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Dr. Faustus
Number of Words: 590 / Number of Pages: 3
... live without a wife.” (p. 43) Here Faustus is shown to have internal conflict between godly aspirations and human aspirations. Nevertheless, it is shown that is intent on becoming more powerful than any human, and he has gone to great lengths to do so. After selling his soul for twenty-four years of power and knowledge, soon realizes what he has done. He tries to repent his bond with the devil, yet the devil will not have it and binds him to his contract. Following this, Faustus continues to have doubts about his actions. At the same time, Faustus wins fame and fortune for his magic skills, yet his d ...
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Symbolism In The Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 452 / Number of Pages: 2
... extravagant parties in his own home or with a small group of people, who he is remains a secret. Gatsby is constantly encompassed by darkness and secrecy
When Gatsby threw his large parties, he was rarely seen amongst his guests and was most often alone, observing them. "Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps and looking from one group to another."(p. 50) The one time that Gatsby is noticed talking to his guests is when he introduced himself to Nick and started a conversation with him. Yet, most of the time that he throws these parties at his own home, he is alone and does not socialize with t ...
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Where Should The Line Be Drawn?
Number of Words: 1403 / Number of Pages: 6
... secreted by the CIA back to New York to escape extradition for crimes committed while under cover. Howard eventually turns himself in and is sent to Israel to be tried for war crimes. In the novel Mother Night, Howard’s crimes are not justified by his position in the CIA. Werner Noth, Police Chief of Berlin and Campbell’s father-in-law, believes that Campbell is a spy from the beginning. In a conversation with Campbell, Noth tells him he doesn’t care if he is a spy “because you could never have served the enemy as well as you served us”(80). This statement supports the idea that Campbell does his ...
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Siddhartha
Number of Words: 882 / Number of Pages: 4
... is Siddhartha's best friend. He also is striving to obtain inner peace. He follows Siddhartha for a while, but eventually goes to follow Buddha. Towards the end Govinda meets up with Siddhartha and discovers that he has obtained peace.
Vasadava- Vasadava is the old ferryman that has obtained the peace that Siddhartha has striven to obtain. He learns all that he knows about spirituality and peace from the river. At the end Vasadava leaves into the woods to die in peace.
Kamaswami- Kamaswami is the rich merchant that employees Siddhartha at one time. He is driven only by money and greed. No ...
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Grapes Of Wrath And Of Mice And Men: Character Study
Number of Words: 966 / Number of Pages: 4
... to move to California to look for
work. The story has historical significance as it is true that many families
were forced, in the same way as the Joads, to leave their homes to look for
work during the depression. It is in this fact that one can see how Steinbeck's
intention in "The grapes of Wrath" was to depict the hardships people went
through during an actual event in American history. Perhaps the most solemn
message in this novel was the poor treatment of the dispossessed families as
they reached California. In "Of Mice and Men" the reader is presented with a
story that takes place in the s ...
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The Queen Of Air And Darkness
Number of Words: 710 / Number of Pages: 3
... he endured.
The next child, Agravaine, is probably the least well adjusted of the
four. He tends to be sadistic and self-centered. The children were told the
tale of the King of Ireland by St. Toirdealbhach; the tale where the king gets a
head wound and can not be excited, but then he dies while trying to defend his
savior. Agravaine does not see any point in putting one's self in danger to
protect any one else. He says “It was silly, it did no good,” because he does
not understand the principal behind the story. He does not understand that
there are things other than yourself ...
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Watership Down
Number of Words: 652 / Number of Pages: 3
... tell stories which distracted and eased the
rabbits from problems. Pipkin, a good friend of Fiver, was small like
Fiver but acted as if he was as big as Bigwig. He always did what he
was told and never complained. PLOT One day Fiver, sensing danger,
convinced his brother Hazel that they must leave their warren. Hazel
tried to warn the Chief Rabbit of the danger, but he did not listen.
Hazel gathered a group and went along the brook until they reached
another warren of rabbits. These rabbits were very strange and acted
differently from other rabbits. Hazel and his group decided to leave
after Bigwi ...
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The Island Of Doctor Moreau: Could It Be?
Number of Words: 1209 / Number of Pages: 5
... it for hours until I finally convinced her that this did actually happen to me. She asked me if I had ever thought about going back to the island and I said no. I guess her curiosity had gotten the best of her because she said she thought that we should try to go back to the island to see what had become of it. I told her there was no way of knowing its location. She suggested that since we knew where I was found drifting in that small boat and how long I was adrift that maybe we could find someone that could help us locate the island.
About 2 years after meeting Catherine we got engaged and a year la ...
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A Classic To Kill A Mockingbir
Number of Words: 818 / Number of Pages: 3
... verdict. Not a verdict based on fact, but a verdict based on the color of a man's skin. This is important because the author was not making this racism up; it was what it was like in those times. She is trying to show how ignorant and blind people can be just because of differences between them, as well as how society treats racial minorities.
During the book Scout and Jem are at an age were people around them greatly affect their thoughts, views and ideas about the world. Although Atticus tried to raise them to treat Negroes as equals, people around them affected their views on them. A good exam ...
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Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine
Number of Words: 1770 / Number of Pages: 7
... with raw fantasy in
Dandelion Wine. One of the first experiences of young Douglas Spaulding is
to realize that the pure, unbridled energy, emotion, and fantasy of the
summer make him truly alive. (Bradford 69) The pure, unadulterated fantasy
of life and joy in Dandelion Wine gives a more than magical feeling to the
book and leaves the reader wishing that he or she lived in this world.
(Bradford 69) One of the reasons that the fantasy of Dandelion Wine is so
appealing is that Bradbury masterfully crafts the expressions of fantasy
that everyone takes part in, such as dreams and the inner world of th ...
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