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- 8681: Gerard Manley Hopkins Terrible
- ... the mid 1800's a very spiritual poet was born. Gerard Manley Hopkins was born July 28, 1844 to Manley and Catherine (Smith) Hopkins, the first of their nine children (Drabble 473). His parents were High Church Anglicans, and his father had just published a volume of poetry the year before (Drabble 473). He was ordained as a Jesuit priest who wrote beautiful poetry full of thoughts of nature and harmony ...
- 8682: Georgians Transformation
- ... realizing that her husband s concoction has proved fatal; Georgiana shows no sign of repenting but consoles her husband by saying you have aimed loftily; you have done nobly. Do not repent that, with so high and pure a feeling, you have rejected the best the earth could offer (Hawthorne 23). Hawthorne concludes the story by saying, he [Aylmer] need not thus have flung away the happiness which would have woven ...
- 8683: George Bernard Shaws Mrs. Warr
- ... Shaw is mocking Mrs. Warren. She thinks and wants to be an equal to other people's money, but she isn't. I found it funny that a man of Frank's social standing (not high on the totem pole) looked down on Mrs. Warren and her profession. Her was a young man with virtually no money to speak of, no profitable future, yet still he knew that she was doing ...
- 8684: Gatsby S Sacrifice
- ... an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how ...
- 8685: Great Expectations- The Evolut
- ... such a club. He even says that "The Finches spent their money foolishly,"7. Despite the negative aspects of the club, he and Herbert join without any hesitation, just so they can be members of high class. The Finches of the Grove does not bring Pip happiness though. Pip says of the club: "We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make ...
- 8686: Historical Analysis Of Jerzy K
- ... which human actions could be seen not as meaningless jumbles, but as part of a definite pattern.² In one scene the protagonistΉs kindly mentor and role model, Mitka--a grandfather figure--calmly fires a high powered machine gun at a distant villager who is sleepily stretching his arms in the sunlight-strewn hours of early morning. The admiring protagonist is amazed. He understands that MitkaΉs action is justified because ...
- 8687: Jane Eyre - Nature
- ... saw deeply furrowing the brown moorside; I waded knee-deep in its dark growth; I turned with its turnings, and finding a moss-blackened granite crag in a hidden angle, I sat down under it. High banks of moor were about me; the crag protected my head: the sky was over that." In fact, the entire countryside around Whitecross is a sort of encompassing womb: "a north-midland shire . . . ridged with ...
- 8688: John Betjemin Poetry
- ... everything in these times has to be clean, bright and overly sanitary. In the 'Diary of a Church Mouse', Betjeman highlights the hypocrisy of certain types of people and their desire to be seen as high-class and virtuous while selfish and inconsiderate. This poem takes the form of a narrative through the eyes of a church mouse. The mouse in the poem represents the type of people Betjeman is denouncing ...
- 8689: Lord Of The Flies - Book Revie
- ... mundane tasks of modern society. It is a struggle between Ralph and Jack, the boys and the Beast, good and evil. The story takes a look at what would happen if a group of British school boys were to become stranded on an island. At first the boys have good intentions, keep a fire going so that a passing ship can see the smoke and rescue them, however because of the ...
- 8690: Los Vendidos
- ... a while.) The Mexican- American sold out his Mexican Heritage when he said, "The problems of the Mexicans stem from one thing alone he's stupid, he is under-educated, he needs to stay in school. He needs to be ambitious and be forward looking, most important he needs to think American" (Page 382). In his statement he is only finding the bad of his people and stating it for the ...
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