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Goethe In Faust And Shelley In Frankenstein: Still The Wretched Fools They Were Before
Words: 783 / Pages: 3 .... they never control the "perfect" life they have built for themselves.
In Faust, the intelligent gentleman Faust, seeks spiritual wholeness in
knowledge. Through years of hard study, Faust becomes knowledgeable in math,
sciences and religion and yet he becomes inept and incapable of having any
romantic or physical relationships with the outside world. As Faust strives to
become the "over man" through knowledge, he realizes that books will not
satisfy his 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 f .....
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Breaking Societies Rules
Words: 843 / Pages: 4 .... a good man until Abigail Williams comes into his life. John lives in a house feeling empty and thinking his wife does not love him. Lust is a very powerful feeling, and it tempts John right into bed with Abigail. Unfortunately once he commits adultery, Elizabeth does not forgive him. She finds ways to punish John and make him feel more remorseful. For example, Reverend Hale asks John to recite the commandments, and he forgets one, Elizabeth then says sarcastically, “Adultery, John.” Elizabeth responds in such a manner that John feels overwhelming pain in his heart. Naturally, Elizabeth feels guilty as well. She tells John, “I have sins of my o .....
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Fyodor
Words: 1422 / Pages: 6 .... as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote.” Born in Moscow in 1821, he was the son of a former army surgeon who was killed by his own serfs because of his alcoholism and the brutality that followed his drinking fits. He was never close to his father possibly because of alcoholism, this is creates a hatred towards fatherly figures. The only father seen in the novel, Marmeladov, is a drunkard and is portrayed as a “dead-beat” dad, who only drank and did not tend to his family’s need, but instead added to their misfortunes. Alcoholism is a massive problem that is mentioned in the book among numerous characters; consequentl .....
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Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis Taking Place Involving Gregor And Its Effect On The Family
Words: 546 / Pages: 2 .... him. Beginning to see things
less and less, Gregor experiences a change in his vision. An example,
found on page 29, would be Gregor seeing the hospital less and less
distinctly. A mental change in Gregor occurs when he starts not caring
about or having no consideration for his family. " It hardly surprised him
that he was showing so little consideration for the others; once such
consideration had been his greatest pride."
Everyone in the Samsa family experiences changes brought on by
Gregor's metamorphosis. Since Gregor's physical change renders him no
longer able to work, the family's financial situation changes. Gregor's
mother, f .....
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Book Report On Of Mice And Men
Words: 1033 / Pages: 4 .... dress tighter.
The next day, George found out that the girl went to the police and pressed charges against Lennie. The police were all over town looking for him. George and Lennie escaped by hiding in an irrigation ditch until nightfall and then leaving town. After that, they hitchhiked all the way to Salinas Valley, California where the story continues.
The next day they arrived at their destination, the ranch where the would be working. That day, they met someone named Candy. He was an old man who had been working on the farm for many years. He also had an old dog. It was so stiff with rheumatism it could hardly walk.
A few minutes la .....
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Eye Deep In Hell: Book Review
Words: 1617 / Pages: 6 .... warfare, dealing with the strategy as well as dealing with the death involved in the trenches. Third, he discusses how those in charge went about sustaining the men and keeping their morale up. Finally, he ends his book talking about the attitude of the men on the front lines.
“Eye Deep in Hell” is a very descriptive and informative book. Ellis does a nice job giving in-depth insight as to what these men actually incurred in the muddied trenches and otherwise abyss known as the “Western Front” of the First World War. He is able to almost put us in the shoes of the men whom were actually there, making us realize what it was like being on .....
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With The Guest By Andrew Camus: Daru
Words: 840 / Pages: 4 .... in
(pg 205), that Daru has morals and he does not feel he should violate them.
Daru seems to be a man who is well off, compared to the poverty around him (pg
203). We know indirectly that Daru is very trusting, sometimes when maybe he
should not be. He lets the Arab sleep in the same room with him untied, even
though there is a chance that the Arab could try to do Daru harm. When Daru
lets the Arab eat at the same table as him, we see that he does not think
himself to be superior to the prisoner (pg-207). Near the end of the story we
can tell that Daru is a generous man. He gives the Arab food and money and the
choice for freedom or for pr .....
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Hamlet 2
Words: 1189 / Pages: 5 .... purposes. In Act II, Scene 2, Claudius and Polonius use Ophelea to determine the cause of Hamlet’s madness.
Polonius: At such a time I’ll lose my daughter to him:
Be you and I behind an arras then;
Mark the encounter: if he love her not
And be not form his reason fall’n thereon,
Let me be no assistant for a state,
But keep a farm and carters
And in Act II, scene 1, Ophelia tells Polonius how Hamlet has scared her, making Polonius believe that Hamlet has gone insane. Thus the death of Ophelia is a tragedy because she did nothing deserving of her horrible death, besides allowing herself to be used by others.
One of the most impo .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Primal Instincts
Words: 1163 / Pages: 5 .... an exception of Ralph, Piggy, and Simon have become uncivilized savages.
As the chosen leader of the boys, Ralph had to maintain his sense of order and civilization, which he has accomplished. Since the beginning of the novel, all Ralph wanted was to get rescued from the island, and go back to his home. At the beginning of the novel, he talks about his father, who happens to be a "commander in a navy" (p. 8), in such a way hoping that he will somehow finds the boys and bring them off the island. Furthermore, at various moments of the novel, especially when Jack lost interest in the fire, Ralph reminds the boys how important the fire is. At one .....
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The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses: Actions Have Consequences
Words: 762 / Pages: 3 .... sense to wear protection in pregnating the mother of his twelve kids. Instead, he had to deal with trying to raise twelve kids on a teacher's salary. Watching his kids fight made him depressed and lost. The violence that he saw between his kids made him feel like a savage.
Brille is a political prisoner in the area of Span One, which has nine other prisoners just like Brille. Brille is not physically intimidating. He wears glasses and has "a hollowed-out chest and comic knobbly knees" (Head 427). Brille needed to release these suppressed feelings. He did this by turning the Warder in. This gave him a sense of control and relief from the y .....
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