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- 471: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... most lucid portrayal of perversity resides in his masterfully told tale "The Black Cat." That work's narrator owns a black cat named Pluto, which he dearly loves. However, the cat's owner takes to drinking, and one day, in a tantrum, he is seized by perverse impulses beyond his control. He captures the unfortunate creature, and with his pen knife, removes one of its eyes. This is but the beginning ...
- 472: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... most lucid portrayal of perversity resides in his masterfully told tale "The Black Cat." That work's narrator owns a black cat named Pluto, which he dearly loves. However, the cat's owner takes to drinking, and one day, in a tantrum, he is seized by perverse impulses beyond his control. He captures the unfortunate creature, and with his pen knife, removes one of its eyes. This is but the beginning ...
- 473: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... got into difficulties almost at once. Mr. Allan did not provide him with the money to pay for his fees and other necessities. Poe was confused and homesick. He learned to play cards and started drinking. Soon he was in debt in excess of two thousand dollars. Poe discovered that he could not depend upon Allan for financial support. His foster father refused to pay his debts, and Poe had to ...
- 474: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... a coma. Despite the widely held belief that Poe was in a drunken stupor, he showed no signs of alcohol when he was admitted to the hospital. According to medical records he had abstained from drinking after and few months earlier attending a temperance league in Richmond. One theory says his condition seemed to improve for a time, but by the evening of his third day he became combative calling out ...
- 475: Death In Venice: A Tragic Vision Of A Flawed Artist?
- ... out of control and he realizes it. He is so obsessed with Tadzio that he actually sits on the terrace with a drink pretending to enjoy it, while in fact he is neither enjoying or drinking. He is there for Tadzio. Hes devoting and dedicating all his time to this stranger that he has not even had the courage to speak to. He watches the performance being performed, his face ...
- 476: Cry, The Beloved Country
- ... the problems between whites and blacks, seeing just the white point of view. "Indeed they talked about [the erosion of land] often, for when they visited one another and sat on the long cool verandahs drinking their tea, they must needs look out over the barren valleys and the bare hills that were stretched below them. Some of their labor was drawn from Ndotcheni, and they knew how year by year ...
- 477: Cry The Beloved Country
- ... the problems between whites and blacks, seeing just the white point of view. "Indeed they talked about [the erosion of land] often, for when they visited one another and sat on the long cool verandahs drinking their tea, they must needs look out over the barren valleys and the bare hills that were stretched below them. Some of their labor was drawn from Ndotcheni, and they knew how year by year ...
- 478: Casablanca
- ... s portrayal of their inner lives. We are openly invited into Rick's inner life, while we find out very little about Victor's. There are several scenes in Casablanca where the audience sees Rick drinking in the night. During these scenes Rick expresses a lot of his feelings symbolically, or verbally when Sam is around. With Victor it is almost the opposite because the audience never sees Victor alone or ...
- 479: Beowulf
- ... written roughly around 800BC. This makes it very interesting because it gives you somewhat of an idea of what life may have been like. In the story, life is centered around meadhalls which are large drinking halls. Here, one can sleep for the night, get a meal, and also drink the sweet alcoholic drink called meade. The meadhall was the center of the village. If you were a stranger, you could ...
- 480: Beloved-Water Motif
- ... the woman drank as though she had crossed a desert" (p. 51). Water is an essential part of life. It is necessary to survive. In these passages, Beloved has just come back to life. By drinking water, she is in a way being re-born and the water supplies her with a "life force" to help her survive. Water is again used as a motif that signifies re-birth later on ...
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