The Scarlet Letter: Sin-Stained Conscience
.... secrets…will yield them up that last day…with a joy unutterable." By this expression, Arthur offers a glimpse into his tortured heart and shows how heavy a burden his secret is. When Chillingworth further inquires about such sinful secrets, Arthur holds his hand to his breast, a motion that he carries out as "if afflicted with an importunate throb of pain." Evidently Arthur does this frequently, and the reader is presented with the thought that this gesture possibly is not done as much out of physical suffering as spiritual suffering. Not only is the health of Arthur’s body in question, but the condition of his heart .....
|
|
Man's Journey Into Self In The Heart Of Darkness And Apocalypse Now
.... Wilderness and feel the darkness of it's solitude. Marlow comes across simpler cannibalistic cultures along the banks. The deeper into the jungle he goes, the more regressive the inhabitants seem.
Kurtz had lived in the Congo, and was separated from his own culture for quite some time. He had once been considered an honorable man, but the jungle changed him greatly. Here, secluded from the rest of his own society, he discovered his evil side and became corrupted by his power and solitude. Here, secluded from the rest of the society, he discovered his evil side and became corrupted by his power and solitude. Marlow te .....
|
|
Herodotus' The History
.... Empire, signified tyranny and oppression. The West, represented by the Greek city-states, signified freedom. As Herodotus interprets the Persian Wars we see the beginnings of Western Civilization and the association of that tradition with freedom.
The Greeks had always been aware that foreign, barbarian peoples worshipped different gods and had customs different from their own. The rise of ethnographic studies, however, encouraged a systematic examination of the nature of human culture and society. To the Greeks this suggested that customs which they had always taken to be founded in immutable divine power, sanctioned by the .....
|
|
Austen’s Marriages And The Age Of Reason
.... fulfill the requirements of the age.
Mr. Collins will be the inheritor of the Bennet family’s home when Mr. Bennet dies. When Mrs.Bennet hears Mr.Collins may be interested in one of the daughters she is ecstatic because this will ensure that the home stays with one of her girls. Mr. Collins hears that Jane is involved with Mr. Bingley, so he moves on to Elizabeth. Lizzy flat out declines his proposal of marriage. Mr. Collins can not accept no as an answer. Mr.Collins simply needs someone to marry him. He does not care about love or beauty. Thus, When he meets Charlotte Lucas, it is obvious they can satisfy each others n .....
|
|
Old Man And The Sea: Themes
.... of Christ. It mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin, his helper, comes to his aid with food and drink. Also a point that might be good is that he has had bad luck with his goal for a great period of time and is sure it will work this time. Later, though, when Santiago needs him for the quest he sets out to do, Manolin deserts him, although he may not have wanted to at this time. In the novel Santiago comes upon a force bigger than his skiff, the marlin which mislead .....
|
|
Treasure Island: Teamwork Overcomes Greed
.... to get along and cooperate if they want to live. This shows the high maturity level of both these characters. Although most like to think age shows maturity level, the pirates are perfect examples of grown men who have not learned enough to live a life based on good morals and values.
Secondly, Jim Hawkins played an important part in the novel. Throughout the story, Jim learns from his mistakes and develops a more defined character. When Jim heard about the pirates’ plan to kill them, he was honest and immediately told the Squire of what he had learned. But even though he tried to do what he thought was best, Jim ended up .....
|
|
The Jungle
.... hardly any fingers left especially the tumb. Third workers who worked in chilling rooms had rheumatism. And finally those workers who made tin for the cans had badly cut hands and, chances of getting blood poisoning. This proved that bosses did not care if workers were sick our had chances of dying as long as there work was cheap. Another problem for workers was the political system. In the labor industry it was ran illegally. In Jurgis’s case his boss Mike Scully was in an organization called War Whoop League, who’s main purpose was to go out and buy votes. Seeing that votes could be bought you get the science the government did .....
|
|
The Theme Of Catch 22
.... ‘Illegal Tobacco, Illegal Tobacco” (Heller 421). This obsession with profit comes up as a major theme throughout the Bible and the book of Job is not an exception. Job’s friends bring up several times that if Job was less greedy maybe he would not be stricken with such a terrible plight. Job’s friend tells him “The heavens will reveal his sins, and the earth will give testimony against him. Hi wealth will disappear beneath the wrath of God. This is what awaits the wicked man, for God prepares it for him.” (Job 27:20-29). Although it is not revealed what becomes of Milo Minderbinder it might be assumed that it is unlu .....
|
|
Where Should The Line Be Drawn?
.... while under cover. Howard eventually turns himself in and is sent to Israel to be tried for war crimes. In the novel Mother Night, Howard’s crimes are not justified by his position in the CIA. Werner Noth, Police Chief of Berlin and Campbell’s father-in-law, believes that Campbell is a spy from the beginning. In a conversation with Campbell, Noth tells him he doesn’t care if he is a spy “because you could never have served the enemy as well as you served us”(80). This statement supports the idea that Campbell does his job too well and causes more harm than good.
Vonnegut divides the setting of the novel into three dis .....
|
|
The Scarlet Letter And Symbolism
.... from Pearl and others that she was forced into seclusion. Pearl represents the sins of both Hester and Dimmesdale. Pearl is said to be the direct consequence of sin (Martin 108). Their sins include lying to the people about the affair that led to Pearl. Hester realizes what Pearl represents when she does not hold Pearl up in front of the “A.” She carries the child around because it is a direct reflection of her sin. Hester is, “wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another” (Hawthorne 48).
Dimmesdale’s sin is not adultery but not having the courage to admit that he had adulterated. T .....
|
|
Lord Of The Flies: The Personification Of Evil
.... cut down hundreds of acres of rain forest to make a neighborhood. While exploring the island, Ralph says, “’this belongs to us’” (29). This statement epitomizes mans attitude towards our planet. People believe that because it’s not bolted down and nobody has written their name on it, they own it. Like the boys in the story, the island evolves from a untapped paradise to a barren, burnt out piece of land—good to evil.
All the boys, once innocent, are overcome by a savage instinct. What starts as playing turns into hunting; what starts as teasing turns into killing. Piggy, the smartest but ironically most disrespected boy, .....
|
|
Objectivism In The Founterhead
.... a person becomes what people want him to be he opens up his soul to be influenced. When a person gives pieces of your soul to too many people he is left with an empty shell. In effect that person becomes a virus, living off the souls of others but never re-obtaining a soul for himself. As a “virus” Keating would “have people right where you want them” because the “host” would not be able to rid itself of the virus. Keating would also have always be attached to his host in order to survive, but in the later half of The Fountainhead, Peter could find no person to feed off of, and he soon lost all his material possessions. Un .....
|
|
|
