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- 1701: Native Son: Character Actions Defines Their Individual Personalities and Belief Systems
- ... segregation of various social groups such as the communists. In contrast, Jan and Max's efforts to save Bigger stem from a struggle for equality. They too feel the constraints of oppression, but have a philosophy and social position with which to rebel. Themes Frustration and hopelessness develop as major themes of the story. When Bigger and his friend Gus watch a sky writing plane, Bigger expresses frustration in his statement ...
- 1702: Death of A Salesman
- ... 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 ...
- 1703: Catcher in the Rye: Caulfield's Lifesytle Reflects Existentialism
- ... within him an Existentialist that refuses to accept weakness but holds sympathy for the weak and vulnerable. The basis for these beliefs lies within the most commonly identifiable theme of existentialism, which states that the philosophy stresses the concrete individual existence along with the individual freedom and choice. It also stands on the idea of moral individualism, in which one must choose his own way without the aid of universal, objective ...
- 1704: Uncle Tom's Cabin: An Analysis
- ... to clean hemp the employer congratulates not George, but George's master for owning such a fine slave. Another example that effectively illustrates the strong contradictions and absurdities of slavery and slave owners is the philosophy of Haley concerning the proper treatment of slaves. Haley, whose practice is to buy and sell people asserts that, its always best to do the humane thing, (Stowe 16) and that it is good to ...
- 1705: The Invisible Man: Summary
- ... that Jack only has one eye, this is symbolic of his realization that the people who head the organization are essentially blind to the real needs of the community. They are more interested in arguing philosophy than really doing what is right. In essence, they are like the one-eyed men that the narrator spoke of in his first speech for the Brotherhood. Becoming further disillusioned, he decides to go visit ...
- 1706: An Analysis of Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five"
- ... it cannot be stopped. Billy, by accepting the Tralfamadorian view, frees himself from the guilt which one feels when one is locked in time and responsible for one's actions. Billy Pilgrim grasps the Tralfamadorian philosophy and insists the Tralfamadorian world exists because it eliminates the "Why me?" question. Guilt is a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime wrong ;a feeling of culpability. For example if one steals ...
- 1707: Jane Eyre, The Feminist Tract"
- ... inferior of Jane. Her monumental "gradations of glory" begin while Jane is at Lowood. At times is was an "irksome struggle" for Jane as she was forced to yield to the overbearing Mr. Brocklehurst, whose philosophy was, "to render them...self-denying," (Bronte 62-65). Mr. Brocklehurst singles Jane out from all the other students and declares her an agent of the Evil One. He warns the other pupils by saying ...
- 1708: The Pelican Brief: A Review
- ... of energy and stamina when he was only thirty-seven, but he knew better." THE PELICAN BRIEF Chapter 16 page 139. John Grisham, in this passage, seemed to have a resentful attitude to politicians. His philosophy about them is they are more interested in golf than a major government crisis, and choose to let others worry about it. John would like politicians to care more, he would like them to stop ...
- 1709: Analysis of The Most Dangerous Game
- ... Whitney has. He loves hunting so much that he does not stop to think whether or not the animals have any feelings or emotions. Bluntly he does not care if the animals feel anything. Rainsford philosophy is that world is made up of two classes -the hunters and the huntees. Rainsford has never felt what it is like to be hunted, because he has always been the predator. That is sure ...
- 1710: Orwell's "Such, Such Were the Joys....": Alienation and Other Such Joys
- ... to the conveyance because it originates from people he is supposed to listen to. Orwell believed with conviction that he actively committed intentional wrong without willing it because he was innately inferior. Indoctrinated by this philosophy and assuming a fatalist, defeatist mentality, Orwell knows he is doomed to failure. Until I was about thirty I always planned my life on the assumption not only that any major undertaking was bound to ...
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