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- 2341: Beloved - Internal Conflicts
- ... didn't stop the pleasure they took in her soft 'Thank you.'" Although it was a necessity, Denver was able to break through the fear she had of society and of leaving 124. Her biggest personal weakness was resolved by the conclusion of the book, and she is prepared to enter into a spot in the community and not be excluded because of the actions of her mother and the overshadowing ghost of her baby sister. Sethe's retribution or personal reconciliation, however, was not nearly as smooth or complete as Denver's. Actually, Sethe's reconciliation was not even acheived within the confines of the book. It could very well have been, but the author took a less satisfying route towards the resolution which left a lot of questions concerning Sethe unanswered. In my personal (and humble) opinion, I believe that a much more satisfying ending would have involved Sethe getting rid of the spirit of Beloved on her own. Although, at the time of the "Misery" (the name ...
- 2342: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... family devotion as general traits, fitting Dickens' notions of the ideal woman. Readers fascinated with Dickens' life have traced Lucie's origins to Ellen Ternan, the 18-year-old actress Dickens was infatuated with while writing A Tale. Ellen was blonde, and she shared Lucie's habit of worriedly knitting her brows. Of course, the artist who draws on real life nearly always transforms it into something else, something original. Finally ... of coquetry"; at the very end of the book, making tracks for Lucie's apartment, she strides with "the supple freedom" of a woman who has grown up on the beach. Do you think such "personal" touches make Therese Defarge less terrifying, since she's so clearly human? Or does she seem more nightmarish, because, violent and vengeful, she's one of us? -MONSIEUR DEFARGE Keeper of the wine shop in ...
- 2343: A Shropshire Lad
- ... previous relationship. "The street sounds to the soldier’s tread," similarly whispers the same message. As "a single redcoat turns his head/He turns and looks at me," Housman creates the effect of the transcendentally personal nature of such an impersonal meeting (15 ll. 3-4). Though "leagues apart" (l. 7) and will "meet no more" (l. 10), the speaker and the soldier have an understanding of "thought at heart" (l ... that true love is everlasting and will not allow the lover’s attention to be replaced – in his case from Moses Jackson. "Is my team ploughing" thus stands to represent his ultimate discontent with this personal truth. In context "poetry can give intense personal expression to individuality" and it seems that the persona established by the speaker in XXII is a hope that perhaps the poet will be able to stumble upon such fortune as to find the ...
- 2344: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- ... At the age of five, she taught a chicken to walk backwards. O’Connor attended Georgia State College for women, now Georgia College, in Milledgeville, majoring in sociology. She had showed a gift for satirical writing, as well as cartooning since she was a child. By the end of her undergraduate education, O’Connor knew that writing was her true passion. She spent two years at the prestigious School for Writers at the State University of Iowa on scholarship, receiving a master’s degree of fine arts in 1947 (Candee 318). In ... to use good vs. evil and death to shock and startle her readers into an awareness of the theological truth of faith, the fall, the redemption, and the judgment (Riley 367). Some critics describe her writing as harsh and negative while people in the religious community wanted a happier communication of the faith. O’Connor described her characters as "poor afflicted in both mind and body, with little or at ...
- 2345: A Clockwork Orange
- ... of oppression. He considers it to be a destructive wrong against one’s spiritual existence. His war is against moral oppression and the government causing it. His weapon, a powerful one, is his incredible satiric writing ability. Outside the sphere of violence, critics had praised Anthony Burgess’s use of Nadsat more than any other element of A Clockwork Orange. A Clockwork Orange abandons normal language and is written in ‘Nadsat ... chance to scoff at books, education, and learning. There is also the lack of guilt in Alex for all of his violent acts. Alex steals and kills for no other reason than for his own personal pleasure. He states that he does not steal for the want of money, but for the pleasure it brings him. Though all of these things are definitely different from what the reader may expect, the ...
