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Heart Of Darkness Kurtz Accord
Number of Words: 745 / Number of Pages: 3
... of man can be.
As Marlow makes his journey up the river all he can think about is Kurtz. In this mission to find Kurtz, Marlow compares everyone he meets to him. As well as trying to find Kurtz, Marlow is in fact trying to find himself. As Kurtz continues he finds himself “getting savage” which implies that he was becoming more like Kurtz. Kurtz is a murderer, thief, persecutor, and worst of all he allows himself to be worshiped as a God. Marlow is not like this at all. Marlow cannot even “bear a lie” (1446) let alone do the horrible things that Kurtz has done. After ...
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Frankenstein 2
Number of Words: 507 / Number of Pages: 2
... leads him to a restless night and which he is haunted by the image of his creation. The next day, Victor sees his friend Henry Clerval and when he brings Henry back to his apartment, he discovers that the creature has disappeared. At this moment, Victor falls into a sickness that leaves him weak for a few months with Henry to aid him.
When Victor first thought of the creature, he had good intentions. Throughout the whole time he was creating his creature, he only thought good thoughts for his creation. In my opinion, I feel that these were good reasons to make his creature because he was not only ...
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The Yellow Wallpaper: A Woman's Struggle
Number of Words: 1064 / Number of Pages: 4
... the eerie
mood.
Upon first reading "The Yellow Wallpaper," the reader may see the relationship
between the narrator and her husband John as caring, but with examination one
will find that the narrator is repeatedly belittled and demeaned by her
husband. On first arriving at the vacation home John chooses the old attic
nursery against his wife's wishes and laughs at her when she complains about
the wallpaper (Kennedy et al. 424,425). In Charlotte Bronte's novel }{plain
ul Jane Eyre}{plain , Mr. Rodchester uses his attic to keep his insane wife
hidden from the rest of the world. John's actions ...
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Walking Across Egypt
Number of Words: 655 / Number of Pages: 3
... old woman to be. They talk about how she needs to get rest because she is slowing down and can't keep going as steady as she seems to think. When she decided to try and help a young juvenile, Wesley Benfield, become a better person by taking him to church and offering him to stay the night with her, Robert thought that Mattie was sick.
Pearl Turnage, Mattie's older sister, has given in to the stereotypes that are now plaguing Mattie, and insists that she do the same. In fact, she invites Mattie to accompany her to the funeral home where they will each pick out a casket that they are to be buried in. P ...
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Stereotypes In Woolf’s A Room Of One’s Own
Number of Words: 1552 / Number of Pages: 6
... that the personas depicted in the tale will be real people; Woolf’s non-fiction tale reads like a story - a personal anecdote shared with the reader by a persona who might not, if the story be fictionalized, exist. Thus, Woolf almost confuses the reader as to what classification it actually falls into – non-fiction or fiction?
The author’s conversational manner relaxes the reader to a point that he or she forgets that they are, indeed, reading a non-fiction essay. Woolf, herself, describes this aspect at the beginning of the book. “Lies will flow from my lips,” she says. “But there may be perhaps ...
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher
Number of Words: 407 / Number of Pages: 2
... the plot consists of rising events, conflict, climax, and resolution. The rising events include the parts in the story when the narrator first arrives at the house, meets Roderick, and hears about Roderick's and Madeline's problems. Madeline's death and burial are part of the conflict. At this point, Roderick and the narrator begin to hear sounds throughout the house. The sounds are an omen that an evil action is about to occur. The climax is reached when Madeline comes back from the dead and she and her twin brother both die. Finally, the resolution comes when the narrator escapes from the house ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Society And Nature
Number of Words: 489 / Number of Pages: 2
... abusive father. Huck finds much more happiness on the
river than with his father or at the Widow’s home, where he is supposed to
be living. On the river, Huck is free to go wherever he pleases and to be
whoever he wants to be. He doesn’t have to look for adventure, adventure
finds him quite easily.
The shore, on the other hand, represents civilization and
persecution, which is what Jim and Huck want to avoid. On the shore Huck is
forced to be someone he isn’t by attending school, wearing fancy clothes,
and practicing good manners. He isn’t free to live the kind of life he
wants to live, which is unb ...
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Appearance Versus Reality In T
Number of Words: 1779 / Number of Pages: 7
... in fact flawed.
Daisy Buchanan was raised in a wealthy American family, and had the appearance of a perfect upbringing. In reality, Daisy did live a “ white” (p.20) childhood, pure and innocent. In fact, her childhood was so ideal that even her friend Jordan Baker commented, “The largest of the banners and the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay’s house. She was just eighteen, two years older than me [Jordan], and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville. She dressed in white, and had a little white roadster, and all day long the telephone rang in ...
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The Lesson By Toni Cade Bambara
Number of Words: 581 / Number of Pages: 3
... take the children on an excursion. The group includes Sylvia, Sugar, Mercedes, Fat Butt, Flyboy, Junebug, Q.T., and Rosie Giraffe. A mixed bag, but all share the same poor life. They are treated to a taxi ride instead of the usual subway downtown and the group is exposed to Fifth Avenue and the richness of the people in that part of the city. At the expensive toy store, their minds are stretched beyond belief at the price of toys. Miss Moore cleverly interjects a few questions to get them thinking. It works; even on stubborn Sylvia who thinks she got away with something by not returning the change fro ...
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Othello Vs Much Ado About Noth
Number of Words: 688 / Number of Pages: 3
... she did not cheat on him, she did not expect that kind of reaction. She is so dejected that she faints, and everyone assumes she is dead. Eventually Borrachio is overheard talking about Don John’s plan, and Don John is arrested. Later Claudio learns that Hero is not actually dead, and they are finally married.
“Othello”’s Iago is very much similar to Don John. He wants to get revenge on Othello for not being chosen as lieutenant and also suspects that Othello has slept with Emilia. Somehow Iago manages to manipulate Othello into thinking that Desdemona cheated on him. When he demands that she show ...
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