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- 2741: A Scarlet Letter: Honesty Heals a Guilty Heart
- ... not every person has the ability to address the concept of sin and also display it in a way that causes others to look at their lives through critical eyes. Nathaniel Hawthorne was successful in writing a novel that accentuated sin and guilt interchangeably, while revealing to the readers the consequences of living with sin as a guideline. The Scarlet Letter is a masterpiece that Hawthorne based upon a scarlet letter ... the Reverend’s head prevented him from seeing that the trusted physician was actually a demon who had taken the form of a man. Roger Chillingworth used this deceitfulness to gain information about Dimmesdale’s personal life. This is another example that proves that Hester’s life was more ethical than Chillingworth’s. In conclusion, Hester Prynne proved that she was more trustworthy than Chillingworth when she was honest to herself ...
- 2742: The Great Gatsby: Death of the American Dream
- ... New York. After he was dismissed in 1908, when his son was twelve, the family returned to St. Paul and lived comfortably on Mollie Fitzgerald's inheritance. Fitzgerald attended the St. Paul Academy; his first writing to appear in print was a detective story in the school newspaper when he was thirteen. From St. Paul Academy Fitzgerald went on to a higher education at Princeton University. At Princeton, Fitzgerald neglected his ... at his parties, he asks around casually if anyone knows her. Later, after meeting Nick, Gatsby pursues his dream of meeting Daisy again by having Nick set up a meeting between the two. Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they want. Yet, his dream, just like the American Dream, is distorted by the need for money and the desire of ...
- 2743: The Great Gatsby
- ... 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 ...
- 2744: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie Crawford
- ... prejudices. As Alice Walker once wrote, "There is enough self-love in that one book &mdash love of community, culture, traditions &mdash to restore a world." 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). ...
- 2745: Materialism and The Great Gatsby
- ... all the things that businesses are trying to sell and it is this desire for material possessions that drives our economy. While this type of economy has given us great opportunities to further our own personal wealth, it has also put many people on the path to making ours a selfish and unhappy society that is never content with it already has. The market society of our country feeds on economic ... in general. The Depression that followed the 1920’s was an agonizing economic time for the American people but it had the positive effect of forcing people to reexamine their focus on material possessions and personal wealth to what was good for the country as a whole. Jay Gatsby’s idea of the American Dream and his error of thinking that money can buy his happiness (and Daisy) represent the deficiencies ... upon material rather than intellectual or spiritual things”. While Jay Gatsby and many Americans believe that material wealth and possessions are the way to buy their happiness, it is our hopes and dreams and having personal goals and standards that give life its purpose and meaning. The corruption of the American Dream by materialism is almost inevitable because reality rarely turns out same as our dreams perceive it to be. ...
- 2746: The Right Stuff
- ... and non-technical aspects. The pilots and their "right" stuff find themselves in many dilemmas. To keep the book interesting, Tom Wolfe uses three things to maintain the reader's interest. Tom Wolfe uses detailed writing, intertwining plots, and his ability to describe action to keep the reader interested. Tom Wolfe uses a very detailed writing style. Although the sentences he writes are full of details, they are spread out throughout paragraphs so that the reader does not feel bogged down by the thousands of infinitesimal technical speculations. An example of ... at Edwards like any other pilot in the X series." This sentence shows many technical aspects about the craft. The sentence did not seem overloaded with details because they are spaced out. Tom Wolfe’s writing helps the reader better understand the technical aspects. Another device used to keep the reader's attention was the intertwining plots. In the first part of the book, the life of a typical pilot ...
- 2747: The Yellow Wallpaper: The View from the Inside
- ... therapeutic treatment of her aliments during the late 1800s. The story begins with a young woman and her husband traveling to the country for the summer and for the healing powers of being away from writing which just seems to worsen her condition. Upon reading this intense description of an almost prison like prescription for overcoming "temporary nervous depression" the reader is permeated with the idea the men are nothing more ... to the realization that control over her life is ultimately her responsibility, a reader, who often times is 'controlled' by a story, must come to the realization that a work of literature only becomes a personal experience when he/she finally determines his/her interpretation or 'control' over the story. It is this realization of control or the reader's interpretation that is the final block that gives the building that ...
- 2748: Social Criticism in Literature, As Found in George Orwell's Animal Farm and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
- "Social Criticism in Literature, As Found in George Orwell's Animal Farm and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities." Many authors receive their inspiration for writing their literature from outside sources. The idea for a story could come from family, personal experiences, history, or even their own creativity. For authors that choose to write a book based on historical events, the inspiration might come from their particular viewpoint on the event that they want to dramatize ...
- 2749: The Atomic Bomb and its Effects on Post-World War II
- ... Like I was saying, Group Captain, fluoridation of water is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face . . . They pollute our precious bodily fluids! (George 97)And General Rippers personal prevention of the contamination of his bodily fluids is equally perplexing. He drinks only " . . . distilled water, or rain water, and only grain alcohol . . ." Kubrick uses this kind of absurd reasoning in his movie to show ... from reaching its destination and for numerous other protests against the facility (Miles 474). From these experiences came two poems "Nagasaki Days" and " Plutonium Ode". Both these poems exhibit Ginsberg's more mature style of writing (Miles 475). The poems are more scholarly, containing many mythological and religious allusions. But both these characteristics show how post war apocalyptic literature had evolved. By the Seventies many writers, instead of taking the defeatist ...
- 2750: Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts & The 60s: Years of Hope - Comparison
- ... Collier and David Horowitz's Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties and the introduction to Todd Gitlin's The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage both try to explain the authors' reasons for writing their books. Both books, based on nostalgia, deal with the good and the bad which have come out of the sixties. However, while Collier and Horowitz describe the sixties more as a time of destruction ... to its roots" (Gitlin 2), the other authors described the generation as a "scouting party for a new world" (Collier and Horowitz 14). Another thing the authors appear to agree upon is their reason for writing their books. They all view the sixties as an important part of the past and want to teach others about their experiences during this time. Collier and Horowitz even stress that the sixties are, in ... Eighties" (P.15). However, Gitlin just states that he wants to express the spirit of the sixties without the dreamlike qualities affixed to it at that time (P.4). Nevertheless, despite their similar reasons for writing about the sixties, the three authors give very different viewpoints on what they saw occurring during that time. Their differences are important though, because it is through these differences that the reader is able ...
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