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Milton's Paradise Lost: A Look Within

... falls trap to its own special kind of static imprisonment. Most of the images in Paradise Lost, however, have a substantial life of their own; they are properties rather than metaphors. In the presentation of Satan, Milton is dealing with a special difficulty. He is not presenting a human intelligence, but an angelic one-a being the nature of which is almost impossible for the human mind to grasp. Milton simplifies the matter by making spiritual intelligences more highly refined versions of human intelligence. He is still left with one prob ...

Number of words: 725 | Number of pages: 3

Willy Loman’s Struggle With The American Dream

... others fail. Willy is a perfect model of the common man. There are many aspects of the dream which Willy strived to achieve, though he failed. The American Dream led to Willy Loman, a common man’s demise, because Willy’s life excluded the element of happiness, Biff failed Willy, and Willy failed the dream based on certain standards. Willy’s life excluded the element of happiness; happiness being a component of the American Dream. The American Dream has many components. The components of the dream are: having wealth and success in the bu ...

Number of words: 1265 | Number of pages: 5

POINT OF VIEW IN AandP

... girls until they were near the bread and he begins comparing the thighs of the first girl he saw to crescents of white. The first contrast comes almost immediately as he is brought back to the task at hand which is waiting on a fifty-year-old woman, with whom he is irritated for causing him to stop looking at the girls. He blames her for his own mistake of ringing up her purchase twice, but realizes he must pay attention to his job as he stated, "…I got her feathers smoothed…" Updike goes into great detail to contrast the young gir ...

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Tom Clancy

... He had married young, as was the custom in his land, and fathered two children. But his wife and daughter were dead, killed by rockets fired from a Russian attack fighter. He believed his son to be kidnapped and shipped to the Soviet Union, where he would be educated and trained in modern ways. The archer knew that he must avenge the hardships brought on to him. In the following passage it is shown that the archer is a bitter vigilante who feels that he himself must right societies injustices, "The teacher of Algebra and Geometry neatly ...

Number of words: 1083 | Number of pages: 4

A Summary Of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

... when the novel begins, Huck is not used to following any rules. The book's opening finds Huck living with the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. Both women are fairly old and are really somewhat incapable of raising a rebellious boy like Huck Finn. Nevertheless, they attempt to make Huck into what they believe will be a better boy. Specifically, they attempt, as Huck says, to "sivilize" him. This process includes making Huck go to school, teaching him various religious facts, and making him act in a way that the women find soci ...

Number of words: 1065 | Number of pages: 4

Frankenstein: What Makes It A Gothic Novel?

... short-lived happiness, loneliness, isolation, and despair. Shelly's writing shows how the varied and dramatic settings of Frankenstein can create the atmosphere of the novel and can also cause or hinder the actions of Frankenstein and his monster as they go on their seemingly endless chase where the pursuer becomes the pursued. Darkly dramatic moments and the ever-so-small flashes of happiness stand out. The setting sets the atmosphere and creates the mood. The “ dreary night of November” (Shelly 42) where the monster is given life, re ...

Number of words: 700 | Number of pages: 3

1984: The Structure Of The Novel

... write a diary. He expresses his thought's and feelings toward the Party. He writes ‘Down With Big Brother' in it. At this Point he is not sure if he wants to keep writing because he is afraid to get caught. He writes about war and how it affects the children. Winston does not think the Party should allow the hangings to be public. Winston writes about when men will be free, when the truth exists and when what is done cannot be undone. Also, Winston thinks about Goldstein. He says how Goldstein has a lot of influence on some people ...

Number of words: 397 | Number of pages: 2

The Deerslayer: View Of The Native Americans

... experiences and situation. Many critics, for example, argue that The Deerslayer presents a moral opinion about what occurred in the lives of the American Indians. Marius Bewley has said that the book shows moral values throughout the context of it. He says that from the very beginning, this is symbolically made clear. The plot is a platform for the development of moral themes. The first contact the reader has with people in the book is in the passage in which the two hunters find each other. "The calls were in different tones, evidentl ...

Number of words: 2277 | Number of pages: 9

Native Son: Bigger

... is one of those individuals, who discovers his capacity to rebel through acts of murder against the white society, which has for long oppressed his family, friends, and himself. By tracing Bigger's psyche from before the murder of Mary Dalton, into the third book of the novel, and into the subconscious depths of the final scene, the development of Bigger's self realization becomes evident. An entire period of Bigger's life, up until the murder of Mary Dalton, portrays him under a form of slavery, where the white society governs his state of ...

Number of words: 865 | Number of pages: 4

Jackaroo: Gwyn Versus Tad

... changes. Gwyn, secretly went against the beliefs of her parents and her community, and changed for the betterment of herself. She became who she wanted to be. Gwyn made these choices internally, listening to her heart and mind. However, Gwyn actually makes two different turns in the novel. In the end, she comes out of her mystical world and back into reality. On the other hand, Tad, reacting from the external influence of his family and the Inn, changed to form the mold of the responsible son of that time period. Though taking opposite ...

Number of words: 1309 | Number of pages: 5

The Pelican Breif

... hotel and was given an envelope with a picture of all the Supreme Court Justices in it and just two of them circled. About Two minutes later both of them were murdered. One of them in his house and the other one in a adult cinema. Then they show Darby in the house of her law professor whose name was Thomas Calahan. Who happened to be a clerk for Justice Rosenberg. Shaw then tells her professor who she is having an affair with that she is going to try and find out who murdered them. They show the President talking with his adviso ...

Number of words: 923 | Number of pages: 4

The Riddle Of St. Leonards

... medieval studies. She thought her book would never get published, but then she found a job as an editor of research publications at the University of Washington. Her short story wasn’t published, but she turned that story into a novel, The Apothecary Rose. Candace is now the author of two ongoing mystery series featuring medieval sleuths, the Margaret Kerr Mysteries and the Owen Archer Mysteries. Ms.Robb researched a lot for these novels. Candace read a lot of depressing readings, both in statistics and in handbooks for physicians that w ...

Number of words: 1431 | Number of pages: 6

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