Moll Flanders: Themes
.... "I
found presently that whether I was a whore or a wife, I was to pass for a whore
here…" (Defoe 144). Moll's acts of prostitution show that she will carry out
illegal practices in order to get money.
Moll's many instances involving thievery also express the theme of greed.
At the end of the story, Moll gives her son a stolen watch. "… I stole it from
a gentlewoman's side at a meeting house in London" (Defoe 297). Moll says this
is the only thing of value she has to give him. One Christmas Day Moll
discovers an unattended silversmith's shop. "I went boldly in and was just
going to lay my hand upon a piece of plate, and mi .....
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The Pearl: Material Society, Material Thoughts
.... a "sound so
soft that it might have been simply a thought..." and quickly attacked the
trespasser. This is where the problems for Juana and her family began. The
fear that had mounted in Kino's body had taken control over his actions.
Soon even Juana who had always had faith in her husband, had doubted him
greatly. "It will destroy us all" she yelled as her attempt to rid the
family of the pearl had failed. Kino had not listened however, and soon
Juana began to lose her spiritual side and for a long time she had
forgotten her prayers that had at once meant so much to her. She had tried
to help Kino before to much trouble had ar .....
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Play It Again Rita
.... can be seen by the audience. All action is inevitably
confined within these four walls. When Frank invites Rita to his home for
dinner in the play the audience are not set up for suspension as to how it
will turn out since they already know that whatever happens will not take
place before them, but will be retold.
The movie is several scenes richer. Some of these scenes are in the
play retold by the actors and some of them are not there at all. Scene
three in act two begins with Frank cursing "Sod them-no fuck them! Fuck
them, eh, Rita? Neither Rita or the audience have the first clue as to
what he is referring to. As the dia .....
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Hester Prynne: Comparion Beween Reynold And Herzog Essays
.... sex bringing about an awareness of
both the rights and wrongs of women. Hester is a compound of many popular
stereotypes rich in the thoughts of the time ...portrayed as a fallen woman
whose honest sinfulness is found preferable to the future corruption of the
reverend (Reynolds 183). Hester was described by Reynolds as a feminist
criminal bound in an iron link of mutual crime (Reynolds 183). According
to Reynolds, Hawthorne was trying to have his culture's darkest stereotypes
absorbed into the character of Hester and rescue them from noisy politics
by reinterpreting them in Puritan terms and fusing them with the moral
exemplar. .....
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Scarlet Letter: Who Should Punish A Sinner? Religion, Society, Or Individuals
.... her
because no one in the town had ever delt with any kind of sin as adultry so they
looked at her as a witch. The people in a way wanted to ruin her life because
people actually thought she was bad. One of the real canadites that wanted to
ruin Hester was Mistress Hibbins.
Through out the whole story Mistress Hibbins constantly gives Hester her
piece of mind.
"Thou thyself wilt see it, one time or another. They say, child, thou art of
the lineage of the Prince of the Air! Wilt thou ride with me, some fine night,
to see thy father."
Individually she was ostracized and critizied no matter where she went.
As time went o .....
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Hester Prynne
.... child, whom she suitably named Pearl, named because of her
extreme value to her mother. In the disorder of faces in the crowd, young
Hester Prynne sees the face of a man she once was fiercely familiar with,
whom we later learn is her true husband, Roger Chillingworth. Her
subjection to the crowd of Puritan onlookers is excruciating to bear, and
Hester holds the child to her heart, a symbolic comparison between the
child and the scarlet letter, implying that they are truly both
intertwined.
Prynne is imprisoned with her child, both of whom are emotionally and
physically exhausted from the punishment at the scaffold. The hu .....
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The Color Purple: Real Outcome Of Economic Achievement And Alternative Economic View
.... of white land
ownership, near-monopoly of technical and business skills and control of
financial institutions was in fact the accepted norm (Sowell 48).
When presenting the term fact - we must account for the introduction of a
second model, "historical and empirical data" in representing the real
world of The Color Purple.
As illustrated in the pages of American history books, it is evident that
American Negro slavery had a peculiar combination of features. The key
features of American slavery were that it followed racial or color lines
and that it was slavery in a democratic country (Sowell 4). The fact that
it existed in .....
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The Great Gatsby: Symbolism In Colors
.... that tom might be heading for moral decay. In the book there are
several things that Tom does that might prove this. First of all Tom is having
an affair with Myrtle Wilson. A second thing is that he does not like Gatsby,
and several times he tries to prove that he is not who he says he is. Tom even
hires a detective to prove this. Gatsby had a Rolls Royce that was yellow "His
station wagon scampered like a yellow brisk-bug . . ." (Page 39). Gatsby's car
was referred to many times in the book, but it was always referred to as "The
yellow car" (Page 157).
The color yellow was used most frequently when there was .....
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Red Badge Of Courage
.... sides of human nature. In the beginning of the
book Wilson is a mean tough guy that no one liked. This outward act of
being tuff is just a cover of the true nature of Wilson. It is natural
for people to cover their true nature in front of new faces. Towards the
end of the book Wilson starts to care about Henry. hen Henry is injured
and he doesn't try and fight the other men anymore. True to human nature
once times start getting more difficult and Wilson becomes more
comfortable with his surroundings he transcends into the calm
compassionate person he really is.
All of the characters in the Red Badge of Courage represent some .....
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The Black Cat: A Comparison Between The Movie And The Book
.... cat made itself at home but the man avoided it because of a sense of shame
for his former deed. The next day the man noticed that the cat was missing an
eye just as Pluto. His wife pointed out that the white spot on its chest
resembled the Gallows! The cat made the man trip in his basement one day. So
he picked up an ax to kill the cat, and his wife stepped in the way and he put
the ax through her brains. The man decided to hide the body and the cat behind
a bricked up wall in the basement. The police came and looked at everything.
Just before they left, they heard a noise from the basement wall. So they tore
the b .....
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The Giver: Book Report
.... out that not all memories are nice.
Conflict: The conflict is man vs. man. Jonas can't turn down his
assignment without being released.
Climax: Jonas runs away from the perfect community so that Gabe won't be
released.
Falling Action: People search for Jonas and Gabe.
Resolution: Finally Jonas and Gabe make it elsewhere, and they were safe.
Setting
#1: “Now the landscape was changing. It was a subtle change, hard to identify
at first. The road was narrower, and bumpy, apparently no longer tended to by
road crews. It was harder suddenly, to balance on a bike, as the front wheel
wobbled over stones an .....
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The Great Gatsby: Jay's Background And His Downfall
.... an impression on these
people. Many to these people went to these parties "...without having met
Gatsby at all" (ch. 3,p. 41).
Gatsby did not have a formal education. His background did not support
the background of the old wealth. He lived in West Egg, "...the less fashionable
of the two..." (ch. 1, p. 5). The old rich would not live there.
Jay Gatsby could have never in his life been a part of the old rich. Even
with changing his names and and lifestyle, he could have never changed his
interior. He would always been James Gatz.
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