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- 9391: House On Mango Street
- ... rubs lard on the places were it hurts" (93). There is not enough lard in the world to be able to cure the pain within Sallys heart. Sally, "met a marshmallow salesman at a school bazaar" (101). Pretty soon " sally got married, she has her house now, her pillowcases and her plates" (101). Her marriage seems to free her from her father, but in reality she has now stepped into ...
- 9392: Hedda Gabler
- ... been friends with Thea in order to solicit her confidence: Thea - "But that's the last thing in the world I wanted to talk about!" Hedda - "Not to me, dear? After all, we were at school together." Thea - "Yes, but you were a class above me. How dreadfully frightened of you I was in those days!" Once Hedda learns of Thea's misgivings about Lovborg's newfound resolve, she uses it ...
- 9393: Hedda Gabler
- ... been friends with Thea in order to solicit her confidence: Thea - "But that's the last thing in the world I wanted to talk about!" Hedda - "Not to me, dear? After all, we were at school together." Thea - "Yes, but you were a class above me. How dreadfully frightened of you I was in those days!" Once Hedda learns of Thea's misgivings about Lovborg's newfound resolve, she uses it ...
- 9394: Heart Of Darkness - Racism
- ... steamboat distracts him from such thoughts. Kurtz, the fabulously successful chief of the Inner Station who has come from Europe to civilize the natives, surrender to the savagery of the wilderness. He gives up his high aspirations, and the wilderness brings out the darkness and brutality in his heart. All principles and desires of the European society are stripped from him, and the unspeakable passions and greed of his true nature ...
- 9395: Heart Of Darkness
- ... name and count. Then she will learn to sew" (Emecheta 9). In Ibo culture, girls were valued for their domestic abilities. Adah refused to be measured by this, instead she was determined to go to school and get an education. She worked had to overcome the sexist attitude that her culture held. This sexist attitude continued after she got married to Francis. Francis is a typical Ibo male. He held the ...
- 9396: Heart Of Darkness
- ... They practiced no moral laws and inflicted callous and barbaric cruelty on indigenous people. Marlowfs description of the Companyfs offices in Paris revealed his discovery: A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajarh(13). Moreover, the older woman at the offices ...
- 9397: Heart Of Darkness
- ... steamboat distracts him from such thoughts. Kurtz, the fabulously successful chief of the Inner Station who has come from Europe to civilize the natives, surrender to the savagery of the wilderness. He gives up his high aspirations, and the wilderness brings out the darkness and brutality in his heart. All principles and desires of the European society are stripped from him, and the unspeakable passions and greed of his true nature ...
- 9398: Heart Of Darkness
- ... lies in the heart of our souls. Bibliography Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York, N.Y., Ballantine Books, 1959. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. New York, N.Y., St. Martins Press, Inc., 1989. School, Beacon. Http:/www.beaconschool.org/ ebernabe/Darkness.html.
- 9399: Heart Of Darkness
- ... heart of darkness" (237). The current ran from the jungle, but the current of life also ran out of Kurtz heart, a heart of darkness. At the end of the journey, Kurtz gives up his high aspirations, and the wilderness brings out the darkness and brutality of his heart. All principles and desires of the civilized society are stripped from him, and the unspeakable passions and greed of his true nature ...
- 9400: Hard Times
- ... view on the evil of the educational system. Among the "little pitchers" are Bitzter and Sissy Jupe. They exemplify two entirely different ideas, serving Dickens for allegorical purposes. Bitzer, the model student of Gradgrind's school of "facts, facts, facts" becomes the very symbol of evil in the educational system that Dickens is trying to portray, as he learns to take care for number one, himself. Reflection of this and Bitzer ...
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