The Great Gatsby: Forces Of Corruption
.... force of corruption responsible for Gatsby's fate is his obsession
with a woman of Daisy's nature. Determined to marry her after returning from
the war, he is blind to her shallow, cowardly nature. He is unable to see the
corruptiion whick lies beyond her physical beauty, charming manner and playful
banter. That she is incapable of leaving her brutal husband, Tom, of commiting
herself to Gatsby despite his sacrifices, escapes him. As Nick observes,
Gatsby's expectation is absuredly simple:"He only wanted her to tell him [Tom]
that she never loved him." (pg.91) DAisy is not worthy of the pedestal on which
she is placed. Since she .....
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Frankenstein: Morality
.... another monster he may be rid of both monsters forever. "With
the companion you bestow I will quit the neighbourhood of man,"(pg 142) promises
the morally corrupt monster to the doctor upon the completion of his partner.
When the doctor, if and when he, finished his first creation's mate there is a
chance that the monsters will not keep their promise and stay in Europe envoking
fear into townfolk.
The good doctor, trying to act morally, destroys the monster for the
good of the world. The monsters can potentially take over whatever they please.
"A race of devils would be propegated,"(pg. 163) thinks Frankenstein to h .....
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Frankenstein: Victor
.... in a cottage. He wanted so immensely to be a part of their love
and smiles. He learned their language and how to write (by listening to them
teach an Arabian relative). After a very long time he walked into the cottage
when only the blind old man was there and tried to befriend him. He was very
persuasive until the children and the woman returned. The boy attacked the
Monster. He could have killed the boy, but, out of love, ran. The family soon
moved leaving the Monster so incredibly depressed and heart-broken that he
suddenly hated the human kind. But, most of all, he hated his creator for
making in the first place. .....
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Gatsby's Dream
.... the car is one of the greatest status symbols. Gatsby's gorgeous
machine is one of the most majestic cars created. Nick's comments on the vehicle
describe its luster, “...and there in its monstrous length with triumphant
hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes...Sitting down behind many layers of
glass in a sort of leather conservatory we started towards town” (68). The use
of the symbolic automobile can be seen as a demonstration of how an ideal based
on materialism alone can be destructive. This was the fatal car which kills
Myrtle Wilson and indirectly leads to Gatsby's death.
Appearance is another important factor toward .....
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Huckleberry Finn: Good Vs. Evil
.... his father had smallpox, and he wanted nothing to do with Huck or
his father. Thus, he had saved Jim, and actually felt good about it. Further
along in the book, Jim becomes a slave again. Huckleberry, with the aid of Tom
Sawyer, free's Jim. Once again, Jim's escape and freedom are more important to
Huck than societies viewpoint.
The river is also important. The river is symbolic of freedom. It is
also symbolic of good. When Jim and Huck are rafting down the river, they are
free of society. They have no laws. This is not to say that they are lawless,
however, the laws they obey are there own. This is in direct contrast t .....
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Grapes Of Wrath: Summary
.... him and Casey stay and fix the car while the
rest of the family go's on to Bakersfield and that they would meet them there.
Ma then let out her fury, she held up a tire iron and demanded that they all
stick together and that they will go to Bakersfield together.
Ma is also very smart. Her common sense is a higher then the rest of
the family's. When Tom gets hit under the eye by a officer Ma devises a plan to
get Tom out of that government camp. She says, "We'll put one mattress on the
bottom, an' then Tom gets quick there, an we take another mattress an' sort of
fold it so it make a cave." She really puts her foot down with w .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath: Symbolism
.... of symbolism. There are several uses of
symbols in the novel from the turtle at the begging to the rain at the end. As
each symbol is presented through the novel they show examples of the good and
the bad things that exist within the novel.
The opening chapter paints a vivid picture of the situation facing the
drought-stricken farmers of Oklahoma. Dust is described as covering everything,
smothering the life out of anything that wants to grow. The dust is symbolic of
the erosion of the lives of the people. The dust is synonymous with “deadness”.
The land is ruined, way of life (farming) gone, people uprooted an forced to
leave. .....
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Grapes Of Wrath: Awakening Of Tom Joad
.... trying to control the less
fortunate. This land had been his family's source of pride and livelihood
throughout his life with them and it's loss was the first sizable impact on
Tom's conscience that would lead him to an awakening.
After visiting the land the Joad family had lived on for many years Tom
and Jim traveled to his uncle John's house nearby. There Tom meets his family as
they are making preparations to leave for California. Tom's family has already
sold off every valuable possession they own while living under cramped
conditions on old and soiled mattresses in a house not built to accommodate the
size of the entire fa .....
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Grapes Of Wrath And Of Mice And Men: Character Study
.... many families
were forced, in the same way as the Joads, to leave their homes to look for
work during the depression. It is in this fact that one can see how Steinbeck's
intention in "The grapes of Wrath" was to depict the hardships people went
through during an actual event in American history. Perhaps the most solemn
message in this novel was the poor treatment of the dispossessed families as
they reached California. In "Of Mice and Men" the reader is presented with a
story that takes place in the same setting of "The Grapes of Wrath" This story
details the hardships of two traveling companions while they are working at a
r .....
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Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald's Criticism Of The American Dream
.... enough to
try to win Daisy. Fitzgerald does not criticize the American dream itself but
the corruption of that dream. What was once for Ben Franklin or Thomas
Jefferson a belief in self-reliance and hard work has become what Nick Carraway
calls " . . . the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty." The
energy that might have gone into the pursuit of noble goals has been channeled
into the pursuit of power and pleasure, and a very showy, but fundamentally
empty form of success.
Fitzgerald's critique of the American dream is developed through certain
dominant images and symbols. Fitzgerald uses the green light as a .....
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The Great Gatsby: Gatsby's Illusion Of Himself
.... she will come become almost famous for
their extravagance and the variety of people that come.
A result of this is that Gatsby creates an illusion around himself,
also. His past is shrouded in mystery and speculation: some favorites of the
party-goers' theories on why he is so free and generous with his resources are
that he once killed a man and that he was a German spy during the war. He does
nothing to discourage these rumours; rather, he often adds to them. He lets
people believe that he was an Oxford man and that his money was inherited from
his father, when in fact he only attended Oxford for a short time and his money
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Great Quotes By The Characters
.... Chapter 16
Determined
Talking to Scout: "Scout, simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets
one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one's mine I guess.
You might here some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you
will: you just hold your head high and keep your fists down." Page 80 Chapter 9
Talking to Scout: "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we
started is no reason for us not to try and win." Page 80 Chapter 9
Talking to Calpurnia: Atticus' eyes filled with tears. He did not speak for a
moment. "Tell them I'm very grateful," he said. "Tell them- tell t .....
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