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Heart Of Darkness
Number of words: 674 | Number of pages: 3.... it looks they say" (12). Marlow finally takes the job, however, and tells himself that the pain and unusually harsh treatment the workers are subjected to is minimal.
During the tests and the requirements that he has to undergo before entering the jungle Marlow feels that he is being treated like a freak. The doctor measures his head and asks him questions such as, "Ever any madness in your family?" (15). In this part of the story Marlow is made to feel small and unimportant. Any feelings or concerns that he has are not important to the company, and as a result, he feels alone. It is only logical that Marlow would have been secon .....
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MacBeth - Attitude Changes
Number of words: 1275 | Number of pages: 5.... hand, as the time for murder comes nearer, he begins giving himself reasons not to murder Duncan:
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself.
(I, vii, 13-16)
When Lady Macbeth enters, though, she uses her cunning rhetoric and pursuasion techniques to convince Macbeth that this is, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the right thing to do. He then tells her that "I am settled." (79). He is firmly seated in his beliefs that killing Duncan is the right thing to do-until he performs the murder. He is so horrified by .....
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Theme Of Love In The Odyssey
Number of words: 552 | Number of pages: 3.... in the Odyssey is the father - son relationship. These relationships clearly support the issue of love in the Odyssey.
The father - son relationship between Odysseus and Telemachos is a little awkward because they both never really got to know each other but they still care for each other’s well being. When Odysseus hears of all the suitors devouring Telemachos’s future fortune and mistreating him, he wants to return and revenge the misuse of his family and property. Odysseus, like any parent, also misses his only child while he is at war. Telemachos on the contrary also displays a lot of love for his father. Telemac .....
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The Outsiders - Human Nature
Number of words: 524 | Number of pages: 2.... 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 at times and they all want the same basic things. This theme is expressed i .....
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Extensive Symbolism Of The Sca
Number of words: 3871 | Number of pages: 15.... 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 not see the human being behind the scarlet letter, they only see a sinner. For .....
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Watership Down 3
Number of words: 627 | Number of pages: 3.... Hazel has shown himself as a competent, caring, and wise leader.
Fiver is a small rabbit that seems to have the ability to see future visions. It was because of him that the eleven crusaders left to find a new home. He predicted the destruction of the warren long before it was to happen. His character is very strange, he is constantly looking over his shoulder, maybe expecting a hideous monster. When he does not feel totally at ease he will tremble, bolt, or go crazy. He is a good friend to have around, many times he has saved the group with his extraordinary abilities. He had predicted the destruction of the warren and the fre .....
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Roger Rosenblatt's "The Bill Of Rights": Inescapable Dilemma
Number of words: 525 | Number of pages: 2.... to live
life morally wrong? There are many more questions that face the doctor as
well as the mother of the fetus. So, as the mother and the doctor are
faced with this dilemma, sometimes what they feel is morally correct is
not legal- as abortion is illegal in certain states.
Another example of an inescapable dilemma is guns. Should it be
legal for man to have the power to purchase such an item whose sole
purpose is to drain life in general; let alone human life? With the many
stories of accidents because of children experimenting with guns, safety
is an important issue. But, America is a free country; and the Se .....
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Pride And Prejudice
Number of words: 8639 | Number of pages: 32.... I don’t know what else to make of it. It’s the only lesson I can find in the novel. I read because I enjoy it, not because I want to be taught life visions.
STORYLINE:
Title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austin
[Chapter 1]
Mrs. Bennet tells her husband, Mr. Bennet, to visit the new owner of Netherfield, Mr. Bingley. He is quite rich and he is single which makes him a wanted man with all the girls in the neighbourhood. Mr. Bennet tells her that he won’t be visiting him because he likes to fool around with her. Mrs. Bennet is thinking about their five daughters, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine and Lydia. O .....
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Pride And Prejudice
Number of words: 549 | Number of pages: 2.... myself on the hope of relations whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?" (Austen, 142-145). Unfortunately for Darcy, Elizabeth only gets slightly insulted. Her refusal of Darcy was initially because of his treatment of Wickham and his actions toward Jane and Bingley's relationship. Elizabeth's prejudice shows in her actions towards Darcy too. She says, " From the very beginning, from the first moment, I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners impressing me with the fullest brief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form that .....
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Falstaff
Number of words: 786 | Number of pages: 3.... food and drink. He is rude and crude to all those around him and is one of the best liars who continually gets caught in his lies but makes new ones to cover for the old failed ones. Yet Baker states that, "His presence of mind and quickness of retort are always superb; his impudence is almost sublime. Yet the man thus corrupt, thus despicable, makes himself necessary to the prince that despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety. creates around his capacious bulk a sort of Utopia which frees us temporarily from the worries and troubles of the actual world. What does it matter that ridicules chivalry, .....
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