Great Expectations Vs. Oliver Twist
.... "the
master (at the orphanage) aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle; pinioned
him in his arms; and shrieked aloud for the beadle."3
The whole beginning of Oliver Twist's story was created from memories which
related to Charles Dickens' childhood in a blacking factory ( which was
overshadowed by the Marshalsea Prison ).4 While working in the blacking factory,
Dickens suffered tremendous humiliation. This humiliation is greatly expressed
through Oliver's adventures at the orphanage before he is sent away.
Throughout his lifetime, Dickens appeared to have acquired a fondness for "the
bleak, the sordid, and the austere. .....
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Great Expectations: Themes Of Love, Redemption And Isolation
.... Miss Haversham has ulterior motives in adopting Estella, this is not a
loving action on her part, but a calculated manoeuvre to turn the child into a
haughty, heartless instrument of revenge against men. Estella is encouraged to
practice her disdain on Pip and to break his heart. Paradoxically, Miss
Havershams greatest sin, is against herself. By hardening her heart she loses
her generous, affectionate nature and becomes withered inside emotionally. Her
punishment is that the heartless young woman she has made, uses her lack of
feelings against Miss Haversham.
Estella herself is isolated, as for most of the novel she .....
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The Theme Of Carelessness In The Great Gatsby
.... "Suppose you meet somebody just as careless as yourself."
"I hope I never will," she answered. "I hate careless people."(63)
She quickly responded to Nick that she doesn't need to be careful.
Daisy implied that it is the other person's responsibility to be mindful of her.
She also said that she hates careless people right after she admitted that she
was careless. Daisy was indifferent about her relationship with Tom. She knew
that her husband was having an affair with another women but Daisy did not do
anything about it.
Tom was careless in a much more obvious way. He was bruta .....
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Heart Of Darkness: Cruelty
.... motives in Heart of Darkness connect the
white men with the Africans. Conrad knew that the white men who come to Africa
professing to bring progress and light to "darkest Africa" have themselves been
deprived of the sanctions of their European social orders; they also have been
alienated from the old tribal ways.
"Thrown upon their own inner spiritual resources they may be utterly
damned by their greed, their sloth, and their hypocrisy into moral
insignificance, as were the pilgrims, or they may be so corrupt by
their absolute power over the Africans that some Marlow will
need to lay their memory .....
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Heart Of Darkness: Ignorance And Racism
.... have been criticized as being soft hearted rather than a
racist back in his time.
Conrad constantly referred to the natives, in his book, as black savages,
niggers, brutes, and "them", displaying ignorance toward the African history
and racism towards the African people. Conrad wrote, "Black figures strolled
out listlessly... the beaten nigger groaned somewhere" (Conrad 28). "They
passed me with six inches, without a glance, with the complete, deathlike
indifference of unhappy savages" (Conrad 19). Achebe, also, detected Conrad's
frequent use of unorthodox name calling, "Certainly Conrad had a problem with
niggers. His in ordi .....
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The Heart Of Darkness: The Horror!
.... the natives. He was considered to be a "universal genius": he was an orator,
writer, poet, musician, artist, politician, ivory producer, and chief agent of
the ivory company's Inner Station. yet, he was also a "hollow man," a man
without basic integrity or any sense of social responsibility. "Kurtz issues
the feeble cry, 'The horror! The horror!' and the man of vision, of poetry, the
'emissary of pity, and science, and progress' is gone. The jungle closes'
round" (Labrasca 290). Kurtz being cut off from civilization reveals his dark
side. Once he entered within his "heart of darkness" he was shielded from the
light. Kur .....
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In Our Time: Review
.... I always connect with my father and his college years for
some reason, although I'm not entirely sure why. I've always wanted to read
Hemmingway, but I've always wanted to read all of Shakespeare, Homer, and Eliot,
too.
The edition I'm reading has the short stories separated by "Chapters" which do
and don't tell a story. The "Chapters" strongly remind me of Pink Floyd's The
Wall. I was also surprised at how simple it is to read them. They are perfect
examples of how Poe defined the short story: quick, (sometimes) powerful, and
written to evoke one feeling. After reading The End of Something, for example, I
was struck by how ea .....
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Beloved
.... proper care. Even modern day
criminals, those that have murdered large numbers of people are treated more
humanly then the average slave ever was. The life that the children would of
lived would of been one of complete servitude, they would of never of known what
it was like to live on their own and make their own decisions. This all goes
back to the fact that they would never be human or treated as humans, so based
on this I believe that Sethe was justified in killing her children and
preventing them from becoming enslaved.
The fact that the slaves where treated like animals, and where traded and sold
like cattle is well depicted .....
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Huckleberry Finn Learns He Must Grow Up Fast If He Wants To Survive Life
.... father who beats Huck to a pulp
any time he is sober. And for Jim, the fact that his family is not considered
human by society but rather chattel that can be bought, sold or even traded at
the slightest whim. Together Huck and Jim must work together to escape the
society which has allowed them to live the vile life they had, and move to a
place where society will let them start a brand new life.
When Pap , was not around, Huck felt better about himself. He enjoyed
life a little more, did not have to worry about coming home on time, only to get
beat up by his own pap.
He kept me with him all the time, and .....
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Human Nature: Exposed
.... 20 where a group of people in Arkansas are listening to the
sermon of a preacher. In this descriptive passage, it can be inferred through
Twain's writing that the average person of this time was in fact "blinded" by
religious influences. The significance of this event can be observed later on
in Chapter 21 where Twain describes the horrific abuse of animals. "There
couldn't anything wake them up all over, and make them happy all over, like a
dog-fight--unless it might be putting turpentine on a stray dog and setting fire
to him..." (Twain 140). In putting the two preceding passages in perspective a
distinctive irony become .....
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Imagination In Morte D' Arthur
.... is the blade being drawn, and a battle immediately ensues.
Once again, the reader is told more than the characters. The only thing
keeping the reader a part of the story is the vivid descriptions given of the
nightmarish world of Arthur's dream, and the smoking, bloody battlefield of a
war that wasn't meant to happen.
Malory also makes use of drama in his portrayal of the double-death
scene, again with Arthur and Mordred. When he describes Mordred's sword being
driven into Arthur's chest, and Arthur's spear running Mordred through, the
reader almost cringes at the thought. However, it is not enough that they are
both killed .....
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In Contempt By Christopher Darden: A Review
.... that this was the first case that
affected him personally and emotionally. As one may expect the majority of this
book is taken up with the Simpson case but, chapters two through six detail his
life from birth, his childhood in a working class district of Richmond,
California, and becoming a district attorney of Los Angeles in 1981. Chapters
two and three mostly consist of stories of him and his brother, Michael,
stealing from local stores or his brothers drug deals. When Michael hit his
mid-teens hestarted selling marijuana off the front porch of the house and Chris
was his lookout. In return, he was told that he would be cut .....
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