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- 1741: "A Raisin In the Sun": An Analysis
- ... of her pride is from the inherited pride she received from her late husband, Big Walter. She has the good old values of putting your family first, respecting your mother, and father, and respecting the Lord. She always talked about how her generation won their freedom and was proud to be able to no longer be thought of as slaves. She never seemed to fully understand the type of pride Walter ...
- 1742: Madame Bovary: The Origin of Emma And Nora
- ... class lip service which he portrayed through Homais in Madame Bovary. In his college years, Flaubert began to despise the middle class even more as he became enthralled in the romantic writings of Hugo, Rousseau, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott. In Madame Bovary, Emma has a certain romantic aspect similar to Flaubert which is a longing for things to be perfect. This perfectionism was arguably an obsession for Flaubert. In ...
- 1743: A Review of "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
- ... hut and a bonfire which they could light if they heard an aircraft approaching. Timothy fishes in the pools and on some days he would even catch lobster. Weeks pass and not a single aeroplane flies over their heads. Timothy catches a fever and his life is in danger. Phillip nurses him back to health but he will never regain his full strength. Timothy realises that he will not be around ...
- 1744: The Scarlet Letter: Chapter by Chapter Review and Analysis
- ... this poor, sinful woman. What really struck me in this chapter was that it showed that God gave Prynne Pearl so that she may be saved by Pearl, if Prynne raises her right in the Lord. (As on page 105 in my pink highlight at the bottom.) I think that if Mr. Dimmesdale didn't say this, that the Governor would be lessening Prynne's punishment by not letting her see ...
- 1745: 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 ...
- 1746: Great Expectations: God's Law vs. Human Law
- ... it is in perfect alignment with the theme under consideration. The interplay between divine and human justice is again alluded to at the convict's final court appearance when he says to the Judge "My Lord, I have received my sentence of Death from the Almighty, but I bow to yours" (272). One can draw from the narrator's own self-revelations as well. In preparation for his first visit to ...
- 1747: Dystopia in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
- ... shown that even with all the technology and the knowledge of the scientists they still haven't figured out a way to completely end pregnancy among the women. Huxley is giving the impression that the Lord is more powerful than all of the technology in the new world. This one mistake that haunts the people of the society is so crucial because births given my females are sins. They are preposterous ...
- 1748: Summary of The Scarlet Pimpernel
- ... He whom was also Marguerite Blakeney brother. Now she has to decided between her brother life and a noble hero life. She unwillingly accept Chauvelin's then without hesitation gives her order to go to Lord Grenville's Ball to find information. There she found that Sir Andrew recieved a secret note. She use many ways just to get a hold of that piece of note without him noticing that she ...
- 1749: Resurrection in A Tale of Two Cities
- ... sort of Messiah. He is giving up his life so that others may enjoy theirs. Just before he is beheaded, the words of Jesus are mentioned; "I am the Resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die"(366). After Carton is beheaded, Darnay and his family escape to England. The ...
- 1750: Religion and Its Effect on Stephen Dedalus
- ... no true feeling or outlet for these feelings. While Stephen eventually turns away from religion, it is an important facet in his development as an artist. Religion, originally one of the "nets" by which he flies, leads to the loss of his naivetι and later to his disillusionment with a conformist society as a whole. Stephen's thoughts are too independent and liberal for his contemporaries, and thus it is inevitable ...
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