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The Siddhartha By Hermann Hess

... sees that Samana's knowledge might lead him to his salvation. In the second chapter on page 11, Hermann Hesse writes: "Siddhartha had one single goal--to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow--to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought..." Although Siddhartha does the scourge, he does not find his salvation. He quests his torment, which is only escaped from the 'Self' for temporarily. Again, Siddhartha rejects and leaves the Samana ...

Number of words: 636 | Number of pages: 3

All Quiet On The Western Front

... good, and how deep inside everyone is the same. The soldiers in the Second Company form this bond between each other that represents that of all wartime buddies. They develop these friendships where they depend on each other so that they can make it through the war. The young soldiers play cards, smoke together and joke around together to pass time when they are not fighting. Their reactions towards dying friends show their love for one another. “Suddenly little Kropp throws his cigarette away, stamps on it savagely, and looking around him w ...

Number of words: 952 | Number of pages: 4

Macbeth Makes For Fasinating T

... by the dramatic impact. The development of the characters is another element that makes MacBeth popular. From the first act it is established that MacBeth is a traitor, yet the audience doesn't hate him, the audience feels for him. MacBeth is a human, dynamic character who the audience can relate to. MacBeth is a play surrounded by the universal, human problems. Good and evil, appearance and reality, characters in conflict are all discussed in MacBeth. The evocative language in MacBeth assists in the plays fame. The language allows the plot ...

Number of words: 798 | Number of pages: 3

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

... rush to close the bar an hour earlier because there was only the lonely old man in it. It was two a.m. and the bar is supposed to close at three. This young man throws the old man out of the bar just so he can go into bed with his wife. The young man has absolutely no respect for the older man who is deaf. He yelled at the old man saying, “You should have killed yourself last week.” The waiter treats him like an obstacle as if he is slowing down his life. The second waiter introduced is a middle-aged man. He does not say much, but i ...

Number of words: 511 | Number of pages: 2

Hans Christian Andersen

... devices, such as in Huxley's creation of a drug-calmed society, her characters awaiting execution seem tranquilized by pills or shots. Atwood's Book has also been compared to other novels like it, such as Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, and the most obvious, Orwell's 1984. These books have many things in common, including the perversion of science and technology as a major determinant of society's function and control. Like most dystopian novels, The Handmaid's Tale includes the oppression of society, mainly wom ...

Number of words: 3002 | Number of pages: 11

House Made Of Dawn:The Use Of Language

... says, "You see, for her words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold. And she never threw words away." --Pg. 85 Momaday forces upon the reader the idea of language as a remedy for sickness; not only of the mind, but of the heart, also. If a speaker can reach a listener and show the listener what she means, then that is the most honorable achievement. Momaday wants the reader to know the importance of word weaving ...

Number of words: 1092 | Number of pages: 4

The Glass Meangere

... Leverich's Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams. Both events represent access to information about this playwright that has, heretofore, been unavailable to scholars‹an influx of so much new information that a reexamination of Williams's work is not only possible, but necessary. My dissertation will reexamine Williams's work in light of his claim that "plays in the tragic tradition offer us a view of certain moral values in violent juxtaposition" (The Rose Tattoo 151). Williams's plays outline a struggle between the moral values of n ...

Number of words: 2009 | Number of pages: 8

Beloved. Who Or What Is Belove

... under the headstone "Beloved." Sethe chose to have this engraved on the tomb, because this was the "word she heard the preacher say at the funeral (all there was to say, surely)...Dearly Beloved" (5). The baby is first christened at death, with a name by which the preacher refers to the spectators at the burial. Sethe thus named the child after herself, insofar as she, Sethe, was whom the preacher was addressing as "dearly beloved." In this way she brands her detached conscience with guilt. I call it her "detached conscience" because in or ...

Number of words: 1618 | Number of pages: 6

Summertime Blues

... Shakespeare creates wonderful imagery by using elegant phrases and key contradictory lines to try to win the heart of his reader, and the woman he loves. Shakespeare wrote his sonnet when he was deeply in love with a woman. The woman used by Shakespeare is consistent throughout his sonnets, but no one is quite sure of the woman's identity. An expert on Shakespearian sonnets, Katherine Duncan-Jones, states "one sixth of the sonnets are addressed to the dark lady-and these can be seen as brutally defiant of Petrarchanism, yet the history ...

Number of words: 672 | Number of pages: 3

Role Of The Common Man In A Ma

... characters gives the audience insight into the story. The common Mans roles however minor still contribute greatly to the development of the story and, prove the importance of this character. As the audience discovers in the beginning of the play, the Common Man can change roles at will. The characters he takes on usually have very short parts. The characters are used to foreshadow future events and help in plot development. In the introduction of the play, the audience meets the Common Man. He is dressed from head to toe in black tigh ...

Number of words: 851 | Number of pages: 4

Madness In Macbeth And Hamlet

... far "off the deep end" did they go. The use of madness illustrates to the reader that even in earlier times people were considered to be "sick in the mind." As further illustrated, the presence of madness is quite evident and plays a strong role in the formation of the plot in Shakespeare's writings of Hamlet and Macbeth. It is evident that in both Hamlet and Macbeth, there is proof of madness in some of the minor characters. The issue of madness in any form of writing shows the reader that there must be something plaguing the characters to ...

Number of words: 915 | Number of pages: 4

Power

... “No Name Woman” focuses on un-naming. One’s and position in a society can give them the “right” or ability to name or un-name a person. Someone can gain this right by his or her status socially, financially, and even racially. If it’s their own child, of course, they have every right in the world to name him or her. But in some cultures, as is evident in “No Name Woman”, they have the right to take away someone’s name if they have disgraced their family and/or community. A name is very significant because it gives a pe ...

Number of words: 1257 | Number of pages: 5

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