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Milton's Paradise Lost: A Look WithinMilton's Satan continues to fascinate critics largely because he is so
complex than the Devil of the Christian tradition appears. Satan's
rebelliousness, his seeking of transcendence, his capacity for action,
particularly unconventional action, endeared him to certain types of minds,
even if ...
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Dante’s Tools Of Character: Love And ChoiceDante’s Divine Comedy suggests many tools of character. Love and choice are two tools of character that I will discuss in this paper. Love and choice will increase our chances of progressing toward liberation and union with each other and our source. Essentially, these traits have to do with ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: Themes And SymbolsThe theme that the world has an outward appearance that seems fair and perfect
but really they're as Holden put it "phonies." This is shown countless amount of
times in his journey through New York and even before he left. The setting is in
the 1950's; so I'm pretty sure that he didn't encounter ...
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Mavis Gallant's BernadetteFear, it has a way of controlling everything that it comes in contact with.
As young children we are introduced to this intimidating desire with intrigue
and suspicion. As we age, the thoughts of fears become more like realities,
ideas of loneliness and death enter the picture as comprehensible ...
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Crucible Term PaperMiller captured the paranoia and hatred of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials and made a controversial reference to his own society’s Witch Hunts during McCarthyism in the 1950s. In only 146 pages, Miller told us the stories of the lives of John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, Abigail Williams and ...
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Transfer Of PowerPower is not given yet it is transferred from one source to another.
Ursula Buendia acquires her power from her husband in a series of events.
First Jose Arcadio I Buendia goes senile and the role as head of the family
and the power that comes with this role is transferred to Ursula. When
Jose ...
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Conflicting Directions Of TheOften in novels, a character faces conflicting directions of ambitions, desires, and influences. In such a novel, like “The Awakening,” the main character, Edna Pontellier, faces these types of conflicting ideas. In a controversial era for women, Edna faces the conflict of living in ...
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The Cherry Orchard: Critical Analysis
by Anton Chekhov is about a Russian family that is unable to prevent its beloved estate from being sold in an auction due to financial problems. The play has been dubbed a tragedy by many of its latter producers. However, Chekhov labeled his play a farce, or more of a ...
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Beowulfs SymbolismAuthors often use events and things to symbolize stages in someone's life. Symbolism is the practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing meaning of significance to objects, events, or relationships. In Beowulf, Beowulf fights Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a fire-breathing ...
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The Lord Of The Flies: RalphNever judge a book by its cover. To really understand how someone feels one must be in his or her shoes. I think that the boys in Lord of the Flies by William Golding changed a lot throughout their whole life on the island. Most probably, if I were on this island, I would be like Ralph. Ralph ...
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Beloved: The Degradation Of Slaves“Two boys bled in the sawdust and dirt at the feet of a nigger
woman holding a blood-soaked child to her chest with one hand and an
infant by the heels in the other.” This gruesome image is a result of the
many degradations that black slaves face. The humiliation these slaves
suffer is often ...
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A Tale Of Two Cities - Two CitJarvis Lorry, an employee of Tellson's Bank, was sent to find Dr. Manette, an unjustly
imprisoned physician, in Paris and bring him back to England. Lucie, Manette's daughter
who thought that he was dead, accompanied Mr. Lorry. Upon arriving at Defarge's wine
shop in Paris, they found Mr. ...
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Ethan Frome: Poor Surroundings, Poor Life“You’ve a poor man’s wife Zeena...” (pg.114)
In the novel called “Ethan Frome” there are three characters who’s lives can be explained through naturalism. This can be used to explain why each ones life is so doomed and how their surroundings are directly related to their lives.
The first ...
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Antigone - Creon As A Tragic HIn the story Antigone, Creon shows all of the characteristics of a tragic hero. He receives pity through the audience, yet recognizes his weakness, and whose downfall comes from his own self-pride.
Though the audience notices how villainous Creon is, they still express pity towards him. They ...
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Fahrenheit 451: A World With No BooksRay Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was an interesting Science fiction
thriller that provided an odd view on the censorship of books. Not just some
books, but all books. An entire distorted culture and civilization where all
books are prohibited. And the penalty for being caught with books is that ...
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Emmatakes place in Hartfield, which is a part of Highbury, England. Highbury was a large and populous village, but Hartfield was much quieter and secluded. The story is in a time where you only married people of your own social status. Therefore, the story probably takes place in the Eighteenth ...
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A Case Of Needing: Serious RevisionsMichael Crichton has penned some of the most engaging, timely, and
thoroughly accessible tales to be published in the last twenty-five years. What
his novels lack in literary merit and distinctive style they make up for in
crisp plotting and edge-of-your-seat suspense. From alien viruses to ...
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The Not So Great GatsbyIn the novel entitled The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is at times made out to be better than us. At first glance he is sophisticated, using big words and claiming that he is an “Oxford man.” But when we look closer we can easily see that this man is a farce. Much of ...
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Judith Guest's "Ordinary People": SummaryOrdinary People by Judith Guest is the story of a dysfunctional family
who relate to one another through a series of extensive defense mechanisms, i.e.
an unconscious process whereby reality is distorted to reduce or prevent
anxiety. The book opens with seventeen year old Conrad, son of upper ...
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Guilt And How It Is HandledHuman beings have certain feelings. The person at fault may feel
guilty after the incident happens. A feeling of guilt is the recognition
of wrong doing, and the wish that the consequences of the action could be
changed. In The Scarlet Letter, Red Badge of Courage, and The Crucible,
the main ...
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Critique Of "Death Of The Author"The title to the story "The Death of an Author," by Roland Barthes,
suggests this story may be a fictional novel about the story of an author's
death. Perhaps one might pick it up, and skim the foreword in hopes that beneath
the cover of this book there would be a mystery, a story of detectives, ...
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Lotery Death Of A SalesmanThe Lottery / Young Goodman Brown
The two short essays written by Jackson and Hawthorne are both thought provoking and full of evil. Many symbols are used to help develop the themes of both stories. The authors unveil the stories in such a way that you really don't know what the outcomes are ...
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Hamletidentifies with an adolescent of the 1990’s more than he does with the youth of his own time. is immature, sarcastic, and takes action during the heat of passion which is very much like the behavior of the youth in the 1990’s. Love, control over action, and the ability to overcome depression are ...
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Siddhartha's JourneyThere are two parts to the main theme of this work. One part is
that people can teach religious doctrine, but it may not lead one to find
one's true inner "self". The other part is that knowledge can be taught,
but wisdom comes from experience. The main character, Siddhartha, came to
understand ...
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