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- 2041: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... with his pen knife, removes one of its eyes. This is but the beginning of the narrator's sorrows. He recognizes that it was this unfathomable longing of the soul to vex itself--to offer violence to own nature--to do wrong for the wrong's sake only--that urged me to continue and finally to consummate the injury I had inflicted upon the unoffending brute. One morning, in cold blood ...
- 2042: Dulce Est Decrum Est
- ... die, fighting for one's country'. The combination of vivid imagery and poetic devices work to evoke a horrible anti-war feeling in the reader and encourage them to act and cease the on-going violence in the world. With powerful imagery and simple language, Owen allows the poem to be understood by the public at large so as to influence as many people as possible. The power of ideology is ...
- 2043: Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold
- ... scenes with a lot of blood. In comparing it to the restored version of the film, there is an excessive amount of gore. In addition, I felt as if there was a drastic difference in violence when comparing the novel to the movie. One of the elements of the direction, which I thought was excellent, was the lighting. For the most part, the movie was dark and bleak. There was so ...
- 2044: Digging By Seamus Heaney
- ... The author uses this simile "gun" to express his relief that he can use his pen instead of a gun as a weapon. It shows a new belief that you do not have to use violence to achieve your goal. Seamus Heaney is careful n choosing the word "gun" - almost a starting point in what else that he chooses to say as a "weapon" for the subjects raised in the rest ...
- 2045: Digging By Seamus Heaney
- ... The author uses this simile "gun" to express his relief that he can use his pen instead of a gun as a weapon. It shows a new belief that you do not have to use violence to achieve your goal. Seamus Heaney is careful n choosing the word "gun" - almost a starting point in what else that he chooses to say as a "weapon" for the subjects raised in the rest ...
- 2046: Darkness At Noon
- ... Inferno is divided into thirty-four cantos, each containing a description of a specific region of hell. Sinners in each area are punished for different sins. Sinners of lust suffer in upper hell, sinners of violence in middle hell, and the sinners of fraud in the lowest part of hell. The sufferings of these people are portrayed through Dantes eyes as he descends lower and lower into hell with Virgil ...
- 2047: Crime And Punishment
- ... forth strongest in Raskolnikov. One of these occurrences entails Raskolnikov committing a crime and the other happens subconsciously. Although it's a dream, Raskolnikov's dreams go beyond the common mans'. They all involve extreme violence, bringing it almost to reality. "The character lives a furtive nightmare existence, whereas their dreams are so sharply accurate as to be mistaken for real experiences." (Mortimer 654) Raskolnikov felt a powerful urge as he ...
- 2048: Chaucer
- ... carpenter, and very angry with the Miller for his tale); two Cambridge students punish a dishonest miller by having sex with his wife and daughter while asleep all in one room. Again, the end involves violence, as the miller discovers what has happened but is struck on the head by his wife because his bald pate is all she can see in the dark. The Cook's Prologue and Tale: only ...
- 2049: Chaim Potok And The Problem Of Assimilation For The American
- ... to embrace the secular world rather than Orthodox or Hasidim Judaism (switt@thayer.com). The Chosen begins with Reuven Malther being injured in a baseball game. His assailant is Danny Saunders who is driven to violence by his pent-up torment, who feels imprisoned by the tradition that destines him to succeed his awesome father in an unbroken line of Hasidic rabbis, while his own restless intelligence is beginning to reach ...
- 2050: Catch 22 - Satire
- ... sound: experienced pilots have a better chance of surviving and accomplishing their mission than do green airmen. However, his motivation is not. Yossarian and his friends endure a nightmarish, absurd existence defined by bureaucracy and violence: they are inhuman resources in the eyes of their blindly ambitious superior officers. Because Cathcart cannot identify for sure what the higher headquarter generals think and because they themselves loathe and oppose each other, Cathcart ...
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