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- 1981: The Pardoner: "The Root of All Evil Is Money"
- ... actions. The irony of this section of The Canterbury Tales is the fact that, while the Pardoner's tale proves to be an exemplum, the brief account he gives of himself produces the exact same effect. The Pardoner works within the church, yet he lives a decidedly liberated, or even sinful, life, which he freely admits. While chastising church-goers for leading sinful lives in order to persuade them to believe ...
- 1982: Gray's "The Epitaph": An Analysis
- ... ended up just as everyone else will, dead, it is just that he was not blessed with as much life. Gray probably knew someone who died at a young age and it had a traumatizing effect on him, then he turned to writing of dark and dreary times and those of the epitaphs and of graveyards and the beliefs of gods and how they relate to life and death. Thomas Gray ...
- 1983: The Scarlet Letter: Background
- ... Romantic writer incorporates many characteristics of Romanticism and also includes his "theory of Romance" in the novel. Some romanticism ideas he incorporates are those of heroic characters which would include Hester Prynne "It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself."2 A heroic character is "bigger than those found in ordinary life" and also is ...
- 1984: Of Mice and Men: The Feeling Only the Lonely Could Feel
- ... the novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck explores the relationship of loneliness to a human being by his three characters: Crooks, Candy and Curly's wife. These characters are an example of how loneliness can effect a person's life forever. Crooks is one of the loneliness characters in the book and it is because of prejudice that he suffers this exile. The fellow workers on the Ranch cause Crooks not ...
- 1985: Hololiterature: a Holographic Interpretation of the Scarlet Letter
- ... destructive interference, so also should characters in the book. Obviously the relationship between Hester and Arthur is constructive. Perhaps love is a synonym to a more complex reaction. Just as obviously, Chillingworth produces a negative effect on Dimmesdale, one that eventually destroys him. Many symbols in The Scarlet Letter are mirroric in nature. They reflect the "light" from other objects and focus or spread it so different characters receive different effects ...
- 1986: Great Expectations: Pip's Life in the Upper Class Society
- ... class/Low class society. Pip grows up in a low class village and soon learns about the high class lifestyle as he visits a wealthy woman, Miss Havisham. From this, he is introduced to the effect money can have on a person. He learns that with money, a person can have almost anything. Pip, being in the presence of wealthy people, is influenced and starts acting with more stature and class ...
- 1987: 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 ...
- 1988: 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 ...
- 1989: 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 ...
- 1990: 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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