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- 1751: Surfacing - A Reason To Kill
- ... ego and people who live in a culture which has separated them from their own humanity. On pages 152 - 154, she compares Americans to Hitler because in her mind Americans are trying to take complete control of the continent and to turn everyone into a single type of creature : "Are the Americans worse than Hitler. It was like cutting up the pieces of a tapeworm, the pieces grew." Being American means ... the bird strung up like a lynch victim. She thinks the Americans did it to prove "they had the power to kill." Killing the heron was their way of possessing it. The heroic ego establishes control over the natural world by killing. The narrator goes diving one night by a rock face to look for Indian paintings. While diving, she has a vision of a fetus : "It was blurred but it ... if she goes back with Joe. What is important is knowing that the "child" with which she is pregnant symbolizes the potential to become human. She has regained her own humanity and finally feels in control of her life. She has accepted the deaths of her parents. She has forgiven herself for having the abortion. She has surfaced as a true human. If she does go back with Joe, he ...
- 1752: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
- ... immense beauty and power of nature is used to enhance the sense of procrastination that is felt towards death; leading to the complete abolishment of time. The indescribable beauty of nature has the ability to control the responsive state of an individual, whereby a loss in the sense of reality heightens the complete awe and wonder of the sheer beauty. The driving force behind all that is unaccomplished in this world ... can often be diminished by a single encompassing power. Even the simplest things are able to persuade and convince people to act out against the norm. The enchanting wonder of nature has the ability to control the thoughts and feelings of a person; causing them to lose touch with all that is real to that person. The daily, conscious decisions to continue life are almost diminished by the "lovely, dark, and ... in turn, the loss of time represents the complete loss of reality. The epiphonic experience that the man encounters, enables him to grasp on to time and make it a priority in his life. The control that nature possesses is able to highlight the positive side of death to this man, forcing him to stop his journey. However, the immense power of procrastination is able to override such an idea, ...
- 1753: Reconstructing A Crime Scene
- ... in the company of his brother-in-law. "Now, calm down son. It was only a game. Let's enjoy the holiday festivities," Simon's father advised. Norton observed the collection of moose heads and gun racks hanging along the walls. He picked-up one of the hunting magazines that were lying on the coffee table, and flips through a couple of pages. Then, he stops and studies a page for ... see what the shouting was about. Sarah questions, "What are you two arguing about?" "This argument is over, because, I'm about to through this sorry son-of-a-bitch out!" Simon shouts. "Simon, please control of your temper," Mary warns. "I don't want you to regret doing something, and then feeling sorry for yourself again." Mary noticed that Simon was sweating profusely with veins popping out of his forehead ...
- 1754: Paralytic - Sylvia Plath
- ... she has no one there for her and no one's fingers to grip but I look at it as though she herself is missing them. I think that she feels like she has lost control of herself and her body. It is as though she can't force herself to hold onto anything or speak. Comparing God to an iron lung also gives several connotations. An iron lung would be ... It is a story of a time that Plath spent in a mental hospital in which her views are represented. She is paralytic because she cant do what she wants to do. She has no control and cant move. Other people control her body now. This poem is a very fine representation of Plath's work. She is a wonderful poet who's work was only enhanced by her experiences, especially those which have been described ...
- 1755: Paradise Lost
- ... good and virtue to the reader; the first one is God himself. God was the true symbol of all that is good in the world. God was the creator of man and kept this in control with three mighty powers. The first power was omnipotence, which is being all-powerful. God's second power was that of omnipresent, which is the ability to be present everywhere at the same time. The ... omniscient power to play an essential role in the poem, foresee the downfall of man, and give man free will. This free will of man is what gave man freedom from God. God still had control of man, but man was able to do as he chose, whether it was good or sinful (Blessington 43-44). God vows, "I form'd them free, and free they must remain, / Till they enthrall ... on the views of Satan. The contrast to these characters came from God and The Son. God, with his powers of creation, omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience, was able to look over his creations with subtle control and try to guide them toward good decisions. In addition to God, the reader looked upon The Son as a symbol of divine love of God and his creations and his showing of true ...
