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Eliot's Views Of Sexuality As Revealed In The Behavior Of Prufrock And Sweeney

... moment of his decision by telling himself "And indeed there will be time." Prufrock is aware of his monotonous routines and is frustrated, "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons":. He contemplates the aimless pattern of his divided and solitary self. He is a lover, yet he is unable to declare his love. Should a middle-aged man even think of making a proposal of love? "Do I dare/Disturb the universe?" he asks. Prufrock knows the women in the saloons "known them all" and he presumes how they classify him and he feels he deserves ...

Number of words: 1143 | Number of pages: 5

Crime And Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them, And Different Punishments

... London street. Prostitution was also a big money maker on the streets, done by both girls and boys. But crimes though out the middle class and rich were mostly property crimes and disputes which made up 90% of all crimes committed by the upper-class. In Victorian England and like today there a two categories which crimes fall under. "Indictable" which is the same as our felony crimes that make up all of the major crimes. These crimes consist of: Murder, armed robbery, burglary, larceny, rape, and assaults on the police. The next called c ...

Number of words: 967 | Number of pages: 4

How The Scarlet Letter Effects

... finds another man whom she becomes close to. She becomes pregnant and the town finds out she had committed adultery. She is forced to wear a letter "A," meaning "adulteress," on her bosom for the rest of her life. The book focuses mainly on the sin that was committed; it effected the whole community. The scarlet letter had one basic meaning, "adultery," but to the characters of Hester and Dimmesdale it was a constant reminder of the sin; and to Pearl it was a symbol of curiosity. Obviously, the scarlet letter had the largest impact on ...

Number of words: 1731 | Number of pages: 7

The Joy Luck Club: Differences Between Generations

... and their daughters born in the American atmosphere of California, is a difference that doesn’t exactly take a scientist to see. From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II, where "we feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy." (p. 12) Really, this was their only joy. The mothers grew up during perilous times in China. They a ...

Number of words: 688 | Number of pages: 3

The Scarlet Letter: Theocracy And Guilt And Punishment

... guilt on people for their sin and punishing them if they were insubordinate to the rules, a theocratic society can control its people. Hawthorne presents the concept and theme through his use of literary devices or techniques such as imagery, symbolism, and light and dark words. Theocratic domination is the ambience of control of a society based on religious ideals and laws. It is a society that relies on the guilt that comes from the violation of the laws of its religion and the punishment of these transgressions. Puritan society was ...

Number of words: 2153 | Number of pages: 8

Fifth Business

... Mrs. Dempster was struck with a snowball that was meant for Dunny. Since that point in time Dunny, being the more caring and excepting of responsibility for other peoples problems, of the two, has not lived up to par with the life of Boy Staunton. Ever since the snowball accident Dunny has been preoccupied by worrying over Mary Dempster, and now her son Paul. At the age of sixteen the small town of Deptford becomes too much for Dunny to handle so he decides to drop out of secondary school and join the Army. Dunny needed a change in his ...

Number of words: 630 | Number of pages: 3

Glass Menagerie: Relationships Are The Conveyance Of Love

... Tom and Amanda. Tom is a poet. He feels like he is being forced to live in a small apartment with his family. He wants to leave and find adventure somewhere because he isn't happy with his life, just like his father did: " Tom remains a character in his own right- find of his sister, ambiguous about his mother, and eager to follow his father's escapist footsteps" (Cohn 58). Amanda doesn't want to face the fact the Tom is going to leave someday. The love an loss of her husband gave her nothing to look forward to in life. She loves her children ...

Number of words: 1313 | Number of pages: 5

The Great Gatsby: The Destructive Effects Of Wealth

... in New York. It showed the destroying effect of wealth because Tom felt that since he had enough money, he didn't need to be faithful to Daisy. Instead, the superficial power of money has led him astray from his wife. The fact that you have money doesn't mean you can do whatever you please. A marital relationship should be heavily based on love. I got none of that love from Tom's and Daisy's marriage. Their constant irritating remarks, and interruptions make it seem that there is no love between them. They seem like a couple in the ...

Number of words: 416 | Number of pages: 2

Archetypes In A Rose For Emily

... again at any time. This short story offers many interpretations. However, the structure of the story breaks down into two stages: past and present. By examining the archetypes within the story, it can be suggested that Emily's over-protective father stands to represent Emily's feminist struggle, the ongoing battle for women to have an equal place in society. Emily should be able to do as she pleases, but her dependence her father does not allow her to have that freedom. Her father's over-protection is evident in this passage, “We re ...

Number of words: 406 | Number of pages: 2

The Cask Of Amontillado

... he has in store for him. His wit is shown when Montressor invites Fortunato, a wine expert, to his home to sample his Amontillado. Fortunato gladly accepts and they set off to Montressor's vaults. Montressor has a plan for Fortunato but is good in keeping it to himself. Having planned all the details of his revenge, Montressor had given instructions to his servants not to leave the house. The servants naturally left the house, thinking the master would be out for the rest of the night. Montressor had told them not to leave knowing th ...

Number of words: 551 | Number of pages: 3

The Great Gatsby 2

... his time. Unlike any of the other characters in the novel, Jay Gatsby does not change during the course of the story. He as a person might not have changed, but the way that people perceived him certainly became different. When he was alive and well, he was the perfect idea of the American Dream. He had more money than he knew what to do with. He could afford to have oversized parties every weekend. Jay Gatsby was the person to know when it came to the Eggs. In the beginning, he was only known as Jay Gatz. He was a poor boy in the ar ...

Number of words: 984 | Number of pages: 4

Raskolnikov And Utilitarianism

... a true follower of utilitarianism would be outraged at Raskolnikov's claim that murdering the old woman can be considered morally right. Raskolnikov arbitrarily leaves out some necessary considerations in his moral “equation” that do not adhere to utilitarianism. A utilitarian would argue that Raskolnikov has not reached an acceptable solution because he has not accurately solved the problem. On the other hand, a non-utilitarian would reject even the notion of deliberating about the act of murder in such a mathematical mann ...

Number of words: 1693 | Number of pages: 7

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