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- 2001: "The Doll's House" Essay
- ... in war against conformity when she invites the Kelveys to see the doll's house despite her mother's unjustified demands. When the Kelveys have their visit, they hardly get to take in the full effect of the doll's house before they are shooed "out as if they were chickens." However, they overlook the embellished details of the house and have, like Kezia, a tendency to be drawn to the ...
- 2002: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Jesus Christ and McMurphy
- ... like rabbits under the control of the wolf, Nurse Ratched. Not only did his attack on the Big Nurse and his disappearance help to reinstate the masculinity of the patients, but it also had the effect of weakening Nurse Ratched. This occurrence was shown by the Chief describing the condition of the ward following McMurphy's disappearance as a place where the Big Nurse "couldn't rule with her old power ...
- 2003: 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 ...
- 2004: 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 ...
- 2005: Uncle Tom's Cabin: An Analysis
- ... success was impossible. It was the fugitive slave law that brought the North face to face with slavery nationalized, and it was the fugitive slave law that produced Uncle Tom's Cabin,(Cross 138). The effect of this story was immediate and severe. It went to the hearts of tens of thousands of people who had never before considered such an ideal. A theme that Stowe impresses strongly upon the reader ...
- 2006: Themes in Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil
- ... on which people can predict his behavior. This is the main cause of the minister's isolation, although he is made unpredictable already by the mere act of wearing the veil. Part of the frightening effect of the veil derives from the knowledge that the person behind it can see everything without being seen himself: "Each member of the congregation, the most innocent girl, and the man of hardened breast, felt ...
- 2007: The Squire's Tale: Franklin
- ... Another example of this type of interruption is when the Knight interrupts the Monk's Tale. Both the Host and the Knight are speaking from a position of authority. Their words have the purpose and effect of stopping the particular tale. If we are to consider the Franklin's words an interruption, it would have to fall into this second category because the Franklin has not been insulted or has anything ...
- 2008: Woman on the Edge of Time: Mother To The Tribe
- ... had sat on the blanket burning, transfigured with holding that small sweet-breathing flush-faced morsel" (WET 34). It is the erotic, sensual, "transfiguring" possibility of holding an infant that Connie unwittingly throws away, in effect, when she scatters the "nostalgic grasses" (WET 16) and breaks the wine jug over Geraldo's nose. At the same time, in committing this act she takes the offensive as a mother and on behalf ...
- 2009: Vonnegut's Portrayal of Society in Breakfast of Champions
- ... thing in the water with an airtight layer of laminate. This is killing a great amount of the area wildlife and damaging property of anyone living near a stream or pond (87,88). The eventual effect of this large-scale pollution and destruction of the planet will be total depletion of mineral resources and the end of all things that are beautiful and good (Horwitz 1311). Kilgore Trout believes that humanity ...
- 2010: 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 ...
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