beloved Country: The Breakdown and Rebuilding of South African Society
- ... way that all South Africans should feel. “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the war we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish ...
- 6449: Arnold Schönberg
- ... und Melisande" op 5, where the limits of tonality were appreciably extended. Schönberg revolutionized modern music by establishing the 12-tone technique of SERIAL MUSIC as an important organizational device. After the end of the war, Schönberg founded the "Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen" (society for private music performances), a new forum for modern music. The goal was to create ideal preconditions for the performance of contemporary works. After Hitler's take ...
- 6450: Essay on Romanticism in Frankenstein
- Essay on Romanticism in Frankenstein All literature is influenced by the time period in which it was written; whether it be war, poverty, or any other social trends. People tend to write commentaries of political events, or just describe the time period. Whether it is intentional or subconscious, an author can not help to include some aspects ...
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