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The Glass Menagerie: The Tragic Effects Of The Past
Number of Words: 672 / Number of Pages: 3
... through the past. However, the past no longer exists, causing them
distress in their journey through life. Tom is unsuccessful with his job
at the warehouse and Laura cannot seem to fit in with the outside world.
These personal downfalls in life drive Tom into a life of poetry and movies,
and Laura into a world of glass figurines.
Tom is unsatisfied with his work at the warehouse and feels his
life lacks adventure. Therefore, he finds it through writing poetry and
watching movies. When business is slow at the shoe warehouse, Tom goes to
the washroom to work on his poetry. Tom finds adventure i ...
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A Farewell To Arms: Overview
Number of Words: 298 / Number of Pages: 2
... actions are
determined by his position until he deserts the army. Floating down the river
with barely a hold on a piece of wood his life, he abandons everything except
Catherine and lets the river take him to a new life that becomes increasing
difficult to understand.
The escape to Switzerland seemed too perfect for a book that set a tone of
ugliness in the world that was only dotted with pure love like Henry's and Cat's
and I knew the story couldn't end with bliss in the slopes of Montreux. In a
world where the abstracts of glory, honor, and sacrifice meant little to
Frederick, his physical associa ...
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King Lear--a Man More Sinned A
Number of Words: 1354 / Number of Pages: 5
... to suffer from whatever she had to put up with him before. In Act 1, Scene 4, Goneril complains about Lear’s impulsive behaviour and constant moodswing:
“…and put away
These dispositions which of late transport you
From what you rightly are.” (I, iii, 217-219)
Telling her father what he ought to do is thought of as disgracing her father during those times. A child is supposed to demonstrate strict obedience towards his parents. In addition, Goneril criticizes her father’s entourage vehemently :
“…this your all-licensed fool,
But other of your ins ...
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The Great Gatsby: Jordan Baker
Number of Words: 1041 / Number of Pages: 4
... tells himself, “I am one of the very few
honest people that I have ever known” (Fitzgerald 64). Jordan connects
Nick to Gatsby by bringing him to one of Gatsby’s parties with her, where
Gatsby introduces himself to Nick. Jordan leads a careless life, one
incident proving this is the scene where Jordan is driving Nick. Nick
tells her, “You’re a rotten driver, either you ought to be more careful or
you oughtn’t to drive at all” (Fitzgerald 63), Jordan responds, “I hate
careless people” (Fitzgerald 63). This scene just shows us how Jordan can
also be represented as a hypocrite being she’s a careless ...
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Frankenstein: Good And Bad Choices
Number of Words: 540 / Number of Pages: 2
... a being.
The choice he made would haunt him for the rest of his life. When Zeus finds
out that Prometheus has stolen his fire, he took Prometheus to a top of a
mountain and chains him to the mountain. Every day an eagle comes down and rips
him open and eats his insides. During the night Prometheus would recover during
the night.
After Victor Frankenstein created his being, he called it pure evil, but
in reality, Victor made his being evil. When Prometheus opens the box that his
bother sends to him (Pandora's box) he lets out all the evil things that corrupt
the world.
Frankenstein can be compa ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: Evil And Corruption In The World
Number of Words: 991 / Number of Pages: 4
... genuine merriment."3 Holden is surrounded by what he views as drunks, perverts, morons and screwballs. These convictions which Holden holds waver very momentarily during only one particular scene in the book. The scene is that with Mr. Antolini. After Mr. Antolini patted Holden on the head while he was sleeping, Holden jumped up and ran out thinking that Mr. Antolini was a pervert as well. This is the only time during the novel where Holden thinks twice about considering someone as a pervert. After reviewing Mr. Antolini, Holden finally concludes that maybe he wasn't making a "flitty" pass at him. ...
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Animal Farm: Communism Through The Eyes Of George Orwell
Number of Words: 2471 / Number of Pages: 9
... by his
personal beliefs about Socialism, Communism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism, and
by the revolts, wars, and revolutions going on in Europe and Russia at the time
of his writings.
George Orwell was a Socialist2 himself, and he despised Russian
Communism3, and what it stood for. Orwell shows this hatred towards Communist
Russia in a letter he wrote to Victor Gollancz saying, "For quite fifteen years
I have regarded that regime with plain horror."4 Orwell wrote this letter in
1947, ten years after announcing his dislike of Communism. However, he had
thought a great deal about Communism a ...
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Epstein’s Welfare In America
Number of Words: 1776 / Number of Pages: 7
... and non-marital births account for a large amount of the reliance upon Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)…forty-two percent of all new spells on AFDC are associated with an unmarried mother becoming a head of household.” (Epstein 111) To prove that inequality exists in society we need to define the conflict theory and compare and contrast it to the problems of welfare.
The conflict theory or perspective is the view of society that focuses on social processes of tension, competition, and change. (Robertson, 19) The view of conflict was developed by Karl Marx; a man who saw society a ...
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Sphere: Summary
Number of Words: 361 / Number of Pages: 2
... of the squid. Barnes is eaten alive by the gigantic
squid.
After the climax and many deaths the few people left discover whoever
enters the Sphere is granted the power that everything they think or
imagine happens or is created. Either it's conscious or subconscious,
while they're sleeping or awake, or even if they really want it to happen.
They also it was planted by another world as a test of its full
capabilities and consequences. Ted actually imagines his own death, only to
kill himself. Once their emergency submarine is lost, they realize they
have a serious problem being trapped togethe ...
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A Street Car Named Desire
Number of Words: 1079 / Number of Pages: 4
... want to hear so he can get them to bed, “ In his appearance, in his character, in his whole nature, there was something attractive and elusive which allured women and disposed then in his favour; he knew that, and some force seemed to draw him, too, to them.” This keeps life simple for him.
Anna Sergeyevna is a young woman alone on vacation with her dog. We know she is married but the author doesn’t go into her character a great deal, at least not to the extent of Dmitri. Perhaps it’s not important.
They met while dinning alone at the same place, and spent the rest of the evening walking and talking ...
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