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- 2641: To Kill A Mockingbird: A Summary
- ... Pulitzer prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award winning film. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American Literature. There are so many characters in this book that I can't name all of them. Here are most of the characters. The Finch family contains of Atticus (The head of the household), Aunt Alexandra ...
- 2642: 1984: Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- ... serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it" ("George Orwell"). George Orwell has been a major contributor to anticommunist literature around the World War II period. Orwell lived in England during World War II, a time when the totalitarianism state, Nazi Germany, was at war with England and destroyed the city of London. " I know ...
- 2643: Feminism in Jane Eyre
- ... them, and though their progression may not have been as vivid as the women of the 70's, they did have an effect. Feminism was not outright spoken of in this time, rather passed through literature, such as this very novel. Stories and novels were the primary means in which to communicate information and ideas in that time. Without mass communication systems books were the few information carrying devices to cross ...
- 2644: The Scarlet Letter: The False Qualities of Life
- ... play the role they have chosen for themselves" (Bookshelf 95). From Hollywood movie stars to professional athletes, people have and will continue to lead false lives, under the public spotlight, concealing their personal travails. In literature, the preceding statement has held true numerous times, in works such as Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Minister and respected citizen, Arthur Dimmesdale, was perceived as an upstanding member of the community who preached ...
- 2645: 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 ...
- 2646: 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 ...
- 2647: 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 ...
- 2648: 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.
- 2649: 1984: The Control of Reality for Control of the Masses
- ... has never existed - he is an Unperson. This process of continuous alteration is applied not only to newspapers, but also to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs- to every kind of literature or documentation which might hold any political or ideological significance. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence. All speeches, statistics and records of every kind must be ...
- 2650: Comparison of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and Dali's "The Metamorphosis of Narcissus"
- ... began to progress, and both are symbolic of surrealism because they make the audience develop their own interpretation of the work. According to the Random House College Dictionary, Surrealism is a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects... I find that Kafka's surrealistic style, although descriptive, is more ...
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