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Young Goodman Brown 3

... tarry away from thee." When he says his "love" and his "Faith", he is talking to his wife, but he is also talking to his "faith" to God. He is venturing into the woods to meet with the Devil, and by doing so, he leaves his unquestionable faith in God with his wife. He resolves that he will "cling to her skirts and follow her to Heaven." This is an example of the excessive pride because he feels that he can sin and meet with the Devil because of this promise that he made to himself. There is a tremendous irony to this promise because when Goodm ...

Number of words: 2330 | Number of pages: 9

To Kill A Mockingbird 8

... stereotypes of Boo are used, the truth is often obscured. “You’ll get killed if you touch that tree”(pg 38) This quote reveals that the two siblings felt that Boo was a harmful person because of false rumors. Stereotypes are easily picked up, and used to horrible extreme when a large majority of people use them. This was the case with Scout and Jem when they picked up on the stereotypes going around the neighborhood about Boo. “When I got there, my breeches were all folded and sewn up”(pg 63) When Boo sew ...

Number of words: 819 | Number of pages: 3

Exploration Of The Theme Of Or

... meted out by the gods acting directly and through the manipulation of men. In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King the order of the world is ambiguously defined and justice is returned to those guilty of transgressing these rules by the gods. The story of Joseph in Genesis 37-46 we learn of Joseph’s rise from a position with little promise of his ever gaining prominence to the pinnacle of power in ancient Egypt. This ascension as a whole gives us a glimpse of God’s order in the world, but the details of the story each provide eviden ...

Number of words: 841 | Number of pages: 4

Objectivism And The Work Of Ayn Rand

... basic premises of objectivism are that existence exists, which mean that an objective reality exists independent of consciousness. This implies that consciousness PERCEIVES reality, but does not CREATE reality. We are forced to live within the confines of reality. Hence, "wishing does not make it so." There are definite laws of causality which are in effect, and are inescapable. She attempts to derive a morality from this view of metaphysics. She believe that man (sic) is a certain type of being: a rational animal. Man is the only form ...

Number of words: 550 | Number of pages: 2

Wuthering Heights

... a foreshadowing of the darkness to come. Mr. Lockwood has an arrangement to meet with his neighboring tenant, Mr. Heathcliff and after walking four miles in the snow, he reaches the Heights to find the gate closed. He stands "on that bleak hilltop [where] the earth was hard with a black frost, and the air made [him] shiver through every limb." (WH-p.29) In fact, the word "Wuthering, being a significant provincial adjective, [is] descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed to stormy weather," (WH-p.25) thus emphasizing ...

Number of words: 3150 | Number of pages: 12

Hamlet - He Loves Her? He Loves Her Not?

... Hamlet, as he tries to seek revenge for his father’s murder. Since, Hamlet discovers the murder of his father, and the adultery and incest committed by his mother he retains a very bitter and pessimistic view of the world. "That the Everlasting had not fixed His cannon ‘gainst self-slaughter … how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world." (14 Act 1 Scene 2 Line 131). It is through his soliloquy’s that the audience learns the depths of Hamlet’s depression. Hamlet not only regards the wo ...

Number of words: 924 | Number of pages: 4

Hamlet

... own apparent weakness, inaction. "The smallest deed is greater than the grandest intention." (Raja: Pp 111) was full of grand ideas and intentions, but he failed to act and to carry out the deed that was his revenge, the destruction of Claudius. Why did choose, and it was a choice, not to take revenge on Claudius quickly and decisively? had his own reasons for inaction; the strategy that he felt best suited his revenge. was undoubtedly an incredible intellectual, and throughout the play it seemed as though the thoughts of his min ...

Number of words: 796 | Number of pages: 3

Deerslayer

... their mother died when they were young, Judith being the older one, naturally took the leadership and mothering responsibilities over the two. They had been raised by their father Tom Hetter on Lake Glimmerglass, New York. Each sister, in her own aspect was a leader and a follower. Though Hetty in her own aspect took on the missionary duties of converting the Mingos. Physically and personality wise the two were as opposite as north and south. Judith was tall, dark, and beautiful, always attracting the military men nearby. Hetty on the ...

Number of words: 972 | Number of pages: 4

Philosophy - The Only Truth Ex

... we believe that we think, we are proved to exist. Thinking about our thoughts is an automatic validation of our self-consciousness. Descartes claims, "But certainly I should exist, if I were to persuade my self of something." And so, I should conclude that our existence is a truth, and may be the only truth, that we should find its certainty. From the "natural" experiences of our being, we hold beliefs that we find are our personal truths. From these experiences, we have learned to understand life with reason and logic; we have establi ...

Number of words: 1067 | Number of pages: 4

Dracula 2

... the clock strikes midnight, all the evil in the world will have full sway? Do you know where you are going, and what you are doing?” (5) This was the protagonist, Jonathan Harker’s second encounter with strangers, in a strange land, in which he was confronted in this manner. He had three such encounters, all of which he nonchalantly dismissed. During his first encounter, the people simply refused to answer any of his questions. In his third encounter, strangers made the sign of a cross and pointed at him. During all of this, ...

Number of words: 821 | Number of pages: 3

Having Our Say

... and negro), who are finally having their say, now that everyone who ever kept them down is long dead. Sadie and "Bessie" tell the stories of their intriguing lives, from their Southern Catholic school upbringing to their involvement in the civil rights movement in New York City. "Sadie" is the older (103 years old) and sweeter of the sisters. The first colored high school teacher in the New York Public School System, "Sadie" considers herself to be the Booker T. Washington of the sisters, always shying away from conflict and looking at bot ...

Number of words: 364 | Number of pages: 2

The Bluest Eye

... can see the book as a story about Claudia MacTeer, who is the main narrator of the book, but most everything she narrates has a direct tie to Pecola’s life. From the very start, Claudia describes the home environment in which she lives in. That home environment is linked to how Pecola comes to live with them and what affect the two had on each other. Pecola’s presence slightly foreshadows her future longing for blue eyes by showing the great interest she had in Shirley Temple, who was known for being a pretty white girl. Claudia th ...

Number of words: 884 | Number of pages: 4

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