View Of Individual And Society By Hawthorne, Thoreau, And Mark Twain
.... put more blame on the individual than on the masses. Hester and her daughter, of course, were not actually Puritans, but Hawthorne is just using them as an example of how no society will ever remain “pure” because it is impossible for the people within the society to remain pure. This is a very dark and pessimistic view, because it does not leave room for much hope or improvement in the human race. No one can ever be what he or she is seeking to be. One will always be a contribution to the ruin of society.
Henry David Thoreau would disagree, and furiously at that, with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s notion of the individual in society. .....
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Findley's The Wars: Analysis
.... was faced with many of the same dilemmas all soldiers went through in that time. Robert had to frequently deal with the death and mutilation of his friends and fellow soldiers. He also experienced the horrors on the battlefield, for example when “chlorine and phosgene”(p.75) was used at the beginning and “mustard gas”(p.75) was unleashed on the soldiers at the end of the battle of “Ypres”(p.73) and the witnessing of men dying before your eyes. Robert also felt almost constant uncertainty about what was going to happen next and he had to deal with the boredom in the trenches and try to find ways to pass the time until he was to .....
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The Stranger: Mersault
.... the vigil, and having a smoke with a caretaker at the nursing home in which his mother died. The following day, after his mother's funeral, he goes to the beach and meets a former colleague named Marie Cardona. They swim, go to a movie, and then spent the night together, Later in their relationship, Marie asks Mersault if he wants to marry her. He responds that it doesn't matter to him, and if she wants to get married, he would agree. She then asks him if he loves her. To that question he responds that he probably doesn't, and explains that marriage really isn't such a serious thing and doesn't require love. This reaction is fair .....
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1984: Summary
.... party can’t control, even thought the party rejects sexual relationships between its members. Sexual experience is no longer allowed in the society and Winston longs for one. He confesses in his Diary about his last experience but it does not help. We find he has faith in the proles and there ability to revolt. It is hard to set up a revolt with the thought police detecting every thought. Winston reaches a crises with the thought police.
He is ready for Julia but is worried about a possible trap. His negative approach to life and his sexual frustration make him ready anyhow. Once he commits to her he can’t go back and he is com .....
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Huckleberry Finn: Separation From Society
.... He resolves to go ashore and turn Jim in, which immediately relieves his guilty anguish. As he takes off in the canoe, supposedly to find out if they have reached Cairo, Jim makes an incredibly timely show of his love and trust for Huck, concluding with, "Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on'y white genlman dat ever kep' his promise to ole Jim." (p. 110) Huck struggles to go through with the choice he has made, but when he has his chance, he does not have the heart to turn Jim in.
Huck's reflection given in the excerpt shows his continued internal conflict between what his heart tells him and what society expects of him. .....
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The Color Purple: Celie
.... he’s taken both of them away right after they were born. She thinks at first he might have killed one of them, but later finds out that he sold them to a couple in town.
Celie doesn’t do anything about her situation, because she’s used to being treated like that. She’s scared, and she fears for her sister Nettie too, when her Pa starts looking at her the same way. Eventually, a man referred to as Mr. ______ comes along and wants to marry Nettie, but he’s too old for her, and ends up marrying Celie. He takes a couple of months to think it over, but goes ahead and marries her because he needs someone to watch over his kids, a .....
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim Prediction Of The Future
.... would be more comftorble with the book if they could rule out in their minds the possibility of the profecy becoming a reality. In a critique of his own work, Orwell called Nineteen Eighty-Four “A work of a future terrible [sic] because it rests on a fiction and can not be substantiated by reality or truth. “ But perhaps this future is realizing itself more than Orwell thought it would. Orwell, more than likely, would have made note of, but wouldn’t be astonished by, the fact that in 1983 the average American household spent over 7 hours in front of the television every night. The number is even greater for those households which .....
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Pericles Funeral Oration
.... them to want to fight for their country. As in paragraph two he says, "But what lay behind those outward deeds, what really made us great-our training, our frame of government, our natural bent-I shall expound, primarily in praise of these men, but also as a fitting thing to be said on this occasion and proper for this audience to hear, the outsiders in it as well as the citizens." The main point of this is he wanted Athenians not to be fearful of dying for their country because you would be recognized as a hero.
As he says in paragraph 12, "For such reasons I would console but not pity these men's parents. Raised in a world .....
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To His Coy Mistress
.... is trying to make here is that why should she wait to have sex. That she should give it up to him since saving it could end up a waste.
At the end of the poem he tries to reason with her. Being still alive and young, the speaker is saying that they should put all their feeling and love together, to strengthen what they have between them and take her virginity, because times does not stand still and they can eat up time making love. “ Let us roll all our strength, and all our sweetness, up into one ball; and tear our pleasures with rough strife thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though cannot make our sun stand still, yet .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Atticus
.... being just like any other person. When Scout’s teacher gets mad over one kind of prejudice act, but not about one that is in their own town, she gets flustered.
“…How can you hate Hitler so bad an’ then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home?”
One huge principle Atticus wants the children to try to do is to step inside someone else’s skin to see how it feels to be that person. Atticus told Scout, “…You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” To realize what other people are going through, one has to think of that person’s situation. If that person is already having .....
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The Birthmark, The Minister’s Black Veil, And Young Goodman Brown: Symbolism
.... is handprint from an angel, which may also mean that it is a symbol for good. The townspeople look at the birthmark as a blessing, but Aylmer sees it as an imperfection and seeks to rid of it in the same way the Puritans sought to perfect themselves. She dies as a result of his obsession and her death symbolizes that purification cannot be achieved.
Hawthorne’s writings go much deeper than meets the eye. There is a lot of symbolism, mostly having something to do with good and evil which was a big part of Puritan beliefs and their true thoughts. Today we read what Hawthorne wrote and in it we see not only a story, but also w .....
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Saint Augustine: Confessions
.... if you asked any person what time is, they would respond by saying some thing about minutes and seconds. Mankind, unfortunately, sees time as an object. The human mind has the tendency to make everything objective. We have even made objects of God and his holy son, despite the commandment in Exodus, which forbids it. This is all great, but the question remains; What is time? In this paper, I hope to achieve some understanding of this question by refering to Chapter 11 of Saint Augustine: Confessions.
In this chapter, Augustine attempts to find the answer to the puzzling mystery of time. He immediately realized that finding the a .....
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