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The Lord Of The Flies: The Evil Of Mankind
Number of Words: 1006 / Number of Pages: 4
... leader, but still, it is expected that when suddenly removed from society, any group would attempt to mimic that which they had previously become accustomed to. Also, the platform becomes the designated meeting area for the boys, and they are told to come to this platform whenever they hear the conch. Just like with a school bell, they are to report to wherever they need to be when the sound is heard. In order to protect themselves from the elements, the boys also construct several huts. Once this mock-society is established, the boys attempt to accept the society they have built. However, as time ...
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Cry The Beloved Country: The Power Of Love
Number of Words: 497 / Number of Pages: 2
... no amount of power will mean anything to God when it comes time for judgment. People base their lives too much on what material things they have, rather than what they have spiritually. They search for happiness in things like money and fame, but they are never fulfilled. It is impossible to find happiness in things like money and fame. No one can obtain happiness in a place where happiness cannot be found. When people start living their lives for the Lord, they will be the ones who hold the power in heaven.
God has power over all things, because he created them all. People have the option of ...
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Macbeth - Supernatural Theme
Number of Words: 786 / Number of Pages: 3
... is elated. His vaulting ambition was driving him to extreme measures and he could do nothing to abate it. Macbeth had risked his life to attain the throne and he had no choice but to employ Machiavellian practices to retain it. The appearance of Banquo’s ghost at the royal banquet horrifies Macbeth. Shakespeare brilliantly uses irony to make Banquo’s emergence very dramatic:
Macbeth: Fail not our feast.
Banquo: My lord, I will not.
(III, i, ll 28-29)
Banquo’s appearance provides insight into the character of Macbeth. It shows the level that Macbeth’s mind has recessed ...
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A Separate Peace: Changes
Number of Words: 484 / Number of Pages: 2
... Gene, one of his friends, talks about how the snow began to take possession of everything at Devon like the war took possession everything in the world. “Leper Lepellier didn’t suspect this. It was not in fact evident to anyone at first. But Leper stands out for me as the person who was most often and most emphatically taken by surprise, by this and every other shift in our life at Devon,” (85). Anything that happened at Devon was a surprise to him because he never paid attention to anything except things that concerned him. He liked things just the way they were; he did not like change. Inst ...
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Blakes London And The Chimney
Number of Words: 931 / Number of Pages: 4
... Blake protests against various forms of oppression resulting from humans in his poem “London” which speaks about a slice of life in London in his times. Blake believes that an individual’s state of mind enslaves itself. Therefore, he refers to the Thames and the city streets as “chartered”(1) alluding to the image that man-made conventions and laws have succeeded in placing man in captivity and making them unable to escape from their molded path. Blake also implies that man perverts everything into something impure. The water, which was once a beautiful natural ri ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Guilt
Number of Words: 452 / Number of Pages: 2
... space. If he tells the citizens, he is no longer the great reverend. Then again, if he doesn’t, he will be forced to carry the ever so heavy burden. Dimmesdale waits for such a long time that the guilt has already got to him by the time he is ready to confess. He carves the letter, “A,” into his chest. He beats himself with leather whips, and has to go for long walks in the woods. Back then the woods where known to everyone as the place where the Black Man lives. In this book, Dimmesdale is the dominant character that shows how guilt can rip you apart at the limbs.
People could say that Pearl re ...
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An Analysis Of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": The Wife Of Bath's Tale
Number of Words: 1054 / Number of Pages: 4
... we have the sad truth that the human
knight rarely lived up to this ideal(Patterson 170). In a work by Muriel
Bowden, Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, she explains that
the knights of the Middle Ages were "merely mounted soldiers, . . .
notorious" for their utter cruelty(18). The tale Bath's Wife weaves
exposes that Chaucer was aware of both forms of the medieval soldier.
Where as his knowledge that knights were often far from perfect is
evidenced in the beginning of Alison's tale where the "lusty" soldier rapes
a young maiden; King Arthur, whom the ladies of the country beseec ...
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The Scandinavian Drama: Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts
Number of Words: 2216 / Number of Pages: 9
... at any cost. To do that, she had sacrificed her great yearning for him and sent him away from the poisonous atmosphere of her home.
And now he has returned, fine and free, much to the disgust of Pastor Manders, whose limited vision cannot conceive that out in the large world free men and women can live a decent and creative life.
Manders. But how is it possible that a--a young man or young woman with any decent principles can endure to live in that way?--in the eyes of all the world!
Oswald. What are they to do? A poor young artist--a poor girl. It costs a lot of money to get married. What are ...
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Of Mice And Men
Number of Words: 1929 / Number of Pages: 8
... " a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were
whitewashed and the floor unpainted." Later he says, " Against the walls
were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three
showing their burlap ticking." So far we get the idea that the bunkhouse
was not the most beautiful place to live in, one of the only forms of
entertainment in the bunkhouse was playing cards. Steinbeck described this
setting with images of light and darkness next to each other. As Steinbeck
said outside there is "evening brightness" and inside there is "dusk". When
Steinbeck says that inside there is d ...
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Animal Farm
Number of Words: 1165 / Number of Pages: 5
... to rallying support for his cause. Napoleon, throughout the novel, fails to present an idea that is original, but tends to take credit for the ideas of others (Meyers 108). Like Stalin, Napoleon is not a good speaker and is certainly not as clever as his political opponent. However, he makes good use of his resident "smooth-talker," Squealer, to insure that his subjects see the purpose of his evil and demented ideas, while those who oppose him are merely torn apart by dogs that Napoleon accumulated to protect him and distribute justice as he sees fit in much the same way that Stalin used the KGB. ...
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