|
|
|
|
The Pearl: Music
... the horizons into a cold and lonely outside. He feltalone and
unprotected, and scraping crickets and shrilling treefrogs and croaking
toads seemed to be carrying the melody ofevil." Here Kino, hears the evil
music carried out through the eyesof nature. The baby, Coyotito, is still,
and quiet, and does notknow of the evil that is approaching. As for his
illness, it hasbeen cured when Kino first found the pearl. In time, a
little after Kino hears this evil music, the doctorarrives having already
heard about the baby's miraculousrecovery. The doctor informs Kino of
Coyotito's situation, andhow the illness will return. He then treats it
with a smallremedy. K ...
|
Brave New World: Escape From Reality
... all these things seem much more at ease with one another and a lot easier to come by. Huxley’s idea is to make his new world not overtly oppressive, but superficially attractive, because it is clean, comfortable, and without conflict or stress. However, it is a world without emotion, feelings, and problems. All these things are needed in order to make a person their own.
Lack of Individuality
Huxley describes a futuristic society that has an alarming effect of dehumanization. This occurs through the absence of spirituality and family, the obsession with physical pleasure, and the misuse of technology. In this world, each person is raised in a test tube rat ...
|
A Raisin In The Sun
... and God is just one idea I don't accept. It's not important. I am not going out and be immoral or commit crimes because I don't believe in God. I don't even think about it. It's just that I get tired of Him getting credit for all the things the human race achieves through its own stubborn effort. There simply is no blasted God-there is only man and it is he who makes miracles!" After Beneatha had finished her argument, Lena slapped her across her face and made Beneatha say, "In my mother's house there is still God". Lena stressed out her points that she will not tolerate any ideas like that in her house, or as long as she's around. Black families have a huge s ...
|
Sin In The Minister’s Black Veil And The Scarlet Letter
... put forth in his lifetime. Perhaps wrestling with Puritanical mores, Hawthorne not only incorporates the new philosophy into his writing, he gives his readers the chance to evaluate for themselves the possibilities of other beliefs. What seems most imteresting in Hawthorne’s texts is the wrestling between two belief systems. On the one hand, Puritanism bestows doctrine which valued the greater moral good of the community over an individual’s well-being. In this sense, the community/society remains the central voice over any individual’s thoughts and/or feelings. Puritans believe that humans are born sinners, enslaved by evil, and therefore, predestined in t ...
|
Critique Of The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
... in 1910. Elements from Frankenstein are evident in The
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
When the demonic somnambulist Cesare creeps into Lil Dagover's bedchamber,
director Robert Wiene was exploiting a fear common to us all. Prone and
sleeping the woman is uttlerly helpless. She is carried off into the
expressionist labyrinth that Wiene used to symbolize the darkest torments of the
human mind and soul. A beautiful woman is carried off by evil, a play on the
Beauty and the Beast themes that would become so popular in horror films.
Used expressionism, films that explored dream, nightmare and psyche and
that found their narrative shape determined less by ...
|
Ray Bradburys Outlook Of The F
... as drastic, but maybe the censorship could happen, couldn’t it?
Ray Bradbury is compared to Arthur C. Clarke as a “poetic science fiction writer” (Watt). This is so, because Bradbury takes a more elegant path to laying out his dystopia. People in his story are so into the now, and pleasure for the moment, that they forget the morals and ethics they came from, because they are clouded by smoke. Take for instance the wall-sized televisions. This became the populace’s way of interacting with others with out physically interacting with them. People on TV were your “family”, who would keep you company and be your “friend& ...
|
Return Of The Native Summary
... the news, thinking Wildeve is so much in love with her that he cannot marry another.
Thomasin Yeobright, however, has a protector, Diggory Venn. Diggory is in love with Thomasin. He has earlier proposed to her but has been gently refused. Diggory determines that she shall have the man she wants. He and Mrs. Yeobright, Thomasin's aunt, contrive separately and together, to bring about the delayed wedding.
Eustacia, confronted with an actual proposal of marriage from Wildeve, cannot bring herself to believe him good enough for her; neither can she bring herself to accept what she considers second place, since Thomasin received his first proposal of marriage.
The arri ...
|
Summary Of Wuthering Heights
... she took a liking to him. Heathcliff left the moors for three
years to make a name for himself, and make some money.
When he returned he saw Catherine, his true love married to his
half-brother. Heathcliff in turn married Isabella, whom he did not love,
for reasons unbeknownst to me, other than to tick Edgar off. He plotted
revenge on his brothers, and friends in order to get both Thrushcross
Grange and the story's namesake Wuthering Heights.
When Heathcliff died, I imagine that he was very sad that his plan
did not work out. I'm sure he would have changed his ways if he knew the
outcome. Or maybe not. Maybe he would have taken great pleasure in
k ...
|
To Kill A Mockingbird 3
... to his house after Jem Bob Ewell hurts Jem. Tom Robinson is a black man that was accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Bob Ewell is Mayella's father. He is out for revenge on Atticus for what he did to him and his daughter. Mayella is Bob's daughter who supposedly got raped by Tom Robinson. Judge Taylor is the Judge of Maycomb County. Heck Tate is the county law official.
Atticus tells his children: "I prefer you shoot tin cans, but I know you'll wanna shoot birds, if you can hit 'em. Shoot all the Blue Jays you want, but never shoot a Mockingbird. All they do for us is sing their hearts out for us. Remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird". The Mockingbirds in this sto ...
|
Oedipus Rexs Tereisias Brings
... for imposing dramatic irony because of his great knowledge of the truth of Oedipus. In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, the character of Teiresias is developed in such a way that he utilizes many dramatic devices in order to reveal information and move the play along.As a fortune teller, Teiresias is able to see the fate and destruction of Oedipus’ life. Teiresias uses his great ability to reveal to the reader the downfalls in Oedipus’ life that will soon occur because of his quest to know his fate. The character of Teiresias demonstrates the use of foreshadowing in order for the reader to be aware of Oedipus’ fate.You can not see the wretched ...
|
Browse:
« prev
155
156
157
158
159
more »
|
|
|