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- 2391: The Characters in Chaucer's "The Clerks Tale" and "The Wife of Bath Tale"
- ... demanding the favor of her obedience to him, " the marquis bade prepare brooches and rings, all for Griselda, lit with jewels, gold and lapis." (328). The Wife of Bath also demands the favor of her personal satisfaction from others. She demands material treasures and sexual desires from her husbands. " But as I had them eating from my hand and as they yielded me their gold and land, why then take trouble to provide them unless to profit my leisure" (264). She is a very persuasive and controlling woman who seeks personal favors to symbolize obedience. She and Walter both share the quality of demanding favors to bring them happiness and satisfaction in the terms of obedience. Lastly, the two characters demand to test people to see ... I asked of him he¹d do it" (286). By testing, these characters seek to find obedience from any form. They are both the type of characters who demand and seek things for their own personal pleasures and satisfactions. Between the "Clerks Tale" and "The Wife of Baths Tale", both Walter and the Wife of Bath are the most powerful characters who seek obedience through this power. Both characters are ...
- 2392: The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby Is Set Apart From the Common Man
- ... 92) There is even a “Merton College Library, paneled with imported carved English oak and thousands of volumes of books.” (45) There is even a private beach on his property. He also has his own personal hydroplane. Gatsby also drives a highly imaginative, “circus wagon”, car that “everybody had seen. It is a rich cream color with nickel and has a three-noted horn.” (64) It has a “monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes, supper-boxes, tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields and a green leather conservatory.” (64) Amidst Gatsby's possessions, he develops his personal self. His physical self appearance sets him apart form the other characters. His smile is the type “that comes across four or five times in life. One of those rare smiles with a quality of ... that lay their head on his shoulder and he doesn't dance. During his parties he either sits alone or stands on his balcony alone, apart from everyone else. Gatsby even creates himself a false personal history that is unlike anyone else's in order to give him the appearance of having old money. He says that he is the son of a wealthy family in the Middle West, San ...
- 2393: Summary of Aycliffe's The Lost
- ... appealing characters and a different plot. Michael leaves his beloved girlfriend behind at home where he thinks it's safer, her name is Sophie Wandless. This book is made up of a different way of writing, Sophie and Michael exchange information about each others and what's going on by letters, or postcards back and forth. We also learn about the characters from personal journal entries, letters to other people, and letters to them from other people. The evil beings in The Lost are not vampires, but strigoi, free-floating shades of an ancient family of lords. They die ...
- 2394: Sarte's "The Wall": Themes
- ... perspective of the main character's, Pablo Ibbieta, confrontation with death. Pablo Ibbieta is portrayed as a common POW who is forced into a situation where he not only must come to realize his own personal mortality, but must also view and analyze the personal struggle with mortality of two other men, Jean and Tom. All three men are informed by a prison guard that they are going to be executed the next day, and the only thing for them ... form their self- deceiving existence. Following the lines of Descarte's thought, in order for a person to truly exist as a person qua person, one must ponder and come to terms with their own personal existence. I got a A on this paper.
- 2395: Summary of "The Death of Woman Wang" and "The Classic Slum"
- ... China. This book was compiled from three sources. The first is the Local History of T'a-nch'eng, compiled in 1973, it told of the country's history, location and topography. The second is personal memoir's of a scholar named Huang Lia-hung. It told of his life as an official in the mid 1600's. The third was the work of a short story writer named P'u ... and was first published in 1971. Roberts was born in a Salford slum in 1905. His parents owned a corner shop and after school he was an engineer apprentice for seven years, he focused to writing which won him many scholarships and awards, he has two other books called Imprisoned Tongues and A Ragged Schooling. This book depicts life in a slum in Britain in the year 1914 and shows us ...
- 2396: Summary of Rosen's "My Lost World: A Survivor's Tale"
- ... World: A Survivor's Tale" For my presentation on the Holocaust, I chose My Lost World: A Survivor's Tale by Sara Rosen. It was published in 1993. This book is based upon Sara's personal experiences through one of the world's most horrific events ever. Although My Lost World is an account of the Holocaust, it is only one piece of the ghastly puzzle that forms the Jewish Holocaust ... the writer of the family. She wrote letters everyday, and come to find out, only a handful of them were received. At this time, they got only one letter from their father and the boys. Writing seemed to be the only thing that kept their spirits alive. That and the Will of God. Bouncing from ghetto to ghetto, Sara and the remainder of her family were subjected to less and less ...
- 2397: The Catcher in The Rye: Chapter by Chapter Summary
- ... she was young. While Stradlater is shaving, Holden sits next to him and he's turning the tap on and off, as a nervous habit. Stradlater asks Holden to do him a huge favour by writing a composition for him. Holden isn't interested but says that he might do it. They start talkig about Stradlater's date for this evening. After shaving himself twice, he asks if he may use ... decide to go by bus. After some pinball and some hamburgers, they go back to the school. Holden starts to write the composition for Stradlater, about the baseball mitt of Allie, his dead brother. After writing for about an hour on Stradlater's typewriter, he finishes the composition. Chapter 6 --------- Then, Stradlater comes back from his date and thanks Holden for borrowing him his coat. He asks Holden if he has ... club is about to finish his song. It is very crowdy, but after a while Holden gets his table on the back. Then, an old girlfriend of D.B., Holden's older brother who is writing novels in Hollywood, recognizes him and invites him to join her on her date this night. Holden doesn't feel like that and says that he has to go somewhere else. So he has ...
- 2398: With Which Literary Character Do You Most Readily Identify? Why?: Alexei in Dostoevsky's "The Gambler"
- ... so frustrating knowing all these things and not being able to change them, or at least feeling as though you can't change them. In my junior year in high school, I took up a personal crusade against what I called the evil administration at my school. I repeatedly got in trouble for things I deemed acceptable but were still "against the rules." For instance, one morning I decided that I ... Gambler and brought out by the protagonist Alexei, have made me aware that I am not a freak. I'm not the only one feeling the way I do. Alexei's passion's in life- writing, gambling, and Paulina- are similar to my own. I also challenge the social hierarchy in much the same way that he did. As it turns out, people from different ethnic, social, and religious backgrounds are ...
- 2399: An Analysis of the Novel Candide by Voltaire
- ... taken into exaggeration but that is the basis of satire. The conclusions arrived at by Voltaire are valid. He does not have excessive prejudice and his conclusions cannot be invalid because they are thoughts of personal opinion. Voltaire's ideas do not completely follow others'. He is one of the only writers that stepped out and confronted major philisophical issues even if they were hidden within humor. Voltaire's novel Candide ... areas needed to be attacked in a witty and humorous matter. The novel Candide is a well written, funny, to the point book stressing that this is not the best of all possible worlds. The writing is not too difficult to read and is organized in an efficient manner. The book does not die through translation like several other medievil books do. The ideas brought about in the book are important ...
- 2400: All Quiet On the Western Front: Themes
- ... witness bearing testament to his observations. Remarque can use nature as the judge to condemn war, along with shocking imagery, so that his literature remains without a trace of nationalism, political ill will, or even personal feelings. It should be noted that the nature motif is carried consistently throughout the novel, and that it supports many of the author's lesser themes. For the purpose of portraying war as something terrible ... the earth mends itself. All traces of the carnage are erased, and although the war is history for humanity, for nature, the source of life, it has passed. Remarque has then accomplished his goal in writing the novel. His theme of condemning war as a gratuitous act of savagery is fully supported with accurate and shockingly graphic imagery. War being both unnatural and unnecessary (and ultimately, insignificant) is expressed clearly with ...
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