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- 7211: Summary of Jane Eyre
- ... in love with Mr. Rochester. After that event Mr. Rochester invites a lot of guests. One of the guests is Miss Blanche Ingram, a very beautiful woman who tries to secure Mr. Rochester, which gives great pain to Jane. Jane thinks that Mr. Rochester wants to marry Blanche Ingram. One day a stranger arrives, a Mr. Mason from Spanishtown, Jamaica. Mr. Rochester seems to be very upset by his arrival. In ... she lives at Thornfield Hall. Mr. Rochester shows his wife to the audience. His wife is insane and behaves like a wild beast, and he has been married to her for 15 years. Jane has great pity with him but she decides to go away because she can't live with Mr. Rochester as his mistress. She sneaks away in the night with little money and takes a carriage to the ...
- 7212: The Necklace: Madame Loisel
- ... curtains.” All those things that another woman of her rank would never even have been conscious, “tortured her and made her angry.” Even the sight of her servant would cause her to daydream of “two great footmen in knee breeches who sleep in the big armchairs, made drowsy by the heavy warmth of the hot-air stove.” “She thought of the long salons fitted up with ancient silk, of the delicate ... money.” Madame Loisel looked old now. She had become “the woman of impoverished households – strong and hard and rough.” “With frowsy hair, skirts askew, and red hands, she talked loud while washing the floor with great swishes of water.” She looked so radically different that Madame Forestier didn’t even recognize her. It is difficult to say what lessons Madame Loisel may have learned without speculating. I think she must have ...
- 7213: Northanger Abbey: Reader's Response to Heroine
- ... away without her seeing Isabella for more than a few minutes together." This is a relief to the reader, who is by this time growing tired of Miss Thorpe's fatuousness. It would be a great disappointment, though, if such changes in Catherine brought a reduction in her genuine, fresh approach to life and a touch of cynicism. They don't and Catherine maintains too the tendency to romance that led ... then, after all Catherine's dreadful experiences of her fellow man, betraying her innocence, trust and honesty, we feel very protective of our heroine. That she should end in 'perfect happiness' with Henry is a great pleasure to the reader. Catherine, then, displays all of the traits that Oliphant describes in the title. Jane Austen shows them to us through Catherine's own thoughts and her reactions to others. By maintaining ...
- 7214: Soldiering & Symbolism
- ... levels of society. The united States, supposedly the greatest democracy in the world, has had a long history of using “expendable” peoples for their protection. The African Americans during W.W.II, were used in great numbers to fight the Nazi threat of Germany, but when it came time to come home, they were sent back to their segregated communities, not honored for their great courage in battle. What was seriously troubling for African Americans is that they served their country in the hopes to advance their social standing. This of course did not happen. It took a battle of ...
- 7215: The Scarlet Letter: Physical and Psychological Effects and Consequences of Adultry
- ... town’s pastor, Hester Prynne suffers many consequences of committing adultery. First of all, she becomes pregnant. She has to go through all the pain of childbirth. A symbolic name that means purchased at a great price. Hester is also left out in the social point of view. All of the citizens of Boston look down and condemn her for the sin she committed. Although Hester is clearly a Puritan, she ... dies shortly after the death of Dimmesdale. When Chillingworth arrived to Boston, he secretly came as a physician. Little by little, he found out that Dimmesdale was the father of Pearl. His hatred became so great, that he was led to insanity. There is one particular point made in chapter seventeen, where Dimmesdale says to Hester: “We are not, Hester, the worst sinners of the world. There is one worse than ...
- 7216: The Joy Luck Club: Differences in Generations
- ... show that pure Chinese blood can be changed completely through just one generation. They have become American not only in their speech, but in their thoughts, actions and lifestyles. This novel has not only given great insight into the Chinese way of thinking and living, but it has shown the great contrast that occurs from generation to generation, in the passing on of ideas and traditions.
- 7217: Gimpel the Fool: Golde vs. Elka
- ... He’s come, the drip. Grab a seat” (Singer 6). She belittled him all of the time. Golde was more sarcastic, than mean, to Tevye. Tevye did not always have the opportunity to be a great provider for his family. This would upset/anger Golde. “A lot he need children-and seven of them at that! God punish me for saying so, but my mistake was not to have taken them ... t know what a million is, it’s a waste of time talking to you” (Aleichem 92). Throughout Gimpel and Tevye’s lifetimes, they grew accustomed to their wives. The both loved their wives a great deal; no matter how much “abuse” they took from them. Gimpel spoke very highly of his mean-spirited wife. “She swore at me and cursed, and I couldn’t get enough of her. What strength ...
- 7218: All Quiet on the Western Front
- ... its values was presented very frequently and in fact may have included a few of Remarque’s own questions of society and biases against the immorality and murder committed during war. I have gained a great deal of insight into World War I from this novel. Previously, I understood the diplomacy and the military strategies involved with this war, but I have now also been exposed to the physical and foremost ... endeavors; this realism forced me to look at the purpose of war more closely and examine its results on the militia. Foremost, I have gained a multitude of new perceptions, some of which make a great deal of sense, from the vividly portrayed physical results of war and the depth in which the dynamic emotions of the soldiers, particularly Paul, were presented. This book has simply given me new views of ...
- 7219: First Love: Vladimir's Voyage
- ... his childhood. "I would take a book with me - Kaidanov's lectures, for example - though I seldom opened it, and spent most of the time repeating lines of poetry aloud to myself - I knew a great many by then."( p. 23) From his first encounter with the mystical enchantress, his behavior alters without his understanding the reasons behind these modifications: "As I was going to bed, without quite knowing why, I ... knowing yet what romantic love is, other than the ideal picture painted in his poetry readings, Vladimir is left with a conception of love which is archetypal of the knight in shining armor performing some great task for the love of the fair lady. In his day-dream musings, he envisions himself a knight rescuing the Princess from some peril, in an act of ultimate chivalry. "I had a horse of ...
- 7220: Silas Manner
- ... comfort him. Elliot also shows how Godfrey fails as a father . And finally Eliot shows the opinions and practices of English villagers. Godfrey Cass's too terrible mistakes-marrying Molly and rejecting his child -bringing great sorrow to Godfrey and the whole Cass family, but these very same mistakes, coupled with Silas's good decision to take the child , are what provides a solution to Silas's terrible alienation from humanity ... Victorian ideals it was not accepted for a couple to adopt a child. Godfrey blamed and resented Nancy for them being unable to have children. Still after many years he is unable to admit his great sin being married to another woman and still dating another to Nancy use also unable to admit that the child now being raised by Silas Manner is his child . At last Nancy gives up trying ...
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