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Virgil's Aeneid
Number of Words: 1332 / Number of Pages: 5
... to his family, as Aeneas
is considering the request he notices that Turnus is wearing the sword belt of
Pallas and the stoic ways of Aeneas leave him as rage, fury, and anger run
through his body. He kills Turnus in anger and dedicates his death to Pallas.
This loss of control and act of violence is the opposite of stoicism and the way
Aeneas had been portrayed the rest of the epic.
Turnus has to die for the founding of Rome to occur but he should not
have been killed in such a way. The killing was payback for the dishonorable
way that Pallas was killed. The sword belt had images that reflect A ...
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Zinn's A People's History Of The United States Of America
Number of Words: 2108 / Number of Pages: 8
... and racial struggles in
America that Zinn correctly credits as being the root of many of the
problems that we as a nation have today. It is refreshing to see a book
that spends space based proportionately around the people that lived this
history. When Columbus arrived on the Island of Haiti, there were 39 men on
board his ships compared to the 250,000 Indians on Haiti. If the white race
accounts for less than two hundredths of one percent of the island's
population, it is only fair that the natives get more than the two or three
sentences that they get in most history books. Zinn cites population
fig ...
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Characters Are "Recalled To Life"
Number of Words: 464 / Number of Pages: 2
... instance of someone being "recalled
to life" is found in the last chapters of this book. Sydney Carton has
recently switched places with his look alike, Darnay, and is awaiting the
guillotine. While Sydney awaits his death he thinks, "It is a far, far
better thing that I do, then I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest
that I go to than I have ever known." Through these words Sydney
recognizes that by sacrificing his life for Darnay, a loved one of Lucie,
he will be doing the best thing that he has ever done and can do. Sydney
is finally satisfied with himself, he is no longer a dr ...
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Stephen Crane's "The Open Book": Determinism, Objectivity, And Pessimism
Number of Words: 643 / Number of Pages: 3
... a sense that man is
totally not important to the natural forces controlling his fate. “When it
occurs to man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels
she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw
bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply that there are no bricks and no
temples.”(pg156) The one character who perishes, the oiler, is of course a
victim of determinism. Even as he was so close to land and no longer out in the
open sea, nature still takes its role in determining his fate.
Objectivity refers to how the author describes reality as ...
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Submission Or The Drop Of A Fi
Number of Words: 1326 / Number of Pages: 5
... this control throughout the entire story, despite the recurrent instances that stare into his blinded view. The above passage is not a particular episode in the novel, yet rather a metaphorical representation of a main theme: control versus rebellion. It also acts as a foreshadowing for the latter section of the novel, as well as a summation for the entire account in general.
At this particular point in the novel, the narrator is just getting into the Brotherhood and is about to take part in his first rally with his brothers. He is not yet in tune with the control they hold over him and will soon ...
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The Fountain Head: Individualism
Number of Words: 821 / Number of Pages: 3
... public who read the Banner had been convinced that Toohey
new what he was talking about on all subjects. His plan to manipulate the
public and gather them as a whole was directly countered with every move that
Howard made. One of these major moves was the building of the Stoddard Temple.
With the temple, Roark had the freedom to build whatsoever he choose. This gave
him a medium to express his viewpoint without having any restrictions. After
the delayed unveiling of the temple, it was condemned by the public. At the
head of this group was no other than Toohey. He wrote articles in the newspaper ...
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Heart Of Darkness 5
Number of Words: 725 / Number of Pages: 3
... greed overcomes him and he uses his intelligence and violence to accomplish his passionate desire. “ He is an emissary of pity and science and progress; and devil knows what else.” (Conrad, 92). It is believed that there is evil in everyone and it can be triggered by mere stupidity of man. The evil in Kurtz is unleashed because he choose his deep desires for ivory and did not look ahead in the future of what will become of him. Consequently, his soul is consumed for eternal damnation. "The improper use of knowledge is another example that symbolizes the Heart of Darkness. One of Kurt ...
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Frankenstien All Behavior Is L
Number of Words: 608 / Number of Pages: 3
... The monster watched the way that the different family members interacted with one another. In his observation of them he learned the lessons that his father had neglected to teach him. The monster learned the concepts of love and affection. When the monster watched the family he felt feelings of happiness, instead of feelings of loneliness. Eventually the monster had learned the family’s customs and understood their way of life. He realized that even though the family was not rich by their standards, they were rich by his standards because
they knew happiness, instead of fear and loneli ...
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They Shall Inherit The Earth: Loss Of Innocence
Number of Words: 1574 / Number of Pages: 6
... running away from home but he also lost his
innocence by convincing Sheila into thinking negative thoughts about her
father, Andrew Aikenhead, and saying such things as "they don't want us, do
they?" about her father and step mother. Although Michael had made many
mistakes as a kid, it is almost expected that kids make mistakes because
they do not know better and so therefore the loss of innocence during
childhood is not nearly as severe as the loss of innocence during the later
stages in life. Michael Aikenhead had not only lost his innocence as a
child but had also lost his innocence as a mature ...
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Miss Massey
Number of Words: 1485 / Number of Pages: 6
... cause a worse temper whereas I believe that Jaz would like some words
of consolation. Of course Tony knows Jaz better than I do, but most people
like some comforting when they are upset about something.
(In the following paragraphs I presume that the city referred to in the
text is London. This may not be correct, but I know of no other English
city with an Underground).
Miss Massey and her situation is not unusual in London. There are
many destitute people living on a day-to-day basis just like herself. We
Danes are not used to seeing homeless people walking around in the streets
here in D ...
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