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- 4631: "The Anniversary" and "To His Coy Mistress": The Synchronicity of Pen and Life
- ... Thus, though we cannot make our sun stand still, yet we will make him run," while Donne sees his sun passing him by and acknowledges this motion as inevitable and also essential. What Donne is writing of is a time that is alien to us, as alien as Marvell's ages. We cannot comprehend time unless it is marked by change and yet Donne places his love outside the progression of ...
- 4632: The Canterbury Tales: The Monk
- ... was good to his horses, and had greyhounds as well. His friends were hunters also. The Monk even preached against ideas and traditions that called hunters unholy. The Monk used church money for his own personal use. He had a big home and a stable of horses which was bought with church funds. He also used church money to buy his fine clothing and gold jewelry. It did not fit into ...
- 4633: The Lord of the Flies: A Picture of Our Society Today
- ... disregard for human life is still trying to match the push as thousands still die under the hands of others in civil and international wars, in muggings and robberies, and generally in hatred killings of personal, racial, religious and revenge reasons. The significance of the officer in the final scene is the way he turns a blind eye to the boys and waits for them to pull themselves together. In conclusion ...
- 4634: Candide
- ... author should have dealt more with important matters such as religion instead of focusing on story line. Most of the story is about the journeys of Candide, and Voltaire did not include significant morals upon writing the novel. In Grimm's review, it is also thought that Candide was not meant to be a high quality piece of work, but rather as something enjoyable. It is written in bad taste, yet ...
- 4635: Candide
- ... and not trying to change or overcome obstacles can be damaging. Life is full of struggles, but it would be nonproductive if people passively accepted whatever fate had in store for them, shrugging off their personal responsibility. Voltaire believes that people should not allow themselves to be victims. He sneers at naive, accepting types, informing us that people must work to reach their utopia (Bottiglia 93). In Candide, reality and "the ...
- 4636: Crime and Punishment and The Outsider: Self Discovery
- ... express them. As a result, one man was judged as a social deviant, while the other man suffered psychologically. Through dealing with this strife, Raskolnikov and Meursault gained a better understanding of their values and personal worth. In the beginning both men rejected the fundamental values of society and formed their own ideologies. Raskolnikov, for instance, believed that “we have to correct and direct nature. But for that, there would never ...
- 4637: Candide - All Is Not For The B
- ... and not trying to change or overcome obstacles can be damaging. Life is full of struggles, but it would be nonproductive if people passively accepted whatever fate had in store for them, shrugging off their personal responsibility. Voltaire believes that people should not allow themselves to be victims. He sneers at naive, accepting types, informing us that people must work to reach their utopia (Bottiglia 93). In Candide, reality and "the ...
- 4638: Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennet
- ... s perennial pursuit of the joys in life, those who conform too strictly or not at all to the existing social norms face the danger of never finding their place in life nor ever finding personal happiness. Elizabeth Bennet is a person worthy of our imitation. She is a model because she is different from all the other characters, except Darcy, and because she does not adhere rigidly to the standards ...
- 4639: Norris' "McTeague": Themes
- Norris' "McTeague": Themes McTeague, a novel written at the turn of the century by Frank Norris, is a classic example of naturalist writing. This novel is written with the harsh realities that were this time period. There are many themes that occur in naturalism. Some of them that appear in this novel are greed, lust, strife, as well ...
- 4640: My Antonia: A Review
- ... art. My Antonia is told from the point of view of Willa Cather's fictional friend, Jim Burden. He writes in the first person, and his use of the pronoun "I" makes you feel his personal involvement. The point of view is immediate and subjective. Looking back on his memories, he knows what is eventually going to happen to the characters. He persuades you to sympathize with all of them. His ...
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