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The Picture Of Dorian Gray: Evil
Number of Words: 905 / Number of Pages: 4
... increases as the plot develops. By
trading his soul for his youth, Dorian rids of the good inside of himself. The
plot proves to us that evil does actually lie within an individual. From the
moment that he becomes forever young he begins to deteriorate. Even once he
reached his epiphany and saw his evil through the portrait he simply denied
seeing it and continued his malicious deeds.
The characterisation of the book is one of the most important elements
of this book. Dorian begins by being a very naïve lad. He is very easily
influenced by others especially his two new good friends; Basil and L ...
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Perspective In As For Me And M
Number of Words: 1405 / Number of Pages: 6
... me along, so at noon I complained of a headache, and stayed home to finish putting in the garden.h (45) This clearly displays the beginning of Mrs. Bentleys resentment towards Philip, and the relationship that he and Steve share. She desires such a relationship for herself and Philip, only to be faced with the realization that it will never transpire. This hinders the legitimacy of what she sees, as it is now biased; influenced by her resentment. gAbout a horse for Steve, then about Steve himself. He likes Steve, and as we talked I saw Philipfs mouth get a little contentious.h (85) As her resent ...
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King Arthur
Number of Words: 1016 / Number of Pages: 4
... Boss" by everyone. He starts an extensive program of reorganization of 's kingdom. The Boss can dictate every group in England (including the knights), except to the priests of the established church. He steers clear of this opposition group. After causing Merlin's tower to crumble with a detonation of some secretly installed explosives, the Boss is hailed as the powerful purveyor of magic. With the help of a young page named Clarence, the Yankee begins to organize schools and factories to train workers for what he visualizes will be a superior society. Perhaps a society like one built in the late nin ...
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Brave New World: All Things Are Relative
Number of Words: 639 / Number of Pages: 3
... who are we to judge
when the United States has had a long history of racial and ethnic
discrimination and only now are we changing.
The society in Brave New World has not lost their values but has
simple changed their idea of what is right and wrong. After all, how much
have we changed in the past 600 years. Six-hundred years ago in England,
we killed people for conducting scientific experiments and believed this
was against the teachings of the church. The society in Brave New World is
a mirror to our own when we view the past. If a person from the present
were to see the sacrifices and e ...
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Symbolism In The Scarlet Lette
Number of Words: 642 / Number of Pages: 3
... and would also make her own to wear. “Mother, the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now see! There it is, playing, a good way off. Stand you here, and let me run and catch it. I am but a child. It will not flee from me, for I wear nothing on my bosom yet” (192). This symbolizes Pearl’s constant curiousity and truth, and her knowing that the letter her mother must wear retricts her from being ‘loved by the sun’, in other words, Hester must remain in the dark about her feelings, while Pearl can s ...
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Hamlets Transformation
Number of Words: 951 / Number of Pages: 4
... that Claudius killed his father, and that he must take on the task of avenging his death. This encounter changed who he is completely. He said that he will wipe away books, the past, and all of the things he was taught. He will live “within the book and volume of …brain”(a.1, sc.5, l.). He only will live through this purpose in life, and everything else is erased from his memory. He is possibly trying to shut down the part of him that knows right from wrong. His purpose his more important than all else, even if it means destroying on people along the way. He was on a mission that was ...
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Fried Green Tomatoes Human Nat
Number of Words: 1280 / Number of Pages: 5
... situations throughout the novel. A prime example of her use of humor was with Smokey Lonesome. When Smokey first comes into the café for a bite to eat, he is so nervous that he can’t stop shaking and he most certainly cannot eat. Idgie, seeing his discomfort, introduced herself and proceeded to tell Smokey a joke. “On November, a big flock of duck, oh, about forty or more, landed right smack in the middle of that lake, and while they were sitting there, that afternoon, a fluke thing happened. The temperature dropped so fast that the whole lake froze over, as solid as a rock, in a matter o ...
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Grapes Of Wrath: Summary
Number of Words: 460 / Number of Pages: 2
... in the book when they pulled over to help the Wilsons
with the car. Tom suggested that him and Casey stay and fix the car while the
rest of the family go's on to Bakersfield and that they would meet them there.
Ma then let out her fury, she held up a tire iron and demanded that they all
stick together and that they will go to Bakersfield together.
Ma is also very smart. Her common sense is a higher then the rest of
the family's. When Tom gets hit under the eye by a officer Ma devises a plan to
get Tom out of that government camp. She says, "We'll put one mattress on the
bottom, an' then Tom ...
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Haliburton Created Sam Slick To Voice His Own Positions
Number of Words: 1917 / Number of Pages: 7
... was that the stories were written in an episodic format as a series of homilies that could stand on their own. More important even than that is that the lesser characters never overshadow the central theme of the episode; there is no personality (other than Slick) that outweighs the message or that is not easily recognizable within any community.
The word satire derives from the Latin satira, meaning "medley." A satire, either in prose or in poetic form, holds prevailing vices or follies up to ridicule: it employs humour and wit to criticize human institutions or humanity itself, in order that they ...
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Wuthering Heights: Summary
Number of Words: 438 / Number of Pages: 2
... own death. Before she dies, she says that
she wants both Heathcliff and Edgar to suffer-Edgar, because he never understood
heraffection for Heathcliff; and Heathcliff, because he never understood why
she married Edgar. Cathy has a mind of her own and some of Catherine's
willfullness. She is also capable of great sympathy towards Linton, whom she
marries and finally Hareton Earnshaw.
Heathcliff is a strange mix-ture of the refined and incouth; slovently, yet
dresses and acts like a g gentleman. While being dark with the look of a gypsy,
he is quite handsome. His son, linton resembles his mothe ...
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