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Turn Of The Screw-hidden Ghost

... ghosts too, but that they refuse to admit it. She says, "whatever I had seen, Miles and Flora saw more-- things terrible and unguessable and that sprang from dreadful passages of intercourse in the past." (P.53) They are scared or intimidated. Some of the places the governess appears show many parallels to the sightings of the ghosts as well. The governess sees Quint in the glass door and up on the tower, a place where Mrs. Grose notices the governess. And the governess sees Miss Jessel sitting at her desk. She recalls, "In the presence ...

Number of words: 420 | Number of pages: 2

Young Goodman Brown: Theme

... teacher and see her turned. This brings down his confidence to a great low. He continues down the trail looking for hope in the heavens but hears only howling voices. Goodman eventually reaches his destination and sees the rest of the towns people there participating in evil acts. When he sees this it destroys any faith he might have had in the community or in himself and he appears to give-up on life. The following morning he finds himself in the forest and wonders what happened to him the previous night. He didn’t know if what h ...

Number of words: 436 | Number of pages: 2

The Cask Of Amontillado: Irony And Foreshadowing

... I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge,” (1178). Montresor preys Fortunato’s weakness, priding himself on his connoisseurship in wine, to get his revenge. At dusk, Montresor approached Fortunato during the supreme madness of the carnival they were attending. Knowing that Fortunato is drunk, he asks him to come and taste his pipe of Amontillado. Of course Fortunato could not refuse. Montresor takes him to his catacombs and leads him down to where the pipe is supposed to be. As they are walking, you ...

Number of words: 633 | Number of pages: 3

More's Utopia And Huxley's Brave New World: Differing Societies

... well as the similarities. The two novels differ in their views of love, religion, and the way to eliminate social classes. These differences seem to suggest that if we do not come closer to More’s goal in Utopia, we will end up in a society much like that of Huxley’s Brave New World. Thomas More’s Utopia, is a small island where there is no greed or crime. The inhabitants of this island live as equals, no one does more work than another person and everyone feels secure with their place in society. By abolishing money and private p ...

Number of words: 2387 | Number of pages: 9

Injustice In To Kill A Mockingbird

... He did very well to ignore all the abuse and was greatly respected after the trial was over. Another person who suffered from injustice was Tom Robinson. He was charged with a crime he did not commit. His side of the story was not believed because he was black, which really shows the amount of injustice during the time the novel was set in. Through the whole trial, he did not retaliate at the white people, he did not get mad because he was improperly accused, he just showed the level of respect which everyone deserves. He handled the in ...

Number of words: 341 | Number of pages: 2

The Awakening

... This novel showed the discriminatory views and treatment towards women. It also distinctly indicates the dissatisfaction that women felt in their lives. Because of the roles that society has given them, women are not able to seek and fulfill their own psychological and sexual drives. In , Chopin uses Edna Pontellier to show that women do not want to be restricted by the roles that society has placed on them. Because of the time she lived in, Edna felt oppressed just because she was a woman. Being a married woman and a mother made her feel eve ...

Number of words: 1206 | Number of pages: 5

Critical Essay On Billy Budd

... court case, in which three men were accused of murder. However, the circumstances which led them to murder were beyond their control; they had been stranded at sea and forced to kill and eat their fourth companion, who had fallen ill and was about to die anyway. The Judge, Lord Coleridge, found them guilty because "law cannot follow nature's principle of self-preservation." In other words, necessity is not a justification for killing, even when this necessity is beyond human control. Since Billy is unable to defend himself verbally, he ...

Number of words: 521 | Number of pages: 2

A Wizard Of Eathsea

... the shadow and how too win his life back. As a young boy Ged learns to fend for himself. His mother dies when he is young, and his father and older brothers have no use for him. That must have made his soul yearn for love, because he never got it as a child. He was a wild and unruly child, and the only time his aunt paid attention to him is when she found out he had powers. It is as if the aunt used him to live vicariously though, and that would make anyone upset and cold to others. However, Ged learns to overcome all of his emotio ...

Number of words: 961 | Number of pages: 4

"The Yellow Wall-Paper"

... her brother are well-known physicians. They use their power to control the main character, perhaps subconsciously, to feel what they think a woman should feel. For example, the woman tells the men she is sick but they believe differently. "John is a physician, and perhaps- (I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind) perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick!"(507) The men are under the impression that what they say goes and therefore the ...

Number of words: 1491 | Number of pages: 6

A Christmas Memory: Truman Capote

... discussion during dinnertime was the need of materials to make the cakes, and the lack of funding to do so. Sook and Buddy begin reminiscing about how they managed to gather their meager sums. People in the house donate a dime or two. Buddy and Sook make some money by selling jams and jellies, rounding up flowers for funerals and weddings, rummage sales, contests, and even a Fun and Freak museum. The secret fund is hidden in an old beaded purse under a loose board in the floor. They never remove the purse from under Sook's bed unless ma ...

Number of words: 1027 | Number of pages: 4

An Analysis Of Poe's The Fall Of The House Of Usher

... sent for him in hopes that his friend might afford him solace. Though his mental problems were a large part of his sorrow, most of it was due to his sister's illness. Much of the narrator's time at The House of Usher was spent reading philosophical books with Usher, apparently a great hobby of them both. One evening Usher came to the narrator and informed him “that the lady Madeline [Usher's sister] was no more.” (212) He also informed him of his intentions of keeping her corpse for a fortnight in one of the many vaults in the house. ...

Number of words: 891 | Number of pages: 4

Black Rain

... one paragraph. The name of the bomb had already undergone a number of changes, from the initial "new weapon" through "new-type bomb," "secret weapon," "special new-type bomb," to "special high-capacity bomb." That day, I learned for the first time to call it an "atomic bomb." ( 282) The importance of the name of the bomb may seem ineffectual, but he seems to dwell on finding out what caused this type of destruction. Something else that Mr. Shizuma wants to do is remember every little detail about what happens to everything from what ang ...

Number of words: 1359 | Number of pages: 5

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