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Critique Of "Death Of The Author"
Number of Words: 777 / Number of Pages: 3
... sense outside of the literary world. If he wrote
in a more simple, to the point modern style I would have read the story,
absorbed its content, and would not have given it a second look. The story
could be summarized into 3 lines and thus reduce the amount of paper it is
replicated on the amount of bandwidth required to transmit it, the space it
takes, and the time it takes to read it. I came to this conclusion after reading
"The Death of an Author" for the fourth or fifth time. I began to wonder why
does this man write this way? What caused him to have so much distrust toward
the critics? Those ...
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The Scarlet Letter Theme Symbo
Number of Words: 958 / Number of Pages: 4
... it up to public gaze. The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron” (56). It was made clear that this structure was a symbol of punishment to the people, but it also came to be a symbol of sin, guilt, death, and release.
How did this structure take on so many meanings throughout the book? The answer is that each time there was an event occurring at the scaffold, each of the main characters was present. The place that Hawthorne chose to unite the characters and hoard symbolic meaning was the scaffold. In the second chapter, entitled ̶ ...
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Of Mice And Men
Number of Words: 559 / Number of Pages: 3
... of creatures, but, as he only has a childlike understanding of his enormous strength, the results are often tragic. Curly is the boss's son, and sensing Lennie's simple mind, he attempts to intimidate and antagonize him not anticipating his strength. He hits Lennie because he thinks Lennie is teasing him. Lennie tries to resist fighting as long as he can but after suffering many blows to the face from Curly, he grabs Curly's hand and squeezes it so hard it breaks every bone in it. Curly's wife is a beautiful woman who is always lonely and attempts to receive "love" through the attention of other men. ...
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Fifth Business
Number of Words: 630 / Number of Pages: 3
... something to get his mind off Mrs. Dempster and the guilt he felt for her. Leading up to his departure to the War he never really saw much of Mary, mainly because Mr. Dempster told him to stay away, but also because every time him saw her he couldn't hold back feelings of guilt and remorse. This troubled Dunny, much more then he would ever let on. On the other hand, Boy was doing as well as ever, possibly due to the fact that he knew that much of the responsibility of Mary and Paul was securely on the shoulders of Dunny. Dunny knew this as well but it was too late to do much about it except l ...
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Macbeths Character
Number of Words: 831 / Number of Pages: 4
... especially the present king: "is too full o' th' milk of human kindness, "says Lady Macbeth. She then devises a plan to kill Duncan while he is staying with them.
Duncan has arrived and is having dinner. Macbeth leaves and decides not to murder Duncan. Lady Macbeth accuses him of being less than a man for not killing him. Macbeth is not a natural born killer, Lady Macbeth has to persuade him to murder the king; he is initially reluctant to do such a deed:
"We will proceed no further in this business: "Macbeth says this because he thinks he might become king without killing the present king, it mi ...
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Orwell's Animal Farm: Summary Of Characters
Number of Words: 403 / Number of Pages: 2
... to work,
Napoleon is uncaring and sends him off to the slaughterhouse since he is of
no further use. Some of the animals come to realize what is happening and
are mad at Napoleon, but Napoleon talks his way out of it by convincing the
animals that they are mistaken and the hospital uses vehicles marked
"slaughterhouse" to pick up injured animals. Stalin's character was
similar as he used people for his own advantage, and when they were not
further useful to him, he eliminated them.
The dogs represent Napoleon's secret police. Napoleon raised them
up from pups so they think his way and will do an ...
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All Quiet On The Western Front: Alienation
Number of Words: 626 / Number of Pages: 3
... us war is horrible. He also shows us that
war is terrible beyond anything we could imagine. All our senses are assaulted:
we see newly dead soldiers and long-dead corpses tossed up together in a
cemetery (Chapter 4); we hear the unearthly screaming of the wounded horses
(Chapter 4); we see and smell three layers of bodies, swelling up and belching
gases, dumped into a huge shell hole (Chapter 6); and we can almost touch the
naked bodies hanging in trees and the limbs lying around the battlefield
(Chapter 9).
The crying of the horses is especially terrible. Horses have nothing to
do with mak ...
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With Which Literary Character Do You Most Readily Identify? Why?: Alexei In Dostoevsky's "The Gambler"
Number of Words: 858 / Number of Pages: 4
... what he thought was
right, but he knew inside that he was doing the right thing. However, he
did not receive any joy from this realization. He was relatively
miserable his whole life. He turned to Gambling to punish himself. This
is a man who, when he had a chance to be with the woman he had loved for
years, ruined it by going to the casino and gambling. He thought that it
would prove to her that he loved her, because he would have a lot of money
to spend on her. Instead, she realized that his one true love was not her
but gambling.
Whenever I read this story, I think of how much this charact ...
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Brave New World Vs. Modern Soc
Number of Words: 964 / Number of Pages: 4
... male
and female birth control methods, Utopia has pregnancy substitute (a procedure
in which Utopian woman are given all the psychological benefits of childbirth
without undergoing it) and malthusian drill (similar to today’s birth control pills).
However, modern society and Huxley’s Utopia both explore the advantages of
artificial reproduction, although Utopia has taken it to the extreme: The
Bokanovsky Process, is a method whereby a human egg’s normal development
is arrested, then buds, producing many identical eggs. “My good
boy!”...”Bokanovsky’ ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Visions Of A Past Society
Number of Words: 743 / Number of Pages: 3
... ran before her progress, turning their heads
continually to stare into her face, and at the wink-ing baby in her arms,
and at the ignominious letter on her breast.
P. 52, 53
As this is happening, all the people see is the crime that Hester
committed, not the person behind it. They do not take into consideration,
that the crime itself, is not as evil as they make it out to be. Hawthorne
describes it as enjoyable to the spectators, by showing the children watch
her and laugh as she makes her way to the scaffold. It's as though the
people of the Puritan religion are heartless ...
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