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1984, The Book Vs. The Movie
<view this essay>.... they desire. Many scenes in the movie capture this message, or slogan, of the Party. One is when Winston got a "home" for him and Julia on top of Charrington's store. Another one is when Winston and O'Brien meet in "the place where there is no darkness," in the Ministry of Love. The final scene is when the couple, Winston and Julia, meet at the Chestnut Tree Cafe. These scenes portray that "freedom is slavery," and how corrupt the society was.
The government of Oceania, where citizen's personal freedom is concealed, is bound to have some anxiety grow within the peoples. People will eventually try to rebel and go against the government and their pr .....
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Thoreau, Henry David
<view this essay>.... interested in making a living in society.
He focused on discovering the "facts of life". Thoreau moved into the woods
called Walden not far from his home. He felt that being alone with nature
would enable him to think and write more clearly. One of the thoughts that
came from his "higher thinking" was that "Our life is frittered away by
detail". This quotation is important because it applies to all people, in
Thoreau's time and in modern times.
Thoreau is saying that all people, rich and poor, young and old, fritter
their lives away with detail, instead of being concerned with the big picture.
The important thing to Thoreau was having time to t .....
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Romeo And Juliet - Vs Much Ado About Nothing
<view this essay>.... to tear both lovers apart, but their love holds them together. In Romeo and Juliet, the two lovers’ families hate one another. As a result, Romeo and Juliet are not allowed to see each other so they have to meet in secret. Despite their families’ attempting to interfere, Romeo and Juliet end up with one another for eternity in the after-life. In Much Ado About Nothing, Claudio and Hero plan to be married. Don John deceives Claudio into believing Hero is having an affair with one of his men. Claudio then calls off the wedding. When he discovers the truth, they marry immediately. In both plays love is the bond that holds the lovers together, in spite .....
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Tamed Shrews And Twelfth Night
<view this essay>.... use of female characters. After examining these two plays, one will see that Shakespeare, though conforming to contemporary attitudes of women, circumvented them by creating resolute female characters with a strong sense of self.
The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, and has weathered well into our modern era with adaptations into popular television series such as Moonlighting. For all the praises it has garnered throughout the centuries, it is curious to note that many have considered it to be one of his most controversial in his treatment of women. The “taming” of Katherine has been contended as being excessively cruel by many wri .....
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The Great Gatsby
<view this essay>.... to his plans; and also the ignorance of British and US tolerance. He was a psychotic man who is a very good example of how far a man with destructive purpose can rise.
Trying to explain aggressive behavior, there is focus on a core issue, instincts. Going through animal behavior and comparing it with human behavior and how similar our instincts are. There is also focus on examining primitive tribes. The object of these findings were to find out how warlike the tribes are. In the hunting-gatherers tribes, war is not as popular and profitable as in modern society. Two reasons for this is that these tribes don’t have most valuable items and there is .....
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Scarlet Letter Symbolism
<view this essay>.... as "divine maternity" and she can do no wrong. Not only Hester, but the physical scarlet letter, a Puritanical sign of disownment, is shown through the author's tone and diction as a beautiful, gold and colorful piece.
Pearl, Hester's child, is portrayed Puritanically, as a child of sin who should be treated as such, ugly, evil, and shamed. The reader more evidently notices that Hawthorne carefully, and sometimes not subtly at all, places Pearl above the rest. She wears colorful clothes, is extremely smart, pretty, and nice. More often than not, she shows her intelligence and free thought, a trait of the Romantics. One of Pearl's favorite activities .....
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The Crucible
<view this essay>.... women who were responsible for this awful spell. Eventually, other ailing girls began to give names of those who were presumably persecuting them, leaving dozens of peopled jailed. As soon as this witchcraft hysteria began to get out of hand, the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony designated several of the colony’s leading citizens to assemble a special court responsible for trying all those suspected of witchcraft. It was at this point that the Salem witch trials began and would later be the plot of a major 19th century play. It was 1953 when Arthur Miller wrote , which translates to "the test", a play based on the actual events of the witch tr .....
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Death 2
<view this essay>.... this extensive poem, Whitman mentions "red" people (Indians), "negros," butchers, women, the poor and the rich. He believed
that all are good in some way or another and all people are equal. He loved them all for their own special reason. He also loved animals. Stanza thirteen praises the beauty and worthiness of oxen, tortoises, and mockingbirds. He believed all living things were connected. People are linked with the mares, cats, prairie dogs, and other creatures. Humans are even linked to the grass in the ground (Reef 50). That line sums it up. People are a part of nature. There is a birth, death, and renewal cycle that connects the two.
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