Describing Biblical Parallels In Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter"
.... was the way God made it. The plant in Rappaccini's garden was
forbidden because it was poisonous. The only people immune to the poison of
this plant were Beatrice and Dr. Rappaccini.
In Hawthorne's story, a parallel between Giovanni and Adam is
established. Both are young men, and each was tempted by a woman. Giovanni in
Hawthorne's story was lured into the garden by Beatrice; however, Beatrice was
attempting to make Giovanni immune to the poison of the plant, so they could be
together forever. Beatrice and Eve also share similarities. They both are the
ones that first fall to temptation and which ultimately leads to each of .....
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Madame Bovary: Destiny
.... sensitive and loving, with the last characteristic
being the one she lacks most. Soon after Emma marries Charles we see her
unhappiness, and we are faced with a dilemma, why did she marry him? There are
numerous possible answers to this, but the end conclusion is the same: if she
had not married him it would have been better for both of them. Emma would not
have been so miserable and depressed throughout her life and Charles would have
found someone who would return his love and who would appreciate him. Throughout
the novel Emma never expresses her appreciation for her husband. On the
contrary, she often expresses her .....
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The Significance Of Food In "Like Water For Chocolate"
.... in the story, which revolves about
Tita, third daughter of a Elena.
The time is the early 1900's and the Mexican Revolution is raging, but
in the kitchen of the family ranch, the emphasis is on cooking. The family
servant, Nacha, Tita's surrogate mother, teaches the her secrets and makes her
the next in an ancient line of great family chefs. From Nacha and her mother
Tita learns the art of cooking. While all the food did not center around Tita,
most of it was. Even from the time of birth of Tita she was a part of the
cooking, for example when she was born and Nacha scooped up the salt left behind
from the broken water of Mama .....
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray: Evil
.... of himself. The
plot proves to us that evil does actually lie within an individual. From the
moment that he becomes forever young he begins to deteriorate. Even once he
reached his epiphany and saw his evil through the portrait he simply denied
seeing it and continued his malicious deeds.
The characterisation of the book is one of the most important elements
of this book. Dorian begins by being a very naïve lad. He is very easily
influenced by others especially his two new good friends; Basil and Lord Henry.
Basil, the painter of the portrait, influenced Dorian in more of a good, honest
way. While Lord Henry, although not .....
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With Which Literary Character Do You Most Readily Identify? Why?: Alexei In Dostoevsky's "The Gambler"
.... his whole life. He turned to Gambling to punish
himself. This is a man who, when he had a chance to be with the woman he had
loved for years, ruined it by going to the casino and gambling. He thought that
it would prove to her that he loved her, because he would have a lot of money to
spend on her. Instead, she realized that his one true love was not her but
gambling.
Whenever I read this story, I think of how much this character that
Fyodor Dostoevsky created is similar, in a lot of ways, to myself. I find
myself the object of addictions in general. I used to smoke cigarettes and feel
helpless against it. Sure, I'd stop .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Do You Dread Guilt?
.... it - guilty as they may be, retaining, nevertheless, a zeal for God's
glory and man's welfare, they shrink from displaying themselves black and filthy
in the view of men; because, thenceforward, no good can be achieved by them; no
evil or the past be redeemed by better service." Dimmesdale also has another
reason for his concealing, he wants to remain silent so that he can continue to
do God's work as a minister.
Hester Prynne handles her guilt in another way. Instead of worrying
about it day after day and letting to fester, she makes it outward. At the
beginning of the book she wears the most awesome clothes and shows .....
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Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christian
.... of vampires is at the time Van Helsing and the other men are
going to leave Mina alone in the house. Van Helsing touches a Host to Mina's
forehead and it burns into her head since she, herself, was unclean. Another
abstruction of the Christian religion would be the fact that Dracula sleeps in
a coffin and especially because the dirt in his coffin is consecrated and
Dracula, being evil, uses this ground to rest in. Dracula has several of the
powers that Christians believe no one but God could control. For instance,
Dracula can control the weather, wild or unclean animals and, he can change
form and disappear into the air. .....
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Stoker And Rice's Books About Vampires
.... bat he can cover more ground in a shorter amount of time.
Rice's novels mention nothing of being able to morph into a bat, mist or
anything else for that matter.
The ability to fly is used in each novel but they are used very
differently. In Dracula the count can fly but, in order to do this he must
turn into a bat and fly as a bat would fly. More powerful vampires in The
Vampire Chronicles can fly as , for example, super man would fly. In order for
a vampire to fly it requires lots of energy and a great force of will Lestat
says “ It was as if a current of air had caught me. I went up hundereds of feet
in one instant, .....
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Book Report On "A Dramatic Death"
.... sister, which she didn't like. Emma became so fond
of Steve that she start doing all these gruesome things and in the end she went
to a mental hospital. Emma liked to be in the play a lot and she was said to
have a very over active imagination.
SETTING
The setting was in a small quiet town called Dorking, the play took in a high
school drama room. The setting brings people together (the drama group) which
brings conflicts. The town was described to bring a spooky setting to the novel.
THEME
The theme of this novel is that we shouldn't trust everybody we know no matter
how close they are. In the novel the murder is found to be .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences On Huckleberry Finn
.... the women place
upon him constraining and the life with them lonely. As a result, soon after he
first moves in with them, he runs away. He soon comes back, but, even though he
becomes somewhat comfortable with his new life as the months go by, Huck never
really enjoys the life of manners, religion, and education that the Widow and
her sister impose upon him.
Huck believes he will find some freedom with Tom Sawyer. Tom is a
boy of Huck's age who promises Huck and other boys of the town a life of
adventure. Huck is eager to join Tom Sawyer's Gang because he feels that doing
so will allow him to escape the somewha .....
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The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires
.... subtly
unadaptable to eastern life.
In other words, after finding out what the east was really like, Nick lost his
interest in being in the east and returned to the west.
Gatsby came east looking for another type of money - Daisy. Gatsby and
Daisy had last seen each other about five years before, when they were dating.
Then Gatsby had to go to war. While he was away in war, Daisy met Tom and then
married Tom. Daisy had always been rich and thought that in order to get Daisy
back, he need to have money and be able to give Daisy anything she wanted. He
found out that Daisy was in the east and went to go try to get .....
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East Of Eden
.... his secret
guilt:.(Steinbeck p.355) Guilt builds up and then hidden which only causes more
problems. Guilt is natural and is human nature but can be controlled."And with
crime guilt, and there is the story of mankind".(Steinbeck p.355) After anger
comes the revenge which leads to crime and then after the crime guilt sets in.
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