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- 1721: Warriors Dont Cry: Integration In Little Rock's Central High School
- ... did not give up, even though she thought about killing herself,(pg.160). Her grandma was the one who kept her going. Shed always remind Melba that she was on the battlefield for the Lord(pg.161). I think Melba used this theme in her book because without this encouragement, she wouldnt be alive today. Melba fought on the battlefield and won. We are all warriors on the battlefield ...
- 1722: The Scarlet Letter: The False Qualities of Life
- ... Gross stated, "Dimmesdale must struggle to make himself a fit receptacle for God's grace before his "A" can be purged" (338). Dimmesdale himself gave us a glimpse into his personal sufferings, by asking the Lord to ease the hell in which he lived daily. He begged God for his help and forgiveness by staring skyward at the heavens and saying, "O Thou to whom I dare not lift mine eyes ...
- 1723: Alex's Analysis of Any Abject Abuse
- ... mighty contest s" that rise from "trivial things" (1-2) -- hardly the lofty and weighty subjects of epic poetry -- and names his Muse "Caryll" (3) for his friend John Caryll, the relative of the young lord who stole the lock of hair from Arabella Fermor -- not the proper sort of Muse for epic poetry. By way of mythological spirits hovering over earthly concerns, Pope gives us sylphs that are really the ...
- 1724: Critical Essay on Billy Budd
- ... led them to murder were beyond their control; they had been stranded at sea and forced to kill and eat their fourth companion, who had fallen ill and was about to die anyway. The Judge, Lord Coleridge, found them guilty because "law cannot follow nature's principle of self-preservation." In other words, necessity is not a justification for killing, even when this necessity is beyond human control. Since Billy is ...
- 1725: Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview
- ... him, and He will say: You are swine, made in the image of the Beast, with his seal upon you, but you, too come unto me!' And the wise and the clever will cry out: Lord! why dost thou receive these men ?' And he will say: I receive them, O wise and clever ones, because not one among them considers himself worthy of this. (Dostoyevsky 33) Through Marmeladov's drunken rambling ...
- 1726: Animal Farm: Utopia
- ... only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plow, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. (p.19) This speech gets all the animals riled up and sends the toughts of getting rid of man. Old Major then teaches them the song the Beasts of England which ...
- 1727: Their Eyes Were Watching God: An Epic Search
- ... adopted white man's values and forces them upon the townspeople and, most notably, upon his wife Janie. Hurston points out the irony of Joe's dilemma: "Starks is able to 'set himself up as lord, master, and proprietor' everywhere in Eatonville, and not just in his general store. His power in Eatonville approximates the white man's almost total institutional control of America" (27-28). This relationship was just another ...
- 1728: A Critical Analysis of Herman Melville's Moby Dick
- ... the rejected one. In the Bible (Gen:16) an angel speaks to Ishmael's mother Hagar saying; Behold, you are with a child and shall bear a son; you shall call him Ishmael; because the Lord has given heed to your affliction. He shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against every man and every mans' hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsman ...
- 1729: The Grapes of Wrath: Symbolic Characters
- ... forgive them, for they knew not what they were doing. In this novel, even the title is a Christian allusion. The title is "a direct Christian allusion, suggesting the glory of the coming of the Lord" (Shockley, 90). Looking at the main character of the story, Tom Joad, even more Christian symbolism is seen. Tom Joad is almost a direct fit for the story of the "prodigal son" from the bible ...
- 1730: The Allegory of the Cave: Turn Around
- The Allegory of the Cave: Turn Around Putting the Allegory of the Cave into my own words seems comparable to the Christian idea of using the lord's name in vain. First, I'd like to introduce a phenomenon I have observed throughout my life time. I call it soul resonance. Bear with me here. When two objects emit sympathetic vibrations, the ...
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