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The Color Purple
Words: 513 - Pages: 2.... over again. In , there are many conflicts, which arise from the theme. First of all, Celie is against Pa and Mr._____, that shows the conflict of man Vs man, and unfortunately, Celie doesn't have the power to fight back physically. Secondly, Celie and herself that show the conflict of man Vs him/herself. She can't win over herself and that is why she doesn't have enough courage to stand up and be in command for her own life. Thirdly, the tradition of men had high social status then women. That shows the conflict of man Vs society. At the end of the book Celie eventually fight over the tradition. Men are no longer in charge for her life. In t .....
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Canterbury Tales
Words: 703 - Pages: 3.... time, but he did not show this wealth outwardly in his clothing or adornments.
The Knight’s son is somewhat his opposite. He dresses more fancily and shows off. He is a squire training to be a knight like his father. I don’t think that he is very serious about this because he enjoys the pleasures of life and not much of his training. Chaucer’s thoughts of his appearance were:
He was some twenty years of age, I guessed. In stature he was of moderate length,With wonderful agility and strength. (78-80) He stayed up mall night and partied so he did not get much sleep.
The Oxford Cleric was an odd scholar. He had a skinny horse and he l .....
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The Three Angles From Which The Adventures Huckleberry Finn Can Be Viewed
Words: 612 - Pages: 3.... he was Tom Sawyer. Perhaps Huck's greatest adventure was when he faked he own death. Huck faked his death in order to get away from his abusive, alcoholic father. Huck did this just before he and Jim left on another adventure: the journey on the Mississippi River to help Jim acquire his freedom.
If there was a main adventure in Huckleberry Finn, it would be Huck and Jim's journey down the Mississippi River. That journey even had a hidden adventure. The whole time Huck and Jim where travelling down the Mississippi River, they thought they were in fact travelling up the Mississippi River.
The whole point of the journey on the Mississip .....
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The Jungle: The Appeal Of Socialism
Words: 438 - Pages: 2.... steel
mills, or in the meat packing industry. Jurgis Rudkus was one fo these
dissapointed immigrants. A sweeper in slaughter house, he experienced the
horrendous conditions which laborers encountered Along with these nightmarish
working conditions, they worked for nominal wages, inflexible and long hours, in
an atmosphere where worker safety had no persuasion. Early on, there was no one
for these immigrants to turn to, so many suffered immensely. Jurgis would later
learn of worker unions and other groups to support the labor force, but the
early years of his Americanized life were filled, with sliced fingers,
unemployment and .....
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Crime And Punishment--is Rasko
Words: 781 - Pages: 3.... murder Alyona when he recalled a conversation that took place between two ordinary men in a bar. One declared:
I could kill that damned old woman and make off with her money without the faintest conscious-prick.... For one life, thousands would be saved from corruption and decay.... Besides, what value has the life of that sickly, stupid, ill-natured old woman in the balance of existence? (63)
Raskolnikov reasoned that it would be honorable to kill Alyona since it would supposedly benefit humanity, but the fact that “ordinary” men had the same idea should have immediately put a stop to any thoughts that he was extraordinary. .....
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Just Whom Is Edmund Gosse’s Father And Son Written For?
Words: 794 - Pages: 3.... in the methodical and scientific style of his father, which then would mirror the lifestyle in which he is forced to live. Secondly, Edmund wants the reader to see his father as he did, with honor, awe, resentment and even shame. Edmund does this quietly, he does not shout his shame, he merely reiterates it as a anecdote of a story “...his very absence of imagination aided him in his work. (113)” .
Finally, Edmund, being able to portray this book as a portrait of someone other than himself, is a chance to humble himself, no matter what he says about the father, to the reader. All of these methods that Edmund uses to sway ou .....
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Is Gimpel A Fool?
Words: 550 - Pages: 2.... him, he tries to convince himself that she is a good person and would not do such a thing. It shows that he tries to see the good in all the people, even the bad ones. He also made a commitment to this woman for his life, and even when she cheats repeatedly, he sticks with her. He loves her for her good and not her flaws.
When Elka had her children, Gimpel loves them like his own. He knows that they are not his, obviously, but he doesn’t let that child grow up without love. He probably knows what it’s like to not be loved because he is an orphan. He doesn’t want that child to go through the pains he went through just because .....
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Othello Vs Much Ado About Noth
Words: 688 - Pages: 3.... Margaret in her clothing and perching her near the window with another man. When Claudio sees this, he says that he will humiliate Hero instead of marrying her.
The next day Claudio does exactly as he had said, degrading Hero in front of all her family and friends. Because she did not cheat on him, she did not expect that kind of reaction. She is so dejected that she faints, and everyone assumes she is dead. Eventually Borrachio is overheard talking about Don John’s plan, and Don John is arrested. Later Claudio learns that Hero is not actually dead, and they are finally married.
“Othello”’s Iago is very much similar to Don John. He .....
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Oedipus The King 2
Words: 468 - Pages: 2.... him, and also preludes to his “shameful intimacy.”
Oedipus then draws upon his solving of the riddle of the Sphinx to undermine the blind prophet, convinced that he, in alliance with Creon, was plotting against him. Creon’s modest rebuttal consisted only of a threat to himself- that if Oedipus’ claim against him were true, then let him not live out the rest of his days. Later, in a conversation with Oedipus, he justifies his denial of the charge that Oedipus had placed against him by illustrating the irrelevance of attempting to dethrone the king. When Jocasta enters, she sides with Creon and respects his oath to .....
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The Great Gatsby Is A Tragic H
Words: 909 - Pages: 4.... he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor" (p.79). Nick realizes Gatsby's estate, parties, shirts and other seemingly "purposeless" possessions are not purposeless. Everything Gatsby does, every move he makes and every decision he conceives is for a reason. He wants to achieve his ideal, Daisy. Gatsby's "purposeless splendor" is all for the woman he loves and wishes to represent his ideal. Furthermore, Gatsby believes he can win his woman with riches, and that his woman can achieve the ideal she stands for through material influence. Gatsby believes in The Great Am .....
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