The True Devils In Salem
.... each other, they become more and more frightened of being accused as witches, so Abigail starts accusing others of practicing witchcraft. The other girls all join in so that the blame will not be placed on them. In The Crucible, Abigail starts the accusations by saying, "I go back to Jesus; I kiss his hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!" Another girl, Betty, continues the cry with, "I saw George Jacobs with the Devil! I saw Goody Howe with the Devil!" >From here on, the accusations grow and grow until the jails overflow with accused witches. It must have gi .....
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A Comparison Of Huckleberry Finn And On The Road
.... about what he is saying, and Twain is using Huck's character to show the underlying humor. Also, like Kerouac's Sal, Huck is a magnificent observer: Huck notices the details of what everyone around him is doing.
One of the first things that becomes apparent about Huck's character is that he values his personal freedom more than he values money. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom and Huck found $12,000 worth of buried treasure, which they split. After the money was invested, it began earning them $1 a day in interest, which, by Huck' account, "was more than a body could tell what to do with" (Twain 1). However, the m .....
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The Legendary King Arthur
.... sword in the anvil is when Ector, Kay, and Arthur hear of Uther's death form King Pellinore. The similarities and differences evident in a variety of tellings of the Arthurian legend combine to prove that, across the centuries, the tale has remained alive and well and continues to prove that, across the centuries, the tale has remaine alive and well and continues to thrive in the late twentieth century. Although the various version differ in some of their details of the making of a king, each version depicts Arthur as a young man who deserves almost magical powers from a sword. The stories differ as to how Arthur takes possessio .....
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Invisible Man: The Voice Of The Dispossessed
.... to set the tone for the surreal delivery of his speech. After the battle royal his mouth is bleeding and his eye is swollen. He's having a hard tInvisible Mane seeing the crowd. We can make symbolic connections to his Invisible Manpaired vision and how he does not see his circumstance very clearly, as well as the blood he must swallow to continue his speech. The white men ignore hInvisible Man and only occasionally ask hInvisible Man to repeat something he has said, until he stumbles over the words social "equality." The room becomes deadly quiet and, "The laughter hung smokelike in the sudden stillness." The crowd begins .....
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Invisible Man: Denial Of Education For Blacks
.... “I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I am witnessing a revelation or a more efficient blinding” (36).
Another point that shows a denial of education to the blacks is how the college gives the students an “education,” but when it all comes down to it, the college has taught the blacks nothing of the real world. The Invisible Man calls the college a “flower-studded wasteland” because he realizes later on in the novel that his time spent in college was useless. The college does not prepare him or anyone for the type of life they (the s .....
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Revenge In The Crucible
.... by society. With the trials keeping all of the city officials busy,
People took matters into their own hands. This led to even more conflicts between men in the town, which then led to more accusations and victims of the ongoing trials. With so much confusion present the truth became anybody's guess.
Revenge was placed upon enemies when the girls learned the powers they had through the court. Abigail had been out to get Elizabeth Proctor from the get go, and now her window of opportunity showed its face. "You drank a charm to kill goody Proctor" (19). This shows Abigail's ambitions of getting rid of Elizabeth so that she can .....
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A Thousand Acres: The Monopoly Game
.... of their lives that Smiley left out.
The infamous monopoly tournament between Ginny, Ty, Rose, Pete, and Jess went beyond a mere harmless board game played to pass the time and fill pages of the book. Beneath the seemingly innocent game lays the symbolism and significance Smiley used to describe the characters in a different light and to tie the tournament to the rest of the novel. Within these few scenes the reader acquires a wider vision of life off of the Cook farm and out of Zebulon County.
Unquestionably overlooked by some, each piece of the monopoly game chosen is symbolic in some sense to the individual who chose .....
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Candide's Constant Search For Satisfaction
.... standing to a slave, and Cunégonde was forced into slavery as well. Candide's search for freedom ends up getting him in a great deal of trouble everywhere he goes. From Lisbon to Cadiz to Eldorado to Surinam to Bordeaux to Portsmouth to Venice and many other unknown lands, Candide finds nothing but trouble. At the conclusion of Candide's adventures, he is reunited with his close friends whom he never thought he would see again. They end up living together, despite many misfortunes, and prospered only after they started working again to make life better for each other.
Throughout the story there is a constant battle between go .....
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Social Injustices In Huckleberry Finn
.... Watson. Miss Watson constantly corrects Huck for his unacceptable behavior, but Huck doesn’t understand why, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it" (2). Later when Miss Watson tries to teach Huck about Heaven, he decides against trying to go there, "...she was going to live so as to go the good place. Well, I couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn’t try for it." (3) The comments made by Huck clearly show Miss Watson as a hypocrite, scolding Huck for wanting to smoke and then using snuff herself and firmly believing that .....
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Anne Bradstreet And Sarah Kemble Knight: Writing Styles
.... any of various things she encountered. She was a keen social observer and she was not hesitant to write with humor of those people by whom she was entertained. Her accounts are mostly non-fictional with a bit of reflective observation; she spares no details to good taste.
Knight and Bradstreet emerged from very different backgrounds. Bradstreet was raised in the house of a British nobleman. At sixteen, she married a scholar who eventually became the governor of Massachusetts. She came to America with her husband and parents, and she moved with her husband to a small town outside of Boston, where she lived as a devoted Purita .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Willy's Escape
.... deal with the problems they encounter, but Willy Lowman takes it one step further. His refusal to accept reality is so strong that in his mind he is transported back in time to relive one of the happier days of his life. It was a time when no one argued, Willy and Linda were younger, the financial situation was less of a burden, and Biff and Happy enthusiastically welcomed their father back home from a long road trip. Willy's need for the "drug" is satiated and he is reassured that everything will turn out okay, and the family will soon be as happy as it was in the good old days.
The next flashback occurs during a discussion be .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Oppression Of Women In Society
.... one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hysterical tendency -- what is one to do?" (160) These two men -- both doctors -- seem completely unable to admit that there might be more to her condition than just stress and a slight nervous condition. Even when a summer in the country and weeks of bed-rest don't help, her husband refuses to accept that she may have a real problem.
Throughout the story there are examples of the dominant submissive relationship. She is virtually imprisoned in her bedroom, supposedly to allow her to r .....
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