1984: Abolute Power In 1984 And Government Power In Today's Society
.... crime is any thought or idea about going against Big Brother or The Party. To the government a thought crime is considered one of the worst felonies. “Thoughtcrime dos not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death (Orwell,pg27).”To prevent thoughtcrimes people must use the concept made up by The Party. This concept is called doublethink. Doublethink is having to different conceptions of one thought. Each conception completely contradicts each other. If the Party says that 2+2=5 but one knows that 2+2=4 the concept of doublethink must be used.
The words thought crime and double think are words of Newspeak. Newspeak is the official langu .....
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The Catcher In The Rye Summary And Analysis
.... a few days alone in New York City before returning to his parents' Manhattan apartment. In New York, he succumbs to increasing feelings of loneliness and depression brought on by the ugliness of the adult world; he feels increasingly tormented by the memory of his younger brother, Allie's death. Holden’s sexual confusion further complicates his increasingly haphazardness lifestyle. He wants to see his sister Phoebe and his old girlfriend Jane Gallagher, but instead he spends his time with a annoying girl friend named Sally Hayes, and Columbia student named Carl Luce, who are both shallow and fit into Holden’s description of a .....
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A Rose For Emily And Antlers: The Struggle Against Loneliness: A Search For Human Affection
.... hereditary tradition. Emily sees herself as a "high and mighty Grierson" who earned honor and admiration from her family legacy (Faulkner, 409). Emily’s fear of loneliness is first seen when she refuses to admit that her father had died and would not let his body be buried. Emily’s denial of her father’s death indicates her fear to be alone. Once Emily became older, her loneliness was more and more apparent to the town’s people. The whole community muttered "poor Emily" because her father had died, she had never married, and her sweet heart, Homer Barron, had disappeared (Faulkner, 411). As an elder lady she lived with a servant .....
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: Effect Of Oppression Of Women In Society
.... security for the activities of a woman, but it does allow for and contain her metamorphosis. The house also facilitates her release, accommodating her, her writing and her thoughts. These two activities evolve because of the fact that she is kept in the house.
One specific characteristic of the house that symbolizes not only her potential but also her trapped feeling is the window. Traditionally this symbol represents a view of possibilities, but now it also becomes a view to what she does not want to see. Through it she sees all that she could be and everything that she could have at any time with just a bit of effort. But she s .....
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Haliburton Created Sam Slick To Voice His Own Positions
.... of homilies that could stand on their own. More important even than that is that the lesser characters never overshadow the central theme of the episode; there is no personality (other than Slick) that outweighs the message or that is not easily recognizable within any community.
The word satire derives from the Latin satira, meaning "medley." A satire, either in prose or in poetic form, holds prevailing vices or follies up to ridicule: it employs humour and wit to criticize human institutions or humanity itself, in order that they might be remodelled or improved. Satire as an English literary form derives in large part from G .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Theocracy And Guilt And Punishment
.... lives of its people. This concept of theocratic domination is presented in the novel in several different forms. It is shown in the actions of town officials, enforcing the laws of the bible and punishing those who go against biblical law. This is shown when they punish Hester Pryne for committing the sin of adultery. Theocratic Domination is also presented by how the thoughts and thinking patterns of characters are affected by the laws and ideals of the society. This is shown in Dimmesdale and how he punishes himself for his sin of adultery because society tells him that this is an evil and unacceptable act. It is also prese .....
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“The Slippery Slope Of Pizza Money": The Money Scheme
.... say how desperately sad this is for college sports. “To fold one’s ethical tent is perfectly in line with: ‘When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.’ This is the concept of acquiescing to adversity, turning backs on the problems, and seeking pleasure to distract from real concerns”(1). There are many things the schools can do now. For starters, the schools can arrange, or say they arrange, jobs for their special athletes so they can make money while playing. Do we really think that these students are actually going to show up for these jobs that their coaches arranged for them? Do we really even think that these jobs .....
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Things Fall Apart: The Loss Of A Tribe's Livelihood
.... this mission acted as a channel to allow a new government to infiltrate Umuofia and challenge the laws and customs that held together the former Igbo way of life.
Igbo spirituality weakened in two waves. First Christianity provided answers that the inhabitants of Umuofia and Mbanta were seeking. At the end of Part One Obierika's thoughts are expressed:
Obierika was a man who thought about things. When the will of the goddess had been done, he sat in his obi and mourned his friend's calamity. Why should a man suffer so grievously for an offense he had committed inadvertently? But although he thought for a long time he found .....
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The Sound And The Fury: Caroline Compson Focused Directly Upon Appearances
.... the name
he was born with yet, is he. Benjamin
came out of the bible, Caddy said. It's a
better name for him than Maury was."(Faulkner 58)
Mrs. Compson felt that Benjy did not deserve the family name of Maury. In her eyes he was not her son. She found it impossible to love a feeble child.
Caroline Compson's fixation upon sound and appearance led to the death of Quentin. She forced Harvard upon her son. Mrs. Compson felt that she would be looked upon as an important person if she could say her son attended Harvard. She had no concerns over what effects sending Quentin to Harvard had on the rest of her family. She onl .....
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Big Brother: Who Is He And What Does He Want
.... there is a Telescreen which allows Part members to see and hear anything that goes on in the area of the telescreen. Knowing that anything they say, think or do is being seen by the "Big Brother" people will began to believe and think what they are told is the truth, if they do not, they are tortured until they do. Big Brother is used, in my opinion, to scare the people of Oceania. He is seen as a very powerful person (even if he isn't real) and people know what will happen if they disobey him. The Party wants everyone to have the same morals and beliefs, Big Brother scares that into everyone.
Even though 1984 is a fictio .....
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Crime And Punishment: The Importance Of The Funeral Dinner
.... for “everyone” to be present. Only the poorest and most insignificant people came to the dinner, while the more respectable people stayed away. This reality embodies the way society treats impoverished people. It is confirmed further by the actions of Luhzin. Luhzin, thinking he is too good to associate himself with Katerina’s guests, sends Sonia to respectfully announce his absence. Katerina takes offense to the absence of what she considers important guests and starts to get upset. Katerina’s concern with the presence of guests along with having to fight a battle with consumption influences her mental decisions. Her gu .....
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Red Badge Of Courage
.... a man with plenty of courage by the end of this book.
Stephen Crane brings the reader into his book, first with his power of describing details so eloquently, and second by telling us very little of the young soldiers' life, leaving him a mystery. Crane might have generalized all the young soldiers into one. Although Crane tells the reader his characters’ name (Henry Flemming), he usually refers to the boy as “The soldier.” Crane also tells the reader parts of Flemming’s life up until present, but most of the character is left very much in the dark. It is known, however, that Henry grew up on a small farm in New York. His .....
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