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Dystopia In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

... fears of totalitarian ideology and uncontrolled advances in technology and science" (Baker 22). It is the situation that costs a piece of an unhealthy environment for human beings, is the theme of the novel. The dystopian setting is brought about by technology and by higher authorities. As technology increases, the use for human beings in the work force decreases leaving an overwhelming amount of depression among humans. Therefore, a way to continue the production of technological findings is by bringing up humans from day one to ...

Number of words: 2012 | Number of pages: 8

Gray's "The Epitaph": An Analysis

... "Fair Science frowned" on the aspects of the person's life and now the incapacity that they have toward this world. Their one and only sole purpose in this world is to waste space in the earth and rot away for eternity. Gray's style is very intriguing. He speaks of god and how there are certain things around that are only now known as "frailties" of what used to be life. Gray speaks out against the way this person was treated in society which is symbolic of how people are being treated as a whole and the hollowness and shallowness of peo ...

Number of words: 441 | Number of pages: 2

Superstition In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

... shriveled up. Huck didn't need anyone to tell him that it was an bad sign and would give him bad luck. Huck got scared and shook his clothes off, and turned in his tracks three times. He then tied a lock of his hair with a thread to keep the witches away. "You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep of bad luck when you'd killed a spider."(Twain 5). In chapter four Huck sees Pap's footprints in the snow. So Huck goes t ...

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Antigone 4

... a conquered personage. She respects her family despite what has happened in the past and always seems to be loyal towards her brothers, Polyneices and Eteocles, as well as her sister Ismene. Antigone feels as though abiding by the laws of the gods, is a valuable merit to follow. This theory gradually affects her actions and behavior towards Creon. The tragic flaw of Antigone leads to many lamenting events in the play. The manner she poses her characteristics in such as being stubborn and raggedness portrays her flaw in the play. Antigone att ...

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The Mississippi River (huckleb

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Gillian By Laurel Oke Logan

... because she couldn't find a job and all of her friends had found jobs. When Gillian told her father how she felt he told her that there was a woman who called him to see if she (Gillian) would be able and willing to work at this camp in Canada in the kitchen. At first Gillian was very excited but when she began to think about it the whole idea scared her to death. Going off to a place outside of the United States where she had never been and leaving her family behind, she just didn't know if she could go through with it. A few days a ...

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The Outsiders: Theme

... main character, lives with his brothers as a greaser. One day Ponyboy and Johnny, Ponyboy's best friend, get jumped by a group of Socs. The Socs start to drown Ponyboy in a fountain. Johnny, realizing they might kill Ponyboy, kills Bob, one of the Socs with his switchblade. Johnny and Ponyboy run to a fellow Greaser, Dally, who is always in trouble with the law. Dally helps them by giving them some money, a gun, and a place to hide. They hide in a church outside of town for a week until Dally says it's okay to come out. They go out to ea ...

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The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Isolation And Alienation

... the young and the pure would be taught to look at her, with the letter flaming on her chest”, also “as the figure, the body and the reality of sin”(73). Holding on to sin can lead to alienation and isolation. One reason Hester was alienated was her refusal to identify the other adulterer. When Hester is released from prison and stood upon the scaffold, she was asked to reveal the name of whom she committed the sin with. Having a heart blinded by love Hester choose to stay in the town and wear the scarlet letter “A” i ...

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The Chosen

... in their footsteps. Danny too, is a great Talmud scholar and deeply religious person, but his friendship with a less religious boy draws him into a more secular world, changing many of his viewpoints. Reuven Malter is brought up in a modern orthodox Jewish environment. His father is the rabbi of his synagogue, and a teacher in high school. Reuven is a very modern Jew who learns a wide variety of Jewish subjects. Though he invests much time in Gemara, the amount he learms is nothing compared to what the Chasidim learn. This difference in e ...

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Herman Wouk's The Winds Of War

... before? What were the political conditions? What did the SS Stormtroopers look like? What did a concentration camp reveal? By triggering these sensors and somewhat emotional queries within me, the author has already caused a clockwork cycle to commence which will enlighten my reading and eventually create enjoyment and furthering interests with his novel. This is what Virginia Woolf focuses her composition about and emphasizes so very clearly After reading her essay, I came to grasp and understand her theory that one is best not to ac ...

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Critical Analysis Of House Opp

... The conflict in the story is internal; the hermit becomes aware of a prostitute living across the street, and cannot ignore her presence. Throughout the story, the hermit complains about the "awful monster" and regards her as the "personification of evil." This is not the root of the problem however. The hermit's preoccupation with the prostitute served to destroy him, but unfortunately for him, the blame cannot be aimed at her. Throughout the middle of the passage, the hermit described the features of the prostitute with a particu ...

Number of words: 605 | Number of pages: 3

Sir Gawain And The Wife Of Bath

... Marriage of Sir Gawain, and because six of the nine analogues which I consider typical contain some connection (direct or indirect) with Gawain himself. These analogues are: Gower's Tale of Florent (TF) The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell (DR) The Marriage of Sir Gawain (MG) The Adventure of Daire's Sons (DS) The Ballad of King Henry (KH) The Ballad of the Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter (SD) The Ballad of Kemp Owyne (KO) Libeaus Desconus (LD) {one episode} Wolfram's Parzival (P) {the German version of Chretien's Contes De ...

Number of words: 4742 | Number of pages: 18

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