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The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Alienation
Words: 1280 / Pages: 5

.... from her meager subsistence. She does not accept any joy into her life and she constantly punishes herself for committing her sin. Having been alienated from and by her community Hester forces herself to live plainly and simply. She "strove to cast ["passionate and desperate joy"] from her." She loves to sew, as women such as herself "derive a pleasure…from the delicate toil of the needle," but she feels she does not deserve the gratification. Though sewing could be "soothing, the passion of her life …Like all other joys, she rejected it as a sin." Hester no longer feels worthy to wear the finery she is capable of sewing for herself. All of t .....


Life In A Medieval Village Summary
Words: 1292 / Pages: 5

.... were two types of houses, the peasant cottage,(which wasn't that big) and the long house which had more space by far. The village wasn't a very delightful place to be in. It was a place of bustle, clutter, smells, disrepair, and dust, or in much of the year mud. It was far from silent! Every village had a lord, but only rarely was he in residence. A resident lord was usually a petty knight. The old feudal theory of lordship as a link in the legal chain of authority running from serf to monarch had lost much of it's substance. However, as far as the village was concerned such legal complications hardly mattered, anymore than whether the lord wa .....


Mila 18: The Affair
Words: 545 / Pages: 2

.... said to her. Deborah also recalled her mother telling her that sex was ugly and painful. Paul Bronski asked Deborah to get an abortion because she was so young. This was very painful for her. When in bed Deborah served her sentence. The guilt of sex was deeply implanted in her. She practiced pretending to enjoy love-making so as to not offend her husband. Deborah didn't experience either fulfillment or the smaller pleasures of love- making. She was totally unemotional. When Deborah met Christopher she said she was drawn to him like a little girl that took his hand and was led through the black evil forest to the golden castle that sat on a c .....


Joy Luck Club
Words: 1487 / Pages: 6

.... every Chinese woman used to be: To be obedient, to honor one's parents, one's husband and to try to please him and his family. Ying-Ying was not expected to have her own will and make her own way through life. The result of this education was a disaster. She was married to a bad man who left her after a short time to follow other women. Her love for him turned to hate, and she killed her unborn baby. This act gave her remorse for all her life since she considered it a murder. Tortured by this incident, she had a mental breakdown, for a period of time, when her second son -- with her second husband, St. Clair -- died at birth. She saw it as a punishm .....


Abuse Of Power Within A Clockwork Orange
Words: 1314 / Pages: 5

.... life that he truly cares for. This music represents the element of his choice and free will. When his ability of choice is robbed in an attempt to better him, he loses his love for music in which he exclaims, "And all the time the music got more and more gromky, like it was all a deliberate torture, O my brothers . . . then I jumped"(131). The music that represents his freedom to choose is now gone. He is left without any reason to live. When he realizes that he is no longer a man because of his absence of choice, Alex decides to end his life. The author illustrates through Alex's violent actions, how they represent his abuse of power thro .....


An Analysis Of William Styron's "The Long March"
Words: 945 / Pages: 4

.... the Carolinas. The climate in the novel is fair and mild. The year is most likely in the 50's or 60's. The time is between large wars. World War II has ended a while back, and the Korean War is about to start. The reserves fought in World War II and one of the officers in command threatens to send a person to Korea. The time and setting lend to the plot and theme in the way that it shows that the march is taking place in America in the peace time. It advances the whole theme showing that the superiors of battalion aren't trying to get ready for war, just being cruel. The author uses several styles, and an overall tone to make the novel more interesti .....


The Bogart By Susan Cooper
Words: 820 / Pages: 3

.... did not know was that a spirit called a Boggart lived there. The Boggart is a sprit that is neither good or bad. He mainly plays practical jokes on people. It is like a little child that can be friendly towards mortals. Boggarts cannot be seen or heard.. The Volink family sold the castle right away because it would be to expensive to keep. Emily and Jessup kept two pieces of furniture to bring home. What they didn’t realize was that a Boggart was sleeping in the desk they took home. When the Boggart got up he realized he was no longer home in Scotland in his castle. As the Boggart got comfortable he began his practical jokes in Toronto. H .....


To Kill A Mockingbird: The Theme Of Prejudice
Words: 1330 / Pages: 5

.... and resumed his activities." (Chapter 1, page 11) I don't see how you can't expect to have prejudice in a small town like that, after all isolation is a major factor in why prejudice and racism arise. "Men hate each other because they fear each other, and they fear each other because they don't know each other, and they don't know each other because they are often separated from each other. " -Martin Luther King The stereotypes in this novel are fairly common but the fact that they are acc .....


Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christianity
Words: 1515 / Pages: 6

.... attack or presence of a vampire. For example, in the latter of the book Van Helsing uses a Host to prevent Dracula to enter his coffin. Another time, during the night Van Helsing and Lucy stay out near the courtyard of Castle Dracula, Van Helsing makes a (Holy circle) with the Host to keep vampires out and to keep Mina safe in the (Holy circle). Another time when the Host is used as a deterrence of vampires is at the time Van Helsing and the other men are going to leave Mina alone in the house. Van Helsing touches a Host to Mina’s forehead and it burns into her head since she, herself, was unclean. Another abstruction of the Christian r .....


Night Creatures
Words: 299 / Pages: 2

.... call him) had a heart attack (that’s what they thought). And what do Carrie and Jerry care about it? He was a weird person anyway. That night Carrie and Jerry decide to climb the big brick fence that surrounded the house. They just wanted to check out what was there. They got their flashlights and shovels and started walking toward the house. They climbed the fence and had a rough drop down the fence. They looked around and saw huge plans; they were shaped like animals. Jerry looked up and saw a lion with wings; it was so big that he could fit his head into its mouth…If he wanted to. Jerry and Carrie were both scared, but they did not admit it. T .....



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