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- 16301: Antigone & Ismene
- ... Ismene, are as different from one another as tempered steel is from a ball of cotton. One is hard and resistant; the other: pliable, absorbing and soft. Antigone would have been a strong, successful 90's type woman with her liberated and strong attitude towards her femininity, while Ismene seems to be a more dependent 1950's style woman. Antigone acts as a free spirit, a defiant individual, while Ismene is content to recognize her own limitations and her inferiority of being a woman. In the Greek tragedy "Antigone", by Sophocles; Antigone ... Ismene and Antigone. Infuriated by this injustice, Antigone shares the tragic news with Ismene. From her first response, "No, I have heard nothing"(344). Ismene reveals her passivity and helplessness in the light of Creon's decree. Thus, from the start, Ismene is characterized as traditionally "feminine", a helpless woman that pays no mind to political affairs. Doubting the wisdom of her sisters plan to break the law and bury ...
- 16302: Pride and Prejudice: Irony
- Pride and Prejudice: Irony "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife".(pg.1) The first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is perhaps the most famous opening of all English comedies concerning social manners. It encapsulates the ambitions of the empty headed Mrs. Bennet, and her desire to find a good match for each of her five daughters from the middle-class young men of the family's acquaintance: "The business of her life was to get her daughters married, its solace was visiting and news."(pg. 3) In this, she receives little help from her mild and indolent spouse, who regards her ... of many other figures; the haughty Lady Catherine de Bourgh, the fatuous Mr. Collins; the younger Bennet daughter, Lydia; and her lover, Wickham, with whom she scandalously elopes. It is often pointed out that Austen's novels emphasize characterization and romanticism, but in Pride and Prejudice the emphasis is on the irony, values and realism of the characters as they develop throughout the story. Jane Austen's irony is devastating ...
- 16303: 1984, George Orwell
- ... its citizens lives. Telescreens that monitor their movements are found in every house and apartment. If a member of the Thought Police catches you so much as gritting your teeth during one of Big Brother s speeches, it s off to the Missionary of Love to be interrogated about your partaking in a conspiracy against the Party. It s a time of unknowing chaos where war is peace, ignorance is strength, and freedom is slavery. The Party avoids revolt by using an interesting technique--not giving its citizens a reason to revolt. If ...
- 16304: 1984
- ... member of the ruling Party in London, in the nation of Oceania. Everywhere Winston goes, even his own home, he is watched through telescreens, and everywhere he looks he sees the face of the Party's omniscient leader, the figure known only as Big Brother. The Party controls everything, even the people's history and language: The Party is currently forcing the implementation of an invented language called Newspeak, which prevents the possibility for political rebellion by eliminating all words related to it. Even thinking rebellious thoughts is ... Party. He has noticed a co-worker, a beautiful dark-haired girl, staring at him; he worries that she is an informant who will turn him in for his thoughtcrime. He worries about the Party's control of history: it claims Oceania has always been allied with Eastasia in a war against Eurasia, but Winston seems to recall a time when this wasn't true; the Party also claims that ...
- 16305: 1984
- ... with “War is Peace” and “Freedom is Slavery”, is used by the Party as a way of brainwashing the people of Oceania. One of the main terms used as a way of describing the Party’s position on thought crimes is “Ingsoc”. Ingsoc believes that anyone who is guilty is guilty because thinking on your own is the complete reverse of the reality of the society. Basically this is a way of condemning and brainwashing the people into thinking that they are wrong about everything and the Party is always right so don’t go against what the Party says. There are many strategies in which the Party hopes to ensure success with its totalitarian rule. One was to start young, with the children. Children are the key to ensuring success by having them brainwashed early, when they are most vulnerable, and by doing so, ensure success that they will grow up and be totally under the Party’s control. Another strategy that the party used was fear. Fear is a tool by which everyone can be controlled. Anyone who ever doubted the Party’s power was quickly arrested or killed. A most ...
- 16306: 1984
- ... punishable by death. Winston, the main character, is a man of 39 whom is not high in either intelligence or character, but is disgusted with the world in which he lives in. Winston represents Orwell’s view on totalitarianism. He works in the Ministry of Truth, which is a place where history and facts- significant or not are rewritten to reflect the party’s idealistic beliefs. They destroy the records of the past; and print up new revised editions, which is being constantly redone. Winston is aware of the untruths, because he makes them true. This makes him very ... Big brother political system uses propaganda and puts fear in its citizens to keep the general population in line. His dissatisfaction increases to a point where he rebels against the government in small ways. Winston's first act of rebellion is buying and writing in a diary in which he buys from an antique shop run by a prole (lower class of society, Poor). This act is known as a ...
