Is Life Significant?
.... a significance for both. Yet "a" leaves both fairly ambiguous, showing that neither death nor the moth is very significant. In my mind this shows something of Dilliard's feelings about life. From this title alone I deduce that Annie Dilliard doesn't think much of anything in life is very important. However, Woolf shows a sort of respect or understanding of death and the moth in her title by using the phrasing that she does. Woolf says "The Death" and "The Moth" rather than leaving them undefined as Dillard does.
Yet besides the differences in the titles of the two there is a stronger difference between them. We now take into .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath: Rose Of Sharon And The Starving Man
.... guilt over his wife's death. Al lives for girls and cars. Pa is so broken at the loss of his farm that for much of the novel he allows all decisions to be made by Ma. Ma, at the novel's beginning, has only one passion: to keep the "fambly" together. Ruthie torments her brother and exhibits childish ways almost until the end of the book. Even Casy, when the novel opens, is adrift. He's sure there's something to be learned in the midst of all the suffering, but until he goes to prison, even he lacks real conviction or directed action. However, the critical reader sees a change coming in the novel that is more than rest .....
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The Story Of An Hour: Irony
.... this most unusual foreshadowing until Louise's reaction is explained.
The widow whispers "Free, free, free!" Louise realizes that her husband had loved her, but she goes on to explain that as men and women often inhibit eachother, even if it is done with the best of intentions, they exert their own wills upon eachother. She realized that although at times she had loved him, she has regained her freedom, a state of beeing that all of G-d's creatures strive for.
Although this reaction is completely unexpected, the reader quickly accepts it because of Louise's adequate explanation. She grows excited and begins to fanta .....
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The Role Of Women In A Doll's House
.... husband. She has a subordinate role: she relies on him for everything, from movements to thoughts. One could argue that her most important obligation is to please her husband, making her role similar to that of a slave.
Nora’s society has a hypocrite side by making the characters believe what she wants them to believe. Torvald thinks that he needs to be there to watch out for her, and that she would be nothing without him. As to contradict him, circumstance suddenly place Nora in a responsible position. Nora broke the law and decided to borrow money to pay for her husbands' treatment. By doing this, she stepped away from the ro .....
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Eye Deep In Hell: Book Review
.... incurred in the muddied trenches and otherwise abyss known as the “Western Front” of the First World War. He is able to almost put us in the shoes of the men whom were actually there, making us realize what it was like being on the front line of World War I, fighting on the European countryside.
Authors Statement of Proposition
John Ellis’s thesis or statement of proposition in this book is really quite simple. However, he is very in depth in his book when showing it to you, therefore drawing it out over the length of the book. Simply stated, this book is concerned with the way in which men lived in, what the author .....
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Death Of A Salesmen: Freedom And Willy’s Dream
.... he seems. He is giving his love away to someone other than Linda.
The second thing of significance is the fact that is one instant Biff now doesn’t want Willy to get his grade changed. He thinks that because of the person he now thinks his father is he couldn’t do it. He is completely disillusioned by what he has seen, and his whole concept of who his father is breaks down. His hero image of his father is shattered. He doesn’t believe in his father anymore, because he thinks he is a different person than he perceived him to be.
Until that point in his life everything was for his father. But now he doesn’t believe in his .....
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A Doll House: Insights
.... this is for both of them to acknowledge that each of them is one half of a partnership, and that their abilities and sensibilities compliment one another, and should not create a shadow, like the one Nora is living under. They both need to treat each other with honesty, fairness and respect. Torvald, on many occasions would degrade Nora by saying things that would hint at her being weak or even comparing her to an animal. "Is that my little lark twittering out there" and "Is that my squirrel rummaging around?" A lark is a songbird; a happy, carefree bird. One that has no need to think for themselves. A squirrel is a small, .....
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Willy Lowman’s Drug For Sanity
.... so strong that in his mind he is placed 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 welcomed their father back home from being on a long work trip.
Willy’s need for the “drug” reassures himself that everything will turn out okay and that his family will be happy once again like it was in the past.
The next flashback occurs during a discussion between Willy and Linda. Willy is depressed about his inability to make enough money to support his family, his looks, and his personality. “ M .....
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Frankenstein: Reflects Of Mary Shelley's Life
.... between parent and child becomes creator and creation. "I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness" (Shelley 70). One can now see how the characters from the novel reflect Shelley's own life.
The style in which Shelley wrote is shown in the novel. Since she grew up under the influence of a feminist mother and a philosophical father, she writes with a distict style. "The motif of the Doppelganger was certainly in Mary's mind during the writing..." (Levine 15). Explain Doppelganger (lit. ex.) "...as it was a part of the G .....
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Childhood’s Own World In The God Of Small Things
.... the reader how important her mother’s love is to her and how her mother’s indifference to her words hurt her. At a hotel, the night before the twin’s cousin Sophie Mol arrives, Rahel gets very sad because she thinks that her mother love her “a little less.” She ask for a punishment so her mother love her the same as before. Then Baby Kochamma, Ammu’s aunt, said: “Some things come with their own punishments.” Those words can be changed to: In order to love and be loved people must suffer. But Rahel can’t understand those words; she can’t understand that in adult’s world: “There are no rules.” That “anything’s is possible .....
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An Interpretation Of William Faulkner’s “Dry September”
.... The town is demonstrated to the reader as a closely knit community with no strangers.
As the rumor becomes clear, it is the men in the Barber shop that bring it to the reader’s attention. Miss Minnie Cooper and Will Mayes, a Negro. Or so it was stated in disbelief, of the well respected colored man committing a horrible act of rape against a white woman. It is this comment by the barber that stirs the accusations of “niggerloving”. “I don’t believe Will Mayes did it. I know Will Mayes.” the barber said. (line 18) It is the setting of this first scene, the barber shop that distinguishes for the reader the racial segreg .....
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Yolen's Briar Rose: Review
.... Perhaps the best explanation for her outstanding accomplishments comes from Jane Yolen herself: "I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told." When asked if she had any relatives who were in concentration camps during WWII and how she became interested in the holocaust, she replied, “My family--both sides--came over at the beginning of this century and we had no family left in either the Ukraine or Latvia during World War II. I am interested in the Holocaust as a Jew and as a citizen of the world.”
Briar Rose is the story in which a woman tries to find out the secret .....
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