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Phineas And Gene A Comparitive
Number of Words: 1437 / Number of Pages: 6
... and gave detailed, completely matter-of-fact and unboastful accounts of all three."(101). If Phineas was not a confident person, he would not have shared his story with a complete stranger. Gene, on the other hand, was a very insecure person. The reader was able to see Gene's insecurities when he first tried to have a conversation with Phineas. His roommate was being very explicit in revealing the stories of his past, but when it came for Gene's turn to tell his stories he felt his "ideas would have been as dull as catechism after his;"(101). If Gene was confident, he would have been comfortable ...
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A Medieval Contest Between The
Number of Words: 2421 / Number of Pages: 9
... the honor of another knight by killing the one causing the dishonor. The Fellowship bands together with the common purpose of destroying the Ring. The Ring can only be destroyed by throwing it back into the Cracks of Doom in Orodruin, the Fire Mountain, in Mordor, home of the Emperor of Darkness known as Sauron. The Ring should Sauron get it would give him the power to control the world.
The obvious difference in the make up of the Round Table and the Fellowship is that the Round Table is made up of humans whereas the Fellowship has humans along with fantasy creatures such as Hobbits, Dwarves, Elve ...
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One Of A Doll's House: Secession From Society
Number of Words: 562 / Number of Pages: 3
... things
like: "worries that you couldn't possibly help me with," and "Nora, Nora,
just like a woman." She is almost considered to be property of his:
"Mayn't I look at my dearest treasure? At all the beauty that belongs to
no one but me -that's all my very own?" By walking out she takes a
position equal to her husband and brakes society's expectations. Nora also
brakes society's expectations of staying in a marriage since divorce was
frowned upon during that era. Her decision was a secession from all
expectations put on a woman and a wife by society.
Nora secessions are very deliberate and thought ...
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Frankenstein: What Makes It A Gothic Novel?
Number of Words: 700 / Number of Pages: 3
... in the memory.
And that is what is felt throughout the novel-the dreariness of it all along
with the desolate isolation. Yet there were still glimpses of happiness in
Shelly's “vivid pictures of the grand scenes among Frankenstein- the
thunderstorm of the Alps, the valleys of Servox and Chamounix, the glacier and
the precipitous sides of Montanvert, and the smoke of rushing avalanches, the
tremendous dome of Mont Blanc” (Goldberg 277) and on that last journey with
Elizabeth which were his last moments of happiness. The rest goes along with
the melodrama of the story. Shelly can sustain the mood and ...
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Austen’s Marriages And The Age Of Reason
Number of Words: 2122 / Number of Pages: 8
... marriages, Austen will explain what makes a good marriage and what one must posses in order to fulfill the requirements of the age.
Mr. Collins will be the inheritor of the Bennet family’s home when Mr. Bennet dies. When Mrs.Bennet hears Mr.Collins may be interested in one of the daughters she is ecstatic because this will ensure that the home stays with one of her girls. Mr. Collins hears that Jane is involved with Mr. Bingley, so he moves on to Elizabeth. Lizzy flat out declines his proposal of marriage. Mr. Collins can not accept no as an answer. Mr.Collins simply needs someone to marry ...
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Lord Of The Flies: Golding Reduces The Power Of His Message
Number of Words: 401 / Number of Pages: 2
... the wind picks up after Simon has let him down from the trees and carries him out to sea, so that the other boys cannot see that it wasn't a beast. The author uses the boy's fear against them, and although this could possibly happen in the situation, Golding uses it as a weapon against them, their morale and their companionship. I think that the boys split up and go to Jack because of the fear - he can kill the beast, he can get them meat, and if they ever get upset, he can start a dance and all will be fine.
The whole message of the story is about the `darkness of man's heart', which exists in ever ...
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The Moon Is Down: The Effects Of War
Number of Words: 2146 / Number of Pages: 8
... silent enemies of the
soldiers or the townspeople became silent waiting for revenge. "Now it was
the conqueror was surrounded, the men of the battalion alone among silent
enemies, and no man might relax his guard for even a moment" (65). The
soldiers now have only each other to talk to and Tonder longed to go home.
"The men of the battalion came to detest the place they had conquered,...
and gradually a little fear began to grow in the conquerors, a fear that it
would never be over" (65-66). In war, as time goes on fear begins to
settle on soldiers. "Thus it came about that the conquerors grew afra ...
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Morrison's Beloved: The Psychological Suffrage Of Former Slaves
Number of Words: 1128 / Number of Pages: 5
... Crouch stated, " …she
lacks a true sense of the tragic" (38-43). He supported this by stating " …
it shows no sense of the timeless and unpredictable manifestations of evil
that preceded and followed American slavery" (Crouch 38-43).
However, Crouch realizes that Morrison has real talent, in that he
believes she has the ability to organize her novel in a musical structure
by using images as motifs. He also felt that the characters in the novel
served no purpose other than to deliver a message. Crouch believed that
Morrison did not want her readers to experience the horrors of slavery that
othe ...
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The Color Purple: Celie
Number of Words: 2274 / Number of Pages: 9
... “You gonna do what your mammy wouldn’t.” (1) She has had two babies by him already, and he’s taken both of them away right after they were born. She thinks at first he might have killed one of them, but later finds out that he sold them to a couple in town.
Celie doesn’t do anything about her situation, because she’s used to being treated like that. She’s scared, and she fears for her sister Nettie too, when her Pa starts looking at her the same way. Eventually, a man referred to as Mr. ______ comes along and wants to marry Nettie, but he’s too old for her, and ends up marrying Celie. He takes a coup ...
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Jack London's To Build A Fire: Theme
Number of Words: 577 / Number of Pages: 3
... reader in this scene.
The man realizes "a second fire must be built without fail." The man's
mind begins to run wild with thoughts of insecurity and death when the second
fire fails. He recollects the story of a man who kills a steer to stay warm and
envisions himself killing his dog and crawling into the carcass to warm up so he
can build a fire to save himself. London writes, "a certain fear of death, dull
and oppressive, came to him."
As the man slowly freezes, he realizes he is in serious trouble and can no
longer make excuses for himself. Acknowledging he "would never get to the ca ...
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