Summary Of The Heart Of Darkness
.... Finally, the steamer reaches the mouth of the
Congo and Marlow disembarks.
Here, he boards another steamer, commanded by a Swede, and starts
on his first leg of his journey up the river. The captain tells him of the
sad fate of another Swede who had apparently hanged himself. Again and
again Marlow is struck by the incongruity of the European presence in
Africa.
Marlow goes ashore at the Company station, which is surrounded by
broken machinery, dying slaves, and an aura of useless effort. The company
accountant, an oddly out-of-place fellow dressed in a starched shirt,
polished shoes and a suit, tells Marlow about Kurtz. It .....
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Analysis Of Animal Farm
.... get home until noon and then went to sleep until late that evening.
The animal had gone unfed that whole day. Then one of the cows could not
stand it any more and broke the door to the store-shed. She and the rest
of the cows started eating the feed in the shed. This commotion awoke
Jones, and he and his farm hands came at the cows with whips. The other
animals then began the attack by butting and kicking the men. Jones and
his men then retreated and the animals had won the Manor Farm.
What happened next:
The next thing that happened in this book was that Snowball was
chased out of Animal Farm, formerly Manor Farm. .....
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The Great Gatsby: America Degenerates Into A Place Of Moral Destitution
.... the luxuries that accompanied their status, exploiting
those below them as a means to reaffirm their superiority.
Consequently, James Gatz, under the influence of characters like
Dan Cody and Meyer Wolfshiem, underwent a self-transformation to become
Gatsby, a new man who was founded on his "Plutonic conception of himself."
As the embodiment of idealism and innocence, Gatsby strives to create order
and purpose yet he is faced with hostile surroundings and thus his attempts
to are futile. All Gatsby wants is to seize the green light in his fingers
but light is intangible, and like Gatsby's dream, it will always remain
beyond h .....
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T.S. Elliot's "Tradition And The Individual Talent" And Alain Locke's "The New Negro
.... with this view is that it creates the
misconception among the general public that good poetry is not at all
related to anything that has been done before, and it must instead be
something entirely new to be good.
This misconception was especially destructive because it caused
people to ignore the influence of great writers of the past upon
contemporary ones. Elliot states that "…in critical writing we tend to look
for what is original in a piece of work if we like it, so therefore do not
pay attention to what elements are traditional" (ibid.). Further, he states
that "One of the facts that might come to light in this process i .....
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The Great Gatsby: Moral Decline Through The Interpersonal Relationships
.... to be higher in society. Gatsby plays the god-like character in this
book so his means are good but both him and Myrtle do bad things to get
higher in a crowd that will never take them in. To make themselves appear
better to the other crowd, they lose some of the moral fiber that was there
to begin with. (Fitzgerald, -page 83) Loss of morals in the 1920' in
America caused the American dream to vanish. The god-like character of the
book was a good person but he did bad things like bootlegging and joining
in organized crime. Affairs happened in the elite crowd between Tom and
Myrtle. Dishonesty reared its ugly head when Daisy killed .....
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Animal Farm: The Effect Of Propaganda
.... was to be used for luxuries that would make life better for
everyone on Animal Farm. Snowball also said that although the construction
would be difficult all animals would benefit in the long run. His positive
attitude, ideas and propaganda excited the animals so much that they wanted
to build it, until the demise of Snowball and his crimes of treason.
Napoleon decided to use propaganda in a negative manner to destroy
the reputation of Snowball's righteousness. During a vote when the animals
of Animal Farm were to decide the fate of the windmill, the animals seemed
to be siding with Snowball. That is when Napoleon implemented his .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: A Bridge From Innocence To Adulthood
.... error attitude about adulthood in the sense he failed out of school,
which was a childish act. He tries to rectify his failing out of school by
leaving, which he views as an adult act. Holden's leaving school
represents his need for independence and he achieves this by leaving.
Another of Holden's failed attempts at adulthood is when he goes
down to he hotels club where he orders an alcoholic drink, but he is
refused because the waiter will not serve him because he is underage.
Holden tries to give the illusion that he is older because when he orders
the drink, he “Orders it fast as possible, because if you hem and haw they
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Analysis Of Chris Marker's "La Jetee", And Roland Barthes's "Camera Lucida"
.... “film” itself. Simply the fact
that I have to put the word film in quotes when applying it to La Jetee is
perhaps the strongest evidence of the enigma that this film has been
throughout its history. What exactly is la Jetee? This is a question that
haunted my research. How do you take a book about photography, and apply
its statements to this “film?” Now, obviously there are some answers to
this question. Marker's film is of course largely about photography
because it is largely photography. However, in many ways it also defies
classification. We have a series of heterogeneous photographs. There is
nothing to separate the .....
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Adam Smith's Wealth Of Nations
.... common commodity because they were non-perishable and could be
divided. Metals were first used as crude bars of iron or copper with
richer nations using gold and silver. Eventually, the bars evolved into
money as we know it today, stamped by public office known as mint.
This first portion of Wealth of Nations struck me as a mini course in
basic economics. However, given the time period it was written, it did
give me an insight into how our own country prospered so greatly in such a
short time using natural resources, division of labor, and machinery.
Also, as I read about the division of labor and how it has prosper .....
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Billy Budd: Perfect Character In Unjust Microcosm
.... physical appearance to that of Alexander the conqueror creating an
image of a superior being.
Billy is an "honest soul" and wants simple peace and quiet. (THAAL,
pg. 2514) The simple peace that he seeks may represent the romantic view of
a noble savage, who has goodness because he is untainted by the corruption
in society. Melville has interest in the noble savage and creates Billy
Budd to represent this idea. Billy seems naturally good with no sins in his
character. He lives a simple and serious life. For example, when Claggart
makes fun of him, Billy does not understand the "humor" in his statement.
(THAAL, pg. .....
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The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer: Summary
.... pail of
water from the town pump so Tom said that he would get the water if Jim
would whitewash some. Jim said no so Tom was stuck with whitewashing until
Ben Rogers came eating a apple, and said "Hello, old chap, you got to work,
hey?" Tom told him that it wasn't work it was fun. Then Ben stoped eating
his apple, and said "Say, Tom let me whitewash a little" Tom told him no
because his aunt wanted this fence to be whitewashed carefuly. Then Ben
said that he would be careful, and that he would give Tom the core of his
apple. Then Tom said he could whitewash a little. By the time Ben was tired
Tom had traded the next chance to Bill .....
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Kafka's The Trial: The Reality Of Guilt
.... some even more than one or two pages long. In
chapter two when Joseph is speaking at the Court of Inquiry, he is abruptly
interrupted by the shrieks of a woman. Kafka explains the scene in almost
two pages, paying extreme attention to detail. Most of his descriptions
seem unnecessary, redundant, and quite confusing. At one point he is
describing the scene of one part of the room, then Kafka describes a
revelation, which occurs to Joseph about the men to whom he is speaking.
Ordinarily, an author would designate a separate paragraph to Joseph's
revelation about the men and his situation. Kafka however continues his
ideas in .....
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