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To The Lighthouse
Number of Words: 718 / Number of Pages: 3
... can be seen as a threat, the pounding of the waves on the surf turns from a “soothing tattoo to her thoughts” to the “ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat(ing) the measure of life”, and terrified the sound makes her think “of the destruction of the island and its engulfment in the sea”(23-24). The simple fact that sound of the pounding waves comes to her suddenly, whereas before it had been concealed by the sounds of conversations being held outside, points to the hollowness of the house.
Mrs. Ramsey works to maintain the house as being a protective barrier, ...
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Symbolism In The Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 753 / Number of Pages: 3
... or beauty about Daisy. Their spacious home is described as having shades of red, white, and cream, and overlooking the bay. This portrays them as a member of an elite upper class. Snobbishly commenting on his house, Tom states, "I've got a nice place here"(GG5). In the beginning of the novel, the green light on Daisy's dock seen by Gatsby symbolized promise, hope, and renewal. But by the end of the novel, the wealth accumulated by Gatsby for the hope of reaching Daisy turns sour and this mutates that very same object into just a burning light at the end a dock (C20). The color yellow is als ...
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ANIMAL FARM IN COMPARISON TO T
Number of Words: 1040 / Number of Pages: 4
... step of the revolution was the corruption of Mr. Jones, the irresponsible farm owner who lacked leadership. When the animals are left unfed one night, they help themselves to the feeding bins so they will not starve. Mr. Jones tries to stop them but he can not overpower the animals, and soon Mr. Jones, his wife, and all his men are driven right out of the farm.
Mr. Jones is representing Czar Nicholas II. Believing firmly in his duty to preserve absolute power in the Russian monarchy, Nicholas opposed any compromise to those favoring more democracy in government, and had little talent for leadership him ...
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The Sun Also Rises Report
Number of Words: 1717 / Number of Pages: 7
... through which to pursue their new lifestyle. Content to drift through life, desperately seeking some sort of personal redemption through various forms of indulgence, these people had abandoned their old value system and heroes, only to find difficulty in finding new ones. A great deal of new literature was spawned in an effort to capture the attitudes and feelings of such individuals to reinvent a model of sorts for a people sorely lacking any satisfactory standard to follow. At the forefront of these writers was Ernest Hemingway, whose Novel, The Sun Also Rises, became just such a model, complet ...
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Contrast Of Mark Antony And Ma
Number of Words: 925 / Number of Pages: 4
... to speak well and take charge when in danger, he was also very strong physically as well as athletic. " I am not gamesome : I do lack some part of that quick spirit that is Antony. ( Act 1 , Scene 2 lines 28 -29 ) . However , further interpretation proved that Antony was not an all together better person . In order to avenge Caesar"s death he lied to the conspirators and to the citizens of Rome. He was correct in saying that most of the conspirators were driven by jealousy, but Antony did not do anything for the good of Rome, he merely fought sadness. Those who believe in honor inlife would not ...
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Critique Of The American Dream
Number of Words: 700 / Number of Pages: 3
... Bub Mell's home had a strong and unpleasant odor. There were holes in the steps and the walls were crumbling. There were six children, Bub's sick mother and his father living in the house. The father did not work and basically depended on his children to work and support the family. Bub worked at age eight even though he was too young. These can be compared to the conditions presented in Roger and Me. The woman who slaughtered rabbits was very poor and lived in a run-down home. All she knew was that she could breed rabbits to sell for meat. In the film, we also saw the vacant homes. With that came a ...
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Not Fade Away
Number of Words: 828 / Number of Pages: 4
... a good time added for interesting events and conversations in the book. Not only did these things make him feel good, but there was significance as well. When not listening to records on the record player that Donna gave him, George was listening to one of three radio stations, KRZY, KROM, or KRZE. The two stations KRZY, and KRZE obviously represent "crazy," which George was, "Hey you're my ghost,--you've got to be crazy too"(254). The other station, KROM, represents "to roam," and roam is what George did in the Big Bopper's Cadillac El Dorado. Along with the radio stations and their on-air pers ...
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Passage To Manhood - Comparing
Number of Words: 1212 / Number of Pages: 5
... “girlish” in the eyes of his father, a man. In an effort to please his father David took it upon himself to kill a possum that had become a menace to his father, this would make him a man, this would grant him his “rite of passage”. The possum eventually appeared and was described as David would describe his much-loved lilies, “soft, beautiful, white in the moonlight”. The symbolism of using the same words to describe the possum like the much loved lilies shows the reader that it is against David’s morals to kill the animal of such beauty but if such a task has to be completed to gain manhood then ...
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Macbeth- Ambition And Hamartea
Number of Words: 744 / Number of Pages: 3
... She unsexes herself and becomes evil. They come up with a plan to kill the present king of Scotland, King Duncan. Macbeth had just killed a traitor who rebelled against the king and now he is planning to kill the king! The death of the king is blamed on the king's guards so Macbeth kills them to save his own behind. What a traitor, he deserves to be slained and he should be beheaded!
Secondly Macbeth's hamartea of ambition blinds him from seeing where he lye as the new King of Scotland. Instead Macbeth remembers the third and last prophase of Banquo. It was that Banquo would not be king but he ...
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Dantes Divine Comedy Essay
Number of Words: 1932 / Number of Pages: 8
... encounters in Homer's Odyssey. As Circe explains to Odysseus before he sets out for home, "You will come first of all to the Sirens, who are enchanters / of all mankind and whoever comes their way…/ They sit in their meadow, but the beach before it is piled with boneheaps / of men now rotted away, and the skins shrivel upon them" (Homer 12.39-50). Odysseus chooses to listen to their sweet song as his boat passes their island, and, were it not that he were bound fast to the mast, would have jumped overboard to seek his death upon their shores. According to Vernant, examination of the ori ...
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