The Ironies In Orwell's 1984
.... person makes keeping them controlled with fear.
The next type of irony is Situation irony, which is when a character
or a sequence of events appears to be headed one way, but it ends up as the
opposite of what was thought. One example of this is Winston's general
health. From the beginning of the book, it is shown how horrible his
health is and is continually getting worse and more difficult, but as
Winston gets involved with Julia then he begins a metamorphosis into a more
healthy person. Another major example is the betrayal of many of the
people whom Winston thought were his friends, such as Mr. Charrington and
even O .....
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Lord Of The Flies And Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: Similarities Of The Characters
.... Simon is perhaps the most mature
person on the island because he was able to tell that there was no such
thing as a beast but rather the fears that there might be a beast within
them. Simon is a complete opposite of Jack , he is more like a saint of
the group, a good example would be when they saw the dead man on a
parachute hanging on the trees, he freed him. Roger is Jack's right hand
man. Roger uses brutality by the strongest means. He is by far considered
the most evil character in the book. Sam & Eric are twins who are not
capable of doing things without each other. Later on they forget their
identity because of the f .....
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The Glass Menagerie: Symbols
.... business college, becomes obsessed with finding her a gentleman
caller so that she can marry and be well supported. When this caller
finally comes, and it seems like it was meant to be, as they dance and kiss,
he announces he is engaged, and dashes their hopes. The ever-fragile Laura,
temporarily drawn out of her dream-world shell of her glass collection and
the victrola, draws further back into herself. Now a terrible desperation
fills the apartment, and Tom decides he must escape the suffocating
environment to follow his own calling. The fire escape to him represents a
path to the outside world. For Laura, the fire escape is exa .....
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Heart Of Darkness: The Symbol Of Ivory
.... and Kurtz. Kurtz's relationship with ivory
seems to have been reiterated by every company member through the course of
the story. Of course Kurtz “harvested” more ivory than all the other
stations combined, and therefore it almost seems appropriate that Conrad
would use extensive ivory imagery in describing Kurtz. Earlier, during his
digression on Kurtz, Marlow says, “The wilderness had patted him on the
head, and, behold, it was like a ball—an ivory ball”. By the time that
Kurtz is carried out on a stretcher the evil has so overtaken him that, “I
could see the cage of his ribs all astir, the bones of his arms waving. It
was .....
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Symbolism In "The Pearl" By John Steinbeck
.... world. By the end of this relentless parable, the reader sees
the irony in the fact that even a good person can be led astray by his
feeling of inner responsibility to provide for his family (Warren 128).
Kino's actions, which are being motivated to raise Coyotito, his son, in
greatness leads to the death of Coyotito, which is Kino's greatest loss
(McCarthy 108). Through these symbols which Kino represents, the reader
can witness how many desires in life can lead to disaster.
Coyotito is a product of Kino. This ties him into the story as one
of the main characters even though Steinbeck speaks of Coyotito few times
in the nove .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism Of The Letter A
.... had fortified
herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely
wreaking itself in every variety of insult but there was a quality so much
more terrible in the solemn mood of popular mind, that she longed rather to
behold all those rigid countenances contorted with scornful merriment and
herself the object"(54). This implies that Hester's sin of bearing a child
without the presence of a husband will always be remembered.
In the middle of the novel is a transition period where the letter
"A" is viewed differently than before. In this section of the novel,
Hester's appearance is altered to where she is no lon .....
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Symbolism In The Glass Menagerie
.... throughout the whole play in many other forms.When Laura dropped
out of college she constantly visited the zoo,a glass house of tropical
flowers that are as vulnerable as she is.During Laura's and Jim's brief
romantic encounter,Laura is gaining more confidence about herself.It seems
as if she is starting to escape her world of illusions.When they started
dancing together,Jim accidently knocked the little glass horse over.
Laura,who usually worships her glass collection more than anything
else,replied to his excuse;"He's lost his horn.It doesn't matter.Maybe
it's a blessing in disguise." and "I'll just imagine he had an
operati .....
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Janette Turner Hospital: 4 Vivid Female Characters In Her Two Novels
.... the fate designated Juliet's future. She is married to Dave on her
own accord. Therefore, she does what a good wife is supposed to do.
1. Reviewed in : Booklist v.79 p.994 Apr 1, 1983
2. " The Ivory Swing " p.18
In Kerala, where David is on sabbatical to study primitive Indian
culture, the couple encounters Yashoda," a widow who does not accept the
fate and rigid rules of her culture." Yashoda wants the right to wear
jewellery, to appear in public; most of all, she wants love. She does not
care about either inauspicious or disgrace. She even runs the risk of
being penalized to travel with Anni .....
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Talk So Kids Will Listen And Listen So Kids Will Talk: A Review
.... people use is The
Philosophical Response: "Look, life is like that." This just makes most
people mad. Pity is heard by a lot by people and it makes the listener
feel more pitiful. In the book it tells the reader that you, the listener,
do not always need to respond and it can be helpful if you do not always
respond to the person verbally.
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Tarrou: The Plague's Only Hero
.... explain the plague (109-10). Cottard
wholeheartedly embraces the plague, revels in it, and attempts to profit
from it. The rest of the people either waste their time, waiting for the
end (the old man spitting on the cats, the bean-counter, etc.) or join the
sanitation squad, under Tarrou. Nobody takes a stand and resists death
except Rieux and Tarrou.
Rieux and Tarrou do seem to show the same level of heroism. Both
resist the plague, both are symbolically cleansed in the river, and both
record the events of Oran. Brée thinks that for Rieux "morality is first
of all a question of curing people (150)." Rieux fights the plague .....
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The Odyssey: Telemachus And His Development
.... mess that the suitors are
to blame for. Telemachus knows that his father would handle the situation
with the suitors in a much more aggressive manner than he does. Odysseus
would kill all of them for being treacherous beings, while Telemachus does
nothing but whine. Telemachus says "how his noble father might come back
out of the blue, drive the suitors headlong from the house, and so regain
his loyal honors, and reign over his own once more"(The Odyssey, Homer,
1980 Oxford University Press, W. Shewring)(pg. 17)
It is not till Telemachus receives divine attention that he even
begins to mature in the least bit. Athene has to .....
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The Cause And The Loss: Comparison Between "Mice And Men" And "Flowers
.... Laughing at
me. And the kids playing hide-and-go-seek were playing tricks on me and
they were laughing at me too... I felt naked" (page 30). All of a sudden
Charlie realized everyone had always laughed at him, not with him, and he
suddenly ashamed/naked. In his innocence he had requested "smartness" and
with it came the loss of his innocence followed by shame then anger.
In both cases Lenny and Charlie were tempted and in their innocence
they accepted. In both cases their innocence was lost. Although their
innocence may have appeared to others as a struggle to both Lenny and
Charlie it was a paradise, and they knew that. .....
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