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- 4521: Hedda Gabler
- ... indifference is a trait that is usually common to men: Tesman - "My old morning shoes. My slippers look!...I missed them dreadfully. Now you should see them, Hedda." Hedda - "No thanks, it really doesn't interest me'. In another gender role reversal, Hedda displays a financial awareness, which her husband, Jorgen does not posses. Although Brack corresponds with Tesman about his honeymoon travels, he corresponds with Hedda concerning the financial matters ...
- 4522: Heart Of Darkness - Ignorance And Racism
- ... indifference of unhappy savages" (Conrad 19). Achebe, also, detected Conrad's frequent use of unorthodox name calling, "Certainly Conrad had a problem with niggers. His in ordinate love of that word itself should be of interest to psychoanalysts" (Achebe 258). Conrad uses Marlow, the main character in the book, as a narrator so he himself can enter the story and tell it through his own philosophical mind. Conrad used "double speak ...
- 4523: Hard Times
- ... a poor girl trapped in the middle. Both her father and brother push her to marry Bounderby. She only does this to make them happy, but we see throughout the book that she has an interest in the fancy side of life. Sissy Jupe and Stephen Blackpool represent the lower class. Sissy Jupe is orphaned at the beginning. Blackpool is a worker for Bounderby. Both are very uneducated, but very compassionate ...
- 4524: Hans Christian Andersen
- ... novel is the women activists of the 1960's and 1970's. This group, in which Offred's mother would be a member, is sensitive to the censorship that women once faced and would show interest to the "possible future" that could result. Offred is symbolic of "every woman". She was conventional in prior times, married with one daughter, a husband and a career. She is ambivalent to many things that ...
- 4525: H.G. Wells
- ... a drapeist. In 1883 Wells became a teacher/pupil at Midhurst Grammar Scool. He obtained a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London and studied there biology under T.H. Huxley. However, his interest faltered and in 1887 he left without a degree. He taught in private schools for four years, not taking his B.S. degree until 1890. Next year he settled in London, married his cousin Isabel ...
- 4526: H.G. Wells
- ... to be another bizarre journey of Gulliver, no more unusual than his other travels. However, upon further inspection, we see that Book IV criticizes the nature of man as a rational being (Crane, 402). Of interest to the readers of today is Swift's choice of creatures inhabiting this land; a barbaric, man-like creature dubbed the Yahoo, and the civilized, good-natured horse-like creature, the Houyhnhnms. R.S. Crane ...
- 4527: Green Grass Running Water
- ... and leads to his "third mistake," taking a job at "Bill Bursum's Home Entertainment Barn." By simply taking a job at a store that advertises the exploitation of anything that might be of public interest, Lionel is unknowingly denying a part of his culture. The Sun Dance does not allow any form of recording devices or cameras. It is not until Lionel runs into "four old Indians" who are "trying ...
- 4528: Great Gatsby
- ... respectable. "The 'gestures' of course include the clipped speech, the 'old sports', the formal intensity of manner, the gracefulness of the ballroom floor, the bending slightly forward to create the impression of an intensity of interest, the meticulous attention to detail--these and many more 'gestures' compliment the personage of Gatsby" (Lehan 58-59). By pretending that he is an honest, endowed English college graduate, Gatsby almost perfectly creates the illusion ...
- 4529: Great Gatsby
- ... Gatsby cannot accept that the past is gone and done with. He is sure that he can capture his dream with wealth and influence. He believes that he acted for a good beyond his personal interest that should guarantee success. Nick attempts to show Jay the folly of his dream, but Gatsby innocently replies to Nick's assertion that the past cannot be relived by saying, "Yes you can, old sport ...
- 4530: Great Expectations - The Book Verses The Movie
- ... later found as the daughter of Abel Magwitch and Molly, a woman who stood trail for a murder she did not commit and was acquitted of. Molly thought it would be in Estella's best interest to have Mrs. Havisham adopt her when she was born because she didn't feel she could provide for her as Miss Havisham could. Estella was very beautiful and brought up to break men's ...
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