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- 2731: Crime And Punishment 4
- In Dostoevsky's novels pain and some heavy burden of the inevitability of human suffering and helplessness form Russia. And he depicts it not with white gloves on, nor through the blisters of the peasant, but through people ... like himself as fathers to the masses. Raskolnikov does the same. He separates people on ordinary and extraordinary. His superman is permitted everything : I simply intimate that the "extraordinary" man has the right... I don't mean a formal, official right, but he has the right in himself, to permit his conscience to overstep...(Crime and Punishment. III, 5) Ivan praises the idea of God, "which entered the head of such ... where to stop. Geoffrey Kabat writes: On another, symbolic level, the murder is an attempt to annihilate a symbol of the oppressive forces of a society in which money gives one power over other people's lives and in which lack of money means dependence on others. (V, 124) The problem of money and its oppressive and evil character is an important issue in Dostoevsky's novels. Raskolnikov is originally ...
- 2732: Examination of Puritan Philosophy in Bradford's "On Plymouth Plantation"
- Examination of Puritan Philosophy in Bradford's "On Plymouth Plantation" The Puritan people first came to the New World to escape the religious persecution that hounded Non-Anglicans in England. They established the Plymouth Colony in 1620, in what is now Massachusetts ... These beliefs, along with the experience of establishing a colony in "the middle of nowhere", affected the writings of all who were involved with the colony. In this writing, the Puritan philosophy behind William Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation" will be revealed. Some factors that will be considered include: how Puritan beliefs affect William Bradford's interpretation of events, the representation of Puritan theology in the above mentioned text, and how Puritanism forms the basis for Bradford's motivation in writing. In Bradford's text, there are numerous instances in ...
- 2733: Hamlet's Soliloquy
- Hamlet's Soliloquy In this soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Hamlet we get a look into the mind of the prince. Hamlet takes us on his own journey to discover his feelings and thoughts about himself. He lets us see the quarrel in his mind, which is discussing why he hasn’t taken revenge yet. Hamlet is disappointed with himself for not taking action against the person that murdered his father, Claudius. This soliloquy from Hamlet shows the diction, imagery, and syntax that Shakespeare uses to ...
- 2734: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... voraciously, but remains thin as a rail. Haie Westhus, also the same age, is an enormously built peat-digger. Detering is a peasant with a wife at home. Katczinksy is the unofficial leader of Paul's small group of comrades. He is a cunning man of forty years of age. Paul remembers that they were embarrassed to use the general latrines when they were recruits. Now, they are a pleasure. Every ... expression for joy, indignation, and anger. The men settle down to rest, smoke, and play cards. They do not talk about their narrow survival during their last trip to the front. Kemmerich, one of Paul's classmates and a member of the Second Company, is in the hospital with a thigh wound. Paul and his classmates' schoolmaster, Kantorek, urged them to enlist as volunteers to prove their patriotism. Joseph Behm did not want to go, but eventually he gave in to Kantorek's unrelenting pressure. He was one of the first to die, and his death was particularly horrible. With Behm's death, Paul and his classmates lost their innocent trust in figures of authority. Kantorek often ...
- 2735: Edgar Allan Poe And The Raven
- ... Poe. Famous for romanticizing the darker, more Gothic side of life, E. A. Poe had quite a collection of works from his lesser known stories to his most famous poem, The Raven . This great man s life has been analyzed to death (no pun intended) to find key s to unlock the maze of his apparent creativity. Here, the reader will find only an in depth look at The Raven , information on the author s life and lifestyle, a brief look at other Poe works, criticism on his writings, and some unusual ways his fame has been honored . To begin with, The Raven holds a dark sense of elegance ...
- 2736: Oliver Twist and Hedda Gabler: Commentary on the Social Conditions of that Time
- ... reveal their mind to. But those that know are of a like mind to them. "Birds of a feather flock together", it has been said. It has certainly been true to the characters in Ibsen's and Dickens' work. In Oliver Twist, Fagin and his gang are of like qualities, all being thieves and gangsters, with whom poor Oliver unwittingly falls in with. Oliver, being a kind and innocent soul, is ... and his boys into joining them for time. He uses double talk to keep his true motives from others. "You'd like to be able to make pocket-handkerchiefs as easy as Charley Bates, wouldn't you, my dear" (p. 36, Oliver Twist) He means that he will try to make Oliver steal like his other boys. But Oliver, being the simple innocent, does not really get in on the joke. " He is so jolly green!" (p. 36) This remark by Charley Bates, showing Oliver's purity, further shows us that Fagin is willing to corrupt an innocent soul for the sake of his greed, as we find out later on that he was commissioned by Monks to corrupt the ...
- 2737: Julius Caesar
- Julius Caesar Historical Fiction novels are often brought on by authors for special and particular reasons. In William Shakespeare’s tragic play Julius Caesar, he documents the rise and fall of a great roman leader during a time of political unrest in Rome. This play was written during the sixteenth century in Shakespeare’s home, London, England. In the following paragraphs, a summary of the play will be provided along with a history of the time in which the book was set, a history of the time in which ... against the reign of Julius Caesar are showing disrespect toward a statue of their new leader outside of a public assembly. A day of fun and games is about to begin in celebration of Rome’s new leadership. In the play of Julius Caesar, we see a brief picture of Roman life during the time of the First Triumvirate. In this snap shot, we see many unfortunate things. Shakespeare gives ...
- 2738: King Arthur
- ... history, though not the glorious King Arthur that most people know him to be, is largely based on the writings of Nennius, a Welsh historian, who gave the first and only historical account of Arthur's military career in Chapter 56. The passage starts with a date. “After the death of Hengist, his son Octha came from northern Britain and settled in Kent, whence come the kings of Kent. Then Arthur ... fought and won. The last battle, the greatest in the history of the country, was at Badon Hill. It resulted in a total massacre of the Saxons, establishing fifty years of peace from the Saxon's horrible brutality of slaughtering, burning and senseless vandalism (Jenkins 30-31). Nennius's historical account is backed up by a set of Easter Tables. They were calculating tables as to when Easter would fall out for the next given number of years and in them were noted ...
- 2739: A Doll's House: Theme of Emancipation of A Woman
- A Doll's House: Theme of Emancipation of A Woman In reading Ibsen's A Doll's House today, one may find it hard to imagine how daring it seemed at the time it was written one hundred years ago. Its theme, the emancipation of a woman, makes it seem almost ...
- 2740: Master Harold: Differing Influences on Fugard
- Master Harold: Differing Influences on Fugard Athol Fugard's drama, "Master Harold" . . . And The Boys, was written during a time of great conflict in South Africa, where he was raised. Fugard was torn between his mother, who was "Afrikaaner," (1291) and his father, who ... Hally to demonstrate the religious, racial, and political tensions of his lifetime in South Africa. The discussion between Sam and Hally about who was "a man of magnitude" (1300) represents the religious tensions of Fugard's lifetime in South Africa between the growing belief in evolution and Jesus Christ's teaching of Creation. Hally says that Charles Darwin was "a man of magnitude," (1300) because he was "somebody who benefited all mankind" (1301). He admires Darwin "for his Theory of Evolution" (1301), which according ...
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