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- 2981: Gatsby's Pursuit of the American Dream
- ... Jay cannot accept that the past is gone and done with. Jay is sure that he can capture his dream with wealth and influence. He believes that he acted for a good beyond his personal interest and that should guarantee success. Nick attempts to show Jay the folly of his dream, but Jay innocently replies to Nick's assertion that the past cannot be relived by saying, "Yes you can, old ...
- 2982: Hobbes Leviathan: Analysis of its Impact on the Framing of our Democracy
- ... hierarchy of mutual needs then allows them to work towards the common benefit. Man on the other hand does know the difference in the common and the private good, and is motivated by enlightened self-interest, finding joy by comparing himself with others. Third, Hobbes suggests that creatures of nature have Not (as men) the use of reason, [and] do not see, nor think they see any fault, in the administration ...
- 2983: Emma
- ... The climax of the story is reached when Emma realizes that she is in love with Mr. Knightley. "Emma had never known how much of her happiness depended on being first with Mr. Knightley, first interest and affection." (Austen, 381) After this Mr. Knightley confesses his love to Emma and they get married. Also, Harriet marries a man of her social status and they all live happily ever after. In conclusion ...
- 2984: Dr. Faust: Quest For Knowledge
- ... extremely intelligent and educated man. He is a master of the liberal arts and a physician. However, as he looks to make important decisions for his life, he turns to black magic as his primary interest. It will, in his opinion, offer him more knowledge, opportunity, and wealth in his ambitious pursuit for wisdom. Despite the harsh warnings of the good angel, he follows the temptations of the devil, as he ...
- 2985: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- ... as evidence that although on the boundary between several distinctive social formations such as nobility, clergy, and commons, Chaucer participates in all three of them. Interacting within these three groups may have influenced Chaucer's interest in individuality. In short, Chaucer's view of humanity produces the whole range of comic and romantic experience, a range so comprehensive as to make a tragedy a mere episode and so inclusive as to ...
- 2986: Bartleby and A Gathering of Old Men
- ... prison fare, that's all" (27). Bartleby's apathy towards his life can be seen in his eating habits. At the end of the short story, Bartleby dies from starvation resulting from his lack of interest in living. In contrast to Bartleby, Candy is very passionate about life. She does everything she can to save Mathu, her friend, including lying to the sheriff: "I killed that son of a bitch," she ...
- 2987: Comparison: Mary Reilly and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- ... following excerpt from the book, "But it is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind; and although I continue to take an interest in him for old sake's sake, as they say, I see and I have seen devilish little of the man." This excerpt said that Dr. Jekyll did indeed, have an unfortunate change of character ...
- 2988: "Master Harold ...And The Boys"
- ... funny about his life. When the owners decided to sell and relocate, Sam and Willie went along. They became workers for the new business, The St. George's Park Tea Room. They have a great interest in ballroom dancing. Sam is teaching Willie what he needs to know to enter the big contest... Works Cited Fugard, Athol. Master Harold ...and the boys. Samuel French, Inc., New York. Copyright 1982.
- 2989: The Influence of God In The Characters of The Scarlet Letter
- ... to the sin is to lie. He stands before Hester and the rest of the town and proceeds to give a moving speech about how it would be in her and the father's best interest for her to reveal the father's name (67). Though he never actually says that he is not the other parent, he implies it by talking of the father in third person (67). Such as ...
- 2990: A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett
- ... that hour of the evening. No amount of thought, that night, could decide how many wished-for treasures the ten dollars, so lightly spoken of, would buy. Even thought she was exited by the hunters interest in her knowledge of the woods and the wildlife that lived there and all the wished-for treasures that she could have, she was still more concerned with the toad and the fact that it ...
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