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- 3531: Candide: Voltaire's View of Human Condition
- ... exaggeration; but it also introduces the contrasting device of understatement whereby something is declared by stating the negative of its opposite. In relation to it is euphemism, which it is used ironically with fine comic effect to advance the satire of injustice, crime, and folly. Caricature and parody, ways in which the author exaggerated details of one sort or another for the same purpose, are noticed evidently in the story. For ...
- 3532: “I Won’t Learn From You” And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment
- ... an autobiographical account, Kohl gives recognition to the many people who influenced him, ispired him, and showed him the importance of hope. He believes that honoring student’s stregnths and abilities will have a profound effect on them. “If you want to find a child’s weaknesses, failures, personal problems or inadequacies, you’ll discover them. If you look at a child through a filter of her or his environment or ...
- 3533: Experiencing Can Be Corrupting
- Experiencing Can Be Corrupting Throughout society various people are faced with numerous amounts of choices during their lifetime. Regardless if their decisions are good or bad, these decisions effect them for the rest of their lives. Anything from what to do or what to wear, these choices have a definite impact. As little children we were all taught to dream and experience. During our ...
- 3534: Brave New World: Escape from Reality
- ... However, it is a world without emotion, feelings, and problems. All these things are needed in order to make a person their own. Lack of Individuality Huxley describes a futuristic society that has an alarming effect of dehumanization. This occurs through the absence of spirituality and family, the obsession with physical pleasure, and the misuse of technology. In this world, each person is raised in a test tube rather than a ...
- 3535: Dickens and "The Jew"
- ... Century. Unfortunately, any attempt to reconstruct how the telling and retelling of biblical tales in rural England colored popular attitudes toward contemporary Jews. Despite Dickens never intending a harmful portrayal of the Jews, the immediate effect of Fagin may well have been to hold back their struggle for emancipation and recognition in this important era of time. Dickens' Jew exemplifies the prejudices that may otherwise have remained untalked about. Dickens gave ...
- 3536: Adam Bede
- ... a foresign of the events to come. In the next pages we will look at Lisbeth Bede’s portrayal as the depressed woman, consider what biblical implications are made about her character and observe the effect this construction has on other characters in the novel. When we are first introduced to Lisbeth, it is with comparison of how similar she is in physique to her son Adam. One detail, however, provides ...
- 3537: Angel and Tess: A Romance Fit For the Books?
- ... horse is considered. Anything that went wrong in the family is under Tess's care, and thus, she often had a heavy feeling of guilt blanketing her soul. The weights of these burdens begin to effect Tess both mentally and physically. Hardy writes, "Her face was dry and pale as if she regarded herself in the light of a murderess." (29) Tess was the only one who realized what the absence ...
- 3538: Cry, The Beloved Country: Differences Of The Ruled And The Rulers
- ... a result they resorted to other ways of getting food and clothing. Many of these miners resorted to stealing, furthermore even murder to get morsels of food and a few shillings from white people. In effect, white men had brought this violence on themselves. Although blacks were suffering more than whites, nonetheless whites where suffering too. One example of this is Mr. Jarvis, whose son, Arthur Jarvis, was killed by Steven ...
- 3539: Mark Twain's The Adventures of HuckleBerry Finn
- ... point of view is expressed by the author. His point of view is that of a cynic; he looks upon civilized man as a merciless, cowardly, hypocritical, savage, without want of change, or ability to effect such change. Thus, one of Mark Twain's main purposes in producing this work seems clear: he wishes to bring to attention some of man's often concealed shortcomings. While the examples of Mark Twain ...
- 3540: Charles Dickens’ Personal Experiences in Great Expectations
- ... changes to improve themselves. These two are very similar, which means Dickens expressed his life through Pip. Works Cited Bradbury, Nicola. “Multiple Narratives in Great Expectations.” Readings on Charles Dickens. Ed. Charice Swisher. San Diego: Greenhouse Press, Inc., 1998. 162-170. “Charles Dickens.” Nov. 10, 1998. Sirs Researcher CD ROM. Sirs, Inc., Fall 1997. Pickeral, Paul. “Fantasy and Reality in Great Expectations.” Readings on Charles Dickens. Ed. Charice Swisher. San Diego ...
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