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- 2051: Catch 22
- ... when he is bored or uncomfortable. The separation of the actual passage of time from the experience of that passage is, for Dunbar, an attempt to regain control of a life constantly threatened by the violence of war. ****** The first time Yossarian ever goes to the hospital, he is still a private. He feigns an abdominal pain, then mimics the mysterious ailment of the soldier who saw everything twice. He spends ...
- 2052: Blue Hotel
- ... 1634). Personification of a wrathful God is portrayed when the guests are escorted through the portals of a room that "seemed to be merely a proper temple for an enormous stove...humming with god-like violence" (Crane 1627). Additionally, alluding to baptism, the guests then formed part of a "series of small ceremonies" by washing themselves in the basins of water (Crane 1627). To further prove the innocence of his building ...
- 2053: Because I Could Not Stop For Death
- ... and sadness. The poem has a certain calm and tranquil feeling to it that makes the reader think of death in a different way than one usually would. Death is usually linked with thoughts of violence and rage not with a tranquil ride in a carriage. In stanza two Dickinson writes, "We slowly drove, he knew no haste, and I had put away my labor, and my leisure too, for his ...
- 2054: Barbarians
- ... she understands why she is not welcomed in the society, she realizes that she has to leave, but her emotional pain makes her to do unthinkable. Pain is often the source of anger and then violence. That progression is one of Euripides' main themes. "Great people's tempers are terrible." The greatness of the temper is one measure of the greatness of the person who is angry. Medeas passion causes ...
- 2055: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... found the solidity of institutions like Tellson's appealing; the old bank and its banker, Jarvis Lorry, represent a kind of bastion against the new, aggressive ways of men like Stryver--and against the frenzied violence of the French mob. -MADAME DEFARGE Dickens is famous for tagging his characters with a habit, trait, or turn of phrase. Just as Jarvis Lorry's constant catchword is "business," so Madame Defarge's defining ...
- 2056: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... of blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become" (p.97). Dickens uses the theme resurrection to give the reader a break in the tragic story of violence. Since Dickens is a Christian man, he felt he had to give the reader a touch of the Bible throughout his writngs of A Tale of Two Cities.
- 2057: A Separate Peace
- ... only himself, and people protect themselves to great lengths from getting hurt by others. Although this may be a natural way of life, nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.
- 2058: A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Foreshadowing
- In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," by Flannery OConnor, one is struck by the unexpected violence at the end of the story. However, if one re-reads the story as second time, one will see definite signs of foreshadowing of the ending. In the course of this story, OConnor uses ...
- 2059: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- ... them, even when they are being massacred by the misfit. (141) Di Renzo later talks about the Misfit as a complicated and non-cartoon like character. "O'Connor's comic technique disparages the victims of violence and ironically makes their killer, the Misfit, the most attractive character in the story. He may be a cold-blooded, homicidal maniac, but he is at least complicated and dignified. Self-conscious and articulate, the ...
- 2060: A Clockwork Orange
- ... twenty-first chapter. Stanley Hyman, a literary critic, provided an afterward for the original American edition of A Clockwork Orange. In it he states that "Alex always was a clockwork orange, a machine for mechanical violence far below the level of choice...". One must remember that this after word was written for an edition in which the important twenty-first chapter was missing. In that chapter, Alex himself states: Youth must ...
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