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Dune
Number of Words: 1862 / Number of Pages: 7
... pain and
suffering but passed the tests with the highest reverence. Duke Leto, Paul's
father now came into the picture. He was the leader of the Atreides Family. He
seemed very established and perceptive. The Atreides family represented good
and honesty while their enemies, the Harkonnen's, were ruthless killers.
The Harkonnen home planet, Gedi Prime was very desolate and dark. It
represented the immorality and darkness within the Harkonnens. Their leader
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen was very obese and inhuman. He killed his own slaves
for fun and hated the Atreides with a passion. He hated the ...
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Go Ask Alice
Number of Words: 990 / Number of Pages: 4
... Canterbury Tales also takes place in the spring, at the beginning of April. This accounts for many of the fantastic elements and for the non-linear nature of the story; ideas and conversations are not to be taken seriously, but rather to be enjoyed for their lack of connection and straightforward meaning. The dream world in which Alice finds herself when she enters the rabbit hole is called Wonderland. Wonderland is populated by animals that talk and act like real people and by playing cards that act as a royal court. It does not conform to the reality or physics of the real world. Characters (inc ...
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The Sacrilege: Caesar A Political Mastermind
Number of Words: 554 / Number of Pages: 3
... Decius was talking to Milo towards the beginning of the story he
says that Caesar is known for being "reckless." He recounts the story of the
pirates that captured him. Also in that conversation, Decius puts down Caesar
because he says that Caesar has no money and that even as Pontifex Maximus, he
still doesn't have any money. So he thinks less of Caesar when Milo tells him
about a huge loan from Crassus to Caesar because he couldn't pay off his debts.
Decius starts to gain respect for Caesar when he makes the announcement,
as Pontifex Maximus, to label the "heinous" crime a "sacril ...
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Lord Of The Flies: A Symbolic Microcosm Of Society
Number of Words: 1923 / Number of Pages: 7
... Lntendre in its
psychodynamic and physically sensual sense.
Jack's unwillingness to acknowledge the conch as the source of centrality
on the island and Ralph as the seat of power is consistent with the
portrayal of his particular self-importance. Freud also linked the id to
what he called the destructive drive, the aggressiveness of self-ruin.
Jack's antithetical lack of compassion for nature, for others, and
ultimately for himself is thoroughly evidenced in his needless hunting, his
role in the brutal murders of Simon and Piggy, and finally in his burning
of the entire island, even at the cost of ...
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Macbeth Motif Of Blood
Number of Words: 498 / Number of Pages: 2
... too much of a burden on the Macbeths. The blood represents their crime, and they can not escape the sin of their actions. Macbeth realizes that in time he would get what he deserves. Since he can not ride himself of his guilt by washing the blood away, his fate may have been sealed. They
try to use water for vindication, but Macbeth says that all the water in the ocean could not cleanse his hands. He imagines the blood from the murder staining the ocean red. Lady
Macbeth differs from her husband in this aspect. She believes her conscience would be cleansed at the time her hands are physicall ...
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Deliverance: The Establishment Of "Masculinity"
Number of Words: 1283 / Number of Pages: 5
... for talent and attention. Drew plays the guitar and his music is his true companion.
Without having any talent, as he would be the
first to tell you, Drew played mighty well, through
sheer devotion.
(Dickey, 11)
For Drew the highlight of this trip is his duo with Lonnie, an uneducated banjo player. Drew obviously finds this the most exhilarating part of the adventure in that he is the center of attention and is playing very well with a talented young man.
I had never heard him play so well, and I really
began to listen deeply, moved as an unmusical
person is moved when he sees that the mus ...
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The Martian Chronicles
Number of Words: 1216 / Number of Pages: 5
... all of the snow within the vicinity melted. “The snow dissolved and showed last summer’s ancient green lawns.”. Bradbury knew when he wrote this that a weather change that dramatic would never happen from a single rocket, it was simply to grab the attention of the reader.
In “The Third Expedition”, the sixth short-story in , Bradbury uses his description of America on Mars to give a setting and tone for the story. He suggested that by 1950, America had already started to vanish. By the time any astronaut reached Mars, the America the astronaut knew would be greatly diffe ...
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The Good Earth: Summary
Number of Words: 1178 / Number of Pages: 5
... drought hit the area where Wang Lung lived,
and it did not rain for months. There was little harvest, and soon all of the
wheat was gone. Starving, Wang Lung had his ox killed for food, but could not
bear to watch because the beast had been so faithful to him. Not having any
money, Wang Lung sold the furniture in his house for a few silver pieces. His
fourth child was born in the drought, and was born dead. The family was forced
to move South to find food, so with the money he made from selling the
furniture, Wang Lung paid train fare to go down south.
On the train, Wang Lung spent some more mone ...
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The Metamorphosis
Number of Words: 571 / Number of Pages: 3
... travel, he becomes distrustful of people, and he brings these things into his home, where they separate him from his family. The only way Gregor can find happiness is through the small amount of creative work he can accomplish through carpentry. This is his true love and his one indulgence and he will do anything to protect it, and he shows when his mother and sister move to clean his room and move his furniture. He fears they will remove the picture with the frame that he made so "he pressed against the glass, which gave a good surface to stick to" (Kafka, p. 35). This is the one reminder he has ...
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden A Victim Of Society
Number of Words: 1193 / Number of Pages: 5
... The wrath
of the "phonies" constantly plagues Holden pending the sessions with the
psychoanalyst; the treatment bequeathed to Holden consists of a "rest cure".
Even after the inquiry and the treatment, the questions remain unanswered,
and Holden invariably suffers from lack of love.
Regular daily occurrences effect each distinct person with diverse
emotions. In The Catcher in the Rye, the pessimistic Holden Caulfield
views all incidents as a result of the ignorance from the "phonies". The
basis of the theme derives from the actuality that each human being differs
in psychological insight. ...
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