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- 1541: Contrasting Marlow and Kurtz and the Theme of Evil In "Heart of Darkness"
- ... which lay in Jack and his group were confirmed by their final direct actions. The action which reiterated the darkness in Jack was the murder of Piggy. The murder was very brutal, and unnecessary: "The rock that had killed Piggy had bounded into the thicket and bounced there, landing in the middle for all to see" (Golding 230). Not only had they committed the murder but they indirectly reinforced their desire ...
- 1542: Analysis of Children's Fairy Tales
- ... greed leads them to their eventual down fall. I loved the way that the characters came to life: Bagheera, the practical clever panther; Baloo, the old bear and the wisest of the animals; Kaa, the rock-python, crafty and devious; and the fearsome Shere Khan, the killer tiger and Mowgli's sworn enemy. I enjoyed the different setting which triggered my imagination such as the mysterious, dark-green jungles to the ...
- 1543: An Analysis of Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- ... scared to face the truth and prefer to believe in the institutions that have been in place for hundreds of years without a second thought. To except that something is wrong in our culture would rock their souls too much. Perhaps the largest group of people who would
- 1544: The Genji Monogatari
- ... you get closer, and examine a small peak of the big mountain, it will have the same mountain shape. In fact, you can go all the way down the scale to a tiny speck of rock, seen under a microscope--it will have the same basic fractal shape as the big mountain." (Crichton, 1990 p.170-171) This relates to the structure of Genji perfectly. When you look at one chapter ...
- 1545: Steinbeck's "The Flight": Naturalism
- ... soon as his adventure began things started going against him. It was a continues string of bad luck or naturalism for Pepe. His horse gets hot which destroys his transportation. He gets shot then a rock perices through his hand. His arm becomes swollen and he has awful pain. From the wound in his hand he has poison in his blood stream. He has nowhere to run or hide. He has ...
- 1546: The Scarlet Letter: A Review
- ... are listening to it (or reading it.) Let me give you an example from my own experience: I have gone through many phases of both music and literature. I have gone from oldies to hard rock, from classical to industrial; I have gone from Stephen King to Kerouac; from Dean Koontz to Vincent Bugliosi. (O.K., I admit it. There was a very brief interlude of country somewhere in there. I ...
- 1547: Solomon's "The Return of the Screw"
- ... Ms. Jessel, was too much of an influence on the children. Quint died somewhat mysteriously, on a path between town and Bly. He died from a blow on the head, supposedly from falling upon a rock in the road. The reader's only impression of the death is through Mrs. Grose's story, though, and so, Solomon hypothesizes, she filters the information to make it seem less extraordinary a demise. Perhaps ...
- 1548: Of Mice and Men: The Great Depression - The Uncommon Struggle of All Men
- ... Uncommon Struggle of All Men "I've been doin' some hard travelin', I thought you'd knowd. I've been doin' some hard ramblin', way down the road. . .I've been layin' in a hard rock jail. . .I've been laid out ninety days, way down the road. The darned old judge, he said to me, it's ninety days for vagrancy, and I've been doin' some hard travelin', Lord ...
- 1549: Stoker's Dragula: Devices
- ... to every detail, minute as it may seem. One example of imagery can be located on page 36. On this page Stoker describes the castle as, "... it was built on the corner of a great rock, so that on three sides it was quite impregnable, and great windows were placed here where sling, or bow, or culverin could not reach, and consequently light and comfort, impossible to a position which had ...
- 1550: A Doll's House: Changing View of the Role of Women
- ... Their supposed inferiority has created a class of ignorant women who cannot take action let alone accept the consequences of their actions. "A Doll's House" is also a prediction of change from this subordinate roll. According to Ibsen in his play, women will eventually progress and understand her position. Bernard Shaw notes that when Nora's husband inadvertently deems her unfit in her role as a mother, she begins to ...
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