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 no .....
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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 f .....
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"Down And Out Paris And London"
.... admit a hundred tramps in one night, and these
are handled by a staff of at most three porters. A hundred ruffians could
not be controlled by three unarmed men. Indeed, when one sees how ramps
let themselves be bullied by the work house officials, it is obvious that
they are the most docile, broken-spirited creatures imaginable. "(p. 204)
About the term "drunkard" Orwell disagrees also saying:
"Or take the idea that all tramps are drunkards -- an idea ridiculous on
the face of it. No doubt many tramps would drink if they got the chance,
but in the nature of things they cannot get the chance. At this moment a
pale watery stuf .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Do You Dread Guilt?
.... suppose 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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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, a .....
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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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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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Early American Literature By Stephen Crane And Robert E. Lee About War
.... in a
sarcastic way. For example, he talks about how peoples loved ones are
dying. And then later he says "Do not weep. War is Kind." In this poem
he really shows us that Americans were really tired of war.
In the "Letter to His Son" Robert E. Lee also depicts his attitude,
as well as other Americans, towards war very well. Many Americans hated
war, but still some were very patriotic. Robert E. Lee was definitely one
of them. In this letter he talks about how he hates war but he will fight
for his country if he has to. Many Americans at this time felt this way.
Americans at this time were very patriotic, and were willing .....
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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 somewh .....
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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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Elie Wiesel
.... from his lips. No one wanted to believe his story and people lived
life as usual.
It was not until German troops would enter Hungarian territory that
life would change for the Jews of Signet. At first the German soldiers did
not seem like a threat. During the week of Passover things seemed to be
going well. People were celebrating yet, it was not a complete celebration.
On the seventh day of the Passover Jewish leaders of the community were
arrested. After that rules were set by the Germans. Jews were confined to
their homes for three days and they could no longer keep valuables such as
gold, jewelry and other objects .....
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Eliot's Views Of Sexuality As Revealed In The Behavior Of Prufrock And Sweeney
.... do, instead of yielding to his own natural feelings. He wrestles with
his desires to change his world and with his fear of their rejection. He
imagines how foolish he would feel if he were to make his proposal only to
discover that the woman had never thought of him as a possible lover; he
imagines her brisk, cruel response; "That is not what I meant, at all."
He imagines that she will want his head on a platter and they did
with the prophet John the Baptist. He also fears the ridicule and
snickers of other men when she rejects him.
Prufrock imagines "And would it have been worth it, after all," and
if she did not rejec .....
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