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Heart Of Darkness: Ignorance And Racism

... to name. Normal readers usually are good at detecting racism in a book. Achebe acknowledges Conrad camouflaged racism remarks, saying, "But Conrad chose his subject well - one which was guaranteed not to put him in conflict with psychological pre-disposition..." (Achebe, 253). Having gone back and rereading Heart of Darkness, but this time reading between the lines, I have discovered some racism Conrad felt toward the natives that I had not discovered the first time I read the book. Racism is portrayed in Conrad's book, but one must ackno ...

Number of words: 1003 | Number of pages: 4

"Managemment Of Grief" And "A Pair Of Tickets": Women's Images

... own husband: "I was too much the well brought up woman. I was so well brought up I never felt comfortable calling my husband by his first name" (Mukherjee 537). For a person who grew up in North American society this revelation may seem to come from an oppressed female, but later on in the story we learn that protagonist could stand up for herself and for other women, like in the airport incident. There again we were reminded of the way she was brought up: "Once upon a time we were well brought up women; we were dutiful wives who kept ...

Number of words: 882 | Number of pages: 4

Flatland: Social Satire Of Victorian English Society

... Flatlands: Romance of Many Dimensions, Abbott describes the journey of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women who were thin straight lines are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status therefore giving the highest and most respected class in Flatland to the circular or Priestly order who control Flatland. Priests in Flatland are a certain type of polygon. A circle in fact, "that is considered a polygon because of the large number of sma ...

Number of words: 767 | Number of pages: 3

Beloved

... opening. Mr. Garner purchases a 13-year old black slave girl named Sethe in order to assist his wife by doing the routine jobs around the house. Sethe is the only female slave owned by Mr. Garner who has five other male slaves – three Pauls, Halle, and Sixo. Sethe marries Halle and gives birth to four children. While she is pregnant with her fourth child, the six adult slaves decide to escape the household. Her three children make it to safety due to the aid of a runaway slave woman but Sethe waited for Halle, which caused her to get ...

Number of words: 1513 | Number of pages: 6

Macbeth Thematic Essay

... is a thoroughly representative human being. One word that can be easily associated with Macbeth is ambition. It is necessary for one person to have ambition in order to succeed. Ambition is first planted in Macbeth's head by King Duncan appointing him Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth's valiant effort in the war and the news of the Thane of Cawdor assisting the enemy cause Duncan to sentence death upon the Thane of Cawdor. When the witches approach Macbeth and Banquo, they call Macbeth Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and king hereafter. That ...

Number of words: 852 | Number of pages: 4

Contaminated Motives

... believe their prospers are used for the common good, but in reality many values are being compromised. The cliché, “Money cannot buy happiness” exemplifies the opposite of what Pip and Gatsby believe, in that both utilize their money in what they believe to be a valiant attempt to bring the women they love into their lives. Along the way to achieving this “goal”, they violated ethics, which in turn changed them as people. Although money serves as a driving force for individuals, it does not counter the negative effects ...

Number of words: 1271 | Number of pages: 5

Battle Royale

... be able to overcome the obstacles to equality by proving himself in the white man's world, on the white man's terms. The content of the speech and his attitude toward it is important because it shows he is striving for a goal he can not and has not seen achieved. He will devote the remainder of the story attempting to achieve the goal and failing. To be allowed to give his speech to the leaders of the community, he must fight in a dehumanizing debacle, geared toward the entertainment of the rich white men in attendance. The symbolic ...

Number of words: 708 | Number of pages: 3

The Time Machine By H.G Wells

... exposed to biology under the famous Thomas H. Huxley. Wells went into teaching and writing text books and articles for the magazines that were of that time. In 1894 he began to write science-fiction stories. -James Gunn Wells vision of the future, with its troglodytic Morlocks descended from the working class of his day and the pretty but helpless Eloi devolved from the leisure class, may seem antiquated political theory. It emerged out of the concern for social justice that drew Wells to the Fabian Society and inspired much of his later w ...

Number of words: 3224 | Number of pages: 12

Huck Finn

... on the raft down the Mississippi. His mother is deceased, while his father customarily is in a drunken state. Huck grows up following his own rules until he moves in with the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. Together, the women attempt to "sivilize"(Twain, 3). Huck by making him attend school, study religion, and act in a way the women find socially acceptable. However, Huck's free-spirited soul keeps him from joining the organized life the two women have in store for him. The freedom Huck seeks in Tom Sawyer's gang is nothing mor ...

Number of words: 1206 | Number of pages: 5

Submission Or The Drop Of A Fi

... down. Then there was a wild neigh and the horse plunged off in the dark, the crisp, frantic clanking of metal and the stomping of hooves followed me to the door. Perhaps this was something for Brother Jack to know." Within the posed partnership between the whites and the blacks in the Brotherhood is an underlying sense of authority and domination. Although a picture of alliance is what the whites wish to paint, even shallow reading brings out the irrefutable control which they possess over their black brothers. Unknowably, the narrator is ...

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The Themes In Of Mice And Men

... describes to Lennie as buying a little place, where they would “live off the fatta the lan’.” Their longing for land is universal for many migrant workers of that time period. They were tired of “doin’ all the work and not getting what comes up outa the ground.” Their dream was one of independence and self-fulfillment that was often hard to come by for migrant workers of that day. Yet in this case, the plot develops to the point where their dream seems more attainable with Candy’s involvement. But here lies the tragedy ...

Number of words: 746 | Number of pages: 3

To Kill A Mockingbird: The Theme Of Prejudice

... sitting in the livingroom cutting some items from The Maycomb Tribune to paste in his scrapbook. His father entered the room. As Mr.Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parent's leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities." (Chapter 1, page 11) I don't see how you can't expect to have prejudice in a small town like that, after all isolation is a major factor in why prejudice and racism arise. "Men hate each other because they fear each other, ...

Number of words: 1330 | Number of pages: 5

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