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Quest For Reformation

... almost mundane, however Thoreau is a transcendentalist who had been living in nature for the past 2 years in an attempt to become divine and righteous. John has never heard of such a lifestyle and is drawn closer and becomes deeply interested in the argument that Thoreau makes for living simply. Thoreau explains that he "lives in a tight, light, and clean house, which hardly cost him more than the annual rent of such a ruin as [John's] commonly amounts to" (Walden, 140). Thoreau almost makes the identical argument, (although Thoreau is no ...

Number of words: 779 | Number of pages: 3

To Kill A Mockingbird 5

... us with courteous detachment" (6) explains Scout, the narrator. Lee writes the story in the eyes of a young- maturing girl named Jean Louise, whom everyone calls Scout. Because the book is written from Scout's point of view, a piece of realism is added to the plot. Using this method the reader can understand Scout's actual opinion of an event or person, "Jem and I hated her. If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze . . ." (99). Harper Lee depicts Scout as strong and opinionated yet innocent and full ...

Number of words: 717 | Number of pages: 3

After The Bomb

... send help for a few days. The badly injured don't even get the chance to be helped because the hospitals have to send the ones that are likely going to live to hospitals that specialize in burns. His mother is so badly burned that the hospitals put her on the bottom of the list to be flown to burn centers. By the end of the novel Philip has taken charge, snuck his mom ahead to be flown to a burn center, and in a sense saved his town from thirst. He truly survived the terror, shock, and danger of the bomb. The ...

Number of words: 746 | Number of pages: 3

Lord Of The Flies- -the Deteri

... and they try to build a civilized society on the island. The boys had obviously gotten a pretty strict upbringing both at home and at school. All of them have a definite view of what is right and what is wrong. We see this even in Jack, as he cannot kill the first pig they meet. At first they are able to use this sense, and keep their traditional standards also on the island. They elect a leader democratically, and by popular vote they start deciding what has to be done. They have rules for the meetings and they make laws for what is allowe ...

Number of words: 571 | Number of pages: 3

All My Sons 2

... airplane parts. “The night foreman came and showed him the cylinder heads... they were coming out of the process with defects. So Dad went directly to the phone and called here and told Joe to come down right away. But the morning passed. No sign of Joe. So Dad called again. By this time he had over a hundred defective. The Army was screaming for stuff and Dad didn’t have anything to ship. So Joe told him... on the phone he told him to weld, cover up any cracks in any way he could, and ship them out.” That is a passage f ...

Number of words: 982 | Number of pages: 4

Pygmalion 3

... and crushed", has proven that he had hurt Eliza. Mr. Higgins had used these words to hurt Eliza because at that point of time, Eliza had grown fond of him and loved him in a friendly way. Therefore, she expected him to reciprocate her love and thus was deeply disappointed and hurt when he answered in that manner. In Act IV, Henry Higgins also got a little of his own back when he was sarcastic to Eliza. He used the phrase "You may take the whole damned houseful if you like. Will that satisfy you?". Henry Higgins said this to Eliza when El ...

Number of words: 384 | Number of pages: 2

Act One Of Othello

... comparisons. These activities produce pleasure, thus it is not a mindless pleasure. There must be intellectual and emotional engagement on the spectator’s part. According to Aristotle, to stimulate the intellectual engagement of the audience and thus create this pleasure in the spectator, a masterful piece of art or literature must contain a degree of ambiguity in its ideas. This is the reason for the social commentaries that Shakespeare includes in his work: The play commences with two characters apparently arguing over money. Shakespeare ...

Number of words: 2467 | Number of pages: 9

Brave New World

... based on social attitudes and medical advancements of his time. Huxley's future dystopia is created largely by perverted sexual freedoms, which in turn cause corrupt individuals, entirely lacking ethics and morals. Sexual promiscuity appears to be a much more frequent activity now then it was in the Thirties. Critics blame "...the advent of the pill for declining morality and indiscriminate sexual activity." Many believe that each time medicine reduces the risk of unwanted diseases and pregnancies, society, on the whole, will increase it ...

Number of words: 1131 | Number of pages: 5

Invisible Man

... Jacques Lacan wrote, "If psycho-analysis is to be constituted as the science of the unconscious, one must set out from the notion that the unconscious is structured like a language,"(1) thus directly relating literature – the art of language - and psychoanalysis. Searching the database of the Modern Language Association for articles about the use of psychoanalysis for understanding Ralph Ellison’s yields one article by Caffilene Allen, of Georgia State University, in Literature and Psychology in 1995. Thus, further study of this subject s ...

Number of words: 10938 | Number of pages: 40

Beloved 3

... baby and another tells of the guilt she has felt throughout the years and the near destruction of her from the haunting of her dear “Beloved’s” ghost. Another tells of her boys running away and another tells of the neglect that her younger daughter has had to face. Because of this guilt, she almost paid for it with her life. However, the stages that her mind her took through with coming to terms with her involvement in Beloved’s murder, her redemption of that burden, and near madness were the elements that helped ...

Number of words: 1450 | Number of pages: 6

The Merchant Of Venice

... Bassanio have questioned his sadness, trying to find an explanation for their great unhappiness with themselves and with the world. - Salerio: "But tell not me: I know Antonio Is sad to think upon his merchandise.2 Antonio: "Believe me, no: I thank my fortune for it, My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate Upon the fortune of this present year: Therefore, my merchandise makes me not sad."3 Salanio: "Why, then are you in love."4 Antonio: "Fie, fie!"5 The mystery of Antonio's ...

Number of words: 965 | Number of pages: 4

Pride And Prejudice

... only marry someone who is equal in class or social ranking. This is the case for Darcy and Elizabeth in chapter thirty-four. Darcy knows that by offering his hand in marriage to Elizabeth he is lowering his standards in a social ranking. He is so arrogant in his proposal that he even insults Elizabeth. He says, "It is natural that obligation should be felt, and I could feel gratitude, I would now thank you. But I cannot- I have never desired your good opinion, and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly… Could you expect me to rej ...

Number of words: 549 | Number of pages: 2

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