Hawthorne's "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment": Reality Or Illusion
.... even attempted to drink the water. "The crushed and dried petals
stirred, and assumed a deepening tinge of crimson, as if the flower were
reviving from a death-like slumber;"(page 3) It is that clear cut, and
completely undeniable considering that five people witnessed the act and
not one had the slightest objection.
After the first drink of the potion until the last, I was still led
to the opinion that what the guests were experiencing was in fact real and
completely genuine. At this point I will point out that it is at this
exact moment where the issue of reality versus illusion begins to take
shape. However, while we left .....
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Early American Writers
.... was also a puritan
from the early America, however, he was a preacher.
Like Anne Bradstreet, he did not believe in material things. In
his sermon entitle Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he states "now they
see that those things on which they depended for peace and safety were
nothing but thin air and empty shadows." This statement agrees with what
Bradstreet believed in, that nothing (possessions) is important on Earth.
If a person has depended on those things for all your life and then they
are suddenly taken away from you, you will not know what to do.
However, unlike Bradstreet, he portrays god as angry fo .....
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Edgar Allen Poe's: "The Murders In The Rue Morgue"
.... last witness is registered, Dupin and the
narrator decide to examine the apartment on the Rue Morgue for themselves.
The Sherlock Holmes-like protagonist does not disappoint us. Dupin assures
the narrator that he knows who the culprit is, and he is indeed awaiting
his arrival. After collecting evidence and careful analysis, Dupin seems
to have solved the murder beyond the shadow of a doubt. The strange
circumstances lead Dupin to believe that the perpetrator could not have
been human but of the animal kingdom. He cites an orangutan as the killer,
an escapee from a careless owner. This accounts for the grotesque methods
of murder an .....
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Edgar Allen Poe's Symbolism Of Death In "The Fall Of The House Of Usher"
.... House of Usher", falls into the Gothic category. "It is
usually admired for its ‘atmosphere' and for its exquisitely artificial
manipulation of Gothic claptrap and decor"(Abel, 380).
Bringing forth the symbolism of death is a major part of this
writing. All of the characters in "The Fall of the House of Usher" are
linked to death; by physical objects or by other people. "There are no
symbols of absolute good" (Abel, 382).
The physical aspect of the House of Usher symbolizes death, in the
chain of events, during the story. Even Poe's description of the house has
deadly characteristics. Poe describes the house .....
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The Enlightenment Writers
.... They differed of
the premise of the techniques of writing. The pre-Enlightenment writers
were mostly made up of the educated class of clergy and the upper class,
who would afford to go to school. The clergy wrote mainly for the purposes
of the church, such as transcribing books or writing works on God or
religion. The upper-class writers would be of the nobility, so they would
usually write for aesthetic purposes or to write essays to impress their
peers.
Many great ideas were presented and defended by the Enlightenment
writers which were similar yet different from writers form earlier periods.
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Hemingway's "In Our Time": Lost Generation
.... what age this novel is read
at, it could be discussed as a representation of the "lost generation."
What is meant by the phrase "lost generation?" Possibly it means the loss
of a kindlier, friendlier, period of time. Maybe it means a loss of
familiarity, closeness and strength of relationships; everyday things like
the lost art of conversation. But at the same time, the characters in the
stories appear to be part of a "lost generation" themselves. In "The Three-
Day Blow," Nick and Bill spend a leisurely afternoon talking about baseball
and books while enjoying a good "ole'" bottle of Irish whiskey. They manage
to pass the time .....
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Traditions In "A Moment Before The Gun Went Off" And "The Lottery"
.... it is
Mrs. Hutchinson who is impacted the most brutally by the lottery. However
the other people of the village are affected differently by the lottery. It
is very unlikely that the people of the village kill people for the sake of
killing people. More likely there is a deeper reason. One possibility is
that the people of this village of this village are looking for a scapegoat.
A person to take the blame for mistakes and sins of others, so one person
dies for a community and saves the community from whatever sins that had
been committed.
The society can be affected in many ways by the lottery. Other
neighbor societies have been a .....
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Eugene Ionesco's "Rhinoceros": True Means Resides In Action Not Words
.... doctor. I can look after myself." (pp. 62) This
refusal comes from his arrogant view of himself as a "Master of [his] own
thoughts," (pp. 61) and "[Having] will-power!" (pp. 7) By seeing the
doctor, Jean would have put himself in the position of taking
responsibility for his actions and seeing that he wasn't always the "master
of his own thoughts" and that his will-power was actually quite weak. It
would be admitting the meaninglessness in his futile attempts to remain a
human. He didn't want to see that he, in fact, was becoming a rhinoceros.
Had Jean agreed to see a doctor, he may have been saved. By seeing
the doctor, Je .....
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Why Do Convenient Stores Have Locks On Their Doors If They Are Always Open?
.... of the day. This situation would never happen at a
store that is open all the time because there always has to be someone
working.
On a rare occasion, the store might need to the lock the doors if
someone outside is causing trouble. However, if they locked the doors and
wouldn't let any customers in they would be lying saying that they're open
24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year. Doing this would
cause the store to lose money because no one could then get into the store.
By adding locks onto the doors would also make people think that
sometimes they do close, like on holidays. On almost all national .....
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Fallen Souls In "The Inferno"
.... This man, Jason, became king of Cornith by committing
adultery against his wife, Medea, with the king of Cornith's daughter,
Glauce. Jason returns to Medea and tells her that she and their three
children are to leave his home immediately so he and Glauce can move in.
The following day Medea sends Glauce a poisoned robe which kills her. This
causes Jason to come to Medea for revenge, where he finds his three
children murdered by their mother's hand. Jason grief stricken falls upon
his own sword and dies there with his sons. Jason is reputed to the Carnal
a place where souls who give up there own life for passion “are swept
fo .....
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First Impressions May Be Deceiving
.... give the library this impressive look of a bank.
These light white-grayish, square pillars are 2 by 2 ft. and almost half
the way up them there are two engraved lines that run all the way around
them about 6 in. from the other. Concrete, a sign of strength, is also
used in the patio around the tower entrance. This grayish colored concrete
was poured in slabs of 3 by 3 ft. sections. Concrete was also used as
dividers between floors. Between each floor, the redish-brown, 4 by 8 in.
bricks are split up by a light grayish horizontal concrete layer. The
items used in the construction of this building show the strength
needed for .....
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A Review Of Lessing's "Flight"
.... feeling.
The characters's point of view are important in revealing the main theme of
this story which is learning to let go. By understanding the characters's
point of view, we are able to decide what main theme is about.
Firstly, the story have taken us a `tour' in the old man's position which
enabled us to understands what he is feeling. Even seeing that his grand-
daughter is no longer the cute little girl anymore, he still couldn't
accpet the fact that she has grown up and is starting a family of her own.
He feels alone, and hopeless. He believe that after she gets married,
nothing will ever be the same again. She won't .....
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