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Existentialism In No Exit
<view this essay>.... says, “I tell you I regret nothing (p. 24).” In this respect of acknowledging and owning up to his actions, Garcin is following existentialist laws. However, he sometimes violates them. For example, he is so preoccupied with the idea that he is a coward that he demands the women to renounce this and declare his masculinity. He is so dependent upon this that he refuses to engage in sexual activity with Estelle until she affirms him. This is anti-existential because according to its principles, he should not have to rely on others for confidence.
Inez is in Hell because she had seduced her cousin’s wife, then conspired to make his life .....
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Jack Kerouac-On The Road
<view this essay>.... was a mindful literary genius and his novel On The Road published in 1957 is a great American novel that all citizens should take the time to read.
On The Road begins with Sal Paradise, a beatnik traveler looking for something more in his life than the tedious life he lives, and his hero Dean Moriarty, a true representative of beat life in America and a mad man. Sal desires meaning for his pointless life so he begins a great American journey looking for everything and nothing, following in the footsteps of Dean and his friend Carlo Marx. Instead of making use of the money he has earned he takes to the road on foot and hitch hikes his way across America f .....
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Paradise Lost The Devil Compar
<view this essay>.... leaders compare to the pride of Satan when they over extend their power beyond the boundaries set forth by the school. His pride caused him to over extend his power, and commit his next error.
Milton writes, “He trusted to have equaled the Most High, / If he opposed; and with ambitious aim / Against the throne and monarchy of God / Raised impious war in Heaven and battle proud / With vain attempt”(40-43). This line shows that Satan’s pride caused him to believe he was equal to God. That belief led him to betray God, attempting to create a coup in Heaven. This action compares to Howe Cadet leaders when they betray other cadets, in vain, to gain more power. .....
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Heart Of Darkness 7
<view this essay>.... of finding a new world to welcome them and their beliefs. What they found was a vast new world, loaded with Indian cultures new to them. This overwhelming cultural interaction caused some Puritans to go mad and try to purge themselves of a perceived evil. This came to be known as the Salem witch trials.
During World War II, Germany made an attempt to overrun Europe. What happened when the Nazis came into power and persecuted the Jews in Germany, Austria and Poland is well known as the Holocaust. Here, human's evil side provides one of the scariest occurrences of this century. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi counterparts conducted raids of the ghettos to locate and o .....
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Plato Republic The Noble Lie
<view this essay>.... in the state. “Rulers” (legislative and udicial), “Auxiliaries” (executive), and “Craftsmen” (productive and fficacious) are the titles of the categories and are based, not on birth or wealth, but on natural capacities and aspirations. Plato was convinced that children born into any class should still be moved up or down based on their merits regardless of their connections or heritage. He believes the citizens of the State will support and benefit from such a system and presents the idea in the form of an allegorical myth.
His allegory was based in part on the prevalent belief that some people were literally “autochthonous,” born from the soil, and part .....
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Claudius: Leader, King, Man
<view this essay>.... labour." (II,ii,81-83)
KING: He is a selfish king, only looking out for his best interest.
Example 1
He cannot ask for the forgiveness of his sins because he has gained from them. "My fault is past-but O, what form of prayer / Can serve my turn? ‘Forgive me my foul murdered?’ / That cannot be, since I am still possess’d / Of those effects for which I did the murder- / My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen." (III,iii,51-55)
Example 2
He is so blinded by his ambition to remain King that he didn’t stop his wife, the Queen, from drinking from the poisoned cup because it would reveal his plan. "It is the poison’d cup. It is too late." (V,ii,296) .....
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East Of Eden
<view this essay>.... of these characters show a form of change in growing up. We all have the ability to grow up, some just take advantage of this opportunity. The key is how you decide to grow up. Either for the better, like Cal, or the downside, like Aaron did.
Aaron is the only character who shows a reversal, going from the good son with sweet girlfriend to a drunken fool. It might have been for shadowed by the way he showed his love to Abra, it was a false love. He was with her because that is whom he was supposed to be with. It didn’t seem he had deep emotions for her. Then in the end she leaves him for Cal, who she has, fell in love with. Aaron also lived in a close .....
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Foucault And Truffaut: Power And Social Control In French Society
<view this essay>.... of knowledge, a societies institutions, and
every interaction between people.
Foucault in Discipline and Punish, applies this notion of power in
tracing the rise of the prison system in France and the rise of other coercive
institutions such as monasteries, the army, mental asylums, and other
technologies. In his work Foucault exposes how seemingly benign or even
reformist institutions such as the modern prison system (versus the stocks, and
scaffolds) are technologies that are typical of the modern, painless, friendly,
and impersonal coercive tools of the modern world. In fact the success of these
technologies stems from their ability to appear unob .....
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