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“William’s Wife”
Number of Words: 521 / Number of Pages: 2
... with the description of Mary’s family. When she was turning 15, she had to get married with Prince of Orange-William, and had left her family, moving to Hague. Mary wasn’t happy with her husband, she was afraid of him, their relationship didn’t include any trust and understanding, and she always felt unloved. Her sister and stepmother came to visit her very often and the father also. James needed a son to continue the empire, but Mary Beatrice was loosing her sons right after they were born. And James became mad. Mary also was pregnant several times but she lost her children too. They thought that it ...
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Black Rain
Number of Words: 1357 / Number of Pages: 5
... angle the house was on after the bomb to what his wife cooked for dinner with the food rationing. He even likes to write how people cured themselves of radiation sickness and what the burns and other injuries look and act like. These things are like myself in the fact that he does not like to forget what things are like, wants to see first hand what the effects are, and is very interested in finding information about new things that he has never seen before. He also likes to help people greatly such as his constant wanderings looking for coal for his community. If you were depended on would you ...
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Native Sun: Society's Responsibility
Number of Words: 793 / Number of Pages: 3
... takes over when he is in Mary's room and in danger of being discovered by Mrs. Dalton. This internalized social oppression literally forces his hand when he holds the pillow over Mary's face, suffocating the drunken Mary. Bigger knew that no white person would believe he was not trying to rape Mary. As Bigger tells Max, "They believe that. ...when folks say things like that about you, you whipped before you born." Bigger's sense of lifelong hopelessness becomes evident when he says, "I don't have to do nothing for 'em to get me. The first white finger they point at me, I'm a goner, see?" (pg. 325). T ...
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Societies Clenching Paws
Number of Words: 656 / Number of Pages: 3
... Her uniquely European take on the world shocks and offends the American aristocratic sensibility. Strangely, the American sensibility seems to be more deeply ingrained in her than any other character in the movie. The freedom and the innocence that she displays is foreign to the New Yorkers that she talks to, although among Americans of the day her thoughts and actions she would be normal. The same type of personality is brought to Europe when Daisy Miller goes there. She is too free and uninhibited by her social calling. The Americans in Europe once again act more like Europeans than Daisy does ...
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Social Deterioration In "The Crucible"
Number of Words: 833 / Number of Pages: 4
... claimed that the devil took them
over and influenced them to dance. The girls also said that they saw
members of the town standing with the devil. A community living in a
puritan society like Salem could easily go into a chaotic state and have a
difficult time dealing with what they consider to be the largest form of
evil.
Salem's hysteria made the community lose faith in the spiritual beliefs
that they were trying to strictly enforce. The church lost many of its
parishioners because the interest of the town was now on Abigail because
people wanted to know who was going to be named next. When the c ...
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Lord Of The Flies Disintegrati
Number of Words: 351 / Number of Pages: 2
... over ruled, allowing the blindness of the boys on what’s really happening- the dominance of evil within themselves, to increase. Golding shows that it doesn’t require much to trigger the beast- the common evil within man.
The boys considered most events as games, like the hunt, kill, chant, and dance, whereas in reality these were all key elements to the disintegration of their established society on the island. Order was only ever slightly restored when the boys encountered the naval officer during their manhunt. The games they played mostly to keep their mind off being trap ...
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The Frame Structure Of Franken
Number of Words: 1006 / Number of Pages: 4
... themes of seductive narration and promises can be found also elsewhere in the novel. The Monster’s desire is to be loved by someone. When he realises that not only the DeLaceys but every human being will reject him because of his uglyness, he tells Frankenstein his story in order to persuade him to create a female being of his kind for his companion. At the end of Chapter 8 of Volume II (page 97 of our edition) the monster says: "We may not part until you have promised to comply with my requisition. I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself wo ...
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One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Number of Words: 833 / Number of Pages: 4
... white whales" which recall Melville's Moby Dick.
Indeed, so that the reader does not miss the allusion, Kesey has McMurphy relate that the person who gave him the shorts was "'a co-ed at Oregon State, Chief, a Literary major'" who made him the present "'because she said I was a symbol'" (69). Melville is a by no means unambiguous writer. Indeed, in Moby Dick, the white whale may be seen as a symbol of impenetrability which forms the book's focus over its "hero" Captain Ahab.
Kesey, however, appears to associate Moby Dick with male aggressiveness/dominance as is shown in this later confrontation be ...
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“The Yellow Wallpaper”: Solitary Confinement And Exclusion From Public
Number of Words: 512 / Number of Pages: 2
... which becomes more tiresome as her
sickness progresses. In every few paragraphs in her journal, she analyzes
the wallpaper. Through the imagery she evokes from the wallpaper, it can
be seen that she is really analyzing herself and her illness subconsciously.
For example, she begins to see “a strange, provoking, formless sort of
figure that seems to skulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front
design” (67). She describes her illness (as seen in the wallpaper) as “not
arranged on any laws of radiation, or alternation, or repetition, or
symmetry, or anything else that I ever heard of” (68). ...
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The Role Of Women In A Doll's House
Number of Words: 886 / Number of Pages: 4
... and their female counterparts. Nora is totally controlled by her husband. She has a subordinate role: she relies on him for everything, from movements to thoughts. One could argue that her most important obligation is to please her husband, making her role similar to that of a slave.
Nora’s society has a hypocrite side by making the characters believe what she wants them to believe. Torvald thinks that he needs to be there to watch out for her, and that she would be nothing without him. As to contradict him, circumstance suddenly place Nora in a responsible position. Nora broke the law and deci ...
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