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- 3791: "Fighting on Two Fronts": Henry Fleming in Red Badge of Courage
- ... imagine people slaughtering each other. "Aren't we too civilized to massacre ourselves?" he often wondered. After hearing the tales of battle, Henry began to be intimidated by fear. Would he run when faced with death or would he have the courage to fight? This question was always on Henry's mind. Finally, after many months of monotonous camp life, the question was answered. After hours of marching one day, Henry ... being an inexperienced, frightened young boy to a strong and heroic soldier. The war was the catalyst that propelled Henry into manhood. Henry leaped into manhood by having to face every man's greatest fear, death, instead of maturing slowly into adulthood. War seemed to be not even imaginable to Henry, but he ended up smack in the middle of it in an effort to find some excitement and become a ...
- 3792: Economic Reasons For American
- ... an area but a state of mind. Colonies were poorly planned and settled on malaria infested swamps. Almost half of the colonistsΉ died of disease, Economic Reasons for American Independence pg 3 starvation, exhaustion, and death by rival, hostel Indians. The hardships of the wilderness frustrated many attempts at a fruitful life for the colonies, but the frontier also produced some of the raw materials of American democracy - self reliance, social ... states, from monarchy to republic, from membership in an extended empire in which the several members were connected only through the center to participation in a singly federal nation.The struggles were enormous and the death toll even higher, but after the foundation was laid and the Revolution was started, a new country was born...And it has succeeded. Bibliography References Brinton, Crane. The Anatomy of Revolution. Vintage Books: New York ...
- 3793: Cicero
- ... beneath his toga). Catiline lost and planned to carry out armed uprisings in Italy and arson in Rome. Evidence incriminating the conspirators was secured and they were executed on Cicero's responsibility. Cicero, announcing their death to the crowd with the single word vixerunt ("they are dead"), received a tremendous ovation from all classes. He was hailed by Catulus as pater patriae, "father of his country". This was the climax of ... or other of some 94 different friends, acquaintances, and relatives. The number constitutes only a small portion of the letters that Cicero wrote and received. Many letters were suppressed for political reasons after Cicero's death. Cicero made his reputation as an orator in politics and in the law courts, where he preferred appearing for the defense and generally spoke last because of his emotive powers. Trained by Molon of Rhodes ...
- 3794: Essay on Romanticism in Frankenstein
- ... pride. This flaw causes Victor to rush into something, for which he is not prepared. He fulfills his ambition and makes the biggest mistake of his life by creating a monster. Finally, just before Victors death, he has his catharsis. He tells Robert his story and cleanses himself. seek happiness in tranquillity, avoid ambition (pg. 205) This paradox, that he created a creature to help society, but it turns out to ... caring and Romantic. The monster is born as a romantic, but because of the worlds transgressions on him, he becomes an anti-Romantic and a Gothic character. The monster become dark, and wants to bring death and destruction to everything around him. Now, when he sees beauty, he becomes jealous. but she, shall suffer; the murder I have committed because I am forever robbed of all that she could give, had ...
- 3795: The Scarlet Letter: The Symbol of the Scarlet Letter
- ... been a benefit rather than a bane to her soul, for by admitting her crime to the crowd, her soul is freed from two hells: first, the fiery pit where she would otherwise go after death, and second, the own personal hell Hester will create for herself if she had chosen to hide her sin in her heart. Though it was ordered for Hester to wear the letter, it was still ... upon Hester, it has become a permanent part of her, that one cannot exist without the other. The letter was born upon Hester's sin, lived in Hester's shame, and died in Hester's death; it cannot be taken away from her no matter how hard she tries. To take it away would be to deny Hester's own identity, because without her ever-present companion she is nothing but ...
- 3796: Faulkner's "The Unvanquished"
- ... one of beliefs. It is a conflict between two philosophies: idealism and pragmatism. This war rages on throughout the novel, but is decided by one event: Bayard's decision not to avenge his father's death. An idealist is one who is guided by ideals, especially one that places ideals before practical considerations. Life in Yoknapatawpha was idealistic, as was life everywhere in the South at the time. The Southern Code ... by the practical consequences of belief. Bayard Sartoris was a pragmatist. He 'let his conscience be his guide'. Telling his father about Drusilla's attempt to seduce him and refusing to avenge his father's death are two good examples of this. In the beginning of the novel, Bayard is shown to be simple minded, but as time passes on and Bayard grows into a young man, his mind develops and ...
- 3797: Johann Sabastian Bach
- ... component of church services in Leipzig and continuing to write music of various kinds with a level of craft and emotional profundity that was his alone. Bach remained at his post in Leipzig until his death in 1750. He was creatively active until the very end, even after cataract problems virtually blinded him. His last musical composition, a chorale prelude entitled "Before They Throne, My God, I Stand", was dictated to his son-in-law only days before his death. Bach was that rare composer whose genius cannot be summed up, even approximated, by any known means. He was the supreme master of counterpoint, fugue, vocal writing, melody, chamber composition, solo instrument repertoire...the list ...
- 3798: Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls": War's Affect on Man and Importance of Time
- ... war. When mentioning how he and his people slaughtered a town, he says "I liked it. All of it, expect for the killing of the priest. I was disillusioned by him. I expected a better death. He died with very little dignity."(P127). Pablo is a character who now is a drunkard. It takes killing to get him to do something. After the death of a Fascist brigade Pablo mentions that "I feel like my old self again. I am back. I wish we could have killed some more". When contrasting the ways of Pablo and Anselmo we come ...
- 3799: Eliot's Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and Sweeney
- ... giving him the first name of "Apeneck." Sweeney is more like a primitive man who has no morals for when he dies he "guards the horned gate," the gates of hell. Eliot is comparing the death of a king, Agamemnon, to the death of a bum, Sweeney. Agamemnon is the leader of the Greeks besieging Troy. Upon returning home he was murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra. Sweeney is murdered by Rachel nee Rabinovitch, who I believe was engaged ...
- 3800: With Which Literary Character Do You Most Readily Identify? Why?: Alexei in Dostoevsky's "The Gambler"
- ... got into trouble over them. He knew that what he thought was right was often in stark contrast to what his society deemed proper. He disagreed with the social hierarchy of Russia and paid the penalty. He may have paid a penalty for standing by what he thought was right, but he knew inside that he was doing the right thing. However, he did not receive any joy from this realization. He was relatively miserable his whole ...
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