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- 3811: A Tale of Two Cities: Characters are "Recalled To Life"
- ... life" involves Charles Darnay. Charles Darnay is on trial for treason in England(Book 2, Ch.2-4). C.J Stryver and Sydney Carton are representing Darnay in this trial. Sydney Carton saves Darnay from death in this trial with his miraculous wits. Through this Darnay is given another chance at life ,and therefore was "recalled to life." The last and most significant instance of someone being "recalled to life" is found in the last chapters of this book. Sydney Carton has recently switched places with his look alike, Darnay, and is awaiting the guillotine. While Sydney awaits his death he thinks, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, then I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." Through these ...
- 3812: Summary of "A Raisin in the Sun"
- ... the house they live in dies in her sleep, but in the hapiness of knowing her family can get along by themselves. The Younger family is at first very upset and sad because of the death, but they relize that she is where she really wants to be, with her husband. Beneatha is now unsure if she should go off to college because of the death. Walter has a private talk with ehr and convinces her that it would be the best for her future, and that she would regret her decision if she didn't go. Slowly but surely the ...
- 3813: Analysis of Pearl in Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
- ... the governors to allow Hester to keep Pearl, he gives the child a kiss on the forehead. This kiss hints that Dimmesdale is Pearl's father. When Hester and Pearl return from Governor Winthrop's death bed, they join Dimmesdale standing on the town's scaffold. Pearl asks Dimmesdale "Wilt thou stand here with mother and me, to-morrow noontide?" (Hawthorne 131) twice. Realizing that Arthur is her father, Pearl wants ... from her mother. Finally, at the end of the novel Hester, still wearing the scarlet letter, returns to Boston without Pearl. Although Hawthorne does not tell what happened to Pearl, the reader learns about the death of Hester. Before Hester died, she continued to wear the scarlet letter. While all alone in Boston, one can reason that Hester wore the letter to keep Pearl a part of herself. Since Pearl symbolized ...
- 3814: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... A Clockwork Orange even seems to have a strong connection to Burgess's early life. The "conservative and pessimistic view of human nature" portrayed in A Clockwork Orange can be attributed to his mother's death (Bergonzi 85). In 1919, Burgess's father came home on furlough to find that the Spanish Influenza had killed both Burgess's mother and older sister. Although Burgess was only two, "This event and its ... to have children, and this caused Lynne to sink into a pit of alcoholism. She died of cirrhosis of the liver in March 1968. Burgess felt that the attack was "an important cause of her death. [Burgess] transmutes this wrenching real-life experience into the fatal attack on Mrs. F. Alexander by Alex and his three droogs in A Clockwork Orange." (Stinson 9). Out of all these influences of Burgess's ...
- 3815: History Of Mozart
- ... about his revolutionary ideas as exemplified in Figaro. He sank into debt and was assisted by a brother Freemason, Michael Puchberg (Mozart had joined the Masons in 1784 and remained an ardent member until his death). His greatest operatic success after Figaro was Don Giovanni (1787), composed for Prague, where Mozart's art was especially appreciated. This was followed in 1790 by Cosi fan tutte, the third and final libretto provided ... was commissioned to write a requiem (unfinished). He was at the time quite ill--he had never known very good health--and imagined that the work was for himself, which it proved to be. His death, on Dec. 5, 1791, which gave rise to false rumors of poisoning, is thought to have resulted from kidney failure. After a cheap funeral at Saint Stephen's Cathedral, he was buried in an unmarked ...
- 3816: The Regulators Of North Caroli
- ... 6). The Regulators pursued their purpose with tremendous force. They often broke into courts of justice, drove judges from the bench and set up mock trials. They dragged unoffending attorneys through the streets almost until death and publicly assaulted peaceful citizens who refused to express public sympathy for the Regulation. In September, 1770, Judge Richard Henderson was presiding over the superior court in Hillsborough when a mob of one hundred fifty ... refuge behind trees and rocks. The Regulators were deserted by many of their own comrades and took early leave of the battlefield. The Battle of Alamance lasted two hours. Tryon's forces lost nine to death and sixty-one wounded, while the Regulators lost the same number killed and had a large, but undetermined number of people wounded. Tryon took about fifteen prisoners and executed one on the spot with the ...
- 3817: Anna Karenina: Characters and the Life Novel
- ... his marriage to Kitty. However, even in this state of happiness, Levin must face tragedy. Soon after the marriage, Levin's sickly brother, Nicolai Dmitrich Levin, is dying of tuberculosis and Levin must confront his death. This death adds to Levin's sense of the reality of life, realizing that life now not only centers on living but on not living. This event, combined with his previous search for meaning, brings Levin to ...
- 3818: Why Did The Textile Workers Un
- ... the speaker’s wife] can’t take no moe. I just wish they’d get somebody up in there that’s got enough sense to run the mill without trying to push the help to death…I’m gonna retire” (28). The wife’s response to this statement was simply, “He says he’s gonna quit, but he ain’t. It’s his life” (28). The industry heads intended to keep ... plice chief dead, a leading unionist shot in the back, looting of union buildings conducted be police organization, and the State militia intervening on behalf of the mill. The strike feel with their leader’s death, the aquital of her killers, and a conviction of seven union members for the killing of the police chief. Another such battle in Marion, North Carolina stopped before it started. The company expected the strike ...
- 3819: 1984: Summary
- 1984: Summary Nineteen eighty four is a tale of future society, a society in which independent thinking is a crime punishable by death. This is also a society who's leaders are self serving and don't set their goals for the common good by which all of the society will benefit. The party doesn't need to ... character broadcasted "criminal" thoughts for two minutes each day and enraged the citizens to the point that they gladly went to war. The Partys goal was achieved. This calculated deception lead to senseless suffering and death of numerous Party citizens and Proles. At the end of this novel the reader is left with the decision of where the crime lies. This decision is subjective. Democracy is a model of government which ...
- 3820: Jean De La Fontaine
- ... home in Château-Thierry in order to Seattle with creditors. In 1684 La Fontaine was elected into the Académie Française (a society of forty "immortals" that still exists). (Encarta n. pag.) In 1693, after the death of Madame de La Sablière, La Fontaine resided in the Paris home of a high judicial court magistrate and his wife, Monsieur and Madame d’Hervart, his last patrons. During his life in Paris La ... lifetime, but the authorities banned the last edition because it was considered too obscene. In later life La Fontaine regretted ever having written them. (Encarta n.pag.) In the years just before La Fontaine’s death he returned to his Catholic religion. Pious thoughts appear to have occupied much of his time in the waning years. Though fleeting signs of authorial brilliance had appeared in the twilight of Burns 6 his ...
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