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- 5631: Crime And Punishment 5
- ... live only to reproduce more of their own kind. On the other hand, the extraordinary man is bound by no rules. He lives by no laws just because he is extraordinary. Raskolnikov thinks that being great relies on breaking from the common mold of society. This includes breaking the laws made by and for the ordinary people. He feels that when one complies to public law he ceases to be a great man. Since the achievements of the superman will eventually benefit all of mankind he has the fundamental right to decide whether to abide to laws or not. He has the position to overstep any obstacle ...
- 5632: Cranes Use Of Ironic Symbolism
- ... Comes to Yellow Sky" is a parable of the East's invasion of the West through role changes in a small western town. This invasion is perfectly illustrated in the first setting. Crane writes, "The great Pullman was whirling onward with such dignity of motion that a glance from the window seemed simply to prove that the plains of Texas were pouring eastward" (401). This, the first sentence of the story ... Sky to marry his bride in secret. Potter is very self-conscious of "his change from his formal role as the lone marshal, ever ready for a fight" (Solomon 252). Potter is embarrassed in the great eastern train car. He is not accustomed to the fancy Victorian environment, and neither is his wife. Potter is also worried about the act of his marriage itself. He felt "the shadow of a deed ...
- 5633: NATIONAL MORALITY IN HAWTHORNE
- ... morality is contemptuous to Hawthorne. For Hawthorne, subjugation of individual expression should never occur, but Ledbetter-4 especially not by governmental forces. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne chooses a very effective method to show his great distrust and hauteur of the theocratic Puritan state. He creates a major character, Arthur Dimmesdale, who is a highly respected member of the Puritan community who commits adultery, a crime against everything the Puritans believe ... not Dimmesdale’s chief crime in The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne shows that it is Dimmesdale’s concealment of the affair that is the true sin. The shielding of the affair from the town becomes a great burden on Dimmesdale’s heart and ultimately leads to him to Ledbetter-5 self-inflicted torture (Dibble, 63). Hawthorne utilizes dramatic irony when addressing the relationship between community members and Dimmesdale. As the story progresses ...
- 5634: Clarissa Dalloways Double
- ... place in a single June day in 1923, within the city of London. The day culminates with the party to be held in the evening. The party is not only looked forward to as a great event for Clarissa and her guests. More significantly, the party also foreshadows the only direct connection we could find between Clarissa and Septimus, with a doctor who, having treated Septimus, shows up at the party ... we are again introduced to both of their psyches through their respective stream of consciousness. Poetic techniques are constantly used to relate Clarissa and Spetimus in the novel. Big Ben is a sound image of great symbolic importance linking the activities of the two. Throughout the day, it counts out the hours, marking the progress of Clarissa and Septimus: "It was precisely twelve o'clock, twelve by Big Ben...twelve o ...
- 5635: Candide 2
- ... happens, Pangloss turns the situation around, bringing out the good in it. Candide learns that optimism is "The passion for maintaining that all is right when all goes wrong"(Voltaire 86). Because of Pangloss s great knowledge, Candide is a very naïve and impressionable youth who regards Pangloss as the greatest 2 philosopher in the world, a reverence that will soon be contradicted by contract with reality (Frautschi 75). "Voltaire...made ... is born out of its style; it is the art of extracting happiness from the desolate hopping-about of the human insect" (Priestly 104). Pomeau explains that Candide shows both sides of humanity, how both great and terrible events are standard in a human life. Also, according to Pomeau, the whole point of the story is to debate between good and bad; for example, as Candide becomes more independent, he starts ...
- 5636: Candide - Voltaires Writing St
- ... he directly contradicts the obviously over-optimistic tone of Candide. In the conclusion (page 1617) an old turk instructs Candide in the futility of needless philosophizing by saying that "...the work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty." In each of these examples, the character chosen by the author comes across as a reasonable and respectable person, making the author's point of view seem just as reasonable ... and make him want to read on to find out what happens next. In Candide, the story is written such that the main character and usually one or more companions have set out on a great journey filled with adventures. It is in this journey that Candide's outlook on life is challenged; he is forced to become less optimistic about this world being the best of all possible worlds. Similarly ...
- 5637: Buddhism And The Poetry Of Jac
- ... or Nirvana. Another Buddhist concept is introduced here by Kerouac, that of the bodhisatva. Kerouac spent much of his time with Buddhism studying a particular type, this was Mahayana Buddhism. Within this particular school a great deal of emphasis is placed upon the bodhisatva. The bodhistava is an enlightened individual who chooses to remain in this world, being reborn repeatedly as a human in order to help others achieve the same ... western life and literature and simply adopted Buddhist literary technique. He made several attempts at Haiku throughout his career sporadically, although he dropped the standard syllabic pattern of 5-7-5. He explained that the great difference in writing with letters as in English, as opposed to characters as in Japanese called for this strict adherence to be dropped. In being that Haiku is Japanese in origin, it is reflected in ...
- 5638: Book Report On The Prince And
- ... the news one day in the market and he knew that he had to get to the crowning ceremony before Tom was crowned or he would never get his position back. It was not so great for Tom either, because, he was asked questions to which he did not have answers, like, where did the prince put things like the certificate that gives him the right to sentence people. Edward had ... King was too much. From then on England was governed differently because Edward knew what it was like to live in poverty. RECOMMENDATION: This book is a 10/10 adventure/action/classic. It is a great story for everyone but the language is fairly difficult to understand
- 5639: Buchi Emechetas Ona
- ... boy child asserts a man's manhood. This is why it may be said that Ona was essentially a surrogate boy for the time being until she has a son. Evidently Chief Umunna feels a great sense of deficiency having been unable to produce a boy. This goes to show that manhood in this society is of the uttermost importance. Part of the reason why Agbadi must conquer and control Ona ... in this society women who marry become mere symbols of their husband's manness, and given the fact that Ona understands this and was taught as a woman to reject this notion, it creates a great conflict in preventing their love from maturing into marriage. As discussed marriage in this society belittles women and glorifies men. Ona having taught to think and act as a man is not willing to be ...
- 5640: Brave New World 8
- ... by his side ingested a dose of mescaline while on his deathbed. Aldous Huxley s, Brave New World shows humanity, that an obsession with a utopia, as they world they live in, will come with great cost and is near impossible as he shows that the problem is knowledge destroys value of life. As man has progressed through the ages, there has been, essentially, one purpose. That purpose is to arrive ... of science along with his imagination to show society how a utopia would be. All through life everyone tries to obtain a world in which one can live with enjoyment, equality, fairness, and happiness. Many great writers have created utopian worlds that the reader can consider and explore. To create a perfect place compels the writer to write novels that deal with utopia. People see them selves in a place where ...
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