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Animal Farm Vs. Marxism
Number of Words: 1505 / Number of Pages: 6
... to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major, Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. The working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their work. Like the animals in the farm yard, the people is Russia thought there would be no oppression in a new society because the working class people (or animals) would own all the riches and hold all the power. (Golubeva and Gellerstein 168).
Another character represented in the book is Farmer Jones. He represents the sy ...
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Kadohata's The Story Devils: An Overview
Number of Words: 557 / Number of Pages: 3
... remains constant throughout the story, which
gives you only the viewpoint of the author to get facts from. Although this may
be a possibly unreliable perspective, due to selective memory, the story is told
in a straightforward manner suggesting truth and honesty.
During the story the author realizes that Mr. Mason is a violent man.
This is learned through several instances, such as when he forced the mother
into a crying fit in her bedroom in the beginning of the story. He was also
violent when he threw a rock at a young boy that had wandered over to the yard
to play. These incidents forced the aut ...
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Victor Frankenstein: An Unpredictable Character
Number of Words: 676 / Number of Pages: 3
... he engrosses himself in it. He began to study all the time and was, for the most part, unsociable.
He became intrigued by the human frame and what gives it life. He began to read books on the human body. Once again, he could not just simply study the human body, he engrossed himself. It was not enough to learn, he wanted to create. He turned his apartment into a laboratory, where he locked himself in.
For months he did not leave his apartment. He deprived himself of proper nourishment. He deprived himself of rest. He simply went mad. He spent months locked up in his apartment. Th ...
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1984
Number of Words: 1028 / Number of Pages: 4
... in third person and partly first person, and is also divided into three parts. In the first part the main character and his conflicts with the world he lives in are revealed. Winston Smith is a bureaucrat who works for the government by altering history at the Ministry of Truth. He begins to ponder the reason things are so bad and commits a terrible crime. In the second part, he falls in love with Julia, and is taken in by a man named O'Brien, a member of the anti-party society called the Brotherhood. O'Brien turns out to be a true member of The Inner Party. Winston and Julia are captured and hauled ...
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How Does Arthur Miller Expect
Number of Words: 2630 / Number of Pages: 10
... wasn’t stupid, and he wasn’t a fool, he was just oblivious to the fact that Catherine was going to grow up, to love others but him, he couldn’t understand why this had to happen.
Alfieri has a great deal of respect for Eddie, like the other characters in the play.
When Eddie is killed by Marco in a fit of rage, he lies, dying in Beatrice’s arms, only then, does he realize what he’s got, and that’s Beatrice. He shows this by saying;
‘My B.!’
These are Eddie’s last words.
In Act one, Alfieri shares his view of Red Hook. How it used to be a ...
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The Glass Managerie
Number of Words: 721 / Number of Pages: 3
... quote, Tom wants to tell the audience the main characteristic of him in the play is to escape. The last sentence of the above quote, he says "I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion" which means I like to hide the truth and run away from reality. This example shows whenever he think about escaping or wanting to escape, he will always sits beside the fire escape. The symbol fire escape is a good example of
symbolism for Tom, but there is also the portrait of father.
Another example of symbolism is the portrait of father. Tom's father left the family to travel the world and nev ...
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Plight Of The Wingfields (the
Number of Words: 1271 / Number of Pages: 5
... is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter” (Williams ). In the warehouse, Tom does not find any satisfaction at all¾“I’d rather somebody picked up a crowbar and battered out my brains¾than go back mornings!” (Williams )¾let alone amiable, intimate friendship or companionship.
Even more stifling to his poetic creativity is his home where Amanda, prompted by her motherly solicitude and her fear for the family’s sole source of income, is the major obstacle to his creative concentration. Home is more like a cage as oppressive as the warehouse by Amanda’s austere pare ...
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White Shark: Review
Number of Words: 993 / Number of Pages: 4
... the box. Nothing
happened at first and then glowing eyes caught their attention. One guy
was killed. The other guy managed to get away and swim for about 200 yards
and then he was down. The men's bodies washed up on shored weeks later.
That's when Chase and Tall Man knew there was something in the water and it
was up to them to figure out what it was. More strange things were
happening. The ocean life began to act strange and Chase couldn't figure
out what that had anything to do with the killings.
Tall Man was a rather large Indian man that had many reasons to be
fearless. The reaso ...
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George Orwell's 1984
Number of Words: 777 / Number of Pages: 3
... in Oceania other than hatred
or the one “Big Brother” tells you to. The second branch is called “The Ministry
of Love” where people were punished, tortured and were taught to hate each other.
The third branch is called “The Ministry of Plenty” where economic affairs were
handled, they decided who got how much of something almost always being too
little of a ration. The last branch is called “The Ministry of Peace” which
handled all the war affairs such as where the next bomb they launched would hit
and who they needed to destroy next. Big Brother had a slogan that read “WAR IS
PEACE”, “FREEDOM IS ...
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The Odyssey The Role Of Prophe
Number of Words: 1534 / Number of Pages: 6
... ate Hades’ pomegranates. Prophecy plays an important role in the whole of Greek folklore. Something this ever-present bears further examination.
In The Odyssey, prophecy in its myriad forms affects nearly every aspect of the epic. Prophecies are seen in the forms of omens, signs, strict prediction of the future, divine condemnation, and divine instruction. Though conceptually these forms are hard to distinguish, they are clearly separate in the Odyssey. Moreover, prophecies can be interpreted not only on the "plot device" level, but also on the level of characterization. Whether a character acc ...
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