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Ray Bradbury's The Martial Chronicals
Number of Words: 1235 / Number of Pages: 5
... and established Bradbury's popular theme of social irritation. By 1942,
Bradbury was able to earn enough money writing that he could give up his
job selling newspapers and devote all of his time to what he loved.
(Candee 88)
As some critics would agree, the term "science-fiction" does not
apply to Bradbury's work. Most of his stories are more along the lines of
fantasy with an intense understanding of human nature. In "The Green
Morning", a man named Benjamin Driscoll arives on Mars looking for a job
and a way to fit in. Before long, however, he faints, as many people do,
because of th ...
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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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Dante's "The Hermaphroditic Joyce"
Number of Words: 1062 / Number of Pages: 4
... in Portrait, Dante Riordan, in a brief
amount of time emits an apparently important and mysterious aura, the aura
of a woman. Judging from the studies of twentieth century linguists,
Joyce's brief representation of Dante through speech is nearly flawless. To
more lucidly understand this, one must carefully examine some of the
instances at which Dante speaks in her conversation with Mr. and Mrs.
Dedalus, Charles, and Mr. Casey, and re-examine the arguments she makes.
Dante is introduced into the dinner table conversation as a silent
character. However, when the men's conversation turns to the mis ...
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The Repressive Governments Of Zamiatin's We And Orwell's 1984
Number of Words: 1895 / Number of Pages: 7
... State is able to control the
thought and actions of its citizens is by the use and abuse of a system by which each
member of society receives a number at birth instead of given a name (Goldstein 54). The
numbers are assigned according to sex and occupation. For example, D-503, the main
character in We, is male, and is thus assigned a consonant for his prefix while his female
partner, O-90, is assigned a vowel. As D-503 is an engineer, he receives a 5 as his first
number. All state poets such as O-90 have numbers under 100. (Zamiatin 46). This use of
numbers instead of names creates a sense of unity ...
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Animal Farm: Utopia
Number of Words: 1091 / Number of Pages: 4
... the golden future time.
Soon or late the day is coming, Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown, And the
fruitful fields of England, Shall be trod by beasts alone.
Rings shall vanish from our noses, And the harness from our back, Bit and
spur shall rust forever, Cruel whips no more shall crack.
Riches more than mind can picture, Wheat and barley, oats and hay, Clover,
beans, and mangel-wurzels Shall be ours upon the day...(p.22-23)
After the song the animals were even more excited. They sing the song so
loud it wakes Mr. Jones up. Mr. Jones starts firing his gun into the
darkness. This quickly scatters ...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Number of Words: 2848 / Number of Pages: 11
... real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born in Florida,
Missouri, in 1835. During his childhood he lived in Hannibal, Missouri, a
Mississippi river port that was to become a large influence on his future
writing. It was Twain’s nature to write about where he lived, and his
nature to criticize it if he felt it necessary. As far his structure,
Kaplan said,
In plotting a book his structural sense was weak; intoxicated by a
hunch, he seldom saw far ahead, and too many of his stories peter out from
the author’s fatigue or surfeit. His wayward techniques came close to
free association. This meth ...
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The Crucible: John Proctor
Number of Words: 791 / Number of Pages: 3
... about Proctor. The author says, “He was a kind man-powerful of body, even tempered and not easily led”(20). He goes on to say that he has a “quiet confidence and an unexpressed hidden force”(21). He is well respected in the community and Mr. Parris, the town Reverend, goes as far as to say that he has “followers”(30). Also, at the end of the play Parris and Danforth want to post his confession of being in league with the devil on the Church door because “It is a weighty name”(141). They feel that since Proctor is such a respected member of the community that his confession will restore the ...
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Summary Of The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Number of Words: 1565 / Number of Pages: 6
... are taken to Packingtown to find
work. Packingtown is a section of Chicago where the meat packing industry
is centralized. They take a tour of the plant, and see the unbelievable
efficiency and speed att which hogs and cattle are butchered, cooked,
packed, and shipped. In Packingtown, no part of the animal is wasted. The
tour guide specifically says, "They use everything about the hog except the
squeal."
Jurgis' brawny build quickly gets him a job on the cattle killing
beds. The other members of the family soon find jobs, except for the
children. They are put into school. At first, Jurgis i ...
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A Catcher In The Rye
Number of Words: 646 / Number of Pages: 3
... elevator the elevator attendant offers to send him up a hooker for the night. Being a virgin Holden decides to take him up on the hooker. Once the hooker makes it up to his room he gets cold feet and decides not to have sex with her and just talk. The hooker gets mad at Holden for wasting her time and leaves. Minutes later the hooker’s pimp comes looking for money and eventually ends up beating up Holden.
The following day Holden calls up an old girlfriend Sally Hues for a date. On the date they get into a minor argument with each other and Holden actually tells her that she is a “pain in t ...
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Crusoe Savage Man
Number of Words: 1121 / Number of Pages: 5
... he needed to survive. That fact coincides with Rousseau's idea of the savage man, but after two years Robinson produces a larger quantity to sell for profit. This course of action can be associated with capitalism and being prepared for the future. This is not what the "savage man" in Rousseau's discourses is associated with. Instead he is concerned with what is necessary for survival and repose at his present state of being. As with the plantation, Robinson makes preparations for the future, when he is stranded on an island. Robinson does this by first gathering all the supplies that he could ...
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