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- 2381: The Life of Edward Albee
- ... formal education, and I suppose it didn't matter much. I'd figured out how to educate myself, and keep on doing it. To be fair to Trinity, I would have been unhappy at any college or university." Albee was even more unhappy when his adoptive mother ejected him from the family mansion for homosexuality. He moved to Greenwich Village, surviving as a luncheonette counterman, office boy and telegraph messenger, and ...
- 2382: Babbitt: Conformity
- ... his life. He accepts his fate as a miserable member of conformist society. Babbitt now realizes the terrible fate that Zenith sets for it's citizens. When Babbitt's son asks him permission to quit college and elope Babbitt approves in hope that his son will fare better against the power of conformity than he has. "I've never done a single thing I've wanted to in my whole life ...
- 2383: Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Analysis of Angel and Alec's Attitudes Toward Tess
- ... to their actions upon Tess. Angel is a very complex person. His actions are well thought out and he is a logical person. For example, he went into the farming business instead of going to college and becoming a priest. This follows a logical pattern: "...there lay hidden a hard logical deposit.... It had blocked his acceptance of the church; it blocked his acceptance of Tess (311)." He follows his heart ...
- 2384: Willy Loman is often described as a Tragic Hero. To What Extent is "Death of a Salesman" a Tragedy?
- ... critics consider that whether Death of a Salesman is a tragedy or not is debatable on all four sections, while others think the play meets all these criteria. When Arthur Miller began reading plays in college, Greek tragedies made a profound impression on him. He says that he was drawn to the Greeks "for their magnificent form, the symmetry." "That form has never left me; I suppose it just got burned ...
- 2385: Cry, the Beloved Country: Stimulating a Change
- ... segregation that runs rampant throughout the community. WORKS CITED Alexander, Peter. "Man and manifesto." Times Higher Education Supplement, August, 1994, 15-16. Hogan, Patrick C. "Paternalism, Ideology, and Ideological Critique: Teaching Cry, The Beloved Country." College Literature, October, 1992, 206. Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country. New York: Collier, 1987.
- 2386: A Comparison of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Anthem"
- ... a woman of who seems to be mildly attractive since she acquires the interest of several men in the story. She also seems to be fairly intelligent because she said that she had taken several college courses. Although both characters are both apparently in good health and both are intelligent, but they have very different personalities and personal goals. In Anthem the main character is pro-active, he sees that there ...
- 2387: Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie
- ... glass unicorn is most obviously a symbol of Laura-- delicate,sadly different,an anomaly in the modern world.The glass motif recurs throughout the whole play in many other forms.When Laura dropped out of college she constantly visited the zoo,a glass house of tropical flowers that are as vulnerable as she is.During Laura's and Jim's brief romantic encounter,Laura is gaining more confidence about herself.It ...
- 2388: The Glass Menagerie: Symbols
- ... was considered in its building, but the slow and implacable fires of human desperation. This is especially true of Tom's apartment. His mother, devastated after her daughter Laura's failure to cope in business college, becomes obsessed with finding her a gentleman caller so that she can marry and be well supported. When this caller finally comes, and it seems like it was meant to be, as they dance and ...
- 2389: Invisible Man: The Narrator
- ... listen to him and that they look up to his views. He is notably naοve, and even admits to it. He forms and idea of what he wants to be when he is expelled from college. That was when he realized he was not very important to anyone. During the middle of the novel, the narrator's visibility fluctuates; this symbolizes a change. He is slowly realizing that he is really ...
- 2390: Hawaii by James Michener
- ... to try to introduce new agricultural goods to Hawaii, thereby gaining entrance in to new markets. It was very important to Char Nyuk Tsin that one of her five boys be educated at an American college or university. Since each one was well rounded (spoke four languages, were above high school level in some subjects, etc.), her decision was a difficult one. She consulted Uliassutai Karakoram Blake, the only character who ...
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