Animal Farm
.... the fields of England,
Purer shall its waters be,
Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes
On the day that sets us free. (pp. 7-8)
The character of Major symbolizes the Soviet Union leader, Vladimir Ilich Lennin.
Lennin too had caused his comrades to rise up in rebellion against the Czarist
form of government in the hope of creating a country where everyone would be
equal. Before he saw his ideas fully enacted, he died.
After the death of Major, the power is left in the hands of two other
pigs, Snowball and Napoleon. Napoleon, who, without anyone else discovering,
had raised a litter of puppies into fierce dogs, now uses th .....
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Animal Farm: Political Issues
.... of a
farm whose oppressed animals, capable of speech and reason, overcome a cruel
master and set up a revolutionary government(Meyers 103). On another, more
serious level, it is a political allegory, a symbolic tale where all the events
and characters represent events and characters in Russian history since
1917(Meyers 103).
Orwell uses actual historical events to construct Animal Farm, but
rearranges them to fit his plot. Manor Farm is Russia, Mr. Jones the Tsar, the
pigs the Bolsheviks who led the revolution. The humans represent the ruling
class, the animals the workers and the peasants. Old Major, the inspiration of
the r .....
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Archetypes In A Rose For Emily
.... we knew that with nothing left,
she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will” (279).
Her father robs her from many of life's necessities. She misses out on having
friends, being a normal “woman,” and her ability to be happy. Emily is not able
to live a normal life which she indirectly blames on her father. Emily is so
used to having her father be there for her, she figures that by keeping his body
he can still be part of her life.
The Jungian archetype of this feminist struggle can be noted as: Emily is
not able to live a normal life because her father keeps under his thumb. In
relation to keeping .....
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A Separate Peace
.... Finny break his leg, Finny still didn't hold
anything against him and refused to believe what happened. Finny has always
been friendly to others due to his outgoing personality.
Finny is a competitive sportsman like person. Whenever Finny sees a
challenge that has never been achieved he will try to do what the others could
not. During the summer when there was nothing else to do, Finny decides to make
a club. When the club meets, all the members have to jump out of the tree to be
initiated. Finny will always stand up to challenges set by others and succeed
in breaking them.
Although Finny is not very smart, his athletic .....
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As I Lay Dying: Character's Words And Insight To Underlying Meanings
.... of adroitness? Also, his language is clear and reflective. He uses
similes and metaphors and appears to have an acute awareness of spatial
relationships. Darl's sophisticated perception and poetic linguistics give him
the means of reaching for and maintaining his role as a competent observer and
reporter. However, his position does create certain problems for his siblings.
Tull describes Darl's “look” as being uncanny.
"He is looking at me. He dont say
nothing; just looks at me with them
queer eyes of hisn that makes folks
talk. I always say it aint never
been w .....
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A Stranger Is Watching
.... family and no problems;at least in the mind of the antagonist.The
antagonist has problems with females,a career he feels is going nowhere,and a
lack of good friends.throughout the story we find out that the antagonist is
very jealous of the protagonist's lifeand that's why he indirectly targets
him.This contrast was an addition to the already excitng plot of the story..
In my opinion the best part of "A Stranger is Watching"is the
end,chapter 52.this chapter contains one of the greatest climaxes I ever
read.The chapter begins at a frantic moment.All of the characters lives are at
risk because Foxy's bomb is about to go off.After .....
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Bartleby, The Failure
.... was only to increase as his career diminished until his death
which was hardly noticed in the literary community. The narrator also resembles
Melville, but in a different way. Melville uses the narrator to view his own
situation from a 3rd person perspective. He attempts, and is somewhat
successful, in getting readers to feel sympathy for Bartleby, therefore,
sympathy for him. On the contrary, the narrator also scorns Bartleby's
persistence after he stops copying: "In plain fact, he had now become a
millstone to me…"(1149). In this respect, the narrator also represents
Melville's literary critics. Behind the r .....
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Mavis Gallant's Bernadette
.... during the 1940-1950, when what you were was
the definition of who you were. As the story opens we are presented with the
main character Bernadette, who is concluding that she is one hundred and
twenty-six days pregnant. At this time in history it was quit common for young
rural girls to bare children at a young age. However, Bernadette is a single
French Canadian girl who is working and living in a urban community, where
things like that do not take place. We are here introduced to the first fear
presented in the story: --How will Bernadette tell the Knights that she is
pregnant? -- The answer to the question is what h .....
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Beyond The Horizon And Diff'rent By Eugene O'Neill
.... comprehend. Andrew, who is "A Mayo through and through." does not think in
the imaginative terms Rob does. "It's just beauty that's calling me-the beauty
of the far off and unknown...in quest of the secret which is hidden over there,
beyond the horizon." (Horizon, 85) Andy does understand, that his brother could
never be happy living on the farm, because his heart is elsewhere. Emma is like
Rob in a few ways. Both characters have idealistic views. Rob believes in the
secret beyond the horizon and Emma in Caleb's fidelity. Neither of them
consider the fact things may not be as they perceive them. For Emma, this
innocen .....
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Billy Budd: Was Captain Vere Right?
.... feels regret for executing Billy. Captain Vere's
last words are “Billy Budd, Billy Budd” (p. 76) show an example of this. Those
last words might symbolize that Captain Vere killed Billy for the wrong reasons.
If CaptainVere uses Billy's death for an example to the rest of the crew then it
might not necessarily be the wrong reason. CaptainVere has to decide between
one life and the lives of the entire crew. No matter what Captain Vere's
reasons are he does make the right decision.
Another reason CaptainVere might of executed Billy Budd is because
CaptainVere follows the law to the letter. The law states that mutiny is
puni .....
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
.... a special technique to bring the corpse to
life. At first Victor thought he had failed, but the creature sat up and was
alive. Victor was horrified by his own creation and fled his laboratory. The
monster then disappeared into the city.
Two years pasted and the monster wasn't heard from, until something
terrible happened. Victor's younger brother William was strangled to death. It
was believed that William's nanny and close friend of the family, Justine, had
murdered him. A lynch mob gathered and drug her off and hanged her. Later on
Victor saw his creature and realized that the monster murdered his brother not
Justin .....
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Book Review: For Whom The Bell Tolls
.... turning point in the book other than Robert Jordan
getting his mission orders which is really the beginning and not a turning point.
My personal opinion of the book so far is good. I like the usage of language,
the way a character speaks, the lack of contractions, and where the story is
headed. The start has been good and I hope it carries through to the end.
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