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- 1811: Dantes Inferno 2
- Michel De Montaigne, a fifteenth century French essayist once said that, "The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death. (21st Century Dictionary of Quotation, 1993) In The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri conveys the concept that actions ...
- 1812: Dawn, By Elie Wiesel
- ... After surviving the concentration camps, Wiesel moved to Paris, where he studied literature at the Sorbonne from 1948-1951. Since 1949 he has worked as a foreign correspondant and journalist at various times for the French, Jewish, periodical, L Arche, Tel-Aviv newspaper Yediot Ahronot, and the Jewish daily forward in New York City. Francois mauriac the Roman Catholic Nobelest and Nobel Laureate convinced Wiesel to speak about the Holocaust. Wiesel ...
- 1813: A Review of Huxley's Brave New World
- ... ideas, and the drama of events speeds up. In a Post-Darwinian Era of universal life-long bliss, the possibility of stasis is remote; in fact one can't rule out an ethos of permanent revolution. But however great the intellectual ferment of ecstatic existence, the nastiness of Darwinian life will have been passed into oblivion. I m b e c i l i t y Some drugs dull, stupefy and ...
- 1814: Character Analysis of Through the Tunnel
- ... Jerry sees the foreign boys swimming and decides to ask them if he can swim with him. But Jerry realizes that the boys don't speak his language but tries to talk to them in French. Without no communication Jerry has to relay on body language and actions. When Jerry sees the boys swimming in the water below and the pop out on top of the rocks he decides to check ...
- 1815: All Quiet on the Western Front: "The Cause of Death"
- ... bad this war is . Not did his friends brings this to his eyes, but other people he sees, the new soldier who loses his mind, the lance-corporal who lost his head, and the dying French soldier whom Paul saw as a person, not a monster as the Kaiser would have him believe. These people and many others were pivotal in the breaking down of Paul's idealism. However, this is ...
- 1816: Essay On The Stranger
- ... the little things that he considers important in his life. Meaursalt is a puzzling character, who leaves readers to be uncertain about Camus‘― views of life. Meaursalt is a simple and ordinary man living in French Morocco. Neither intellectual nor emotional, when his mother died, he did not feel or show any sorrow. He is a character rather distracted by his surrounding, such as people walking by and nature. He would ...
- 1817: Fate In Macbeth
- ... s eventual fall from power. Macbeth's over-zealousness for political power led him to the murder of Duncan, the assassination of Banquo, and finally the slaughter of MacDuff's family. These events spur the revolution that eventually costs Macbeth his crown and his life, not to mention the wife he loses along the way. Now, many can argue that Macbeth is to be pitied because of the hand fate deals ...
- 1818: A Critical Analysis of Herman Melville's Moby Dick
- ... dame of power a social queen. (Melville 211) Herman's father's side originally Scots with connections in the peerage, were Boston merchants. Herman's father, Allan Melville, was a merchant and importer dealing with French goods. Allan Melville's family was not as high on the social ladder as the Gansevoorts were. Allan Melville seems to have been socially charming and sensitive, but basically weak, with a long standing dependence ...
- 1819: Foreshadowing Destiny(great Ga
- ... of this society. At his own parties, ". . . Girls were swooning backward playfully into men's arms, even into groups, knowing that someone would arrest their falls - - - but no one swooned backward on Gatsby, and no French bob touched Gatsby's shoulder, and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby's head for a link." His home was full of the Leeches, Blackbucks, Ferets and Klipspringers, while the champagne was flowing. Yet ...
- 1820: Frankenstein
- ... ways out of the limits of the genre for further development (Pelzer pelzer.htm). With Frankenstein, Mary Shelley brought Gothic literature into the 19th century, and expressed the fears of her contemporaries that the Industrial Revolution would forever change the values and conventions they held so dear. Though intentionally a period piece, it was the future implications of Frankenstein which made it a timeless classic. Dr. Pelzer noted, What lay at ...
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