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- 1901: The Scarlet Letter: The Symbol of the Scarlet Letter
- ... is embroidered in dazzling gold thread and is displayed for everyone to see, showing that she hides nothing, while Dimmesdale's letter is branded on his chest: hidden from the public eye, yet with an effect that is more potent than that of the scarlet token on Hester's breast. Indeed, the heat of glowing metal inflicts a far greater pain than that of needle and thread, the throb of fire ...
- 1902: Criticism of Practical Application of Utopia in "Brave New World"
- ... the idea. Huxley believes that along with passion comes emotional instability. The Utopian state cannot afford any kind of instability and therefore cannot afford love. The destruction of the family is one example of the effect of Utopia's absence of love. In a world of bottled-births, not only is there no need for a family, but the idea is actually considered obscene. The terms "mother" and "father" are extremely ...
- 1903: Contrasting Marlow and Kurtz and the Theme of Evil In "Heart of Darkness"
- ... parallel can be drawn between the island in Lord of the Flies and The Congo in The Heart of Darkness. The Congo in is similarly used to represent the absence of restraint and order. The effect which is used exemplifies a lack of civility, which in turn provides the opportunity for the emergence of darkness. At the beginning of the novel Marlow begins his descent into the Congo, which presents a ...
- 1904: Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview
- ... the novel's second chapter in which Raskalnikov meets a drunk named Marmeladov. Marmeladov, although nearly in a stupor, manages to grasp the essence of divine grace and forshadows Raskalnikov's eventual atonement. For full effect, Marmeladov's statement must be quoted in entirety. He shouts to the crowd in the bar: And when He has finished judging all, He will summon us, too: You, too come forth,' he will say ...
- 1905: Biblical Allusions and Imagery in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- ... Oklahoma and rode with them to California. When he got to California, he lived with them, joining them in their quest for work. By publishing these experiences and trials of the migrants he achieved an effect that won him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962. The writing of The Grapes of Wrath coincided with the Great Depression. This time of hardship and struggle for the rest of America gave Steinbeck ...
- 1906: Bless me Ultima: The Growing up of a Young Boy
- ... death with Tenorio's desire to kill Tony made him realize his limitations and acknowledge the reality. Before these incidents, Tony imagined he could control incidents that happened in real life. He thought he could effect events in life in a posotive way. After these events and experiences with people, Tony realizes that good people get bad things. When Tony was playing a game with his peers in which he was ...
- 1907: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... Mrs. F. Alexander by Alex and his three droogs in A Clockwork Orange." (Stinson 9). Out of all these influences of Burgess's life on A Clockwork Orange, Burgess's love of music, and its effect on his writing are perhaps the most evident. As mentioned earlier, Burgess originally wanted to go to school for music, but he was not accepted due to the fact that he had failed physics (Stinson ...
- 1908: Anna Karenina: Characters and the Life Novel
- ... fail also. Vronsky depends on the everyday pleasures of life to give him satisfaction with no concern as to what the final end of his satisfaction may be. Because he has no sense of the effect of his desires, for his pleasure is entirely self motivated, his affair with Anna is doomed to fail before it begins. It is his desire for self satisfaction only that limits his response to others ...
- 1909: Brave New World: All Things are Relative
- ... married ;therefore, sexual promiscuities come into play. Finally, they were also conditioned to believe that you should never be alone, for being alone used up little production and the use of little production has an effect on the factories that could possible shut them down. If the factories in an area were to shut down, a significant amount of jobs would be lost and people would not be able to support ...
- 1910: A Critical Analysis of Herman Melville's Moby Dick
- ... figure in the family was the uncle, Peter Gansevoort. Not long after Allan Mellville's financial collapse he died. Herman's father's death and his father's dependence on Peter Gansevoort probably had an effect on Herman's early psychological development. Its effects would show up in his later writings. Herman's relatives helped the struggling family in any way they could, but they had their own interests too. At ...
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