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Joyce's "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man": A Review
Number of Words: 903 / Number of Pages: 4
... debts continue to grow and they
are forced to move. Once, when the two males travel to sell of the family
estate, Simon returns to his former school and converses with his former
classmates. Stephen is upset to hear of his father's wild behavior as a
youth, and of his flirtatious nature. He begins to rebel against his
strict upbringing, striking back at his familys' traditional values and way
of life.
Religion is an ever present force in Stephen's life. He attends a
religious school from an early age, and is a devout Roman Catholic. He has
great reference for the priests at his school, and ev ...
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Henry Fielding's "Joseph Andrews"
Number of Words: 890 / Number of Pages: 4
... made by a man who had promised to take Fanny
to London, but instead had ideas of his own. If it wasn't for Abraham
Adams, Fanny might have been raped by the man who was accompanying her to
London.
The next show of a sexual advance on Fanny was made by a Squire
that they had encountered after leaving Mr. Wilson's house. Since the
Squire's dogs had attacked Adams, he defended himself by hitting them with
his cane. When the Squire arrived, and saw the bruises on his dogs, he
would have probably had Joseph and Adams indicted had he not seen Fanny.
He invited all of them to dinner at his estate, tryi ...
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The Natural
Number of Words: 2432 / Number of Pages: 9
... passengers get off for a break and go to a local carnival where Roy and the big leaguer clash in a contest of talent, a David-and-Goliath-type confrontation (Solotaroff 9). Roy strikes out the batter with three blistering pitches, each of which make Harriet pay more and more attention to him. As they arrive in Chicago, Harriet stays at the hotel at which Roy has booked a room. She gives him a call and provocatively invites him to her room. Succumbing to her invitation, and making his way to her room, he enters and sees her wearing nothing but a silk nightgown. After a short conversation, she pulls ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Do You Dread Guilt?
Number of Words: 755 / Number of Pages: 3
... "It may be that they are kept silent by the very constitution of
their nature. Or - can we not suppose it - guilty as they may be,
retaining, nevertheless, a zeal for God's glory and man's welfare, they
shrink from displaying themselves black and filthy in the view of men;
because, thenceforward, no good can be achieved by them; no evil or the
past be redeemed by better service." Dimmesdale also has another reason
for his concealing, he wants to remain silent so that he can continue to do
God's work as a minister.
Hester Prynne handles her guilt in another way. Instead of
worrying about it day a ...
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Literary Questions On Lord Of
Number of Words: 1486 / Number of Pages: 6
... character since he is always in conflict with Jack Merridew, the novel’s antagonist. These many changes put Ralph into the category of a round character, one who is more human as opposed to a flat character who is one dimensional. Ralph’s contribution to The Lord of the Flies is his representation of law and order or an organized society.
Simon is an introverted boy who cannot speak in front of the assembly. Golding describes him as being "a small skinny boy" with "a pointed chin, bright eyes and a broad forehead." He is also described as being "darkish in color." All the boys thin ...
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Comparison Of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein To Movies And TV Show's Frankenstein
Number of Words: 418 / Number of Pages: 2
... created the monster he was a work of art.
"I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!," this is what
Victor said when he saw the monster before it was alive. Afterwards it was the
ugliest thing the doctor had laid his eyes upon. Unlike the movies, the monster
was very nimble and could do anything an actual living human could. The monster
chased after Victor in the wastelands to exact his revenge for his being.
Nobody would love or care for him so he decided to kill Victor as an act of
revenge.
The intellect of the monster was much greater in the story than in all
the T.V. sh ...
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The Oddysey
Number of Words: 777 / Number of Pages: 3
... Odysseus asked the boy where he was because he currently has no idea, he thought the Phaecians did not bring him to his desired destination. The boy tells him Ithaca. In response to this, Odysseus created an extensive lie about who he is in front of Athena. Athena then scolded him for this. The Goddess then told Odysseus that Telemachus is with Menelaus searching for answers and tales of his father.
There are three settings in Book 13 of the Odyssey. This book began in the kingdom of Alcinous where Odysseus began his short voyage home. It later in the book comes back to this setting when A ...
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A Night To Remember
Number of Words: 737 / Number of Pages: 3
... noise that seemed to be coming from the inside of the ship. All but a few cared about it - if they even heard it. The ship's reputation would hold up to some grinding noise any day. So after a while the word got around that they had, in fact, stuck an iceberg. Surprisingly no one cared and everyone went back to bed. The captain of the Titanic could if in emergency hit a electric button and many air-tight doors sealed off special rooms that could keep the ship afloat even if it had a hole in its double reinforced hull.
As word soon spread that the collision was a lot worse than before expected, the ...
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Iago Is Evil
Number of Words: 832 / Number of Pages: 4
... Cassio was chosen as a Lieutenant instead of him. It is interesting
that Iago feels theneed to justify himself to a pantywaist like Roderigo,
who entrusts him with his "purse"without really even knowing him. When
he does not belief his daughter to be "making thebeast with two backs"(I,
i, 113), as Iago so gently puts it, Brabantio calls Iago a villain.
Instead of denying it, Iago simply replies by saying, "You are-a
senator."(I, i, 115) Agreat way to avoid reality is to merely pretend it
is not there. Then, instead of takingcredit for telling Brabantio, Iago
allows Roderigo to remain and ...
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Candide By Voltaire
Number of Words: 1159 / Number of Pages: 5
... or his duty, what he's doing or what he ought to be doing, and that outside of mealtimes...the rest of the day is spent in useless quarrels...-it's one unending warfare.
By having this character take on such a pessimistic tone, he directly contradicts the obviously over-optimistic tone of Candide. In the conclusion (page 1617) an old turk instructs Candide in the futility of needless philosophizing by saying that "...the work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty." In each of these examples, the character chosen by the author comes across as a reasonable and respectable person, ...
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