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Corruption Of Dorian Gray (The
Number of Words: 1102 / Number of Pages: 5
... is a man infatuated with the details of correctly knotting a tie or making sure he is always in fashion. Dorian is simply a fop at the height of fashion. Young gentlemen would "try to copy his style, mode of dressing. Young men tried to reproduce the accidental charm of his graceful, though to him only half-serious fopperies." (Wilde, 147) Dorian would even go to such lengths as to put perfume on his kerchief. Not only does he act feminine but he also, on occasions, would wear female attire.
There is a scene in the novel in which he dresses as Anne de Joyeuse in a costume covered with five hundr ...
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Literary Approach Paper On The Death Of A Salesman
Number of Words: 793 / Number of Pages: 3
... "Willy: What is he stealing?...Why is he stealing? What did I tell him? I never in my life told him anything but decent things."(40). Because of the lack of morals, Willy had made it extremely difficult for Biff to love him, especially when he caught him with a women other than his mother. Nevertheless, he always loved his father, even when he totally ignored him. "Biff, crying, broken: Will you let me go, for Christ's Sake?...Willy, astonished, elevated: Isn't that-isn't that remarkable? Biff-he liked me!...Happy, deeply moved: Always did, Pop"(133). When Biff was crying, it showed that he stil ...
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The Scarlet Letter: The False Qualities Of Life
Number of Words: 1375 / Number of Pages: 5
... mortal
lips more evidently than it did through his" (167). Dimmesdale had risen
through the ranks of the church and had the utmost respect of the people of
Boston. Dimmesdale's "eloquence and religious fervor had already given the
earnest of high eminence in his profession" (48). Hawthorne pointed out that
Dimmesdale was a very influential and powerful speaker, whose soft spoken words,
"affected them [the townspeople] like the speech of an angel" (48). Dimmesdale
also had the ability to preach unmatched sermons, containing messages that could
touch souls. This was the case during a service f ...
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With Which Literary Character Do You Most Readily Identify? Why?: Alexei In Dostoevsky's "The Gambler"
Number of Words: 858 / Number of Pages: 4
... what he thought was right, but he knew inside that he was doing
the right thing. However, he did not receive any joy from this realization. He
was relatively miserable his whole life. He turned to Gambling to punish
himself. This is a man who, when he had a chance to be with the woman he had
loved for years, ruined it by going to the casino and gambling. He thought that
it would prove to her that he loved her, because he would have a lot of money to
spend on her. Instead, she realized that his one true love was not her but
gambling.
Whenever I read this story, I think of how much this charac ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Trading Places With Atticus Finch
Number of Words: 385 / Number of Pages: 2
... "technology" there
was, although there was probably not much. Lastly I would enjoy seeing how
people dealt with the low standard of living.
There are many differences between him and me. One is that I have
never been persecuted. He was every day. That would not be fun. People
wanted to kill him, which wouldn't be fun either.
The other main difference was that he lives during a whole different
time and place. The era of today is a lot nicer, materially, than back
then, but there wasn't so much crime, either, which leads me to believe
that they were better people. I would still like ...
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A Book Report On Aldous Huxley's "A Brave New World"
Number of Words: 1221 / Number of Pages: 5
... intelligent, to the Epsilons, morons bred to do the dirty jobs that
nobody else wants to do. The lower classes are multiplied by a budding
process that can create up to 96 identical clones and produce over 15,000
brothers and sisters from a single ovary.
All the babies are conditioned, physically and chemically in the
bottle, and psychologically after birth, to make them happy citizens of the
society with both a liking and an aptitude for the work they will do. One
psychological conditioning technique is hypnopaedia, or teaching people
while they sleep--not teaching facts or analysis, but planting ...
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: Is Stephen Dedalus Really James Joyce?
Number of Words: 315 / Number of Pages: 2
... the world around him.
This novel is “enclosed in a sustained symbolic pattern.” Stephen
Dedalus is symbolized as “rich and many-faceted.” Critic Elizabeth Drew
states that Stephen is a rebel who withdraws from Ireland, family,
nationality and religion. Stephen rebels in two ways. On one level, his “
intellectual and emotional development fit him finally to....leave Ireland.”
And on another level, he learns to use “language, his medium of ingenuity.”
James Joyce completed the book when he was in his mature years of
thirty-two, but there is “little to suggest that he does not regard the
priggis ...
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Rollin Down The River: The Uniting Of Theme And Plot In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Number of Words: 1387 / Number of Pages: 6
... world we live
in, and only the journey down the river provides us with that chance.
Throughout the book we see the hypocrisy of society. The first character
we come across with that trait is Miss Watson. Miss Watson constantly
corrects Huck for his unacceptable behavior, but Huck doesn't understand
why, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when
they don't know nothing about it" (2). Later when Miss Watson tries to
teach Huck about Heaven, he decides against trying to go there, "...she
was going to live so as to go the good place. Well, I couldn't see no
advantage in ...
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Comparison Of Movie And Book
Number of Words: 316 / Number of Pages: 2
... most
dramatic. Nevertheless, the most dramatic moment was when the new McMurphy
was revealed to the viewers. Up to that point we were used to McMurphy
being a lively and cocky character. What we were exposed to was a character
with totally contrary characteristics. He looked like a dead corpse with
just enough energy to breathe. This was a truly moving scene that lead to
Chief suffocating the lifeless body.
This film was a poor adaption of the novel. The events in the movie
were not accurate when compared to the novel. The biggest difference in my
opinion was the charcterization. In the novel ...
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The Bell Jar
Number of Words: 572 / Number of Pages: 3
... bothered
her because she loved to read. Finally she went to see a doctor who gave her
shock treatments. This made Esther even worse an so she slipped even deeper
into her depressed state. She knew the bell jar was almost completely apon her
and there was nothing she could do to prevent the suffocation of her own life.
She knew there was something very wrong and neither her family or herself had no
idea how to help prevent this and it made her wish for death. Finally she did
it, she plotted a scheme to end the torture of her insanity. "The silence drew
off, baring the pebbles and shells and all t ...
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