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Breaking Societies Rules
Number of Words: 843 / Number of Pages: 4
... John and make him feel more remorseful. For example, Reverend Hale asks John to recite the commandments, and he forgets one, Elizabeth then says sarcastically, “Adultery, John.” Elizabeth responds in such a manner that John feels overwhelming pain in his heart. Naturally, Elizabeth feels guilty as well. She tells John, “I have sins of my own to count. It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.” Elizabeth feels as though she is to blame for John committing adultery. She is a mother and, of course, Elizabeth will be consumed with taking care of their children, cooking, cleaning, etc. At first, Elizabe ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Symbolism
Number of Words: 974 / Number of Pages: 4
... his Pap kidnaps him, he has no interest in returning. The juxtaposed thoughts in Pap’s mind, money and education, make him feel unworthy to Huck. Since Pap has neither quality, he does not want Huck to accelerate him in anyway. His father’s frantic activities show him as a person to always avoid and Huck now intentionally goes to school “to spite Pap”(Pg.27). “School is everything Pap is not, and everything he will never be.”(Mrs. Hunsaker) Huck had reached a point where he “was getting sort of used to the Widow’s ways, too, and they warn’t so raspy on me”. (Pg.13) It just shows that one of H ...
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Krutch's "Killing For Sport"
Number of Words: 360 / Number of Pages: 2
... the satisfaction of
saying: ‘Something which wanted to live is dead.' " On the other hand the
killer for food receives life in return for his killing, further stating
that the hunter for sport is evil. This work clearly exposes gaming
hunters and expresses how senseless it is to kill for fun. Krutch
identifies hunting as a "reality of evil" because we know it is wrong to
kill without purpose.
There is a secondary descriptive mode used to illuminate the
reader's imagination and give them insight into the working of the hunter
character. I believe Krutch used the evaluation mode to create ...
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Stephen King's The Stand
Number of Words: 529 / Number of Pages: 2
... is also a "Dark Man". He is always there lurking, waiting to attack.
Harold admits to himself that he is in love with Fran and goes crazy when he realizes how serious Fran has become with Stuart Redman, one of the newcomers to their traveling group. Harold becomes insanely jealous and plots to separate them, even if it means murder.
Harold doesn't admit it to any of them, but his dreams are different from theirs. In his dreams the "Dark Man" offers Harold power and respect, something Harold could never imagine in the past. Harold knows his destiny is to go to Las Vegas. The group arrives in Bou ...
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The Scarlet Letter
Number of Words: 481 / Number of Pages: 2
... Hester's true husband, can be seen in both lights. Either they can be perceived as just upholding the law -she
committed a crime, they enforce the law. On the other hand are they going to
extreme measures such as wanting to take Pearl, Hester's daughter, away just
because Hester has deviated from the norm, all to enforce an unjust law that
does not even apply to this situation?
Although the subjects of the novel do apply to important issues in history
and could have had influences on the time period, they were not great.
During the times and in the Puritan community this did not have a l ...
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Heart Of Darkness: Cruelty
Number of Words: 1087 / Number of Pages: 4
... nature, the insensibility of reality, and the moral darkness.
We have noticed that important motives in Heart of Darkness connect the
white men with the Africans. Conrad knew that the white men who come to Africa
professing to bring progress and light to "darkest Africa" have themselves been
deprived of the sanctions of their European social orders; they also have been
alienated from the old tribal ways.
"Thrown upon their own inner spiritual resources they may be utterly
damned by their greed, their sloth, and their hypocrisy into moral
insignificance, as were the pilgrims, or the ...
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Huck Finn
Number of Words: 731 / Number of Pages: 3
... to a
cabin on the other side of the river. After repeated beatings Huck escapes and makes the scene look as if he had been murdered. He then hides on Jackson Island, and returns to his life of freedom. Also on the Island is Jim, Miss Watson’s runaway slave. After finding out that the men of the town are searching for Jim, the two load up on a raft and sail down the river. Huck’s life has changed very drastically through these course of events. When he was living in town he learned manners, and how to be civilized. Now he is floating peacefully down the Mississippi River without a care in the world. ...
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Philip “Pip” Pirrup’s Development
Number of Words: 2299 / Number of Pages: 9
... and finally altruism make Great Expectations a novel of moral education.
Although shame and guilt are often brought on by actions, it can also brought about by circumstances beyond the individual’s control. Pip’s first moral development stemmed from both such instances. His shame for Joe and himself for being common and mundane were first contrived soon after encountering Estella. Although Pip wasn’t the normal, satisfied child that one would think most children to be, he felt no shame for Joe or himself. Although Estella and himself were of the same age, she had a talent of maki ...
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The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz: Duddy
Number of Words: 1183 / Number of Pages: 5
... he ever got, but he
didn't need it; in the end he allows himself to become the con-artist, the
sly scammer person without even realising that he had a decision in the
matter.
Simcha, Duddy's grandfather, was the person whom Duddy looked up to
and wanted to please because he was the only one who truly respected and
loved Duddy. It was also Simcha who planted the dream for land into Duddy's
head when he said to him, "A man without land is nobody." (p.101) In
Duddy's apprenticeship, Simcha is one of his masters who teaches Duddy
about striving for something and having the determination and perse ...
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Candide 2
Number of Words: 1603 / Number of Pages: 6
... this proposal would not affect him since his children were grown and his wife unable to have any more children. It would be rather absurd to think that a rational man would want to both propose this and partake in the eating of another human being. Therefore, before an analyzation can continue, one has to make the assumption that this is strictly a fictional work and Swift had no intention of pursuing his proposal any further. One of the other voices that is present throughout the entire story is that of sarcasm. In order to understand this further, a reader has to comprehend that Swift, becoming inf ...
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