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Dracula
Number of Words: 1104 / Number of Pages: 5
... tells them where he is going. They cross themselves along with doing other superstitious actions. What Harker doesn't realize is that it was the eve of Saint George's Day, a night when "all the evil things in the world will have full sway"[12]. So, one of the women concerned for his safety gives him a rosary to protect him on his journey. A superstition of most is that a rosary will protect you from all evil, and in this novel the evil party is and his followers. This rosary protects him when Jonathan cuts himself shaving the next day and lunges for his throat, but stops when he sees the crucif ...
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Metamorphosis: A Review
Number of Words: 322 / Number of Pages: 2
... in an apartment
that was larger than their needs required. He was even planning to send his
sister to the music academy to further her violin skills. But to call
Gregor's life tedious would be an understatement. Every day he awoke early
to catch the same train to do the same job until it was time for him to
return home. Kafka implies that in order to save money, or for some unknown
reason, Gregor's social life is almost nonexistent. Therefore, the message
found in Metamorphosis may be one of boredom. Gregor's day to day life was
as monotonous as it could possibly be, so one day, he let his imaginati ...
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Understanding Holden Caulfield
Number of Words: 1720 / Number of Pages: 7
... these people are like Holden himself - the Holden who can be willful, contrary, often impossible, yet in a manner insistently of his own making and at odds with whatever he deems dull or conformist” (Lee 102). “Ambivalence is, in fact, characteristic of Holden, the surest evidence of his mental instability" (Furst 76). He is not what he and many readers assume he is: "an anti-establish figure whose
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disgust is directed at other people” (Edwards 557). “Holden does not turn his face into the sunrise … expressing his determination to overthrow the bourgeois capitalistic society in favor ...
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Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Number of Words: 483 / Number of Pages: 2
... one shall just be as they are, and not try to change that. He tried, and he failed.
Dr. Hyde on the other hand is the evil side of Dr. Jekyll. Enfield points out that “ he (I) saw a strange, deformed man round the corner and bump into a young girl. The strange man did not stop but simply walked right over the young girl.” This man was later figured to be Dr. Hyde, This obviously shows that he was an evil man who had no worries about anything in his life (pushing over a little kid as one of them), and he would peruse doing what he did, not letting anyone stop him.
Dr. Hyde and Jekyll have ...
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The Scarlet Letter: The Scaffold
Number of Words: 490 / Number of Pages: 2
... might never have had to endure the humiliation of
the scarlet letter. But she refused, and so her path was set.
The second time at the scaffold was a turning point for Hester.
She, Pearl, and Dimmsdale are together for the first time, “...the three
formed an electric chain” as if they were always meant to be together if
something, or someone, had not gotten in their way (140). But it is here
that Hester finally realizes the damage which hiding Chillingworth's
identity has caused Dimmsdale. Chillingworth was “a secret
enemy...continually at his side, under the semblance of a friend and
helper...” ...
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Plato's Republic
Number of Words: 1868 / Number of Pages: 7
... xx).”
But here, Plato was referring to the politics of his time, and critics who
sided with Crito believed that The Republic was Plato's way of introducing a
political system in which he would feel comfortable supporting (Plato 204).
Conversely though, The Republic itself is summed up this way:
Well, one would be enough to effect all this reform that now seems so
incredible, if he had subjects disposed to obey; for it is surely
not impossible that they should consent to carry out our laws and
customs when laid down by a ruler. It would be no miracle if others
should thin ...
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1984: The Control Of Reality For Control Of The Masses
Number of Words: 1096 / Number of Pages: 4
... thoughts and opinions of the masses and it does this by creating a reality
where everything suits whatever it is the party needs to be believed. This is
accomplished in three ways. The first is revisionism or the act of changing
facts such as history so that the Party is always made to look good and mobilize
popular opinion against its enemies. The second way the party creates an
artificial reality is through artificial scarcity. There is no need for the
constant warfare but if the need no longer existed for the construction of the
tools of war that productivity would instead be put towa ...
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Cantebury Tales
Number of Words: 3104 / Number of Pages: 12
... their bets by practicing both Christian and Pagan rites at the same time, and in the number of people who promptly apostatized when a Christian king died. There is certainly no evidence for a large-scale conversion of the common people to Christianity at this time. Augustine was not the most diplomatic of men, and managed to antagonize many people of power and influence in Britain, not least among them the native British churchmen, who had never been particularly eager to save the souls of the Anglo-Saxons who had brought such bitter times to their people. In their isolation, the British Church h ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden
Number of Words: 1430 / Number of Pages: 6
... school a few days prior to the end of term,
and goes to New York to 'take a vacation' before returning to his parents'
inevitable wrath.
Told as a monologue, the book describes Holden's thoughts and activities over
these few days, during which he describes a developing nervous breakdown,
symptomised by his bouts of unexplained depression, impulsive spending and
generally odd, erratic behaviour, prior to his eventual nervous collapse.
However, during his psychological battle, life continues on around Holden as it
always had, with the majority of people ignoring the 'madman stuff' that is
happenin ...
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Compare And Contrast Daisy To Myrtle
Number of Words: 447 / Number of Pages: 2
... that Myrtle and Daisy are from two different social classes. Myrtle is not very high class. She proves this to us several times. For instance when she buys a copy of the “Town Tattle” or when she is content with the mutt puppy that Tom bought her. Daisy would not have been content with this gift and would not have purchased a copy of the “Town Tattle” because Daisy was a member of the elite high or upper class society. Another difference between them is their appearance. Myrtle was somewhat overweight, and not very pretty. She was sort of a possession to tom and that’s why he stayed with her. Dais ...
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