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- 1831: Lord of the Flies: Our Society Suppresses the Evil That Is Presented In All of Us
- ... they got so pumped up when they did it. Jack then began killing as if it were a luxury. They became savage hunters as evil took over; they killed almost as if it were a sexual performance for them. As this adventure began, Jack was the leader of the choir. He was a bully who always wanted to be the leader and be looked upon with the utmost resopect. When Ralph ...
- 1832: The Significance of Food in "Like Water for Chocolate"
- ... Water is used rather than milk, and must be brought to a vigorous boil. Therefore, an extremely agitated person is said to be "like water for chocolate," so is a person in a state of sexual arousal. A recurring symbol in Like Water for Chocolate is food (the title is a good tip-off of that). Hardly a scene goes by without someone eating or preparing a meal and some of ...
- 1833: Crime and Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them, and Different Punishments
- ... crimes such as: Property crimes, Vagrancy, Drunkenness, Prostitution, Minor Larceny , and all other minor offenses. Probably the most famous criminal in the Victorian period was " Jack the Ripper ". Jack the Ripper was " the first modern sexual serial killer" ( Sugden, pg.2) Jack's trademark was the killing of female prostitutes. But not only did he kill them, he would surgically remove organs and intrails and place them near the dead body ...
- 1834: The Theme of Coming of Age in Literature
- ... his mother. He moves from the category of women and privileged children toward the privileged one of the adult males. Such rites maintain adult male togetherness and strengthen cultural continuity. They resolve boys conflicts about sexual identity and establish clear attitudes toward fathers and mothers. Such rites dramatize the power of older over younger males and state that "only women can make babies: but only men can make men." (1995, Grolier ...
- 1835: Brave New World: Comparing Life In the World State With Life In the US Today
- ... drug that would enable people to escape from themselves and help them achieve knowledge of God, but he made soma a parody and degradation of that possibility. The combination of genetic engineering, bottle-birth, and sexual promiscuity means there is no monogamy, marriage, or family. "Mother" and "father" are obscene words that may be used scientifically on rare, carefully chosen occasions to label ancient sources of psychological problems. Love is supposedly ...
- 1836: Brave New World: All Things are Relative
- ... time. They also believed in not having families which stemmed from the fact that the Hatchery Centre produced all the babies and when you have no families, their is little reason to get married ;therefore, sexual promiscuities come into play. Finally, they were also conditioned to believe that you should never be alone, for being alone used up little production and the use of little production has an effect on the ...
- 1837: 1984: Some Prophecies Have Come True
- ... the story, prostitution was illegal and in present day society it is very much illegal. Within the novel, during newspeak, thought criminals spoke about the crimes they committed. The most popular crime was engaging in sexual activities with a prostitute. Now we wouldn't be tortured for it today but we can serve jail time for soliciting with a prostitute. Another example in the book was the prediction of brainwashing. The ...
- 1838: The Handmaids Tale
- ... at the normal rate. First, the pollution, diseases, nuclear problems and resulting mutants deterred people from having children because the future looked pretty bleak. Secondly, crime rate was very high, with most of them being sexual atrocities. Women and children were in danger, yet many people denied that such things could ever happen to them, and did nothing to stop it. Thirdly, everyone had become very materialistic. People spent their whole ...
- 1839: To Kill A Mockingbird: The Theme of Prejudice
- ... the ones in Maycomb. (Chapter 1, page 13) Prejudice is often referred to as the regular "disease" of small towns. Prejudice is born when people form an idea that someone with a different color skin, sexual orientation, background, accent, style, actually anything that makes them different, makes them less equal or inferior. In big cities prejudice is still a problem, but doesn't compare to what's in a small town ...
- 1840: The Epic of Gilgamesh
- ... book The Epic of Gilgamesh, is Gilgamesh himself. In the beginning of the book one realizes that Gilgamesh is an arrogant person. Gilgamesh is full of himself and abuses his rights as king. He has sexual intercourse with the virgins of his town and acts as though he is a god. Although some readers of this classic book may say that Gilgamesh does not change from the beginning of the book ...
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