An Analysis Of The Lord Of The Flies
.... on Ralph and his experiences on the
island. As leader of the group, Ralph has a great deal of responsibility
and must learn how to work with this responsibility. Through the course of
the story, Ralph changes from an adolescent child to a mature person, but
ends up breaking down at the end of the novel. This aspect of Ralph's
character is a way that Golding depicts human behavior in society, which is
the main theme of the book.
As the novel begins, Ralph is portrayed as being a normal
adolescent who is irresponsible and negligent. Even when he is chosen as
leader, he still is depicted as an inexperience boy. One example of t .....
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A Critical Approach To "Barn Burning" (by William Faulkner)
.... their time working in the fields or at home performing familial
duties. Nutrition is lacking “He could smell the coffee from the room
where they would presently eat the cold food remaining from the mid-
afternoon meal” (PARA. 55). As a consequence, poor health combined with
inadequate opportunity results in low morale. A morale which the writer is
identifying with the middle class of his times “that same quality which in
later years would cause his descendants to over-run the engine before
putting a motor car into motion” (PARA. 20)
The Snope family manages to survive and find work. However, the
work offers little ot .....
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A Critical Analysis Of Herman Melville's Moby Dick
.... his
plan to hunt down a white whale named Moby Dick. Ahab was veteran sailor, a
man that had a heart of stone. Ahab had a personal grudge against Moby
Dick. Moby Dick was responsible for taking off Ahab's leg in a previous
voyage. Ahab's plan was essentially an unauthorized takeover, what the
whaling company had not in mind. Ahab was very irrational and ludicrous;
his plan seals the fate for himself and the crew of the Pequod. In the
tragic ending of Moby Dick, all of the characters die except for Ishmael.
Ishmael survived Moby Dick's attack of the ship with the help of a coffin
that his close friend Queequeq built. Ishm .....
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A Doll's House: Theme Of Emancipation Of A Woman
.... also does not trust Nora with money, which exemplifies
Torvald's treating Nora as a child. On the rare occasion when Torvald
gives Nora some money, he is concerned that she will waste it on candy and
pastry; in modern times, this would be comparable to Macauly Culkin being
given money, then buying things that "would rot his mind and his body" in
the movie Home Alone. Nora's duties, in general, are restricted to caring
for the children, doing housework, and working on her needlepoint. A
problem with her responsibilities is that her most important obligation is
to please Torvald, making her role similar to that of a slave.
M .....
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Mark Anthony's "Crypt Of The Shadowking": A Fantasy
.... slums and goes to find his old
traveling companions who once made up the Company of the Dreaming Dragon.
After reuniting, the company goes to find the tomb of Merrimeck to find the
secret of the shadow song, the known power against the Shadowking and the
nightstone. As the company travels to toward the Fields of the Dead, they
encounter a shadevar, a horrifying and powerful foe thought to have been
banished from the world of Toril long ago. After a wild battle, and the
death of the shadevar, the company thief, Ferrit, searches the corpse and
finds a ring which enabled the shadervar to communicate with the
frighteningly powerfu .....
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Great Expectations: Pip
.... the news, he hardly treated Pip any
differently than any other common boy. Pip also looks to the way his new
acquaintances are treated, most notably Mr. Jaggers. He is treated with a great
deal of respect by everyone, and even invokes fear in some. Pip had never seen
this level of respect for someone that was his direct acquaintance before,
except for Miss Havisham, who he knew had great wealth.
This dual lifestyle is paralleled in Mr. Wemmick, the clerk for Mr.
Jaggers. Mr. Wemmick, when at work, only thinks about his work, and doesnąt let
his personal life affect how he goes about his business. The flip side of the
coi .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism In The Forest
.... itself is a open door to another
world, a wicked world that would take her away from her present situation,
but that is not the only door that the forest holds.
The forest is an open door to love and freedom for both Hester and
Dimmesdale. It is a place where the letter on their bodies can no longer
have an effect on them if they choose. A world ruled by nature and
governed by natural law as opposed to the artificial strict community with
its man made puritan laws. Its as if the forest represents a key to the
shackles the Hester and Dimmesdale have been forced to wear, all that they
have to do is unlock it. Although if th .....
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A Lesson Before Dying: Mr. Wiggins
.... before the shooting or after up until that point. A hog can't
show emotions, but a man can. There is the epiphany of the story, where Mr.
Wiggins realizes that the purpose of life is to help make the world a
better place, and at that time he no longer minds visiting Jefferson and
begins becoming his friend.
Mr. Wiggins' relationship with his Aunt declined in this story,
although it was never very strong. His Aunt treated him like he should be a
hog and always obey, yet she wanted him to make a hog into a man. His Aunt
was not a very nice person, she would only show kindness towards people
who shared many of her views, and therefo .....
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Hard Times: Struggle Of Fact Vs Imagination And Struggle Between Two Classes
.... he deserves this
mediocre lifestyle. Blackpool was originally employed under Bounderby, but is
fired for standing up for his beliefs. This type of behavior was totally
unacceptable during the period of time as it involved imagination and
independance. Bounderby portrayed himself as a self-made man,when in fact, he
had eveything handed to him with a silver spoon. His mother gave him the very
best of everything, including a wonderful education. This demonstrates that the
upper and middle classes were not just two different classes, but two different
worlds. The book concludes with the upper class characters being forced into
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Orwell's "Such, Such Were The Joys....": Alienation And Other Such Joys
.... where you did not have to be
perpetually taken out of this warm nest and flung into a world of force and
fraud and secrecy, like a goldfish into a tank full of pike. (23)
Young Orwell, impacted by this, “hard,” disorienting situation, realizes he
is alone in a hostile, harsh environment. Orwell uses the image of the “
warm nest,” a womb, from which the child is thrown, then innocently forced
into a destructive reality. This reality is Crossgates, an educational
institution but also a primary residence, the “home” Orwell lives in on a
daily basis for a number of years. Far from the “love” of his familial
home, Orwell finds .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: Alienation
.... imagine. All our senses are
assaulted: we see newly dead soldiers and long-dead corpses tossed up
together in a cemetery (Chapter 4); we hear the unearthly screaming of the
wounded horses (Chapter 4); we see and smell three layers of bodies,
swelling up and belching gases, dumped into a huge shell hole (Chapter 6);
and we can almost touch the naked bodies hanging in trees and the limbs
lying around the battlefield (Chapter 9).
The crying of the horses is especially terrible. Horses have
nothing to do with making war. Their bodies gleam beautifully as they
parade along--until the shells strike them. To Paul, their dying .....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie Speaks Her Ideas
.... she wanted. When it came to Janie wanting to talk or speak her
mind, he would not let her, and that made her feel like she was less of a
person than he. Until one day, towards the end of their long marriage,
when Jody made a very mean comment about Janie's body. She came back with,
"When you pull down yo' britches, you look lak de change uh life." After
these words came out, Jody hit her. These harsh words could never be
forgiven. At the end of their marriage, before Jody died she finally told
him her feelings. "....And now you got tuh die tuh find out dat you got
tuh pacify somebody besides yo'self if you wants a .....
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