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Crime And Punishment 4
Number of Words: 3949 / Number of Pages: 15
... a graphical experience of ones who do not know how
to deal with humanity and its problems. Dostoevsky himself does not give a
clear solution nor does he leave one with the certainty of faith for an
example. He says himself:
Finding myself lost in the solution of these questions, I decide
to bypass them with no solution at all. (From the Author. The
Brothers Karamazov)
Through the presentation of crime and the issue of money which is often
connected to it, Dostoevsky retells a Bible story. His answer to the problem
of evil and human life filled with suffering, at least the ...
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Beowulf And Hrothgar: Anglo-Saxon Ideal Code Of Conduct
Number of Words: 578 / Number of Pages: 3
... rewards Beowulf with priceless material as he says to the
warrior, “You shall lack no earthly riches I can offer you.” The people of the
land also trust their king, who holds a strong belief in God. In the scene
where Hrothgar celebrates Grendel's death, he holds the monsters hand as he says,
“Let us give thanks at once to God Almighty for this sight.” The followers of
the king both respect and trust their ruler, and through his generosity and
strong trust in good, Hrothgar displays the ideal code of conduct for an Anglo-
Saxon king.
Another epic hero that has qualities that follow the Anglo-Saxon ...
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The Outsiders - Human Nature
Number of Words: 524 / Number of Pages: 2
... back to the church they find it burning. When they see that there are kids inside and the fire could have been started by their cigarettes, they run inside to save the kids. Johnny and Dally are hurt in the fire and taken to the hospital. They are hailed as heroes in the local paper. Dally breaks out of the hospital to fight in a rumble against the Socs. While the Greasers beat the Socs, Johnny dies in the hospital. When Dally finds out he goes out and robs a grocery store. When the cops pull up he pulls out an empty gun so the cops shoot him.
The theme of this novel is that all people are set back ...
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The Interpretation Of Dreams
Number of Words: 666 / Number of Pages: 3
... of convenience". (311).
In Freud's next examples, he uses the comparison of adults and children. In paragraph nine Freud says, "We may expect to find the very simplest forms of dreams in children". Most readers would agree when Freud further explains this statement of his by saying, "…since there can be no doubt that their psychical productions are less complicated than those of adults." Freud goes on to explain that dreams that children have are important to the child just as much as they are to adults. The reader might also agree when Freud says that the dreams of children "raise n ...
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The Dark Room 2
Number of Words: 786 / Number of Pages: 3
... woman, and I guess you could say it’s a happy ending. It’s now up to you to go and guess the rest.
Savitri is very much real. She is basically quite like most people. They treat problems like that. They find ways to escape it. Like booze, drugs, suicide, etc. In Savitri’s case, she stays in the dark room, and finally, leaves her family.
As I was reading “The Dark Room”, I felt compassion towards Savitri. I can clearly see that she was a confused woman. It was depicted through the first part of the story wherein her son was ill and she told Babu, her son, not to ...
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Hamlet - Claudius
Number of Words: 1253 / Number of Pages: 5
... did sting thy father’s life
Now wears his crown." (Act I, Sc. V, Lines 42-46)
Claudius not only wanted to be the king of Denmark, he also wanted the queen that came with it. In Act I Sc. II Lines 8-14, Claudius has just recently been crowned king and is addressing the court. He shows in his words how happy he is to be married to Gertrude, the Queen.
"herefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
The imperial jointress to this warlike state,
Have we, as ‘twere with a defeated joy,
With an auspicious, and dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral, and with d ...
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A Critique Of Inside The Brain
Number of Words: 871 / Number of Pages: 4
... mental armament available in order to enter the intellectual battlefield that will be their future. Those who are not properly intellectually prepared for life will fall to the bottom of the socioeconomic strata. They will live a life of strife including substandard education, substandard health, substandard wealth, and substandard children. This will perpetuate a cycle of this type of person from generation to generation. The author of the book seems to focus on the immediacy of the problem through the use of some very startling statistics. His implication is that if something is not done ...
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Macbeth 15
Number of Words: 797 / Number of Pages: 3
... of Cawdor who, during the civil war, helped try to overthrow Duncan's rule of Scotland. As a king, Duncan is well received which perhaps allows him to consider himself untouchable. He assumes that no one would have any reason to hurt or disobey him and so he allows his personal safety standards to fall to dangerous levels. This lack of concern also accounts for the manner in which he is unprotected while sleeping at Mabeth's castle. Duncan is governed by his ego to such an extent that he dismisses this breech of security by killing the disloyal Thane rather than try to correct and prevent the prob ...
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Wind From A Foriegn Sky
Number of Words: 787 / Number of Pages: 3
... She always gets herself into trouble by not thinking before acting. Like in the near beginning of the novel when she was attacked by a group of men, instead of using her cunning, she ran. She was almost raped and beaten because of her quick reaction to a situation that might have been avoided. Gaultry is really an everyday hero, she is not stronger, smarter, or braver than any other character in the novel.
I think I would like to live in the time and setting of this novel. It does not exactly state what time everything occurs, but from passages like the following, I was able to assume it was during ...
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Edgar Allen Poe's: "The Murders In The Rue Morgue"
Number of Words: 1028 / Number of Pages: 4
... of a foreigner") and one of an angered Frenchman at the scene of
the crime. As the account of the last witness is registered, Dupin and the
narrator decide to examine the apartment on the Rue Morgue for themselves.
The Sherlock Holmes-like protagonist does not disappoint us. Dupin assures
the narrator that he knows who the culprit is, and he is indeed awaiting
his arrival. After collecting evidence and careful analysis, Dupin seems
to have solved the murder beyond the shadow of a doubt. The strange
circumstances lead Dupin to believe that the perpetrator could not have
been human but of the animal king ...
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