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- 2151: Great Expectations 8
- ... concluding that arrangement. It was the only good thing I had done and the only completed things I had done, since I was first apprised of my great expectations."(427) Dickens displays more of a personal view of what Pip sees from everything else with much detail. The story is told chronologically. There are rare moments when it go to flashbacks. Those are the times when Pip reflects on his actions ... It also provides an experience for people to grow and learn about what kind of qualities and morals they cherish and what kind of people they like to spend time with. Dickens s style of writing relates to his theme on infatuation by displaying emotional effects that deal with subtle touches that add more of an effect. Infatuation is therefore a tool to the overall growth and development of a human ...
- 2152: Grapes Of Wrath-the Journey Th
- The Journey Theme in The Grapes of Wrath As a major literary figure since the 1930s, Steinbeck displays in his writing a characteristic respect for the poor and oppressed. In many of his novels, his characters show signs of a quiet dignity and courage for which Steinbeck has a great admiration. For instance, in The Grapes ... internally. Physical journeys are the primary focus of The Grapes of Wrath when interpreting the work on the literal level. When examining the internal journeys such as Jim Casy s religious enlightenment and Tom s personal development one can easily notice even more common archetypes. To help understand a third and perhaps deepest level of reading, the reader can apply a mathematical idea, the Fractal Idea of Sameness, which states that ...
- 2153: Grapes Of Wrath And Jim Casy
- ... describes a time of unfair poverty, unity, and the human spirit in the classic, The Grapes of Wrath. The novel tells of real, diverse characters who experience growth through turmoil and hardship. Jim Casy- a personal favorite character- is an ex-preacher that meets up with a former worshiper, Tom Joad. Casy continues a relationship with Tom and the rest of the Joads as they embark on a journey to California ... a soul of his own, but on'y a piece of a big one. ... I'll be ever'where-wherever you look." Casy was a Christ-like, unprovincial, and harmonious man albeit he still had personal conflicts. Although Jim Casy has always seemingly been a man of God and Jesus, he battles with his faith throughout The Grapes of Wrath. He feels like he is contending with the very ideals he ... as any man got a right to say." A hedonistic moral code that tells of pleasure before rules and presumes to deny punishment is highly unusual for a one-time preacher. Casy struggled with his personal inner faith, and also his actions and speeches that defied what a regular man of the faith would do. The inner being of Jim Casy was evolving and furthermore conflicting when he metamorphisized from ...
- 2154: Gilgamesh 3
- ... clay tablet. What we are reading, then, is the transcription of an oral telling that repeats a written telling. On the one hand the frame helps verisimilitude. By referring to Gilgamesh's own act of writing, the narrator attempts to convince us that Gilgamesh was an actual king and that the story that follows is a true story. On the other hand, by calling our attention to the act of telling ... the country where the cedar is felled," he tells Enkidu. "I will set up my name in the place where the names of famous men are written". Thus Gilgamesh turns his attention away from small personal desires to loftier personaldesires -- desires that benefit rather than harm Uruk. We remember from the prologue that the walls of the city, made from the cedar taken from the forest, still stand in actuality or ...
- 2155: Gentlemen Of The Night
- ... me and then apply to it what intellectual and critical forces I possess..."There is also conveyed what the poet himself described as his "individual struggle from darkness towards some measure of light." This intensely personal quest is balanced, in his writing, by a dedication to the formalities and musicality of poetry unusual in twentieth-century verse. Both poems possess intellectual, critical and emotional forces that have been harnessed to achieve a desired result, yet they are ...
- 2156: Gatsby S Sacrifice
- ... his Father's business" when he carefully sketched out a schedule for self improvement on the back of his "Hopalong Cassidy" book. He had already realized what his dream was and had created his own personal religion, which was one of romantic ideals: wealth, youth, and beauty. Gatsby, "a son of God," strived to obtain the "vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty," and to incarnate these ideals with reality. Like Jesus Christ ... It was three years before he would write The Great Gatsby. In the years preceding this incident, he would often visit with a priest by the name of John Barron to talk about "Fitzgerald's writing as well as other literary and religious matters" (Allen, 91). Barron noticed his "spiritual instability," and "his natural response to Fitzgerald's iconoclasms was a quiet "Scott, quit being a damn fool'" (Allen, 92). Fitzgerald ...
- 2157: Mrs Dalloway
- While writing and revising Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf was corresponding with E.M. Forster, who was working on A Passage to India. In September of 1921, she records in her diary: ``A letter from Morgan [Forster] this ... somewhat silly-looking. As the clock strikes three, the sound seems irritating to Clarissa, but not dangerous: ``The sound of Big Ben flooded Clarissa's drawing-room, where she sat, ever so annoyed, at her writing-table; worried; annoyed'' (117). We eventually see Clarissa subvert Big Ben's bullying rhythm, as if his rules don't apply to her: But here the other clock, the clock which always struck two minutes ... Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1925. --.The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume Two, 1920-1924. Ed. Anne Oliver Bell. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. While writing and revising Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf was corresponding with E.M. Forster, who was working on A Passage to India. In September of 1921, she records in her diary: ``A letter from Morgan [Forster] ...
- 2158: Philosophy - The Only Truth Ex
- ... should conclude that our existence is a truth, and may be the only truth, that we should find its certainty. From the "natural" experiences of our being, we hold beliefs that we find are our personal truths. From these experiences, we have learned to understand life with reason and logic; we have established our idea of reality; and we believe that true perceptions are what we sense and see. But it is our sense of reason and logic, our idea of reality, and our perceptions, that may likely to be very wrong. Subjectiveness, or personal belief, is almost always, liable for self-contradiction. Besides the established truth that we exist, there are no other truths that are certain, for the fact that subjective truth may be easily refuted. Every person ... the existence for its use. Our experiences from our "natural" existence gives us a bias of all that is true, which is self-contradicting. The ideas and objects that we encounter are determined true by personal evaluation in the relationships of those ideas and objects in connection with our being. The relationship of the ideas and objects in connection with another persons life may be contradicting to my own ...
- 2159: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... been depicted as a leading figure in American thought and literature, or at least ranks up there with the very best. But there is so much more to Ralph Waldo Emerson when we consider the personal hardships that he had to endure during the course of his life and when we see the type of man that he becomes. He certainly was a man of inspiration who knew how to express himself by writing the best of poems and philosophical ideas with inspiration. To get an idea of how Ralph Waldo Emerson might have become such an inspiration to the people, some background on his life is essential. Can ...
- 2160: The Daughter Of Time By Joseph
- ... view Richard in different ways. It is from these different views of the same man, that one can draw the conclusion that bias plays a major role in the validity and credibility of documents and personal accounts. So what is the role and in what ways does the truth come out through time? As historians we must look at what it is that we are reading. In saying this it means ... a historian it is important to realize that some facets of history are written with a biased opinion and it is our job to realize which ones can be credited and which ones cant. Personal accounts and documents are often overlooked or considered unbelievable because they cannot be considered valid due to the bias opinions of the writer. As historians many find this discouraging because they have no account of ... effect on the truth. For example in everyday life when a poor child says No, I did not steal it, and then another child, a rich child of higher status, says yes, he did, the personal bias that you feel can have an effect on who you want to believe. This in turn hinders the truth from being told. history has a way of repeating itself, and if one can ...
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