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Jude The Obscure: Summary
... this type of estrangement or isolation from society. An example of such isolation would be in the movie The Great Escape. The isolation is similar to that in Jude the Obscure. The "cooler" is an isolation chamber away from the prisoner’s of war camp in which Captain Hill is sent on a regular basis by the commandant.
Jude and Arabella’s marriage is a mistake from the beginning. Jude’s aunt did not like the idea of Jude’s marrying Arabella to begin with.
Fawley’s aunt being a baker she made him a bride-cake saying bitterly that it was the last thing she could do for him, poor silly fellow; and that it would have been far better if, instead of living to trouble h ...
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A Lesson Learned In “A Sailor Boy’s Tale”
... him on the hand, thus drawing blood. In retaliation, the boy struck the falcon upon the head with his fist. The action proves the saying “what goes around comes around.”
A little later in the story another situation that proves this saying is displayed. The boy purchased himself an orange. His plan was to travel to the top of a bluff and devour the succulent fruit. On his way to the bluff, he encountered a girl who was near his age. She admired his piece of fruit. The boy at once decided to do the manly thing and offer his prize piece of fruit to the young lady. In turn she offered him a kiss. Once again establishing the “what goes around comes around s ...
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Macbeths Ambition
... Becoming king represents the highest rang in the political pyramid. The act of murdering is the only way to make his dreams come true because Duncan’s fair and prosperous rule over Scotland experience the support of the whole population. As Malcom and Donalbain fly to England, he automatically takes possession of the throne. Macbeth displays political ambition first of all because of his wife. After she reads her husband’s letter about his meeting with the witches, she suggests for Macbeth to kill Duncan so she could be queen. At the beginning Macbeth hesitates to talk about such a thing and even lists the reason not to kill: he is his king, his u ...
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The Scarlet Letter: The Harsh Puritan Society
... forest track leads away from the
settlement out into the wilderness where all signs of civilization vanish. This
is precisely the escape route, from strict mandates of law and religion, to a
refuge where men, as well as women, can open up, and be themselves. It is here
that Dimmesdale can openly acknowledge Hester and his undying love for her. It
is here that Hester can do the same for Dimmesdale. It is here that the two of
them can openly engage in conversation, without being preoccupied with the
constraints that Puritan society places on them. The forest itself, is free.
Nobody watches in the woods to report misbehavior, so it is here where people do
as they wis ...
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A Doll House By Ibsen
... gets a loan from. He finds out that the loan was acquired illegally through forgery. She uses her father’s signature. Helmer immediately strips her of all her rights to him as his wife and to the children as their mother. He does not ask for divorce since this will not be a good public image for his career, instead he asks her to have a separate room from his and limits her time with the children. Helmer is the rule maker of his house. He meticulously gives details on how he wants his house run. He has set time for everything, when the meals are prepared, when the children should go to sleep, when they should wake up, what to eat, when to check the mail e ...
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Grapes Of Wrath Book Report
... did to survive. Many families were hurt by the depression,
so Steinbeck wrote of a typical family with detail that makes you understand the pain and
suffering people went through in the country’s darkest of times.
Tom Joad, recently released from prison for a homicide, hitchhikes back home to
his fathers farm which he hasn’t been to in 4 years. He tells the truck driver who gives
him a ride that he got in a fight with a guy at a dance and when he tried to brandish a
knife, Tom hit him on the head with a shovel. The truck driver lets him off at his father’s
farm but he finds it abandoned. He does meet up with an old friend Jim Casy who used to
be a preacher. ...
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Pudd'nhead Wilson: Summary
... started to get into fingerprints.
He would take many peoples finger prints and examine them to its fullest.
To Pudd'nhead's luck all the fingerprint examining paid off. Pudd'nhead
got a job as an attorney at law. He proved the man guilty by fingerprints.
By the end of the book I would say Pudd'nhead would have to be the
protagonist.
The antagonist in this book would have to be the people of Dawson's
Landing. They judged him for what he said before even knowing him for very
long. You can't judge a person for one wrong thing that they said.
Pudd'nhead proves the rest of the town wrong when he solves a big murder
case by using one of his best abilties. The to ...
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Huckleberry Finn
... the most part of this story people are the biggest hypocrites. How can they expect people to be "civilized" when they own slaves? Being "civilized" is the whole theme of the book and what is considered "civilized" anyway? This is what Huck hates about society, people are wrong and corrupt, and he can't understand it. The only people who aren't corrupt are those who are considered morally wrong and incorrect by the already corrupt society. To Huck, nobody needs to be "civilized" in order to live happily. To live a happy life he wants to be able to live a life of swearing and smoking and that would be perfect. He's not hurting anybody. Plus it's better than living ...
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Four Contrasting Viewpoints In The Sound And The Fury
... confusion, sound, and fury that life becomes short and unimportant, signifying nothing. However, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury is not limited to any one point of view, even to that of Benjy. By delivering his novel from four entirely different perspectives, Faulkner is able to create an intricately woven plot that centers on the only Compson daughter, Caddy, and allows one to crawl inside the minds of his deeply disturbed characters.
April seventh, nineteen-hundred-and-twenty-eight…or is it? Benjamin, formerly Maury, presents a disjointed account of his life between his early childhood just around the turn of the century and up until 1910, mainly focusing o ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird 2
... ones.
Scout (Jean Louise) Finch narrates the story, beginning with a brief family history. Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary journeyed from England to Alabama, establishing the family which made its living from cotton on Simon's homestead, Finch's Landing. The Civil War left the family only its land, which was the source of family incomes until the twentieth century when Atticus Finch (Scout's father) and his brother Jack left the land for careers in law and medicine. Atticus settled in Maycomb, the county seat of Maycomb County, with a reasonably successful law practice about twenty miles from Finch's Landing, where his sister Alexandra still lived.
Sco ...
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