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- 1251: All The Kings Men- The Spider
- ... of Jack and Cass. Only at the end, after the culmination of every one, do his actions come back and bite him in the rear. Willie, up until his death had gotten away with this philosophy, "Goodness You got to make it Doc And you got to make it out of badness Because there isn't anything else to make it out of."(257) With this motto essentially everything he does ...
- 1252: Antitranscendentalism In Melvi
- ... human people have a capacity for evil and that, given the proper circumstances, the evil in anyone would come forth in their actions. The plot and characters of Moby Dick contribute to its anti-Transcendental philosophy; the entire story revolves around the evil of man, which is demonstrated in practically each person portrayed in the book. The story itself is about man being pitted against nature, as though the two were ...
- 1253: Death Of A Salesman - Characte
- ... own sons who stripped him of hope. The most obvious flaw in society is greed, the desire to get ahead of the next guy. This malady is present on a national level. It is the philosophy of business and comprises the dreams of man. Sometimes, this can drive man to great things, sometimes it can drive a man to ruin. Willy was driven to the latter. (Not his own greed for ...
- 1254: Catcher In The Rye - Holden An
- ... as much impact on him as certain members of his immediate family. The ways Holden acts around or reacts to the various members of his family give the reader a direct view of Holden’s philosophy surrounding each member. How do Holden’s different opinions of his family compare and do his views constitute enough merit to be deemed truth? Holden makes reference to the word "phony" forty-four separate times ...
- 1255: Beowulf
- ... death left the Anglo-Saxon people without respect for other lives, evident in the amount of fighting in Beowulf, and also an inner gloom, “evident in the somber tone of Beowulf,” (from the text). Recently, philosophy has broken away from the more religious idea of destiny and moved toward a more logical aproach to life. Obviously, death is still inevitable, but logically, the future should be altered with each decision. Man ...
- 1256: Beat Movement
- The "Beat Movement" in modern literature has become an important period in the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating influences such as jazz, art, literature, philosophy and religion, the beat writers created a new and prophetic vision of modern life and changed the way a generation of people sees the world. That generation is mow aging and its representative voices are ...
- 1257: A Streetcar Named Desire - Sym
- ... men are took in by this Hollywood glamour stuff and some men are not" (Williams 114). Stanley never believes Stella’s act (i.e. her "Hollywood glamour") he only likes the truth. This difference of philosophy creates much tension between the two. The climax of the tension between them is in the seventh scene. While Stanley is revealing to Stella Blanche’s promiscuous life, Blanche is singing the following song: "Say ...
- 1258: Alice Walker
- ... Walker has also published two volumes of short stories, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973) and You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1981), both of which evidence her womanist philosophy. Overall Alice Walker has been a very influential author throughout the black community, and her audiences are very much interracial. Although many of the criticisms are controversial on her view of black men and their ...
- 1259: Frankenstine
- ... but he loved her very dearly, making sure to always write her when ever he had the chance. Yet, when Victor left something strange came over him. Already being interested in subjects such as natural philosophy and chemistry, he fall upon the question of how to bring someone back to life. He became very involved in this project and worked on it for days on end. The project had to do ...
- 1260: Stephen Crane
- ... uncompromising realism” which lead to many others, such as Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser, to follow in his footsteps Parra 8 (Peden, 150). Martin Seymour-Smith points out, “Regardless of whether naturalism is a ‘true’ philosophy or not, Crane gave an unforgettable account of one poor creature whose life was quickly snuffed out by her environment”(38). In Maggie, the only way out of the harsh realities was her illusions and ...
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