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- 1051: Social Criticism in Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities
- ... inferior and insignificant, as illustrated when he threw a gold coin to the child's devastated father as compensation. The Monsieur the Marquis revealed his true sentiments to his nephew: "Repression is the only lasting philosophy. . . fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip. . ."(Dickens, 123) Dickens makes it abundantly obvious that the aristocrats are to meet doom, with symbolic references to fate and death. For ...
- 1052: A Room of One’s Own: Cranial Spelunking
- ... mind. Then there comes a point where most yield to the unbearable complexity. One tiny three-letter word has been the downfall of many great thinkers. I once heard a story of a fourth year philosophy exam worth 100% of the final mark in the class. The exam consisted of one question, “why?” Many students sat, writing furiously, trying to get all the information down they could, hoping for marks here ...
- 1053: Canterbury Tales: Power Corrupts
- ... Two of the pilgrims, the Clerk and Frere (Friar) demonstrate traits on opposite ends of the spectrum of human nature. The Clerk, wishing to educate himself and others, strove to reach a higher understanding of philosophy. The Friar used his position in the church to take advantage of innocent people for his own benefit. The Clerk was noble and just while the Friar was greedy. The Clerk was an ecclesiastical student ...
- 1054: Chekhov’s “The Bet”: Metamorphosis of the Lawyer
- ... wine. He can be heard crying or talking to himself and gradually stops reading. He writes all night and tears up what he has written the next morning. Eventually, he begins to study different languages, philosophy, and history. He writes a letter to the banker in six different languages. After the tenth year he begins reading the Gospel, followed by Theology and histories of religion. Towards the end of his confinement ...
- 1055: Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver and Swift's Separate Personalities
- ... and travelogue (as Gulliver intends), or as a complex satire on 18th century morals and thought (as Swift intends) In each land Gulliver visits, there is a different ironic comparison to English/European politics and philosophy. Book 1 (Lilliput) is a rich satire of the English politics of Swift's time. The small but extremely immoral Lilliputians represent the Whig party of England, whose viscious foreign policy and accusations of treason ...
- 1056: The Innocence of Oedipus by J. T. Sheppard: Reactions And Emotions Of The Audience
- ... within all men. This brings forth the difference between voluntary and the involuntary crimes. Oedipus is in fact a good man, who was “the unfortunate man who had committed an unintentional crime.” Sheppard states his philosophy of a good man. “Of the best it may be said that they are in a sense ‘good’ since there is nothing ‘shameful’ in their intentional and purposed deed and thought. But even so, they ...
- 1057: Social and Personal Ethics: The Subject of Abortion
- ... bumper sticker that voices the opinion of people who oppose abortion. In the book Social and Personal Ethics, John T. Noonan Jr., a law professor at University of California Berkeley, and Mary Anne Warren, a philosophy professor at San Francisco State University argue their views on the subject of abortion. The main question that these two professors argue over is how to determine the humanity of a being? First, the views ...
- 1058: The Grapes of Wrath
- ... for the family, and later for the whole migrant society. If Casy is a Christ figure then Tom would have to be his disciple. He lives on after Casy to carry on and implement his philosophy. Uncle John Uncle John shows what too much worrying about sin will do to a person. He blames himself for his wives death and is constantly worried about sin. He thinks that he is bringing ...
- 1059: Who Has Seen the Wind: Brian O' Connals' Understanding of Birth and Death
- ... How do rabbits get started?"'(161). Gerald O'Connal explains to Brian that rabbits are similar to plants because the two are started by a planted seed. Rabbits are different from pigeons and Brian's philosophy on birth changes with his growing mind. '"That---oh---that's what the baby rabbit grows from inside the mother rabbit.' Gerald! O'Connal said."(162). Throughout this talk Brian comes to differentiate birth between ...
- 1060: Animal Farm and Russian Revolution Comparison: Highlights, Events, Characters, Themes
- ... the monarchy of the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II. After the monarchy was overthrown, a Provisional government was established with the intent to change the social, economic, and political system to one based on the philosophy of communist socialism as defined by Karl Marx (1 xi-x). This government was soon divided into two fractions. One, the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir llich Lenin, favored establishment of a centralized communist society. The ...
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