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Eugene Ionesco's "Rhinoceros": True Means Resides In Action Not Words

... nothing more. Futile attempts to ease the pain of my "rhinocerotic" life. The only way to really not become a rhinoceros is by making the existential decision not to do so. A main theme in Eugene Ionesco's, Rhinoceros, is that true meaning resides in action rather than in mere words. A resistance to taking action then results in one's becoming a rhinoceros. Jean illustrates this in the beginning of Act 2, scene 2, when we see Jean and Berenger bickering. Berenger feels that Jean isn't looking or feeling well and threatens to get ...

Number of words: 753 | Number of pages: 3

Persuasion--austin Poor Dick

... early 18th century, a time period in which the aristocracy is still a powerful social class. Austen’s exploration of usefulness vs. uselessness allows the reader to gain a glimpse of the true purpose of Persuasion. That being that happiness and self-fulfillment can only be achieved when one refuses the shackles of the ineffectual aristocracy. Austen seems to be expounding on Richard’s uselessness and his failure to live up to the promise of his birth and entitlement. This is a very important point. It seems that in the world of ...

Number of words: 1011 | Number of pages: 4

The Necklace: Madame Loisel

... and her life after she lost it. The story begins by telling us that Madame Loisel was an extremely beautiful woman who was born into a family of clerks. She was married to a little clerk at the Ministry of Public Instruction. As a result of this, “she suffered ceaselessly.” She felt she was “born for all the delicacies and all the luxuries.” She suffered from the poverty of her house, “the wretched look of the walls,” from the “worn out chairs,” and from the “ugliness of the curtains.” All those things that another wo ...

Number of words: 1670 | Number of pages: 7

The Scarlet Letter The Struggl

... put, was that he had committed adultery with Hester Prynne, and throughout the novel his struggle for the truth and his honorability becomes greater and greater. The man responsible for Dimmesdale’s torment was Roger Chillingworth. Chillingworth prays vengeance on Hester’s partner in crime (Dimmesdale) not Hester herself. When he visited Hester in prison he said, “He bears no letter of infamy wrought into his garment, as thou dost; but I shall read it on his heart…” pg.70, this quote foreshadows the symbol t ...

Number of words: 404 | Number of pages: 2

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

In The Middle Of The Night: Review

... sure but once I grasped hold of what was going on I couldn't put the book down. In the Middle of the Night is about an accident in a theater where a balcony collapses on a number of small children, and kills them, and a few are injured. The owner of the theatre kill himself and everyone is out to blame John the usher who was investigating the noises from the balcony at the time. Today the usher has grown up and has a son. A victim, who died in the accident but came back to life that day, is out for revenge on the usher's son. The novel is ha ...

Number of words: 284 | Number of pages: 2

Sense And Sensibility

... We do learn however that Elinor can get emotional. While Marianne was playing the piano after they had moved to the cottage, Elinor starts to cry as she listens. She said the song was her late fathers favorite. Later on in the story when Elinor and Marianne are in London, Marianne continually gets on to Elinor for not sharing her feelings. Elinor finally shows her emotions when she tells Marianne she did have a broken heart, after she found out Edward had a fiancé. When Elinor did find out about Lucy Steele she did not even tell lucy of ...

Number of words: 429 | Number of pages: 2

Niccolò Machiavelli - The Qual

... the nature of men because he views them as selfish and lacking in both loyalty and honesty. Machiavelli’s general opinion that men are selfish contains an underlying truth to the human nature. Inside every human being, there is a sense of selfishness that lay dormant until given cause to awake. It is a truth that many will not be willing to admit or acknowledge. Many will even say that there are people who are or were selfless in their actions. Yes, there are, but when the situation comes, normally no one can take away their selfis ...

Number of words: 557 | Number of pages: 3

Man Is Evil The Lord Of The Fl

... call me what they did at my other school.” Ralph was interested. “What was that?” the fat boy glanced over his shoulder, then leaned toward Ralph and whispered “they use to call me ‘Piggy’” Ralph shrieked with laughter he jumped up “Piggy!,Piggy!”… (Golding 11) Now that was only one example of why man is naturally evil. Right there Piggy decides to place trust in Ralph and in seconds it is shattered. This could relate to society in that if some one tells another person somethi ...

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Explication Of Dulce Et Decoru

... changes mood to one of urgency. He begins to talk about bombs, in this case nuclear warfare. When the bomb is dropped the soldiers begin to fumble with their helmets to protect themselves from the gas of the bomb. The helmets of this time were crude, but they did their job. The soldiers get their helmets on in time, except one. The soldier is "flound'ring like a man in fire...drowning" from exposure to the poisonous gases fired by the enemy. The author is expressing the cruelty of war through this poem in describing the slow and painful death ...

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The Characteristics Of Mrs.dic

... fox, white gloves and a dark-blue toque put on exactly right".(P110) As a model of beauty, she is also very attractive on herself. "She was a charming woman walking by herself". (P112) Because she is such a good looking, lovely woman, there is no question that many men couldn’t resist her attractiveness and want to marry with her. "Several man wanted to marrt her".(P113) Mrs.Dickinson is a widow because her husband died in a plane crash. That makes her to be a independent person. After the death of her husband, she has no help in anyw ...

Number of words: 643 | Number of pages: 3

Eating Disorder

... still think that they are overweight. Bulimia, meanwhile, is a disorder in which young women binge on food and then force themselves to vomit. They also often use laxatives to get food out of their system. All of these young women who suffer from this problem are considered to suffer from a psychiatric disorder. While the causes are debatable, one thing that is clear is that these young women have a distorted body image. (Wolf, pp.214-216) What is extremely alarming is that the current thin ideal for women in Western society, which is unatt ...

Number of words: 3059 | Number of pages: 12

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