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- 1021: Guilt and How It Is Handled
- ... time but Dimmesdale still feels guilty, and since time has passed can not face the truth. A situation that creates guilt can also illustrate how people deal with difficulty. Guilt does not only appear in literature, but also in daily life. A famous case is the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Whether he committed the crime or not, O.J. has shown no signs of guilt. This can be interpreted as ...
- 1022: An Analysis of The Glass Menagerie
- An Analysis of The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie is a play that is very important to modern literature. Tennessee Williams describes four separate characters, their dreams, and the harsh realities they faced in the modern world. His setting is in St. Louis during the Depression-Era. The story is about a loving family ...
- 1023: Fahrenheit 451: Books - A Part of Our Past
- ... television show you watch or by what movies you watch, you could be watching it because of the cute person who is in it. Our lives would be very dull without books and without the literature of the past. It will probably always be that television will be more dominant in the home unless people rediscover the treasure in the books that are in their own home or in the library ...
- 1024: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences on Huckleberry Finn
- ... the other members, he resigns from the gang. Another person who tries to get Huckleberry Finn to change is Pap, Huck's father. Pap is one of the most astonishing figures in all of American literature as he is completely antisocial and wishes to undo all of the civilizing effects that the Widow and Miss Watson have attempted to instill in Huck. Pap is a mess: he is unshaven; his hair ...
- 1025: The Canterbury Tales: Wife of Bath
- ... the tradition of her times with her brashness and desire for control to present a woman's point of view and to evoke some sympathy for her. In the author's time, much of the literature was devoted to validating the frailties of women. However, in this story, the Wife is a woman who has outlived four of five husbands for of five housbodes scoleying (P50) is she. She holds not ...
- 1026: Cry, the Beloved Country: Stimulating a Change
- ... that runs rampant throughout the community. WORKS CITED Alexander, Peter. "Man and manifesto." Times Higher Education Supplement, August, 1994, 15-16. Hogan, Patrick C. "Paternalism, Ideology, and Ideological Critique: Teaching Cry, The Beloved Country." College Literature, October, 1992, 206. Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country. New York: Collier, 1987.
- 1027: Bolt's "A Man For All Seasons": Reasons for A Person's Actions
- ... one's actions can only be gained by seeing and understanding the actions of others through a different point of view. By understanding someone else, one is enabled to compare himself/herself to that person. Literature facilitates this by giving the reader an omniscient view of the characters' actions. These characters may often be archetypes of extreme behavior, as in A Man for All Seasons. These characters allow the reader to ...
- 1028: Animal Farm
- ... and author's vision Blair wanted something that may never happen. Equality and free government, a government run by the local people, world freedom and other such dreams. He expresses his immense emotion in his literature. He wanted probably what every one wants but he is one of the few who speak up about it. If we all had his inhibition this might have been accomplished, but it's our own ...
- 1029: Great Expectations: Injustices and Poor Conditions Committed On Women and Children
- Great Expectations: Injustices and Poor Conditions Committed On Women and Children Great Expectations, authored by Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, is considered one of his finest works of literature. It was indicative of Dickens's strong feelings for injustices and poor conditions committed on women and children of that time. Through the main character, Pip, Dickens's demonstrated the compassion he felt for children ...
- 1030: Great Expectations: Symbolism
- ... Expectations: Symbolism In life, symbolism is present all around us. Whether it is in the clothes we wear, the things we do, or what we buy, everything has a meaning. Symbolism is also present in literature and it is shown in Charles Dickens Great Expectations. The symbols of isolation, manipulation, the tragic hero, and wanting to be someone else are seen throughout the book through the characters of Estella, Magwitch, Miss ...
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