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Symbolism In "The Pearl" By John Steinbeck
... as providing the opportunity to pay for a church wedding, new
clothes, a rifle, and schooling for his son…" (Warren 28). From these
wants and needs, Kino symbolizes "clearly good and innocent" (McCarthy 108),
but Kino changes in his desperate attempt to bring about wealthy reforms.
Even his conscience, which is symbolized by the music in Kino's head, tries
to warn him about his greed. This ‘music' symbolizes ones own conscience
in the real world. By the end of this relentless parable, the reader sees
the irony in the fact that even a good person can be led astray by his
feeling of inner responsibility to provide for his family (Warren 128).
Kino's actions, wh ...
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George Orwell - 1984
... his neighbor is at the door and asked him to unclog a sink. He
does it but smells sweat all over the apartment. Mrs. Parsons is a
follower of party doctrine and a fellow employee at the ministry. The
children are members of Spies, a youth that encourages spying and telling
on traitors, including parents. Winston is revolted. He returns home and
writes a couple more minutes before going back to work. He remenbers a
dream where O'Brien tole him he would meet him in a place wher there is no
darkness. He washes his hands and hides the diary
Reaction
Major ideas, conflicts and themes are introduced. We are shown how the
earth has changed, into 3 ma ...
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"The Hobbit"
... gold, and most
certainly unpeaceful realms. As hobbits will do, Bilbo found himself on
enchanted paths, wishing he had never gone. He hoped to indeed live up to
Gandalf's standard of him, since he was the one who chose him to journey
into the desolate lands of Smaug, a golden-red dragon who had stolen
hoards of gold and silver wrought by the dwarves/ But. what was the use of
a Hobbit in the journey Bilb had answered his own question, when he
summoned the courage to save the dwarves from perils along the way, such as
goblins, giant spiders, and elven dugeons. He did this all with the help
of a Ring, enchanted to make the wearer invisible. "Bless my soul, a hob ...
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Orwell's "Such, Such Were The Joys....": Alienation And Other Such Joys
... occupies
his memory of childhood and serves as the platform for his views on life.
Repeatedly Orwell describes the society of the school from which he is
outcast:
That bump on the hard mattress, on the first night of term, used to give me
a feeling of abrupt awakening, a feeling of: ‘This is reality, this is what
you are up against.' Your home might be far from perfect, but at least it
was a place ruled by love rather than by fear, where you did not have to be
perpetually taken out of this warm nest and flung into a world of force and
fraud and secrecy, like a goldfish into a tank full of pike. (23)
Young Orwell, impacted by this, “hard,” disorienting sit ...
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Brave New World Vs. Modern Soc
... and joyous event for
the woman. In Utopia, however, if a woman is caught bearing offspring, she will
be punished by exile. Offspring not produced the society’s way is a threat to the
society’s existence, in the eyes of the leaders. As today, pregnancy, in Utopia,
could be prevented using a variety of methods. Where our society uses male
and female birth control methods, Utopia has pregnancy substitute (a procedure
in which Utopian woman are given all the psychological benefits of childbirth
without undergoing it) and malthusian drill (similar to today’s birth control pills).
However, modern society and Huxley’s Utopia both explor ...
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Orwell's Animal Farm: Summary Of Characters
... get the animals and
people to understand that what the leader is doing is not best for them.
In both cases, Stalin and Napoleon get tired of the competition and run
them off by turning the animals and people against them.
Boxer is a cart horse who works night and day on the windmill and
for Napoleon's cause. When he hurts his hoof and is unable to work,
Napoleon is uncaring and sends him off to the slaughterhouse since he is of
no further use. Some of the animals come to realize what is happening and
are mad at Napoleon, but Napoleon talks his way out of it by convincing the
animals that they are mistaken and the hospital uses vehicles marked
"slaughterhouse" ...
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Stranger Than Fiction Brave Ne
... in Brave New World somehow relate to sex. For example the feelies are porno's with a more advanced plot line and the added bonus of experiencing the same things as the actors on the screen. The government encourages sex and promiscuity among its citizens, if a person is not promiscuous they are seen as outcasts. The more partners a person has the more popular the person is. A person is discouraged from having along term relationship with one person. If they have a long term relationship their loyalty to the government and Ford is in question.
And you know how strongly the DHC objects to anything intense or long and drawn out. Four months of Henry Foster with ...
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Herland: The Use Of Character Development
... approaches to life, with their hostility toward connectedness, disappear in Herland, and its women are able to relate to each other without dominating each other. It is no wonder that the three American explorers--Terry, Jeff and Van --who stumble on Herland are shocked and confused. Before they arrive, they joke about the mythical land, assuming that there must be men it, since women could not possibly cooperate well enough, or be competent enough, to run a country. When they see how successfully Herland is run, only one of them, Van, praises its all female population as ...
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Animal Farm And Russian Revolution Comparison: Highlights, Events, Characters, Themes
... with the intent to change the social, economic, and political system to one based on the philosophy of communist socialism as defined by Karl Marx (1 xi-x). This government was soon divided into two fractions. One, the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir llich Lenin, favored establishment of a centralized communist society. The other faction, the Mensheviks favored establishment of a constitutional government because they believed Russia was not ready for revolution. In reality, neither party held a real majority, and many political figures became powerful and then were expelled. Leon Trotsky joined the Bolsheviks and supported plans that would be for the good of ...
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Great Gatsby
... Fitzgerald is allowing the reader to associate
himself with Gatsby, and letting him use his imagination, so that in the end, the reader can decide if the is truly 'great'. Fitzgerald allows the reader to
incorporate the story into their own past and past relationships, ultimately putting the reader in Gatsby's shoes and seeing what the reader would do in the same
situation. It raises a great debate; should people live their lives yearning for something in the past? Is it acceptable to live one's whole life on a past experience or
memory hoping to reach back in time and pull the past to the present. Is it healthy?
In this case, Fitzgerald is saying no its ...
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