- 16307: The Darkness Of Insanity
- ... a person must be responsible for their actions, a near death experience is probably as closes to the truth as a person can come, above all else courage, if there is no god, than man s fate is in his own hands, and man must always be active. The first code, a person must be responsible for his actions, is shown in his short stories, "the Battler" and "The Killers". In ... earlier in his life and he will now pay for it with his life because there are killers out to get him. As this quote shows Ole Anderson knows he will now die, "There isn t anything I can do about it." (Hemingway 287) The second code, a near death experience is probably as closes to the truth as a person can come, is shown in the short story "Soldiers Home ... and then goes to war. When he comes home he has the will to live. This quote represents Harold, just sitting around waiting to die,"(like) bacon fat hardening on his plate" (Hemingway 151) Hemingway s third code, above all else courage, is shown in Hemingway s short story, "The Undefeated". In "The Undefeated", Manuel, even at his age, shows courage and defeats the bull. In this quote, Manuel displays ...
- 16308: Aids--Cause And Effect
- ... in major cities, such as New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and San Francisco. People, mostly homosexual men and intravenous drug users, were dying from very rare lung infections or from a cancer known as Kaposi’s sarcoma. They have not seen people getting these diseases in numerous years. Soon, it also affected hemophiliacs, blood recipients, prostitutes and their customers, and babies born from AIDS-infected women. AIDS was soon recognized as ... high-profile victims began to contract the virus, such as basketball star Magic Johnson, the feeling spread quickly that anyone, not just particular groups of people, could be at risk. AIDS impairs the human body’s immune system and leaves the victim susceptible to various infections. With new research, scientists think that the disease was first contracted through a certain type of green monkey in Africa, then somehow mutated into a ... phases. It is caused by a virus that can be passed from person to person. This virus is called HIV, or Human Immuno-deficiency Virus. In order for HIV to become full-blown AIDS, your T-cell count (number of a special type of white-blood cells that fight off diseases) has to drop below 200, or you have to get one of the symptoms of an AIDS-induced infection. ...
- 16309: James Madison's Opinion Why A Republic is Better Than A Democracy
- James Madison's Opinion Why A Republic is Better Than A Democracy Madison explains why, in his view, a Republic is better than a Democracy. His concern with a Democracy is in the formations of factions (parties). Madison ... this is preposterous. Therefore, he chose to address how to limit the effects. A government must be organized so that if an oppressive political faction gains power, that there are substantial safeguards in place. Here's where Madison assumes a little too much. He states that if a large faction were represented by a small number of representatives that their overall impact would be limited because of the large numbers of ... have, only on a smaller scale. (Southern States in 1860..etc.) In 1787 however, the American Colonies did not communicate with one another. Mass. and New York were like two different countries. So from Madison's perspective, a faction in New York would be limited from expanding in Mass. by the republican form of government. Today, factions know no boundaries...obviously. Well anyway, I think me explanation is longer than # ...
- 16310: Lord of the Flies: Man Is Savage at Heart
- ... Flies: Man Is Savage at Heart A running theme in Lord of the Flies is that man is savage at heart, always ultimately reverting back to an evil and primitive nature. The cycle of man's rise to power, or righteousness, and his inevitable fall from grace is an important point that book proves again and again, often comparing man with characters from the Bible to give a more vivid picture ... been instilled in the youth throughout their lives, the boys have backpedaled and shown the underlying savage side existent in all humans. "Golding senses that institutions and order imposed from without are temporary, but man's irrationality and urge for destruction are enduring" (Riley 1: 119). The novel shows the reader how easy it is to revert back to the evil nature inherent in man. If a group of well-conditioned ... school boys can ultimately wind up committing various extreme travesties, one can imagine what adults, leaders of society, are capable of doing under the pressures of trying to maintain world relations. Lord of the Flies's apprehension of evil is such that it touches the nerve of contemporary horror as no English novel of its time has done; it takes us, through symbolism, into a world of active, proliferating evil ...
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