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Psychoanalyzing Hamlet: Freud
Number of Words: 2577 / Number of Pages: 10
... to be true. If Hamlet’s given motivation for killing the king is legitimate, then Claudius should die at about Act 3. Because Hamlet’s actions do not correspond with his given reasoning, one is forced to look for an alternate explanation for Hamlet’s behavior. In doing so, one will come to the conclusion that Hamlet is driven by forces other than what is obvious to the reader, as well as Hamlet himself. Given this example, one must denounce the assumption that Hamlet is aware of the forces that motivate him, and understand that Hamlet’s true motivation is unconscious This unco ...
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Literary Analysis Of Lennie
Number of Words: 1300 / Number of Pages: 5
... to the idea of a slightly slow, child-like, innocent man. The lack of looking if the water was running shows Lennie’s position as a character with little or no common sense. He just does things less carefully than he should, though without negative intent. Also, Lennie is portrays himself as a very caring individual. While he enjoys his drink, he had to make sure his friend George would not be dehydrated.
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“’Lennie!’ [George] said sharply. ‘Lennie, for God’ sakes don’t drink so much.’ Lennie continued to snort into the pool. The small man leaned over and shook him by the shoulder. ‘Le ...
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Sarte's "The Wall": Themes
Number of Words: 1263 / Number of Pages: 5
... At that moment I felt that I had my whole life in front of me
and I thought, "It's a damned lie." It was worth nothing because it was
finished." In this passage Pablo realizes that his entire life has been a
continuous sequence of events and eventually the outcome must be the same
for him as well as all men, which is death. This passage also shows the
reader that Pablo, like most people, deceives himself about mortality by
not dealing wiht it conscientiously until it is too late. The majority of
people live as if their existence is limitless and their days on earth are
not numbered. Neither P ...
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Realism In The Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 642 / Number of Pages: 3
... endings. It is mostly thanks to Fitzgerald's descriptive, poetic style of writing that allows him to realistically portray the many plots of The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's realistic construction and development of plot is extremely dependent upon the setting of the novel in which it take place. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses realism to clearly depict the setting of the Great Gatsby. This incredible use of realism could be mostly due to the fact that Fitzgerald lived during the time of the novel, and by using great detail, he was able to reproduce his interpretation of the 1920's. At this time the Great War ...
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Why The Unicorn Must Lose Its Horn
Number of Words: 670 / Number of Pages: 3
... says that the unicorn "feel[s] sort of lonesome"(1752). Laura is alluding to herself when she talks about the unicorn being the only one among the other horses. When Jim says that the unicorn is lonesome Laura replies with, "Well, if he [is] he doesn’t complain about it. He stays on a shelf with some horses that don’t have horns and all of them seem to get along nicely together"(1752). When the unicorn looses his horn the unicorn becomes just like all the other horses which is how Jim makes Laura feel. In Jim’s arms Laura begins to feel whole. It is as though she became just like all of the other gir ...
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Great Expectations: God's Law Vs. Human Law
Number of Words: 1151 / Number of Pages: 5
... on charity and love, Pip feels guilty for
bringing food to a starving fellow human. Pip must steal food from his own
family to help Magwitch, thereby transforming mercy and compassion into crimes.
As Pip is running home, he looks back at the convict and sees him limping
towards the gallows "...as if he were the pirate come to life, and come down,
and going back up again" (27). This imagery conveys a complicated perception of
guilt as something conscious of its own moral accountability, frightening and
self-destructive. When Magwitch is caught, he gives a false confession to
stealing the food from ...
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Brave New World
Number of Words: 802 / Number of Pages: 3
... who writes government propaganda. Watson has grown wary of life as it is, and his supervisors have him under close watch. Two co-workers are discussing Lenina Crowne, another worker, in a changing room. They act as if she were property, able to be bought and sold. This disgusts Bernard, so he decides to ask Lenina to go to a Savage Reservation in New Mexico. Bernard visits the Director for permission to go. The Director tells a story of when he went to a Savage Reservation with Linda, a pretty colleague. During their visit, Linda was lost, and the Director had to leave. Not discouraged, Bernard and Len ...
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In The Middle Of The Night
Number of Words: 644 / Number of Pages: 3
... not to answer the phone, but now that Denny is sixteen and he wants to be like all other teens so he starts to answer the phone in the middle of the day when he is the only one home. The voice on the other end of the phone was seductive. The mystery voice would soon ravel herself as Lulu. Lulu would tease and play with Denny’s hormones with leading him on with sentences like “I want you to love my eyes, and my lips…I want you to love my body…”
Than as Halloween approached Lulu convinced Denny to meet him Halloween night. When Halloween finally came Denny told his parents that he was going to a youth p ...
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The Crucible And The Scarlet Letter: Proctor And Dimmesdale's Sacrifices
Number of Words: 446 / Number of Pages: 2
... shouldn't have to blacken the names of the accused
people in order to keep his life. Through this sacrifice, he has balanced
all the sins he has made. Therefore, he has redeemed himself and kept his
soul.
Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale sacrificed his reputation in order to gain
inner peace. Dimmesdale has been tortured by himself as well as
Chillingworth. Chillingworth felt the need to torture the man who
committed adultery with Hester, his wife. Dimmesdale felt guilty for not
confessing his crime when Hester was on the scaffold. The only way he
could remove this guilt was to confess his crime, ...
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Invisible Man: Plot Summary
Number of Words: 421 / Number of Pages: 2
... were not recomenation but rather advisments
against hiring him. The seventh reciever of a letter gives him a job in a
paint factory. He does not derform well there and evetually causes he own
dismissal by ignoring hes work and getting knoked out by an explosion that is
his fault. He joins a black power group called The Brotherhood and is sent out
to spread the word of the group. He meets a man named Clfton, his first real
freind, and clifon is shot by a police officer. He speaks at Clifton's
funeral and the Brotherhood does not like what he says. he befriens a middle
aged white woman whao ...
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