- 1756: Old Woman Magoun
- ... she had to take care of Lily. After an undesired and unforeseen encounter between the girl and Barry, the old woman is informed that she must hand over the girl. Feeling helpless and having no control over the situation, she feels forced to make a major decision to prevent the young girl from, what she feels, would be a grave predicament. Old Woman Magoun most likely feels responsible for Lily’s situation and her own daughter’s demise and has learned to fear men as a result of it. She fears the girl’s father because he represents the part of herself that she cannot control, Lily. She has no choice but to give up her granddaughter and she cannot bear to lose her to the man she despises, Nelson Barry. Facing the reality of losing Lily is more than the ... their power" (http://www.georgetown.edu/libraries/ 2). Old Woman Magoun has a mysterious command over people, but it doesn’t help her when it comes to keeping Lily. She still has to relinquish her control over the child and she has no power to change the circumstances. Freeman makes the old woman suffer the "realities of nineteenth-century New England" (2). These realities are that a woman must abide ...
- 1757: Lord Of The Flies - The Beast
- ... go out and a ship went by, he lashed out at Piggy, whom he evidently despised, and broke his glasses. To some extent this further illustrates how the evil inside Jack was beginning to take control of him. Talk of beasts and ghosts emerged at a later assembly and an overwhelming portion of the boys agreed that there was evil present on the island. Simon had already realised that the evil ... This is a very significant turning point in the novel because it now seems as if all sense of morals and civilized values have been discarded by the boys, who have allowed evil to take control of their minds. Following Simon’s death it becomes clear that Ralph and Jack are greatly different. Jack insisted that Simon was merely disguised as the beast and the beast is not really dead. Ralph ... hand realised that he had taken part in the murder of a human being. It is clear that Ralph had managed to accept that the evil came from within himself and he had learned to control it. Jack, on the other hand, had no idea of what he had done and did not care anyway. This fact confirms that Jack had been overcome by the evil within him and afterwards, ...
- 1758: Lord Of The Flies - Savagry
- ... Piggy's glasses in the fight. Piggy's glasses being broken symbolizes how the boys are losing sight of what civilization has taught them. In addition, the fight shows that Jack is slowing losing self-control of his emotions. Jack loathes Ralph so much that he puts them in a constant rivalry with each other partly because Jack thinks about nothing more than hunting and killing, and Ralph still has some ... just so he can kill Ralph. In addition, he thinks that killing Ralph is no different than killing a pig but he does not have any value for human life. Jack's loss of self-control proves that civilization is no match for his ferocity. As the boys are left on the island longer and longer, they also show signs of savageness. When the boy’s hair grows they begin to ... Also if the boys weren't so consumed with the desire to kill they could have been rescued. Although they were a group and should have had many civilized actions between them, savageness still won control for the mind. Savageness is such a powerful emotion that no matter how hard the boys tried to resist it they still became consumed by it. William Golding proves in the novel that man ...
- 1759: Lord Of The Flies
- ... the Flies was also made into a great movie that captured the best aspects of the book. The best lesson I learned from Lord of the Flies is that people can not let one thing control their whole life. They can not let greed control their every action and thought so that it corrupts them into acting on an evil purpose. Lord of the Flies was a great novel and I know when ever I think about this book, the ... out of the forest with his message about the beast, he himself is mistaken for the for it and is torn apart in by the frenzied children. At this point Ralph loses most of his control over almost all the kids, and Jack begins to take over. After the feast, things only get worse for Ralph and his remaining followers. Jack and his warriors attack them one night and steal ...
- 1760: Jane Eyre - Fire And Water
- ... their engagement, not knowing it is only a game that Rochester is playing. She has strong feelings for Rochester but she realizes that her "fiery passion…must be quenched by the cold waters of self-control"(Solomon, 74). Jane is shocked when Rochester tells her he wishes to marry her and rekindles their fire quickly. Their fiery relationship builds as they approach their wedding and is quenched when Rochester’s secret ... him. In effect, his fiery passion has made him blind. In keeping with the key themes of the novel, Jane finds Rochester by "a neglected handful of ice"(480) which shows that Rochester has learnt control and come to an understanding of the perils of an overly passionate nature. Jane, by seeking to build a larger fire for Rochester, thus rekindles some of that lost passion between the two. She has learnt that the extremes of control, as embodied in St. John and the associated water imagery, is undesirable as well. Eric Solomon and Adrienne Rich agree that fire is essential in the novel for us to understand the motivations of ...
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