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- 1651: The Scarlet Letter: Light and Darkness
- ... confront the people that trust him, his absence of strength, and inability to admit to his guilt are clearly shown. This is the real Arthur Dimmesdale. This use of lighting is prevalent in other Hawthorne stories as well. In Hawthorne's short story "Young Goodman Brown," Similar lighting and darkness symbols are used. In the darkness of the forest, the true nature of the people that Goodman Brown looked up to and respected was revealed to him ...
- 1652: Gulliver's Travels and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: Similarities
- ... both Gulliver and Munchausen partake, political hierarchy, and satire. The adventures Gulliver experienced were much like those of Baron Munchausen. The adventures of Munchausen, as well as the adventures of Gulliver, were very outrageous. The stories described by both are hard for the reader to believe. Although very entertaining, they are so farfetched that one would find it difficult to consider as true. Baron started off by telling his tales as ... candlestick at it and it burnt to death. Sally went over to Munchausen and began to talk to him, “ ‘Am I dead?' ‘No' ‘Blast' ‘Who are you really? Baron Munchausen isn't real, only in stories.' ‘Go away I am trying to die.'” (Gilliam ). Sally then followed Munchausen to the town gates, telling him that he had to help stop the Turks and win the war. Munchausen tried to shoot a ... s three main enemies. The three plotted against him, accusing him of treason, and condemned him to death. Satire was a big issue in both the novel and the movie. Both Swift and Gilliam had stories to tell, not necessarily trying to be amusing, but in the end turning it to humor. Gulliver's Travels and “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” have many things in common. The most obvious being ...
- 1653: The Importance of Gender Conflicts Literature to Society Past and Present
- ... of my inability to locate information on Ms. McElroy, I will have no professional criticism to cite in relations to her work. All interpretations are my own. "A Rose for Emily"; probably Faulkner's best short story, is surely one of the most grim yet touching stories in all English literature...." (O'Connor p.68). O'Connor blames the severity of the treatment Emily Grierson received at the hands of her father for her subsequent emotional breakdown. He further states that it ...
- 1654: Hazing A Benefit Or Burden
- ... as mankind but its formal introduction became most apparent in the military. Hazing is used to bring a group of people together as a unit and teach them a great deal of information in a short amount of time. Hazing is designed as a consequence based teaching method where a mistake leads to harassment of some sort. This harassment may include physical or mental discomfort, embarrassment, ridicule, paddling or other forms ... had an apartment set aside and a job waiting for him, but things took a turn for the worse. The company he was working for laid off many employees with him included because of his short time with them. Without work, he began to struggle to make ends meet for him and his fiancée. The man ran into a brother of the same fraternity as he had been in back in ... a reflection of the nature of the requirements of the unit at this stage. Initiates are strangers to each other and to the Airborne. The bonding of the initiation pulls them together in a very short period of time. This phenomenon was noted in the 1950s Aronson & Mills, who remarked that an initiate who endures severe hazing is likely to find membership in a group all the more appealing. In ...
- 1655: Summary of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" With Background About Steinbeck
- ... novel, Cup of Gold (1929), is based on the life of Sir Henry Morgan, a famous English pirate of the 1600's. Steinbeck's next work, The Pastures of Heaven (1932), is a collection of stories about people in a farm community near Salinas. In this work, Steinbeck focused on the struggles between human beings and nature. Of Mice and Men (1937) is a short novel that Steinbeck made into a popular play in 1937. It is a tragic story about a physically powerful man, but mentally retarded farm worker and his best friend and protector. I found this information ...
- 1656: Summary of Joyce's "A Portrait of An Artists As A Young Man"
- Summary of Joyce's "A Portrait of An Artists As A Young Man" In Joyce's novel, "A portrait of an Artist as a Young Man", he weaves the stories of his youth and his growth as a young man to tell us about who he was as an individual and the sort of life he lead. Joyce uses many techniques such as stream of ... father causes him to sin, in the form of a prostitute. Although he longs to escape the filth and poverty of Dublin and pursue truth, beauty, and love, his quest takes a detour in a short-lived moment of physical gratification in the welcoming and seductive arms of a Dublin prostitute. He uses the prostitute as a substitute for the comfort he cannot find in his family. This act of lust ...
- 1657: Summary of Pike's "Remember Me"
- Summary of Pike's "Remember Me" I have been interested in novels by Christopher Pike since I first discovered one of his works. I find his stories very concentrated of deep concepts and meaning. I recently discovered that to find the vast intellect to something, the reader has to look at it more than once. The first book in his series, Remember ... indescribable, by all except the writer, who definitely knows how to write. If I gave away the ending it would be devastating to those who have not read it. Even when I have told a short summery of the story, for those who have not read it would be missing a great book if they neglected to get a hold of it and read it. It is very deeply moving, especially ...
- 1658: Uncle Tom's Cabin: An Analysis
- ... on the Ohio River across from the slave state of Kentucky, the city was filled with former slaves and slaveholders. In conversation with black women who worked as servants in her home, Stowe heard many stories of slave life that found their way into the book. Some of the novel was based on her reading of abolitionist books and pamphlets, the rest came straight from her own observations of black Cincinnatians ... fades into death, but her presence and her dreams survive in her father and in the reader of the novel. It is doubtful if a book was ever written that attained such popularity in so short a time as did Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. “The thrilling story was eagerly read by rich and poor, by the educated and uneducated, eliciting from one and all heartfelt sympathy for ...
- 1659: Anti-government Censorship on the Internet
- ... very convincing for many Americans who are uneducated about the Internet access. It suggested there was a sincere problem with uncensored material on the Internet. According to Time article 917,410 sexually explicit pictures, descriptions, short stories and film clips were studied on an 18 month period. Along with porn there are more concerns on the Internet with images that cannot be found in the average magazine rack. Such images include photos ...
- 1660: Universial Themes in "The Return of the Native" and "Great Expectations"
- ... that he has Great Expectations” [Chapter 18, pp. 151] For some time now Pip was disliking the “uncommon” life and started to admire the lifestyle of Miss Havisham and the upper class. To put it short, he was becoming a snob. This event advanced the plot and theme. Under the agreement made Pip was not supposed to know who his benefactor was although he believed it to be Miss Havisham. One ... life and our place in the world just as I have. It is quite appropriate for people of our education level to be enriched in the world of classic literature. The timeless nature of the stories is reason enough. Regardless of the great amount of reading, I can truthfully say that I enjoyed the experience. Classics hold something for all people so therefore I would recommend it to others being on ...
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