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- 1071: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- ... a reflection of her intimate relationships, it is assumed that her husband played the role of Victor the romantic hero in her novel. This theory is opposed when it is also presumed that "Victor" is Lord Byron. Both these men had the habit of continual posing although one won her love and the other irritated her yet captivated her. With her husband, Shelley shared the tragic losses of their children, leaving ...
- 1072: Salamandastron
- ... ages. The mountain stands on the seashore, a fired sentinel guarding the coast against cruel searat invasions. Nevertheless, when Fherago the Assassin comes from inland and decides to take over the mountain, it’s all Lord Urthstripe the Strong and his fighting hares can do to stay alive. It's also no comfort to Urthstripe that Mara, a young badger maid he adopted, has run off several times to see her ...
- 1073: Prophecy in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
- ... provocative example of this is the discussion between Montag, his wife, and her friends. Mrs. Phelps, when asked by Montag how her children are, abruptly answers saying "No one in his right mind, the good lord knows, would have children!" (104) Mrs.Bowles, a mother of two, has an answer for Mrs. Phelps. However, with her response, Bradbury effectively conveys the cold uncompassionate and selfish morals in which Montag's world ...
- 1074: Summary of Walden Pond
- ... fisher until he has the knowledge of nature and leaves the gun and the fishing pole behind. Thoreau believes that hunting is a stage of man's development. According to Thoreau every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a pretty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self- respect. They love the ...
- 1075: The Worn Path of Life
- ... her a piece of cake. After realizing there is no cake, she pulls herself up and proceeds to crawl under a barbed-wire fence into a withered cotton field. She greets a buzzard, thanks the Lord this is not the season for bulls, and heads through the maze of a dried-up corn field. A black-clothed scarecrow looms from the shadows and she laughs away her fear as she reaches ...
- 1076: Thomas More’s Utopia
- ... knighted shortly after that. Two years later he was made Speaker of the House of commons. He and king Henry VIII would end up becoming better friends. After Cardinal Wolsey’s fail, More was made lord chancellor in 1529-the first time that the office had been held by a layman. However, all his luck would soon change (Comptons Encyclopedia 582). By then King Henry had grown tired of his marriage ...
- 1077: Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales
- ... love for God never ended so he was saved. That story, written hundreds of years ago, is still relevant today. Those who believe in God will have eternal life and will be saved by the Lord. There will always be people trying to pressure others into believing what they do. “The Cook’s Tale” explains how stealing, lusting, and gambling are evil and will get you nowhere in life. These morals ...
- 1078: Gimpel the Fool: Golde vs. Elka
- ... partner passed away. “… I’m a widower now. My Golde, God rest her, is dead. She was a simple soul, subtle you couldn’t call her; but you wouldn’t find a greater saint anywhere…Lord knows she went through enough for them[her daughters]. In fact, they may be the reason she’s there now, because she couldn’t stand their being scattered from east of the sun to west ...
- 1079: The Industrial Revolution
- ... work I was beaten. The work was very dusty. The dust got on my lungs. My health got so bad that my bones became deformed." The greatest reformer during this time was a man named Lord Shaftsbury. He spent all his life trying to help working women and children. On February 7, 1883 Shaftsbury had the Factory Act passed. The Act stated, Children under nine years old could not work. Children ...
- 1080: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... we would none of us do such things again on such grounds for the whole world, praying you to accept this in satisfaction of our offense; and that you would bless the inheritance of the Lord, that He may be entreated for the land."17 In 1710 the government cleared the names of all but five of those who had been executed. During the next 40 to 50 years, families of ...
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