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A Tale Of Two Cities: Sydney Carton
Number of Words: 503 / Number of Pages: 2
... This also gives Sydney
Carton an immature appearance in the novel.
At the beginning of the story and a large part of the novel, Sydney
Carton is shown to be a very arrogant, frustrated man with a drinking problem.
Several times in the novel he indulged in his drinking to the point of becoming
drunk or close to it. Many times that he is seen, he is drinking wine or has a
flask of liquor in his hand. This may keep him calm or help him to remain
composed in the court, but it becomes more to the point of being a necessity or
habit. Also, his drinking causes him to be loose with his tongue when ...
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The Persian Letters
Number of Words: 971 / Number of Pages: 4
... religions promote obedience to the law and require their followers to be good and just. He believes that even if there was no God these ideas can still help society function correctly. Montesquieu also criticizes numerous aspects of established religion and shows that he sees it as useless and so he responds to it with indifference. He feels God’s precepts are of the greatest importance and that is exactly what has been lost from the established church. Montesquieu’s beliefs were also similar to many of the other philosophes. They criticized the established church and “cer ...
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Fried Green Tomatoes
Number of Words: 1620 / Number of Pages: 6
... written about homosexuality in the first half of the twentieth century. That is why Fannie Flagg does not just come out and say that Idgie and Ruth are lesbians. In turn, the idea that Idgie and Ruth are lesbians is a subject that has been under heated debate. However, there are many episodes between Idgie and Ruth that are undeniable proof that they are homosexuals. The idea that Idgie and Ruth are lesbians is rampant throughout the story. It is evidenced by the way they speak to each other and act towards each other, but the idea is subverted due to the fact that everyone in the town sees Idg ...
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What Drives A Man
Number of Words: 1582 / Number of Pages: 6
... with pleasurable accessories,
each kind brought in separately in the various parts of the work; in a dramatic,
not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to
accomplish it catharsis of such emotions"
Aristotle, Poetics
Okonkwo is a tragic hero because he is superior to the regular people of the
tribe, "Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond"
he's an extremist, ".whenever he was angry and could not get his words out
quickly enough, he would use his fists" (Achebe 3), he imposes his own reality
on people, "His wives, especially the y ...
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Grapes Of Wrath Book Report
Number of Words: 1494 / Number of Pages: 6
... He tells the truck driver who gives
him a ride that he got in a fight with a guy at a dance and when he tried to brandish a
knife, Tom hit him on the head with a shovel. The truck driver lets him off at his father’s
farm but he finds it abandoned. He does meet up with an old friend Jim Casy who used to
be a preacher. So Tom and Jim head down to his uncle’s to locate his family. A day later
he finds them all about to leave for California. Tom decides to accompany his family to
California although it means breaking his parole. Packed tightly into a truck, they begin
their journey down Route 66, l ...
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Creon As The Tragic Hero Of An
Number of Words: 796 / Number of Pages: 3
... Antigone to not consider them, to only consider that Polyneices was a traitor to his home city. Creon is then faced with the knowledge that Antigone went against his will and law, and buried her brother. Again, Creon is faced with a hard decision. He must choose to kill his own family member and uphold the law, or punish her less severely and show that he is not serious about death as a punishment to his law. Creon doesn’t want to show weakness, even for family, but he doesn’t want to kill Antigone, who is not only his niece and sister, but engaged to his son. The final decision that Creon must make ...
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How Napoleon Obtains And Maint
Number of Words: 2369 / Number of Pages: 9
... by elimination. He believes that if he eliminates all the people standing in between him and ultimate domination, then he can govern the animals in any way that he sees fit. His first step of eliminating is to divide the animals into two classes. Napoleon, along with the other pigs, became of a privileged class, while the rest of the animals were inferior. This division of the animals is first seen when “the order went forth that all the windfalls were to be collected and brought to the harness-room for the use of the pigs”. When the other animals question this decision Napoleon’ ...
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Hiroshima: Book Report
Number of Words: 845 / Number of Pages: 4
... kind of
speaks for it self. That was exactly how the bomb was. No one saw anything or
heard anything but a flash. The first chapter speaks about how people are
wondering why they are alive, but their next door neighbors aren't. It was
weird, there could be a house right in the middle of two houses; the one in the
middle survived the bomb but the other two did not. A whole neighborhood could
be wiped out except for a few houses. Why those houses did not get knocked down,
no one knows.
The second chapter is called "The Fire." This chapter is about how the
explosion caused many fires. The fires w ...
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Chaucer
Number of Words: 719 / Number of Pages: 3
... in need. But there is a price to be paid for their services, and their eyes cannot oversee the wealth that is due to them. The Doctor then is the same as a witch doctor now, with their appearances different, but their intentions and thoughts the same.
Stereotypes are seen only in the imagination. And it is in the imagination from which a television evangelist is characteristically similar to Geoffrey ’s Summoner. The evangelist is a deceiver to many. He quotes scripture of Biblical content, to put forth an act or display that he might appear unto others as a “man of God.” The Summoner is much the sam ...
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