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"The Yellow Wall-Paper"
Number of Words: 1491 / Number of Pages: 6
... woman has no choice but to follow. "He knows there is no reason to suffer and that satisfies him."(508) This quote illustrates that the men are in control. If they strongly believe nothing is wrong, then nothing must be wrong. It is a feeling of self-satisfaction the men feel when they are superior to the woman.
The main character knows John loves her, but it is the oppression she feels that bothers her so. Her husband expresses his love for her but at the same time imposes his will on her. He hinders her from having her own thoughts. "…He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without sp ...
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The Bluest Eye: Summary
Number of Words: 1613 / Number of Pages: 6
... her, but her own parents are guilty of rejection as well. Her own father, who is constantly drunk, sexually molests his daughter more than once. The first time he has sexual intercourse with his daughter, he leaves her slightly unconscious, and lying on the kitchen floor with a quilt covering her frail, limp, preteen body. The next time he performs the same act, but this time he impregnates her. Of course, the baby is miscarried. This is obviously not a love a father should be sharing with a daughter. This act displays hatred in the worst way.
Her mother's rejection is subtle yet potent. When Pecola ...
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Death Of A Salesman 2
Number of Words: 1121 / Number of Pages: 5
... the attributes of a tragic hero as proposed by Aristotle.
Willy, with a house, a car, a job, two sons whom he adores, and a supportive, caring wife, seems to have everything that any man could ever want. He manages, however, to alienate himself from these things that he loves near the end of the play as he slips into a self-induced state of altered reality. Willy, being "…lonely…terribly lonely" (1850) has an affair with a woman during his marriage to Linda. Even though she is not aware of this, or makes no mention of it, he is destroying his greatest source of support. Linda is the only ...
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The Old Man And The Sea: Isolation
Number of Words: 2132 / Number of Pages: 8
... of his
loneliness and isolation, such as his one bed, one table, one chair, and
his wife's picture that he did not stand to look at so he took it down. At
the same time the open door takes us through the old man's mind showing his
hope that someone will stop by his cottage some day and come in without
knocking.
Another incident that shows the isolation of the old man is the Terrace.
The terrace is a place that shows how other fishermen treat the old man and
make him feel as a stranger among them. The narrator of the novel supports
this idea when he says: " They sat on the Terrace and many of the ...
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
Number of Words: 371 / Number of Pages: 2
... it and made it look like Lucy was lying. This showed that Edmund was dishonest.
A change occurred in Edmund’s character when the witch turned a family of animals into stone. Edmund plead for the animals but the witch did it anyway. This showed that Edmund was no longer self-centered or selfish because he actually cared about something besides himself. This was the turning point in Edmund’s character because he no longer wants to be around the witch. He becomes a lot quieter and does not try to make decisions after this incident. Edmund is reunited with his brothers and sisters when the witch trie ...
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Scarlet Letter Essay
Number of Words: 504 / Number of Pages: 2
... from her society, her lover, her husband, her child, and her own best self. She did it all in the name of sanctity, for true love, and she paid the price. Dimmesdale was changed by the affair in a way that “ [he] grew emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet had a [tone] of decay.”
As a believing Puritan, Dimmesdale saw himself as “predestined” for damnation. Hawthorne explained how the poor man “kept silent by the very constitution of [his] nature.” Dimmesdale wanted to be with Hester, but he was weak. Hawthorne spoke about Dimmesdale’s b ...
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Big Brother: Who Is He And What Does He Want
Number of Words: 756 / Number of Pages: 3
... are always being watched by Big Brother, which they are. In every room of almost every building there is a Telescreen which allows Part members to see and hear anything that goes on in the area of the telescreen. Knowing that anything they say, think or do is being seen by the "Big Brother" people will began to believe and think what they are told is the truth, if they do not, they are tortured until they do. Big Brother is used, in my opinion, to scare the people of Oceania. He is seen as a very powerful person (even if he isn't real) and people know what will happen if they disobey him. The ...
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The Awakening 3
Number of Words: 971 / Number of Pages: 4
... responsibility. She tries her entire life to fit in the prescribed mold that her husband set for her. She invests so much time into duty and responsibility that she loses any happiness that she hoped to achieve. She was not aware of her “responsibility as a human being.” She was not “aware of one’s rational powers in the exercise of moral duty.” Edna knew she was not happy living as a puppet. She wanted a change. With time, Kant noted, the person who devotes their life to reason finds themselves needing a release, in the end despising reason, and eventually pursuin ...
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Summary: Lord Of The Flies
Number of Words: 5631 / Number of Pages: 21
... a typical kid. His fair appearance and size made him likeable and
gave him an inner-strength of self-confidence. His interaction with Piggy
showed that he was not ill-natured. Although he laughed at Piggy's name,
it was not with real malice for he had ridiculed his external appearance.
Piggy's rather unique attributes had made him an outcast of the mainstream
of boys at his age, and his lack of self-esteem reflected that. He too
seemed good-natured as he behaved in a polite fashion. The fact that Piggy
was knowledgable and well-educated was made apparent by his air of
responsibility. ...
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Brave New World
Number of Words: 1089 / Number of Pages: 4
... (Alpha, Beta, Delta, Epsilon), carded into the main card index and stored. It is here that they are "sexed". Thirty percent of the female embryos are allowed to progress normally (to maintain the supply of initial ova). The rest of the female embryos are given a large dose of male hormone that renders them physically female in all ways, but sterile.
It is also here that their caste designation determines how much oxygen they will receive in their bottle. "The lower the caste, the shorter the oxygen." The lower caste Epsilons are oxygen deprived because they don’t need smarts for the work tha ...
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