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- 4681: The Repressive Governments of Zamiatin's We and Orwell's 1984
- ... use and abuse of a system by which each member of society receives a number at birth instead of given a name (Goldstein 54). The numbers are assigned according to sex and occupation. For example, D-503, the main character in We, is male, and is thus assigned a consonant for his prefix while his female partner, O-90, is assigned a vowel. As D-503 is an engineer, he receives a 5 as his first number. All state poets such as O-90 have numbers under 100. (Zamiatin 46). This use of numbers instead of names creates a sense ... In Our Century. New York: Harper & Row, 1983. Lief, Ruth Ann. Homage to Oceania: The Prophetic Vision of George Orwell. Cleveland: Ohio State University Press, 1969. Orwell, George. 1984. New York: Penguin Group, 1992. Richards, D.J.. "Zamiatin: A Soviet Heretic." Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Volume 8. Editor Sharon K. Hall. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1982. 546-49. Zamiatin, Eugene. We. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.,Inc.,1952.
- 4682: Lord of Flies: Animal Instincts
- ... blew the conch this minute they would come running. Then we would be very solemn and someone would say we ought to build a jet, submarine, or TV set. When the meeting was over they'd work for five minutes, then wonder off or go hunting." (p.51). This shows that people would rather wonder around unorganized and having fun than doing what is important. The final example of this is ... have animal instincts that will come into effect if forced to. Animal instincts are natural. Animals may need to kill to survive because nature is based on survival of the fittest. This takes place every day in the business world. For example, a big business takes over a little company or puts it out of business. So, a person may feel that what the children did in Lord of Flies was ...
- 4683: Madame Bovary: Emma's Desire To Control Her Surroundings
- ... only wants Emma as a mistress, and uses her to get what he wants. “Poor little woman. Gasping for love, like a carp on a kitchen table gasping for water. Three flattering words and she’d adore me, I’m sure. How tender and charming it would be. But how would I get rid of her later?” (Flaubert 137). Rodolphe acts sincere and appears to love Emma, but his true character ... she was growing up. Her idea of motherhood was from the little she learned from Madame Bovary Sr. “Emma accepted the lessons; Madame Bovary lavished them. And the words ‘daughter’ and ‘mother’ were exchanged all day long, accompanied by a tiny quivering of the lips, each of them offering gentle phrases in a voice trembling with anger” (Flaubert 62). She thought of the child as an escape from her unexciting life ...
- 4684: Literary Analysis of Lennie
- ... hand. The fact that Lennie even bothers to say that he doesn’t want any trouble proves that he really is non-violent, contrary to the situations he gets himself into. 7. Quote: “’Why he’d do any damn thing I tol’ him. If I told him to walk over a cliff, over he’d go…I’ve beat the hell out of him, and he could bust every bone in my body jus’ with his han’s, but he never lifted a finger against me’” (40). Significance: That Lennie ... he’s jes’ like a kid. There ain’t no more harm in him than a kid neither, except he’s so strong. I bet he won’t come in here to sleep tonight, He’d sleep right alongside that box in the barn.’”(43). Significance: All Lennie wants is to be with his new puppy that Slim gave him. George hit the nail right on the head when he ...
- 4685: The Narrator and Sam Cavanaugh: Dolls to Control?
- ... In The Puppet Masters the character Sam Cavanaugh is controlled from the beginning of the book. Right away he is, “to report to the Old Man,” “at once.” (Heinlein 2) and this is on his day off. He states, “If I had any sense, I’d have quit and taken a working job.” Then he says, “the only trouble with that would be that I wouldn’t have been working for the Old Man any longer.” (Heinlein 3) This line tells ...
- 4686: The Scandinavian Drama: Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts
- ... warm-blooded young people, over head and ears in love. Mrs. Alving. No, it wouldn't go far. Manders. How can the authorities tolerate such things? Allow it to go on in the light of day? (To Mrs. Alving.) Had I not cause to be deeply concerned about your son? In circles where open immorality prevails, and has even a sort of prestige----! Oswald. Let me tell you, sir, that I have been a constant Sunday-guest in one or two such irregular homes---- Manders. On Sunday of all days! Oswald. Isn't that the day to enjoy one's self? Well, never have I heard an offensive word, and still less have I ever witnessed anything that could be called immoral. No; do you know when and where I have ... him out. And now you can see, too, why he was never allowed to set foot inside his home so long as his father lived. No one knows what it has cost me. . . . From the day after to-morrow it shall be for me as though he who is dead had never lived in this house. No one shall be here but my boy and his mother. (From within the ...
- 4687: The Great Gatsby: The American Dream
- ... Later when Gatsby announces that Daisy is leaving Tom for him, Tom corrupts Gatsby’s image: “She’s not leaving me!” Tom’s words suddenly leaned over Gatsby. “Certainly not for a common swindler who’d have to steal the ring he put on her finger.”… “Who are you anyhow?” broke out Tom.” You’re one of that bunch that hangs around with Meyer Wolfshiem -- That much I happen to know ... worked as a “clam digger and a “salmon fisher”, anything that would provide money for food and shelter. “Then he drifted back to Lake Superior, and was still looking for something to do on the day that Dan Cody’s yacht dropped anchor in the shallows along shore.” Dan Cody was made a millionaire while in Montana during the copper rush. Gatsby took a job working for Cody as a “steward ...
- 4688: Bless Me, Ultima: Antonio
- Bless Me, Ultima: Antonio Antonio, as a young hispanic boy,about the age of nine, is constantly prodded by his parents to choose the type of lifestyle he one day would fulfill. The only problem is that his mother and father's visions about the ideal calling are total opposites. His mother was raised a religious housewife, whose people farmed on the llano and his ... On the other hand, in the eyes of his father, he beleives restricting Antonio in such ways keeps his spirit confined, unlike the free energy of his ancestors. He wants his son to sieze the day, sharing in the same expieriences he had during his earlier years. "We lived two different lives, your mother and I. I came from a people who held the wind as brother, because he is free ... nightmares. As Ultima and Antonio begin to grow spiratually closer, it becomes evidant that she, in a nurturing way, understands his confusion. Many nights she races in to calm him back to reality, until one day she offers him a piece of advice, "A man's destiny must unfold itself like a flower, with only the sun and the earth and the water making it blossom, and no one else ...
- 4689: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Fahrenheit 451: Changing The System
- ... the matter when I happened to think of the old tub room...We don't use the room at all...So how would a group like to have that room as a sort of second day room, a game room, shall we say?" (p.99) This is one of many battles between McMurphy and the system. This one he happened to win, but in real life many fights against the system ... with a bunch of my fellow classmates, tried to protest the date of a test because it gave us an insufficient amount of time to study. We plead with the teacher to postpone it another day, but to no avail. The test stayed on the same day as scheduled. It was an attempt to change the system, not much of one, but still it was an honest attempt. It is evident that it's very difficult to change the system, but ...
- 4690: Shakespeare's Cymbeline
- ... been a test of her virtue (in a way it was). That same night when Imogen had fallen asleep he stole her bracelet and he found a few moles on her body, then the next day he returned to Rome and used the bracelet and the illgotten information to fool posthumus into believeing that she had cheated on him. Which caused a crapload of trouble and conflict later on in the ... the queen died and gave him that message. Outro-In the end all the bad arrogant people learned their lesson. I wish this kinda stuff happened to arrogant people in real life, then maybe there’d be less of ‘em. But anyway Shakespeare does have a valid point, I know plenty of arrogant people who’ve had to learn the hard way that, that that kind of stuff doesn’t pay ...
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