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- 1861: All Quiet on the Western Front
- ... isolated from the rest of the world due to the fact that they had never truly established any part of themselves in civilian life. At boot camp, Himmelstoss abused Paul and his friends, yet the harassment only brought them closer together and developed a strong spirit amongst them. Katczinsky, or Kat, was soon shown to be a master scavenger, being able to provide the group with food or virtually anything else ...
- 1862: Kate Chopin's Controversial Views
- ... Contwell, Brooks, and Aronavon were the first to respect the book. In the sixties Chopin's popularity grew thanks to the feminists. They looked toward Edna as a heroine out of her time for her sexual awakening. This does not mean that Chopin was a feminist. Chopin wrote objectively and distanced herself from feminist struggles. Felix Chopin stressed that she "was not interested in the woman's suffrage movement" (Taylor 151 ...
- 1863: 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 ...
- 1864: 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 ...
- 1865: Wise Blood: Whose Deformity is the Most Serious
- ... of a pastor, a white suit and a large Panama hat. This deformity is the first displayed by Hazel. and also the most noticeable. In addition, the preacher's hat becomes distorted . During Hazel's sexual exploits with the local prostitute, Mrs. Leora Watts; she cuts obscene shapes into Hazel' beloved hat. At the conclusion of the story he undergoes a religious transformation and accepts the Christian faith to which he ...
- 1866: The Beast in the Jungle: The Beast of James
- ... James," from The Nation, p. 397, April 5, 1917. Now, some seventy-two years later critical readers are still coming to terms with James' aesthetic vision. As we have discussed in class, James aestheticizes everything. Sexual intercourse, carnal knowledge, painful self-discovery, human mortality, etc., are often figuratively and metaphorically veiled so as not to disturb or repulse the reader. Taking a closer look at this, one might say that James ...
- 1867: Tribulation and Comedy in Lucky Jim
- ... 1953, p.121). Simply, Carol is saying that when Jim is "civil to accept" Margaret's invitations, he is setting himself up to be used, which is exactly what she will do, she [Margaret] feigns sexual avidity to entice, then denounce Jim...she shows no sympathy when he is in trouble with the Welches and uses her knowledge of his plight to coerce him...and she exploits him by manipulating him ...
- 1868: 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 ...
- 1869: Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne: Romantic Style of Writing
- ... important writer primarily because of his interest in human psychology , and his daring exploration into the dark side of human consciousness. According to Sigmund Freud "civilization requires men to suppress and deny their aggressive and sexual impulses, which lead to inner conflict , guilt, and in some individuals to neurosis psychosis." Hawthorne explored these ideas of the human consciousness long before Freud was even born. He approached writing about this daring topic ...
- 1870: The Power and the Glory: The Whiskey Priest a Saint?
- ... P.206) These examples show the whiskey priest is an alcoholic and that the statement was accurate. To the extreme of not being a saint, the whiskey priest commits a mortal sin of having a sexual relationship with Maria and getting her pregnant. Later abandoning his daughter Brigitta: When you-know-what happened, I was proud. I thought the good days would come back. It's not everyone who's a ...
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