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- 15771: A Book of Double Meanings
- A Book of Double Meanings How many books has a person read in which two different stories could be interrupted from it? One such book is Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift. This book has been read by many children as an adventure story and by most adults as a devastating satire of society. In the book, Gulliver's Travels, Swift criticizes the corruption of the English government, society, science, religion, and man in general. First, Gulliver travels to Lilliput, whose inhabitants are under the constant criticism of Swift. Swift uses the events within ... palace are not in ruin, the littleness of the government and the people in general is displayed in this act. Another display of the littleness is the fact that Gulliver is used as the Emperor's absolute weapon, but the emperor only uses him to conquer his world of two islands. This makes the emperor's ambition seem extremely low. Swift also criticizes the religious beliefs of the Lilliputians and ...
- 15772: The Scarlet Letter: The Morality Issue
- ... a victim, or a temptress, or maybe Dimmesdale is in the wrong for falling for the temptress. Chillingworth, who is at first thought to be the victim, but in the end the villain? Through Hawthorne’s writing we the reader must decide on the morality issue among Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. Hester, who is essentially the main character in The Scarlet Letter, therefore, is the most vividly described character in the ... that she committed. She became more accepted in her community as she accepted herself and the “A” on her chest. We all have sins, but if we don not admit to our sins we won’t be forgiven. The reverend Dimmesdale said “But still, me thinks, it must needs be better for the sufferer to be free to show his pain, as this poor woman Hester is, than to cover it ... to stand for “Able.” Though Hester was morally wrong in her act, she was morally right in accepting her wrong. This leads us to the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the man who assisted in ruining Hester’s reputation. Though, a holy man, and a man who is very much revered by the people of Salem, he commits a sin in which goes totally against the words he preaches. His choice to ...
- 15773: The Crucible: Summary
- ... to blame their behavors on witchcraft. Abigail Williams is a young girl whose only desire is to have John Protor as her lover, but there is only only one thing stopping her and thats John's wife Elizabeth. So one day Abigail goes to Tituba, who is a voodoo witsh, and asked Titubia give her a charm to kill Goody Proctor so that John may fall in love with Abby. When Abigal learns that this method does not work, she starts telling people that Elizabeth is a which just so she can get John Proctor. An example "Abigal's Jealouey is euident to belive she leeds her uncles for I would not be her slave. Next Rev. Paris, the minister of Salem is a weathly man. He isalso paranoid because he belives that his ... mostly concered about his status. Paris is obviosly a hypocrite. He is supposed to serve God and his fellow man, but he is materialistic and petty.Instead Paris is also a selfcentered and greedy " don't a minister deserve a house to live in"(30) Lastly, Abigail wants revenge on Elizabeth Proctor. In Act one, for example Betty tells Abigsil " you drank a charm to kill John Proctors wife" (19). ...
- 15774: Characters and Their Roles In The Great Gatsby
- ... is a classic piece of American literature. It signifies the turn of the century and the American ideology that would hold the 20th century hostage. Materialism and the American dream are evident in Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of happiness, which he believed would be the money and power he was acclaimed for, but it was not. Each character plays and important role in the theme of this novel and each has ... through the novel we see what type of man he is. We see his true ethics and morals come out in what seems to be the fight of his life. He is one of Gatsby’s only confidants and is there whenever Daisy and Gatsby meet. He is a crucial character of the novel. Tom Buchanan is one man that no one who reads this novel likes or has any feeling for. He is the antagonist and is the character in which much of the typical macho male aspects are placed upon. He went to school with Nick at Yale and eventually married Nick’s Cousin Daisy. He cam from a very wealthy family in which materialism and the love for money was rampant. Tom was very ungrateful for what he had in Daisy, and Nick as well as ...
