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Lord Of The Flies
<view this essay>.... of his
peers. He had a fair nature as he was willing to listen to Piggy. He
became increasingly dependent on Piggy's wisdom and became lost in the
confusion around him. Towards the end of the story his rejection from
their society of savage boys forced him to fend for himself. Piggy was an
educated boy who had grown up as an outcast. Due to his academic childhood,
he was more mature than the others and retained his civilized behaviour.
But his experiences on the island gave him a more realistic understanding
of the cruelty possessed by some people. The ordeals of the three boys on
the island made them more aware of the evil inside themselves and in some .....
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Themes In Larsen's Passing
<view this essay>.... Clare Kendry, but she can't. To Irene, "security was the most
important and desired thing in life." (200) Her erotic feelings of
adoration for Clare threatened her feeling of security, and that made Irene
despise Clare. It is true that before one attempts to address the
questions and problems of racial identity, the equally important questions
of gender and sexual identity should be addressed. While it is true that
Clare is passing, Irene is passing as well. As a Negro, Clare must "pass"
to gain security in a white world, but by the same token Irene, a lesbian,
must "pass" to gain security in a heterosexual society.
Until Clare arrives on the scene Irene .....
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Naturalism In To Build A Fire
<view this essay>.... on nothing but themselves to survive.
"To Build a Fire" is a short story that embodies the idea of naturalism and how, if one is not careful, nature will gain the upper hand and they will perish. When the narrator introduced the main character of the story, the man, he made it clear that the man was in a perilous situation involving the elements. The man was faced with weather that was 75 degrees below zero and he was not physically or mentally prepared for survival. London wrote that the cold "did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat an .....
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King Lear
<view this essay>.... her refusal to profess her love for him, but unfortunately for him, he was dead wrong. Lear refuses to recognize that his two eldest daughters are evil and only his youngest truly loves him. This is the secret in the story; the two older daughters hide their wickedness behind a mask of kind words, and Lear allows the secret to remain a secret, by his unwillingness to accept the fact that his daughters do not love him.
What follows plunges Lear into the depths of hell, and then through his eventual realization of this secret, he is able to redeem himself. Shakespeare writes this story in a manner that the reader understands the cause of Lear's problems, but Lea .....
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Dollshouse
<view this essay>.... business know-how could derive ways to earn or borrow money. Torvald treats Nora like a doll. He calls her by all manner of names: squirrel, silly child, lark, songbird. The names he uses directly relates to how Torvald feels about her at the time. He tends to treat her views and opinions as less than important or trifling. Torvald doesn’t want Nora spending too much money at Christmas. Nora wants to borrow against his upcoming promotion and subsequent raise in salary. Torvald states on page 1565 ‘Are your scatterbrains off again? What if today I borrowed a thousand crowns, and you squandered them over Christmas week.’ On the rare o .....
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Dracula
<view this essay>.... to compare and contrast the powers of God with those of . It is a theme that is used throughout the entire book, as Stoker uses more and more beliefs from Christianity as the novel lengthens. There are many ways that Bram Stoker's character can be considered the Anti-Christ, mostly because of the showing of Anti-Christian values and perversions of the Christian religion. In chapter one as Jonathan Harker is traveling to Castle he is met by several people. When he meets these people he tells them where he is going. They cross themselves along with doing other superstitious actions. What Harker doesn't realize is that it was the eve of Saint George's .....
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The Sun Also Rises: Liberal Use Of Dialogue By Hemingway
<view this essay>.... just being the narrator. He obviously had received a wound
from W.W.I that caused him to be sexually scarred and thus set him apart from
anyone else. Jake seemed to be an observer who was watching the lives of his
friends unfold and happen around him, but without his participation. I read that
Hemingway had purposely re-written the book in first person and this was
probably to spell out that Jake was an observer and was thus aware of what was
written on the pages. There is a scene towards the end of the book where Jake
finds all of his friends eating at a restaurant and thinks to himself that he is
too far behind to catch up. Jake always seems behind, or at l .....
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The Great Gatsby: Daisy's Love
<view this essay>.... do to continue the life
that she has grown to know. She tells that she only married Tom Buchanan for the
security he offered and love had little to do with the issue. Before her wedding,
Jordan Baker finds Daisy in her hotel room,
"groping around in the waste-basket she
had with her on the bed and pull[ing] out
[a] string of pearls. "Take 'em down-stairs
and give 'em back.... Tell 'em all Daisy's
change' her mine... She began to cry - she cried
and cried... we locked the door and got her into
a cold bath." (Fitzgerald 77)
Money seems to be one of the very top priorities in her life, and everyone that
she surrounds herself with, including her daughter, .....
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