.... ten upwards, in the British population as compared with 7,600,000 males. Already it will be clear that if the accepted destiny of the Victorian girl was to become a wife and mother, it was unlikely that there would be enough men to go round." This quote exemplifies the fact that roles of women were predetermined. Their main goal in life was to get married. Sara swims against this current in the river of Victorian society and in return she is ostracized. Men also have predetermined roles; this is evident today in the stereotypes created for men by what they wear and by their interests. By entering into a category, you are somehow exp .....

.... with him. She probably would said how she felt distant from Charlie after he became smarter than her. As Charlie began to regress, she might have written how she had mixed feelings; she was sad that Charlie was becoming retarded again, but at the same time wanted to have Charlie at her own level again, even if for only a short time. If the people from the bakery had been telling Flowers For Algernon, then they would have written about how Charlie had gone from being retarded to being a genius in just a few weeks. They hadn’t been told about the surgery. They probably would have said how they thought something really weird was g .....

.... insane because of the effects from guilt. He sneaks out at night to stand on the platform, but why doesn’t he confess. He is a reverend, and should be able to tell everything. That is why it is so hard for him. He is trapped between a rock and a hard space. If he tells the citizens, he is no longer the great reverend. Then again, if he doesn’t, he will be forced to carry the ever so heavy burden. Dimmesdale waits for such a long time that the guilt has already got to him by the time he is ready to confess. He carves the letter, “A,� into his chest. He beats himself with leather whips, and has to go for long walks in the .....

.... the community, and the use of pro-Freudian psychological analysis. The symbolic significance of the black veil lies in the physical and mental barrier that it creates between the minister and his environment, and the guilt that it expresses. Many people believe that the face provides information about a person's underlying characteristics and, therefore, about his or her probable behavior. Thus, by wearing the veil, the minister takes away the basis on which people can predict his behavior. This is the main cause of the minister's isolation, although he is made unpredictable already by the mere act of wearing the veil. Part of the f .....

.... Scout was reasonably appalled by his new manner, and asked Atticus about it. "Reckon he's got a tapeworm?"(115). Although Scout's conceptions about his [Jem's] behavior may have been wrong in some respects, she was right to recognize he wasn't acting his usual self. I believe these behavioral changes may have been because of Jem acquiring a mask. He began wearing this mask around the start of his teenage years, as a result of pressures from peers, and a fear of not being accepted. Even in these different social and economic times, the 1930's, issues like popularity and social acceptance were real and present, just as they are today.It is t .....

.... were very short because when Julilly straightened her shoulders she almost reached the cabin door. The only thing which Jullily and Mammy Sally could keep warm with was a small, thin blanket. Surrounding their slave cabins was a garden which sometimes a hen would scratch around. Although the living conditions were better at the Hensen plantation it turns out the condition was much worse at the Riley plantation. The slave cabins were far behind a row of trees in the back yard, behind the Big House so the Massa and Missy did not have to look at the pitiful slaves. Usually there would be some laughter and a lot of talk at the Hensen plan .....

.... are so horribly dull." But finally, by training the falcon, we can see the comparison between June and Zander(the falcon). First Zander is just a little pet for June. With the training by June, and the mistakes that he fall into the river, he grows matured has been well trained. At the same time, June also has been trained by her mother and, watching the things happen to Zander, June becomes mature too. She helped her mother by carrying suitcases and boxes and walked carefully up the stairs to her room, holding her head high as she had been taught in the dance class. Everybody is supposed to have their own freed .....

.... desperately to escape. Jim feels the need to escape after hearing that his owner, Miss Watson, wishes to sell him down the river-a change in owners that could only be for the worse. As they escape separately and rejoin by chance at an island along the river, they find themselves drawn to get as far as possible from their home. Their journey down the river sets the stage for most of Mark Twain's comments about man and society. It is when they stop off at various towns along the river that various human character flaws always seem to come out. Examples of this would include the happenings after the bringing on of the Duke and King. These .....

.... them guilty because "law cannot follow nature's principle of self-preservation." In other words, necessity is not a justification for killing, even when this necessity is beyond human control. Since Billy is unable to defend himself verbally, he "responds to pure nature, and the dictates of necessity" by lashing out at Claggart. I agree with Reich's notion that Vere was correct in hanging Billy, and that it is society, not Vere, who should be criticized for this judgement; for Vere is forced to reject the urgings of his own heart and his values to comply with the binding laws of man. First, the moral issue aside, Captain Vere had no cho .....

.... again (Critical 1). Steinbeck shows in The Grapes of Wrath that there is no one man, but one common soul in which we all belong to. The subject of Steinbeck's fiction is not the most thoughtful, imaginative, and constructive aspects of humanity, but rather the process of life itself (Wilson 785). Steinbeck has been compared to a twentieth century Charles Dickens of California; a social critic with more sentiment than science or system. His writing is warm, human, inconsistent, occasionally angry, but more often delighted with the joys associated with human life on its lowest levels (Holman 20). This biological image of man creates tech .....