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- 1651: Gullivers Travels
- ... in pain. Like any good satire, "Gulliver‘―s Travels" cannot be read purely as an analogy, as some scholars have tried to do. You cannot say that the Emperor "is" George I, or Filimap "is" Robert Walpole. The Emperor is the Emperor and Filimap is himself. But by making the political and religious situations of the eighteenth century seem even more ridiculous than they already were, Swift he was able to ...
- 1652: Friends Cannot Be Objects (zen
- ... without meaning to because we're so used to the fact that they're always there. Friends aren't an exception to this statement. In the book, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig, the man telling the story, Phaedrus, lightly goes into this fact of life. Phaedrus is a very confused man with an interesting past, who tells the story about the man he used to ...
- 1653: Daisy Miller
- ... disreputable chill her, eliciting her exclamation, I don t care whether I have Roman fever or not after which she promptly succumbs to the disease. (Fogel p.39) Though Daisy died of malaria, Winterborne s frost is what truly killed the flower, Daisy. Had Winterborne pursued his interest in Daisy instead of rejecting her, the story would have turned out differently. The settings of the story also conveyed symbolism. Daisy Miller ...
- 1654: Contaminated Motives
- ... any superficial, temporary happiness that money can purchase. 1228 words Works Cited Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations Penguin Classics, 1996 Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby Matthew J. Brucolli and Samuel J. Lanahan, 1991 Downey Jr., Robert. http://mrshowbiz.go.com/people/robertdowneyjr/index.html Rodman, Dennis. http://mrshowbiz.go.com/people/dennisrodman/index.html
- 1655: Catcher In The Rye 4
- ... the 1950's" (qtd. in Davis 317), The Catcher in the Rye has been banned continually from schools, libraries, and bookstores due to its profanity, sexual subject matter, and rejection of some traditional American ideals. Robert Coles reflected general critical opinion of the author when he called Salinger "an original and gifted writer, a marvelous entertainer, a man free of the slogans and clichιs the rest of us fall prey to ...
- 1656: Catch-22 2
- ... October 7, 1961) Kennard, Jean E. "Joseph Heller: At War with Absurdity." MOSAIC IV/3 (University of Manitoba, 1971) Lindberg, Gary. "Playing for Real - The Confidence Man in American Literature." Oxford University Press (1982) Merrill, Robert. "The Structure and Meaning of Catch-22. Studies in American Fiction. 14.2 (1986) Seltzer, Leon F. "Milo's 'Culpable Innocence': Absurdity as Moral Insanity in 'Catch-22.'" Papers on Language and Literature. 15.3 ...
- 1657: Beyond The Dead Sea Scrolls
- ... will their theological legacy. Works Cited Cross, Frank Moore Jr. "The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies." New York: Doubleday, 1958. Dupont- Sommer. "The Essene Writings From Qumran." Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1969. Grundy, Robert H. "A Survey of The New Testament." Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994. Vermes, Giza. "The Dead Sea Scrolls." Cleveland: William Collins, 1978.
- 1658: All The Kings Men 2
- Trapped in the Web In the novel, All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren, the characters live out the consequences of decisions made in their pasts. Each character deals with the past in a different way. It costs some relationships. It costs some their careers. It even ...
- 1659: A Man For All Seasons
- A Man for All Seasons A Man for All Seasons, written by Robert Bolt, is a very well known, famous play. The main character of this play, Sir Thomas More, is probably why this play is so widely known. Sir Thomas More is more than a main character ...
- 1660: All The Kings Men- The Spider
- The Spider Web of Life Throughout the novel, All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, the characters are constantly feeling the effects of their action later in the book. Every one of their sinister, sketchy actions were dealt with again later in the book and not in pleasant ...
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