Animal Farm: Utopia
.... fields of England, Shall be trod by beasts alone.
Rings shall vanish from our noses, And the harness from our back, Bit and
spur shall rust forever, Cruel whips no more shall crack.
Riches more than mind can picture, Wheat and barley, oats and hay, Clover,
beans, and mangel-wurzels Shall be ours upon the day...(p.22-23)
After the song the animals were even more excited. They sing the song so
loud it wakes Mr. Jones up. Mr. Jones starts firing his gun into the
darkness. This quickly scatters the animals. Three days later Old Major
dies so Snowball and Napoleon take over but Napoleon wants all the power.
Snowball does .....
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Animal Farm: Animal Satire
.... that George Orwell's Animal Farm is a
political satire which was written to criticise totalitarian regimes and
particularly Stalin's practices in Russia. In order to provide background
information that would reveal causes led Orwell to write Animal Farm,
Chapter one is devoted to a brief summary of the progress of author's life
and significant events that had impact on his political convictions.
Chapter one also presents background information about Animal Farm. Chapter
two is devoted to satire. In this chapter, definition of satire is
presented and some important characteristics of satire are discussed. In
chapter three, the m .....
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All The King's Men: History's Importance
.... mankind blessed in faculty and apprehension. It all depends on what you
do with the dirt."1 In this case, Stark is referring to the past as dirt -
something to be used in many ways. The way he chooses to use it of course
is as blackmail; "Then he would lean suddenly forward, at the man, and say,
not slow and easy now, `God damn you, do you know what I can do to you?'
And he could too. For he had the goods."2 Thus history is important to
Stark as the device by which he maintains power.
Both Stark and Burden use history differently according to the way it
figures into their lives. To Stark, ultimate power being paramount, histo .....
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Jane Austen: Background Of Her Novels
.... of the general style".
In 1809 Jane Austen, her mother, sister Cassandra, and Martha Lloyd moved
to Chawton, near Alton and Winchester, where her brother Edward provided a
small house on one of his estates. This was in Hampshire, not far from her
childhood home of Steventon. Before leaving Southampton, she corresponded
with the dilatory publisher to whom she had sold Susan (i.e. Northanger
Abbey), but without receiving any satisfaction.
She resumed her literary activities soon after returning into Hampshire,
and revised Sense and Sensibility, which was accepted in late 1810 or early
1811 by a publisher, for publicatio .....
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Kate Chopin's The Awakening
.... the book Edna takes many steps to increase her independence. She
sends her children away, she refuses to stay at home on Tuesdays (as was
the social convention of the time), she frequents races and parties.
Unfortunately, her independence proves to be her downfall.
Edna stays married because divorce was unheard of in those days. She wants
to marry Robert, but he will not because it will disgrace her to leave her
husband. No matter how much Edna exceeds social boundaries, she is held
down by the will of others, despite what she wants. In today's world
divorce, sadly, is almost commonplace, but in her time she would have been
an out .....
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Bartleby: "I Prefer Not To,"
.... while trying to isolate Bartleby, becomes affected by it, so much
so that he appears almost human. Instead of dismissing him on the spot for
refusing to copy, proofread or leave the premises, he tries to find other
employment for him, and even considers inviting him to live in his
residence as his guest. The narrator develops before our eyes into a caring
person, very different from the cold, unsympathetic person at the beginning
of the story. "To befriend Bartleby, to humor him in his strange
willfulness, will cost me little or nothing, while I lay up in my soul what
will eventually prove a sweet morsel for my conscience." .....
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Black Boy
.... thirsty lions at heart, as was
demonstrated in the book Black Boy.
The setting of Black Boy is in the deep south of Jackson,
Mississippi where whites attempted to tame into submission blacks by hard
discipline. Such was the case for Richard in Black Boy, his autobiography.
It seemed that the more Richard gained success, the more he was hurt. In
Black Boy, Richard is abused by whites because he reminds the whites of
their lack of identity and failure to meet society's expectations. Their
lives became bland and their world became, "bleak and undeniable." (193)
The largeness, the coldness, and squalor of the world to the white
raci .....
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The Tragic Love Triangle Of Yonville
.... passion, and ecstasy". Emma had a character that was 1)
dissatisfied 2) adulterous and 3) free spending. For a while she was
excited and pleased by her marriage, but overwhelmed by her new life, she
quickly became dissatisfied. As a result of her dissatisfaction she became
mentally ill.
For the sake of her health the Bovary's moved to a new town, Yonville,
where their daughter was born. Emma's unhappiness continued, and she began
to have romantic feelings toward Leon, a young law clerk. After Leon left
the town in order to attend law school. Emma's boredom and frustration
became more intense after Leon left. She began to fo .....
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The Pardoner And The "Brothers"
.... ways. Even the youngest decides to "put it in his mind
to buy poison / With which he might kill his two companions" (383, 384).
The greed, which is evident in the character of the Pardoner, is also
clearly seen in the tale.
Another trait that is displayed by the Pardoner and a character in his tale
is hypocrisy. Although the Pardoner is extremely greedy, he continues to
try and teach that "Avarice is the root of all evil" (6). The characters
in his tale display great hypocrisy as well. As the tale begins, the
friends all act very trustworthy and faithful towards all of their friends.
They nobly make a decision to risk their .....
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The Canterbury Tales: A Character Sketch Of Chaucer's Knight
.... Russia, Spain, North Africa, and Asia Minor where he "was of
[great] value in all eyes (l. 63). Even though he has had a very
successful and busy career, he is extremely humble: Chaucer maintains that
he is "modest as a maid" (l. 65). Moreover, he has never said a rude thing
to anyone in his entire life (cf., ll. 66-7). Clearly, the knight possesses
an outstanding character.
Chaucer gives to the knight one of the more flattering descriptions in the
General Prologue. The knight can do no wrong: he is an outstanding
warrior who has fought for the true faith_according to Chaucer_on three
continents. In the midst of .....
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Go Ask Alice
.... is losing interest and everything's dull. I think she just
is going through the "teenager blues".
Julie Brown had a party but she didn't go because she gained seven whole
pounds. I don't think that seven pounds is a big deal.
On September 30th her father was invited to be the "Dean of Political
Science at --------- ". She says that she is gonna become a new person by time
she gets her new house and that it is gonna be so great. Good maybe now she will
quit crying about her dull life. She says that she is gonna exercise every
morning, eat right, clean my skin (what she never had a bath before), be
optimistic, cheerful and posi .....
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Gorbachev: Analysis Of Three Books About Gorbachev
.... these changes
necessary.
The first book "Gorbachev" was written by Zhores A. Medvedev in 1986 and hence
the author is concentrating on the first year of the new course in Soviet
history. The book itself basically consists of two parts: the first part where
the author describes the "making of a General Secretary", and the second part
entitled "Gorbachev in power" which describes Gorbachev's first year in the
office. The first part of the book gives a lot of background information which
allows the reader to see the stages in development of the Soviet leader from
childhood and youth to second-in-command. One thing I found to b .....
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