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- 3941: Black Cat
- ... new animal eases the man's tormented conscious, but eventually its presence begins to serve only as a reminder of the horrors that he inflicted on Pluto. Underlying feelings of guilt caused by the hideous crime committed against Pluto, obviously surface and erode the narrators thoughts and reasoning power. In his mind, guilt diseased thoughts begin to shape the undefined white markings around the animals neck into the definite shape of ...
- 3942: Billy Budd
- ... in favor of all the men on the ship and then turn them against the captain. Captain Vere responds by having Billy and Claggart meet in private where Claggart can openly accuse Billy of this crime. Fortunately, Claggarts attempt to destroy Billy for mutiny fails because he is struck down by Billy in one blow, ending the matter, but opening a much more serious one. Claggart is also seen as attempting ...
- 3943: Beowulf - Hero
- ... important, or own it. Not many people are remembered as hero for being able to toss steel kegs over a wall. (The World's Strongest Man Competitions.) On the other hand someone who owns a computer software program (Microsoft) will never be forgotten. Strength is seen as the capability to excel above the rest in an area where others have failed, or to do what has not been done yet. Another ...
- 3944: Beloved - Internal Conflicts
- ... that she felt was unbearable. And Beloved was merely an extension of that guilt, incorporated into the real world and a way for Sethe to subconsciously torture herself while providing a constant reminder of the crime itself. When Paul D. "forced" the spirit away, it came back in a fleshly form to cause even more problems. There are even indications that Beloved is feeding off of Sethe, in a way as ...
- 3945: Barbie Doll
- ... her [the aunt's] family" when it came to be known that she was with child. Ironically, the same cultural values that destroyed the young girl's life had forced her to commit the heinous crime. "My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex," Kingston explains, "Women in old China did not choose. Some man commanded her to lie with him and be his ...
- 3946: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... in his home country of France. He is saved from being prosecuted by Sydney Carton, who a witness confuses for Darnay, thus not making the case positive. Darnay ended up being acquitted for his presumed crime. Darnay and Carton both fall in love with Lucie and want to marry her. Carton, an alcoholic at the time, realizes that a relationship with Lucie is impossible, but he still tells her that he ...
- 3947: A Separate Peace - Symbols
- ... something blind, that's all it was" (865). Phineas' death is the end of Gene's childhood. He is forced to grow up when he realizes that he is living in a world of hate, crime, and disappointment. He is getting older and closer to his eighteenth birthday when he will be drafted into the war, and he finally begins to prepare. At the conclusion of the novel, after Phineas is ...
- 3948: A Separate Peace - Symbolism
- ... something blind, that’s all it was" (865). Phineas’ death is the end of Gene’s childhood. He is forced to grow up when he realizes that he is living in a world of hate, crime, and disappointment. He is getting older and closer to his eighteenth birthday when he will be drafted into the war, and he finally begins to prepare. At the conclusion of the novel, after Phineas is ...
- 3949: A Separate Peace
- ... nature as well. Something that each human will experience in their lifetime; the ability to let their barbaric nature reign over their own personality. Later in the novel, Finny shows his understanding for Gene’s crime in this paragraph: "I’ve gotten awfully mad sometimes and almost forgotten what I was doing. Something just seized you. it wasn’t anything you really felt against me, it wasn’t some kind of ...
- 3950: A Rose For Emily
- ... of Miss Emily keeping her "a mystery". What is a mystery? "A mystery is something not understood or beyond understanding: enigmatic quality or character: a work of fiction dealing with the solution if a mysterious crime" (Merriam Webster Dictionary 486). The narrator then relates how the townspeople perceived the Grierson family from the past. We had long thought of them as tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the ...
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