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- 4611: Subject: Joseph Conrad's-Heart Of Darkness
- ... Kurtz's station, Marlow¦s disillusion begins to set in. He is greeted by an English-speaking Russian whom he takes for a man who on the surface is deceant level-headed person, but after short conversation it is apparent to Marlow that he is talking with a disturbed individual, but that was not what bothered Marlow. Hearing of and seeing the acts committed by Kurtz made Marlow uneasy, and even ...
- 4612: A Homicide For Emily
- A Homicide for Emily A Rose for Emily is a short intriguing story written by William Faulkner. This is because the way Emily s character is portrayed, the mysterious death of Homer Barron, and the way Faulkner uses the narrator to tell the story. Emily is ...
- 4613: Margaret Atwood`s The Handmaid's Tale
- ... a horrific society, which prevents her from being freed. Essentially, the government enslaves her because she is a female, and she is fertile. Offred's reminisces about the way life used to be by remembering stories about her husband Luke, her daughter, and her best friend Moira, provides her with temporary relief from her binding situation. Also, Offred befriends the Commander's aide, Nick. Offred longs to be with her husband ...
- 4614: Mordecai Richler`s Solomon Gursky Was Here
- ... is resentful of his son's literary talent. This leads to leads to L.B. treating his son with contempt. On one occasion, Moses, home from school at Balliol, tells LB that he submitted a short story, which LB said "showed promise"(p.129), to "the New Yorker. L.B. belittled Moses for his attempt which he suspected to fail and demanded that he be given the mail upon it's ...
- 4615: Jonathan Swifts Gulliver's Travels
- ... mind, they seemed like the greatest humans ever seen in court, even more dextrous than the Lord Edmund Burke" (162). As this quote demonstrates, Gulliver is terribly impressed, but his admiration for the Houyhnhnms is short-lived because they are so prideful. For instance, the leader of the Houyhnhnms claims that he has read all the works of Charles Dickens, and that he can singlehandedly recite the names of all the ...
- 4616: Nine Tomorrows: Will Computers Control Humans In The Future?
- ... reliance on computers by portraying a futuristic world where computers control humans. One of the images which Asimov describes in the book is that humans might become too dependent on computers. In one of the stories, Profession, Asimov writes about people being educated by computer programs designed to educate effortlessly a person. According to the Profession story people would no longer read books to learn and improve their knowledge. People would ...
- 4617: Comparison of "Queen of Diamonds" and "Aunt Parnetta's Electric Blisters"
- ... it was something that she had to sort out for herself. She didn't have a good view on life, and she was mad all the time because of it. The relationship of these two stories is that they both envolve and show the negative effects of a pessimistic attitude. Christine and Aunt Parnetta had completely different problems, but were both caused by the same problem. Their issues had nothing to ...
- 4618: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Jesus Christ and McMurphy
- ... finally did when he came to realise that he couldn't beat"(Kesey pg. 150) society, the Combine, or society's figurehead in the asylum, the Big Nurse. McMurphy gave up his war for a short while upon the same realisation, he realised he was committed, but began the war anew with a renewed fervour. His motives for his actions had changed from those of the Western hero, a "hatred of ...
- 4619: Feminism in Jane Eyre
- ... not have been as vivid as the women of the 70's, they did have an effect. Feminism was not outright spoken of in this time, rather passed through literature, such as this very novel. Stories and novels were the primary means in which to communicate information and ideas in that time. Without mass communication systems books were the few information carrying devices to cross borders, and encompass lands whenever people ...
- 4620: Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms": Henry - A Man of Action, Self-Dicipline, and One Who Maintains Grace Under Pressure
- ... the address of a friend...."(Hemingway, 228). Even though he was a wanted criminal, Henry did not accept the help that would have provided a way to avoid being arrested even if for only a short time. As a man on the run, Frederick would be unlikely to repose trust in the first stranger who accosts him after his disersion. He uses his self-control to resist his overwhelming urges to ...
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