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Antogonistic Enlightenment

... through the story's development that he is later revealed to be durable, deep, and determined. These qualities enable him to successfully petition for humane treatment, in a racially oppressive climate, without begging the question of propriety. Brille is a political prisoner in racially segregated South Africa, anyone would assume he joined politics to end apartheid. Yet, in describing the unbelievable "human brutality" he has witnessed, he describes the fighting of his 12 children (21). Hannetjie assumed Brille was accustomed to Hannetj ...

Number of words: 602 | Number of pages: 3

Concentration Camps

... your thirst. You find a trough filled with stagnant bacteria stricken water. Yet even with the smell and film over the top you drink it deeply because its all you have. With your thirst settled as much as its going to be you settle in for the night. Stretching your sores from previous beatings you squeeze in to the huddled mass of other prisoners. This is what it was like for many of the prisoners of . The prisoners were subject to torture and poor conditions. Many died just because of the conditions and disease circulating around the ca ...

Number of words: 2107 | Number of pages: 8

Shawshank Redemption

... in a way such that we are positioned to regard it as oppressive, enforcing conformity and routine and removing all elements of individuality within a person, "you come here for life and that's exactly what they take from you". The opening shots of the prison as Dufresne arrives to begin his double life sentences, are ones of an expanse of gray lifeless concrete blocks and bars. The surroundings however are picturesque, the true beauty of nature in bloom, no more evident than when the men are tarring the roof in summer. The effect of ...

Number of words: 745 | Number of pages: 3

Continental Drift

... it is with his wit, bravery, skills as a warrior, strength, or charm, (Homer, 54). Odysseus represents the timeless virtues of masculinity that all men, including Bob, desire. That Bob seeks to break the free of his average life, tries to become something other than the sad normal man that his father was; that he endeavors to become a great man, is what brings these two stories together. As the men in The Odyssey look to Odysseus as the touchstone of masculinity, Bob Dubois looks to the men in his life in his attempt to become a good ma ...

Number of words: 3066 | Number of pages: 12

A Drunk Bus Driver And A Bad Accident

... on the side of the road. We finally realized what was happening, and as the bus driver made her way through the aisle, you could see kids shoving paper balls in their bags, and sitting on batteries and rocks, which they were throwing out the window. The bus was unusually silent as the bus driver, Bertha we called her, waded her way through the narrow seats. Kids visibly squished as close as possible to the windows, some in an attempt to hide something, others just out of fear that the may inadvertently come into contact with the beast comin ...

Number of words: 1529 | Number of pages: 6

The European Enlightenment

... seventeenth century and its replacement by a republic, followed later in the century by a weakened monarchy. By the end of the seventeenth century England would see the a loss of the monarch's powers in England's "Glorious Revolution." The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the development of "absolute" monarchies and a more tightly-centralized national government. Many historians regard the growth of the "absolute monarchy" as the origin of the modern state. Because this growth in absolute and centralized power of the government ...

Number of words: 629 | Number of pages: 3

Macbeth - Independence And Failure

... If the limb slides completely out, the rest of the limbs may follow because the bundle is loose. Marriage is like a triangle. Each spouse makes up one of the leaning sides, and marriage the lower side. The three together are very strong, but to stand they all must be united. The longer a marriage is held the longer the bottom stretches, and the more dependent each person becomes on the other. If one side tries to stand on its own then the second will fall on the first as it tries to stand. This metaphor also excellently exemplifies the ca ...

Number of words: 1873 | Number of pages: 7

English 2

... with the final image of two films, Francis Ford Coppala’s Apocalypse Now and Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane. My intention is to discover the verbal and visual ways in which a narrative closure is achieved and if the narrative has truly come to an end or if it has simply finished for the time being. The final statement in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde perfectly coincides with the final image in Citizen Kane. The statement is as follows: “Here, then, as I lay down the pen, and proceed to seal up my confession, I ...

Number of words: 779 | Number of pages: 3

The Scarlet Letter - Intoleran

... Hawthorne shows the way a "good Christian society" would lash out at anything they were afraid of. The first chapter of the novel introduces the main character Hester Prynne. She is being publicly humiliated as a punishment for breaking a puritan belief and one of the ten commandments, adultery. She stands in front of the town for hours as the crowd tries to break her down with criticism and shaming words. After this she is given her punishment of being forever branded with her sin by wearing the letter "A" on her chest, as a constant reminde ...

Number of words: 1262 | Number of pages: 5

Character Analysis In Jane Aus

... Bennet stands as a literary monument to the writer's amazing storytelling ability. While his personality sticks out among others in the novel like a sore thumb, his place in the plot has monumental importance not only to the task of saving an unappreciative reader from boredom but also to the movement and the development of the work as a whole. One of his most meaningful contributions to the plot is the influence he exerts on Elizabeth. She is obviously his favorite, and probably the only one in his family that he feels real fatherly love f ...

Number of words: 1792 | Number of pages: 7

Crime And Punishment - Suffering

... a second murder, which he never ever wanted to be responsible for. He kills Lizaveta, an exceedingly innocent person. But does the author ever remind us of the murder at any time in the novel again? Not in the physical sense of the crime itself. The reader doesn't hear about how heavily the murders are weighing on his heart, or how he is tormented by visions of the crime. He doesn't feel the least bit guilty about having committed the crime, only his pride's hurt. He doesn't mention the idea of the pain that m ...

Number of words: 725 | Number of pages: 3

Huck Finn 4

... he is mocking the characters in the book with this audacious comedy. Huck Finn says out of the ordinary things that most people would not have the slightest idea about. At the beginning of chapter one, the Widow Douglas tells him of Moses and the Bulrushers. He is eager to hear all about the stories of Moses until he finds out that Moses has been dead a "considerable long time." Huck tells the reader that he "don't take no stock in dead people." To him, there is no lesson in these stories unless the person is alive and is related to someo ...

Number of words: 582 | Number of pages: 3

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