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Lord Of The Flies
Number of Words: 1553 / Number of Pages: 6
... insight who can understand Golding's symbolism. This book also made a very good movie which portrays the story well. I did have a favorite character in this book. His name is Simon. Simon is peculiar in that he likes to be alone and take long walks into the jungle while most of the other boys play. He also discovers the beast that every one on the island fears. Ultimately, he discovers the true source of evil, the , and is later betrayed by his friends. Being an enthusiastic and long time book reader, I think is a great book. It is very intriguing and seems to place a terrible spell over the re ...
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Lord Of The Flies
Number of Words: 518 / Number of Pages: 2
... look at Simon's death on a deeper level. However, I will explain that, as well as Piggy's death later on when I make a few more things clear.
When you look at the characters of Ralph and Jack you see 2 opposite character traits. Ralph being good, and Jack being bad. You may look at these 2 characters and decide that they would want each other dead, (considering their hatred for each other) when the actuality of it is that they need each other to survive.
Consider the symbol of the Ying Yang, which symbolizes balance and states that "Within all good, there is some evil, and within all evil, there ...
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A Dolls House - Noras Rebellio
Number of Words: 742 / Number of Pages: 3
... than emotionally. Then when she told him to stop he said to her, “am I not your husband?” Again, this is an example of Torvalds control over Nora, and how he thinks that she is there to fulfill his every desire on command. Torvald doesn’t trust her with any money and with the little money that he does entrust her with he is afraid that she will spend it on Macaroons, a candy that he has forbid her to eat. He calls her his “little squirrel”, “skylark”, and he says she spends money very foolishly.
Nora’s second rebellion was when she left Torvald and her children. The society she lived in demand ...
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Neorealism In The Bicycle Thie
Number of Words: 767 / Number of Pages: 3
... with Antonio's excitement when he gets his bike from the pawn shop, and the next morning when the family joyfully interacts before setting out for work. These scenes contain the promises that a modest job can bring and the dignity and pride of being able to once more function within Italian society. The embodiment of this self-respect is shown when Antonio and his son Bruno (Enzo Staicca) both smile at Maria as they leave home.
Self-respect and all the related values such as pride, dignity, modesty and honor are very important in Italian society. Witness Bruno, whom at a young age, works fu ...
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Janie And The Porch
Number of Words: 752 / Number of Pages: 3
... guidin’ yo’ feet from harm and danger. Ah wants
to see you married right away.” These are some of the best
times in Janie’s life, but all good things do not last
forever and she will soon pay her dues.
At and early age Janie is married to a man named Logan
Killicks, the man her grandmother has chosen for her. There
are no porch scenes during this stage in Janie’s life.
Janie feels empty and very unsatisfied with Logan. The
porch in this stage of the novel represents the things that
Janie wants and feels that she desperately needs. Logan
offers little or none of the emotional or phys ...
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Crucible: "We Are Our Own Worst Enemies"
Number of Words: 556 / Number of Pages: 3
... opening scene of the play, as the readers later found out that he had
committed adultery with Abigail. But he did not honestly tell his wife,
Elizabeth, the truth until the midst of the play. This later had influence
to the turning point of the play as Elizabeth confront to Danforth that
Proctor did not commit any sins, when in fact she is just trying to protect
him. What she doesn't realize is that John had already confessed his sins
to Danforth, therefore, Elizabeth's testimony imply that John was a liar.
As a consequence, John was convicted and was sentenced to be hang. John
Proctor's honesty hav ...
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Lord Of The Flies - The Beast
Number of Words: 1338 / Number of Pages: 5
... children at work. At the same time it is obvious that Golding uses the early chapters in the book to set the scene for the chaos and terror of the beast that follows. Soon it became evident that even the older boys had begun to wonder whether in fact some kind of beast did inhabit the island. It was also apparent that nobody was willing to admit this, but the fact that many boys now cried out in their sleep or had terrible nightmares is further proof that they were all fearful of a beast.
The first signs of evil emerging from within appeared when Jack and his hunters killed a pig and re-enacted the ...
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Frankenstein - Rejection By Society
Number of Words: 642 / Number of Pages: 3
... repulsive characteristics. But fate was against him and the "wretched" had barely conversed with the old man before his children returned from their journey and saw a monstrous creature at the feet of their father attempting to do harm to the helpless elder. "Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore [the creature] from his father, to whose knees [he] clung..." Felix's action caused great inner pain to the monster. He knew that his dream of living with them "happily ever after" would not happen and with the encounter still fresh in his mind along with his first encounter of humans, ...
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Gods In The Iliad
Number of Words: 829 / Number of Pages: 4
... Whenever Zeus turned his back, he tried to help the Greeks in the fight. He felt that he was somewhat Zeus's equal as his brother, but recognizing Zeus's authority and experience, he looked to Zeus as an elder. Some Gods favored the Trojan side of the conflict. Both Apollo and Artemis gave aid to the city of Troy. Although Artemis takes a minor role, Apollo, perhaps angered by Agamemnon's refusal to ransom Khryseis, was constantly changing the course of the war in favor of the Trojans. Responsible for sending plague to the Greeks, he was the first god to make an appearance in the Iliad. Their moth ...
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Self-Reliance: Philosophies Of Transcendentalism And Individualism
Number of Words: 609 / Number of Pages: 3
... man thinks. He felt that these men were geniuses in their own time, “the heights merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.” (Emerson 222), for looking to themselves for their own truth and happiness. We should have self-trust, that when we get an idea, we should listen to ourselves, yet we dismiss our thoughts to often, “ A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashed across his mind from without notice his thought, because it is his.” (Emerson 222) We often do not trust oursel ...
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