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Moby Dick
Number of Words: 1521 / Number of Pages: 6
... obvious that whatever "" is, it is not a mere adventure story. It is a representation, but even more importantly, - a challenge to American virtues and ideas. In chapter 35 we encounter a scene where Starbuck, the first mate, learns of Ahab's intent to pursue the White Whale to satisfy his lust for vengeance. Starbuck's reaction to this turn of events is to question his captain's motives and protest. For his purpose of the journey is to make money. To Starbuck whaling is a mean of income and anything else is madness. A born and bred Nantucketer, he firmly believes in the rules of capitalism and financi ...
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Paganism, Say Hello To Christi
Number of Words: 535 / Number of Pages: 2
... There is no belief in fate in the Christian religion, yet fate seems to play
an important role in the morality and values of Beowulf. For instance, Beowulf said that
he could serve God because of his fate, because it was his belief that he was fated to be a
servant of God. Beowulf made such references to fate as, "Fate must decide." It is
obvious through the statement, "Fate has swept away the courageous princes who were
my kinsmen, and I must follow them," that the belief in fate also effected the action of the
story.
In the Christian faith, there is a strong ...
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The Scarlet Letter -x
Number of Words: 897 / Number of Pages: 4
... that the majority of Puritans were strict and unfeeling. For example, before Hester emerges from the prison she is being scorned by a group of women who feel that she deserves a larger punishment than she actually receives. Instead of only being made to stand on the scaffold and wear the scarlet letter on her chest, they suggest that she have it branded on her forehead or even be put to death. Perhaps the most important influence on the story is the author's interest in the dark side. Unlike the transcendentalists of the era, Hawthorne "confronted reality, rather than evading it. Likewise, The Scarle ...
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Pygmalion Discussion Paper
Number of Words: 476 / Number of Pages: 2
... dream of the woman that they want, but can never have. Perfection is unattainable, even in the stories passed down from generation to generation.
With the changing times, the men look for different traits in women. In the times of the myth, men probably looked for a woman that could cook, clean and mother his children. Where as, in the harsh times of the book, men probably looked for women that could be strong and loyal. Now, men all over the world look for women that are athletic, beautiful, and smart and have a unique attitude towards life. Men now a-days men still look for traits that the me ...
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Willy Loman Is The Cause Of Hi
Number of Words: 950 / Number of Pages: 4
... They seem to laugh at me… they just pass me by. I’m not noticed” (36) says Willy. He knows the fact that he is a total failure and he never admits it. Then Willy mentions that he cannot sell anything and when Linda says that he is the handsomest, he disagrees with her, says he is fat, foolish to look at. Willy tells everyone and believes in the dream that he is well liked, that he is a “number-one” man. Thinking that way Willy creates his own little world where he is the boss and he does the things which he should not do causing his own misfortune.
Willy believes in and fo ...
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A Christmas Memory
Number of Words: 643 / Number of Pages: 3
... to be found in the simplicity of the three friends’ happiness. However, after this specific Christmas, Capote is forced to move out of his house and to leave his innocence behind. The story is not purely self-serving because Capote uses this piece not only to revisit his memories of happier times, but to also evoke the memories of the readers. The theme of a loss of childhood innocence is one that many people can relate to, as well. However, Capote composed this piece using the observant eye of a youth juxtaposed against wisdom only gained with age. An uncommon usage of colons is employed throughout hi ...
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Fahrenheit51
Number of Words: 837 / Number of Pages: 4
... society. Montag meets a crazy and imaginative seventeen-year old girl named Clarisse McClellan. She tells him of a time when firemen used to put out fires instead of making them. After that, Montag and the other firemen burn a house filled with books and burn its owner. "They crashed the front door and grabbed at a women, though she was not running , she was not trying to escape." (38). This incident makes Montag start to think that there is something important and valuable in those books, for a woman to stay and burn with them. Montag then starts to get curious and reads books, betraying the ...
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The Pearl
Number of Words: 709 / Number of Pages: 3
... and that night Kino is attacked in his hut by a thief. The following day, he tries to sell to buyers in town, but he is offered only a small amount of money for it. The buyers all work for the same man. They know is worth a fortune but hope to buy it cheaply by pretending that it is worth little.
Kino says he will sell his pearl in the capital city, where he believes he will get a fair price. This amazes the villagers because Kino has never traveled so far. After dark that evening, Kino is attacked again. Juana is sure is evil and will destroy the family. During the night, she quietly removes i ...
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Othello
Number of Words: 1031 / Number of Pages: 4
... of his once reputable nobility, character and marriage to the young Desdemona.
Through Act II, Scene I, Othello presents himself to us as a grandly positive and content character,
"It gives me wonder great as my content
To see you here before me. O my soul's joy!"
(Act II, Scene II).
At this stage in the play Othello has also assembled his character to impose on us an impression, that he is a noble and prominent figure in the Venetian establishment, and respected military man and a loving husband. He carries himself with an impressive dignity while frankly delighting in his young wife's ...
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A Class Divided
Number of Words: 1866 / Number of Pages: 7
... a minority. This is the typical way that we separate the two groups. In this film however, they choose to deal with blue eyed people, versus brown eyed people.
The film starts off with a reunion between the third graders who were in the film, "Eye of the Storm." A teacher put them through an experiment in which she initially tells them that the blue eyed children are better than the brown eyed. She gives them more privaledges such as giving them more play time, and allowing them to drink out of the drinking fountain, where as the brown eyed had to drink out of plastic cups. She also said t ...
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