1984: Lack Of Humanity
.... being can be stripped of its emotions, its freedom, and its identity if that human being allows a society like Oceania to rule him; therefore, no one should ever allow it to happen.
The Party controls people’s emotions by instilling basic codes of morality. It is insinuated that one should not feel emotions; and, if one does feel them, then one is a criminal. Therefore, the people of Oceania disregard their emotions. All the citizens of Oceania have been emotionally crippled, therefore, they are incapable of having, expressing, or understanding their feelings. In Oceania emotional love is a treacherous crime. .....
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Like Water For Chocolate: Family Relationships
.... of herself after Yuichi’s real mother died. “ I still went to my part-time job, but after that I would clean house, watch TV, bake cakes: I lived like a housewife.” Even though Mikage was not related to the Tanabe family, she became one of their members after she moved in with them. Her jobs at home were cooking and housework which Eriko used to take care of. Ever since Mikage had been living with them, the relationships worked out and their house had changed into a happier place that was for individuals.
In Like Water for Chocolate, the relationships between families did not work out because family members did not .....
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Summary Of Dracula
.... Harker's fiancée Mina lives. The Count then attacks Mina's friend Lucy while she is sleepwalking, and she eventually dies. Jonathan finally returns to England and marries Mina. Meanwhile Arhtur Holmwood, Lucy's husband, Dr. John Seward and Quincy Morris, both of whom proposed to Lucy but were rejected, and Dr. Van Helsing, learn the truth about the Count. The six of them first perform a service on Lucy who has become a vampire herself. They stab a wooden stake through her heart, cut off her head and then fill it with garlic. Later, the entire gang goes after the count and then the chase begins.
The most interesting charac .....
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The Awakening: Edna Pontel
.... the book Edna takes many steps to increase her independence. She sends her children away, she refuses to stay at home on Tuesdays (as was the social convention of the time), she frequents races and parties. Unfortunately, her independence proves to be her downfall.
Edna stays married because divorce was unheard of in those days. She wants to marry Robert, but he will not because it will disgrace her to leave her husband. No matter how much Edna exceeds social boundaries, she is held down by the will of others, despite what she wants. In today’s world divorce, sadly, is almost commonplace, but in her time she would have b .....
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The Great Gatsby: Typical Male Behavior
.... and sought possession for both Tom and Gatsby. Although on the surface it appears that Gatsby has an ever-lasting love for Daisy, I feel that his longing for Daisy stems from his need to recapture a possession which he lost during his youth. Nick comments "He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy" (117). Furthermore by possessing Daisy's love, Gatsby can reject defeat and feel successful as a man.
In the novel, Gatsby goes as far as to view the green light as a symbolic way of holding onto his possession and keeping .....
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The Martian Chronicles
.... referenced directly. And it's rather obvious that Bradbury considers it to be wrong.
And yet, The Maritan Chronicles is not only a criticism. At times, it can only be described as a poetry in prose.
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Of Mice And Men
.... life of a friend, out of love and compassion. He also did it out of respect, so Lennie could die with dignity.
“George was quite for a moment. “But not us,” he said. “Because____” “Because I got you an’____” “An I got you. We got each other, that’s what, that gives a hoot in hell about us,” Lennie cried in triumph. George cared, he cared a lot about Lennie.
“And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he bought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. His hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger, The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and back down again. Lenni .....
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Wuthering Heights: Dark And Evil Themes
.... the love that Catherine has for Heathcliff, and he tries to force them to live apart from each other, but Heathcliff and Catherine:
“… they forgot everything the minute they were together again – at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge…” (50).
Even so, Hindley’s abuse is almost solely directly towards Heathcliff. The only time Hindley abuses anyone else is when he is drunk.
Unlike Hindley, whose reason for his abusive power is his hatred for Heathcliff, Heathcliff’s abuse is directed at avenging past results. Through gambling, Heathcliff is able to acquire all of Hindley’s properties but inst .....
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Beloved: We All Look The Same In The Dark
.... breaking, but not yet broken. The emptiness of Sethe’s relationship with her mother only increased Sethe’s motherly obsession for her own children. As a parent with two kids and another one on the way, Sethe needed to escape slavery. She felt she had to place her children outside the horror of slavery, even if it meant taking their lives.
A life was lost. Sethe refused to allow herself and her children to be dragged back into the evil of slavery. Like the woman in Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, Sethe wanted “out of the huts of history’s shame” and “up from a past that’s rooted in pain”. After successfully escaping, Sethe was na .....
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Black Rain
.... rationing. He even likes to write how people cured themselves of radiation sickness and what the burns and other injuries look and act like. These things are like myself in the fact that he does not like to forget what things are like, wants to see first hand what the effects are, and is very interested in finding information about new things that he has never seen before. He also likes to help people greatly such as his constant wanderings looking for coal for his community. If you were depended on would you help your community? I think so.
The theme that is very meaningful to me is that war hurts two different parts of .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Family Hindered By Their Dysfunctional Nature
.... his younger years.
Biff believed, due to his father’s pride, that he was too good for mediocre tasks, and should not settle for them. Biff stated, "I never got anywhere because you blew me so full of hot air I could never stand taking orders from anybody!"(105). Like any son, Biff praised, respected, and loved his father. Biff’s problem was taking his father’s love and transferring it into his own ideals. By holding his father in such high regard, Biff placed himself above his maximum achievements. Biff’s perception of his father as an almost flawless figure left him exposed to discover the painful truth. In this discovery of .....
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Essay: To Kill A Mockingbird
.... like a good day for the rookie teacher quickly turned into complete disarray and a total adversity trip for the teacher. Walter Cunningham being raised in a very hard working environment was taught not to take what he could not pay back. The teacher obviously did not know about his background in the most minute way and embarrassed him extensively by almost demanding him to take some lunch money. Knowing that he could not pay Miss Caroline back in the way that she had in mind he knew that he could take the money which he wanted to take so bad. Walter eventually ended up eating with the Finch's. While eating at the Finch's he did not .....
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