Blanche Ingram: Villain? Blanche Ingram is the most important woman, other than Jane Eyre, in the novel. Arguably, she is the most important antagonist in this book. It is difficult to fathom how an absolutely horrid, conceited, venal, apathetic creature could be so vital to the book; but take her...
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In part two of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert we see Emma’s development as a character in a negative way. Emma’s development is seen as she embarks on a path to moral and financial corruption all for a search of love and passion. The passion and love Emma seeks cannot be found in the reality of...
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Oliver Twist Child abuse is the physical, or emotional mistreatment of children. Child neglect is where the responsible adult fails to provide adequately for various needs, including physical (failure to provide adequate food, clothing, or hygiene), emotional (failure to provide nurturing or...
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Gangs. This is what is portrayed in SE Hinton's novel, The Outsiders. Two different gangs from opposite ends of the social ladder clash in this epic novel of social tension between two rival groups, the Socs and the Greasers. The main character, 14-year-old Ponyboy, is a Greaser who lives under...
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Alcoholic Vail ?In many Hemingway novels and short stories, excessive drinking generally plays a major role in the relationships between the characters. This is very apparent in “Hills Like White Elephants” and The Sun Also Rises. The alcohol provides a gateway for the for the characters to forget...
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The overall tone of the book is much different than that of The Sun Also Rises. The characters in the book are propelled by outside forces, in this case WWI, where the characters in SAR seemed to have no direction. Frederick's actions are determined by his position until he deserts the army...
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The second book I decided to read this summer was Alas Babylon. Have you ever looked at a book and thought that it was not going to hold your attention very long? I thought the same about this book until I began to read it and it has turned out to have an interesting plot. The setting of this book...
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In Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, good weather is Bronte's tool to foreshadow positive events or moods and poor weather is the tool to set the tone for negative events or moods. This technique is exercised throughout the entire novel, alerting the readers of any up coming atmosphere. In the novel...
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April 10, 2011 Per. 3 Block B Women’s Roles in “Oliver Twist” Throughout the novel, coincidental events plague Oliver. From the beginning, starting with the robbing of Mr. Brownlow, he gets through these obstacles by either going through sheer coincidence or by people, like the women of “Oliver...
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In the movie Sense and Sensibility by Emma Thompson she creates a vivid and dramatic film by conveying the original author’s intent. Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 British drama film directed by Ang Lee. The screenplay by Emma Thompson is based on the 1811 novel of the same name by Jane Austen...
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Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening expresses the difficulty of finding a woman's place in society. Edna learns of new ideas such as freedom and independence while vacationing in Grand Isle. Faced with a choice to conform to society's expectations or to obey personal desires for independence, Edna...
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Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” is a trilogy of poems describing three realms of the afterlife. Each of the three books in “The Divine Comedy” symbolize an afterlife station, “Inferno” representing hell, “Purgatorio” representing purgatory and “Parasido” representing paradise. The story is told in the...
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Being Beautiful To be successful in life, beauty is a very important attribute to have, according to Sidney Katz’s article, “The Importance of Being Beautiful. ” Beautiful people are more successful in more than one way in life. For example, beautiful people attract more friends and lovers, get...
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A Report on "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" By: Kelcie Roberts Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) wrote the "Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" published by Flying Cloud Press and has a copyright date of 1922. "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" is known as a Narrative Poem. Millay won the Pulitzer Prize for...
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Proposal on The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” is about a group of friends that share similarities with their lifestyles. Lady Ashley, also known as Brett, likes to drink, dance, have sex, and take advantage of men. She has been through two marriages already one ending with...
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In the beginning Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver with the Italian army in World War I, meets a beautiful English nurse named Catherine Barkley near the front between Italy and Austria-Hungary. At first Henry wants to seduce her, but when he is wounded and sent to the American...
