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- 4061: Catch 22: Satire on WWII
- ... Heller does this by criticizing it. Karl agrees with this statement by offering an example of the satire of both the military and civilian institutions in Catch-22: The influence of mail clerk Wintergreen, the computer foul-up that promotes Major Major, and the petty rivalries among officers satirizes the communication failures and the cut-throat competition Heller saw within both the civilian and military bureaucracies of the 1950's. Even ...
- 4062: Great Expectations: Themes of Love, Redemption and Isolation
- ... is to shun human companionship as Miss Haversham did. After her betrayal in love she hardened her heart towards her fellow man. By hardening her heart and suppressing her naturally affectionate nature, she committed a crime against herself. Miss Havershams love for Compeyson is of a compassionate kind, this blinded her to his true nature, as Herbert remarked, "too haughty and too much in love to be advised by anyone." At ...
- 4063: Frankenstein: The Creator's Faults in the Creation
- ... comfort the creature. He also states, however, that it is in the creation's nature to look for acceptance by humans, and will if given the chance, return to human civilization (78). The most major crime committed by the creature in the eyes of Frankenstein is the murder of his wife Elizabeth. The roots of the killing can be traced back not only to the malice displayed by the creature toward ...
- 4064: Deliverance
- ... a canoe trip down a dangerous river." The book deliverance is almost a prophesy of things to come if man does not stop relying on other people so much. Works Cited Warren, Eyster. James Dickey. Computer Software. Discovering Graham, Keith S. "'Deliverance': 20 years after". The Atlanta Journal and Constitution 18 March 1990 Moorhead, Michael. "Dickey's Deliverance". Explicator Summer 1993: 247-248 Dickey, James. Deliverance. New York: Delta, 1970. a
- 4065: Brave New World: The Perfect World?
- ... of the most famous quotation from Brave New World, "All history is bunk." The ability to rewrite or "edit" history is not so far distant from our current technological society. A simple stroke of the computer keyboard can make a global change in information disseminated on a network or to thousands of electronic bulletin board subscribers. Being able to distinguish the true from the false is becoming increasingly difficult. Brave New ...
- 4066: Columbine
- ... place they spent their final minutes in the library (the other two victims were killed outside). They walked through the school and it was incredible. They could see the scarred carpet, singed by a bomb, computer screens were in pieces from shotgun blast, and as the bodies of the victims lay on the ground the only thing Batton could think of was her own daughter. I just felt so sad, she ...
- 4067: The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Isolation and Alienation
- ... and often expressed, that she was banished (78) from the town. Hester was unable to walk through town with out a child babbling a rude gesture or a strangers eye upon her bosom. After the crime of adultery was known to all, Hester's appearance changed completely. Her clothing and the way she wore her hair changed from being beautiful and revealing to plain and common. It seemed Hester tried to ...
- 4068: Billy Bud: Contrast Between Good and Evil
- ... Claggort unfortunately got the last laugh'. He is able to adulterate Billy's purity and innocence in such a way that even the newspapers consider Billy as " the criminal [who] paid the penalty for his crime" In the end Claggort is portrayed as this martyr who is killed by this evil, and bad person, Billy Budd. This assumption is a major mistake. To develop the dramatic contrast between good and evil ...
- 4069: The Great Gatsby: Moral Decline Through The Interpersonal Relationships
- ... of morals in the 1920' in America caused the American dream to vanish. The god-like character of the book was a good person but he did bad things like bootlegging and joining in organized crime. Affairs happened in the elite crowd between Tom and Myrtle. Dishonesty reared its ugly head when Daisy killed Myrtle by running her over then blaming it on Gatsby. This causes the deaths of three people ...
- 4070: Prejudice: Looking Through the Window
- ... judgment of people. The most typical of all prejudice views is that of race. An example of this is during Tom Robinsons trial. Tom was a black man accused of raping a white woman, a crime that is punishable by the death penalty. Even though all the facts proved that he didn't do it, the jury still found him guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt". Tom's life has been sacrificed ...
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