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The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Oppression

... the narrator is trapped. The house is not her house. She refers to it in the introduction as “a haunted house…. Still I proudly declare that there is something queer about it” (p. 630). This shows that from the beginning, the narrator can see something is wrong with this house. Her husband responds to her discomfort of the house as a father would respond to a child. “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in a marriage.” This shows that women were not taken serious and their opinions were merely laughed at. On ...

Number of words: 1129 | Number of pages: 5

Cry, Our Beloved Country

... is sort of surprised and says,"of crime?"(p. 140). Talking to harrison taught stephen about the crime in the city, and the next morning he learns about his son. One of the first things that james learns of his son, and his views, he learns in arthurs' room. In reading his writings, james finds that arthur would have risked anything to help other people, and ended up doing just that. James finds that his son was well researched on the problems of their society, and was interested in helping the development of the social structure in south afri ...

Number of words: 773 | Number of pages: 3

1984

... countries, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. Winston knows this, because his work at the Ministry of Truth involves the constant correction of news. “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,” the party slogan reads. Basically, Winston takes real news and twists it to what “Big Brother” wants the people to kn ...

Number of words: 622 | Number of pages: 3

The Truth Is Out There, Do We

... genteel ideas and actions. Living amongst the privileged few, the artists, musicians, orators, and other cultured people, he knew nothing of the dark depths of the human heart. When confronted with those horrible realities, he was forced to learn the "black" truth about life and people. His mind couldn’t comprehend the truths he had to accept; it was totally contradicting to what he knew, and so he crumbled, selling his soul to sit among demons and devils. He was hollow inside, had no sense of moral or social responsibility, and the black tr ...

Number of words: 952 | Number of pages: 4

Animal Farm: Utopia

... is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plow, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. (p.19) This speech gets all the animals riled up and sends the toughts of getting rid of man. Old Major then teaches them the song the Beasts of England which teaches them the "great" life without man and with no more bad leaders: Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken ...

Number of words: 1090 | Number of pages: 4

Ethan Frome: Ethan's Failures

... in the book is through the marriage of Ethan and his wife. He married her because she had tried to help his mother recover from an illness, and once his mother died he could not bear the thought of living in the house alone. His wife was seven years his senior and always seemed to have some kind of illness. It seemed all she ever did was complain, and he resented this because it stifled his growing soul. Since his wife was continuously ill, and her cousin needed a place to stay, they took her in to help around the house. Ethan took an immedia ...

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Things Fall Apart

... of Ikemefuna as one of his own sons. He was deeply saddened when he was killed. One can see the effects on Okonko from that event. First Okonko was unable to sleep for the following three days. He also kept on getting drunk, and that was a sign that he was depressed. This incident also had a long-term effect on Okonko. From then on his family would look at him as if it were his fault that Ikemefuna is dead. This episode can be seen as an event where Okonko looses some faith from his family. This corresponds to Okonko loo ...

Number of words: 488 | Number of pages: 2

An Analysis Of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres

... obvious of which is King Lear. The parallels are too great to ignore. Smiley is successful because she fills in so many of the gaps left open in the play. She gives us new an d different perspectives. One of the particular strengths of the novel lies in its depiction of the place of women in a predominantly patriarchal culture. In this male dominated culture, the values privileged in women include silence and subordination. Ginny is acceptable as a woman as long as she remains "oblivious" (121). She is allowed to disagree with me ...

Number of words: 747 | Number of pages: 3

The Lottery Winner

... world. After she had won the lottery the New York Globe news paper had asked her to write about all of her different adventures. 2. Willy Meehan is around his sixties, he has blue eyes with white hair. Willy is a former plumber who quit his job after wining the lottery with his wife Alvirah. Willy enjoys traveling with Alvirah to all the different places. He is very supportive and help full to Alvirah in her interest of helping others with there crimes. He also enjoys helping the poor or just those people that can't afford to hire a plumber ...

Number of words: 1075 | Number of pages: 4

The World As Will And Idea And Young Goodman Brown: Symbols

... odyssey. Symbols as well as images are used to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts, ideas, states of mind and any sensory or extra sensory experiences. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was well known for his masterly use of symbols to evoke the 'power or darkness'. Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville two great writers who also base most of their works on the use of symbolism and imagery praised his work. In Young Goodman Brown (1864), Brown a young Puritan, leaves Faith, his wife for a nighttime journey in the woods. Meet ...

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Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms

... Hemingway's novels, nights have always been a sign of death, or something negative to happen. Another one of the symbolisms in A Farewell to Arms is when Henry tries to escape from the Italian army by jumping off one of the ships the army was traveling on and running away from the army. This symbolism was the water that he jumped into was a symbolism of the new, clean life that he was going to live from now on. At this time, Henry goes off and finds his wife to be. The plot in A Farewell to Arms was always active. They were never s ...

Number of words: 525 | Number of pages: 2

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