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- 5461: Animal Farm vs. Marxism
- ... mean looking, didnt talk very much but always got what they wanted through force. In one part of the book Napoleon charged the dogs on Snowball, another animal. 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 ... outsmarted by Napoleon. Trotsky and Stalins relationship was very much like Snowballs and Napoleons. Trotsky organized the Red Army and gave speeches and everyone in Russia thought he would win power over Stalin. After Lenins death Trotsky lost all his power to Stalin and was expelled from the communist party. He was at one time considered the second most powerful man in Russia. (Trotsky Comptons 290). Besides characters there are many ...
- 5462: The Queen of Spades: An Analysis
- ... for a confrontation with the Countess herself. Out of desperation, Hermann insists that the Countess divulge her secret. Consequently, she refuses and in anger Hermann pulls out his pistol, which scares the Countess to her death. Later, Hermann dreams the Countess is forced to fulfill his request. Confident that the secret from his dreams will bring him is longed awaited fortune, Hermann plays the cards per the instruction of the Countess ... believable. The conclusion being unexpected as it was gives the reader satisfaction - Hermann loses all monies and from this suffers from dementia. Lisaveta is married but stuck in subservience. The Countess is satisfied even after death. It is true; revenge is a dish better served cold.
- 5463: I Am . . . ?
- ... but for what she believes. She was the driving force behind his resentment of Japanese culture. Ichiro eventually admits “I am not your son and I am not Japanese . . .” (Okada 16). After his mother’s death, Ichiro was not sad. Rather, he felt sorry for her; “. . . sorry for the happiness [she had] not known” (Okada 186). He was glad that she had died. He thinks to himself, “You are dead and I feel a little peace . . .” (Okada 187). A major negative influence on his life and his perception of himself faded away with the death of his mother, and he could dissolve much of his anger. In essence, he became a new man. If a Japanese American refused to fight in the war, he was labeled a “no-no boy ...
- 5464: Troubles Macbeth Faced
- ... pressure of his guilt does not allow him to sleep peacefully. Furthermore, as a result of his lack of sleep; Macbeth starts to think unclearly and without any logic. This all leads him to his death because at the end of the play he loses hope and stops fighting for his life. Therefore, one of the problems Macbeth faces is losing contact with God. The other problem Macbeth faces is lack of sleep. So it can be said that the only solution to Macbeth's problems is his death. A lesson that should be learned and taught and always remembered is that being rash is not the solution to a problem; think before acting. Being rash and hasty can lead to serious problems. The ...
- 5465: Night: The Holocaust
- ... of what he would do if his father ever became as weak as the Rabbi. He decides that he would never leave his father, even if staying with him would be the cause of his death. The German forces are so adept at breaking the spirits of the Jews that we can see the effects throughout Elie's novel. Elie's faith in God, above all other things, is strong at ... the Germans was already being felt. The incident that perhaps has the greatest effect on Elie is the hanging of the pipel. He is a young boy with an "innocent face" who is condemned to death because he is implicated in a conspiracy which results in a German building being destroyed. When the time for the hanging approaches, the Lagerkapo refuses to kick out the chair, so SS officers are assigned ...
- 5466: Invisible Man
- ... usefulness still exists, especially as a background for Jung and Lacan. The Freudian text at work in this analysis will be Civilization and Its Discontents. In this text, Freud’s theories about aggression and the death drive are related to societal tensions that isolate the individual. Carl Gustav Jung was somewhat of a "son" to Freud, but he quickly outgrew his "father’s" theories, and, in an ironically Œdipal conflict, overthrew ... usefulness still exists, especially as a background for Jung and Lacan. The Freudian text at work in this analysis will be Civilization and Its Discontents. In this text, Freud’s theories about aggression and the death drive are related to societal tensions that isolate the individual. Carl Gustav Jung was somewhat of a "son" to Freud, but he quickly outgrew his "father’s" theories, and, in an ironically Œdipal conflict, overthrew ...
- 5467: The Lord of the Flies
- ... The hunter party is Golding's triumph in giving the first glimpse of human savagery through the hunter party. As the hunter party grows in numbers the hunters have a great thirst for blood and death. This is how the beast is first seen. They become more savage and soon begin to paint their faces to show how fierce they are. The whole time Ralph and Piggy the only rational thinkers ... to kill, and the dirty children mock the absurd civilized attempt to hide the power of evil. And so when Ralph weeps for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the death of his true wise friend, Piggy, he weeps for all the human race." (Cox 164) Such a tragic view of the future of mankind and their nature is a perfect window for people to understand ...
- 5468: Sounder: Like Father Like Dog
- ... a man and goes off to prison. Sounder demonstrates his own courage by taking a shotgun blast to the face while trying to prevent his master from being taken away to prison. Wounded and approaching death, Sounder treks off into the wooded marsh to heal himself with the acid from the oak-tree leaves. The heroic actions of both the father and Sounder perfectly demonstrate the strength they possess to carry ... father and Sounder both understand that with their crippled bodies they are a hassle to them all. Out of their love for the family, they end their long dual with the grip reaper and face death. They each do what they believe will best suit the family. Every description you can come up with for one of the characters ideally suits the other. Throughout the entire novel Sounder, Armstrong uses similar ...
- 5469: Montana 1948
- ... sends of thoughts as he considers that he also is capable of committing such unfortunate yet amoral things. “Looking in the dead bird’s eye, I realised that these strange, unthought of connections – sex and death, lust and violence, desire and degradation – are there, there, deep in even a good heart’s chambers. In the rapid journey which David has been forced to undertake from innocence to experience, to seeing life ... disturbing than that which immediately follows Frank’s suicide. “You see, I knew – I knew! – I knew! That Uncle Frank’s suicide had solved all of our problems … I felt something for my uncle in death that I hadn’t felt for him in life. It was gratitude, yes, but it was something more. It was very close to love”.
- 5470: The English Patient: Caravaggio
- ... people to Hana has triggered her yearnings for someone who would love her and take care of her. Hana's father has died of burning during the war and consequently, she connects her father's death to the suffering of the English patient: "She [has] come across the English patient - some one who looked like a burned animal, taut and dark, a pool for her" (41). Hana decides to stay with ... the world to love a ghost"(45). The English patient is "no longer useful"(45), even though he is being cared for; he will not live much longer. Caravaggio is afraid that the patient's death will result in Hana's long term pain and suffering of desertion again. Therefore, he wants to protect her from sadness, which is the consequence of the relationship between Hana and the English patient: "If ...
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