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Bartleby The Scrivener A Stran
... employee. It is this interaction which poses the question of how much responsibility a human should have for his or her fellow man.
Bartleby's focus passes through three main stages before his death, the first of which is his obsession with performing a single action to the exclusion of everything else. Initially, Bartleby works day and night, "as if famished for something to copy." (Melville paragraph 18) His goal, it seems, is to single-mindedly to accomplish as much copying as is humanly possible. The first few attempts on the part of the narrator to tell Bartleby to do something else, no matter how moderate the task, are met with the simple refusal, "I'd ...
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Mark Anthony's "Crypt Of The Shadowking": A Fantasy
... home town Ireaebor and finds it has been taken
over by a tyrant known as Cutter. In Caledan's absence, Cutter has passed many
ridiculous laws and anyone violating any of these is forced into slavery under
the Tor which the city is set upon, where Cutter is mining to find the crypt of
the Shadowking, where the nightstone, an ancient artifact of great and evil
power, believed to be. Caledan finds this out through a connection within the
slums and goes to find his old traveling companions who once made up the Company
of the Dreaming Dragon. After reuniting, the company goes to find the tomb of
Merrimeck to find the secret of the shadow song, the known power agains ...
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John Savage Desires What Makes
... John Savage does not agree with these ideas, but he fails to see the implications of loving others. In our society, love and sexual desire are the causes of murder, suicide, and rape. “Everyone belongs to everyone else”(pg.35). This is one of the many hypnopaedic messages that are repeated to the Fordians. It prevents them from feeling passion, desire, lust, jealousy, and true love. In absence of these feelings, they are free from emotional ties and have no reason to rape or murder someone because of inner desires. They are able to express their sexuality with others, and release sexual tension. Hurt and pain is eliminated from their minds, and these peop ...
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Flowers For Algernon 3
... personality as he got more intelligent, and also talked about how she was falling in love with him. She probably would said how she felt distant from Charlie after he became smarter than her. As Charlie began to regress, she might have written how she had mixed feelings; she was sad that Charlie was becoming retarded again, but at the same time wanted to have Charlie at her own level again, even if for only a short time.
If the people from the bakery had been telling Flowers For Algernon, then they
would have written about how Charlie had gone from being retarded to being a genius in just a few weeks. They hadn’t been told about the surgery. ...
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A Streetcar Named Desire - Sym
... see her entire voyage as the journey of her soul (Quirino 63). Later in the same scene she describes her voyage: "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields" (Quirino 63). Taken literally this does not seam to add much to the story. However, if one investigate Blanche’s past one can truly understand what this quotation symbolizes. Blanche left her home to join her sister, because her life was a miserable wreck in her former place of residence. She admits, at one point in the story, that "after the death of Allan (her husband) intimacies with strangers was all I seemed a ...
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Billy Budd
... who are all
very different, the most important of which is Billy Budd. Billy is the
focal point of the book and the single person whom we are meant to learn
the most from. On the ship, the Rights-of-Man, Billy is a cynosure among
his shipmates; a leader, not by authority, but by example. All the members
of the crew look up to him and love him. He is "strength and beauty.
Tales of his prowess [are] recited. Ashore he [is] the champion, afloat
the spokesman; on every suitable occasion always foremost"(9).
Despite his popularity among the crew and his hardworking attitude,
Billy is transferred to another British ship, the Indomitable. And while
he is accepted fo ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Mobs
... attempted murder- Mr. Cunningham.
It took a few small but significant words from Scout to convert
Cunninghams's way of thinking to a more normal fashion. "Let's clear out"
was all it took form Cunningham to remove the men, and go home.
Similarly in the courtroom, another moral dilemma arose: this time within
the jury. Once more, a group of twelve men came with an intent of charging
Tom Robinson guilty. No where did it say the bias jury initially had a
guilty verdict in mind, but with the attitude towards blacks in Maycomb
County, Lee made it bluntly obvious that they had no intention of
pronouncing Tom innocent. In the book Atticus made it very clear, "In ou ...
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Sydney Carton
... more mature, he might have forgotten about
Lucie when she was married and found someone else. Another perhaps less
important but very noticeable example is his appearance. He didn't seem to
care what people really thought about him or the way he was dressed, and
remained very calm and relaxed, maybe even carefree, most of the time he
was in court. This also gives Sydney Carton an immature appearance in the
novel.
At the beginning of the story and a large part of the novel, Sydney
Carton is shown to be a very arrogant, frustrated man with a drinking
problem. Several times in the novel he indulged in his drinking to the
point of becoming drunk or close to ...
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Creon As The Tragic Hero Of An
... situation, with confidence, and he makes the best decision he can, based on his beliefs. He believes that Polyneices should not be buried because he was a traitor to his family. This decision affected Antigone greatly, and Creon knew that the decision would be hard on some people. Family and burials are very important in society, and Creon is asking Antigone to not consider them, to only consider that Polyneices was a traitor to his home city. Creon is then faced with the knowledge that Antigone went against his will and law, and buried her brother. Again, Creon is faced with a hard decision. He must choose to kill his own family member and uphold the law, or punish ...
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Frankenstine
... in this project and worked on it for days on end. The project had to do with defying the laws of nature. Victor believe wholeheartedly that he could bring the dead back to life. He felt that the dead were not ready to die and they were just resting. Victor became so self absorbed into his project that he seem to forget all that was important to him. He even disengaged himself from all the people he loved in his life. People like his father, Elizabeth, and other loved ones. Victor began to write less and less. Yet, it was not until Elizabeth got a discouraged letter from Victor, did his love ones start to wary about him. Though, the letter was full of words, it gav ...
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