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Happiness In Brave New
Number of Words: 728 / Number of Pages: 3
... trip home with Henry Foster, “‘What a hideous color khaki is,’ remarked Lenina, voicing the hypnopædic prejudices of her caste” (62). Khaki is a color worn by lower castes in the society and the higher castes are taught not to associate with them. Bernard’s hypnopædic lessons did not work as well as most. He sees everything in this artificially manufactured society as dismal, and does not act against it by using soma, a drug to induce a safe hallucination and keep one felicitous. For problems that nature creates, the society of Brave New World destroys them to keep pestering insects and things of ...
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Book-Movie Comparison Hamlet
Number of Words: 320 / Number of Pages: 2
... himself the new king. The movie fails to show the end where Fortinbras makes his declaration speech.
The movie left out another part from the play. In the play, Polonius asks Reynaldo to travel to France and spy on his son Laertes. However, the movie never shows this scene. In fact, the movie fails to even include Reynaldo.
The differences between the movie and the play are not great enough to distract from the power and meaning of the story. Even though there are a few discrepancies, the movie and the play are the same story. All in all, the movie was an excellent depiction of Shakespeare’s H ...
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Censorship Of The Grapes Of Wr
Number of Words: 707 / Number of Pages: 3
... Extreme profanity is not extraneous in the novel, in fact, it is tame compared to slang terms used today. Casy, the former preacher that was traveling with the Joads, is not be given the connotation as the most holy man. Casy did not consider himself a minister at the time The Grapes of Wrath takes place. "But I ain't a preacher no more" is spoken many times by Casy in denial that he is a man of the cloth. Indeed, Casy is brutally killed in the novel, but it does not go into graphic, violent detail. Once again, Casy's feelings against the employers and government were common to the time and wer ...
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Short Stor
Number of Words: 1132 / Number of Pages: 5
... and is therefore not only a dynamic character but also a round character. Her emotions are seen in many situations in the story by things she says, and her thoughts brought to the reader in detail. This type of character is one of the most important members of the cast in most all stories. It is this person that most everything revolves around.
Opposite from dynamic characters, there are static characters in the story that help to drive the story forward. Static characters usually have little or no information on what they’re doing, thinking, or feeling ever mentioned. Static characters don’t ...
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Purgatorio
Number of Words: 754 / Number of Pages: 3
... of being grateful to Chambers and thanking him, Tom said that "anybody but a blockheaded nigger would have known he was funning and left him [Tom] alone" (23). Furthermore, after Tom had gone to college (Yale) and returned back to Dawson’s Landing, he still carried this trait. This was evident when he was having a conversation with Pudd’nhead Wilson. At the time, Mr. Wilson was hosting guests, two of which were from out-of-town. Regardless of the obvious company, Tom kept his rude manor and made fun of Wilson’s law career. Although it was true that Pudd’nhead Wilson’s law career wa ...
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The Odyssey
Number of Words: 748 / Number of Pages: 3
... to put
wax in their ears ensured that Odysseus, alone, could listen to the Sirens' song
and not die. When Odysseus had to figure out how he could kill the Suitors who
were staying in his house, he had Athena disguise him as an old beggar and then
told Telemachus, his son, to hide all of the Suitors' weapons and armor. If
they asked Telemachus what he was doing, he was to tell them he was storing the
weapons so that none of the suitors would kill each other if they got into a
fight. Many times throughout the story, Odysseus had to be resourceful enough to
accomplish a task by using surrounding t ...
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A Separate Peace
Number of Words: 1155 / Number of Pages: 5
... to be drafted into the war-just one year later. One day Finny, the best athlete in the school, came up with the crazy idea to jump out of a tree into a river. All of the seventeen-year olds had accomplished this task because it was a mandatory test for the war. Phineas, naturally was the first sixteen-year old to conquer this feat; so Gene was the second. None of the other boys ever tried the jump. After a while the two made it an almost day-to-day activity. The two boys were a lot alike, but Gene had this underlying resentment of Finny and he felt that Finny was deliberately trying to make him do ...
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The Writing Style Of Charles D
Number of Words: 432 / Number of Pages: 2
... that parallel the essence of the character found within. Dickens also uses the past and future to create a vivid picture in the readers mind. Colors are another very critical part in Dickens writings. He uses colors contrasting the light with the dark to create a mood for his character.
Charles Dickens uses the Victorian Era to describe the enviornment that his stories take place in. He uses the colors of the Victorian era such as different color browns, blacks, and grays to create his imagery to describe the enviornment. He also uses candles on all of his stories as a source of light agains ...
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Heart Of Darkness
Number of Words: 4069 / Number of Pages: 15
... goes on this "voyage of a lifetime".
Marlow begins his voyage as an ordinary English sailor who is
traveling to the African Congo on a "business trip". He is an
Englishmen through and through. He's never been exposed to any
alternative form of culture, similar to the one he will encounter in
Africa, and he has no idea about the drastically different culture
that exists out there.
Throughout the book, Conrad, via Marlow's observations, reveals to
the reader the naive mentality shared by every European. Marlow as
well, shares this naiveté in the beginning of his vo ...
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Beloved 3
Number of Words: 583 / Number of Pages: 3
... inner isolation, she also had to make the decision whether or not to kill her daughter or let her suffer through a life of slavery. She made the decision to have her daughter killed. This also created some detachment from herself. Perhaps she felt as if her mind had deceived because she had her daughter killed. But yet, she knew that it was in the best interest for the child for she couldn’t bare to see her child be born into a life of slavery. Whenever I do something bad I feel separated from myself as if there is someone evil inside of me informing me what to do. Sethe however goes through man ...
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