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Brave New World 5
Number of Words: 900 / Number of Pages: 4
... them, and love requires commitment and is greatly appreciated. John was rather a Renaissance man trapped in a world where none of his necessities in life existed. He was disgusted at their orgy-porgies, their belief of take, take, take not give, give, give. Total happiness did not exist to John in a world which lacked expression of the arts. It was rather total torment. Throughout the novel John continues to fight and believe for what he believes in while the surrounding environment continues to pressure him and submerge him into Utopian ways of life.
The conflicts which were faced upon his ...
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Beloved 2
Number of Words: 928 / Number of Pages: 4
... days after Sethe's arrival, Stamp Paid brought them two huge buckets of delicious blackberries. With these Baby Suggs and Sethe decided to share the pies they would make from the berries with Ella and her husband John, and from this their generosity escalated into a full-fledged feast for all the colored people in the area. The area folks accepted the generosity, but resented the bounty of Baby Suggs and her kin. They disapproved of the uncalled-for pride displayed at 124, and were offended by Baby Suggs's excess. Because of this they failed to warn Baby Suggs and Sethe that four white men on ...
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Food Division In Grass Soup
Number of Words: 820 / Number of Pages: 3
... does Zhang reveal something negative about him, yet even then he withholds comments that would have surely been used against Mr. "I like to eat watery things". Convicts cannot trust criminal convicts either because it is obvious they are not worthy of anyone's trust and would partition the food completely unequally without fear of retribution. These convicts have no rectitude and are already accustomed to no one trusting them. "When it came to the question of how to divide up food, criminal convicts were not given a say" (166). Criminal convicts cannot participate in the partitioning of food, be ...
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Symbolism In Secret Lion
Number of Words: 633 / Number of Pages: 3
... time as they realize that they cannot be children forever. But they want the ball to stay the way it was. That's why, they decide to bury the grinning ball. It appears they wanted to stop time, to keep the ball and to be children forever.
It was so perfect so they did not want to lose it. "We went back to the arroyo for the rest of that summer, and tried to have fun the best we could. We learned to be ready for finding the grinding ball. We loved it, and when we buried it we knew what would happen. We were two boys and twelve summers then, and not stupid. Things get taken away"(47). They knew the ...
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Beowulf
Number of Words: 585 / Number of Pages: 3
... the great doors of the mead hall he grabbed one of 's men who he let be devoured by Grendel. When Grendel came to he immediately saw who he was and before Grendel could grab him got hold of him. fought honestly without weapon because Grendel did not have a weapon either therefore would be shamed if he slew Grendel with a sword. After pulverizing Grendel he finished him off by tearing off his arm which Grendel then fled and died. The great arm of Grendel was hung above the mead hall. This lesson teaches us that if you fight fair you are destined to win.
A second moral taught in this poem is that ...
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Oedipus The King: Free Will Vs Fate
Number of Words: 1128 / Number of Pages: 5
... the murderer, and in so, unknowingly curses himself. "Upon the murderer I invoke this curse- whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out his life in misery or doom! If with my knowledge he lives at my hearth, I pray that I myself may feel my curse." (pg. 438; lines 266-271)
In order for Sophecles' Greek audience to relate to the tragic figure, he had to have some type of flaws or an error of ways. This brought the character down to a human level, invoking in them the fear that "it could happen to them." And Oedipus certainly is not one without flaws. His pride, ingnorance, i ...
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The Sanctity Of Oaths In Medea
Number of Words: 367 / Number of Pages: 2
... her to marry the princess who will bring him greater power (76-77).
Medea is outraged that she sacrificed so much to help Jason, only to have him revoke his pledge to her for his own selfish gain. She asks him whether he thinks the gods whose names he swore by have ceased to rule, thereby allowing him to break his promise to her. Medea vows to avenge her suffering by destroying Jason’s new family and his children. When Jason curses his wife for her murdering at the end of the play, she says to him, “What heavenly power lends an ear / To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?” (1366-1367) ...
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A Dolls House
Number of Words: 1501 / Number of Pages: 6
... like it. Nora plays with her children like they are some whimsical objects that delight her for one moment and bore her the next. She has no concept of how to raise children or how to be a mother at all. At the end of the play Nora admits to Helmer, “ . . . how am I equipped to bring up the children” (Ibsen 608). Nora is not allowed to control anything in her life. How can she possibly take care of children if she cannot even take care of herself? Her controlling husband has kept her ignorant in order to have power over her.
Furthermore, another occurrence in the play that exhibit ...
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The Sociological Hamlet
Number of Words: 978 / Number of Pages: 4
... For Hamlet to be perceived as a noble and faithful son, he would have to kill his father’s murderer. In Hamlet’s first soliloquy after being told by his father’s ghost to seek revenge, Hamlet quickly acknowledges his duty as a son.
Hamlet: I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records, / All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past / That youth and observation copied there, / And thy commandment all alone shall live /
Within the book and volume of my brain, / Unmixed with baser matter. (I.v.99-104)
Hamlet seems to decide with strong determination that he will “w ...
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Beowulf 13
Number of Words: 1480 / Number of Pages: 6
... of men. He is jealous of the pleasures that men have. That is why Grendel kills the people of Herot for twelve years. Eventually, the news that Grendel is attacking Herot reaches King Hygleac in Geatland. Beowulf tells King Hygleac that he will sail to Hrothgar's kingdom to offer help. Beowulf is received by Herot's coastal guard who then takes him with King Hrothagar. As soon as he gets to the Danish shore, Hrothgar's coastal guard awaits them. Beowulf tells the guard who he is and states his reason for coming. The guard takes the Geats to Herot. Arriving at Herot, King Hrothgar asks Beow ...
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