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- 3421: Wuthering Heights: Dark and Evil Themes
- ... Grange says, “In that manner, Hareton, who should now be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father’s inveterate enemy, and lives in his own house as a servant, deprived of the advantage of wages, and quite unable to right himself, because of his friendlessness, and his ignorance that he has been wronged.” (182). In addition to insults from Hindley, Edgar ...
- 3422: The Awakening: Edna Pontel
- ... suicide? Some common reasons are isolation and 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 ...
- 3423: 1984: Lack of Humanity
- ... can be a crime; it only has implied laws that might or might not be enforced at any time. The Thought Police monitor the Outer Party members of Oceania with a telesceen installed in every house, the telescreen. Much like the television, the telescreen broadcasts pictures and sound. The only difference is that the telescreen also has a camera, which watches your every move night and day and can never be ...
- 3424: Fahrenheit 451: Similarities To Today's World
- ... machine, as she slept with the bee in her ear. When she woke up in the morning Montag said, “I wanted to talk to you…she said”(Bradbury 19). The toaster in the Montag;s house, it did all the work. “Toast popped out of the silver toaster, was seized by a spidery metal hand that drenched it with melted butter. Mildred watched the toast delieered to her plate.” (Bradbury 18 ...
- 3425: 12 Angry Men Contrast Paper
- ... It was extremely weird because in the 1957 version, there was a man that was the judge and back in those days the man did the work and the women stayed home and cleaned the house and cooked dinner. There was also no swearing in the courtroom, a difference of the 1997 version. In that version, there was a woman judge and there was swearing allowed in the courtroom. When they ...
- 3426: Edna's Suicide
- ... he sees her leading the traditional life of a wife with him. The final option is the most difficult to reject. It would be nice to imagine her living and painting alone in a small house somewhere far away from New Orleans. This is not a real option: to see why, think back to the text. Who lives their life this way in the novel? Mademoiselle Reisz does. Is that life ...
- 3427: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... society that rejects them. Twain encourages us to become a better society, through the feuds between the Grangerfords and Shepardsons, between the Duke and the King, and the mob that stood outside Colonel Sherburn’s house. I believe his examples of a bad society were meant to show us what is right. Mark Twain did a great job in his novel, by writing a book with morals meant to improve society ...
- 3428: Shielded Consequences
- ... of people in order to gain respect for himself. However, the verdicts of the trials cause the deterioration of the town, leaving Parris all for naught. “I met him [Parris] yesterday coming out of his house, and I bid him good morning-and he wept and went his way. I think it is not well the village sees him so unsteady”(124). Parris' actions leave himself and the town in ruins ...
- 3429: The Crucible: Deteriorated Rational and Emotional Stability of Salem
- ... solely because she would not allow Giles to read them. Giles also stated that “I tried and tried and could not say my prayers. And then she close her book and walks out of the house, and suddenly--mark this--I could pray again!”(pg.38) This evidence of witchery is preposterous. The only thing that is true is that Giles was not allowed to read the books, and because he ...
- 3430: The Great Gatsby: Nick Carraway Fulfilling Whitman's Dream Of America
- ... who lacks the candor and simplicity essential to Whitman's dream. Overtly, Gatsby seems to place much importance on material wealth and social status. he lives in the rich part of town in a huge house where he has made aname for himself by throwing lavish parties. He lives the classic American dream of wealth and fame. By Whitman's standards, however, he has achieved nothing. he lacks simplicity because he ...
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