- 2346: Their Eyes Were Watching God:
- Zora Neale Hurston, in keeping with themes dealing with personal relationships and the female search for self-awareness in Their Eyes Were Watching God , has created a heroine in Janie Crawford. In fact, the female perspective is introduced immediately. "Now, women forget all those things ... grandmother has for her life, because she realizes that her grandmother's antiquated views of women as weaklings in need of male protection even at the expense of a loving relationship, constitute limitations to her personal potential. "She hated her grandmother . . . .Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon " (Their Eyes 85-86). Nevertheless, Janie is not afraid to follow her instincts, even when this means leaving her ... with Tea Cake, and it means so much more, because she has decided to go through with it on her own. Discovering the "two things everybody's got to do fuh theyselves," is Janie's personal victory (Their Eyes 183). "They got tuh go tuh God, and they got to find out about livin' fuh theyselves," are the sentiments shared by Janie once her journey is over (Their Eyes 183). ...
- 2347: Mernissi
- ... did not follow al-Bukhari's example but allowed themselves to be bought for a price and fabricated Hadiths for the politicians. Even Companions of the Prophet fabricated Hadiths in order to promote their own personal views. In the case of the Hadith which states, "Those who entrust their affairs to a woman will never know prosperity", Mernissi argues that this Hadith was never uttered by the Prophet and probably made up for personal reasons of Abu Bakra, who claimed to have heard the Hadith spoken by the Prophet. First, she finds out from research that he must have had an excellent memory because he recalled the Hadith about ... veil, as a division of public life and private life to the veiling of women in Muslim society. On the contrary, I really liked the way she pointed out in chapter seven how Muhammad's personal life and the example he gave went totally against the mistreatment of women and male superiority. She makes a good point in how men were caught by surprise when it came to the dimension ...
- 2348: How Shakespeare And Ibsen Trea
- ... Women Shakespeare s Taming of the Shrew and Ibsen s A Doll s House portray women in many ways. Both authors have strong feelings about women and weren t afraid to express them in their writing. Shakespeare s views about women differed greatly with those of Ibsen s. Both Kate, from Taming of the Shrew, and Nora, from A Doll s House, were mistreated by the men in their lives. Throughout ... In her mind she sees herself as a person with no moral values who isn t allowed to be looked up to. With scenes like this one Ibsen shows the reader that women can have personal problems like men too. Another example of Ibsen showing both sexes to be equal would be at the end of the story. Nora feels that her husband no longer loves her. Ibsen shows the reader ...
- 2349: Hound Of The Baskervilles
- ... Arthur 1) This quote by Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional character of A.C. Doyle, describes not only Sherlock Holmes but also his creator. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an interesting man and his writing were influenced by many things. Specifically, the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, was influenced by Doyles family and his life experiences. The family of A.C. Doyle greatly influenced his novel The Hound of ... the Baskervilles. By having noble and even royal blood flowing through his veins, Doyle was better able to write about the noble Baskerville family. Doyle knew about nobility and he was able to pass this personal quality onto one of his characters. The Baskerville family was a very respected one especially after Sir Charles took control over Baskerville Hall. "Though Sir Charles resided at Baskerville Hall for a camparatively short period ...
- 2350: Historical Roots Of Macondo An
- ... technique, magical realism that is the connection between the fantasy and reality brought that success. The reader does not have to think too hard to enjoy the book. This is the beauty of Third World writing, that it deals with both specific and international issues. Third World and multi-cultural writers are describing, reproducing and addressing a heterogeneous and international (and this is often what passes for post-colonial) readership. Third world is a useful term which makes it possible to talk about this body of writers who deal with issues which are both specific and international. In third world writing the flow is complex, multi directional and always changing, no model on its own can adequately open up the debate on post-colonial literature. The common thread is that they deal with change and continuity ... the written letters". (49) Then Jose Arcadio Buendia decided to build a memory machine but the absolute solution came with Melquiades, the old gypsy. He brought the permanent remedy and whole town s memory back. Writing the names of the objects on piece of paper and pasting them on the objects is a method used against memory lost. The past, values, names, and functions of objects and even feelings were ...
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