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Frankenstein: The Creator's Faults In The Creation
Words: 1322 - Pages: 5.... (64). Clearly it is
Frankenstein's lack of foresight in the creation process to allow for a
creature that Frankenstein "had selected his features as beautiful," (56)
to become something which the very sight of causes its creator to say
"breathless horror and disgust filled my heart"(56). He overlooks the
seemingly obvious fact that ugliness is the natural result when something
is made from parts of different corpses and put together. Were he
thinking more clearly he would have noticed monster's hideousness.
Another physical aspect of the monster which shows a fault in
Frankenstein is its immense size. The reason that Franke .....
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Great Gatsby
Words: 346 - Pages: 2.... for me old sport." Nick does his best to. The "friends" he contacted either wanted something they left at Gatsby's house, or were not interested in coming. He tried to be there for Gatsby, unfortunately, only Gatsby's father, Henry, Nick, and the reverend attended the funeral. “. . . Only one man who gives his name to this book was exempt from my reaction . . .“ -- Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn." Regardless of this "scorn", Nick does not hold his past against him. Or at least, of what people assume his past consists. Once Nick fights through the rumors and sees the truth he realizes that Gatsby .....
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Comparing "Waiting For Godot" To "Hollow Men"
Words: 654 - Pages: 3.... a mystery, but their whole existence seems to be to wait for Godot.
They meet a couple of fellows: Pozzo, an upper-class man, mistaken by
Vladimir and Estragon as Godot, and Pozzo's slave, Lucky. After they leave,
a messenger from Godot arrives and states simply that Godot will arrive
tomorrow, same place, same time. They consider leaving, but do not. The
second act is almost an exact repeat of the first, but Lucky and Pozzo have
fallen upon hard times. Pozzo has become blind and pathetic, and Lucky has
become dumb. This change in events is a direct point of life being
terrific one moment, and worthless the next. Godot never shows up. .....
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A Separate Peace: Changes
Words: 484 - Pages: 2.... typical one. ‘I don’t want it,’” (30). Leper had a passive attitude towards life. Although it sounds like Leper was self-conscious, he was not. He just did not care about what anyone thought of him or was saying about him as long as he was having a good time.
Gene, one of his friends, talks about how the snow began to take possession of everything at Devon like the war took possession everything in the world. “Leper Lepellier didn’t suspect this. It was not in fact evident to anyone at first. But Leper stands out for me as the person who was most often and most emphatically taken by surprise, by this and every other shif .....
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Bill Budd
Words: 483 - Pages: 2.... evil nature, not engendered by vicious training or corrupting books or licentious living but born with him and innate, in short ‘a depravity according to nature.’” These two people who are clearly on opposite sides of the spectrum contrast one another in a plethora of ways. Where Billy is sweet, John is bitter. Where Billy is naïve, John is knowledgeable. Where Billy is content, John is jealous. Lastly, where Billy is good, John is bad.
The ugliness that results in the death of both men portrays the triumph of sinister forces over the meek. John Claggart, who is a powerful and feared man aboard Bellipotent, lashes out a .....
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Machiavelli's View Of Human Nature
Words: 1086 - Pages: 4.... to the well being of the state, Machiavelli was quick to mock human nature.
Humanists believed that "An individual only 'grows to maturity- both
intellectually and morally-through participation' in the life of the state."4
Machiavelli generally distrusted citizens, stating that "...in time of adversity,
when the state is in need of it's citizens there are few to be found."5
Machiavelli further goes on to question the loyalty of the citizens and advises
the Prince that "...because men a wretched creatures who would not keep their
word to you, you need keep your word to them."6 However, Machiavelli did not
feel that a Prince should mi .....
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Frankenstein: The Creator's Faults In The Creation
Words: 1323 - Pages: 5.... it is Frankenstein's lack of foresight in the
creation process to allow for a creature that Frankenstein "had selected his
features as beautiful," (56) to become something which the very sight of causes
its creator to say "breathless horror and disgust filled my heart"(56). He
overlooks the seemingly obvious fact that ugliness is the natural result when
something is made from parts of different corpses and put together. Were he
thinking more clearly he would have noticed monster's hideousness.
Another physical aspect of the monster which shows a fault in Frankenstein is
its immense size. The reason that Frankenstein gives for creatin .....
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Pride And Prejudice: What's Love Got To Do With It
Words: 701 - Pages: 3.... thing at all about the person you
are marrying. While Charlotte is speaking to Elizabeth about her sister, she
expressed her opinion as to Jane Bennet's relationship towards a gentleman. She
says it is probably better not to study a person because you would probably know
as much after twelve months as if she married him the next day. Charlotte even
goes as far as to say that “it is better to know as little as possible of the
defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life” (p.21). Charlotte
considered Mr. Collins "neither sensible nor agreeable" but since marriage had
always been her goal in life, "at the age of twenty-seve .....
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The Awakening
Words: 1206 - Pages: 5.... Edna Pontellier to show that women do not want to be restricted by the roles that society has placed on them. Because of the time she lived in, Edna felt oppressed just because she was a woman. Being a married woman and a mother made her feel even more tied down. By looking at the relationship between Edna and her husband, Leonce, we see that men treated women as if they were nothing more than possessions or property. They had no respect for their wives, mothers, or even their daughters as they constantly treated them like housemaids who were there to answer to their every call. Even Edna's father thinks that his daughter is her husband's .....
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Four Contrasting Viewpoints In The Sound And The Fury
Words: 1596 - Pages: 6.... nothing. However, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury is not limited to any one point of view, even to that of Benjy. By delivering his novel from four entirely different perspectives, Faulkner is able to create an intricately woven plot that centers on the only Compson daughter, Caddy, and allows one to crawl inside the minds of his deeply disturbed characters.
April seventh, nineteen-hundred-and-twenty-eight…or is it? Benjamin, formerly Maury, presents a disjointed account of his life between his early childhood just around the turn of the century and up until 1910, mainly focusing on his relationship with his sister, Candace .....
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