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Alas, Babylon
<view this essay>.... all these things that he has, such as a nice car and a refrigerator, are useless when nuclear fallout occurs. It seems that man cannot function for even one minute without using things that were not even available fifty or one hundred years ago. Frank is warning us that there may be a time when we will need to retain the lifestyle of the nineteenth century, and only the people who have the knowledge of this way of life will be fine.
Frank has an interesting view on the way man has progressed morally. I think that he says that we don’t really know our morals until we have them truly questioned. In this he implies that the people who have strong morals, no .....
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The Tragedy Of Hamlet
<view this essay>.... Hamlet, it is only because he is carrying out plans devised by the king or queen to discover the nature of Hamlet's madness. Being the king's Lord Chamberlain, it is his duty to obey the king and queen's wishes and it is this loyalty that eventually proves to be fatal for him. An example of how Polonius' innocent involvement with the royalty results in his death can be found at the beginning of Act III, scene iv, when Hamlet stabs him while he is hiding behind the arras in Gertrude's room. This shows how Polonius, a man unaware of the true nature of the situation he is in, is killed by a member of the royalty during the execution of one of their schemes. Th .....
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Women In Early Lit.
<view this essay>.... best or all(1.131-136).
There is no strong bond of love towards Agamemnon’s wife. He is very easily willing to trade in his wife for another woman.
Second, in Gilgamesh, women are viewed as a powerful temptation who is able to easily control any man. The trapper’s father speaks:
Go to Uruk, find Gilgamesh, extol the strength of this wild man. Ask him to give you a harlot, a wanton from the temple of love; return with her, and let her woman’s power this man (3.14).
This shows how the women were used as a powerful distraction to seduce a man and take his mind off of what he should be doing.
Finally, In Oedipus Rex, the role of women shows .....
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Miss Emilys Male Interaction I
<view this essay>.... father. All through
Emily’s life, her father kept her close at home and didn’t
allow her to see other men. This of course caused Emily to
realize that she would spend the rest of her life with her
father. When her father died and left her alone Miss Emily
did not want to face reality and tried to keep the body.
This proves her inability to let go of her first true male
figure.
Miss Emily’s next male figure is one that helped her
earlier in her life. Colonel Sartoris was able to remit
Emily’s taxes under the impression that the town owed her
money. This act of kindness by the Colonel caused Emily’s
dependence upon him .....
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Hard Times By Dickens, Structu
<view this essay>.... creates a firm character basis with. The opening chapter emphasizes on Thomas Gradgrind Sr., and his students fittingly referred to as "little pitchers before him, who were to be filled so full of facts." (Dickens 10). Gradgrind's methods of education are employed to show Dickens' view on the evil of the educational system. Among the "little pitchers" are Bitzter and Sissy Jupe. They exemplify two entirely different ideas, serving Dickens for allegorical purposes.
Bitzer, the model student of Gradgrind's school of "facts, facts, facts" becomes the very symbol of evil in the educational system that Dickens is trying to portray, as he learns to take care for .....
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The Remains Of The Day - Digni
<view this essay>.... encountered other than in the higher levels of old fashioned society, politics and perhaps serious business matters.
With all our upbringing, culture and modernisation, few have retained what was known as the dignity of even a half century ago. No one has the time any more to nurture and develop their dignity to a reasonable potential, as they find increasingly less and less reason to do so, relying instead on pure wit, instinct and professional tact.
What I think is meant when one talks about dignity is the following. Take an imaginary case. You are confronted with a difficult or abnormal situation, yet you can maintain the same level of thinking and can .....
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The Problem Of War And Peace
<view this essay>.... without any violence. Since I didn't have
anything better to do, I counted the snowflakes settling on the
twigs and needles of my branch. Their number was exactly
3,741,952. When the next snowflake dropped onto the branch --
nothing more than nothing, as you say--the branch broke off."
Having said that the robin flew away. The dove, since Noah's time as
authority on the matter, thought for awhile and finally said to
herself: "Perhaps there is only one person's voice lacking for peace to
come to the world."
In contrast to the several books I read for my research that detailed the
cost and carnage of war, this one s .....
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Animal Farm
<view this essay>.... lie, cheat, and steal from the animals they are supposed to serve. They make promises that are never kept. Propaganda is spread to the animals they are supposed to represent.
Old Major
He is a pig who is very old. He has seen the lifestyle the animals live and is dissatisfied with it. He creates a government ideology called animalism which represents communism. He is the Karl Marx of this world.
Napoleon
He is a large, fierce looking Berkshire boar, who is not much of a talker. He uses animalism only to increase his power and the dogs to terrorize the other animals. Napoleon symbolizes the dictator Joseph Stalin in this world.
Snowball
He is a pig that fig .....
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