... on the day she bought the dress with the Doris, her daughter in law. "I wear my lilac silk because the day seems Sunday… How annoyed she was with me when I bought this dress" (Laurence 29). She mentions that her feet are hurting and how she is tired. She likes the dress mainly because it is silk material. Doris on the other hand does not think that it is real silk and not worth buying. Inspite of what Doris thinks she buys the dress anyway. Going against her wishes is what started all the bad occurrences related to the lilac silk dress. The first occurrence in the novel is when she wears the lilac silk dress at the dinner table with Marvin and Doris. Are liv ...

... ramifications these have on the individuals involved; their present lives and their probable futures. The first significant relationship presented in the novel is that between PS and his Aunt Lila and Uncle George. PS sees himself solely as Lila and George’s child and this perception that he has on himself directly influences the nature of his relationship with them. Being a six year old child yet to develop his own personal sense of identity, PS trusts implicitly in Lila and George and believes, in his innocent naive way, that they will always do what is best for him. This is not so much carelessness on PS’s part, as an ignorance of any other type of upbringing ...

... faulty logic is obvious in comparisons between the conclusions that both methods reach. For example, the reasonable thinker, in his discussion of the breeding of the children who are to be consumed, assumes that the mother has no emotional attachment to her children and would be happy to give them up to be slaughtered for the profit. And yet the emotional thinker says that those mothers who abort their children do so for emotional reasons, namely shame. It follows then that those who give birth to their "bastards" must feel enough love for them to raise them in spite of whatever shame they may feel. Also the emotional narrator describes begging as dishonest, whereas ...

... and characteristics. Emotions are things humans feel, like anguish or happiness, that are followed by pain or pleasure. Capacities are a person’s ability or capacity to experience or express something. Since people are not considered good or bad based on their emotions, virtue cannot be an emotion. Virtue is not a capacity either, because virtue involves choice, not abilities. Therefore, virtue is a characteristic of a person that "renders good the thing itself of which it is the excellence and causes it to perform its function well." In other words, a person with a good character has virtue. The aim of all human action is for good, and any virtuous act is good. A v ...

... suggests that families often enjoyed everyday leisure but in reality working class social life was divided by gender. Married women’s leisure tended to be separate from the public domain and was not very different from work, but was linked with domestic duties and family relations. It was during this period that to survive families had to send their sons and daughters into the labor force to supplement the earnings of the father, while the mother cooked, cleaned, cared for the children and manufactured goods in the home. The typical wage-earning woman of 1900 was young and single. The young single working women experienced time and labor similar to men’ ...

... an action. According to Hume, reason cannot fuel an action and therefore cannot motivate it. Hume feel that all actions are motivated by our sentiment. For example, on page 84 Appendix I, he gives the example of a criminal. "It resides in the mind of the person, who is ungrateful. He must, therefore, feel it, and be conscious of it." Here, it is evident that Hume is saying that unless the person, or criminal in this case, sincerely believes in what he wants to do, he will not be able to motivate the action. In other words, unless the sentiment is there, the action cannot be willed into being. Hence, the sentiment is the driving force behind the action. ...

... sins, and he avoided his family in order to preserve his image. Although Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale had numerous opportunities to confess the truth of his sin to his church, he chose to hold the black secret inside himself. On the other hand, Hester Prynne could not hide the truth because Pearl and the scarlet letter “A” were open confessions of her sin. Hester had committed adultery and she felt that “God, as a direct consequence of the sin, had given her a child, whose place was on that same dishonored bosom.”(82) Pearl was sent from God as a reminder to Hester and the Puritan community of her sin each and every day. However, Hester ...

... of the cabbala. His faith in God is very strong for such a young child, and his faith continues to flourish as time goes on. “I believed profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I rant to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple”(1). However, once the deportation of the ghettoes occurs, Elie’s faith begins to grow weaker. On the day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, thousands of prisoners attend the services. The air rang with cries of, “Blessed be the Name of the Eternal!” But in Elie’s mind, he wonders, Why, but why should I bless Him? Because he had thousands of children burned in His pits? Because H ...

... honest” (III i 126). From this point, it is clear that Antony intends to flatter Brutus and to work upon those personal qualities of Brutus which represent his fundamental weaknesses. Antony then comes to the Capitol where he further flatters the conspirators by shaking their hands and saying, “Friends am I with you all, and love you all...” (III i 220). This act symbolizes that Antony has made a new friendship with the conspirators, but in reality, he is plotting to seek revenge so he can take over Rome. Antony is also able to flatter the vast angry crowd in order to get his way. He is first able to get the crowd to feel sorry for him. This feelin ...

... unfold later in the story. She predicts that "evil" or bad things will happen in order to restore the balance of Yin and Yang. Since coming to Australia the Vo family has been very fortunate. As well as getting away from their communist county to a free one, Toan experiences success in school and later on as an actor. Vo Kin Tueyt believes that in order to restore the balance of good and evil something bad will happen, "good and evil, light and dark". Near the end of the novel something bad does happen, Linh and Miro are involved in a car accident while being chased by gang member. They end up in hospital and it is found that Linh has lost the use of her legs. ...