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- 3801: The Crucible - Film Review
- The Crucible: A Film Review Who'd have thought that simple dancing could cause so much chaos in a small town. This is precisely what happens in the film The Crucible (Nicholas Hytner, 1996), which was originally written as a play by ... must be quickly taken care of to avoid change in the belief system. Change would mean that they were wrong in their thinking, and they were not ready to accept this. Although people in this day in age feel that the Salem witch trials never should have happened, the Puritans felt as though they had good reason to hold them. This is easily shown in the film The Crucible. Their actions ...
- 3802: The Black Cat
- ... confessing what he has done in some type of repention for his soul. The narrator step by step describes how he began drinking and then to neglect his dearly beloved cat and his wife. One day when he is maddened by the actions of the cat, he cuts out its eye and later kills the cat by hanging it. After his house burns down and he has lost all he owned he finds a new cat resembling all to well the first. One day while working with his wife in the cellar he is nearly tripped down the stairs by the cat, he then picks up an axe and tries to kill it but his swing is intercepted by ... committed in order to be in such a situation. Womack writes: "Poe’s pronounced use of foreshadowing leads the reader from one event to the next (‘one night,’ ‘one morning,’ ‘on the night of the day,’ etc.). Within the first few paragraphs of the story, the narrator foreshadows that he will violently harm his wife (At length, I even offered her personal violence)"(6). Poe uses foreshadowing throughout the story ...
- 3803: The Black Cat
- ... and an outside power, the supernatural, is (347). After the attack, the narrator took out his pocketknife and stabbed the cat in the eye, an irrational decision showing the increasing severity of his illness. One day the narrator took his cat outside and tied a rope around its neck. He then tied it to a tree and left the cat to die. While engaging in this act of torture, the narrator ... a lot of regret when hanging his cat. He even says that he could not "rid himself of the phantasm of the cat" (349). This means that the narrator had illusions of the cat the day of the fire and continues to have them months after. Frequent illusions are also a sign of paranoia. Another cat came into the life of the narrator, one with a striking resemblance to Pluto. This ... the distinct shape of the gallows. This symbols that the cat will lead to the death of the narrator. He is writing this story from a prison cell and is going to die the next day. One can assume that his punishment is death by means of hanging from the gallows. The black and white color of the cat implies to the reader that after committing another evil act, he ...
- 3804: The Bell Jar
- ... contributing factor to her suicide attempt; although there are many examples of Esther trying to have a relationship, such as with Buddy Willard, Constantin and Eric, none are successful: `... of all the blind dates I`d had that year not one had called me up for a second date. I just didn't have any luck. I hated coming down stairs... and finding some pale mushroomy fellow with protruding ears or ... with him I had to work to keep my head above water.' Throughout the novel, especially at the beginning, Esther suffers an inferiority complex: `I didn't have any illusions. I knew perfectly well he'd come for Doreen.' I believe that this idea of inadequacy contributed to the development of her mental illness: `I felt dreadfully inadequate. The problem was that I`d been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.' There is evidence that her mother contributed to this feeling of inadequacy: `My mother had laughed at me...' Esther`s mother does not ...
- 3805: The Artificial Nigger: Truths Behind Racism
- ... hand, including racism, is taken advantage as a form of gratification. Mr. Head, the grandfather, is an example of one of these people. He is in competition with seemingly everyone he encounters while in a day trip to the City. Racism is just one of the ways he utilizes to demean others while elevating his own self-image. O'Connor's depiction of a Southern, and close-minded person goes into ... Nelson has had the opportunity in experiencing the city. He will "be content to stay at home for the rest of his life"(251). His only comforting thoughts, as he laid to sleep before the day of the trip, were not of turning Nelson into a racist however, of "thinking how the boy would at last find out that he was not as smart as he thought he was"(251). Degrading ... see personality disorders. Many such disorders are responsible for unreasoned thinking. I believe mental conditions are a definite underlying factor if not contributor to racial prejudices. Waiting for the train to stop for them, the day of the trip, Mr. Head secretly fears it will not do so, "which case, he knew Nelson would say, " I never thought no train would stop for you,"(252). The fears Mr. Head had ...
- 3806: The American
- ... He has traveled to Europe and Paris to basically become a "new man." He has given up his previous life of business and hard work, and is determined to live carefree and abroad. Newman changes day by day, and the reader follows along with these changes. The name Claire de Cintré also enhances the reader’s knowledge of her as a person. "Claire" in French means "light" and "Cintré" often can be translated ... a personal man and is impassive, much like a city or urban area. Valentin de Bellegarde seems to sound like the English word "valentine," which deals with love and the popular holiday St. Valentine’s Day. He is a man who spends much of his life caring and thinking about women. Valentin even says to Newman, "Oh the women, the women, and the things they have made me do!...of ...
- 3807: Tales Of The New Babylon
- ... armies emerge as his heroes, he constructed the novel in such a way as to protect the individuality of several dozen characters through whose eyes the action would be seen : "each character represents one état d’âme psychologique of the France of the day" . He did this by ascribing to each of these characters a national trait: the pleasure-seeking France, the despairing France, France the volatile enthusiast, France doomed to disaster. "These characters would thus symbolize types who ...
- 3808: Sula
- ... accepted. There was no evidence that Sula had eve harmed anyone in the town, but Shadrack was continually disruptive. The community never saw Shadrack as evil, just as a crazy old man. He organized a day, on January third, as National Suicide Day. Where he marched through the town giving people one day to pile all their thoughts of death together, in an attempt to make sense of it. "In fact they had simply stopped remarking on the holiday because they had absorbed it into their thoughts, ...
- 3809: Stephen King
- ... on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital. Stephen, his mother Nellie, and his adopted brother David were left to fend for themselves when Stephen’s father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a big indirect impact on King’s life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, Stephen King recalls how ... in the same fashion the way it was done on the radio (Beaham 17). King’s fascination with horror early on continued and was pushed along only a couple weeks after Bradbury’s story. One day little Stephen was looking through his mother’s books and came across one named "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." After his mother finished reading the book to him, Stephen was hooked ... experiences and observations from his life and places them into his unique works. What seems to make Stephen King’s stories almost magical is that the settings of his stories are placed into common every day places. Additionally, Stephen’s writings are true to life in peoples mind’s because he draws upon common fears. Just as King’s writing style and genre had been influenced by movies throughout his ...
- 3810: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight: The Role Of Women
- ... think of one thing, that Mary should lead him to a place to say mass on Christmas. Now, instead, the Lady has drawn him away from Mary and made him forget the significance of the day. The bedroom, however, is the true testing ground. From the first day of their bedroom sessions, the Lady subtly establishes a bargain of her own with Gawain; one based on his prowess in courtly love. By becoming her knight Gawain has entered into another bargain, but now ... suggesting certain moral associations to the reader; she is a real temptress testing his chastity and a real object of courtly love, testing his courtesy. As she presses him more and more aggressively as each day passes, the conflict between his spiritual love and courtly love becomes apparent, for he is "concerned for his courtesy, lest he be called caitiff, But more especially for his evil plight if he should ...
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