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- 1231: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Symbolism
- ... the river had begun to rise…always luck to me…”(Pg.30). The river symbolizes the only freedom and purity they encounter due to the cruel world. Since Jim had no real freedom because of slavery, and Huck always has to revolt and escape from the widow and Pap, the river gave them some well-deserved peacefulness. Mark Twain portrays word choice symbolically in many ways. First, Huck mentions that the ...
- 1232: The Repressive Governments of Zamiatin's We and Orwell's 1984
- ... that Newspeak alters the public's perception of reality is through the use of an intentional distortion of truth known in Oceania as Doublethink. Doublethink, immortalized in phrases such as "War is Peace", "Freedom is Slavery", and "Ignorance is Strength", serves as a foundation upon which the government of Oceania can selectively change history and reality by convincing the population that history is what Oceania says it is (Bloom 147). "Even ...
- 1233: 1984: The Party's Control Over the Thoughts
- ... hidden nook. The Party further erodes human uniqueness through destruction of truth. In addition to revising the past, the Party accomplishes this goal through Party slogans and though Newspeak. The Party slogans, "WAR IS PEACE, SLAVERY IS FREEDOM, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" (17) pervert the truth of reality through blatant contradictions. Party members are required to accept these contradictory statements through doublethink, and as they do, they subvert the meaning of truth ...
- 1234: Critic On Huckleberry Finn
- ... so real that you could confuse it with a autobiography of a little child named Huck. The book Huckleberry Finn was written about a time between 1835s- 50s. This meant that during Huck's time, slavery was still around and most whites during this time do not like blacks. The N- word just literally show us what white people think of blacks at that time. They use this wor! d to ...
- 1235: Huck Finn and The River
- ... right through the raft" (78) immediately prior to the Grangerford episode. There was also, of course, the chance that someone would see Jim and "[try] to take [him] away from [Huck] to return him to slavery. So they had to cover up the raft during the day and run only nights because at night "they don't bother [them]." (103) So, even as the river provided peace, freedom, and escape, its ...
- 1236: A Tale of Two Cities: Inner Soul and Human Emotion
- ... was illustrated when he threw a gold coin to the child's devastated father as compensation. The Monsieur the Marquis revealed his true sentiments to his nephew: "Repression is the only lasting philosophy . . . fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip . . ."(Dickens, 123) Dickens makes it abundantly obvious that the aristocrats are to meet doom, with symbolic references to fate and death. For instance, as the ...
- 1237: Cold Mountain: The Civil War
- ... joined the Southern ranks and some Southerners were in the Union army, each fighting for what he thought was right. The most obvious causes of the Civil War were the issues of states’ rights and slavery. Hundreds of books, movies, and documentaries have been published on the Civil War. One of them was written by Charles Frazier called Cold Mountain. The novel focuses on the life during the Civil War. Cold ...
- 1238: Underground to Canada
- ... to strike next. The grass that led towards the cotton field was all stomped down from the bare feet of the slaves and it would not grow anymore. The living conditions at the time of slavery were dreadful. It took the slaves a lot of courage and determination to keep on going. The conditions were worse than awful and the expectations of the work was almost impossible.
- 1239: Voltaire's Writing Techniques In Candide
- ... story who were presumed to be dead were found to be alive and well. Cunegonde, the object of Candide's affections, was thought dead by Candide but she had really been raped and sold into slavery. Pangloss was also presumed dead but he reappeared in Candide's life. Although it is good that these people did not die, this is not an example of good coming from bad, since bad (their ...
- 1240: To Kill A Mockingbird: Cruelty Against Blacks, Lawyers and the Poor
- ... the whites had entered (Lee 166). Racial discrimination still goes on today. “Because of racism in the criminal justice system, blacks are more likely to be arrested, convicted, and given stiffer sentences” (Horne 135). When slavery had ended, “the so-called freedom lands held nothing but disappointment for most black people” (McCague 119). To Kill A Mockingbird tells of a black man being accused of raping a white woman and “in ...
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