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Gustave Flaubert And Madame Bovary: Comparisons
Number of Words: 1410 / Number of Pages: 6
... couple, for awhile. They did things with each other, went out, and were
extremely happy. Although, this love and passion for life shortly ended when
Emma's true feelings began to come about. We soon come to realize that “the
story is of a woman whose dreams of romantic love, largely nourished by novels,
find no fulfillment when she is married to a boorish country doctor” (Thorlby
272).
This is completely true because Emma really does get caught up in her
reading. She wonders why she can't have a flawless love as well as a flawless
life, just as the characters do in the novels she reads.
On ...
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Saki's "The Interlopers": Plot Analysis
Number of Words: 349 / Number of Pages: 2
... fills one's heart.
The reader feels immense sympathy for the situation: how many times in
one's own life has a mere squabble gotten out of control and wrecked
everything? The men lay, crippled beneath the tree in the cold and realize
the foolishness of their ways. Ulrich says to Georg, "Neighbor, do as you
please if your men come first. It was a fair compact. But as for me, I've
changed my mind. If my men are the first to come you shall be the first to
be helped..." (p. 45) The men continue to talk, and they reconcile. But in
a strange twist of fate, wolves come and devour them both before they ...
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Mansfield Park
Number of Words: 358 / Number of Pages: 2
... Park collected by Jane Austen herself soon after the
novel's publication. Some dislike the character of Fanny as "priggish" (however, it is
Edmund who sets the moral tone here), or have no sympathy for her forced inaction
(doubtless, those are people who have never lacked confidence, or been without a
date on Friday night!). Mansfield Park has also been used to draw connections between
the "genteel" rural English society that Jane Austen describes and the outside world,
since Fanny's uncle is a slave-owner (with an estate in Antigua in the Caribbean;
slavery was not abolished in the B ...
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Carvers Cathedral
Number of Words: 1194 / Number of Pages: 5
... to him. He felt that blindness was exactly like being a prisoner in Plato’s Cave, a scary world where no light ever penetrated. Unfortunately, the husband is imprisoned in his own ignorance. His view of blindness had come from Hollywood’s portrayal of blind people. As far as he is concerned, his situation is completely normal. He knows there are lots of people just like him. In “The Cathedral” the extent of the husband’s ignorance or naiveté is extremely irritating. When his wife tells him the beautiful story of the blind man’s romantic relationship with his wife Beulah, all he could think o ...
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Essay On Romanticism In Frankenstein
Number of Words: 911 / Number of Pages: 4
... and art of the period. It
encouraged spontaneity, and acting with emotions, not common sense. In the
more classical style of writing, writers addressed their books to the upper
class, but now writers addressed the common man and his problems. Their was
a new feeling of spirituality. People were seeking eastern concepts of
nirvana, transcendentalism and being one with nature. People wanted to
experience life, not study it. They seeked extreme emotions, whether they
were good or bad. Marry Shelly used all of these philosophies of the
Romantic Period in writing, Frankenstien.
Victor Fankenstien is ...
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Morality, Values, And Lifestyl
Number of Words: 708 / Number of Pages: 3
... on the same level morally as the Buchanans. She is an arrogant, beautiful, young woman who uses deceit in order to win her golf tournaments and lies to get what she wants. Gatsby has more morals than the Buchanans, but he also used dishonesty to achieve his goals. During a time of prohibition, Gatsby made all of his money by bootlegging liquor. Gatsby, at least, stays true to what he believes in. All Gatsby did was done because of his love for Daisy. Nick has the most morals of all the characters in the book. He believes in honesty and abiding the law. He is the complete opposite of the Buchanans ...
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Fahrenheit 451 2
Number of Words: 528 / Number of Pages: 2
... … We let the fireman keep the book twenty-four hours. If he hasn’t burned it by then we come and burn it for him." (pg. 68) Beatty lets Montag keep the book until that night when Montag will return to work. Meanwhile, Montag meets with Professor Faber, a retired English teacher after a phone call cut short. While at the meeting, Faber is extremely careful due to the fact that Montag might not be able to be trusted until Faber notices the book Montag has brought with him, the Bible. Montag goes to Faber in hope that Faber can copy the book for him, Faber cannot, and they decide to attemp ...
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The River Of Freedom
Number of Words: 986 / Number of Pages: 4
... reaches of a raft.
Huckleberry resents the objectives and beliefs of the so-called “civilized” people of the society around him. Huck likes to be free from the restrictions of others and just be himself, living by his own rules. He disbelieves the societal beliefs that have been embedded in his mind since birth, which is shown by his brother-like relationship with Jim, a runaway slave. Only on the raft do they have the chance to practice the idea of brotherhood which they are so devoted to. When
on the raft, peacefully wading down the river, skin color plays no major part in the way ...
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The Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 743 / Number of Pages: 3
... gas station. Mrs. Wilson ran out to Gatsby’s car, because they were
driving Tom’s car, and was hit. Mr. Wilson went positively crazy, and Nick
felt torn by his mixed feelings towards his supposed friend Gatsby. “I
disliked him so much by this time that I didn’t find it necessary to tell him
he was wrong.” Gatsby’s insensitivity brought on by his lifestyle made Nick
despise him. This is the part where I think Nick really started opening his
eyes to how Gatsby really was.
This book really displays how the life of an important person is,
especially in that time period. At first, Nick is ...
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