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Death Of A Salesman: Willy's Escape
Words: 1028 / Pages: 4 .... The conversation between Willy and Linda reflects Willy's disappointment in Biff and what he has become, which is, for the most part, a bum. After failing to deal adequately with his feelings, he escapes into a time when things were better for his family. It is not uncommon for one to think of better times at low points in their life in order to cheer themselves up so that they are able to deal with the problems they encounter, but Willy Lowman takes it one step further. His refusal to accept reality is so strong that in his mind he is transported back in time to relive one of the happier days of his life. It was a time when no one argued, Willy and .....
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The Great Gatsby: “The Love Of Money Is The Root Of All Evil"
Words: 647 / Pages: 3 .... beyond their own social class because they are uncomfortable. People that have been brought up the same with the same advantages and disadvantages find it easier to relate to each other. No amount of love for Gatsby could overcome Daisy’s love of money and possessions. Many friendships and relationships that might have been remarkable, are be ruined by money. It is extremely hard for a person to spend time with another who has grown up with everything that they ever wanted. While the more fortunate person may not be thinking about it, the less fortunate person feels inferior. The backgrounds of the people are so different that they just c .....
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Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave
Words: 530 / Pages: 2 .... In time, he shares all of his knowledge and wisdom with Merlin. "He taught me practical things, too; how to gather herbs and dry them to keep, how to use them for medicines, . . . poisons. He made me study the beasts and birds, . . . and-with the dead deer-I learnt about the organs and bones of the body. . . The map Galapas showed me was a copy from a book by Ptolemy of Alexandria." (The Crystal Cave, Pgs. 59-60) Galapas also helps Merlin to put the meanings of his periodic visions of the future and of events far away into action. "'Go? But if I go back, they'll kill me, or shut me up. . . Won't they?'. . . 'You can no more be hidden now, than .....
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Streetcar Named Desire
Words: 692 / Pages: 3 .... beats his wife, Stella. Lastly, his arrogance and ferocious actions
are most apparent when he rapes Blanche, while his wife is in labor in
the hospital.
Stanley Kowalski’s first exhibition of his brutal actions
occurs at poker night. Blanche turns on the radio, but Stanley
demands her to turn it off. Blanche refuses and so Stanley gets up
himself and turns it off himself. When Stanley’s friend, Mitch, drops
out of the game to talk to Blanche, Stanley gets upset and he
even gets more upset when Blanche flicks on the radio. Due to the
music being on, Stanley, in a rage, stalks in the room and grabs the
radio and throw .....
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The Great Gatsby
Words: 806 / Pages: 3 .... with Tom and go with him. It can be seen in the last chapter on the novel, when Gatsby was murder, Daisy went to somewhere else with her husband, and did not go to Gatsby's funeral.
I called up Daisy half and hour after we found him,
called her instinctively and without hersitation. But
she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and
taken baggage with them.
Therefore, Nike Carroway's analysis was right by these clear observation.
However, Nike Carroway is a good narrator, he sees everything happen and does not trust everybody easily. So during the people discuss about something at a time, he does not belie .....
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The Truth Is Out There, Do We
Words: 952 / Pages: 4 .... "black" truth about life and people. His mind couldn’t comprehend the truths he had to accept; it was totally contradicting to what he knew, and so he crumbled, selling his soul to sit among demons and devils. He was hollow inside, had no sense of moral or social responsibility, and the black truth he discovered ate away and destroyed him. He regressed to savage behaviors he had previously repressed and let the darkness fill the cold void within him. Because he knew so much blackness, he was unable to live in society again. He crossed over and relinquished all ties to the civilized world, for he had lived the white truths to an extreme, so did he l .....
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The Scarlet Letter - Puritan Society
Words: 1107 / Pages: 5 .... forest track
leads away from the settlement out into the wilderness where all signs of
civilization vanish. This is precisely the escape route from strict
mandates of law and religion, to a refuge where men, as well as women, can
open up and be themselves. It is here that Dimmesdale openly acknowledges
Hester and his undying love for her. It is also here that Hester can do
the same for Dimmesdale. Finally, it is here that the two of them can
openly engage in conversation without being preoccupied with the
constraints that Puritan society places on them.
The forest itself is the very embodiment of freedom. Nobody watches
in the woods to report .....
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Epic Heros In Beowulf And Roland
Words: 572 / Pages: 3 .... to fall into shame reflects not only on oneself, but on one's family and nation.
The field on which the epic hero performs is grounded in socio-political and historical 'reality'. Charles Moorman writes that "the world in which Roland lives and fights is ... a very simple world, rigidly, and comfortingly, described by the laws of the Church and Emperor". Although elements of 'the miraculous' appear in the epic, they result in no more than a heightening or aggrandizement of reality.
The epic heroes of Beowulf … [and] of Roland go down to defeat and in some sense are responsible for their defeat ....However, we know that even in defeat parti .....
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1984: The Control Of Reality For Control Of The Masses
Words: 1096 / Pages: 4 .... Omniscient, and under the control of the party
Among the many themes express in the novel 1984 by George Orwell the
most interesting and frightening is the concept of creating an alternative
reality to control a mass population. The Inner Party stays in power by shaping
the thoughts and opinions of the masses and it does this by creating a reality
where everything suits whatever it is the party needs to be believed. This is
accomplished in three ways. The first is revisionism or the act of changing
facts such as history so that the Party is always made to look good and mobilize
popular opinion against its enemies. .....
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English Macbeth
Words: 635 / Pages: 3 .... me’
She appears supremely confident about murdering Duncan even though Macbeth is not which also shows of her great ambition to succeed and become queen of Scotland.
‘We Fail? … But screw your courage… and we’ll not fail’
Lady Macbeth plans the murder from a very early stage even when Macbeth is unsure of what he is to do
‘When Duncan is asleep… his spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt of our great quell?
Overall Lady Macbeths ambition, confidence and naivete is perhaps the major factor in pushing Macbeth into the murder of Duncan. She does not think of the consequences of the murder .....
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