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Good And Evil In The Crucible
Number of Words: 829 / Number of Pages: 4
... his last child baptized. With the latest craze of witchery and swirling accusations, John Proctor was easily indicted of being a messenger for the devil by the testimony of his disillusioned servant Mary Warren, who in the past committed perjury. The court who heard the testimony easily accepts it because she is a church going person, while John Proctor slightly deviates from the norm. This transfer of blame is also noticeable when the truth is first discovered about what the girls were doing in the woods. The girls were not blamed. The blame was put on Tituba, the “black” slave who was ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Roger's Character Stereotyped As An Abusive Person
Number of Words: 420 / Number of Pages: 2
... abused his wife, as was his standard of doing things.
Pearl was abused because of Chillingworth's neglect towards her. He could have looked past his wife's sin and loved his daughter. He could have cared for her and supported her, but he chose not to. He failed to look into his heart and nurture his daughter. He voluntarily detached himself from her life. It was because of his stereotypical neglect that Pearl suffered in ways she didn't have to.
The most severe instance of abuse Chillingworth inflicted upon anybody was that of Arthur Dimmsdale. He abused Dimmsdale physically and mentally. Physic ...
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Jane Eyre: The Preserverance Of The Personality
Number of Words: 2290 / Number of Pages: 9
... flung at her, shut up in the red-room) points out that the fountainhead of her emotional life is the experience of oppression. Yet, her little self is full of fiery energy (as one of the servants observed: "Did ever anybody see such a picture of passion!" ), which like a volcano erupts at times in the form of revolt against the "tyrants". It seems that the child's most burning question is what kind of role she plays in the Reed house: if young John is her "master", she consequently has to be a servant, yet, she is regarded less than a servant - a beggar and an intruder. For Jane this "insupportable ...
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Analysis Of The Canterbury Tales
Number of Words: 530 / Number of Pages: 2
... the oath the Monk took for the Church.
The Monk was also lazy and disliked working. Monks, in general,
are hard working and are willing to help the less fortunate. The Monk also
ignored the monastic rules set up by St. Benedict.
The Rule of good St. Benet or St. Maur
As old and strict he tended to ignore;
P 120, lines 177-178
This shows that the Monk is interested in the pleasures of life, and not
his duty as a monk. He is worthless in the eyes of Chaucer and he dislikes
the Monk very much.
The Parson was a poor man who gave what little he could to the
other poor people of his town. H ...
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The Lottery: A Book Report
Number of Words: 321 / Number of Pages: 2
... and in family therapy (see family therapy texts).
The cross-cultural and transcultural nature of scapegoating is explored in Sir James Frazer's "The Golden Bough"; and the underlying structure is elaborated in René Girard's "Le bouc émissaire." "The Lottery" also serves well to illustrate the role of literary theory in literature and medicine, particularly reader response theory, hermeneutics, and narratology.
In “The Lottery”, one of Shirley Jackson’s most famous short stories, we are made familiar with her chilling sense of humor. “The Lottery”, was about a towns tradition of sacrificing a hum ...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Love
Number of Words: 628 / Number of Pages: 3
... With
Jody, Janie thought that she would forever have "flower dust and springtime
sprinkled over everything." She thought she'd have "a bee for her bloom."
She didn't exactly find this in Jody though. In him she definitely found
change and chance, but still not the love she was looking for. What Jody
had for Janie was more of a lust than a love. He was very protective of
her and didn't want anyone else to see in her what he saw. He gave Janie
many things including lots of money, but he couldn't give her love. The
little love that was there eventually died. So did Jody.
Finally, Janie met ...
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Cyrano The Bergerac - Love
Number of Words: 663 / Number of Pages: 3
... a way to express his love to Roxane. He decides that he would write to her in the name of Christian who comparatively is a poor writer and "wishes to make Christian his interpreter"(II,85).
Both Christian and Cyrano love Roxane but Roxane loves only the person that has been writing to her. It was actually Cyrano, who was writing to her but she thinks it was Christian. Cyrano had said, "..And we two make one hero of romance." (II,85) Since Cyrano was suffering with an inferiority complex, as he had a gigantic nose, he was shy to ask Roxane whether she wanted him or not. He had assumed that she ...
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The Power And The Glory
Number of Words: 1494 / Number of Pages: 6
... through an odyssey of one man's struggle to find meaning in the world, as it parallels the priest's internal perspective, and symbolizes his redemptive conversion and his final unconscious achievement of martyrdom.
Ater the Mexican Revolution, the Mexican government established anti-Catholic laws against the churches. The government dismissed the Church's system of redemption, and became jealous of the Church's rising influence over society. This system required "sinners" to pay the church money in order to escape eternal damnation in the afterlife. "And the priest came round with the collecting ba ...
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The Miseducation Of Victorian Women
Number of Words: 2338 / Number of Pages: 9
... of Frances Power Cobbe as Told by Herself, and Harriet Martineau who wrote What Women Are Educated For. Their views support what Barrett Browning communicates in Aurora Leigh with additional insights into the reality of the Victorian education of women.
The main focus of the instruction of young women in the Victorian era, which they referred to as an education, was on making these women into “Ornaments of Society” (Damrosch 1604). This meant that women were to adorn society with their appearance, their voices, their instrumental abilities, their dancing skills, their knowledge of obsolete informatio ...
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My Antonia: A Review
Number of Words: 1043 / Number of Pages: 4
... The point of
view is immediate and subjective. Looking back on his memories, he knows
what is eventually going to happen to the characters. He persuades you to
sympathize with all of them. His perception, being broad and persuasive,
sets the tone for the whole book. What is the purpose of having the story
told by Jim Burden thirty years later? From that perspective he can
present with great clarity and tenderness the highlights of his memories.
A man of the world, he is reinvestigating his values. Jim Burden sets down
everything the name of Antonia brings back to him. Antonia represents to
h ...
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