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Antigone
Number of Words: 624 / Number of Pages: 3
... hero of Antigone. They say that his noble quality is his
caring for Antigone and Ismene when thier father was
persecuted. Those who stand behind Creon also argue that
Antigone never had a true epiphany, a key element in being
a tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake
when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live,
knowing that three people are dead because of his
ignorance, which is a punishment worse than death. My
opinion on this debate is that Antigone is the tragic hero. She
tries to help her brother without worrying about what will
happen to her. She says, "I inte ...
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Hawthorne's Characters: Pride Of Intellect
Number of Words: 747 / Number of Pages: 3
... the same way. "As a result of
wearing the veil, Hooper becomes a man apart, isolated from love and sympathy,
suspected and even feared by his congregation"(Minister's Black Veil, 228).
Goodman Brown suffers the same fate because he also has a feeling of superiority
over the rest of the village. He attains this feeling after he sees all the
people that he though were good and pure participating in satanic rituals in the
forest. He looses all faith in the community and feels as though he is above
them because he was able to resist the devil. The lack or trust trusting that
Goodman Brown had separate ...
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The Great Gatsby: Forces Of Corruption
Number of Words: 516 / Number of Pages: 2
... and wanton behaviour represent Fizgarald's depiction of
the corrupt American Dream.
Another force of corruption responsible for Gatsby's fate is his obsession
with a woman of Daisy's nature. Determined to marry her after returning from
the war, he is blind to her shallow, cowardly nature. He is unable to see the
corruptiion whick lies beyond her physical beauty, charming manner and playful
banter. That she is incapable of leaving her brutal husband, Tom, of commiting
herself to Gatsby despite his sacrifices, escapes him. As Nick observes,
Gatsby's expectation is absuredly simple:"He only wanted h ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: Unreachable Dreams
Number of Words: 1054 / Number of Pages: 4
... for your future, boy?' ‘Oh, I feel some concern for my future, all
right. Sure. Sure, I do.' I thought about it for a minute. ‘But not too
much, I guess,'” (14). After leaving Pencey, he checks into a hotel where
he invites a prostitute up to his room. He gets cold feet and decides not
to have intercourse with her, though. Later, Holden decides to take his
old girlfriend, Sally Hayes, to the theater. After taking her to the
theater, Holden formulates a crazy plan which entails running away with
Sally, getting married, and growing old together. Sally thinks that he is
crazy, and she decid ...
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Crime And Punishment - Sufferi
Number of Words: 720 / Number of Pages: 3
... amounts of blood everywhere, the look on Lizaveta’s face when he brings down the axe on her head. These things clearly show that the crime isn’t what might cause him suffering, or pain, it is something else.
After Raskolnikov is sent off to Siberia, he doesn’t feel remorseful. His feelings haven’t changed about his crime, he feels bad at not being able to living up to his own ideas of greatness. He grows depressed only when he learns of his mother’s death. Raskolnikov still hasn’t found any reason to feel remorse for his crimes. He takes Siberia as his punishment, because of how annoying it is to ...
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1984
Number of Words: 1030 / Number of Pages: 4
... is Big Brother. The novel is told 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 P ...
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Call Of The Wild
Number of Words: 1178 / Number of Pages: 5
... of the book, I was thinking about Judge Miller. He would’ve sent out a message or an investigation in order to find Buck. Because Judge Miller had a big house to live in, the book implied that he was wealthy. The trip to Seattle must of taken days and by then, Judge Miller would’ve been worried sick about his inseparable companion. As the story goes on, Buck’s first experience of snow left him feeling pretty stupid. When the train got to the station in Seattle, two men named Perrault and Francois bought him. Then, they put him on a ship called the Narwhal. At this point of the book, ...
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Christian Or Hypocrite
Number of Words: 1340 / Number of Pages: 5
... to a new master named Legree. Tom is eventually beaten to death by Legree.
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass, is a narrative about his struggles as a young slave. Frederick's master Mr. Thomas, sends him to Mr. Covey, a fierce Negro breaker. Mr. Covey beats Douglass often and is completely overpowering. One day while working Douglass becomes too ill to work. When Mr. Covey discovers Douglass in his staggering condition, he beats him severely. Out of desperation, Douglass makes his way back to his master, Mr. Thomas. However, his master sends him right back to Cov ...
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Lord Of The Flies - Character
Number of Words: 876 / Number of Pages: 4
... England, he has not had any experience in anything like this before. He is struggling to be a hunter, because right now he still has not made his decent into primitive savagery , which is the way he ends up at the end of the story. But Jack is shown to have primitive urges early. The author says, "He [Jack] tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up." (p.51) So we see how Jack does have a certain urge to hunt and kill as one of his primitive desires.
After a few tries, Jack and the hunters finally catch a pig. The boys and Jack brutally attack it and kill it. Thi ...
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Prejudice In To Kill A Mocking
Number of Words: 1195 / Number of Pages: 5
... her first appearance in the novel, she says to Calpurnia,
“Put my bags in the front bedroom, Calpurnia (Lee 127).” This shows the lack of respect and feeling of superiority that Aunt Alexandra has for Calpurnia, because of the colour of her skin.
The inhabitants of the small Southern town of Maycomb are so unaware of their words that racism and racial slander has become a ‘normal’ everyday thing, children grow seeing nothing wrong in being racist.
Racial slander is so commonly used that it is clearly seen that even the author of the novel does not realize the wrong in ...
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