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The Challenges Faced In Jane E
Number of Words: 1016 / Number of Pages: 4
... book, Jane finally finds a true family and love, in rather unexpected places.
At the start of Jane Eyre, Jane is living with her widowed aunt, Mrs. Reed, and her family after being orphaned. Jane is bitterly unhappy there because she is constantly tormented by her cousins, John, Eliza, and Georgiana. After reading the entire book you realize that Jane was perfectly capable of dealing with that issue on her own, but what made it unbearable was that Mrs. Reed always sided with her children, and never admitted to herself that her offspring could ever do such things as they did to Jane. Therefore, Jane ...
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The Metamorphosis Essay
Number of Words: 567 / Number of Pages: 3
... what he has been starving for as he plays out in his mind the fantasy of keeping her in his room, having her play to him, kissing her, and telling her his plans of sending her to a music school. This gaining of Grete’s love and appreciation is the reward Gregor feels he has earned through his suffering. When he hears his family’s decision that he is in no way a human being and must be gotten rid of, he realises that his hope will never be realised. He dies alone shortly after this, as if he is giving up.
It is this way of life which each member of Gregor’s family fights to attain ...
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Paradise Lost
Number of Words: 3207 / Number of Pages: 12
... make his occasional (but nevertheless fundamental) variations on the epic tradition all the more striking by contrast. The most important departures from epic decorum--the rejection of a martial theme, and the choice of an argument that emphasizes the hero's transgression and defeat instead of celebrating his virtues and triumphs--are paradoxically conditioned by concern for the ethical and religious decorum of the epic genre. On the whole, Milton has retained the formal motifs and devices of the heroic poem but has invested them with Christian matter and meaning. In this sense his epic is . . . someth ...
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Stanley Renshons' High Hopes: Clinton's Actions
Number of Words: 2325 / Number of Pages: 9
... of character
that Renshon states as being the "core" factors of a persons character are:
ambition, character integrity, and relatedness.
Ambition is a strong element is one's character which can be defined as;
a persons achievement and self regard. I tend to disagree with Renshon, when he
states that their is a danger with ambition, it "reinforces their sense of being
special… it may facilitate their grandiosity" (40). According to Microsoft
Bookshelf ‘95, grandiosity is someone or something that is characterized by the
greatness of scope of intent. Renshon says that childhood grandiosit ...
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A Reference To God In Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Number of Words: 713 / Number of Pages: 3
... to be the chosen people of God. Rowlandson believed that God was punishing his people for breaking their special covenant. She described the relationship between the Indians and the colonists as one dealt with by God. As she surveyed her home after the attack by the Indians, she credited the destruction not to the Indians, but to God, when she quoted "Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations He has made in the earth" (35). Thus, Rowlandson revealed her belief that God would act against other people simply because they were enemies to the Puritans. Rowlandson believed that the sins of the c ...
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“The Secret Sharer”: The Captain Narrator
Number of Words: 720 / Number of Pages: 3
... the established routine of duties even from the kindest motive.”
Since he has not overcome the problems facing him, his everyday life is
vague. The captain narrator begins to face his problems when Leggatt, a
stowaway, arrives on the ship.
When Leggatt arrives, they immediately have a psychological link.
Leggatt’s first appearance shocks the captain narrator, but he senses an
instant bond between himself and the stowaway. The captain narrarator
states “ I had become so connected in thoughts and impressions with the
secret sharer of my cabin.” As Leggatt tells the story of his past
encounter ...
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Brian's Search For The Meaning Of Life In W.O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen The Wind
Number of Words: 815 / Number of Pages: 3
... it was a two-headed calf, who
dies at birth. Because of this, Brian comes to the realization that "God isn't
very considerate"(166), for sometimes he lets things like the two headed cow
come into this world, only to suffer and then die.
The Second instance in which Brian is confronted with the meaning of
life, comes to him when he sees death, and asks himself why. When Brian's
pigeon died, he asked his father why it had happened.
"Why?" said Brian.
"It happens to things," his father said.
"Why does it happen to things?" He turned up his face to his
father, cheeks stained with drying tear ...
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An Analysis Of The Novel Candide By Voltaire
Number of Words: 753 / Number of Pages: 3
... every place Candide goes something unthinkable seems to happen
to him. Candide meets several people along the way who all have their own
interesting story of misfortune and the inhumanities of mankind. Candide
ends up on a small farm, married to Cunegonde and living with two
philosophers. He argues with others at the end of the book if this really
is the best of all possible worlds and they conclude the we must "work
without reason" and "must cultivate our garden".
In this novel Voltaire is extremely influenced by his frame of
reference and mindset. He finds room to include almost all of his
po ...
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Notes From The Underground: Underground Man
Number of Words: 901 / Number of Pages: 4
... would be in the good. The only reason he does bad things is because he does not know his own interests. The Underground Man does not really believe that though. He thinks only innocent, naïve people believe it is that easy. In reality, man knows his interests but continues to pursue other things.
The Underground Man has his perspective on life, which is for once close to the way it really is. He does not contradict his opinion on this topic, so you conclude that he really believes it and is not just speaking to confuse you the way he has before.
People are completely convinced that bad habit ...
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Summer Of The Monkeys: Jay Berry And His Conflicts
Number of Words: 1063 / Number of Pages: 4
... is his
incredible determination. Jay Berry displays his determination many times
throughout the novel. For Jay Berry to succeed his goals of bringing the
highly intelligent circus monkeys home he has to have a great deal of
determination. He shows an example of this when he fails to succeed his first
few times out, but he never gives up, and has the same motivation the next time
he tries to catch the monkeys. Another inner force that helps him on his way
is his confidence. For anybody to achieve a certain goal they have to feel
confident about what they are trying to achieve. Jay Berry is always ...
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