|
|
|
» Browse Book Reports Term Papers
Toni Morrison's Beloved: Sethe, A Brave Mother In Love, Or Is She Selfish In Her Weakness?
Number of Words: 1508 / Number of Pages: 6
... over Sethe is her refusal to accept responsibility for her baby’s death. Does she do this because she is selfishness or because it need not be justified? Sethe’s love is clearly displayed by sparing her daughter from a horrific life, yet, Sethe refuses to acknowledge that her show of compassion is also murder.
Throughout the work, seems to have two separate identities, which affect her actions. When reunited with Paul D., Sethe recalls her reactions to School Teacher’s arrival with no mention to her daughter’s death. “Oh, no. I wasn’t going back there [Sweet Home]. I went to jail instead” (42) Sethe be ...
|
|
Oedipus Rex
Number of Words: 484 / Number of Pages: 2
... this sentence he has already unwittingly judged himself, and to the excitement of the crowd foreshadowed later events to come. This statement, is a classic example of verbal irony. In it Oedipus thinking that he is directing his pronouncement upon some bandit, or conspirator, in all actuality he is truly condemning himself. Further examples of irony include his speech when he first answers the chorus “…Because of all these things I will fight for him as I would my own murdered father.” The irony inherent in this speech that Oedipus makes to the chorus lies for the most part in this single ...
|
|
Animal Farm: Summary
Number of Words: 688 / Number of Pages: 3
... a reputation for being taciturn, yet dogmatic. Of all the
animals on the farm, Squealer was the propagandist. He was the one who
revised the history that the animals knew to cover up for their actions.
Boxer, who was known for being a super strong scrupulous steed, was
gullible yet always faithful to the pigs. Throughout this story, he had
two sayings, “Napoleon is always right” and “I will work harder” Boxer
believed that working harder would obliterate all troubles. However, his
attempts to make things better were futile. He was alike all the other
animals on the farm, who were naďve and gullible ...
|
|
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Number of Words: 1155 / Number of Pages: 5
... his theory of conquering death. He collected numerous body
parts and put them together and used a special technique to bring the corpse to
life. At first Victor thought he had failed, but the creature sat up and was
alive. Victor was horrified by his own creation and fled his laboratory. The
monster then disappeared into the city.
Two years pasted and the monster wasn't heard from, until something
terrible happened. Victor's younger brother William was strangled to death. It
was believed that William's nanny and close friend of the family, Justine, had
murdered him. A lynch mob gathered a ...
|
|
Analysis Of The Red Scare
Number of Words: 2344 / Number of Pages: 9
... more Americans. This law caused many problems for the conscientious objector to WWI, because for one to claim that status, one had to be a member of a "well-recognized" religious organization which forbade their members to participation in war. As a result of such unyeilding legislation, 20,000 conscientious objectors were inducted into the armed forces. Out of these 20,000, 16,000 changed their minds when they reached military camps, 1300 went to non-combat units, 1200 gained furloughs to do farm work, and 100 did Quaker relief work in Europe. 500 suffered court-martial, and out of these, 45 ...
|
|
Samuel Beckett's In Waiting For Godot
Number of Words: 575 / Number of Pages: 3
... example, in order for a
reader to feel how and understand why Vladimir and Estragon feel as though
they do while they wait, it is essential for that reader to either
understand or experience the same feelings that Vladimir and Estragon are
experiencing. Vladimir and Estragon are waiting; waiting for Godot, to be
exact; and Beckett wants the reader to feel as if he or she were waiting
also. Along with the feeling of waiting that a reader may experience, he
or she might also understand how Vladimir and Estragon feel at times:
Unsure, not very anxious to move on, and constantly having to wait. A
feel ...
|
|
The Time Machine - Analysis
Number of Words: 602 / Number of Pages: 3
... also realized that the Eloi were very dependent on other
people for many of there resources. He mentioned that the Eloi had houses and clothing
but he didn’t see any machinery or anything that could possibly produce these items.
“There were no shops, no workshops, no sign of importations among them.” (65) This led
him the believe that there had to be someone or something that was making these items for
them. Since the Time Traveller had already know about the low intelligence of the Eloi,
this didn’t come as surprize to him. He was able to come to the conclusion that the Eloi
cannot do very much ...
|
|
To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout
Number of Words: 798 / Number of Pages: 3
... who had nothing better to do than to yell at children. But, they soon found out that she was in withdrawal for a very serious addiction which was why she was so angry all the time. "Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict. She took it as a painkiller for years"(Lee 111). After she dies Scout starts to grasp the fact that Mrs. Dubose had a very hard time being happy.
Alike many other children her age, Scout is very curious. She is very interested in the peculiar life of her neighbor, Boo Radley. She believes a rumor about him killing his father. He frightens her because she thinks he is a horrible ma ...
|
|
Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None: An Analysis
Number of Words: 665 / Number of Pages: 3
... the
island. Even though one single person had an alabi for their whereabouts
when he was killed. Dr. Armstrong did stray from his group. When the
General didn't show up for lunch, Mr. Rogers offered to go and fetch him.
Dr. Armstrong quickly voluntered instead. He came back to announce that he
was dead. On the morning when they found Mr. Rogers dead, everyone
overslept because he was not there to wake them up. Lombard awoke at 9:30
am. He woke the others, but Armstrong was already up and dressed. Or, the
way I see it is that he was up and nearly dressed. Again. After
murdering Rogers, his c ...
|
|
Neighborhood Shock
Number of Words: 1050 / Number of Pages: 4
... "It is a feeling of helplessness, even of terror or anger, that accompanies working in an alien society. One feels trapped in an absurd and indecipherable nightmare" (72). I also think this is a great example of what Barnlund refers to as "interpersonal understanding" (68), the desire of people to associate with others that share the same views as themselves and who express themselves in similar ways. I think the significance of this scene is the way it shows people still feeling isolated and alone in an unfamiliar culture even though there are others right next to them suffering from the same de ...
|
|
|
