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Sula

... challenges the very environment that molded them. ’s actions and much of her personality is a direct result of her childhood in the bottom. ’s identity contains many elements of a strong, independent feminist character. However, the people in Medallion do not see in a positive light. When she returns to Medallion as an adult is seen as evil and regarded with much fear. The reason outcast from the community is specifically due to the fact that she is a woman who refuses to contain herself in the social norms set up for the town. She refu ...

Number of words: 1520 | Number of pages: 6

The Pearl 3

... insists that the doctor be called, but Kino knows the physician is Spanish and considers himself above treating poor Indians. This does not satisfy Juana, who announces that if the doctor will not come to the village, then they will go to his house. But the doctor refuses to treat Coyotito because Kino is too poor. Later that day, while Kino and Juana are fishing in the Gulf, Kino finds an enormous pearl and cries out in joy. He believes the pearl will make him rich and enable him to provide security for his f ...

Number of words: 792 | Number of pages: 3

MacBeth-The Transformation Of

... of Cawdor, and eventually the King of Scotland. When she learns that Duncan would be spending the night at their castle, she immediately decides to kill him. She mentions that her husband was not ruthless by nature, and that even if he wanted something so badly, he would not cheat to get it. She sees this as a character flaw. However, Lady MacBeth does not have that problem. In fact, her goal is to get MacBeth to feel as she does. She does so by questioning his manhood in saying: Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valo ...

Number of words: 1066 | Number of pages: 4

Shropshire

... to directly confront Britain with any political dissention imposed by is works. Instead, “for Housman the discovery of self was so disturbing and disconcerting that poetry came as a way of disclosing it” (Bayley 44). The county of is central to much of his poetry, but it is employed merely as “a personification of the writer’s memories, dreams and affections;” meanwhile, Housman’s central character is one “who could at once be himself and not himself” (Scott-Kilvert 26). In what Housman h ...

Number of words: 1158 | Number of pages: 5

The Catcher In The Rye The Duc

... suggestions? Teachers? Friends? Oprah? Hell no! The Catcher in the Rye is the book preferred 9 times out of ten by whackos, serial killers, and disgruntled teenagers. (ok, there's not much difference in those categories but bear with me.) John Lennon was killed to promote this book. John Hinkley may have been trying to impress Jody Foster, but he was also a big Catcher in the Rye fan. The level of general craziness surrounding this book is so bad that Conspiracy Theory made it the running joke, even tracking Mel Gibson by monitoring purchase ...

Number of words: 1049 | Number of pages: 4

Should Surrogate Motherhood Be Permitted?

... carry the baby and release it to the genetic parents after the birth. There are four different kinds of surrogacy arrangements. Total Surrogacy is when the woman bears a child that has been formed from the gametes of another woman and man and implanted in her body. Partial Surrogacy occurs when the birth mother contributes the ovum and the sperm is introduced by artificial insemination. She is a biological parent of the child. Commercial Surrogacy means a business-like transaction where a fee is charged for the incubation period. Las ...

Number of words: 1013 | Number of pages: 4

"Unsex Me Here" Macbeth Analysis

... take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature’s mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, ‘Hold, Hold!’ In this passage Lady Macbeth is trying to conjure up evil spirits. The entire passage is full of morbid thoughts and intentions, to help plot against the murder of Duncan, while and the same time blocking her ability to feel remorse. She nee ...

Number of words: 643 | Number of pages: 3

Tintern Abbey Seeing Into The

... five years ago. More than once he tells us that “again” he has certain experiences in this secluded spot, a place that is evidently a refuge for him. He then tells how he has though of “these beauteous forms’ at many difficult times since he was last at this spot, five years before. At these moments, his recollections of his time on the banks of the Wye seems to lift his spirits and restore him. He then points to what might, at first glance, seem to be impossible: “unremembered pleasures.” How can it ma ...

Number of words: 1317 | Number of pages: 5

Cloudstreet, Tim Winton

... how Winton has used setting and structure to help develop and convey his themes. The story follows the lives of the Pickle family and the Lamb family and how they have come to grow, develop, love and change over a period of twenty years, while living with each other. Unfortunately, both moves coincided with different family disaster’s. For the Lamb’s, the unfortunate event takes place in the form of the near drowning of Samson, or as he is better known as Fish. While for the Pickles, it occurs with the loss of Sam’s (the fathe ...

Number of words: 1176 | Number of pages: 5

Parental Conflict In Turtle Mo

... in New York with his father, the lack of parental involvement, and the lack of communication between Keith and his mother. The discord between Keith and his mother results from his preference to live with his father in New York. Keith has no choice in the decision and now he lives in Verity, a town he hates. This situation lies at the root of his rebellion against his mother. When he lives in New York he is never particularly well behaved, “but after eight months in Florida, he is horrid”(5). Through his rebellious actions Keith gen ...

Number of words: 714 | Number of pages: 3

Great Expectations 3

... of his romances has the author succeeded so perfectly in at once stimulating and baffling the curiosity of his readers. He stirred the dullest minds to guess the secret of his mystery; but, so far as I have learned, the guesses of his most intellectual readers have been almost as wide of the mark as those of the least apprehensive. It has been all the more provoking to the former class, that each surprise was the result of art, and not of trick; for a rapid review of previous chapters has shown that the materials of a strictl ...

Number of words: 1381 | Number of pages: 6

The Great Gatsby And The Ameri

... stood for such, as life was not an issue that people talked about. There was an unspoken silence of live and let live even though there was vast amounts of discrimination. Liberty, a thing taken for granted since all born on American soil are free men and women, thus no one cherishes that part of the dream either. The pursuit of happiness is befuddling. Daisy makes this clear by saying “Your revolting” to tom. Obviously she’s unhappy with tom yet she wont leave him for Gatsby. Daisy made this clear when Gatsby gave her t ...

Number of words: 536 | Number of pages: 2

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