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- 2471: Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview
- ... eventual redemption. She is the daughter of Marmeladov. She is forced into prostitution to provide for her family, but she does so willingly out of love. She is submissive, uneducated, poor, and a woman. In short, Sonya is everything her contemporary world counted as folly, but to Dostoyevsky she too is a testament to God's grace. Sonya feels that she has sunk to the depths, and it is only God ... Dostoyevsky 527). At last Raskalnikov looks beyond himself and begins to see that he is in error and that there is something more than his guilt. He is freed from the slavery of guilt. In short, in this brief encounter with Sonya, the seed of faith is planted. Whether or not the seed will be brought to fruition remains to be seen. However, given Sonya's love and Raskalnikov's desire ...
- 2472: "The Yellow Wallpaper": The Main Character and Cry for Freedom
- "The Yellow Wallpaper": The Main Character and Cry for Freedom The short story "The Yellow Wall-Paper" written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a cry for freedom. This story is about a woman who fights for her right to express what she feels, and fights for her right to do what she wants to do. The narrator in this short story is a woman whose husband loves her very much, but oppresses her to the point where she cannot take it anymore. This story revolves around the main character, her oppressed life, and her search ...
- 2473: Summary of The Canterbury Tales
- Summary of The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories set within a framing story of a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral, the shrine of Saint Thomas ΰ Becket. The poet joins a band of pilgrims, vividly described in the General Prologue, who assemble at the ... to be pieces written earlier by Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, composed of more than 18,000 lines of poetry, is made up of separate blocks of one or more tales with links introducing and joining stories within a block. The tales represent nearly every variety of medieval story at its best. The special genius of Chaucer's work, however, lies in the dramatic interaction between the tales and the framing story ...
- 2474: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... a time in England that was marked with a great amount of crime and very violent youths. Burgess himself had once cited this setting as the source of, or at least the inspiration of the stories of horror and violence told in this novel (Baldwin A8). The narrator of this book is the main source of these horror stories. Alex is cheerful in his life of crime, and is high-spirited about beating the elderly and raping the defenseless (Bergonzi 85). This trend can be seen in other books as well. One critic summed ...
- 2475: Stephen Crane's "The Open Book": Determinism, Objectivity, and Pessimism
- Stephen Crane's "The Open Book": Determinism, Objectivity, and Pessimism In Stephen Crane's short story The Open Boat, the American literary school of naturalism is used and three of the eight features are most apparent, making this work, in my opinion, a good example of the school of naturalism ... why in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees. This passage is said not once, but twice in the short story, strengthening the fact that a sense of pessimism is present throughout the story while also expressing the anger the characters feel toward the ever present fate of nature. The entire story in itself is ...
- 2476: Marranos: A Lost People
- ... a specific religion. This evidence began to arise during the late 1800's. It was during this time that missionaries in New Mexico were speaking to some young Hispanics. The missionaries noticed that the only stories the youths knew from the bible were stories of the Old Testament. A more recent occurrence was in New Mexico in 1979. A woman was at a Doctor's appointment and the doctor noticed that she wore a Jewish Star of David around ...
- 2477: Myths In Human Civilization
- ... boundaries as they can be found in all cultural societies. The word myth can be referred to the classical Greek and Roman mythology or a contemporary myth. Regardless of the type of myth, they are stories used to give meaning to a phenomenon or symbolic manner to the natural cycles that surround humankind. Myths are used to explain and understand our existence in our world whether it is something that we ... mythical thinkers, moving to a mystic, asking questions approach. Then finally moving to an analytical way of thinking. Today, it is harder to believe in myths as we are focused on numbers, facts and statistics. Stories were told by the word using imaginative pictures, then transgressed to words, arguments and intensive language and finally a reliance on numbers and statistics. Regardless of the type of myth, we the reader should draw ...
- 2478: Farewell To Manzanar
- ... room to escape to. She began to despise her father and his authority. Jeanne was discovering new things, and before her father's return became seriously interested in Catholicism. She loved all the women martyr stories, and possibly could relate to them or to some aspect in them. But before she could get baptized her father had come back and exercised his control over it, and wouldn't allow it. He ... There were no answers. How could a government take everything away, put us in camps, then let us loose with nothing? And how were they to be treated once they were out there. Fearing the stories they heard that earlier released internees had been beating or even killed. But when they finally left it was different. They expected people lining the streets with guns, or billboards reading "go home you dirty ...
- 2479: Gogol's The Overcoat: A Whisper of Changey
- Gogol's The Overcoat: A Whisper of Change At first glance of Nikolay Gogol's novel The Overcoat, one would only see a short story about a poor man wishing to survive in a cruel world. However, in looking further into the story, deep symbolism can be found. Gogol lived in Russia during the rise of the communist party ... the communistic government. In the beginning years of communism, the people of Russia believed the system to be efficient and superior to all others, yet the government eventually proved to be a failure, falling far short of the people's expectations. Akaky's fellow workers, the other clerks in the office, are symbolic of other countries. The clerks neglected Akaky and teased him about his old coat, but after he purchased ...
- 2480: Black Elk Speaks
- ... as a leader and wise man in the Ogalala band of the Sioux. The wisdom possessed by Black Elk is immediately present in his recollections of various lessons learned by himself and by others. These stories ran the whole gambit of life experiences from the most innocent acts of a boy in love, to the hard les-sons learned from the treachery of the whites. Through these stories a greater insight can be gained into the ways of the Sioux, as well as lessons into the nature of all men. Most important in these lessons on the nature of man was wisdom, and ...
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