Things Fall Apart: Roles, Responsibilities, And Treatment Of Women
.... while women are weak in all aspects of life mind and body. They brand crimes and deaths as either masculine or feminine. Murder and beating are considered masculine and accidental crimes, stealing, or other misdemeanor crimes are named feminine. Ikemefuna was brought into the forest to be killed by Okonkwo and another man. Okonkwo had been acting as Ikemefuna's father, since he was separated from his tribe, and turned away when the other man swung the machete at Ikemefuna. The boy, still alive came running at Okonkwo screaming, "My father, they have killed me!" Okonkwo did not want to be considered weak so he drew his machet .....
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A Rose For Emily: Symbolism
.... symbolizing her former beauty and later ugliness. Like the house, she has fallen from grace. Once she had been “a slender figure in white”(Faulkner 207) later she is obese and “bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water with eyes lost in the fatty ridges of her face”(Faulkner 205).
Both the house and Miss Emily have suffered the ravages of time and neglect. Just as the house is described as “smelled of dust and disuse and the leather cracked” (Faulkner 205) this could also describe Miss Emily, “a small, fat woman in black” with a voice that is “dry and cold”(Faulkner 205) as if is she is rusty from disuse.
Both the h .....
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The House Of Seven Gables
.... Everywhere she goes the house haunts her. Clifford lives in a world of illusions. Their hearts have become dungeons and each one of them is his/her own jailer. They have been “locked up” in that house for so long that they can longer “live” with the rest of society. This is made evident when Clifford and Hepzibah try to leave the house. On the train, thoughts of the house poison both the mind of Hepzibah and Clifford. The conversation of the two center around the house. Although they have physically fled from the house, emotionally they both keep themselves “prisoners” of the house. They cannot separate themselves from the evil .....
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Who Has Seen The Wind: Brian O' Connals' Understanding Of Birth And Death
.... stage Brian seems to understand that humans and animals reproduce babies the same way.
Brian's second encounter with birth is again with Forbsie as the two experiences the birth of rabbits. Brian's knowledge of birth is further developed in this section of the novel as he is maturing and ageing. Brian is not too sure about the newborn rabbits at first because they look funny with no hair. '"Gee Fat,' Brian had said, 'they look funny---they haven't got any hair!"' (160). Brian and Forbsie speculate that the rabbits will soon grow up and have babies then those rabbits will have babies extending to an infinite amount of rabbits. .....
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The Heart Of Darkness: Two Revolving Desires
.... the man who fascinates Marlow. Kurtz can be one with the natives. Kurtz has every grounds for being the main character. Everyone in the novel is in one way or another affected by Kurtz and his concepts. The fact that Marlow's story revolves around Kurtz is basis for Kurtz being the main character.
Both Marlow and Kurtz can be defined as main characters. The book is based on Marlow's journey, but Marlow's journey is based on Kurtz. Kurtz rules the ivory and blends with the natives. Marlow rules the Congo and blends with Kurtz. There can only be one true main character. However, in Heart of Darkness either Marlow or Kurtz .....
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The Young Goodman Brown: Resistance, Acceptance, And Embracing Of Evil
.... The man along the path is clearly seen as evil because of the detailed description of his devilish appearance and the nature of this late-night rendezvous. The devilish man says to Goodman Brown “I have been well acquainted with your family as with ever a one among the Puritans (Nathaniel Hawthorn, 198)”. This devilish traveler is implying that Goodman Brown’s family, and the entire Puritan community is not as “pure” as they appear that they might in fact be involved in satanic behavior or witchcraft. Goodman Brown’s rejection to this statement is made clear when he says “we are people of prayer, and good works, to boot, and ab .....
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Huckleberry Finn: Lack Of Education
.... wrong, even though he is such a horrible father to his son. By showing how uneducated Pap is, and what suffering it causes Huck, Twain argues his point. A speech that Pap gives early in the novel is one of the most affective parts of this story. Pap talks about the efforts that some citizens make in the courts to remove Huck from the care of his father. He criticizes saying, “ They call this a govment! Why, just look and see what’s it’s like. Here’s the law a-standing ready to take a man’s own son away from him-a man’s own son, which he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of raising. Yes, just .....
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Evaluation Of Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave
.... began with wholesome idealism and great expectations ended in alienation and rejection.
I think this also applies to the situation in Tibet. A peaceful and independent country taken over by China who thought that the Tibetan ways needed to be changed, and they were going to help them. They did so by torturing and killing a good portion of the population of Tibet, and sending their political and spiritual leader (the Dalai Lama) into exile.
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A Summary Of Martin Luther, Lectures On Galatians
.... Adam/Jesus, sin/righteousness, death/eternal life, flesh/spirit, Law/Christ (p. 9), Law/grace, Moses the lawgiver/Christ the savior (p. 10). These follow the dualism which Paul describes: "What the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to each other." (Galatians 5:1)
In explaining the doctrine of justification by faith, Luther takes Paul's statement that Christ "gave Himself for our sins" (Galatians 1:4), and elaborates: "For if our sins can be removed by our own satisfactions, why did the Son of God have to be given for them? But since He was giv .....
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The Evolution Of Ellen Foster
.... adult over night after her mother’s death, shopping for herself and practically being her own parent. Fear and loneliness are emotions felt by Ellen after her mother dies. No child should be afraid in its own home, yet Ellen always takes this in stride. Her matter-of-fact way of recounting the events leads the reader to believe she believes this is the way it is for her. She understands life is not fair, however, there is nothing she can do about it.
Since she cannot help herself, Ellen’s art teacher, Julia intervenes. Julia and Roy are heaven sent to Ellen. They teach her that a family can have fun and that not all marriag .....
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Comparison Essay Of A Tale Of Two Cities And Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
.... and greed that is directed toward Tess, comes from her mother, Joan. Joan only wants Tess to marry a man with an aristocratic name so that he family can become wealthy. Tess's feelings are not considered. Therefore her life is also planned out for her, like those of the novel A Tale of Two Cities.
Within the lives in Dickens' novel, there is a sense of irony from one of the characters. Dickens writes, "the prosperous patronage with which he said it, made him look twice as big as he was, and four times as offensive" (Dickens 144). For the character, Stryver, this is ironic because he is shy and does not put up a fight to try t .....
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The Miseducation Of Victorian Women
.... For. Their views support what Barrett Browning communicates in Aurora Leigh with additional insights into the reality of the Victorian education of women.
The main focus of the instruction of young women in the Victorian era, which they referred to as an education, was on making these women into “Ornaments of Society” (Damrosch 1604). This meant that women were to adorn society with their appearance, their voices, their instrumental abilities, their dancing skills, their knowledge of obsolete information, and of course their most elegant and proper demeanor. In Aurora Leigh, Aurora describes her aunt’s expectation of English wo .....
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