The Scarlet Letter: Roger's Character Stereotyped As An Abusive Person
.... neglect towards her. He could have looked past his wife's sin and loved his daughter. He could have cared for her and supported her, but he chose not to. He failed to look into his heart and nurture his daughter. He voluntarily detached himself from her life. It was because of his stereotypical neglect that Pearl suffered in ways she didn't have to.
The most severe instance of abuse Chillingworth inflicted upon anybody was that of Arthur Dimmsdale. He abused Dimmsdale physically and mentally. Physical abuse came when he gave him medication. He purposefully gave him drugs he knew would hurt him in one way or another. Me .....
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Why The Unicorn Must Lose Its Horn
.... talks about the unicorn being the only one among the other horses. When Jim says that the unicorn is lonesome Laura replies with, "Well, if he [is] he doesn’t complain about it. He stays on a shelf with some horses that don’t have horns and all of them seem to get along nicely together"(1752). When the unicorn looses his horn the unicorn becomes just like all the other horses which is how Jim makes Laura feel. In Jim’s arms Laura begins to feel whole. It is as though she became just like all of the other girls, as the unicorn became just like all of the other horses. Once the unicorn has been broken Laura says, "Now it’s just like .....
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The Theme Of Love And Loneliness In Great Expectations
.... has ulterior motives in adopting Estella, this is not a loving action on her part, but a calculated manoeuvre to turn the child into a haughty, heartless instrument of revenge against men. Estella is encouraged to practice her disdain on Pip and to break his heart. Paradoxically, Miss Havershams greatest sin, is against herself. By hardening her heart she loses her generous, affectionate nature and becomes withered inside emotionally. Her punishment is that the heartless young woman she has made, uses her lack of feelings against Miss Haversham.
Estella herself is isolated, as for most of the novel she takes pleasu .....
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Beloved: American Experience With Slavery
.... universal characteristic of the survivor's tale is the subjectivity and incompleteness of the survivor's knowledge. The author works to provide a more objective view of events by including several storytellers. Digression also provides a more complete picture by including minute details, such as the story of Miss Amy Denver and her love of velvet. Entwined with digression is regression. The story is told in the present, referring back to different points in the past. These references are interrupted, and jumbled chronologically, reflecting the survivor's inability to dwell in one area for too long and his or her own difficulty in .....
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The Scarlet Letter
.... he will be forced to carry the ever so heavy burden. Dimmesdale waits for such a long time that the guilt has already got to him by the time he is ready to confess. He carves the letter, “A,” into his chest. He beats himself with leather whips, and has to go for long walks in the woods. Back then the woods where known to everyone as the place where the Black Man lives. In this book, Dimmesdale is the dominant character that shows how guilt can rip you apart at the limbs.
People could say that Pearl really was possessed and that she was mean, but in all seriousness why would Hester she it in her eyes. Hester wanted to se .....
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The Crucible: Hidden Darkness
.... 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 given .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Guilt
.... he will be forced to carry the ever so heavy burden. Dimmesdale waits for such a long time that the guilt has already got to him by the time he is ready to confess. He carves the letter, “A,” into his chest. He beats himself with leather whips, and has to go for long walks in the woods. Back then the woods where known to everyone as the place where the Black Man lives. In this book, Dimmesdale is the dominant character that shows how guilt can rip you apart at the limbs.
People could say that Pearl really was possessed and that she was mean, but in all seriousness why would Hester she it in her eyes. Hester wanted to se .....
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find: Irony, Characters, And Foreshadowing
.... himself. The cat, is in fact, the perpetrator that causes the accident and near the end of the story when the family meets with foul play, the cat is the only survivor. Irony again is presented when they are driving. The grandmother cautions Bailey about his driving and it so happens they have an accident. As soon as the grandmother talks Bailey into taking a turn to see the farmhouse, Bailey makes the statement, “This is the only time we are going to stop for anything like this” (A Good Man is Hark to Find pg. 359). The irony here is Bailey did not know how final that statement would turn out to be.
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Irony In 1984
.... a person makes keeping them controlled with fear.
The next type of irony is Situation irony, which is when a character or a sequence of events appears to be headed one way, but it ends up as the opposite of what was thought. One example of this is Winston's general health. From the beginning of the book, it is shown how horrible his health is and is continually getting worse and more difficult, but as Winston gets involved with Julia then he begins a metamorphosis into a more healthy person. Another major example is the betrayal of many of the people whom Winston thought were his friends, such as Mr. Charrington and eve .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Minor Characters And Their Affect On The Plot
.... to be prosperous, one must physically touch it. Ben represents the success of the Dream and functions in order to make Willy doubt the actions of hard work.
Charley is Willy's closest friend and he displays the failure of Willy Loman's ideals. He is a very realistic character who attempts to convince Willy that his goals are all wrong. An example of his attempts is "The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell"(97). Willy believes that in order to be a success, one must be well liked; therefore, Charley explains to Willy that good business will make someone prosperous. The failure of Willy's ideals are again repres .....
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Fire And Water Imagery In Jane Eyre
.... is useful to consider that such imagery includes natural imagery of ice, sea and snow, all common features in the novel. Water, the antithesis of fire, represents the extreme point of cool reason, without any trace of passion. As we see Jane wander between these two points of temptation throughout the novel, the accompanying imagery of fire and water is most significant to our understanding of the themes and concerns of the novel.
Fire imagery is used by Brontë to develop Jane's character throughout the novel. As the novel progresses, the corresponding imagery changes to show different aspects of Jane's character. We see Jan .....
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Computer Ethics: A Review
.... The only factor, which groups all of these crimes together is that they all involve the use of a computer. Computer Ethics includes a chapter dedicated to computer crimes and how broad the law is when it comes to computer crimes. This chapter defines computer crime and gives some real life examples of the computer crime that has gone on in the past. One of the largest computer crimes ever discovered is covered in the computer crime chapter. It occurred from 1965 to 1971 and involved an insurance company called Equity Funding Inc. Over this time, Equity Funding Inc. used computers to generate thousands of fake policies that we .....
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