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King Lear - Good Vs. Evil
Number of Words: 632 / Number of Pages: 3
... is another
character in the play who believes that evil is caused by humans and
not the gods. Edgar said, "The gods are just, and of our peasant vices
make instruments to plague us" (ACT V, iii, 169). Edgar clearly says
that the gods are right and it is the people who are responsible for
promoting evil in the world. It is us who make the instruments
necessary for evil to spread and plague the world. In the world of
King Lear many characters believe evil was caused by the people and
not by the gods.
Even though evil was created by humans good will always exist.
After King Lear ...
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Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: Vocation Sequence
Number of Words: 456 / Number of Pages: 2
... a good life and...led
him back to grace once he fell short of Gods glory. Stephens first calling,
to become a priest, has appeal, but his epiphany lets him know that his
true calling, instead, deals with finally knowing the solitude that he
always faced. Stephen considers the many aspects of his priestly vocation:
great power, sinless innocence, and the pious constraint on his freedom.
By the end of this sequence, Stephen realizes that his soul longs for
freedom from social or religious orders.
At this point, realizing his true calling proves very important to
Stephen. The priest strongly believ ...
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The Bluest Eye 3
Number of Words: 1310 / Number of Pages: 5
... a warehouse. Claudia MacTeer is the main narrator in the story. She is about nine years old when they story takes place, she is remembering the story. Claudia is black and doesn't see anything wrong with that. She isn't like the other girls who think it would be better if she was white, she doesn't buy into that idea, she destroys the white dolls that she receives for Christmas. Claudia has learned from her mother how to be a strong black female and express her opinion in a white dominated society. Frieda is a lot like her sister and had the same morals imposed on her by her mother. Frieda is about te ...
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Racism In The Invisible Man
Number of Words: 405 / Number of Pages: 2
... his experiences he should have been able to discover himself. Though the main character remains confused, there are certain instances based on racial incidents that allow the character, if not to have found himself, to ponder more and deeper questions about his identity. But are not such questions, even though they have not explicit answers, positive? Is not the quest for knowledge and for self-realization positive? It is implicitly within these questions that plague our Invisible Man that we can find our traces of the positive aspects of racism. Subtle as they may be, this aspect of the novel is the ...
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The Outsiders
Number of Words: 870 / Number of Pages: 4
... socs, the rich kids, and the greasers, the poor kids. The socs go around looking for trouble and greasers to beat up, and then the greasers are blamed for it, because they are poor and cannot affect the authorities. The first conflict that you see in the novel is when one day Ponyboy and Johnny, (Ponyboy's best friend), get jumped by a group of Socs. The Socs start to drown Ponyboy in a fountain. Johnny, realizing they might kill Ponyboy, kills Bob, one of the Socs with his switchblade. Johnny and Ponyboy run to a fellow Greaser, Dally, who is always in trouble with the law. Dally helps them by givin ...
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The Influences Of Tolkien In T
Number of Words: 488 / Number of Pages: 2
... and they both came from one central language that was derived from the fake history of the story. This fact gives the languages an incredible sense of realism.
Tolkien’s fantasy world was derived from his memory of his childhood, where he spent his time in delectation of the english countryside. The remembrance of his time spent at Sarehole instilled in Tolkien a great love of nature and simplicity, which made the foundation for a main theme of his “The interrelationships of the ‘noble’ and ‘simple’”. All of his noble creatures such as his elves and hobb ...
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Glass Menagerie: Relationships Are The Conveyance Of Love
Number of Words: 1313 / Number of Pages: 5
... lot but she does not
show it. Inside she loves Tom but she needs to appreciate him more and show
affection. Amanda doesn't want to realize that her children have different
views than her. Tom and Amanda are always arguing. To get away from his
mother, Tom tells Amanda that he goes to the movies every night and stays
out late to escape Amanda's nagging. Amanda is always telling Tom how to
eat, when to eat, what to eat, how to quit smoking, and what to read.
Amanda doesn't believe that Tom goes to the movies every night. Every time
Tom tries to make Amanda look at Laura realistically, she always ignore ...
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A Tale Of Two Cities - Charact
Number of Words: 951 / Number of Pages: 4
... she evidently expresses how she will never forget what was done to her family and how the D’Evermondes are deserving of what they will receive. The actions she performs in her daily life demonstrate her evilness. In the novel it seems as though she is the “bad guy” who is starting up all the trouble. It is her need for revenge, in the book, that starts the revolution.
While Dickens presents Sydney Carton as a worthless drunk, in contrast to Madame Defarge, he is the Christ-like noble figure of the novel. He appears to the readers of A Tale of Two Cities as a worthless drunk and a man who has not acqui ...
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Classic Tales Of Tom Sawyer
Number of Words: 597 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the physical aspects of the story. Mark Twain immediately
brings the story to life with his introduction of the characters and their
surroundings. From here, the familiarity of the characters and setting
continues to grow. The depictions of the characters, both in mannerisms
and dialogue, are so picturesque that Tom's superstitions and fantasies
soon cause no great surprises, Aunt Polly's religious sayings and hidden
affection for her “mischeevous” Tom come to be expected, and Sid's sly
attacks on Tom appear deserving of Tom's revenge.
The unique setting of St. Petersburg on the Mis ...
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The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby Is Set Apart From The Common Man
Number of Words: 1056 / Number of Pages: 4
... a highly imaginative, “circus
wagon”, car that “everybody had seen. It is a rich cream color with
nickel and has a three-noted horn.” (64) It has a “monstrous length with
triumphant hat-boxes, supper-boxes, tool-boxes, and terraced with a
labyrinth of windshields and a green leather conservatory.” (64)
Amidst Gatsby's possessions, he develops his personal self. His
physical self appearance sets him apart form the other characters. His
smile is the type “that comes across four or five times in life. One of
those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it.” (48) He
has a colle ...
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