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- 1131: The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
- ... protest and the Reformation. In the General Prologue, the Pardoner was portrayed as a very strange creature indeed, with physical features suggesting that he is some kind of eunuch and with a faint suggestion of sexual deviancy. None of that plays any role in the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale, which are entirely centered on the Pardoner's professional activities. At the start of his self-presentation in the Prologue, the ...
- 1132: As I Lie Dying
- ... looks in the store windows for the toy train, but it was nowhere to be found. Dewey Dell finds a pharmacist who says he will help her, but instead he tricks her into granting him sexual favors. Anse convinces her to give him the ten dollars (that Lafe had given her), that he uses to buy a new set of teeth. As the novel ends, he re-appears before his family ...
- 1133: A Priest’s Death: An Examination of Uncanny Elements in James Joyce’s "The Sisters"
- ... of the priest’s death lends to an interpretation that their relationship may have been more than just that of mentor and student. It is hard not to feel that there was a current of sexual interest on the part of the old priest toward the boy and that the boy is, at least subliminally, aware of this. Reflecting on his relationship with the man, the narrator says "[he] let his ...
- 1134: Brave New World: Beliefs of Sex and Drug Use
- ... written by Aldous Huxley in the 1930’s about a futuristic society. The way of life is in the future is a different and controlled environment. The predominant beliefs of the people and government on sexual behavior and drugs are totally different, maybe even an exact opposite of our beliefs today. Morality of human creation is also a question that is challenged in the book. The big question is which of ...
- 1135: The Great Gatsby: Doubleness
- ... and overwhelm them. Tom clearly believes it. Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, the wife of George Wilson, who runs a garage in the valley of ashes. Myrtle seems to have a dark sexual vitality that attracts Tom, and he keeps an apartment for her in New York, where he takes Nick in Chapter II. Here he again shows how little he thinks of anyone beside himself when he ...
- 1136: The Catcher in the Rye Summary and Analysis
- ... York, he succumbs to increasing feelings of loneliness and depression brought on by the ugliness of the adult world; he feels increasingly tormented by the memory of his younger brother, Allie's death. Holden’s sexual confusion further complicates his increasingly haphazardness lifestyle. He wants to see his sister Phoebe and his old girlfriend Jane Gallagher, but instead he spends his time with a annoying girl friend named Sally Hayes, and ...
- 1137: A Portrait of Stephen Dedalus as a Young Man
- ... The other is a realist at home on Dublin's most sordid streets. One Stephen is too shy to kiss the young lady he yearns for. The other readily turns to prostitutes to satisfy his sexual urges. One is a timid outsider bullied by his classmates. The other is courageous enough to confront and question authority. One devoutly hopes to become a priest. The other cynically rejects religion. Stephen loves his ...
- 1138: The Awakening and The Scarlet Letter: Struggles of the Heroines
- ... each society held during a particular time period. The heroines in these novels, then, are representative of those who had realized the limits and chose to fight against them. In the case of Edna Pontellier, sexual inequality is the main problem. In Hester Prynne’s case, a strict society which does not allow for natural human emotions to come to surface is the problem. In both cases, the woman set out ...
- 1139: A Farewell to Arms: The Chaotic and Brutal World of War
- ... he experienced there. Hemingway's personal growth regarding the meaning of love has a major impact in this novel. Lieutenant Frederick Henry's lifestyle prior to World War I was filled with drinking and having sexual relations with women he neither knew nor cared about. Consequently, it was not until he met Catherine Barkley that he acknowledged his feelings of true love. "Catherine asks him, after telling him she is pregnant ...
- 1140: Being an Outsider
- ... who was a lesbian. Many times in her life was she shocked by who she saw in the bars or who noticed her as being a lesbian, before she had given any indication of her sexual preference. The combination of being black and being a lesbian was overwhelming for Lorde. She knew that being woman alone was hard. She knew that being a black woman was even harder. Through in the ...
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