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Money is useless and no longer valuable. These new conditions cause Randy to be more responsible. For instance, Randy says, "Easy, Peyote, honey! Easy! Stop rubbing your eyes. Keep your eyes closed" (Frank 95). Randy is giving Peyote instructions after the bomb blew up causing many bright colors...
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In Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved, Denver is the most dynamic character. She goes through a transformation from a young, shy, sensitive and dependent girl who has little interaction with others into an independent, motherly and courageous young woman. There are many events in Denver’s...
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Familial relations are often strained in the world of literature, especially between fathers and sons. However, these strains grow when traditional notions of fatherhood are altered or circumvented; so Hamlet has a difficult time dealing with an uncle-turn-father, and Gregor Samsa’s father is...
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Oliver Twist was written by English author, Charles Dickens. Charles was one of the best novelists in English literature. This book is about Oliver Twist, an orphan who leaves a workhouse and goes to London. There he meets the Artful Dodger, the head leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets...
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1. Although Elinor knew before that Edward and Lucy would probably be married, she was still very hurt by the news. This entire secrete marriage seemed somewhat odd to me, as a reader, because Jane Austen doesn’t foreshadow this event in the text. Robert Ferrars and Lucy Steele hardly seem to know...
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Clothing and Nudity in "The Awakening" One of the symbols of "The Awakening" is clothing and the lack thereof. The constriction of late nineteenth century clothing for women and the binding expectations of their feelings and actions parallel each other. When we first meet Edna, she is wearing the...
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Grief of The Outsiders There are many ways of expressing the emotion grief. The characters in The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton, had many bad things happen to them and the ones they loved. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis, Bob, Johnny, and Dally are all characters that die in the book. The characters deal with...
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Edgar Allan Poe has been a renowned poet and literary artist in his generation because of his unique and catchy writing style which excites and keeps the emotions of his readers on edge. He has been regarded as one of the most powerful and convincing authors of all time that uses a mix of...
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“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” — Page 34 — “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” — Page 319 — “Love loves to love love.” — — “I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the...
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In this novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway brings about the evolution of Frederick Henry being converted into a code hero in realistic ways. Frederick Henry achieved the six code hero characteristics by the end of the novel with the help of Catherine, a code hero herself. All...
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After 'the day', Randy had to be smarter and find ways for himself and everyone around him to survive. When the town's water became contaminated, he connected water pipes to all the neighbors' homes (151). He also noticed his neighbors live stocks and crops were missing day by day. No one knew...
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A hero is a person, whom no matter what the situation is, always seems to be able to approach situation with a fearless and courageous attitude, and can is often admired by many. The novel Daisy Miller by Henry James is a fictional story about the life of an American girl in Europe and the...
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Essay on romanticism in Frankenstein All literature is influenced by the time period in which it was written; whether it be war, poverty, or any other social trends. People tend to write commentaries of political events, or just describe the time period. Whether it is intentional or subconscious...
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Introduction Primarily a novelist of the 1960s, Ken Kesey had close affiliations with the alternative culture that was at variance with the social norms that dominated the decade. The novel is an allegory of creative unique personality versus repressive conformity. Kesey makes important and even...
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"Hey, Sabrina, are you Japanese or Chinese? " I asked. Her reply, as it seems to be for a lot of minority groups, is, "Neither, I'm Chinese-American. " So, besides her American accent and a hyphenated ending on her answer to the SAT questionnaire about her ethnic background, what's the difference...
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The Outsiders, by S. E Hinton is about two gangs who are considered outsiders. These two gangs are outsiders because they do not fit in with society. Particularly, there are three characters who do not only not fit in society because of what gang they are in but they are considered outsiders in...
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Through the first person narrator, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" illustrates how man's imagination is capable of being so vivid that it profoundly affects people's lives. The manifestation of the narrator's imagination unconsciously plants seeds in his mind, and those seeds grow into an...
