Ethan Frome: Fantasy Is An Escape From Winter
.... feel like a "real man."
Contrary to his characteristic passiveness, he defies Zeena in Mattie's defence,
"You can't go, Matt! I won't let you! She's [Zeena's] always had her way, but
I mean to have mine now -" (Wharton 123). To Ethan, Mattie is radiant and
energetic. He sees possibilities in her beyond his trite life in Starkfield,
something truly worth standing up for. Her energy and warmth excite him and
allow him to escape from his lonely, monotonous life.
While Zeena is visiting an out of town doctor, Ethan and Mattie, alone
in the house, intensely feel her eerie presence. The warmth of their evening
together is brought .....
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Ethan Frome: Ethan's Failures
.... to have found someone that cared for
him, was always happy and could share his youth, unlike his sickly wife who
always nagged him. He longed to be with Mattie, however he had loyalty to his
wife. Being married to the wrong person proved to be Ethan's first failure.
Ethan's second failure was not being able to stand up against his wife. His wife
claimed that a new doctor said that she was extremely sick, and needed more help
around the house. She told him without any discussion that Mattie had to go.
Ethan could not find the words to make her alter her decision. His wife also
decided that Mattie had to leave the next day itself .....
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Fahrenheit 451: Bradbury's Fears
.... people don't like certain
books. I think that the government will always censor things but not because a
few people don't like something.
In conclusion I think Bradbury's fear was exaggerated because in my
opinion most of the things that happened in the book would never happen in real
life. The things that could happen probably would not have been as bad as in
the book.
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A Rose For Emily: Fallen From Grace
.... by her father as property. Her significance to him was
strongly ornamental, just as their overly lavish home was. As the plot
progresses, the reader is clearly made aware of the physical decline of both the
house and Miss Emily. Just as the house is described as "smelling of dust and
disuse," evidence of Emily's own aging is given when her voice in similarly said
to be "harsh, and rusty, as if from disuse" (70-74). Ultimately, at the time of
Emily's death, the house is seen by the townspeople as "an eyesore among
eyesores," and Miss Emily is regarded as a "fallen monument" (69). Both are
empty, and lifeless. Neither are .....
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Faust: Book Review
.... Mephisto they
make a deal. Mephisto would serve Faust in this life and when Faust would die he
would come to hell and help Mephisto in return for giving Faust all this power.
Faust agrees and this is the start of the deed. Mephisto would do anything in
his power for Faust. These things that Mephisto did was to try to get Lady
Gretchen (that Faust liked dearly) to notice him. Mephisto would give Gretchen
diamonds and other assortment of jewelry to tempt her. This did not work. Over
the years of Mephisto doing all these deeds for Faust, He gained a lot of
knowledge. Faust started to get real old and very ill. He started to see ghos .....
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Goethe In Faust And Shelley In Frankenstein: Still The Wretched Fools They Were Before
.... curiosity and that maybe sensual pleasures will. Therefore, in
the process of creating his new life, Faust, becomes distant and unconcerned
with all reality and humanity around him.
Do not fancy anything right, do not fancy that I could
teach or assert what would better mankind or what might
convert. I also have neither money nor treasures, nor
worldly honors or earthly pleasures; no dog would want
to live this way!(p. 95)
Obviously, Faust has fallen into a inhumane state of living, through the
pursuit of the unattainable. He becomes greedy, desperate and feels justified
in whatever it .....
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First Love: Pathway To Adulthood
.... with her because he didn't know the first thing about love.
As the genre moves on, Vladimir's feelings for Zinaida became deeper and deeper.
Vladimir thought to himself:
I felt weary and at peace, but the image of Zinaida still hovered triumphant
over my soul, though even this image seemed more tranquil. Like a swan rising
from the grasses of the marsh, it stood out from the unlovely shapes which
surrounded it, and I, as I fell asleep, in parting for the last time clung to it,
in trusting adoration. (48)
Vladimir allows himself to become completely wrapped up in Zinaida to the point
where it becomes an obsession. He is in .....
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Flowers For Algernon: Charlie's Psychological Traumas
.... the night
his parents took him to the Warren Home. He was terrified and his dad would
never answer his questions. Charlie remembered his childhood and through his
memories, he felt guilty for hurting his family.
After the operation, Charlie also suffered from disillusionment. In the
bakery he used to have friends. Friends that would talk to him and care about
him. "...Why? Because all of the sudden your a bigshot. You think you are
better than the rest of us..." Charlie then realized that he had no friends but
merely knew people that made fun of him. The bakery employees just liked him
because they could blame their mist .....
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Frankenstein: Morality
.... 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 himself
in his study. .....
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Frankenstein: The Creator's Faults In The Creation
.... result when
something is made from parts of different corpses and put together. Were he
thinking more clearly he would have noticed monster's hideousness.
Another physical aspect of the monster which shows a fault in Frankenstein is
its immense size. The reason that Frankenstein gives for creating so large a
creature is his own haste. He states that ,"As the minuteness of the parts
formed a great hinderance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first
intention, to make a being gigantic in stature ..." (52). Had Frankenstein not
had been so rushed to complete his project he would not have had to deal with
such a physically intim .....
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Faust: An Elemental Romantic Work
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The Grapes Of Wrath: Symbols
.... symbolism. There are several uses of
symbols in the novel from the turtle at the beginning 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 a 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 and forced .....
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