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- 3821: Pride And Prejudice
- ... that Charlotte married Mr. Collins just to be married. There was no love shared prior to their marriage and after they were married, they led a pretty dull life and had generally the same schedule day after day. This couples development is limited by phasing them out of the novel. There is not much said about the Collins' after they marry. Austen’s use of Mr. Collins and Charlotte as flat characters is ... Austen portrays Mary as a loner and moral imperfection. Never is she seen attending balls or socializing as her sisters are and she shows no interest in much besides reading for the majority of each day. Although the rest of the Bennet girls seem to have numerous friends, Mary seems to have not even one and never spends any time with her sisters. There have also been no men interested ...
- 3822: Pride And Prejudice
- ... This quote, a typical Mr. Bennet speech, occurs when the issue of Kitty going to Brighton is brought up: "This is a parade which does one good; it gives such an elegance to misfortune! Another day I will do the same; I will sit in my library, in my night-cap and powdering gown, and give as much trouble as I can - or, perhaps, I may defer it til Kitty runs ... money or prestige. As a conclusion, romance is what a writer like Austen is really good at, and the people of her time would buy it (if it sold well in her time, then she'd be financially worry-free). That is why it is written in the form that it is. Pride and Prejudice is essentially a satire of social behavior, especially of marriage. What Austen appears to be asking ...
- 3823: Pigeon Feather
- ... junior doctor, "not much older than myself but venerable with competence and witnessed pain." He skips the bits about the smell of hay and harnesses to tell us, with Thoreauvian precision, that: "A barn, in day, is a small night." In his own words about words he reminds us of the "curious and potent, inexplicable and irrefutable magical life language leads within itself" -- not entirely unaided, of course, by wide margins ... England, to New York, and always back to Pennsylvania. In general outline and under various names the characters are repeated as frequently as characters are repeated when you are reading the works, say, of J.D. Salinger or John P. Marquand. An iconoclastic schoolteacher father, an indomitable mother, an even more indomitable (if you will) grandmother, a dozing grandfather and a scholarly, slightly girl-shy young man who wants to write ...
- 3824: Paradise Lost
- ... future. What makes their act of sin almost tragic in a way as compared to Satan, is that Satan’s act was meant out of spite and hate for the Divinity by destroying in one day that which took Him six days to create- another sign of Satan’s pride. Neither Adam nor Eve intended on for anything such as this to occur, but instead hoped to achieve a greater state ... full well that was against the will of God, chose to do so anyhow due to his excessive love for Eve, "thou hast yielded to transgress the strict forbiddance… against his better knowledge, not deciev’d but fondly overcome with female charm". In the case of both Satan and Adam, both loved the creation more than was healthy for them: Adam loved Eve (parts of creation), and Satan loved himself, not ...
- 3825: Out Of This Furnace
- ... concerned with surviving and saving enough to go back home rich. Immigrants would work long hours, especially during the long shifts (Discussion, 10/11/99), for minimal wages, risking their lives in hopes that one day they might become independent and successful. Kracha does whatever the supervisor says and "works like a horse" (Bell, p.17) so he can get his pay. Their dreams elude them and they feel trapped by the mills rigid schedules. Dreaming of farming and a free life, Dubik, Kracha's friend, says "But do you know what I'd like to do? Buy a little farm back in the hills somewhere" (Bell, p.33). The furnaces already restrict their lives. For many, the furnaces were an end to not just their dreams but also ...
- 3826: Only Yesterday
- ... the signing died down and people began to face the realities that followed a post war nation. Troops were still marching into Germany and there was still a casualty list that added new names each day. America faced other problems. Workers began to form Unions in order to gain more wages and benefits. One of the most notable strikes was the one by the Boston Police Department. The Police force went ... flocked to see college football games. Also the first beauty pageants were being held. Men had the opportunity to view the first installment of the swimsuit segment of the pageants. Although the swimsuits of the day were much more modest than those of today they still turned a lot of male heads. With the advancement of technology came a revolution of morals. Prior to the 1920's there were distinctive class ... prices of shares began to decline in late October and by the 29th they had plummeted to an all time low. October 29, 1929 will always be known as "Black Tuesday". Black Tuesday was the day when many American dreams were destroyed. Middle class as well as affluent members of society went into debt. Banks began to call on loans but the people were unable to pay. Virtually billions of ...
- 3827: Of Mice And Men
- ... pale eyes, wide shoulders and walks kind of gaudy as a bear might walk. Lennie is a bit retarded and he trusts George to make all the decisions for him. He anxiously waits for the day when he and George will buy their own farm. Candy is an old man with only one hand. He probably does the cooking and cleaning and he likes to gossip and tell stories to new ... is young, beautiful and very lonely. She is the only female on the ranch and she teases the men to amuse herself. Her husband considers her nothing more than an object. Her dreams were one day to become an actress; instead she manied Curley because she had no way to support herself. I believe the most important character in the book Of Mice and Men is George Milton. He took the ... but he would never again have to bother with Lennie and his small mind. SUMMARY OF MICE AND MEN is about two men who travel tog from place to pla hey have dreams to one-day buy a farm of their own. George and Lennie had to remain a team in order to make their dreams come true. This was a job in itself for George because Lennie was a ...
- 3828: Like A Winding Sheet
- ... home. The routines of standing in line to punch a timecard, to pick up his paycheck or even get a cup of coffee are frustrating. Walking steadily up and down the aisles pushing a cart day after day watching the women bicker among themselves seemed to make him tense. Johnson complains to his boss that his legs ache from being on them all day and he is not able to get enough rest to make his legs feel better. The hustle and bustle of trying to catch a long subway ride home was almost unbearable. As Johnson’s ...
- 3829: Langston Hughes
- ... she remembers a simpler life when she was a child, engulfed in nature and free: ^The hot wind beating in my face made me think ^ without any connection that I can trace ^ of a summer day in Kentucky, of a meadow that seemed as big as the ocean to the very little girl walking through the grass, which was higher than her waist. She threw out her arms as if swimming ... in the poem ^Dream Variations^, Hughes demonstrates how nature helps celebrate and free the soul. The tone of the poem is celebratory and the speaker is joyous as he rejoices at the end of a day: To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done. Then rest at cool evening Beneath a tall tree . . . The speaker^s soul is free and liberated as he rejoices with nature. He celebrates in the sun, and rests beneath the comfort ...
- 3830: Jane Eyre - Nature
- ... and "'the solitary rocks and promontories'" of sea-fowl. We quickly see how Jane identifies with the bird. For her it is a form of escape, the idea of flying above the toils of every day life. Several times the narrator talks of feeding birds crumbs. Perhaps Brontë is telling us that this idea of escape is no more than a fantasy-one cannot escape when one must return for basic ... in the heath, is the same precipitation that led her to narrate this passage: "But my night was wretched, my rest broken: the ground was damp . . . towards morning it rained; the whole of the following day was wet." Just like a benevolent God, nature will accept Jane no matter what: "Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was." Praying in the heather on ... neither earth should perish, nor one of the souls it treasured." Unsurprisingly, given Brontë's strongly anti-Church of England stance, Jane realizes at some level that this reliance on God is unsubstantiated: "But next day, Want came to me, pale and bare." Nature and God have protected her from harm, providing meager shelter, warding off bulls and hunters, and giving her enough sustenance in the form of wild berries ...
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