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In the poem Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson used a classical figure, Ulysses, known as Odysseus in Homer’s Epic, to advocate the spirit of striving onward. However, Ulysses’ last voyage is not mentioned in Homer’s Epic. Some said the origin is from the Divine Comedy. Actually Ulysses is a very...
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A Farewell To Arms: Themes There are three major themes in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The first themeis enduring love ended only by mortality. The second, the effects of war on a man's ideals and morals, things which people can and do believe during war. The last and most important theme is...
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Throughout the book Randy struggles with passion that he had of his old epistyle before the nuclear holocaust and the responsibilities that he as to fulfill now being that Martial Law has been put in place. Ever since the day you can tell Randy Bragg has been struggling with his passions. He went...
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One of the most important aspects of any gothic novel is setting. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is an innovative and disturbing work that weaves a tale of passion, misery, dread, and remorse. Shelly reveals the story of a man's thirst for knowledge which leads to a monstrous creation that goes...
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The presented for interpretation and stylistic analyses short extract is a part from the novel Sense and Sensibility written by J. Austen. The text passage begins with the description of last events of Dashwood family. When Mr. Dashwood dies, his estate, Norland Park, passes directly to his only...
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The Impasse- Edna's suicide- failure or success? T the end of Kate Chopin's novel ? The Awakening" the protagonist Edna commits suicide. The remaining question for the reader is: Does Edna's suicide show that she succeeded or failed in her struggle for independence? Edna's new life in independency...
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The Outsiders In both of this poems Anecdote of the Jar and Clay has a sense of alienation between them, the Jar and Maria are nothing without their surroundings and their surroundings are nothing without them as well. The title of both of this text has a great significance of what the story is...
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He was known as the 'drunk bum' before the attack, and now that he has stepped up, he is the 'go - to guy' in the town. He is becoming more of a father figure to Ben Franklin and Peyote. He would do anything for his family now. Not only his family, though, his whole community. He...
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From the very beginning of Daisy Miller we as readers are informed that Daisy is a flirtatious American girl that does not live up to the standards of the European high society. For example, young women were not to talk to young men without a prior introduction from a mutual friend. These concepts...
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In Kenneth Branaghs film Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the director, Kenneth Branagh sticks to the major themes of the original book with minute changes. There are many similarities and differences between the book and Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of the book. I believe Mary Shelley...
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Movie: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Thomas Evans 12-6-96 General Psychology Dr. Sabin In the movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest, there was a character named McMurphy, played by Jack Nickolson, who was admitted into a mental institution for medical testing after having been convicted of...
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Jason Leong PU2B “Discuss the significance of the title, “Sense and Sensibility”, in relation to the novel’s concerns and characters. Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen set in the late 18th Century. The novel follows the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, as they move to a new...
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„Edna had found her old bathing suit still hanging, faded, upon its accustomed peg. She put it on, leaving her clothing in the bath-house. But when she was there beside the sea, absolutely alone, she cast the unpleasant, pricking garments from her, and for the first time in her life she stood...
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In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, it tells of four Chinese women drawn together in San Francisco to play mah jong, and tell stories of the past. These four women and their families all lived in Chinatown and belong to the First Chinese Baptist Church. They were not necessarily religious...
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The Outsiders Alienation The Outsiders is a story that has motley of alienation. Alienation isn’t being taken by aliens. Alienation is uniqueness and someone that is different from another person or group of people. But through the whole story of the Outsiders there is alienation. One symbol of...
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In Edgar Allan Poe's short-story, "The Tell-Tale Heart," the storyteller tries to convince the reader that he is not mad. At the very beginning of the story, he asks, "... why will you say I am mad? " When the storyteller tells his story, it's obvious why. He attempts to tell his story in a calm...
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After threatening many times, the Soviet Union has nuclear bombed the United States, but what exactly does that mean? First of all, nuclear power is an electric or motive power generated by a nuclear reactor. Nuclear power has the ability to generate electricity for a whole population, or when...
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