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Turgenev's Fathers And Sons
Words: 1602 / Pages: 6 .... first show because he shows
himself as being unimpressed and not caring and assures his father that
their quest Bazarov doesn't care either.
At the arrival to Marino they are met by Prokofitch who is
described as a simpering old servant. Arkady is then met by his uncle Pavel,
Pavel shakes hands with Arkady but abruptly puts his hand away when he is
greeting Bazarov. We can see from the actions of Pavel that he immediately
doesn't like Bazarov. After Arkady and Bazarov leave to go to their rooms,
Pavel begins to ask about the "hairy creature" that is visiting with Arkady,
and Bazarov begins to mock Pavel by comments his European demeanor and
finds .....
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Oedipus Rex
Words: 307 / Pages: 2 .... derived from the
way Oedipus speaks.
Oedipus also goes through a reversal of fortune, another characteristic
of a tragic hero. It look as if he has a solution to the problem Thebes faces,
when in fact he is the problem. This is hidden from him, when he is made
aware of this, and the atrocities he has committed, he endures great
suffering. His wife and mother commits suicide, and due to the emense
emotional burden this situation puts upon him, he gouges his eyes out. Due
to his level of suffering, the audience or reader feels a sense of pity for
Oedipus, which is another characteristic of a tragic hero.
His flaw causes him to commit an atrocity, .....
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Jane Eyre: The Preserverance Of The Personality
Words: 2290 / Pages: 9 .... as crucial as childhood can be; the books, especially Bewick's British Birds, that Jane reads at Gateshead determine her imagination: in the pictures she paints, the way she interprets her story. The shocking account of that extreme terror and brutality she suffers from John and Mrs Reed (the book flung at her, shut up in the red-room) points out that the fountainhead of her emotional life is the experience of oppression. Yet, her little self is full of fiery energy (as one of the servants observed: "Did ever anybody see such a picture of passion!" ), which like a volcano erupts at times in the form of revolt against the "tyrants". It seems that t .....
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Wuthering Heights 2
Words: 1213 / Pages: 5 .... Grange Mr. Lockwood made the perilous journey to Wuthering Heights only a few times. On the occasion of his second visit, "the snow began to drive thickly"(7) during his walk, and this horrible weather should have been foreshadowing to Lockwood about Heathcliff's, and the other member's of the household's true personalities. Upon arriving he was forced to bang continually upon the door before someone would take the care to let him in out of the cold. The dinner that Lockwood was permitted to have with the ‘family' was anything but hospitable. Lockwood was treated not unlike an ignorant and unworthy guest, and hence the visit was in no way enjoya .....
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A Lesson Before Dying: Mr. Wiggins
Words: 964 / Pages: 4 .... confided something in Mr. Wiggins,
something that I didn't see Jefferson doing often at all in this book.
"I saw a slight smile come to his face, and it was not a bitter smile.
Not bitter at all"; this is the first instance in which Jefferson breaks his
somber barrier and shows emotions. At that point he became a man, not a hog. As
far as the story tells, he never showed any sort of emotion before the shooting
or after up until that point. A hog can't show emotions, but a man can. There
is the epiphany of the story, where Mr. Wiggins realizes that the purpose of
life is to help make the world a better place, and at that time he no longer
minds vi .....
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Frankenstein: Good And Bad Choices
Words: 540 / Pages: 2 .... the man, Prometheus felt it his job to protect his creation. In doing
so, he gave fire to man that he had stolen from Zeus. From Prometheus's actions
he suffered for the rest of eternity. When Victor Frankenstein made his being,
he made a choice to "animate lifeless clay and body-parts", to become a being.
The choice he made would haunt him for the rest of his life. When Zeus finds
out that Prometheus has stolen his fire, he took Prometheus to a top of a
mountain and chains him to the mountain. Every day an eagle comes down and rips
him open and eats his insides. During the night Prometheus would recover during
the night.
After Victor Frankens .....
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The Necklace: The Downfall Of Mathilde Loisel
Words: 882 / Pages: 4 .... appearance of the characters as well
as their actions, thought, and emotions are very detailed throughout the story.
The main character's life, as well as her husband's, takes a dramatic turn and
the author describes the physical and emotional changes in great detail.
The story's title does not signify the theme however, the theme of the
story is reiterated throughout the story. "She had no dresses, no jewels,
nothing. And she loved nothing but that; she felt made for that. She would so
have liked to please, to be envied, to be charming, to be sought after"(900).
Mme. Loisel was envious of her friend and anyone else who had more than what .....
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Huckleberry Finn: Good Vs. Evil
Words: 438 / Pages: 2 .... one point, Huck convinces himself that the nest opportunity he
receives, he will turn Jim in, and clear his conscience. The opportunity became
available when slave hunters meet them on the river. Huck had an absolutely
perfect chance to turn him over. However, he made up a story that his father
was sick and needed help and asked the slave hunters for help. They immediately
assumed that his father had smallpox, and he wanted nothing to do with Huck or
his father. Thus, he had saved Jim, and actually felt good about it. Further
along in the book, Jim becomes a slave again. Huckleberry, with the aid of Tom
Sawyer, free's Jim. Once again, Jim's e .....
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Pearl's Contribution To The Scarlet Letter
Words: 853 / Pages: 4 .... and defends her mother and fends off the evil children.
The adults of Boston, mostly Puritans, talk behind Hester's back about the
child being one of a sinner. Another common stereotype filled by Pearl is
whenever an adult is occupied with something then the child finds something
to do. When Hester went to the woods to meet with Dimmesdale, Pearl went
off to play in the brook while the two adults talked and then she stopped
when her mother called. A second example is when Pearl accompanied her
mother to the seashore where they met Chillingworth, Pearl wandered off by
herself and occupied her time by playing with seaweed and the various
animal life .....
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim P
Words: 1083 / Pages: 4 .... Eighty-four is not simply a criticism
of what Orwell saw happening in his national government with the coming of English Socialism, but a
warning of the consequences of contemporary governmental practices, and what they where threatening to
bring about.
Perhaps the book seems so bleak because the events in the book are a somewhat logical projection from
current conditions and historical environment that Orwell observed in 1948. Perhaps people would be more
comftorble with the book if they could rule out in their minds the possibility of the profecy becoming a
reality.
In a critique of his own work, Orwell called Nineteen Eighty-Four .....
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