Dr. Faust: Quest For Knowledge
.... soul to eternal damnation. Because he will have access to infinite knowledge and power, Faust feels the bargain is worthy. He does not see hell as a torment despite the difference of opinion Mephistophilis offers.
As the story works towards the actually signing of the contract, a divine intervention occurs as two miracles take place in an effort to stop Faust. He will sign with his own blood. As he writes, his blood congeals and Mephistophilis must find coals to dissolve it again. Suddenly, an inscription appears on his arm that suggests he flee. Faustus, without hesitation, proceeds with the signing. Twenty-four years .....
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The Joy Luck Club: Differences Between Generations
.... 241) Though not many of them grew up terribly poor, they all had a certain respect for their elders, and for life itself. These Chinese mothers were all taught to be honorable, to the point of sacrificing their own lives to keep any family members’ promise. Instead of their daughters, who "can promise to come to dinner, but if she wants to watch a favorite movie on TV, she no longer has a promise" (p. 42), "To Chinese people, fourteen carats isn’t real gold . . . [my bracelets] must be twenty-four carats, pure inside and out." (p. 42)
Towards the end of the book, there is a definite line between the differences of the tw .....
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A Scarlet Letter: Honesty Heals A Guilty Heart
.... than Roger Chillingworth in that she revealed her sin rather than concealing it, she faced her problems rather than running away from them, and Hester was an honest companion to Reverend Dimmesdale.
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, Hester Prynne was honest enough to herself to reveal the adulterous acts she had committed; whereas, Roger Chillingworth refrained from revealing the wrongs that he secretly performed. The first picture of Hester showed her stepping out of the town prison amid her neighbors and former friends, adorned in a beautiful gown marked with a scarlet “A.” She took her place on the scaffold and faced her emba .....
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Societies Clenching Paws
.... Strangely, the American sensibility seems to be more deeply ingrained in her than any other character in the movie. The freedom and the innocence that she displays is foreign to the New Yorkers that she talks to, although among Americans of the day her thoughts and actions she would be normal. The same type of personality is brought to Europe when Daisy Miller goes there. She is too free and uninhibited by her social calling. The Americans in Europe once again act more like Europeans than Daisy does.
Both Ellen and Daisy are women on their own. They are fish out of water in the societies that they are thrown into. Th .....
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I Am . . . ?
.... at this time: Fight and possibly die for a country that would show them no respect anyway, or choose not to fight and be hated and despised, as well as unrespected. This choice given to the Japanese-American’s was in essence a “catch 22.” Although Ichiro was an American by blood, to him, “it [was] not enough to be American only in the eyes of the law” (Okada 16). In other words, being considered American simply because he was born there was not enough to satisfy Ichiro’s search for his identity. It was merely words on paper with no solid meaning. Ichiro chose not to fight for either side and to just resign himself to the .....
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Battle With Fate
.... They were always trying to survive the unforgiving ocean. When the crew was finally within sight of land, and after all they had been through to stay alive, the ocean was still relentless holding the boat back from shore so it wouldn’t smash into the rocks and forcing the crew to swim in on the brink of exhaustion. The ocean was cruel despite the crew’s every effort the ocean was unforgiving.
From the beginning fate was against the crew sending signs that mocked their efforts. "The birds sat comfortably in groups, and they were envied by some in the dinghy, for the wrath of the sea was no more to them than it was to a covey of .....
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Animal Farm: Satire About Communism
.... and Snowball. They passed on ideas to the other animals, and gained disciples. The Rebellion came quicker than anybody expected it to. Out of being starved, the cows raided the feed bins. After seeing this, Mr. Jones, and some of his workers, went out there with whips. The cows could not take anymore, and chased them out. They had taken over Manor Farm. The pigs learned how to read, and they changed the name of Manor Farm to Animal Farm. They also came up with Seven Commandments of Animalism.
The animals worked hard and gave an endless effort. It was hard because the tools were made for man, and they could not stand on two le .....
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Escaping Harlem
.... that learns how important it is to respect other people’s philosophies. “Freedom lurked around us around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us to be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we would.” The narrator uses a limited omniscient point of view to describe Sonny’s brother. We learn about him through his thoughts and feelings. The next major character in the story is Sonny. He is developed by the narrator’s view and by Sonny’s own actions. He is a round character that adds a contrasting personality to that of the narrator’s. Their parents are flat characters that help further dev .....
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Emma
.... disastrous for her friend Harriet. Harriet Smith is a young girl of an unknown background, but she was a student at Mrs. Goddard’s School. Emma challenges herself to reform and refine Harriet. She becomes to aspire to see Harriet marry a person in a higher social station. Harriet is very pretty. She was "short, plump, and fair, with blue eyes and light hair, and a look of great sweetness." (Austen, 20)
The other main character of the story is Mr. Knightley. He is a sensible man of about thirty-seven. He is the elder brother of Isabelle’s husband and a friend of the Woodhouse family. Mr. Knightley had a very cheerful manner whi .....
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Snow Falling On Cedars
.... ? ". The two often spent time together "Look at this, Kabuo loaned it to me". Kabuo had lent Carl a bamboo fishing rod made by his father. Though this friendship was condemned by Etta Heine, it continued until such a time that the "real world" of maturity and prejudice and cultural differences removed was brought into their lives by the war.
Hatsue and Ishmael also shared a very close friendship for many years, from the time of childhood till their teens when the two became extremely close, to the point of sexual contact. "I want to marry you" , in a time where inter racial marriages were considered heinous by both cultures. H .....
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The Effect Of Major Symbolic Elements In The Yellow Wallpaper
.... a reflection of herself. She expresses how women have to move without being seen in society. The window does not represent a gateway for her. She can not enter what she can see outside of the window, literally, because John will not let her, (there are bars holding her in), but also because that world will not belong to her, she will be oppressed like all other women. She will be controlled, and be forced to suffocate her self-expression. The only prospect of possibilities that this window shows are all negative. It shows a world in where she will be oppressed and forced to creep like all the other women.
It is common to f .....
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The Societal Implications Of "The Yellow Wallpaper"
.... behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a women." (665). Eventually the narrator merges her life with the life of the woman behind the wallpaper.
The ever-changing pattern of the wallpaper divided the two worlds that the narrator was living in. The front of the wallpaper represented what society expected of women during that time. Generally, a woman was to be submissive to men as well as devoting all of their time to raising perfect children (849). Gilman describes the pattern of having no true design, but says "It is repeated, of course by the breadths, but not otherwise." (662). Most women were .....
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