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Jane Austen's Persuasion: An Analysis
Words: 523 - Pages: 2.... thrown again into Anne's society by the letting of Kellynch
(her family estate) to his sister and brother-in-law. Throughout the years
Anne has remained unshaken in her love for Wentworth. Thus Austen creates
a emotional fairy tale which keeps you dreaming and makes you believe that
true love never dies.
Austen presents her strongest feminist character in this novel.
The roles of hero and heroin are reversed and men and woman are presented
as moral equals. It is interesting that the most explicit feminist
protests by Austen in her novels all have to do with literature. In
Persuasion Anne Elliot debates Captain Harville on who lo .....
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Book Report For The Odyssey
Words: 1288 - Pages: 5.... for her husband shows marriage fidelity. She is depicted as the perfect wife and mother.
The best aspects of The Odyssey are the exciting adventures Odysseus goes through and the explanations and descriptions of the conditions and scenery. Homer did not explain or describe things as clear as he could have; however, this was a good thing. It served to leave something up to the imagination and creativity of the reader. Odysseus struggles with extremely menacing foe such as a giant cyclops, Polyphemus, who eats Odysseus' men like bite-size candy and a six headed beast, able to devour men whole. Homer allows the imagination of the reader .....
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The Struggle Between Good And Evil In The Hobbit
Words: 1631 - Pages: 6.... creatures and whether each is on the side of good or evil. Some of the creatures in the book are dragons, dwarves, elves, goblins, hobbits, trolls, and many more creatures that prove The Hobbit is a fantasy world.
True it is an impossible world in which dragons talk, wizards perform
Magic, evil creatures lose their flesh - blood forms, and magic rings of
Power rule and corrupt (Evans145).
Magic comprises part of the fantasy aspects of the book. For example, when Gandalf is awakened by a scream, there is a flash of light and the goblin king falls at Gandalf's feet. "Bilbo's yell had done that much good. It had wakened him up wid .....
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Great Expectations: Pip
Words: 780 - Pages: 3.... to
build a fortune to give to Pip. Underneath his outward frightening
appearance, "a fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his
leg." Magwich is a sensitive and charitable man.
John Wemmick, one of the books openly good people, lives two lives.
The "London Wemmick" has a mouth like a "post box," and follows the
business procedures learned from Mr. Jaggers. The "Walworth Wemmick" is
calm, good-natured, and kind. He is entirely faithful to his father, the
"Aged Parent." He is the man who hands out Pip's allowance when he is young,
under the orders of Jaggers. Also he is one of Pip's friends helping him in
time of need with .....
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Animal Farm: A Political Satire Of A Totalitarian Society Ruled By Dictatorship
Words: 738 - Pages: 3.... white boar, Major. Major
points out to the assembled animals that no animal in England is free. He
further explains that the products of their labor is stolen by man, who alone
benefits. Man, in turn, gives back to the animals the bare minimum which will
keep them from starvation while he profits from the rest. The old boar tells
them that the source of all their problems is man, and that they must remove
man from their midst to abolish tyranny and hunger.
Days later Major dies, but the hope and pride which he gave the other
animals does not die. Under the leadership of the pigs, the most intelligent
of the animals, they rebel agai .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Evil Of Isolation
Words: 665 - Pages: 3.... of her
shame, Hester is stripped of all passion and humanity. Since society
acknowledges Hester's sin, she becomes an exile in her own town. "All the world
Ha[s] frowned on her," and Hester must bear the brunt of her shameful isolation.
When Hester walks through her town "a sort of magic circle [forms] itself around
her." Devoid of any social contact, save that of her daughter, Hester must
endure of lonely existence. "In all her intercourse with society, save that of
her daughter, there was nothing that made [Hester] feel as if she belonged to
it."; therefore, she turns to herself for reflection of her shame. When Hester
must walk throug .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden Caulfield's Perception And Gradual Acceptance Of
Words: 993 - Pages: 4.... immoral and unscrupulous. The three days we learn of
from the novel place a distressed Holden in the vicinity of Manhattan. The
city is decked with decorations and holiday splendor, yet, much to Holden's
despair "seldom yields any occasions of peace, charity or even genuine
merriment."3 Holden is surrounded by what he views as drunks, perverts,
morons and screwballs. These convictions which Holden holds waver very
momentarily during only one particular scene in the book. The scene is
that with Mr. Antolini. After Mr. Antolini patted Holden on the head while
he was sleeping, Holden jumped up and ran out thinking that Mr. Antolini
w .....
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Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises
Words: 643 - Pages: 3.... people. Jake and Chon are close friends, and Jake
likes him up to the point where he becomes involved with Brett. Jake goes
on and on about all of the relationship mistakes in Chon¹s life. There
is an hint of jealousy that appears in Jake's tone. He states that women
began to become attracted to Chon as he got older, and that it ³changed
him so that he was not so pleasant to have around² (16). There is
racism in Jake¹s tone, but Jake¹s problem with Chon is is strictly one of
jealousy.
By this time Jake has already developed an extreme distaste for Chon’s
endeavors with women, but these feelings their peak when Chon and Lady .....
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Old Man And The Sea, Santiago
Words: 873 - Pages: 4.... guilt and guiltlessness at the same time and therefore, he suffers. He attempts to justify his behavior but does not convince himself. Santiago believes in killing the giant marlin but he knows the fish is his brother. He struggles over whether he should kill him or not. He decides to kill. " 'I'll kill him though,' he said. 'In all his greatness and his glory.' Although it is unjust, he thought." The tragic man can endure pain and does not fear death. The old man sits in his skiff with the fishing line wrapped around his back. He is in a very uncomfortable position and the moving rope slices his hands. "I must hold his pain where .....
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Gatsby's Pursuit Of The American Dream
Words: 535 - Pages: 2.... this wealth, he moves near to Daisy,"Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay (83)," and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them. He, himself, does not attend his parties but watches them from a distance. When this dream doesn't happen, he asks around casually if anyone knows her. Soon he meets Nick Carraway, a cousin of Daisy, who agrees to set up a meeting, "He wants to know...if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over (83)."Gatsby's personal dream symboli! zes the larger American Dream where all have the oppurtunity to get .....
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