.... really important. The characters in The Great Gatsby take a materialistic attitude that causes them to fall into a downward spiral of empty hope and zealous obsession. Fitzgerald contrasts Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway to display how the materialistic attitude of the 1920’s leads many to hopeless depression and how materialism never constitutes happiness. Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby, a character who spends his entire adult life raising his status, only to show the stupidity of the materialistic attitude. Rather than hard work, Gatsby turns to crime and bootlegging in order to earn wealth and status to get the attention of Daisy Buchanon .....

.... with Hester being led to the scaffold where she is to be publicly shamed for having committed adultery. Hester is forced to wear the letter “A” on her gown at all times as punishment for her crime. She has stitched a large scarlet “A” onto her dress with gold thread, giving the letter an air of elegance. Hester carries Pearl, her daughter, with her. On the scaffold she is asked to reveal the name of Pearl’s father, but she refuses. In the crowd, Hester recognizes her husband from Amsterdam, Roger Chillingworth. Chillingworth visits Hester after she is returned to the prison. He tells her that he will .....

.... thought processes as humans do. For example the line “the monster stepped on the bright paved floor, crazed with evil anger; from his strange eyes an ugly light shone out like fire� (Beowulf line 725), proves this point. In the novel however this point lacks development. Rather Grendel is portrayed as a confused creature passing through life looking for answers. Surprisingly Grendel walks the forest in harmony with the animals. He does not act like the blood hungry beast he is seen as in Beowulf. In the novel -- Grendel is walking the forest and comes across a doe. He notices that the doe is staring in fright and suddenly ru .....

.... put on an act. Daisy makes a statement to Nick about when her daughter was born, “‘ She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘All right’ I said, ‘I’ m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool’� (Fitzgerald 21). These statements explain her opinion on how females should be, and also shows the insincerity in her personality. Daisy is also very confused about what she wants. When she is faced with having to make a decision between Jay Gatsby, her old love, and Tom Buchanan, her husband, she is not sure whom .....

.... If people try to get around the system they will get punished they will get hurt or killed. People get into gangs not really knowing what they are getting into until the have entered. Many times after a while they realize the gangs beliefs and do not obey by them. The party controlled Oceania people's life in such ways as a gang sometimes does. “Our control over matter is absolute (pg. 218).� The plot shows many aspects of the nazi party also. Hitler brain-washed many people into believing that there was a master race and all others had to follow under certain rules or be punished. The only thing that could stop Hitler was a m .....

.... separated from the first by a canal (resembles of England and France) . Gulliver is at the littlenders and the enemy is the bigenders which live on the island of Blefuscu. Gulliver helps the Littlenders to defeat the bigenders. In this book Swift emphasises the stupidity in the war between England and France and also every war which starts over a stupid reason, he also points out the meaningless in courtlife were they do nothing but waste the states money. At he lilliputians he builds a raft which he uses to sail back to England. But instead he finds himself shipwrecked and washed upon the shores of Brumbidang or the giants land. there he .....

.... everyone knows who you are, what you do, and whom you are with. Therefore it is not an uncommon for the town’s people to recognize someone’s loneliness and lifestyle. In Emily’s case, because of her honorable family heritage, "she demanded recognition of her dignity" from her community (Faulkner, 411). An example of the respect Emily expects in her town is when she is summoned for taxes, but refuses to pay because of her hereditary tradition. Emily sees herself as a "high and mighty Grierson" who earned honor and admiration from her family legacy (Faulkner, 409). Emily’s fear of loneliness is first seen when she refuses to admit .....

.... up with a simple, realistic approach that would safely bring Jim out of captivity, but Tom immediately rejects his plan. “But it’s too blame’ simple; there ain’t nothing to it. What’s the good of a plan that ain’t no more trouble than that? It’s as mild as goose-milk. Why, Huck, it wouldn’t make no more talk than breaking into a soap factory� (176). Tom’s outlandish plan has much more “style� and he assures Huck that it will free Jim from slavery. Huck being a realist doesn’t understand the need for danger but he was satisfied, “…it would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all kill .....

.... Marlow reminisces about how the land was once a place of darkness and uncivilized inhabitants. Beginning his story at dusk and finishing it in full darkness, Marlow speaks of how his dear aunt commissioned him a job aboard the fleet and of how he was sent down as an “emissary of light” to bring solace and transformation to an otherwise backward nation. His responsibility to the people of the Congo is evident when he sees the condition that the natives are in. In the beginning of the novella Marlow is repulsed by the state of the poor and starving people but after seeing a group of dying African men, Marlow becomes comp .....

.... of black and white to symbolize feelings and emotions, as well as a few other colors. There are also some objects that Conrad uses to create a symbolism. Take, for example, the stick of wax that the manager breaks while he is talking about Kurtz. I don’t know, but if you ask me the manager wishes that the wax actually was Kurtz. I think that the oil painting that was done by Kurtz shows that he was completely aware of what was going on and what he was getting himself into. I also noticed that grass was mentioned a lot in the story. I remember from my class at Behrend that the professor mentioned that Conrad liked to include a lot of refere .....