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Selfishness Of Silas Marner
Number of Words: 632 / Number of Pages: 3
... held no more." (37) Dunstan was looking out for number one. Being the greedy person he was, he spent extra time to make sure that he had every last guinea of Silas' money. At no point did he even consider what happened to Silas. All he could focus on was his need for the money, his quest to find the money, and his escape with all the money.
Godfrey Cass was narrow-minded. Godfrey had abandoned Eppie when she was about 2 years old. When he saw what a lovely, young lady Eppie had become, he was determined to claim her as his own daughter. "Godfrey felt an irratation... an unexpected obstacle... he ...
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Frankenstein
Number of Words: 750 / Number of Pages: 3
... he may be rid of both monsters forever. "With the companion you bestow I will quit the neighborhood of man,"(pg 142) promises the morally corrupt monster to the doctor upon the completion of his partner. When the doctor finishes his first creation's mate there is a chance that they will not keep their promise and stay in Europe, envoking fear into the people that live nearby. The good doctor, trying to act morally, destroys the monster for the good of the world. The monsters can potentially take over whatever they please. "A race of devils would be propegated,"(pg. 163) thinks to himself in his study ...
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A Dolls House
Number of Words: 564 / Number of Pages: 3
... things like: "worries that you couldn't possibly help me with," and "Nora, Nora, just like a woman." She is almost considered to be property of his: "Mayn't I look at my dearest treasure? At all the beauty that belongs to no one but me -that's all my very own?"
By walking out she takes a position equal to her husband and brakes society's expectations. Nora also brakes society's expectations of staying in a marriage since divorce was frowned upon during that era. Her decision was a secession from all expectations put on a woman and a wife by society. Nora secessions are very deliberate and thought out. ...
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Hobbes' Version Of The Social Contract
Number of Words: 831 / Number of Pages: 4
... of men that, howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty or more eloquent or more learned, yet they will hardly believe there be so many so wise as themselves, for they see their own wit at hand and other men's at a distance. (83)
Hobbes' is trying to establish man's image as being self-centered. He is trying to prove that it is man's ego that drives man's actions and those actions will therefore create a never-ending cycle of competition, which he calls "war". We are in a constant struggle with other human beings and ourselves and that leads to social contracts. He says that war ...
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The Goddess Remembered
Number of Words: 848 / Number of Pages: 4
... "only recently, in the past 6,000 years, has the woman's perspective been ignored", is something that nobody can say with any certainty.
Some of the more factual issues discussed in the film include "Venus Figures". They were first called "Venus" figures by the Marquis de Vibraye in the 1860's and the term has subsequently been used to represent all ancient depiction's of (usually corpulent) women. These figurines are quite similar despite a wide geographical spread, footless and faceless with swollen breasts, buttocks and/or abdomens. They were made from a variety of materials including clay, ivor ...
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Beowulf, Epic Hero
Number of Words: 608 / Number of Pages: 3
... Grendel came, stepping nearer. Then he reached for Beowulf. Beowulf grasped his arm and sat up. The criminal knew he had not met in this middle-earth another with such a grip”(ch. 4). At this point Grendel was afraid of who this man was. Just the courage not to run away, but to fight the beast, Beowulf proved himself to be a courageous man.
Another trait that comes with courage is being noble. To be noble, one has to take risks on his own behalf to save the suffrage of others, because he wants to. Beowulf had killed many monsters before, but this was for his own safety, like the one’s he fought in th ...
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Vision Out Of The Corner Of One Eye: Literary Analysis
Number of Words: 263 / Number of Pages: 1
... is completely distraught.
A man on the bus continues to fondle her, but rather than call attention to him
she would rather save face for him. She hates the situation but she wants to
believe he's a good person so she begins to make excuses for him: "maybe he
didn't do it on purpose" or "maybe his right hand didn't know what his left hand
was up to". All the while trusting , and having her trust broken.
The second phase the main character went through was the attempt to flee.
When she finally tried wiggling out of his reach it just gives him a better
angle to touch her. As she moved awa ...
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Bird Imagery In The Awakening
Number of Words: 864 / Number of Pages: 4
... cage, and different ideas and feelings prevent her from communicating. The only person in society that begins to understand her, Robert, eventually decides that he must remain a member of society instead of staying with her. He says that "you [Edna] were not free; you were Leonce Pontellier's wife" and that "[Robert] was demented, dreaming of wild, impossible things...[such as] men who had set their wives free" (108). Robert does not want to do something wild and unacceptable to society. In a situation parallel to that of Edna's, the only bird that understands the parrot is the mockingbird (Reisz) t ...
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Theme Of Love In The Odyssey
Number of Words: 552 / Number of Pages: 3
... great love and guidance. One of the most emphasized in the Odyssey is the father - son relationship. These relationships clearly support the issue of love in the Odyssey.
The father - son relationship between Odysseus and Telemachos is a little awkward because they both never really got to know each other but they still care for each other’s well being. When Odysseus hears of all the suitors devouring Telemachos’s future fortune and mistreating him, he wants to return and revenge the misuse of his family and property. Odysseus, like any parent, also misses his only child while he is at war. Telema ...
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Hedda Gabler
Number of Words: 527 / Number of Pages: 2
... leaves in his hair, and fantasizes of romantic deaths.
HEDDA. What do you intend to do?
LOVEBORG. Nothing! Just put an end to it all. The sooner the better.
HEDDA (coming a step closer). Eilet Loveborg - listen to me. Couldn't you arrange that - that it's done beautifully?
LOVEBORG. Beautifully? (Smiles.) With vine leaves in my hair, as you used to dream in the old days- (Hedda 287)
Hedda supplies Eilert with the pistol to kill himself with, so he would make her fantasy of a romantic tragedy come true. When it doesn't, and turns into a mess where she will be the one blamed, Hedda is p ...
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