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Frankenstein: Effects Of Alienation And Isolation
Number of Words: 700 / Number of Pages: 3
... become reality. He writes to his sister that his “affection for my guest increases every day” and his guest “excites at once my admiration and my pity to an astonishing degree”(Shelley 11). With Walton’s change in attitude, it is clear that he has a need to be close to others and that his isolation causes him great emotional pain and loneliness.
Frankenstein, like Walton, isolated himself from family and friends. Frankenstein spent years learning sciences and studying the creation of life. He became so engaged and involved in his work that he caused himself “to forget those friends who were so ...
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Amory Blaine's "Mirrors" In Fitzgerald's This Side Of Paradise
Number of Words: 1475 / Number of Pages: 6
... is, what
he truly feels, or what he thinks. He merely cultivates his personality du jour
depending on how he believes he would like to be. Essentially, Amory is
shopping at a personality store, trying each one on until he can find one that
fits.
This personality imitation began when Amory spent his adolescent years
in the presence of his flamboyant mother, Beatrice. Beatrice raised Amory to be
what she wanted him to be, as long as it was stylish and acceptable to coeval
virtues. When he goes to Princeton, the separation from his mother, who
essentially thought for him, leads Amory to search for ...
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Medea Vs. Hedda Gabbler
Number of Words: 1051 / Number of Pages: 4
... fear of scandal really prevents her from having any strong hold on the situation that will turn out successfully. This is proven in the end when Hedda commits suicide-she has lost control and is not strong enough to handle the ensuing scandal. Although out of the two actions, the worst seems to be Medea’s, it is also Medea’s actions that merit the most excuse as defense. She was having everything taken away from her, and she could not stop it, so she took the only action possible to make Jason understand how he had wronged her. Medea and Hedda, different in motive, actually are not all that ...
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The Life Of Ava
Number of Words: 626 / Number of Pages: 3
... Ava Johnson decides to sell her hair salon and moves to San Francisco but wants to summer in Idlewild, the small town in northern Michigan where she grew up.
Now just a half-abandoned dot on the map, Idlewild offers the only safe haven for Ava, now nearly 30. Telling herself she's just visiting her older sister, Joyce, for a few weeks before she moves on to San Francisco, sophisticated Ava is nevertheless impressed by big-hearted Joyce's efforts to help the teenaged girls in her small community through an endangered organization called The Sewing Circle.
Ava helps Joyce fight the reverend's ...
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"The Yellow Wallpaper": The Main Character And Cry For Freedom
Number of Words: 1501 / Number of Pages: 6
... they say goes and therefore the woman has no
choice but to follow. "He knows there is no reason to suffer and that
satisfies him."(508) This quote illustrates that the men are in control.
If they strongly believe nothing is wrong, then nothing must be wrong. It
is a feeling of self satisfaction the men feel when they are superior to
the woman.
The main character knows John loves her, but it is the oppression
she feels that bothers her so. Her husband expresses his love for her but
at the same time imposes his will on her. He hinders her from having her
own thoughts. "…He is very careful and lov ...
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Frankenstein
Number of Words: 529 / Number of Pages: 2
... and is completely disturbed by the sight of it. This disturbance leads him to a restless night and which he is haunted by the image of his creation. The next day, Victor sees his friend Henry Clerval and when he brings Henry back to his apartment, he discovers that the creature has disappeared. At this moment, Victor falls into a sickness that leaves him weak for a few months with Henry to aid him.
When Victor first thought of the creature, he had good intentions. Throughout the whole time he was creating his creature, he only thought good thoughts for his creation. In my opinion, I feel that ...
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Guy De Maupassant's "The Jewels": Consequences Of The Desire To Be Wealthy
Number of Words: 692 / Number of Pages: 3
... adore jewels.'"(8) We know that she gives in to her
vice and has what can be inferred to be as an affair. She deceives her
husband in order to satisfy her desires. The wife is also dynamic because
she always gives in to her love of wealth; she never changes.
The wife's death is implied to be caused by her desire to obtain
wealth. "When she had been to the opera one evening in the winter, she
returned home shivering with cold. The next day she began to cough. Eight
days later she died from an inflammation of the lungs."(9) The connection
of her death with her attendance to the theatre i ...
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The Scarlet Letter: An Analysis Of Symbolism
Number of Words: 900 / Number of Pages: 4
... and
"Able". Angel, for it appears in the sky after Governor Winthrop's death.
Able, for Hester has won the respect of the Puritans even if she has sinned
terribly.
Hawthorne uses the prison building to describe crime and punishment in
contrast with the tombstone at the end of the novel. This statement
suggests the crime and punishment will eventually lead to the death of the
malefactor.
One positive symbol is the rosebush outside the prison. I feel it
represents a sweet person hidden in the encasements of a dark prison, a
true diamond in the rough.
The symbol for Puritanism, acco ...
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The Lord Of The Flies: Ralph
Number of Words: 482 / Number of Pages: 2
... the conch.” (Golding 32) This quote was from the beginning of the book when Ralph started blowing the conch to call the meetings. This showed he was really a leader and not a follower. That is one aspect I really liked about Ralph.
“Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.” “There was lashings of blood, ” said Jack, laughing and shuttering, “you should have seen it!” (Golding 69) This quote shows how all the boys were becoming uncivilized and crazy. Ralph, on the other hand, was almost the total opposite of all the others and didn’t like this whole incident at all. Ralph wanted to sta ...
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Siddartha
Number of Words: 644 / Number of Pages: 3
... long to abandon the Self, Hesse shows a lack of contentment in the character’s lifestyle. is still restless.
’s second life, one of excess and desire, shows him trying to find the Self in a different, but equally futile, manner from the Samanas. Govinda has left him to follow the Buddha, the Illustrious One, and a dream leads him to seek a different kind of companionship. Now seeks his unity through the woman Kamala, to whom he asks to be his “friend and teacher.” does make one achievement in recognizing his three abilities. He tells the merchant Kamaswami, “I can think, I can wait, and I can f ...
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