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Friends Cannot Be Objects (zen

... When Chris dies, Phaedrus realizes that the neglect he showed for his son shouldn't happen again and he starts over with his daughter, Nell, letting her know how much she is loved and appreciated. Sometimes all a person needs in life is a second chance, and Phaedrus accomplished this more than once. The first time was with his new personality, the second, his daughter, Nell. Like this, sometimes all a friendship needs is a second chance. If two friends get upset at each other, if they have a good enough relationship, they'll at least att ...

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The Yellow Wall-Paper

... Charlotte Perkins Gilman, depicts one women’s struggle against the traditional female role into which society attempts to force her and the societal reaction to this act. From the beginning of this work, the woman is shown to have gone mad. We are given no insight into the past, and we do not know why she has been driven to the brink of insanity. The “beautiful…English place” that the woman sees in her minds eye is the way men have traditionally wanted women to see their role in society. As the woman says, “It is quite alone standin ...

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The Color Purple

... she communicates with. All the letters show that Celie is a very insecure person, and that reflects to her teenage years. All the abusing caused her a scar in her heart, which would stay there and wouldn't go away. Every time she thought about the abusement she felt like she was experiencing it all over again. In , there are many conflicts, which arise from the theme. First of all, Celie is against Pa and Mr._____, that shows the conflict of man Vs man, and unfortunately, Celie doesn't have the power to fight back physically. Secondly, Celie a ...

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Death Of A Salesman 2

... in actuality, Willy Loman may not possess these characteristics, he perceives himself as having them as he cares for himself, his children and his wife. A final distinction noted by Aristotle was that a tragic hero is not a bad person deserving of his impending misfortune, but instead, has made a series of mistakes leading to his downfall. We can see that Willy does not purposely create this harmful situation for himself, he is only ignorant that certain actions of his are wrong, which contribute to his self-ruin. Willy Loman thusly personif ...

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

... count is no normal human, but an evil, blood-sucking vampire, who can command animals and elements with the wave of his hand. Harker escapes but the Count has devised an intricate plan to move to London and exercise his evil forces on innocent people there. However, a group of friends, including an open-minded but ingenious professor, a psychologist, an American, a rich man, as well as Jon an Harker and his wife Mina, learn of the Count's sinister plan and pledge to destroy him before he can create an army of un-dead vampires. They systema ...

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An Analysis Of The Yellow Wallpaper

... likes writing personally. And so she writes about the yellow wallpaper. Everyday she would find something new to write about. The wallpaper really represents the society. Those bars, which she sees in front of the wallpaper, represent freedom. It is the boundary that woman wants to break open of. Women image behind the bars, tries to escaped from the control of men will eventually be twisted up. The lights that shined through the window present the dominant of men. The wife observes that patterns of the parts where lights sh ...

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Yours, Jack (about Jack The Ri

... I'm a doctor now. ha ha". Three days later the newly named, Jack struck again, twice in one night this time. Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes were killed within forty-five minutes of each other. In response the Vigilance Committee asks the Home Office to increase the reward money. The request was denied. On the first of October, one Thomas Coram found a bloodstained knife on Whitechapel Road, the blade was roughly nine inches in length. The possible murder weapon was immediately delivered to the police, who without modern techniq ...

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Death Of A Salesman

... stripped him of his dignity, piece by piece. It was society who stripped him of his lifestyle, and his own sons who stripped him of hope. The most obvious flaw in society is greed. This is the desire to get ahead of the next guy. It is the philosophy of businesses that compromise the dreams of many men. Though sometimes this can drive a man to great things, sometimes it can drive a man to ruin. Willy Loman was a simple man driven to ruin by greed. However, this was not by his own greed, but by that of others. The developers’ greed took away ...

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The Scarlet Letter: Light And Dark Imagery

... character's descriptions of him. Hester Prynne describes him by how "his dark complexion seemed to have grown duskier" (Hawthorne 103). Chillingworth's "dark complexion" represents his evil, which in time has "grown duskier", meaning his evil ways have grown. Terence Martin states, when utter blackness succeeds the vivid light of the meteor, the smiling and scowling face of the physician seems somehow to remain "painted on the darkness," (115). Martin shows how good can shine on the physician, yet his evil still remains in the darkn ...

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Love In Great Expectations

... differently, however some characteristics are the same amongst everybody. Pip thinks he is in love, but in my paper I investigate if it’s a real desire of infatuation for Estella, or just a first big crush which lasted through out his teenage years. Pip’s love for Estella is usually a one-way street, at least in his eyes. From the moment Pip meets her, he feels an attraction towards her. At the same token, Estella’s outward feelings towards Pip are confusing and cruel. From slapping him in the face as hard as she can, ...

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Pudd’nhead Wilson

... of legal matters is always liable to make mistakes when he tries to photograph a court scene with his pen; and so I was not willing to let the law chapters in this book go to press without first subjecting them to rigid and exhausting revision and correction by a trained barrister.” He did not want to look like a fool when he wrote these chapters. He wanted to make sure he, and the readers, were talking about. takes place during 1830, in a little town called Dawson’s Landing. Dave Wilson was a new citizen. He had a law degree, but whe ...

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Flowers For Algeron

... your personality or the way you were brought up. By him writing a story on a mentally challenged person wanting to become smart to be accepted by society, and be able to be seen as a "normal" person, at any length or means, was to show us, the society, how we treat mentally challenged people. He could possibly have seen a mentally challenged person being treated poorly, or perhaps was related to one and wanted to tell the society it was not right, but put it in a way by which it touched people in their own way, depending on how they interpre ...

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