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Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?": Arnold Fiend

... begins to notice the features such as the painted eyelashes, his shaggy hair which looked like a wig, and his stuffed boots; these features led her to believe he was not a teenager, but in fact, much older. Oates does make Arnold out to be a psychopathic stalker, but never objectively states the diabolical nature to his character. In “Connie's Tambourine Man”, a critical essay on the story, the authors write about Arnold Friend: “There are indeed diabolical shades to Arnold just as Blake and Shelley could see Milton's Satan a posit ...

Number of words: 554 | Number of pages: 3

Comparing The Works Of Richard Wright

... that Wright uses in his works are the key to making all of Wright's works what they have become as well as making Wright the author that he has become. Native Son is a novel that tells the story of a young black man (Bigger) and the constant struggles with the society in which he has been forced to live in. A society full of hate in terms of racism and the resentment from those in which the racism is projected toward. Throughout the novel Bigger consistently complains of the way that his people have been forced to live, his desire to fl ...

Number of words: 631 | Number of pages: 3

The Crucible

... "men of God" seemed very similar throughout the first half of the play, self-centered and inhuman, their differences became more evident as Hale evolved into a compassionate man of God, and Parris remained the conceited character he was at the beginning of the play. In act one, the corrupt, self-serving Reverend Samuel Parris is first introduced. In this scene, Parris' daughter Betty is ill and even the doctor cannot determine what is ailing the girl. Strangely enough, instead of worrying about the fate of his daughter, Reverend ...

Number of words: 1734 | Number of pages: 7

Pouliuli

... were to eat a mountain of fish which the giant’s had caught that day, to race the giants down a river, and make himself disappear. Faleasas’ tasks were to destroy Filemoni, Make Moaula the new leader, and remove Sau and Vaelupa as council leader. Of course they couldn’t have done these tasks alone so both of them enlisted help from friends. Pili enlisted the help of Tausamitele, Lelemalosi, and . Faleasa enlisted the help of his long time friend Laaumatua and his son Moaula. Finally to get the freedom they so wished for they had to comp ...

Number of words: 1354 | Number of pages: 5

Marx's Philosophical Writings: Alienation

... sort of commodity; that the misery of the worker is in inverse proportion to the power and size of his production... Marx sees the alienation of labor as return to feudalism, as is evidenced by his references to landlords and peasants in his writings about alienated labor. He sees this as the ultimate surrendering of the human spirit (in terms of social and psychological alienation) to the material alienation of capitalism. Furthermore, he sees it as a cycle that can and must be broken in order to allow us the full expression of o ...

Number of words: 1076 | Number of pages: 4

Doe Season

... learning acceptance of herself. A. After Andy shot the deer, she had a dream that her hand was inside the bullet hole and the wound closed around her hand. B. Andy ran while her father was gutting the deer and no longer answered to Andy but Andrea. Published in 1985, David Kaplan's short story "" is set in the Pennsylvania woods. This story reveals the trials and tribulations Andy, a dynamic character, goes through to reach her final destination of womanhood. Throughout "," David Kaplan uses symbolism to carry Andy through her rite of passag ...

Number of words: 1199 | Number of pages: 5

Satire Or Tragedy - Macbeth

... three Weird Sisters. Thus we must ask the question: If Macbeth is acting on the impulses stimulated by the prophecies of his fate, is this Shakespearean work of art really a Tragedy? Aristotle, one of the greatest men in the history of human thought, interpreted Tragedy as a genre aimed to present a heightened and harmonious imitation of nature, and, in particular, those aspects of nature that touch most closely upon human life. This I think Macbeth attains. However, Aristotle adds a few conditions. Accor ...

Number of words: 2067 | Number of pages: 8

The Way We Live Now

... pool their medical knowledge, and criticize the medical establishment. The patient never appears, and indeed, we never meet a fully-fledged character, but only hear the orchestra of voices that accurately reflect the mediated and fragmented character of modern community life. News travels among them like an electric current, carrying shock waves of fear and pain. Their pooling of medical lore results in an eclectic mix of remedies that reach from chicken soup to the patient's favorite jelly beans. By the end, several of the characters, re ...

Number of words: 372 | Number of pages: 2

Hard Times By Dickens, Structu

... "Sowing, " we are introduced to those that Dickens creates a firm character basis with. The opening chapter emphasizes on Thomas Gradgrind Sr., and his students fittingly referred to as "little pitchers before him, who were to be filled so full of facts." (Dickens 10). Gradgrind's methods of education are employed to show Dickens' view on the evil of the educational system. Among the "little pitchers" are Bitzter and Sissy Jupe. They exemplify two entirely different ideas, serving Dickens for allegorical purposes. Bitzer, the model student ...

Number of words: 777 | Number of pages: 3

Twelfth Night 4

... the captain to help disguise her as a male so that she may become a servant to Orsino, and it seems, perhaps try to win his love. At Olivia's house, her uncle, Sir Toby Belch, comes home late, drunk as usual, while Olivia's lady-in-waiting Maria lets him in. Soon, Toby's drinking buddy Sir Andrew Aguecheek shows up. Andrew tells Toby he'll head for home the next day, since Olivia won't let him woo her, but Toby convinces him to stay with them another month and promises to try harder to get Olivia to like him (Andrew). Back at the Duke's palac ...

Number of words: 1297 | Number of pages: 5

James Joyce's "Araby"

... an "equally grim world, where not even play brought pleasure."(Coulthard) Joyce demonstrates this culture by showing a boy's love for a girl throughout the story. This young boy, is completely mystified by this girl, but at the end, the girl is replaced by the girl with an "English accent" attending the booth at the bazaar. This shows the power and persuasiveness that England has at that time over Dublin. The antagonist in this story, which can easily be determined is the culture and life in Dublin. This has a great effect on the boy and th ...

Number of words: 466 | Number of pages: 2

Heart Of Darkness

... masterpieces of English prose (Graver,28). In any event, this story recognizes primarily on Marlow, its narrator, not about Kurtz or the brutality of Belgian officials. Conrad wrote a brief statement of how he felt the reader should interpret this work: "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel-it is above all, to make you see.(Conrad 1897) Knowing that Conrad was a novelist who lived in his work, writing about the experiences were as if he were writing about himself. " ...

Number of words: 890 | Number of pages: 4

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