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The Glass Menagerie: A Study In Symbolism
Words: 1622 / Pages: 6 .... are sincere, her overbearing and outspoken nature often hurts them. Laura, Tom’s sister, suffers from neuroses. She has trouble separating fantasy from reality. Without the ability to function in the outside world, Laura becomes a liability to both Tom and Amanda. The gentleman caller, Jim O’Connor, is a friend of Tom’s from the warehouse. He is an ambitious young man, who strives for the American Dream through hard work and optimism. Jim offers the Wingfields hope for the future:
Tom: He is the most realistic character in the play,
being an emissary from a world of reality that we were
somehow set apart from. But since I have a poet .....
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A Brief History Of Time: A Review
Words: 524 / Pages: 2 .... of one of the most imaginative, influential thinkers of out age.
From the vantage point of the wheelchair where he has spent the last twenty years trapped by Lou Gehrig's disease, Professor Hawking himself has transformed our view of the universe. His groundbreaking research into black holes offers clues to that elusive moment when the universe was born. Now, in the incisive style which is his trademark, Professor Hawking shows us how mankind's "world picture" has evolved from the time of Aristotle through the 1915 breakthrough of Albert Einstein, to the exciting ideas of today's prominent young physicists.
Was there a beginning of time? Will .....
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The Crucible: The Evil Of Fear
Words: 577 / Pages: 3 .... him utterly if he has shown face!" (p.39) Hale
shows his strong abhorrence toward evil. He is willing to follow the church's
authority to do anything to put a stop to it. While he is talking to Abigail, a
girl who was caught dancing in the forest, he yells, "You cannot evade me…"
(p.43) Hale expects to find evidence of witchcraft. This expectation leads him
to early, not fully thought out conclusions. Hale is determined to end the
alignments these witches have with the Devil, and he knows the court is too.
Later, Hale's views on the courts change and he becomes less obedient to
it's decisions. When the judge finds out that John Proctor, a .....
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Summary Of Rosen's "My Lost World: A Survivor's Tale"
Words: 817 / Pages: 3 .... the traditions and practices of the Judaic
tradition. She carefully goes through each holiday, describing what food
is eaten, which prayers are recited, and the typical clothing attire worn
during these times.
Sara came from a very large family. Thus having many stories and
memories to tell in part one. She even has three separate chapters for
three different sets of family.
Sara Rosen's decision of explaining her family and the traditions
set forth, was an exceptional way to start the novel. It gave the reader a
more detailed image of what to expect. The reader now fully understands
what the Rosen family was experiencing while trying to surv .....
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One Of A Doll's House: Secession From Society
Words: 562 / Pages: 3 .... not to be helpless like Torvald implied: "you poor
helpless little creature!"
Nora's second secession from society was shown by her decision to leave
Torvald and her children. Society demanded that she take a place under her
husband. This is shown in the way Torvald spoke down to her saying things
like: "worries that you couldn't possibly help me with," and "Nora, Nora,
just like a woman." She is almost considered to be property of his:
"Mayn't I look at my dearest treasure? At all the beauty that belongs to
no one but me -that's all my very own?" By walking out she takes a
position equal to her husband and brakes society's expectations. N .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden's Insight About Life And World
Words: 921 / Pages: 4 .... look good was because he was madly in
love with himself." (pg. 27) Holden had an inferiority complex. He was afraid of
not having any special talents or abilities and used other methods to make him
out to be a rough tough boy. "Boy, I sat at that goddam bar till around one
o'clock or so, getting drunk as a bastard. I could hardly see straight." (pg.
150) Holden tried all he could to fit in. He drank, cursed and criticized life
in general to make it seem he was very knowing of these habits. I myself have
found me doing this at times, also. I, at times, feel the need to fit in to a
group and do things similar to what others do in order to gain accepta .....
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Malamud’s The Assistant: Frank Alpine's Metamorphosis From Bad To Good
Words: 1450 / Pages: 6 .... Francis of Assisi. Frank represents the Saint throughout the novel. Frank is mainly reverenced by the fact that St. Francis was “born good”, which Frank refers to as a talent.
Frank Alpine and Morris Bober finally get acquainted and have a revealing conversation. In this conversation, Frank discloses some personal information about his past. “I’ve had a rough life……I mean I’ve been trough a lot. I’ve been close to some wonderful things……but close is as far as I go….sooner or later everything I think is worth having gets away from me in some way or other.” (P39-40) Frank does not have any clear justification for his actions. H .....
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Comparing "Waiting For Godot" To "Hollow Men"
Words: 654 / Pages: 3 .... with Godot. Who or what Godot symbolizes
remains a mystery, but their whole existence seems to be to wait for Godot.
They meet a couple of fellows: Pozzo, an upper-class man, mistaken by
Vladimir and Estragon as Godot, and Pozzo's slave, Lucky. After they leave,
a messenger from Godot arrives and states simply that Godot will arrive
tomorrow, same place, same time. They consider leaving, but do not. The
second act is almost an exact repeat of the first, but Lucky and Pozzo have
fallen upon hard times. Pozzo has become blind and pathetic, and Lucky has
become dumb. This change in events is a direct point of life being
terrific one moment, and wo .....
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Grendel
Words: 461 / Pages: 2 .... and swords at him. Grendel dose not understand
this as he says "they were doomed, I knew, and I was glad." showing the hope for
destruction of the human race. In Grendel's eyes humans are going to destroy
themselves and he will be glad when it happens.
Grendel is very lonely in the world of man. He has only one person close to
him and that is his mother. She cares for Grendel but just with the natural
motherly instincts which Grendel sees as mechanical. Grendel doesn't understand,
"Why can't I have someone to talk to?" as the world starts to look darker in his
eyes. Animals of all sorts are enemies of his because they don't understand him.
Grend .....
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