Themes In Ellen Foster
.... mentioned is self-reliance. Throughout the whole novel Ellen had to
rely on her self to make it through life. After her mother died she had to
survive on her own with the threat of her alcoholic father always in her
way. She had to survive at her grandma’s by picking cotton and doing
things of a lower status. She even got kicked out by her own aunt, and had
the courage to go to a strangers house and ask them to accept her. I
believe that this is the most valid theme used. The second would be the
common theme of illusion vs. reality. Ellen wanted to live in a life of
luxury. She wanted to have a family who would lov .....
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The Glass Menagerie: Amanda Wingfield Is Annoying
.... each one
and talk to each one about the important issues of life.
Amanda wants to know what each one of her children are doing each
minute of the day, in scene III, where Tom and Amanda are having
dissolutions about his books, and he can not have certain things kept in
her house; not realizing it was he who was paying the rent, and she wanted
to keep him under her shirttails, and she hated him going to the movies;
she thought he was lying to her, saying, “ Nobody goes to the movies night
after night, No body in their right minds goes to the movies as often as
you pre-tend to,” Which would implies, “I do not believe you.”
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Maggie A Girl Of The Streets And Pudd’nhead Wilson
.... her masters child
into it. This idea does not work out and son grows up beating her and
whipping her. Her son turns into the laughing stock of the town. According
to the website http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/projects/applebaum/roxy.html,
Roxy is very naive. Her second sign of stupidity was after she lost all her
money from the steamship she returns to Dawson’s Landing hoping her son will
help her. According to the website, her naiveness is evident when she has
faith in her son to help her but he tells her to get out of his sight. Her
continuing faith in her son keeps being thrown back in her face, finally
she threatens .....
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The Sun Also Rises : Moral And Social Values
.... to endure and forgive Brett¹s promiscuity and infidelity is an
indication of the skewed values of the age. It was an ³anything goes² era
right after the first war, and Jake¹s message to Brett seems to be the
same: anything goes as long as you eventually come back to me.
Jake is forced to accept living in this seemingly terrible way for
more than one reason. He a weak person socially, but he is also
physically disabled because of an injury that he suffered during the war.
He suffered an injury that caused him to be castrated. The first hint of
this is when he says to Georgeette ³I was hurt in the war (24) in refrence
to .....
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The Republic: Morality And Immorality
.... morality, and
immorality
Moral rules must be flexible, society changes and with it so does
morality. Morality must be as Agreed upon by, religious and non-religious
alike, because morality, as everything else is part of an evolutionary
process. By manifesting religious or scientific laws you manifest prejudice,
ignorance and introduce immorality.
Morality is often vice to power, especially in decadent times. Yet,
scientific morality knows the moral to be the best, and we should all know
morality ends where force begins. To become totally moral is impossible,
but to throw away morality is to throw away the human soul. On the o .....
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More's Utopia And Huxley's Brave New World: Differing Societies
.... he believes is at the root of all evils -- "the infernal serpent that
steals into the hearts of men, thwarting and holding them back from
choosing the better way of life." Likewise, in Aldus Huxley’s Brave New
World, crime and greed have been eliminated and everybody is satisfied with
their social status. This similarity between the two novels suggests that
the authors may have seen a link between social status and crime. Indeed,
in western civilization, it is evident through statistics that a large
amount of crime takes place amongst the lower class. Both authors saw that
by eliminating the self pity and jealousy that comes wi .....
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The Trial By Kafka And The Stranger By Camus: Flaws And Failures Of The Judicial System
.... in their judicial system and to become
actively involved in the judicial reforms. He wants the reader to see that
these flaws should not just be brushed off as mere inconveniences. He uses
K. to show the life-altering (and in K.’s case, life-ending) effects that
judicial flaws can have on the public. His arrest, his search for answers,
and his trial and eventual execution all show this.
The purpose of the plot in The Stranger is to show how the judicial
system’s officials misconceptions and prejudices can cause major flaws.
Camus’ purpose is to make the reader realize that the judicial system is
run by men, and that men are not .....
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Aphrodite Versus Athena
.... the genitals were throw “
into the restless, white-capped sea/ Where they floated a long time. A
white foam from the god-flesh/Collected around them, and in that foam a
maiden developed/And grew(Hesiod, 66).” This maiden is Aphrodite. The
foam signifies a womb to spontaneous creation and is resembling a women’s
assets in order to support a baby. Now “from (Zeus’) own head he gave
birth to owl-eyed Athena(Hesio,87).” The two women both possess the honor,
beauty, intelligence, and power observant to all. The methods in which
they achieve these or the channel through which, they are idolized for,
these qualities are indeed dif .....
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The Great Gatsby: Characters Add To The Theme
.... to be bored
yet innocent and harmless. Yet her innocense is false. Simply a
materialistic young girl and has little mind of her own is underneath all
of that covering. Daisy rediscovers her love with Gatsby because of his
nice shirts and large house. Daisy has been well trained in a rich family.
She has grown up with all of the best. When Gatsby failed to contact her,
she went off and married another man, without evening having heard word
from Gatsby. All of these many and round characteristics add complications
to the plot and dimension to the meaning she adds to the book.
The afore mentioned characteristics also .....
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Animal Farm: Historically And Politically Allegorized As The Russian Revolution
.... and Nicholas II were kicked out of power by their subjects because
they were persuaded by inspirational speakers, Old Major and Carl Marx, to
rebel because they deserved better. Nicholas II and Mr. Jones both tried to
regain power after being relieved of it. Mr. Jones tried to regain power by
fighting the animals in the “Battle of the Cowshed” and again in the “
Battle of the Windmill”. He lost in both battles but was more successful in
the second then the first. Nicholas II attempted to regain power in 1905
in the first revolution, but did not succeed.
Old Major and Carl Marx started both revolutions. Old Major started
Napoleon .....
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1984
.... be a gem in Orwell's collection of novels against totalitarianism.
Orwell wrote 1984 as a political statement against totalitarianism.
Orwell's word choice drives the plot of the story in that they introduce a
new dimension, a world where everything takes place in a modern controlled
society. The phrase "Newspeak" was created by Orwell to describe a
derivation of the English language, which this new world uses to
communicate, and to represent of authoritative dialogue which takes place
throughout the novel. (Meckier) Another phrase chosen by Orwell to
illustrate the new controlled society is "double-think", a word which is
part .....
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Willy Loman’s Struggle With The American Dream
.... each of those categories. Those components of
the American Dream were not found in Willy Loman’s life. Willy’s life
lacked happiness. The only time Willy remembered happiness in his life was
when his boys were young, even then he was not completely happy. “Remember
those two beautiful elm trees out there? When I and Biff hung the swing
between them?”(Miller 17) Willy was always reminiscing about the past in
his flashbacks. His flashbacks proved his unhappiness. Willy had flashbacks
about his affair with another woman. “Whyn’t you have another drink, honey,
and stop being so damn self-centered?...I’m so lonely.”(Miller 116) Willy’s
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