- 15775: The Scarlet Letter: Hester Prynne and Adultery
- ... destination, and accepted that one sinner fallen from grace could and would deprave them of their being "elected" by God. Just as they in sum were elected, so could they be damned. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlett Letter, protagonist Hester Prynne represents that consequence. By committing adultery, the community feels that she has threatened their immortality. They punish and humiliate her for creating her own laws and beliefs. Hester Prynne ... forbidden land to a true puritan. However, she cannot escape being affected by that world, for it is all around her, even in the form of her own daughter. When Hester goes to Governor Bellingham's house, we recognize an irony in Hester's environment. "This was a large wooden house…the walls being overspread with a kind of stucco, in which fragments of broken glass were plentifully intermixed…it glittered and sparkled as if diamonds had been ...
- 15776: Summary of Beloved
- ... few pages of the novel as Sethe wants to leave her house as well as the pain within it. Her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs tells her that "not a house in the country ain't packed to the rafters with some dead Negro's grief." Running from grief will lead to more of the same, but by staying and facing the pain, wounds that have been inflicted can begin to heal through grace. The grace of laughter, dance, and ... ghost of the baby Sethe killed when she was about to be recaptured. After another former slave, Paul D., arrives, he chases away the ghost, but soon a young woman named Beloved comes to Sethe's home. This woman is strangely similar to Sethe's dead daughter, which is ironic because the word "Beloved" is the only word engraved on her baby's tombstone, though it is never entirely clear ...
- 15777: All Quiet on the Western Front
- All Quiet on the Western Front Name: Jessica Grade: A The remains of Paul Baumer’s company had moved behind the German front lines for a short rest at the beginning of the novel. After Behm became Paul’s first dead schoolmate, Paul viewed the older generation bitterly, particularly Kantorek, the teacher who convinced Paul and his classmates to join the military, feeling alone and betrayed in the world that they had left for him. Paul’s generation felt empty and isolated from the rest of the world due to the fact that they had never truly established any part of themselves in civilian life. At boot camp, Himmelstoss abused Paul ...
- 15778: Reasons America Declared War On Germany
- ... War On Germany In the years leading up to 1917, a multitude of reasons contributed to the American decision to declare war on Germany. These reasons include the German naval policy, allied propaganda, and America’s claim to world power. The German U-boats as well as the incident with the Lusitania prompted America to take action. Propaganda, exaggerated or not, helped to get the people’s support for declaring war. Lastly, America believed that by partaking in the war would increase its chances of getting concessions at the end of the war, thereby supporting its claim to world power. The Germans’ violation of American neutrality was a big part in America’s decision to declare war on Germany. One way in which they violated American neutrality was through the use of the U-boats. These boats were the cause of the deaths of numerous Americans who ...
- 15779: A Slave's Life
- A Slave's Life A slave’s life is something that is hard to visualize on account of the lifestyle they lived would be ludicrous in today’s society. Slaves were not considered people of society they were seen as cheap replaceable machines. They were forced to conduct work that slaveowners could not complete by themselves or buy paying men to work ...
- 15780: Why the North Won the Civil War
- ... that the South did not, boasting resources that the Confederacy had even no means of attaining (See Appendices, Brinkley et al. 415). Sheer manpower ratios were unbelievably one-sided, with only nine of the nation's 31 million inhabitants residing in the seceding states (Angle 7). The Union also had large amounts of land available for growing food crops which served the dual purpose of providing food for its hungry soldiers ... they could get. Little did they know, "King Cotton" could buy them time, but not the war. The South had bartered something that perhaps it had not intended: its independence (Catton, Reflections 143). The North's ever-growing industry was an important supplement to its economical dominance of the South. Between the years of 1840 and 1860, American industry saw sharp and steady growth. In 1840 the total value of goods manufactured in the United States stood at $483 million, increasing over fourfold by 1860 to just under $2 billion, with the North taking the king's ransom (Brinkley et al. 312). The underlying reason behind this dramatic expansion can be traced directly to the American Industrial Revolution. Beginning in the early 1800s, traces of the industrial revolution in England began ...
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