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Frankenstein Themes Still Pres
Number of Words: 607 / Number of Pages: 3
... would turn into this monster and kill others, nor did he know the creature would also be as kind and gentle as well. Frankenstein also didn't consider how society would accept and treat the creature. The creature was not exactly of normal standards, and when someone tries to place a being like that in a normal human environment without any guidance or teaching, then he was certain to be ostracized and punished as many people have throughout history just for being different.
Frankenstein was also related to a significant theme of today, which is cloning. Many people then, as well as now, were against ...
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Convicts And Australia
Number of Words: 1990 / Number of Pages: 8
... and comprised mainly working class men and women . The typical age of the British convict sent to Australia was 26, and single . The proportion of females transported was relatively low, initially compromising only 11 percent of those sent . Contrary to popular belief, most of the arriving convicts were healthy and fit with the majority of females categorized within a child bearing age. During the years of transportation between 1788 - 1868 approximately 160,000 men, women and children made the voyage to the new colony .
The nature and character of the convicts themselves, has been the caus ...
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Lord Of The Flies 8
Number of Words: 950 / Number of Pages: 4
... is a singer, head of the choir, and has an intimidating appearance and way of talk. Jack is jealous, and when Ralph is elected Chief, Jack forms a bit of hatred in his heart, not revealing it even unto himself until time passes. He is head hunter, and likes fun more than work, and eventually wins the favor of the children, claiming Ralph as a coward, and a person who just dreams about being rescued.
II The Conflict...
The main conflict in Lord of the Flies is that a fairly large group of boys have been stranded on an island in the Pacific with no adults around to lead and guide them. ...
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Extensive Symbolism Of The Sca
Number of Words: 3871 / Number of Pages: 15
... in various forms, but it also acquires a variety of meanings. It represents more than just the sin of adultery. Even as the original mark of adultery, the scarlet letter has a different individual meaning to the various characters. To Hester, the A is a symbol of unjust humiliation. The "A" magnifies in an armor breastplate at the Governor's mansion to "exaggerated and gigantic proportions, so as to be acutely the most prominent feature of [Hester's] semblance. In truth, she emerges absolutely hidden behind it.". The A grows to be larger than Hester signifying the town's view of her sin. They do ...
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The Perfect World
Number of Words: 894 / Number of Pages: 4
... perfect world also have many more capabilities. There
would be almost no limits to what a computer would be able to do. In
general, computers in a perfect world be a lot better than computers of
today, and the amount of people who would use computers would be much
larger.
The shared interest of all people in computers would allow for a
much more technological world. With the demand for technology, created by
extensive use of computers, the world of computers would expand rapidly.
The Internet would explode with popularity; everyone would write homepages
and visiting other people's pages would be ...
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William Shakespeare 2
Number of Words: 823 / Number of Pages: 3
... not allow Caesar to rise to power and then turn his back onto the people of Rome. After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Brutus talks to Antony about Caesar's death. "Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful; and pity to the general wrong of Rome…"(III, i, 185-186). Brutus says that Antony cannot see their--the members of the conspiracy--hearts, which are full of pity. Again, this shows how Brutus loves Caesar but cares for the life of Rome and its people more. This is the only reason Brutus would conspire against Caesar. For Brutus says to himself, "I know no personal cause to spurn at him& ...
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A Mortals Sense Of Immortality
Number of Words: 1806 / Number of Pages: 7
... power or humility, honoring or sinning, will achieve them immortality in the sense of a life without death. Eternal life for a mortal lies in memory by one’s friends and family after one’s death.
When Adam is created in the second chapter (and second creation story) of Genesis out of the dust by the newly created world of God, he is the most innocent being ever known. It says of he and Eve, “they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed (Genesis 2:24)”, and why should they be, having no knowledge that their state was indecent? The opposite is true ...
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Mercutio In Romeo And Juliet
Number of Words: 857 / Number of Pages: 4
... was really dying. The characters finally stopped joking around when Mercutio fell down dead and a fatal hole was discovered in his chest. Mercutio was Shakespeare’s one comic element in a tale that was not to end happily.
Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech (Act 1, scene 4) was an attempt to cheer up Romeo, because he was depressed over his unanswered love for Rosaline, the girl he wanted before he met Juliet. In this speech Mercutio tells about Queen Mab, and makes a reference to the ability of fairies to control the affairs of humans. "And in this state she gallops night by night/Through lo ...
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Animal Farm
Number of Words: 1692 / Number of Pages: 7
... chief (or at least most obvious) villain in Animal Farm. Mr. Jones symbolizes (in addition to the evils of capitalism) Czar Nicholas II, the leader before Stalin (Napoleon). Jones represents the old government, the last of the Czars. Orwell suggests that Jones (Czar Nicholas II) was losing his "edge". In fact, he and his men had taken up the habit of drinking.
Old Major: Old Major is the first major character described by Orwell in Animal Farm. This "pure-bred" of pigs is the kind, grand fatherly philosopher of change an obvious metaphor for Karl Marx. Old Major proposes a solution to the animal ...
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Huck Finn
Number of Words: 1336 / Number of Pages: 5
... we live in, and only the journey down the river provides us with that chance. Throughout the book, we see the hypocrisy of society. The first character we come across with that trait is Miss Watson. Miss Watson constantly corrects Huck for his unacceptable behavior, but Huck doesn't understand why, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it" (2). Later when Miss Watson tries to teach Huck about Heaven, he decides against trying to go there, "...she was going to live so as to go the good place. Well, I couldn't see no advantage in going w ...
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