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The Heart Of Darkness
Words: 648 / Pages: 3 .... as a threat to their position. Kurtz is rumored to be ill, making the delays all the more costly. Marlow eventually gets the parts he needs to repair his ship, and he and the manager set out with a few agents (whom Marlow calls pilgrims because of their strange habit of carrying long, wooden staves wherever they go) and a crew of cannibals on a long, difficult voyage up the river.
They come across a hut with firewood stacked and a note saying it is for them but to approach cautiously. Natives attack them and the helmsman is killed before Marlow frightens the natives away with the steam whistle. They come to Kurtz's Inner Station, expecting to find him .....
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Cry, The Beloved Country: Stimulating A Change
Words: 1102 / Pages: 5 .... that many of the
blacks live in. The first event occurs when Kumalo arrives in Johannesburg,
afraid from the stories that he has heard, he puts his trust in another black
man who appears to be of good intentions, but in reality cheats Kumalo of his
money. This experience is unlike his time on the train, in which Kumalo had
been treated with immense respect. On the train he is aware of the respect that
other blacks hold for him, because he is a man of God, though, in the city, his
social standing demonstrates little significance. This may be taken as a sign
that the idea of a God may be questioned or less acceptable to the people, when
they .....
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The Outsiders
Words: 870 / Pages: 4 .... a gang. They live in a city in Oklahoma. Ponyboy Curtis, a 14 year old greaser, tells the story. Other characters include Sodapop and Darry, Ponyboy's brothers, Johnny, Dallas, and Two- Bit, that were also gang members and Ponyboy's friends. This story deals with two forms of social classes: the socs, the rich kids, and the greasers, the poor kids. The socs go around looking for trouble and greasers to beat up, and then the greasers are blamed for it, because they are poor and cannot affect the authorities. The first conflict that you see in the novel is when one day Ponyboy and Johnny, (Ponyboy's best friend), get jumped by a group of Socs. The .....
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How Does Arthur Miller Expect
Words: 2630 / Pages: 10 .... of the two brothers. -
When Eddie dies, the audience is expected to feel sympathetic and upset for the loss of the main character. Alfieri enhances this feeling with words, in his final speech.
‘I think I will love him more than all my sensible clients’
This makes me think that Eddie wasn’t stupid, and he wasn’t a fool, he was just oblivious to the fact that Catherine was going to grow up, to love others but him, he couldn’t understand why this had to happen.
Alfieri has a great deal of respect for Eddie, like the other characters in the play.
When Eddie is killed by Marco in a fit of rage, he lies, dying in Bea .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Forms Of Punishment
Words: 238 / Pages: 1 .... or punished by a person on a higher level. The punishment given
can take many forms. In the book The Scarlet Letter, By Nathaniele
Hawthorne, The protagonist, Hester Prynne, is punished for an act of
adultery. Her sentence was to bear a scarlet letter of "A" upon her
bosom. This punishment is a form of public humiliation. In the 1620's
this form of punishment was one of the severest sentences given. The
people would want the guilty to suffer in front of his fellow man. To
keep the person from hiding himself from his humiliation, they produced a
device that would hold the hands and the head of the culprit in front of
everyones v .....
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1984: The Plot
Words: 995 / Pages: 4 .... no exception.
Orwell deliberately keeps the plot in 1984 simple, without any narrative twists or shocking surprises until the very end. He is very careful to present the idea that it is our society and government, not people, that are mixed up. The plot is not merely a boy meets girl story, but helps to pull the characters through the story. For Orwell’s purposes, the plot need not be too complex, for it might detract from his message. By keeping the time frame of 1984 to a short period and involving relatively few main characters, Orwell focuses on the important issues of totalitarianism and total government control through brainwashing.
In connec .....
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Moby Dick
Words: 3474 / Pages: 13 .... the ship, and he would sail across the Atlantic Ocean to Liverpool and then back to America. However, this voyage would not be his last. Melville decided to join the crew of a whaling ship named the Acushnet. But Melville did not like his treatment on board this vessel, and would soon abandon them at an island of the Marquesas with another member of the crew. On this island they ran into a group of cannibals that, instead of harming them, would take them in. None the less, both the men would grow tired of the tribe and would escape, although Melville did remain slightly longer than is counterpart. When Melville did escape, however, he would b .....
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Eugene Ionesco's "Rhinoceros": True Means Resides In Action Not Words
Words: 753 / Pages: 3 .... in action rather than in mere words. A resistance to taking action then
results in one's becoming a rhinoceros. Jean illustrates this in the beginning
of Act 2, scene 2, when we see Jean and Berenger bickering. Berenger feels that
Jean isn't looking or feeling well and threatens to get him a doctor. Jean
resists by saying, "You're not going to get the doctor because I don't want the
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 resp .....
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Canterbury Tales: Power Corrupts
Words: 1173 / Pages: 5 .... robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.
(Prologue, Lines 294-296)
The Clerk preferred to have twenty books at the head of his bed rather than own expensive clothing, a fiddle, or a beautiful sounding harp. Having no job left the Clerk broke; his only source of income was his friends loaning him money. Not to anyone’s surprise, he spent the money on books and education. He loved to teach others and be taught. He listened carefully to what everyone had to say and never said anything more than what was appropriate for the specific time. This showed his modesty and willingness to learn new viewpoints and not just teach everyone his view .....
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The Pardoner's Prologue And Tale
Words: 1833 / Pages: 7 .... Rather, the two prologues are rooted in satirical traditions in which a figure embodying some vice speaks a 'confession,' almost entirely without shame, illustrating the way it lives. Chaucer found examples of this in the Romance of the Rose, the Pardoner's Prologue has some vague similarities with the figure Faux-Semblant (False Seeming) found there.
As seen in the General Prologue, a pardoner is a layman who sells pardons or indulgences, certificates from the pope by which people hoped to gain a share in the merits of the saints and escape more lightly from the pains of Purgatory after they died. This particular Pardoner works for a religious ho .....
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