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The Awakening
Words: 757 / Pages: 3 .... which cause a shocking end to this adventure to find her true self.
In her critique, the female artist in Kate Chopin's : Birth and Creativity, Carlene Stone takes the reader through stages of Edna's struggle to become an artist showing direct correlation with her becoming and individual and in control of her own self. For example she states how Robert's encouragement while she is painting is very innocent in the beginning but eventually lead's to of her passions of her body and her falling in love with Robert. The fact that Edna falls for Robert goes against those societal roles which where followed by some many women of the 1800 .....
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The Great Gatsby 6
Words: 634 / Pages: 3 .... is gone, Daisy becomes a bored housewife with no interest to that world wondering what to do with the rest of her life. She appers to be bored yet innocent and harmless to society and environment. Unfortunately, her innocence proves false, as she becomes a materialistic young woman with a little mind of her own, rediscovering her love with Gatsby while still married to Tom. All of these round and dynamic characteristics add different complications to the plot, and dimension to the meaning Daisy adds to the book.
The previously mentioned characteristics help to understand and create some of the main conflicts. For example the conflict between Daisy .....
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Pericles
Words: 1624 / Pages: 6 .... following him around, yelling vituperation. He even followed home. Throughout the ordeal, maintained his composure. It was dark by the time arrived home, so he gave orders for one of his servants to take a torch and guide this critic safely back to wherever he lived.
Some people said that was only trying to fool the public with a false front of virtue. But Zeno replied that if were faking virtue, his detractors should do the same, because even pretending to be good, if this is
continued for long enough, will give a man the desire and practice that is needed for good habits.
was very wealthy, and his skill with words made him famous in Athens .....
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A Reminder Of Manhood In The O
Words: 877 / Pages: 4 .... regaining his identity as a man.
The episode involving the beautiful nymph, Calypso, relies on the intervention of the gods to rescue Odysseus from her enticing actions. With divine power on his side, Odysseus gains the right to return home and regain his identity as a man and as a leader. For seven years, Calypso has lured Odysseus to "lay with her each night, for she compelled him" (V. 164). Using her beauty while possessing hopes of making Odysseus her husband, the enchantress becomes overly distressed when the gods announce that she must release Odysseus and permit him to return to his homeland. Reluctant to let him go, Calypso promis .....
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Hamlet 15
Words: 1490 / Pages: 6 .... when Hamlet says, "The spirit that I have seen may be a devil, and the devil hath power t' assume a pleasing shape." (I.ii. 611-612) Hamlet is wondering if this is a ghost from heaven or a ghost from hell. No one wants to go to hell, so Hamlet must make sure that he is doing what is right. He does not want to be influenced by the devil in any way. The Christian thoughts of the time stated that vengeance was a sin. Hamlet wants to avenge his father's death but if he were to kill Claudius his soul may not be saved. Hamlet wants to be a better person than his Uncle, but if he were to become a murderer he would be just like Claudius.
One more pla .....
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The Ninja
Words: 1717 / Pages: 7 .... New York, with his wife Victoria Lustbader, who works for the Nature Conservancy.
Well, I don’t want to give the whole story away in this report, so I am going to summarise the story very briefly.
The book isn’t really just about a few selected people, but instead the author tries to see it from a lot of different perspectives. Therefore the reader get to know a variety of personalities. The Ninja is a high-voltage novel of intrigue and sensuality, richly characterised, fuelled by relentless suspense, an extraordinary thriller, least to say.
If there’s a main character in the book I think it would be Nicholas Linnear, .....
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Herman Melville- Moby Dick
Words: 1437 / Pages: 6 .... is that God created the
universe with an infinite number of
meanings and man is always trying to determine one specific
meaning.
D2. The "lessons" that Melville is likely to weave into
his writing are 1. An exposition on
whales and the whaling industry. 2. A commentary on the
universe and human destiny. 3.
Thoughts about God and Nature.
III. Characters
B. The protagonist in this book is Ishmael, a Christian,
schoolteacher and part-time sailor. Ishmael's role in the
hunt for "Moby Dick" is to interpret what is happening. He
discusses his reasons for going to sea and interprets and
looks for underst .....
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Obasan Book Report
Words: 741 / Pages: 3 .... themselves while trying to stay in Vancouver. Naomi is very small at the time of the war and did not really fully understand what was happening to her race. The novel recounts the struggle of Naomi’s Aunt Emily to ensure that her family would be together in whatever place they were sent to. Aunt Emily wanted to head east to Toronto, but was unable to get the documentation for the entire family which included her sister children, who she was taking care of. The novel discuses the camps that the Japanese families were sent to in Hastings Park during the war. It described the treatment the families received while there, including the lack of .....
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Brave New World Vs. Our World
Words: 1042 / Pages: 4 .... everyday life. But would it really be worth it? You would have to be told what to do when to do it, what to believe, and allowed only to speak to your caste and no matter what always have to acknowledge the D.H.C as God. So is giving up your individual freedom really worth it all in the end?
In the Brave New World, literature and art are taken away in order to destroy individuality and freedom of thought. For as Mustapha Mond says, “It isn’t only art that’s incompatible with happiness; it’s also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled” (Huxley 231). The Controller has made thinking impossible b .....
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Edgar Allen Poe
Words: 942 / Pages: 4 .... an atmosphere of death and fear. The fact that the pit is an abyss makes the readers think of death. In addition, the ceiling of the prison where a huge pendulum with a scythe hangs shows that the narrator’s life is in danger. The image of death becomes clearer when the narrator finds out that the pendulum is in motion. “But what mainly disturbed me was the idea that it had perceptibly descended. I now observed- with what horror it is needless to say- that its neither extremity was formed of a crescent…”(68). Death becomes impossible to prevent in this case. Especially when the pendulum keeps going down. As Poe describes, .....
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