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Frankenstein - Rejection By Society
Words: 642 - Pages: 3.... monster tried to accomplish this when he encountered the De Lacey family. The monster hoped to gain friendship from the old man and eventually his children. He knew that it could have been possible because the old man was blind, he could not see the monster's repulsive characteristics. But fate was against him and the "wretched" had barely conversed with the old man before his children returned from their journey and saw a monstrous creature at the feet of their father attempting to do harm to the helpless elder. "Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore [the creature] from his father, to whose knees [he] clung..." Felix's acti .....
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Julius Caesar - Brutus Character Analysis
Words: 841 - Pages: 4.... "What means this shouting? I do fear the people do choose Caesar for their king...yet I love him well."(act 1, scene 2, ll.85-89), as he is speaking to Cassius. Brutus loves Caesar, but would not allow him to "climber-upward...He then unto the ladder turns his back..."(act 2, scene 1, ll.24,26). As the quote says, Brutus would not allow Caesar to rise to power and then turn his back onto the people of Rome. After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Brutus talks to Antony about Caesar's death. "Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful; and pity to the general wrong of Rome..."(act 3, scene 1, ll.185-186). Brutus says that Antony cannot .....
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Brave New World: Comparing Life In The World State With Life In The US Today
Words: 1148 - Pages: 5.... later every partner will want you. Children are
taught through hypnosis that "everyone belongs to everyone else." In this
Utopia, what we think of as true love for one person would lead to a
passion for that person and the establishment of family life, both of which
would interfere with the community and its stability. Nobody is allowed to
become pregnant because nobody is born, everyone is a "test-tube" baby.
Many females are born sterile.
The ideas and ways of obtaining happiness are not too much
different in the brave new world than in our lives here in the United
States. The only difference is that these pleasures are looked .....
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Sweetness And Power
Words: 3868 - Pages: 15.... capita quantities of refined sugar because, to most people, very sweet foods taste very good. The existence of the human sweet tooth can be explained, ultimately, as an adaptation of ancestral populations to favor the ripest-and hence the sweetest-fruit. In other words, the selective pressures of times past are most strikingly revealed by the artificial, supernormal stimulus of refined sugar, despite the evidence that eating refined sugar is maladaptive.
With such an obsession with sweet foods, there is an obvious desire for an explanation of how such a once unknown substance took center stage on everybody’s snack, dessert, and candy .....
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The Scarlet Letter 4
Words: 497 - Pages: 2.... her in a sphere by herself." Hester did have have the opportunity of removing the scarlet letter only ifd she revealed the father of her child. For example, 'Woman, transgress not not beyond limits of heaven's mercy! hat little babe hath been gifted with a voice, to second and confirm the councel which thou hast heard. Speak out the name" cries Mr. Wilson" 'Never!' replies Hester. "It is too deeply branded. Ye cannot take it off. And would that I might endure his agony as wellas mine!" So as you can see she leaves the A on her bosom.
Hester was not the only one mistreated by the Puritans. Her child, Pearl, also was a sinner because she ha .....
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Historical Background To Anima
Words: 958 - Pages: 4.... ways. In other words, peaceful progess toward equality and socia justice was impossible. The only way to establish justice, he said, was for t workers to overthrow the capitalists by means of violent revolution. He urged workers around the world to revolt against their rulers. "Workers of the worl unite!" he wrote. "You have nothing to lose but your chains."
Another thing Marx taught was that organized religion, the churches, help capitalists to keep the workers quiet and obedient. Religion, according to Mar 'the opiate of the masses'. The church tells working people to forget about th injustice they meet in their lives and to think instea .....
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Heart Of Darkness
Words: 1515 - Pages: 6.... really dealt with universal problems. He used the concentrated little world of a ship to treat the general problems that obsessed him: How can society endure against all the destructive forces of the individual ego and the modern world and mostly, the clash between capitalism and revolution in colonized areas of the world. Conrad also wrote two absorbing novels about revolutionaries in Europe.
Conrad was not particularly interested in character for its own sake. He was most interested in men who were actively pursuing their aims in life like the captain of the Narcissus novel, who triumphs over weakness and evil. More often, Conrad’ .....
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Late 19th Century Creole Socie
Words: 1366 - Pages: 5.... from restrictiveness, Leonce’s adherence to tradition, as well as the overall progression of the novel.
During this time period, women were supposed to take care of their children and obey their husbands at all costs. The society was made up of women, “who idolized their children, worshipped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels” (Chopin 16). Life was very difficult for Edna under these circumstances. “To a certain extent The Awakening shows Edna at the mercy of a patriarchal husband, a hot climate, a Creole lifestyle, and the circumscribed .....
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A Comparison Of Two Classic Fi
Words: 2574 - Pages: 10.... to happen immediately when Neff walks into the office, as the music that defines this genre follows him up to where he makes his confession. Neff 's confession as the narrative for the entire movie makes it very easy to follow the sequence of events, because it is like someone sitting down to tell you a story. The flashbacks to him sitting there, smoking his cigarette as he knows he has been sucked into doing something he wouldn't ordinarily do capture the true mood of what's to come. What he also can't come to grips with is the fact that all this was over a woman. Both men in the movies, though you only see them after one particular g .....
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The Lottery 3
Words: 443 - Pages: 2.... lottery. Kids fill their pockets full of rocks and plans are discussed about making a new box. They can not wait to attend and finally get it over with. This drawing seems to transform the people. Tension builds before the lottery occurs, but the townspeople are still able to joke with one another. Tension increases in the story when the author, Shirley Jackson, implies to the reader that Mr. Hutchinson has drawn the marked paper. We assume he does because he walks up on to the stage with his family and they are then made to draw again from the worn out black box. Mr. Hutchinson reaches his hand in and grabs out a piece with his ch .....
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