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A Clockwork Orange: Violence And Corruption
Number of Words: 956 / Number of Pages: 4
... as Alex and the police,
who are supposed to protect them. The novel begins with the police doing little
to protect the citizens, for how else could a fifteen year old kid and three of
his friends rule the streets? They also seem to relish beating Alex for the
reason that they don't get to do it often. However, by the third part of this
book, crime is almost non-existent, but the police are far more brutal.
Neither of these scenarios is the better of the two. In fact the cops are not
out to help the people, they only want to serve themselves. Alex, during his
first beating, confesses and hands his ...
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Attitudes Toward Marriage In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
Number of Words: 1438 / Number of Pages: 6
... both with regards to Alison. Still, Alison does what she wants,
she takes Nicholas because she wants to, just as she ignores Absalon because she
wants to. Lines 3290-5 of the Miller's Tale show Alison's blatant disrespect for
her marriage to "Old John" and her planned deceit:
That she hir love hym graunted atte laste,
And swoor hir ooth, by seint Thomas of Kent
That she wol been at his comandement,
Whan that she may hir leyser wel espie.
"Myn housbonde is so ful of jalousie
That but ye wayte wel and been privee..."
On the contrary, Alison's husband loved her more than his own life,
alt ...
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Gulliver's Travels: Political Satire
Number of Words: 1515 / Number of Pages: 6
... the Whig party but in 1710, he decided to become a Tory due to differences with the Whig party. The Tory party leaders at the time were Edward Harley and Bolingbroke. (source 6) His main duty with the Tories was writing pamphlets defending the Tories administration. These pamphlets are where Swift got his start writing satires against the organizations that he did not like. In 1715, the Tories fell from power and Swift no longer had a place for himself in England. He returned to Ireland to become the dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. The next eleven years of his life were spent in what ...
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The Playground Of The Gods
Number of Words: 410 / Number of Pages: 2
... displayed in his building
of his compound.
Spellman's voice of reason comes from a spiritual Mexican couple who are
Thoros's servants. They not only warn but predict of many consequences to the
ignorance to which nature is being shown. “Nature will not permit alteration on
such a scale.”(Emilio, 114).
However, these warnings are ignored by the men who do not appreciate a
bizarre servant couple speaking of things which money can't buy and power can't
control. This is when Spellman's utilization of irony comes into the picture.
A member of the party catches a tropical fever, yet he can' ...
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The Great Gatsby: Life In The 1920s
Number of Words: 577 / Number of Pages: 3
... characters give the impression that they are respectable and wealthy. They all are very charming and elicit. They are in fact horrible people who had hardly any morals. These characters portrayed people who were corrupt and dishonest. They are likeable because they lived a life that most people can only dream of. They may be considered horrible people but they had fun doing it. The characters were not like normal upper-class people instead they lived life in there own style and did things like they wanted to. All of the major characters had there own unique traits that were only common to them. ...
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Joy Luck Club: Symbols
Number of Words: 725 / Number of Pages: 3
... and dream for the future. When June was a child her mother encouraged her to pursue many different activities especially the piano. Suyuan was obsessed with June becoming a child prodigy because she wanted the best for her, not just because she was jealous of her best-friend, Lindo Jong. When June refused to play, her mother insisted and forced her to sit at the piano and play. June was unable to understand why her mother had such an unrelenting need for June to be the best, and also was unable to deal with what she felt was "failure" in her mother eyes.
The mother-daughter relationship of An- ...
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Heart Of Darkness 2
Number of Words: 575 / Number of Pages: 3
... novel. First of all, Marlow came face to face with death several times throughout his voyage. Marlow finds out about the death of Kurtz, the climax of the novel, when the manager’s boy said to Marlow, “Mistah Kurtz—he dead” (Conrad 64). Another death occurs when the attack on the steamer leaves the helmsmen dead with “the shaft of a spear in the side just below the ribs” (Conrad 64). Marlow decides to “[tip] him overboard” because “if [his] late helmsmen was to be eaten, the fishes alone should have him. He had been a very second-rate helmsmen ...
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The Role Revenge Played In The
Number of Words: 338 / Number of Pages: 2
... so that she could have John all to herself. The alleged witchery was utterly their own doing and yet they continuously tried to take revenge against the innocent men and women of Salem.
Revenge was leveled against neighbors because of greedy self-interests. With all the bad things that were happening people began to quarrel over material things. Thomas Putnam was the worst at this. “This man is killing his neighbors for their land” (96). Putnam was promoting the accusations of neighbors so that if they were hung he would collect all their land. He was letting his friends die ...
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Tess Of The D'Ubervilles: Environments And The Feels Of The Characters
Number of Words: 648 / Number of Pages: 3
... he was dead, Tess was free of her sin and could finally have the love
of Angel unhindered by her past. She had killed her past in the house
which was slowly killing her.
The next residence for Tess after the murder was in an abandoned mansion:
Bramshurst Court. This was the perfect place for Tess and Angel to escape
to. She wished for nothing more than to be left alone, from other people
and from her past. In this house she found a refuge with her true love,
and experienced what she had not for much of her life--contentment. She
did not desire to continue on with their journey at all. Tess there fou ...
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Wuthering Heights Nelly
Number of Words: 978 / Number of Pages: 4
... knowledge is more valuable because she got along with and talked to everybody.
Nelly never really had a life of her own because she lived at Wuthering Heights all her life. Therefore, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange was her life. Nelly was more than a servant, and had a personal relationship with most of the characters,which is why her story is so efficient, and her lack of knowledge not as important. She really loved them, and she shows it when she says, "I kissed Hareton good-bye; and since then he has been a stranger: and it's queer to think it, but I've no doubt he has completely ...
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