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- 2141: Satire in Lilliput
- ... 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 ...
- 2142: Harper Lee: Introduction to Harper Lee
- ... sister, Alice, practiced law together in Monroeville. When one considers the theme of honor that runs throughout Miss Lee's novel, it is perhaps significant to note that her family is related to Confederate General Robert E. Lee, a man especially noted for his devotion to that virtue. Miss Lee received her early education in the Monroeville public schools. Following this, she entered the University of Alabama to study law. She ...
- 2143: All the King's Men: Man As a Slave to Knowledge
- All the King's Men: Man As a Slave to Knowledge In Robert Penn Warren's novel, All the King's Men, Jack Burden states, The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing a man can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will ...
- 2144: Comparison of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and Dali's "The Metamorphosis of Narcissus"
- ... in the other half of the painting had a flower growing out of his skull, and there were people living around this huge statue'. My second viewing of this painting, in the book Dali, by Robert Descharnes, allowed me to notice many more things. On the left panel of the painting, Narcissus looks more human, with long flowing hair, and a solid body. On the right panel, Narcissus can be viewed ...
- 2145: The Tower of Babel
- ... addressed this issue of racialism, and with persistence and much sweat, it has been realized that these practices of racism are morally incorrect, and that the mentality of the public must be subjugated to reprogramming. Robert Louis Stevenson is one of these authors who revealed to the public its moral and cultural disrespect towards other human beings that are equal and parallel in all ways except beliefs. In doing so, he ...
- 2146: Jane Eyre, The Feminist Tract"
- Jane Eyre, The Feminist Tract" In 1837 critic Robert Southey wrote to Charlotte Bronte, "Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she ...
- 2147: A Critical Analysis of "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor
- ... Revelation has a good disposition about herself. She is far from perfect, yet she is happy to be who she is. Perhaps the most important influence on the story is religion. In the words of Robert McCown, O'Connor's writing was mainly generated by a most powerful Christianity which was fed by her Catholic background (McCown, 256). O'Connor was not only influenced by her own Catholic heritage but by ...
- 2148: Silko's "Ceremony": Summary
- ... as the other Indians he will always be looked at as an outsider even amongst his own family members. It was a private understanding between the two of them. When Josiah or old Grandma or Robert was there, the agreement was suspended, and she pretended to treat him the same as she treated Rocky, but they both knew it was only temporary.... She was careful that Rocky did not share these ...
- 2149: Wuthering Heights: Themes in the Novel
- ... handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire. " (82) Catherine admits that within her heart she is not doing the right thing. After the death of Catherine, Heathcliff never fully recovers from the loss. His love last to the point that ...
- 2150: A Review of "To Build A Fire"
- ... moments of life by thinking of other things. Both the dog and the man understood the horrible fate of what was happening to the man. He was utterly, and hopelessly losing his battle with the frost. London turns over the story to the dog and its thoughts. By doing this, he leaves us with the concept of the man dying alone, with the boys finding his body the next day. Painting ...
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