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Suffering In Crime And Punishment
Number of Words: 720 / Number of Pages: 3
... amounts of blood everywhere, the look on Lizaveta’s face when he brings down the axe on her head. These things clearly show that the crime isn’t what might cause him suffering, or pain, it is something else.
After Raskolnikov is sent off to Siberia, he doesn’t feel remorseful. His feelings haven’t changed about his crime, he feels bad at not being able to living up to his own ideas of greatness. He grows depressed only when he learns of his mother’s death. Raskolnikov still hasn’t found any reason to feel remorse for his crimes. He takes Siberia as his punishment, because of how annoying it is ...
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A Natural Curiosity By Margare
Number of Words: 490 / Number of Pages: 2
... continues relies solely on the fact that Whitmore offers Alix an “intellectual and psychological stimulus of an unusually invigorating nature.”
The chain effect remains evident as individual dilemmas that arise between members of a social group ultimately affect the group as a whole, underlying the theme of the novel. Throughout the novel, when two or more people disagreed on an issue, a third party swiftly enters the picture offering either hurt or help to the issue. In one instance, Carla Davis, a deceitful woman, lays the blame of her husband’s supposed hostage situation in Baldai on Cha ...
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“A Doll’s House” And “Ghosts": Style And Social Criticism
Number of Words: 992 / Number of Pages: 4
... care about material things and appearances. Mr. Manders is exactly the same way. He only cares about what people think of him, not real issues. Ibsen also shows that people are narrow-minded. Nora even points this out to Tovrald when he is condemning Krogstad for one mistake. Mr. Manders is very narrow-minded in the way he thinks society should be. He has a very cut and dry outlook on the way life should be lived. He looks down upon people he believes are sinners because they live a different way of life. This is shown through his discussion with Oswald about life in Paris.
Ibsen also shows th ...
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An Analysis Of Heart Of Darkne
Number of Words: 11175 / Number of Pages: 41
... tested by signs he must confront, question and interpret. Among these signs we can count the title of the novel, the contrasts made by the narrator throughout the story, the jungle, the ivory trade, the shadows of the jungle, pilgrims, Kurtz, the painting of Kurtz and the last words of Kurtz, and the lies of Marlow when he returns home. On the other hand, since for us all these signs were applied by Conrad for one thing; that is to uncover the evil side hidden in man by plunging deep into the darkness of his heart with great courage in order to find what was laying there and to take it out to th ...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: An Epic Search
Number of Words: 799 / Number of Pages: 3
... the leader of her family's search.
However Nanny realized this, and when she saw that Janie was old enough for
love she had her married. This guaranteed that Janie would not continue a
loss of identity.
Even as a young girl, living in the materialistic world of her
Nanny and her first husband, Logan Killicks, Janie chooses to listen to
"the words of the trees and the wind" (23-24). This is the first evidence
of her searching beyond her boring life. This then leads to her everyday
life left empty, because she is always looking farther than where she is at
the time. So day by day she gets more worked ...
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The Island Of Dr. Moreau
Number of Words: 622 / Number of Pages: 3
... and his ideas about how scientific advancements would affect our world. It was different because when this book was published it got horrific reviews for being too outlandish with its views on society. I think that if the book was published today it would be raved as a good warning for all the cloning scientists. Today we can actually say that we can clone things and it is more of a reality than it was in 1896. This change has been so dramatic that Barnes and Noble would have had to take the book off the science-fiction shelves and onto the non-fiction shelves. It has created a whole new at ...
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The Sun Also Rises: A Hero
Number of Words: 545 / Number of Pages: 2
... Cohn is not considered a hero is because he doesn't understand the art of sports. Cohn doesn't really like to box, but learns to, so that he can defend himself. Robert is Jewwish and therefore feels that he will have to defend himself when people start to make accusations of him. He is afraid of what people have to say to him. After Cohn learned to box, he became very good and won a middleweight boxing title. Even after becoming very skilled at the sport, he still didn't care for it.
When Robert Cohn was in college he would read a lot and study. Many of the things the Cohn knew of were because ...
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Johnny Got His Gun Book Report
Number of Words: 354 / Number of Pages: 2
... wants them to put him in a sideshow where, as a freak, he can make a living by making people see what happened to him in the war . If they won't do that, he wants them to kill him. The army does not do either. The nurse tries killing him but does not succeed because a army officer walks in on her when she was in the middle of the act. The irony of it all was that a patriotic young man went off and was wounded for no great reason. His mind remains the only thing alive in his vegetable like body. He becomes a prisoner of his own mind who will live that way until he dies of natural causes or what ever ...
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Germania
Number of Words: 1400 / Number of Pages: 6
... would ultimately become German territory. Ever since those times, the name "Germany" was believed to inspire terror when heard.
Tacitus makes mention of the fact that within sections of their mythological and religious structure, Hercules and Ulysses carry significant influence and this contributes to his theory (along with their distinctive looks) that the Germans developed their particular cultural/racial niche from intermarriage with foreigners.
Tacitus further comments on the German culture, as being one that is less able to bear laborious work and endure heat and thirst. But without delving ...
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Wuthering Heights: Romanticism
Number of Words: 3230 / Number of Pages: 12
... her how little
time she has spent with him compared to the time she spends with Edgar.
After Catherine's death, both Heathcliff and Edgar wish her back even if
they must return to fighting each other for her love. The Romantics had a
love of the past, because it is stable and predictable: all possible
scenarios have already happened.
Mr. Earnshaw's act of taking care of Heathcliff contains many
aspects of Romanticism. A key tenet in this act is Mr. Earnshaw's will to
enter into the mind of a child. Mr. Earnshaw tries to do this when he
takes Heathcliff home. Mr. Earnshaw sees a humble chil ...
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