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- 1811: Oliver Twist and Hedda Gabler: Commentary on the Social Conditions of that Time
- ... These characters represent self-interest . The characters are always looking out to advance themselves in matters either financial or otherwise. They posses qualities that people hide from the general public. These qualities, the want to control, greed, envy, idleness and jealousy, to name a few, are hidden from those they interact with, but there are some that they associate with that they reveal their mind to. But those that know are ... Hedda Gabler, the protagonist Hedda Gabler, the destructive element of the story (play) comes from the idleness that Hedda Gabler is exposed to in her marriage to George Tesman which resulted in her desire to control the destinies of other people. "Yes I have. For once in my life, I want the power to control the destiny of a human being." (p 505, Hedda Gabler) Her selfish desire to be relieve her boredom causes her to meddle in other people's lives. Self-interest, brought out by idleness, causes ...
- 1812: Prejudice in The Color Purple
- ... God whom she turns inward and shares her grief with. The man Celie calls Mister gained a lot of power, strength, and almightiness by playing the part of husband to her. He was always in control of the situation and always had control over Celie. Finally, the consequence of the prejudice in this novel were uplifting. The black women finally take control of their own lives, mainly Celie, and show the other black men that they can be just as strong and powerful and they are their own person. In conclusion, the character in this novel, ...
- 1813: Summary of The Andromeda Strain by Crichton
- ... abort the detonation if it was not necessary. Now, the head of this group of biologists and the team of doctors and other biologists are called into action to turn this base into a disease control center. After the team has been assembled, two of the members are inserted into the town to find the satellite and any info on the way this mysterious disease is killing people. They go through ... as the organism reached the seals in one compartment, they ripped through the bottom level of the base, engaging the self-destruct mechanism in the base. When the team was first selected, the scientists wanted control of the nuclear device. This was never done, putting atomic weapons in control of civilians. When the team presented a study done by a university, one on reasoning capabilities, the President agreed. The study showed that, when faced with life and death choices, scientific men made the ...
- 1814: Critical Essay on Billy Budd
- ... decision to hang Billy. In defense of this he alludes to a famous English court case, in which three men were accused of murder. However, the circumstances which led them to murder were beyond their control; they had been stranded at sea and forced to kill and eat their fourth companion, who had fallen ill and was about to die anyway. The Judge, Lord Coleridge, found them guilty because "law cannot follow nature's principle of self-preservation." In other words, necessity is not a justification for killing, even when this necessity is beyond human control. Since Billy is unable to defend himself verbally, he "responds to pure nature, and the dictates of necessity" by lashing out at Claggart. I agree with Reich's notion that Vere was correct in hanging ... the laws of society; that they do not take into account the laws of nature. However, until we reform our laws in such a way that we cannot be punished for something out of our control, we cannot expect the laws to be interpreted that way. Bibliography Charles A. Reich, "The Tragedy of Justice in Billy Budd," Critical Essays on Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor, pp. 127-143
- 1815: Johnny Tremain
- ... and looked with no luck. He came upon a Printers work place and soon started working there. He became friends with guy named Rab, who was two years older than he was. Johnny learned to control his temper while with Rab, and read many of their books which they had. He was taught by Rab to ride a horse. Johnny learned to ride one of the toughest horses. The horse's ... there throwing tea even with his bad hand. When the British were here, Rab wanted one of their guns because it seemed more modernized than ours. So he talked one soldier into giving him his gun so that the man could be a farmer. Rab fought hard but was killed at Lexington and Concord. Johnny was never found again. At the end of the book, Johnny learned to be a better ...
- 1816: Tom Clancy: Believable Plots
- ... 1956 counterrevolution. A crewman in a tank--following in his [Filitov's] footsteps, he'd died when his vehicle had been destroyed... The second--also a tanker, Vatutin noted--died when the breech on the gun in his T-55 had exploded., Poor quality- control at the factory, the bane of Soviet industry, had killed the whole crew ... and when had his wife died? The following July. Broken heart, probably, whatever the medical explanation had been. The File showed both ...
- 1817: Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- ... it. Jekyll states that he is in a unique situation that can't be fixed through talking, but Utterson promises that he can be trusted to help in confidence. Jekyll insists that he is in control, that he can be rid of Mr. Hyde at his own discretion. He begs Utterson to leave the matter alone. He explains that he has great interest in Hyde, and that Utterson follow his will ... does this and finds the drug that Jekyll must have made because it is not as neatly done as a chemist would do. He returns to his home and waits for the visitor, keeping a gun with him (revolver) should he need to defend himself. At midnight, Hyde shows up, and is very excited to get the drug, almost crazy, but he stays calm enough. Once Lanyon gives it to him ...
- 1818: Lord of the Flies: Our Society Suppresses the Evil That Is Presented In All of Us
- ... sensible boy, and was chosen ahaed of Jack as the leader, Jack was furious. Jack wanted more than anything to become leader and he began an amoral reign as he let the evil within take control. He became a hunter and a bold dictator looking bot for order, but for fun. Ralph was searching for order, yet Jack's overpowering will to succeed Ralph as the leader led him to compleat ... evil half take over. By the end of the story he had become so evil, that he wanted to kill Ralph in order to destroy all remaining traces of a civil world. When Ralph had control and was leader, he had rules and he used the conch as a sign of unity. It was respected and was(what you could call the basis for their gouvernment.) It was used in order ... when Roger had killed Piggy and destroyed the conch, therfore making the pig's head the dominerant symbol left for them to follow. It made them feel as if Jack and his hunters had complete control of everything which they did. Even Ralph was mystified when he came across it, for it reallt did terify him. It is truly masterfull how Golding shows how the evil side evolves and eventualydominates ...
- 1819: 1984: Summary
- ... to justify its selfish ways because it holds all of the power. The symbol of the party was Big Brother. The idealism of blind loyalty was embodied in this symbol. It was the centre of control. The Party has set its agenda of completely controlling every single human mind by narrowing down the complexity of human thought. They will try accomplish this through the elimination of speech to a form where ... report their spouses or children if they said anything improper, did anything improper, displayed a facial tick or any other abnormalities. The Party took away the basic pleasures of their people, as another method of control. One example of this is how the food was intentionally very bland and tasteless. There is an account in the book where Winston is in a public cafeteria and longingly remembers a better time and ... In order for the people to believe the Party's perversions of the truth, the Party had to make their fiction reality. The Party slaughtered people , burned books, shredded and altered documents in order to control information. Winston Smith's job was to alter old government documents, birth certificates and many other things. Winston was a willing part of this deception until his realization that what he was doing was ...
- 1820: Lord of the Flies: A Symbolic Microcosm of Society
- ... of Freudian psychosexual theory. Ralph's first call to come together by blowing the conch implies a reference to the neonatal oral state, during which Freud postulated was the first conflict between desire and self-control within a child. Other references to problems in getting the younger children to adhere to toilet etiquette for health concerns allude to the anal stage, which psychodynamic theory hypothesized to be a period of increased ... the island society then indicates growth and development, not free from mistakes and flaws in the psychodynamic of the island, but progressing. The true downward turn in the island/person then comes as Ralph loses control of Jack's hunters and Piggy's subsequent death. Golding's reasons for pursuing this course of action in the collective sociology of the island is debatable. While it may be a mere exciting plot ... of a greater crisis for the island/person, where it is reduced to an internalized battle between its two fundamental psychological processes. As such, Golding's climax plays much like a morality tale; out of control, the id destroys the individual due to its self-destructive nature, leaving only the ego to answer to a higher authority. As such, Golding's judgment on humankind then takes on a very slantedly ...
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