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- 15411: The Great Gatsby
- ... the gruesome murder at the climatic ending. There is a multitude of deep characters you will run into through out this novel like Nick Carraway and his presumed love Miss Jordan Baker, along with Gatsby's lost love Daisy Buchanan. Then there is Gatsby's house, one of the mysteries of the story, with all of it's illustrious parties. Finally it will tell you a little about the human nature. The story begins with the book being told as the memory of one Nick Carraway and his encounters with Jay Gatsby ( ...
- 15412: Hester Prynne Sanction
- ... to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked? Countless victims throughout history have been perplexed to come up with a solution to answer the Chancellor's question. How can people throw a corporation in jail, or have them compensate for their immeasurable losses? In his work The Hester Prynne Sanction, Peter French analyses ways in which the courts can change how they punish corporations more effectively. This essay will take a critical look at French's solution, examining if it is an effective and morally justified fashion of punishing corporations. In our society, retributive ideals have been implanted in us, as the famous biblical eye for an eye concept seems to be society's manner with which we punish criminals. This is an interesting case though, because corporations don't simply have one individual they can place the blame upon. Rather, they are comprised of hundreds or even ...
- 15413: A Clockwork Orange: Violence and Corruption
- A Clockwork Orange: Violence and Corruption Alex, the fifteen year old narrator of Anthony Burgess's novel, A Clockwork Orange, lives in a society where violence reigns. This novel has a very direct nature, and is often blunt to the point of offense, but this makes it more powerful and helps ... little to protect the citizens, for how else could a fifteen year old kid and three of his friends rule the streets? They also seem to relish beating Alex for the reason that they don't get to do it often. However, by the third part of this book, crime is almost non-existent, but the police are far more brutal. Neither of these scenarios is the better of the two ... government is protecting them and so are appeased. Another example of this deal more directly with Alex. The citizens want everyone to be good and peaceful. The government to show this take away a person's free will to be bad. Thus the citizenry believe the criminals have been reformed when in truth they have only been forced to do good, as they did with Alex. Then when the people ...
- 15414: The Pardoner's Tale: Irony
- The Pardoner's Tale: Irony Nearly every aspect of the Pardoner's tale is ironic. Irony exists within the story itself and in the relationship between the Pardoner and the story. The ending of the story presents a good message despite the Pardoner's devious intentions to swindle money from the other pilgrims. By using irony in the Pardoner's tale, Chaucer effectively criticizes the church system. The irony begins as soon as the Pardoner starts his prologue. ...
- 15415: The Lord of the Flies
- The Lord of the Flies The adventure novel, The Lord of the Flies, was an epic tale that depicted the different facets of the human spirit. It was written by William Golding in the 1950's and recieved many awards. It was declared the "Outstanding Novel of the Year" by E.M. Forrester. The author did in no wat mean for this story to be biographical, but Mr. Golding depicted well ... called them to order. He tried to organize a strategy dto get off the island and make all the boys understand why it was he was doing what he was doing. Piggy was basically Ralph's right-hand man. He was probably the mkore natural leader, but since he did not possess the confidence to stand up alone, he did all he wanted to do through Ralph. These boys were the ... gbuild shelters and construct a smoke signal that would run throughout the day. In the beginning the group carried these instructions out, but then anarchy overtook them. Jack Merridew proceeded to disregard all of Ralph's instructions and followed his own whims and fancies. His plan while he was on the island was to hunt and have fun. He did not realize that his savage nature was beginning to surface ...
- 15416: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
- ... against others in several ways. Each punishment fits the crime, and there is an irony about each one. The three punishments inflicted on Duddy at the end of the novel are the loss of Simcha's love, the loss of his friends, and the absence of any funds to build on his property. The loss of Simcha's love is a devastating blow for Duddy. This is evident when Duddy confronts Yvette and asks her, Why did you go to my grandfather? Of all the people in the world, he's the only one (Richler, 1959, 313). Duddy did everything he could to get this land because his grandfather said that 'A man without land is nobody'. Duddy, in his own mind, did it all ...
- 15417: The Jungle: The Appeal of Socialism
- The Jungle: The Appeal of Socialism During the late 1800's and early 1900's hundreds of thousands of European immigrants migrated to the United States of America. They had aspirations of success, prosperity and their own conception of the American Dream. The majority of the immigrants believed that their ... the hardships and obastacles which Jurgis and fellow workers had to endure. He made the workers sound so helpless and the condtions so greusome, that the reader almost wants a way out for Jurgis. Sinclair's The Jungle is a "subliminal" form of propaganda for Socialism. At a time in our nations history where the rich were very wealthy, and the poor were peniless, Sinclair's portrayal of socialism in ...
- 15418: The Lord of the Flies: Themes
- The Lord of the Flies: Themes The world had witnessed the atrocities of World War II and began to examine the defects of their social ethics. Man's purity and innocence was gone. Man's ability to remain civilized was faltering. This change of attitude was extremely evident in the literature of the age. Writers, who through the use of clever symbolism, mocked the tragedy of man's fate. One such writer was William Golding. An author who has seen the destruction of war and despises its inevitable return. Through the use of innocent and untainted children, Golding illustrates how man is ...
- 15419: Lord of THe Flies: Defects of Society Due to Nature of Individuals
- ... changed his emphasis as a major to English literature. When World War II broke out in 1939, Golding served in the Royal Navy for five years. The atrocities he witnessed changed his view about mankind's essential nature. He came to believe that there was a very dark and evil side to man, which accounts for the savage nature of the children in the novel. He said, "The war was unlike ... received the Noble Prize and the statement, "[His] books are very entertaining and exciting. . . . They have aroused an unusually great interest in professional literary critics (who find) deep strata of ambiguity and complication in Golding's work. . . ." (Noble Prize committee) Some conceived the novel as bombastic and didactic. Kenneth Rexroth stated in the Atlantic, "Golding's novels are rigged.. . . The boys never come alive as real boys. . . . " Other critics see him as the greatest English writer of our time. In the Critical Quarterly in 1960, C.B. Cox deemed Lord ...
- 15420: The Devil and Tom Walker: Human Intent and the Aftermath of It
- ... Human Intent and the Aftermath of It Washington Irving, in writing "The Devil and Tom Walker", and Stephen Vincent Benet, in writing "The Devil and Daniel Webster" illustrate to the reader the consequences of man's desire for material wealth and how a person's motivation for a relationship with the devil affects the outcome of the "deal". In these two different, yet surprisingly similar narratives, the authors present their beliefs about human intent and motive. In "The Devil and ... for the loss of his property with the loss of his wife" (132). Tom is portrayed in the story as being typical of many of the citizens who lived in the town, many of who's names Old Scratch had carved into the bark of a tree near the Indian Fort. When the devil shows Tom a tree for a greedy townsperson, he fails to see that he is very ...
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