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The Invisible Man: Man's Tendency To Become Moral Or Immoral
<view this essay>.... imprisoned once caught, vulnerable qualities which
eventually lead to his downfall.
The Invisible Man breaks into many people's homes, stealing money,
and leading eventually to physical abuse and killing. When faced with power,
such as invisibility, man becomes immoral and is willing to do anything for
personal gain and enjoyment. The Invisible Man's nemesis, Kemp, brings up
the immorality by saying, "But-! I say! The common conventions of
humanity." The Invisible Man just reinforces his arrogance by rebutting
with, "Are all very well for common people." He believes there is nothing
wrong with doing anything for his own survival since he is superior. He .....
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Comparison Of Alex From Clockw
<view this essay>.... This evil only takes place when all his restrictions were removed. Alex is the hoodlum that has a love for violence and rape. He wages rampages in the night throughout his city. Once apprehended Alex is subjected to a series of treatments that make him incapable of violence, and rape. Alex and Jack are both sadistic leaders of there own groups. Jack is the head of the hunters. Alex has a band of “droogs” which are friends and enemies. Society plays an important part in both of their lives. It is ironic that Alex starts as a savage and Jack as a civilized human being, But when their society’s and surroundings affect them each of t .....
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Frankenstein
<view this essay>.... they were set..."(Shelley 56) This is the beginning of Victor's disclaiming attitude toward his creation and consequently initiates the monster's condemnation to a life devoid of human companionship. At "birth," the creature appears to not be either violent or vicious, but unfortunately, the rejection by his creator drives it to a life full of revenge. Rather than focusing this child-like hatred on Victor, the monster hits its creator where it hurts; his loved ones. This originally peaceful monster, now bitter and hateful, resorts to random acts of violence to compensate for its mistreatment. At "birth," when the first spark of life shot through the creatur .....
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The French Lieutenant's Woman By John Fowles
<view this essay>.... own conclusion for the novel.
I can only assume that Fowles came up with both endings at roughly the
same time, and each of them seemed as valid an ending as the other to him.
Traditionally, it would have been up to him to chose one ending and make it
final. However it seems he was not able, or did not want to chose just one
of the endings to the novel. It would seem that Fowles is trying to be fair
to all of the characters by including the various endings which satisfy all
of them. Fowles comments that the job of a novelist is "to put two
conflicting wants in the ring and describe the fight", which is essentially
what he has done. However it is har .....
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A Meeting In The Dark: A Loss Of Priorities
<view this essay>.... a man of God… So he feared his father." (97). He can not even have a conversation with his father without getting nervous. He is fearful his father knows about his unborn baby: "anxious voice within him asking: Does he know?" (97). The relationship between his parents is strained due to Susana, his mother, defending the boy. She asked Stanley "Why do you persecute the boy so much?"(98). Stanley and Susana wed because they "sinned" (98) and John was "the result of that sin" (98). The line "And he had been saved. John must not tread the same road" (99) means that his father was afraid that John would make the same mistake, which he has. Perhaps that is why .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Evil And Corruption In The World
<view this essay>.... all over the place."2 His situation only deteriorates from this point on as the more he looks around this world, the more depressing life seems.
Around every corner Holden sees evil. He looks out on a world which appears completely immoral and unscrupulous. The three days we learn of from the novel place a distressed Holden in the vicinity of Manhattan. The city is decked with decorations and holiday splendor, yet, much to Holden's despair "seldom yields any occasions of peace, charity or even genuine merriment."3 Holden is surrounded by what he views as drunks, perverts, morons and screwballs. These convictions which Holden holds waver very momentarily du .....
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Cantebury Tales
<view this essay>.... and of course, society influences the church. This is naturally because it is the people from a society who make up the church....and those same people became the personalities that created these tales of a pilgrimage to Canterbury. The Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England was to take place in a relatively short period of time, but this was not because of the success of the Augustinian effort. Indeed, the early years of this mission had an ambivalence which shows in the number of people who hedged their bets by practicing both Christian and Pagan rites at the same time, and in the number of people who promptly apostatized when a Christian king died. There is .....
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Summary Of "The Death Of Woman Wang" And "The Classic Slum"
<view this essay>.... The third was the work of a short story writer named P'u Sung-
ling, who told of the hostility and misery of the country. Reading this
book was new to me because I had never heard exactly how the woman was
treated in Chinese civilization. It seamed fairly ruff but in its own way
it was almost the same in the rest of the world at that time "give or take
a few small details". It was a good book but some times took a few cycles
of reading through to get the part you were looking for.
The role of men and women of the sixteenth century are
defined in this book, a few of these examples are. On page nineteen were a
man refers to the way that married and unmarrie .....
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