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Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 506

.... one. It was not as if Jake went out of his way for it to happen. It was much more the will of Brett. She raved on and on about Romero and insisted to Jake that they go and find him. Jake did not fight her on this issue, but he certainly did not provoke it. Jake was more of a stooge for Brett. She would have had her way even if Jake had not helped her. She uses her feminine charm, and there is, little that Jake can say. At one point she says “Oh, darling, please stay by me. Please stay by me and see me through this”(188). Jake is to wrapped around her finger to refuse. T .....


The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner: Nature
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 635

.... to start the penance leading towards forgiveness - "Water, water, everywhere nor any drop to drink." When "the mariner begins to find his salvation when he begins to look on the 'slimy things' as creatures of strange beauty" (Fraser 203), he understands the Albatross was a symbol of nature and he realized what he had done wrong. The mariner is forgiven after sufficient penance - "We could not speak" - is performed by Nature. Nature shows us more strength as we realize that people of today often can not forgive someone who has shot or killed another person. At a spirit .....


The Wife Of Bath
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1343

.... herself, in a sense. She speaks of a wise, but ugly old woman. A handsome young knight happens upon the old woman. She asks him what he is seeking. The young knight explains to her that he, as punishment, was sent on a quest to discover what women desire most. The old woman's answer is a simple but costly one. In exchange for her assistance, the old woman demands that he oblige her one request. The knight hastily agrees that he will allow her the request. Thus, she has taken her wisdom and used it to her advantage, much like the Wife of Bath. The tale is filled with s .....


The Picture Of Dorian Gray: Corruption Through Aestheticism
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1416

.... and meets some form of terrible personal doom. Basil Hallward's aestheticism is manifested in his dedication to his artistic creations. He searches in the outside world for the perfect manifestation of his own soul, when he finds this object, he can create masterpieces by painting it (Bloom 109). He refuses to display the portrait of Dorian Gray with the explanation that, "I have put too much of myself into it" (Wilde 106). He further demonstrates the extent to which he holds this philosophy by later stating that, "only the artist is truly reveled" (109). Lord Henry Wotton .....


Jarassic Park: The Dinosaurs Were Not To Blame For The Destruction Of Jurassic Park
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1130

.... complex and unstable. If everything in a popular narrative like Jurassic Park really means something else, then so too does chaos theory. The basic plot of Jurassic Park is fairly simple. A Palo Alto corporation called International Genetics Technologies, Inc. (InGen) has become able -- through an entrepreneurial combination of audacity, technology, human ingenuity, and fantastic outlays of capital (mostly funded by Japanese investors, who are the only ones willing to wait years for uncertain results) -- to clone dinosaurs from the bits of their DNA recovered from dinosaur bl .....


The Young Goodman Brown: Resistance, Acceptance, And Embracing Of Evil
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1040

.... down the wooded path, but he comes upon the figure of a man. This is Hawthorn’s opening stage for Goodman Brown’s disillusionment, which turns out to be the beginning of the end for Young Goodman. The man along the path is clearly seen as evil because of the detailed description of his devilish appearance and the nature of this late-night rendezvous. The devilish man says to Goodman Brown “I have been well acquainted with your family as with ever a one among the Puritans (Nathaniel Hawthorn, 198)”. This devilish traveler is implying that Goodman Brown’s family, and the enti .....


A Rose For Emily: Emily’s Disbelief In The Truth
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 816

.... of townspeople represented the simplemindedness of the past and the fact that they were okay with the Colonel’s decision. The present was expressed through the narrator, the new generation of townspeople, and Homer Barron. The narrator was representative of the pas mainly through their words and description of what was going on. Homer Barron along with the townspeople represented the “next generation, with its modern ideas” (p. 120) in the present. Miss Emily was characterized as a “fallen monument” (p.119) one of great refinement, an ideal of past values but fallen becaus .....


Harrison Bergeron
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 516

.... to finish a complete thought because of the sharp sounds produced by the mental handicaps. With the handicaps imposed there would not the breakthroughs that are needed to improve the population's way of life. Suppose someone did not have the ability to invent the automobile. It would be difficult to commute to school or work. Imagine if you had to walk to work every day no matter how bad the weather is. Now-a-days people complain about having to simply walk out to their car in the morning and wait for it to warm up. Many jobs would have never been created if there were not .....



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