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- 2971: Machiavelli's The Prince: Views of A Leader
- ... and doctors. Hit movies such as "Liar Liar" and "Wag the Dog" romanticizes deceit. We also maintain social grace with white lies such as telling our children fables of Eve's leaf or even like stories like Santa Claus. The truth is we live in a society where people lie and we tolerate it. He would also advise Clinton that the Prince must be as strong as the lion when such ... conscience. Men are bad, and would not keep their word to you, so you should not worry about breaking your word to them. A strong president is better than a nice president is. From the stories of Thomas Jefferson and his affair with a slave to the family-man myth of John F. Kennedy, we've long indulged our leaders' lies. We live in a world where we lie about traffic ...
- 2972: The Lottery: Setting, Atmosphere, and Mood
- The Lottery: Setting, Atmosphere, and Mood Desert islands, enchanted castles, secret gardens and magical kingdoms are all familiar settings to stories we love. These settings help keep the stories we read interesting, although sometimes we may not realize it, they are actually working on a higher level. The setting an author creates helps to develop the atmosphere and the mood of the story. It ...
- 2973: The Yellow Wall-Paper
- The Yellow Wall-Paper 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 ...
- 2974: Building Blocks of a Family
- Building Blocks of a Family The short story "Teenage Wasteland" by Anne Tyler is a revealing story about the trials of a mother and her son. Donny is what is known as a problem child, and Daisy cannot to seem to figure ... we to know what to believe?" (Schwiebert 287) The principal gives Daisy the idea to check his assignments everyday. This wears down on Daisy and she becomes less involved in her daughter's life, and short towards her husband. "By the time her husband, Matt, came home, she'd be snappish. She would recite the day's hardships… Matt would look surprised and confused, and Daisy would gradually wind down. There ...
- 2975: An Interpretation of William Faulkner’s “Dry September”
- ... in twentieth-century American literature. His works, connected closely with the South also underline a very realistic image of reality. His use of shifting points between charaters, and unsequential narratives are used frequently in his short story “Dry September”. The story is full of narrative technique and perspectives that change subsequently throughout. The heroes and victims of this conventionally written tale, have simple personalities that capture the reader’s imagination, and ... is painted to the reader as a irrational women who is not overlooked as to point the blame. The ways in which Faulkner, describes this flamboyant woman could be another angle to look at this short story; feminism in the early nineteen hundreds. Faulkner, returned the narrative view to the barber walking home from his finished work. Emphasizing on the dust and the air, or in hidden terms the regret or ...
- 2976: Is Life Significant?
- ... only accounts of the circumstances surrounding the death of each moth, however upon closer inspection the reader can see inconspicuous meanings behind the deaths of these moths and also in the way in which these stories are told. Yet both essays do not contain the same hidden meanings, in fact both prove to be in complete juxtaposition of each other relative to meaning. First off in order to emphasize the differences ... is very bleak and depressing, as is seen by the way in which she describes this little creature and the end of it's life. The significance of the moth's life in these two stories is relatively meaningless compared to what they say about the two author's feelings about life. The way in which both authors identify and describe the two moths and their struggles tells more about their ...
- 2977: Underground to Canada
- ... cabin in all of Virginia. Their cabin had a dry warm floor and absolutely no beds. There was no insulation, just a wood board separating them from the blazing sun. The slave cabins were very short because when Julilly straightened her shoulders she almost reached the cabin door. The only thing which Jullily and Mammy Sally could keep warm with was a small, thin blanket. Surrounding their slave cabins was a ... given was good and almost more than double what the Riley plantation were given. The overseer, Sims, would take all his anger out on the slaves. He would give 50 lashes if they would come short of 100 pounds of cotton by the end of the working day. The condition of the salves was not nearly as good as the slaves at Massa Hensen’s. The slaves were thin and frail ...
- 2978: Flannery O’Conner and Grotesque Characters
- ... first, but they actually have several common grotesque elements. Both make use of handicapped characters, Joy Hopewells wooden leg, Tom Shiftlets missing arm, and Lucynells deafness and mental retardation. Even the characters names in both stories tend to add to the image O’Conner was trying to create. Consider Joy (Hulga) Hopewell, who is joyless, hopeless, and unwell, and Tom T, Shiflet, which immediately brings shiftless to mind. Flannery O’Conner ... observation, this was likely the source of her talent for this style of writing. Inevitably she transferred some of her personal experiences to her work, perhaps she was mirroring a personal tragedy with these two stories. The strongest common element is a female character left devastated when a man takes advantage of their handicaps.
- 2979: The True Devils in Salem
- ... asked to speak. It is not surprising that the girls would find this type of lifestyle very constricting. To rebel against it, they played pranks, such as dancing in the woods, listening to slaves' magic stories and pretending that other villagers were bewitching them. The Crucible starts after the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. As one of them falls sick, rumors start to fly that ... asked to speak. It is not surprising that the girls would find this type of lifestyle very constricting. To rebel against it, they played pranks, such as dancing in the woods, listening to slaves' magic stories and pretending that other villagers were bewitching them. The Crucible starts after the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. As one of them falls sick, rumors start to fly that ...
- 2980: Brave New World Summary
- ... there's something wrong, or at least different from what you're used to. For example, it starts like a movie, with a long shot of a building- but a "squat" building "only" thirty-four stories high. The building bears a name unlike any you've heard in real life- "Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center"- and the motto of a World State you know doesn't exist. The camera eye ... Brave New World is a novel about a Utopia, an ideal state in which everything is done for the good of humanity, and evils like poverty and war cannot exist. Perhaps you, too, have created stories about imaginary countries in which everything happens the way you think it should, countries that could be called ideal states if you looked at them closely. Or you may have seen the television program, "Fantasy ...
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