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Huckleberry Finn 19th Century
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1691.... he has to decide whether to save the men on the Sir Walter Scott.
Although Huck’s choices concerning Jim’s life are the moral and proper choices, Huck is pounded by his society’s teachings the black men are property. When Huck first escapes from Pap and sets up camp on Jackson Island, he finds Jim has also found refuge there from the widow and Mrs. Watson. Huck is stunned at first when Jim tells him he escaped, because Huck knows that Jim is Miss Watson’s rightful property. “People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for kee .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Civilized Vs. Savage
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 625.... civilization is the partial suppression of a human's natural thoughts and movements. Civilization is the ability to take all force associated with savagery and to use it to create and maintain a certain order.
At the beginning of this novel, the boys make an attempt at order and civilized behaviour but they fail to the uncooperative nature of the 'little-uns'. The boys elect a leader and make different groups, each with a purpose of accomplishing something constructive: The Hunters, Water-fetchers and Fire-tenders. The boys find a conch and view it as a symbol of or .....
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Psycho
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 865.... rational mind, as normal as any other people. He explained to Marion his loyalty to his mother which if her mother really is like described, he is the best boy a mother can have. In comparison to Marion, the has actually even more logically than she is - a normal person, as he point out she can’t hide from the traps once she choose to step on them. ‘I think that we’re all in our private traps-clamped in them. And none of us can ever get out. We- we scratch for all of it but we never budge an inch.’ The logic of his mind can even explain and redirect a normal person, a .....
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A Dolls House - Norma As A Dol
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 512.... one of Nora's duties as his wife is to physically pleasure him at his command.
Torvald also does not trust Nora with money, which exemplifies Torvald's treating Nora as a child. On the rare occasion when Torvald gives Nora some money, he is concerned that she will waste it on candy and pastry. Nora's duties, in general, are restricted to caring for the children, doing housework, and working on her needlepoint. A problem with her responsibilities is that her most important obligation is to please Torvald, making her role similar to that of a slave.
When Torvald does not imme .....
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Othello
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1317.... fact that these garments are not his. Therefore, Macbeth is uncomfortable in them because he is continually conscious of the fact that they do not belong to him. In the following passage, the idea constantly recurs that Macbeth's new honors sit ill upon him, like loose and badly fitting garments, belonging to someone else: "New honours come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould, But with the aid of use." (Act I, iii: 144) The second form used to add to the atmosphere, the imagery of darkness. In a Shakespearean tragedy, we have known him to create a s .....
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Down Goes Hurston
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1285.... folks laugh"(1). Write, as a critic, fulfills his duty to critique literature truthfully. In Hurston’s novel she rarely states anything about the reality of the South at that time. ‘"Brothers and sisters, since us can’t never expect tuh better our choice, Ah move dat we make Brother Starks our Mayor until we can see further"’(40). In this passage Hurston uses a soft pleasant type of diction. In that south at the time, people were not accepted into towns if they were new to the area. Jody, Janie’s second husband, takes charge and becomes the mayor. The people in .....
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Macbeth
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 505.... and his strengths. At the beginning of the play Lady is the stronger of the two. Although it was the witches who told he will be king, it was Lady who uses her art of persuasion, and knowledge of s weaknesses, to make him kill the king. Lady uses persuasion, another factor that helps her over power , from their first meeting and throughout the play. She also uses her knowledge she has of him, to add to the task of persuading him, she knows how to get him motivated. Due to ’s lack of knowledge of his spouse, he is unable to prevent her.
Many factors like persuasion and am .....
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Red Sails To Capri
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1839.... to tell them about the visitors. After he tells his parents about the men, they open up and clean out three rooms for them. While Michele was gone, Angelo told the three visitors to stay at Michele’s parent’s inn. The men agree to stay at the inn.
Another character trait of Michele’s is that he is helpful. In the morning the men who stayed at the inn needed assistance. Michele had plans to go to Naples with Pietro. He was looking forward to it. However, Michele decided to skip his trip. Instead he stayed to help and serve the three strange men. Michel .....
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