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- 4951: Grapes Of Wrath - Plot Questio
- ... where only 100 jobs available. They would get a lot of people to come to California, then the competition for the jobs would be high. People need to eat, so the high wages come into effect. Jim Casey fights against the exploitation of the migrant workers by building a small union. It does work, because the next load of people that come through, which was the Joad family and many others ...
- 4952: Heart Of Darkness - Ignorance
- ... B. Singh, author of The Colonialistic Bias of Heart of Darkness said "The African natives, victims of Belgian exploitation, are described as 'shapes,' 'shadows,' and 'bundles of acute angles,' so as to show the dehumanizing effect of colonialist rule on the ruled" (269-270). Another similar incident of "double speak" appeared on the death of Marlow's helmsman. Marlow respected the helmsman, yet when the native's blood poured into Marlow ...
- 4953: Historical Analysis Of Jerzy K
- ... while paradoxically indicting the reader as being not much different than the murderous villagers. One critic writes of this phenomenon by ascribing to Kosinski the ability to create open-ended symbols which achieve the difficult effect of mirroring whatever attitudes the reader brings into the book. That, he explains, is why people have such differing views on the novel, ranging from horror filled to awe-inspired. This critic went on to ...
- 4954: Light In August By Faulkner
- ... has become. Man perverts the best in himself continually." (Gold, p.42). Christmas is drawn into evil, by a world that would never let him be anything else. Christmas symbolizes the cause and demonstrates the effect of man's falling. His dual coloring is an ironic emblem for the divided society in which he moves (Gold p.42). Finally, Christmas is killed by Grimm, the embodiment of the "divided society" that ...
- 4955: Machiavelli - Human Nature
- ... view of governing a state that is drastically different from that of humanists of his time. Machiavelli believes the ruling Prince should be the sole authority determining every aspect of the state and put in effect a policy which would serve his best interests. These interests were gaining, maintaining, and expanding his political power.1 His understanding of human nature was a complete contradiction of what humanists believed and taught. Machiavelli ...
- 4956: Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
- ... these feelings as an element of Expressionism to convey Gregors attitudes towards his life and society. Examples depicting this element of Expressionism used in the novel are Gregors feelings towards his job, the effect his job has on his family, and the cruelty that his family displays. The novel opens with Gregor in his monstrous state, late for work. He infers that his job as a traveling salesman is ...
- 4957: Ovid The Poet
- ... is that of sorrow and melancholy. "For although love will continue to haunt him throughout his career, the genre that Catullus began and that Propertius and Tibullus developed Ovid has let go of- because, in effect, he has demolished it" (Luce 792). So, basically, Ovid took out a style of writing with him. "Ovid must be counted as a major figure in the making of modern literature. His ability to tell ...
- 4958: Patterns In Hemingway And Camu
- ... is made only to eat and sleep and make love to Catherine, but finally he must face up to experience - he must "realize" what has happened. This requires effort, thinking, and, as an unavoidable "side effect", it usually is painful. We remember that the major, early on, declared that "All thinking men are atheists," (p. 8), and this statement begins to resonate throughout the novel as Frederic must indeed think about ...
- 4959: Realism And Naturalism In 20th
- ... ornate and complex. His sentences are long and complicated, and many nouns and adjectives are used. Hemingway's style is quite the opposite. His sentences are short and pointed, and adjectives are used sparingly. The effect is one of great power and compression. By compressing his literary ideas in his writing, he makes his literature easily understood and direct to his readers. Many connections can be made between the literature of ...
- 4960: Romanticism - Washington Irvin
- ... this time period were Mary Shelley with Frankenstein, Edgar Allen Poe with various poems and selections, such as The Raven, The TellTale Heart, and The Pit and The Pendulum. One person who had a great effect on the Romantic era was Washington Irving. Some called Irving the first real American writer. Washington Irving was born April 3, 1783, in New York City. He was the eleventh child of Sarah William Irving ...
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