Brave New World: All Things Are Relative
.... and only now are we changing.
The society in Brave New World has not lost their values but has
simple changed their idea of what is right and wrong. After all, how much
have we changed in the past 600 years. Six-hundred years ago in England,
we killed people for conducting scientific experiments and believed this
was against the teachings of the church. The society in Brave New World is
a mirror to our own when we view the past. If a person from the present
were to see the sacrifices and eating of the human flesh by the Aztec
Indians, that person would see it as barbaric in contrast to his own
culture. Isn't i .....
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Charles Dicken's Novels: Literary Criticism
.... from the post in Portsworth to one in
London. Three years later the family moved to Chatham to be closer to their
father who was working steadily at the post. Charles Dickens's mother taught
him to read when he was barely five and for the next few years Dickens lived
wonderfully, reading every book he could get his hands on. He quickly read
through his father's collection of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Defoe, Smollett,
Fielding, and Goldsmith. Every one of these authors left a mark on the young
mind of Charles Dickens which is easy to see in his style and attitude
throughout writings (Carey 6).
During this time Dickens st .....
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"A Man For All Seasons" By Robert Bolt: More's Moral Dilemma
.... support the divorce through
Meg. While More is in jail for failing to take an oath supporting the
divorce, Meg tries to convince him to take the oath, and she says, "Say
the words of the oath and in your heart think otherwise," (page 81). More
responded to this by saying, "What is an oath then but words we say to
god?" (page 81). Meg is applying direct pressure on More by asking him to
say the oath and not believe in it, so he will get the benefits of
believing it and stick to his morals at the same time. However, More
thinks this is against Catholic religion because he thinks of an oath as
"words we say to God," so he certai .....
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The Jungle By Sinclair: A Man Of Many Colors
.... power to be an ideal husband.
Rudkis, like many other good-hearted people, had to circumb to the
evil powers of greed. He buys an expensive house that he could not afford.
He could settele for a house of lesser value that suits his needs just as
well, but he doesn't. Eventhough he is somewhat conned into buying it, his
greed still convinced him. Shortly after this, he is so eager to get more
money, that he starts to behave immoraly. After he lost his job due to an
injury, he sinks into a life of crime as a foe of society. He becomes a
mugger and a grafter. He dupes fellow workers as an undercover operative
for the Democrat .....
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Melville's "Bartleby The Scrivener": Introduction Of Character
.... much more from the lawyer's first person point of view.
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Oliver Twist: Summary
.... whose specialty is fenang (selling stolen property).
He employs a gang of thieves and is always looking for new recruits. He is a
man of considerable intelligence, though corrupted by his self-interest. His
conscience bothers him after he is condemned to hang. He does have a wry sense
of humor and an uncanny ability to understand people. He's a very old
shrivelled Jew, whose villainous looking repulsive face was obscured by a
quantity of matted red hair.
Mr. Brownlow - A generous man, concerned for other people. A very respectable
looking person with a heart large enough for any six ordinary old gentleman of
humane dis .....
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An Analysis Of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"
.... her love of literature, to open this barrier and allow
Maya to end the silence. By doing this, it enhanced Maya's courage and
willingness to conquer other barriers and fortresses. Maya's love of
literature expanded and opened her horizons. One of Maya's favorite pieces
of literature is The Tale of Two Cities. She enjoyed it because it was a
tale of her life, although in different cities, now being St. Louis and
Stamps, it seemed as if she was reading her own autobiography, which is, in
fact, rather portentous and foreshadowing. With the first line of the book
being, "it was the best of times and the worst of times...", it pain .....
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An Analysis Of Gulliver's Travels
.... stupid reason, he also points out the meaningless in
courtlife were they do nothing but waste the states money.
At he lilliputians he builds a raft which he uses to sail back to England.
But instead he finds himself shipwrecked and washed upon the shores of
Brumbidang or the giants land. there he was found by a farmer whom handed
him over into his daughters care. The farmer uses Gulliver for finical
reasons and shows him up as a side-showfreak at all the inns in the land.
In the giants land there are no classdeffirences this is something that
probably Swift wanted to introduce to the British system.
In this book Swift also attac .....
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A Comparison Of The Magic In "The Rocking-Horse Winner" And "A Very Old Man
.... have
outgrown long ago. No one would believe that the rocking-horse essentially
talked to him. Although the characters in "A Very Old Man with Enormous
Wings" believe that an angel is in their presence, they have no idea what
to do with him. No one had ever dealt with a spirit on this level before.
As he rocked back and forth on his rocking horse, Paul had faith in
finding the winner of the next horse race. For some reason they could not
explain, Paul's uncle and Bassett had faith in him to pick it. They kept
making money on the young boy with faith. The boy, whose parents had no
luck, also had the faith that they did no .....
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An Analysis Of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": The Wife Of Bath's Tale
.... a work by Muriel
Bowden, Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, she explains that
the knights of the Middle Ages were "merely mounted soldiers, . . .
notorious" for their utter cruelty(18). The tale Bath's Wife weaves
exposes that Chaucer was aware of both forms of the medieval soldier.
Where as his knowledge that knights were often far from perfect is
evidenced in the beginning of Alison's tale where the "lusty" soldier rapes
a young maiden; King Arthur, whom the ladies of the country beseech to
spare the life of the guilty horse soldier, offers us the typical
conception of knighthood.
In addition to acknowledging t .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Faults Of Social Structure
.... way the people of St. Antoine
get crazy from being in such a violent situation is the fault that is being
described here. When the wood-sawyer starts talking about his saw as "his little
guillotine" it shows that he is affected and is a "typical revolutionary", with
a cruel regard for life. Another place where Dickens describes this revolution
lunacy is when the crowd of "five thousand demons" come around the corner
"dancing" to the Carmagnole, the song of the revolution. This shows that
everyone who has a part in the revolution has become like one, a large mass of
mindless people who only have death on their minds.
The third fau .....
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An Analysis Of "Heart Of Darkness"
.... Roman times, London's
own river led, like the Congo, into a barbarous hinterland where the Romans
went to make their profits. Soon darkness fell over London, while the
ships that bore "civilization" to remote parts appeared out of the dark,
carrying darkness with them, different only in kind to the darkness they
encounter.
These thoughts and feelings were merely part of the tale, for Conrad
had a more personal story to tell, about a single man who went so far from
civilization that its restraints no longer mattered to him. Exposed to the
unfamiliar emotional and physical demands of the African wilderness, free
to do exactl .....
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