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Brave New World
Number of words: 689 | Number of pages: 3.... topics of this nature will cause this utopia to deteriorate. Once the utopia deteriorates, people are not happy all the time. Even by its own criteria though, is not a society where everyone is in fact happy. There are asylums in Iceland for Alpha misfits. Even in this so-called utopia, no one is perfect. Lenina has lupus and Bernard is emotionally unstable, due to a mistake in the “bottling-plant.” If a person is to run out of soma, they feel sick. It may seem to be a utopia, but in essence, is far from it. Well-being is not and can not be, genetically pre-programmed, but that is what the soma is for. When one of the inhabit .....
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Fiesta The Sun Also Rises By Hemingway
Number of words: 2608 | Number of pages: 10.... The Hemingway man thus presented is a man of action, of self-discipline and self-reliance, and of strength and courage to confront all weaknesses, fears, failures, and even death. Jake Barnes, as the narrator and supposed hero of the novel, fell in love with Brett some years ago and is still powerfully and uncontrollably in love with her. However, Jake is unfortunately a casualty of the war, having been emasculated in a freak accident. Still adjusting to his impotence at the beginning of the novel, Jake has lost all power and desire to have sex. Because of this, Jake and Brett cannot be lovers and all attempts at a relationship .....
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Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Number of words: 2582 | Number of pages: 10.... chased him down and urged him
back. A doctor was called and Enfield and the doctor felt an odd hatred of
the man, warning the man that they would discredit him in every way
possible unless he compensated the girl. The strange man agreed to offer
100 British pounds.
Enfield notes that the man is like Satan in the way he seems emotionally
cold to the situation. The strange man presented a cheque signed by an
important person, which they together cashed the next morning. Enfield
states that he refers to the building as Black Mail House. Utterson asks
Enfield if he ever asked who lived in the building, but Enfield explains
that h .....
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Brave New World: Beliefs Of Sex And Drug Use
Number of words: 489 | Number of pages: 2.... of an activity in the same regards as sports. It is also encouraged by the government to engaged in with many different people and not to often with the same person. Society as a whole looks down on the people that have sex with only one partner. Drugs are also a socially accepted activity that is government controlled. The government issues a certain amount of drugs a day for the citizens to enjoy that night.
Human Creation is an issue that is talked about and practiced in Brave New World. The society is made up with classes of people that have had their intelligence and personality predetermined for them. These ideas hav .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Advice To Dimmesdale
Number of words: 812 | Number of pages: 3.... ones "wicked words", he has an impure thought about a young female member of his congregation, and he has to restrain himself from saying things about the "vile communion supper."
Dimmesdale's acceptance of Hester's advice demonstrates his natural tendency to sin. His sin of adultery, although evil in nature, becomes compounded by his deceit and attempts to escape punishment for his actions. By attempting to hide his sins, Dimmesdale's troubled conscience begins to destroy him from the inside out. His moral deterioration begins the instant he accepts Hester’s advice to run away from their responsibility and attempts .....
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Getting Rid Of George: A Gothic Story
Number of words: 834 | Number of pages: 4.... of mind to add to his gothic story. An example of irrational behavior is shown when Laura becomes outraged and spontaneously murders George. We thought, as well, that when Laura suffers a fainting spell is also an example of this psychological state of mind. Evidence of this is found when Arthur writes: “Harry held Laura until the nausea within her subsided.” Lastly, hallucinations were also prevalent in the story as well. We thought a good example was when Harry and Laura were bringing George to the cabin to dispose of his body, Laura claims that George’s dead eye slowly opened and gave her a knowing wink.
Elements of .....
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The Return Of The Native: The Opening Chapter
Number of words: 1022 | Number of pages: 4.... Captain Vye unwittingly kept the letter from Eustacia until it was too late, suggests that perhaps destiny is against her. It is under the downpour of the rain, on the rugged heath where Eustacia laments her fate. Eustacia’s own remark, “how destiny is against me!” (354) and “I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control!” (354) affirm the existence of such a force, the power of fate.
On Egdon Heath, night and darkness comes before its “astronomical hour” (11). This presents the idea of Egdon Heath’s unchangeable place in time. This early arrival of darkness gives Egdon Heath a sense o .....
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Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Number of words: 1015 | Number of pages: 4.... how to make the ordinary white
paint into "Optic White": Ten drops of a black formula must be mixed in to
the white paint, of which the surface is already brown. The narrator does
not understand this, and inquires about it, only to be insulted by Mr.
Kimbro. Mr. Kimbro, in no way what so ever, wants any of his workers to
think. He just wants them to obey. So the invisible man, although still
unable to comprehend this idiosyncrasy, does not persist. The white paint
may represent the white world, perhaps even America, as alluded to in the
company's advertisement. The black formula is what makes the white paint
into "Optic Wh .....
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Tom Sawyer
Number of words: 1772 | Number of pages: 7.... they witnessed a
murder by Injun Joe. At the time Muff Potter was drunk and asleep so Injun Joe
blamed the murder him (Muff Potter). They knew if crazy Injun Joe found out they
knew, he would for sure kill them. Tom wrote on a wooden board "Huck Finn and
Tom Sawyer swear to keep mum about this and they wish they may drop down dead in
their tracks if they ever tell and rot", then in their own blood they signed
their initials TS and HF.
A few days after that incident Tom, Huck and Joe decided to go and
become pirates because no one cared for their company anymore. They stole some
food and supplies and then they stole .....
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‘A White Heron’ By Sarah Orne Jewett
Number of words: 1684 | Number of pages: 7.... several things. Sylvia does not have any playmates; in fact, we get the impression that her best friend is her grandmother’s cow. The story soon gives us another piece of vital information about Sylvia.
“ “‘Afraid of folks,’” old Mrs. Tilley said to
herself, with a smile, after she had made the
unlikely choice of Sylvia from her daughter’s
houseful of children, and was returning to the
farm. “‘Afraid of folks,’ they said: I guess she
won’t be troubled no great with ‘em up to the old
place!” When the reached the door of the lonely
house and stopped to unlock it, and the cat came
to pur .....
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