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- 4341: Comparison of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and Dali's "The Metamorphosis of Narcissus"
- ... In this case, Narcissus) In the foreground, and the background of the painting tends to be very crisp and detailed, yet unimportant, compared to Narcissus. I feel the same way about Gregor, I see Kafka writing this story with mainly Gregor in mind, as the main character and narrator. Kafka puts this puzzled victim in the story as a clerk, yet that element of the story tends to receded in to ...
- 4342: Contrasting Marlow and Kurtz and the Theme of Evil In "Heart of Darkness"
- ... environment. The darkness, however, can emerge and ultimately destroy the person if not checked by reason. If one's inner darkness does surface, the victim then is given the opportunity to reach a point in personal growth, and to gain a sense of self- knowledge from it. That is, when one's darkness appears, one must learn from this experience how he or she can prevent similar results from occurring in ...
- 4343: Fahrenheit 451
- ... the same, and seemed to have identical personalities. The quote explains this by saying that conformity is the enemy of growth. Therefore, Ray Bradbury wrote this novel exceptionally, and he used many different ways of writing to get his point across. In Conclusion, when one does not choose to live their own life, and they follow the rules set forth by others, neither change nor growth will occur in a person ...
- 4344: Chaucer's "The House of Fame": The Cultural Nature of Fame
- ... her book, The House of Fame: The Poetics of Skeptical Fidelism and believes that The House of Fame is indeed "a sceptical poem". However, Russell is rather extreme in his view, believing that Chaucer is "writing to deconstruct the tyranny of the written word". It is difficult to agree with this view, and although there are elements to suggest this may be the case, one would tend to agree with Delany ...
- 4345: Fahrenheit 451: Change
- ... right way. Montag felt that he should consult Faber, for he "talked the meaning of things." He wanted to know what was in the books. He wanted to see the meaning in the words and writing. Faber's comment on books gave way to a new stream of questions in Montag. Montag began wondering about books. He asked himself, "Are books really that bad? Why are books bad if Faber feels ...
- 4346: An Analysis of Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- ... All Colonial Cathcart cares about is a feather in his cap or a black eye. He does not care how the men feel. He raises the number of missions to impossible highs only for his personal gain. This is perhaps a parallel to Washington D. C., where politicians often have become so caught up in bureaucracies that they forget about their constituents. General Scheisskoph achieves such a high rank only because ...
- 4347: The Themes of Great Gatsby
- ... The eyes of Dr. Eckleburg seem to reinforce the theme that there is no all seeing presence in the modern world. The past is a central importance in the novel, whether it is Gatsbys personal past, his affair with Daisy in 1917, or the larger past to which Nick refers in the closing sentence of the novel: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the ...
- 4348: Fahrenheit 451
- ... evil and are no longer produced. Book companies along with some schools and publishing agencies have been closed due to the ban of books. On page 75 Bradbury tells of the closing of schools by writing, The old man admitted to being a retired English Professor who had been thrown out upon the world forty years ago when the last liberal arts college shut for lack of students and patronage.(pg ...
- 4349: Of Mice and Men: Burdens of Responsibility
- ... is rather macabre that John Steinbeck builds his characters up to their most probable height of achieving their utopia and then kills them or part of them off. But in another perspective this style of writing is quite ingenuitive because the main characters set out with a goal and when they manage to grasp a fragment of it they wither away or die. This is as if their purpose in the ...
- 4350: Book Review of Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squardron
- ... the first-person perspective between Corran and Kirtan Loor. While Corran and the Rogue Squadron are off fighting TIE fighters and Star Destroyers, Kirtan is hunting down information on the squadron and it's pilots. Personal Reaction : I found this book a little hard to read because of the long complicated sentences and the complex words Michael Stackpole chose for his book. I would say the reading level would probably be ...
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