|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 4041 - 4050 of 10818 matching essays
- 4041: The Great Gatsby: Unfaithfulness and Greed
- ... wanted to go in the beginning, would solve everything. Before the move could be made, Myrtle was killed; it is here where George's love is shown most. George becomes extemely upset after Myrtle's death. Wilson was reduced to a man "deranged by grief." Because of the death of his wife, George decides to murder who he believes her killer to be and then commits suicide by shooting himself. Thoughout the novel there are many incidents involving love and greed. This is somewhat ...
- 4042: 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 ...
- 4043: Social deterioration in "The Crucible"
- ... his life there was no longer anyone but Abigail to lead the community. The justice system is designed to protect the people that it serves but during the trials the accused witch had two choices, death or imprisonment. The punishment of death was given to all people that pleaded not guilty; the other punishment was to plead guilty and go to jail. John Proctor gave his view of the justice system when he said I like not ...
- 4044: Catcher in the Rye: Holden Goes Through a Fall From His Innocence
- ... the wall. When he sees this he starts to think about committing suicide because he feels like living is just a waste. During this time he spent in the tomb he decides on life or death. After going unconscious for a couple of minutes he decides to live because, "Death thus becomes not a gesture of defiance but of surrender"(Miller 17). Once Holden wakes up he feels better and symbolically chooses life. This is when Holden begins to rise. When Phoebe is on the ...
- 4045: The Tragic Love Triangle of Yonville
- ... a rural village. He then married a women who was quite older then himself. He was unhappily married to her saying that "Her dresses barely hung on her bony frame", This coming right before her death. Upon his wife's death, Charles married an attractive young women named Emma Roualt, the daughter of one of his patients. Emma married Charles with overwhelming expectations. She thought marriage would be filled with three things, "bliss, passion, and ecstasy ...
- 4046: Kate Chopin's The Awakening
- ... her children, and of her society. The only solution she sees is to end her life, which she does by swimming out into the sea until her strength gives out. This is a very symbolic death. I feel the theme of The Awakening is deeper than the obvious themes of independence and women's rights. The Awakening presents suicide as a valid solution to problems that do not offer many choices ... loneliness, disruption of one's social life, and suicide for the common good. It's easy to connect these with Edna's life: the isolation of her small house, the disruption caused by Adele's death, and the common good of the children. However, her suicide had nothing to do with any lack of personal freedom. She was, for the most part, doing whatever she wanted and there were no signs ...
- 4047: Jane Austen: Background of Her Novels
- ... This episode was productive of her amusing correspondence with Mr. Clarke. Persuasion This relatively short novel, her last, was written in the last few years of Jane Austen's life, and published only after her death in 1817 (though she described it, in a letter of March 13 1816, as "a something ready for publication", she probably would have revised it further, if she had not already been ill with her ... ten years later, after several of her other novels had been published, and apparently made some revisions, but finally "put it on the shel[f]" (letter of March 13, 1816). It was only after her death in 1817 that her brother Henry finally had it published (together with Persuasion). The title "Northanger Abbey" was not chosen by Jane Austen (she referred to the book in her letter as "Miss Catherine"). The ...
- 4048: Animal Farm
- ... wanted through force. In one part of the book Napoleon had the dogs charge Snowball, another animal, as soon as he thought that the pigs were becoming corrupt. Stalin became the Soviet Leader after the death of Lenin. He was underestimated by his opponents who always became his victims, and he had one of the most ruthless, regimes in history. In was not till very many years later that the world ... Trotsky and Stalin's relationship was very much like Snowball's and Napoleons. Trotsky organized the Red Army and gave speeches and everyone in Russia thought he would win power over Stalin. After Lenin's death Trotsky lost all his power to Stalin and was expelled from the communist party. George Orwell has created a masterpiece which is excellent if it is read without any prior knowledge to the situation in ...
- 4049: Red Badge of Courage - Henry Fleming
- ... will die in battle just for spite. The same time Henry met Jim, he also met a tattered man. In the next charge, Henry and the tattered man see Jim die a slow, and painful death. After Jim's death, and a little talking, Henry,though not realizing it, leaves the tattered man alone on the battle field, hurting inside, and dangerous to himself. In the charge ahead, Henry starts asking the soldiers why they ...
- 4050: Female Characters In "Raise the Red Lantern", the Handmaid's Tale, and "A
- ... Yan'er. Whenever Songlian feels the need to relieve her tension, she screams at Yan'er. Songlian's treatment towards her maid results in a bitter rivalry between the two and ultimately leads to the death of Yan'er. Instead of expressing herself publicly, Songlian chooses to keep her emotions bottled up or take them out on Yan'er. Another example of this concept occurs when Songlian becomes intoxicated. Due to ... life by drinking. This is yet another example of Songlian's feeble attempt to escape her troubles. Furthermore, Songlian's outlook on life becomes so bleak that she literally goes insane. Since she witnessed the death of the third mistress, she confirms her fear that there is no escaping her situation. Thus, she drives herself crazy. Therefore, we can see that Songlian uses techniques to try and escape her fate. The ...
Search results 4041 - 4050 of 10818 matching essays
|
