A Rose For Emily: Emily's Life
.... sort of liberation for Emily. In a way it was, she could begin to date and court men of her choice and liking. Her father couldn’t chase them off any more. But then again, did she have the know-how to do this, after all those years of her father’s past actions? It also sounds as if the townspeople thought Emily was above the law because of her high-class stature. Now since the passing of her father she may be like them, a middle class working person.
Unfortunately, for Emily she became home bound. She didn’t socialize much except for having her manservant Tobe visit to do some chores and go to the store for her. Faulkner depicts .....
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Medea Is A Tragic Feminist Text
.... harmartia is led to their ultimate downfall. Medea is the tragic hero in this play and her tragic flaw is revenge and passion which, while challenging feminine stereotypes of the male dominant Greek society to achieve them, lead to her tragic downfall.
Jason betrays Medea by marring another woman (the princess) this enrages Medea and she starts to question the role and position of women in the patriarchal society. "Are we women not the wretchedness? We scratch and save a dowry to buy a man…Our lives depends on how his lordship feels. For better for worse we can’t divorce him."(p.8, Medea). However, "a husband tired of domesti .....
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"Miss Brill": Emptiness In One's Life
.... that the band knew what the ermine toque was feeling and played softly as the drum beat "The Brute! The Brute!" over and over. Her tendency to notice these things shows that she is melancholy with her own life and can find no other way to fill in her emptiness other than with the lives of other people.
A good quality Miss Brill has is her imagination. She imagines that the whole setting at the park is like a play with no audience. She feels that everyone is involved including herself. Miss Brill imagined that "they weren't only the audience, not only looking on; they were acting. Even she had a part and came every Sun .....
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Camus's The Stranger: The Sun
.... on his mother and his actions weren't concerned with that, but with the sun and his constant obsession with it.
One more example of the uses of the sun throughout this novel comes after Meursault kills the Arab. "I shook off the sweat and sun." (59) When the main character Meursault is explaining this action. The reader gets a sense that the sun has covered him. An implication that the sun was the one who committed the crime, instead of himself. These examples prove that the way Camus uses the sun throughout the novel gives it a personality, and an effect on the way Meursault does and sees things.
In this novel, there are m .....
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Catch-22 & One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest Black Humor; A Satirical View Of The Institution
.... but then they realize the seriousness of the situation, and the reader realizes that the joke is on them. The author knew that they would laugh, and the author knew that the reader would be disgusted with themselves because of it. Consequently, the very nature of this process and the sense of personal guilt that is involved invokes a sense of anger. This anger is directed towards the reason for the situation or absurdity. Therefore, the absurdities found in these novels is very effective and very poignant (Pratt 420).
Initially the situations in Catch-22 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest seem silly and without value to t .....
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Famous Mathematicians: A Book Review
.... of as the greatest mathematician, engineer, and physicist of ancient times. He was often asked by King Hieron to solve problems or assist in the safekeeping of Syracuse by developing different defense mechanisms. His mathematical works are concerned with many topics including plane geometry, cylinders, solid geometry, and arithmetic, especially with the estimation and notation of large numbers. A Roman soldier killed Archimedes as he was working on a geometric design in the sand but his mathematical works have challenged mathematicians for centuries.
Aryabhatta was a Hindu mathematician born near Patna, India in about AD 4 .....
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The Dark Tower, The Gunslinger
.... echoing in his ears: "Go, then. There are other worlds than these."
Roland eventually catches the “man in black”. The “man in black” gives the gunslinger a vision, which nearly explains the cosmos to Roland. Then Roland has his future read with tarot cards. (You know those ones the physics use, hahahaha) The “man in black says,"Three is the number of your fate," he intones, and these three he draws: a card showing a man with a baboon whipping his back: The Prisoner. A card showing a woman with two faces: The Lady of Shadows. And one showing Death: "But not for you, gunslinger."
After that Roland wakes up by water. This is .....
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John Cheever’s Portrayals Of Suburban Life
.... true. Cheever depicts life in American suburbs with humor and compassion in a way that no other can compare to.
Cheever is a self-expressive author who voices his opinion through writing quite effectively. In his novels Cheever creates his own idea of typical suburban New England life and characters. He keeps the main plot of his tales in the general area of New England but changes exact locations ranging from Falconer, to St. Boltophs, to the suburban scenery of Bullet Park, and lastly the deteriorating Beasley Pond.
No matter where Cheever is basing his story he always intertwines the same general theme and similar character .....
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Homesteading By Percy Wollaston
.... artful reticence, withholding the tragedy, yet letting it impinge, by suggestion, on the narrative." This quote is very true. The book was very straight forward. There was not much humor, but it sure made the reader feel the frustrating times of the early twentieth century. Percy Wollaston was the main character in the book. It was written from his point-of -view, and his memories of his early life. Mr. Wollaston describes the hard life of pioneer families on the Great Plains. He describes how families, including his own, traveled westward with the railroad to find a bit of fertile land they could call their own. "We chose a loc .....
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The Longest Day, By: Cornelius Ryan, Simon & Shuster, 1959
.... plans for D-Day and the decoding by an alert German intelligence officer of the actual Allied message to the French underground announcing the time of invasion.
The first half of The Longest Day is devoted to the allied preparations of attack and the German preparations for meeting it. This part of the novel is extremely informative. From the beginning of the novel a reader can learn things that for most people are not common knowledge, such as the weather deterrent that almost stopped the invasion before it commenced, it also became clear that although Supreme Commander, General Eisenhower consulted his commanders, he himself m .....
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“The Tale Of The Sangreal”: The Use Of Symbolism
.... are virgins, sinless, and humble. White once more represents purity and innocence.
Black can be used to symbolize death, evil, and hell as well as mourning, sickness, and sinfulness. Sir Percivale receives a black magnificent horse with supernatural powers. The black symbolizes evil and the devil because the horse was not really a horse but a fiend determined to destroy him. Sir Bors met a man on a black horse wearing a priest’s frock. The man led to his dead brother and pretended to explain Sir Bors’ dream by making him feel guilty. The man tries to convince Sir Bors to give into a woman who loves him. This man riding t .....
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Theme And Summary Of The Color Purple
.... of fourteen she is raped by her father who tells her that “…she better shut-up and git used to it.” She gets married to a amn that she does not love to escape the violence in her father’s house. This proved to only make things worse when it becmae appearent that her husband also was an abusive man. Th emarrige seems to be only benifiting Mr.____ (her husband is never named), as she takes care of the kids and his house. She gets so fed up with feeling that she is worth nothing that she starts to indentify with a tree, which shows no emotion. The tree also though is symbolic of constant growth and change, and Celie always striv .....
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