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Animal Farm And A Tale Of Two Cities: Their Authors' Disenchantment With Human Nature
Number of Words: 1459 / Number of Pages: 6
... ambitious. Both these books are similar in that both describe how, even with the best of intentions, our ambitions get the best of us. Both authors also demonstrate that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of "the ends justifying the means" are deplorable.
George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, ". . . to discredit the Soviet system by showing its inhumanity and its back-sliding from ideals [he] valued . . ."(Gardner, 106) Orwell noted that " there exists in England almost no literature of disillusionment with the Soviet Union.' Instead, that country is viewed either with ignorant disapproval' or ...
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The Great Gatsby: Daisy's Love
Number of Words: 1253 / Number of Pages: 5
... into
a cold bath." (Fitzgerald 77)
Money seems to be one of the very top priorities in her life, and everyone
that she surrounds herself with, including her daughter, seem to accept
this as mere fact with her. She lives in one of the most elite
neighborhoods in the state, in one of the most elegant houses described in
the book, and intends very much for her daughter to grow up much like she
has. "And I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in
this world today, a beautiful little fool." (Fitzgerald 24) She raves
repeatedly of boats and large windows and halls where many a extr ...
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Death Of A Salesman - Characte
Number of Words: 560 / Number of Pages: 3
... level. It is the philosophy of business and comprises the dreams
of man. Sometimes, this can drive man to great things, sometimes
it can drive a man to ruin. Willy was driven to the latter.
(Not his own greed for he was a simple man with simple dreams,
but by the greed of others.) The developers who took away the
sun and gave birth to shadows, his boss who reduced him to
commission and his sons which reduced him to a failure.
The next largest flaw in society is a lack of compassion.
This could be as a result of almost overwhelming greed, the main
culprit being big business.
"I'm always ...
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Streetcar Named Desire
Number of Words: 692 / Number of Pages: 3
... her to turn it off. Blanche refuses and so Stanley gets up
himself and turns it off himself. When Stanley’s friend, Mitch, drops
out of the game to talk to Blanche, Stanley gets upset and he
even gets more upset when Blanche flicks on the radio. Due to the
music being on, Stanley, in a rage, stalks in the room and grabs the
radio and throws it out the window. His friends immediately jump up,
and then they drag him to the shower to try to sober him up. This is
the first example of Stanley’s rage and brutality.
Not only does throwing the radio out the window represent an ...
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Billy Budd
Number of Words: 311 / Number of Pages: 2
... made his move, telling the captain that a group of sailors on the Ship were going to muteness and that Billy was the leader of this group. Captain Vere asking to bring in Billy about the situation. Billy speechless about the situation didn't know what to do, so Billy attacked Claggart and took him out with one hit. Knowing that Billy wouldn't even hurt a fly proved me wrong. That's why Would of had Billy guilty of the crime of killing Claggart. If he did it once why wouldn't d it again. ...
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Homeric Simile In Paradise Lost
Number of Words: 3666 / Number of Pages: 14
... to call Shakespearean (MacCaffrey, 119). Both Homer (the originator of the extended/epic simile) and Milton found it necessary to stop short of the complex metaphors that served the dramatists as instruments for psychological exploration and symbolic statement.
Homer’s similes provide a respite from the steady surge of heroic action, and broaden the scope of his poems. Into the simile could be introduced familiar scenes which would remind the listener of the world living on beyond the plains of Troy or Odysseus’ storm-beaten vessel. This precedent was followed, or at least honored nearly univer ...
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The Yellow Wallpaper Vs. Story
Number of Words: 1084 / Number of Pages: 4
... is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work…but he says he would as soon put fireworks in my pillow-case as to let me have those stimulating people about now”(Gilman 635). Mrs. Mallard in “The Story of an Hour” had to deal with the same sort of affliction. Her husband had control over her “body and soul”. She felt that he lived her life for her and did “not believe that anyone had the right to impose a private will on a fellow creature” (Chopin 13).
McLauchlin 2
This control caused both women to long ...
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Walter Mitty's Pathetic Life
Number of Words: 207 / Number of Pages: 1
... himself.
He automaticly assumed everyone was putting him down. He didn't even try to do
things for himself-parking his own car. He didn't have much confidence in
himself.
He daydreamed all the time about what he wanted to be because he didn't
have a very exiteing life. He dreamed he was a doctor, pilot, convict, etc. On
acount of his boring life he dreamed of having a realy exiting life.
His wife made him do things that he did not think were necessary, but he
did them anyway because he was afraid to stand up for himself. She made him
wear his boots and gloves and told him not to sit in a ce ...
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The Effects Of Sin In The Scarlet Letter
Number of Words: 836 / Number of Pages: 4
... even prayed for
it, were it fit that such as I should pray for anything." Throughout the
next years, the sin Hester committed changes her personality and identity.
Once a beautiful woman, Hester now looks plain and drab. Once passionate,
she is now somber and serious. She had contained a precious quality of
womanhood that has now faded away. Her plain gray clothes symbolize her
temperament and disposition. There are also good effects that the sin has
on her. She becomes more giving and caring, and is endlessly helping the
poor and sick and doing neighbors favors. Hester feels that she owes it
t ...
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Black Boy
Number of Words: 717 / Number of Pages: 3
... was give him some more money, but this time, she handed Richard a stick. Richard, scared and terrified, went back down the street to the store and saw the same group of kids. Richard started to swing the stick like a crazy man and hit those kids in the head. His mother showed Richard how to stand up for himself and that anything is possible.
Another influence on Richard’s life was when a cat was meowing outside their house. Richards’s dad was sleeping at the time and he hated to be bothered. So Richard and his brother were afraid of waking up their dad and tried to quiet down the kitten. Richar ...
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