A Reference To God In Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
.... breaking their special covenant. She described the relationship between the Indians and the colonists as one dealt with by God. As she surveyed her home after the attack by the Indians, she credited the destruction not to the Indians, but to God, when she quoted "Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations He has made in the earth" (35). Thus, Rowlandson revealed her belief that God would act against other people simply because they were enemies to the Puritans. Rowlandson believed that the sins of the colonists, which deviated from their covenant with God, led God to use the Indians as a means for punishment. Quoting scr .....
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Byblis And Myrrha
.... compel readers to feel sorry for the girls in their situations; they seem to be victims of their desires.
Byblis and Myrrha both denounce their passions. After Byblis awakes from dreaming intimately about her brother, she claims she would never want to see this scene in daylight (Mandelbaum 308). Later in her speech, she refers to her incestuous pursuit as a “forbidden course” and to her burning desires as “obscene, foul fires” (309). According to Crane, Byblis calls her non-sisterly affection an “evil love” (on-line). When Myrrha confesses her love for her father, she calls on the gods to “check [her] sacrilege” and “p .....
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Charles Dickens' Hard Times
.... him even more. She was nothing like when they first married. She was now a drunk whom he did not care for anymore. The woman he did care for, Rachael, was the women he wished to marry now.
Rachael, who, “showed a quiet oval face, dark and rather delicate, irradiated by a pair of very gentle eyes”, was Stephen’s dream. he wished to marry her and she wished to marry him but two problems stood in the way. In order to marry Rachael he had to divorce his wife. Stephen went to Bounderby to ask for help on getting a divorce. Bounderby looked at Stephen not truly as a person but as a “hand”. Bounderby repeated that Stephen married hi .....
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Brave New World
.... wish of becoming someone important; a recognized name in the jumble of society. This ends when the curiosity of others ends, and as a supreme result of his arrogant behaviour, he is exiled. The instigator of this curiosity as well as the author of Bernard's fame (and folly), is an outsider know as the Savage. The Savage is brought in from outside of the utopian society by Bernard as an experiment. He faces "civilized society" with a bright outlook, but eventually comes to hate it bitterly. Lenina, the supporting role of the novel, is the most pronounced example of the ideal citizen. She adheres to the principles of t .....
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Sir Gawain And The Wife Of Bath
.... may help to illuminate Chaucer's use of motifs and incidents, and certainly not with an eye to source study.
If we count the magical nature of the meeting with the hag as a separate feature from her transformation, then there eight features which these tales, or most of them, share in common with Chaucer's:
1) A magical meeting with the Hag occurs in DS, DR, KH and MG. This last is uncertain, as several leaves are missing.
2) The Hag is magically transformed into a fair maiden in all the tales except SD. Jo Janet's equivalent of the transformation is the revelation of her royal identity.
3) A crime brings on the her .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: A Classic
.... about the play so that everybody could hear how sharp they were." (126) This shows how Holden didn't like people trying to show off. This style of writing, which lets the reader know exactly what the main character thinks, helps make the book into a classic. It gives the reader a better understanding of Holden and how he feels and why he acts the way he does.
The second standard that I based the book on was its use of symbolism. There are many symbols that Salinger uses in this novel. Most of the uses of symbolism are worked around the fear of children losing their innocence. When Holden hears the "Catcher in the Rye" song .....
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Lord Of The Flies
.... of the three boys on the island made them more aware of the evil inside themselves and in some cases, made the false politeness that had clothed them dissipate. However, the changes experienced by one boy differed from those endured by another. This is attributable to the physical and mental dissimilarities between them.
Jack was first described with an ugly sense of cruelty that made him naturally unlikeable. As leader of the choir and one of the tallest boys on the island, Jack's physical height and authority matched his arrogant personality. His desire to be Chief was clearly evident in his first appear .....
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In To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout
.... in withdrawal for a very serious addiction which was why she was so angry all the time. "Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict. She took it as a pain-killer for years"(Lee 111). After she dies Scout starts to grasp the fact that Mrs. Dubose had a very hard time being happy.
Alike many other children her age, Scout is very curious. She is very interested in the peculiar life of her neighbor, Boo Radley. She believes a rumor about him killing his father. He frightens her because she thinks he is a horrible man who does not care about anyone. When she was shivering in the cold watching Miss Maudie’s house burn, he cared enough .....
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The Interesting Narrative Of Olaudah Equiano
.... their own wealth and status. These two factors left damage to the African tribes.
Equiano recalls that the slaves taken by his Ibo people were almost treated as one of the family. The slaves do the same amount of work that any other member of the family would do. When Equiano reached the West Indies he saw the Africans being literally worked to death, because they were so numerous and wouldn’t lose money if they perished. Another principal difference in the treatment of slaves between Africa and Europe was lodging. In the Ibo tribe, the master of the slaves had them live inside his complex and dwelt in houses nearly the same m .....
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Perfectly Insane - Gulliver's Travels
.... and unrelenting need for power of the human race, but also opened his eyes to the untrusting and ungrateful nature of those little critters. Another bad point is their pride and conceit, illustrated best by the Emperor, with his title, “Golbasto Molmaren Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue,” (Swift 30) which means, “most Mighty Emperor of Lilliput, Delight and Terror of the Universe, whose Dominions extend five Thousand Blustrugs, to the Extremities of the Globe….” (30) If that isn’t a bit cocky, I don’t know what is (especially considering he’s only six inches tall.) Under the Emperor comes the society’s ridiculous mann .....
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The Hobbit: Fantasy World Comparison To Our World
.... and objects found in Middle Earth are physically impossible in a world such as ours.
Several of the charecters in the book are not known to exist on Earth. Hobbits, of course, are fictional characters, as are dwarves, elves, goblins, and trolls. Many species of animals are able to talk with humans and dwarves in the book, which is not possible in real life. Beorn, a human who is able to change into other creatures at an instant, is an excellent example of such fiction. The dragon, Smaug, is the main adversary of the fourteen adventurers and is a type of creature that has long been used in fantasy writing. Althoug .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Cruelty Against Blacks, Lawyers And The Poor
.... man is punished for a crime that he did not commit because of his race. In the novel, racial words are used often. Words such as “nigger” and “negroe”. It wasn’t known for white folks and black folks to be together unless it was work associated. If it was seen, people would say, “why’s he sittin’ with the colored folks?” (Lee 163).
To Kill A Mockingbird also shows discrimination against lawyers. Lawyers have always been deeply discriminated against. They are discriminated for what they believe, stand for, and everything that they represent. It shows that Atticus Finch was hated for “defending Niggers” (Lee 79) .....
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