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A Portrait Of Stephen Dedalus As A Young Man
Number of Words: 818 / Number of Pages: 3
... Cranly, asks him. "I tried to love God," Stephen replies. "It seems now I failed." The force that eventually unites these contradictory Stephens is his overwhelming desire to become an artist, to create. At the novel's opening we see him as an infant artist who sings "his song." Eventually we'll see him expand that song into poetry and theories of art.
At the book's end he has made art his religion, and he abandons family, Catholicism, and country to worship it. The name Joyce gave his hero underscores this aspect of his character. His first name comes from St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr; ...
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1984
Number of Words: 533 / Number of Pages: 2
... the needs of the Party. He has noticed a co-worker, a beautiful dark-haired girl, staring at him; he worries that she is an informant who will turn him in for his thoughtcrime. He worries about the Party's control of history: it claims Oceania has always been allied with Eastasia in a war against Eurasia, but Winston seems to recall a time when this wasn't true; the Party also claims that Emmanuel Goldstein, the leader of the Brotherhood, is the most dangerous man alive, but Winston doubts the claim. He spends his evenings wandering through the poorest neighborhoods in London, where the proletarians, ...
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All Quiet On The Western Front: "The Cause Of Death"
Number of Words: 950 / Number of Pages: 4
... the loss of Paul's friends, and especially the loss of
Paul's innocence.
The change from idealism to disillusionment is really the driving
force behind the novel. From young school boys, listening to their
schoolmaster asking "Won't you join up comrades?"(11) to "weary,
broken"(294) men, idealism and disillusionment play a major role on Paul's
decisions and thoughts. For example, on the second page of the novel,
Paul says, "It would not be such a bad war if only one could get a little
more sleep." (2) Later in the book, a disillusioned Paul says of the same
war, "I see how p ...
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Search Of April Raintree
Number of Words: 1246 / Number of Pages: 5
... fact, throughout most of the novel she tries to pass herself off as being completely white. Her younger sister, Cheryl Raintree, is much darker than April and does not try the same “racial swap”. Cheryl is very proud of her culture. April Raintree gets embarrassed when her younger sister talks so proudly of being Metis. An example of this is when April is at an academy where she so very much wanted to fit in with the white people. She did not tell anyone she was half Metis, but she did tell everyone that her parents died. She told her little sister about how great the school was and then Cheryl ...
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Heart Of Darkness; By Joseph Conrad
Number of Words: 1026 / Number of Pages: 4
... of the quest itself proves of Marlow's disillusioned purpose.
Light and darkness contrasted throughout the novel as the "forces of evil and good." These contrasts also figuratively considered being civilized and uncivilized ( with the light representing civilization or the civilized side of the world and the dark representing the uncivilized or savage side of the world.) Even from the beginning of the novel darkness is apparent, when Marlow speaks of the "...very old times, when the Romans first came here [England]...cold, fog, disease, exile, death-death skulking in the air, in the water, in ...
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Beyond The Horizon And Diff'rent By Eugene O'Neill
Number of Words: 1708 / Number of Pages: 7
... the other out
of pure imagination." Rob's quest is strange to Andy; it goes beyond anything he
can comprehend. Andrew, who is "A Mayo through and through." does not think in
the imaginative terms Rob does. "It's just beauty that's calling me-the beauty
of the far off and unknown...in quest of the secret which is hidden over there,
beyond the horizon." (Horizon, 85) Andy does understand, that his brother could
never be happy living on the farm, because his heart is elsewhere. Emma is like
Rob in a few ways. Both characters have idealistic views. Rob believes in the
secret beyond the horizon a ...
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Book Report On Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"
Number of Words: 3140 / Number of Pages: 12
... he has no respect for himself, he can have no respect for others, either.
He has no respect for women, for example; he is a despicable "voluptuary," and
he satisfies his lust at any cost. He drives his wife to madness by bringing
"women of ill-repute" into their house right in front of her. Even more
shockingly, he rapes a mentally retarded woman, who later dies giving birth to
his illegitimate son, Smerdyakov, who grows up as his father's servant.
Fyodor is even more blatantly disrespectful to his three legitimate
children. After his wife's death, he abandons them, for they "woul ...
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Grapes Of Wrath
Number of Words: 664 / Number of Pages: 3
... family, the strong place that could not be taken.” (95)
The family felt what Ma felt and let her emotions be in control. “And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her.” (95) Because of this she kept strong. She always wants happiness for everyone in the family, that’s why she stays strong. Ma knew that if she were to weak the whole family would fall apart.
She realizes that they have no home and that the only value and meaning in life is that which they derive from being a family. She keeps the two cars together so they will not be s ...
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Social Injustices In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Number of Words: 1368 / Number of Pages: 5
... see the hypocrisy of society. The first character we come across with that trait is Miss Watson. Miss Watson constantly corrects Huck for his unacceptable behavior, but Huck doesn’t understand why, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it" (2). Later when Miss Watson tries to teach Huck about Heaven, he decides against trying to go there, "...she was going to live so as to go the good place. Well, I couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn’t try for it." (3) The comments made by Huck clearly sho ...
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Crime And Punishment: Characterization
Number of Words: 606 / Number of Pages: 3
... this dream, if it is to be interpreted in this way.
On the same token, Raskolnikov's compassionate side could be
represented by the little boy. The child, watching the beating, realizes
the absurdity of it. He even rushes to Mikolka, ready to punish him for
killing the mare. This illustrates Rodion's internal struggle while
contemplating the murder of Alyona. His humane side, the child, tells him
to live and let live. And his "extraordinary" side, according to his
definition, tells him that he should eliminate Alyona altogether, for the
good of man kind.
On the other side of the coin, ...
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