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Summary Of Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
1471 Words - 6 Pages.... that Thomas Hardy displays the social issues found in Tess of the
D'Urbervilles.
Hardy's protagonist seems to have been born in a dilemma. Tess was
the oldest of a very large family and she had the responsibility of caring
for her younger siblings. Young Tess had many concerns to cope with in her
life. Her father who drank too much came to understand that the Durbeyfield
family could very well be the descendants of a royal family known as
D'Urberville. Motivated by greed of becoming part of a higher class, with
no thought for Tess, her mother and father made the conscious choice to
send Tess to the D'Urberville mansion to acquire work and marry a wealthy
man.
While employe ....
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A Farewell To Arms - Response
748 Words - 3 Pages.... to go on forever. This is infinitely more difficult with a book that has no conclusion, and FTA leaves a reader not only emotionally exhausted but also just as alone as Henry and with nowhere to go. The entire work was aware of where it was going and what was going to happen next, and then to stop the way it did was unfair. Now, I've read enough essays while deciding which would be the topic for my class presentation that I know many people see that the unfairness of life and the insignificance of our free will are apparently the most important themes in the book, but I don't agree. I also don't agree that it is a war story or a love story. Exactly what it is, though, is n ....
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The Scarlet Letter: An Analysis Of Symbolism
900 Words - 4 Pages.... in front of
the whole village.
The A also takes on many meanings. It has the original meaning as
well as different meanings to various characters. To Hester, the A means
humiliation. The A to Dimmesdale is a reminder of his own contrition. To
Pearl, the A is peculiarity and Roger Chillingworth sees the A as a journey
for retaliation. Other then adultery, the A can also stand for "Angel" and
"Able". Angel, for it appears in the sky after Governor Winthrop's death.
Able, for Hester has won the respect of the Puritans even if she has sinned
terribly.
Hawthorne uses the prison building to describe crime and punishment in
contrast with the tombstone at the end ....
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Billy Budd
1392 Words - 6 Pages.... the book with examples of how his shipmates admired him. In the following text, Billy's captain laments over losing Billy to another ship: "Lieutenant, you are going to take my best man from me, the jewel of `em" (8). Calling Billy a jewel symbolized that he was special and pure. A jewel in the midst of average seamen. He was the best. Not only was Billy the best, but he also was physically perfect. Even his shipmates had noticed his flawless appearance. In the following text, Billy is appropriately named for his attributes by the narrator: "The moral nature was seldom out of keeping with the physical make. Indeed, except as toned by the former, the comeliness and pow ....
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Silent Spring: Pesticides
500 Words - 2 Pages.... and start looking for alternative pest prevention measures. Today there are new ideas and strategies are being used to battle against pests to protect humans and other living animals in our environment.
To understand the new technology, ideas and measures that are being taken today, it is important to understand how pesticides were being used in the past. Furthermore, one must go a step further to conclude why the past measurements were considered to be inappropriate thus bringing us to the measures being taken today. In the past, we were not quite sure what long-term effects, if any that pesticides might have. When applying pesticides one must take into consideration the am ....
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Huckleberry Finn: Good Vs. Evil
438 Words - 2 Pages.... This illustrates the concept
and symbolism of Jim's freedom and societies influence on Huck.
At one point, Huck convinces himself that the nest opportunity he
receives, he will turn Jim in, and clear his conscience. The opportunity became
available when slave hunters meet them on the river. Huck had an absolutely
perfect chance to turn him over. However, he made up a story that his father
was sick and needed help and asked the slave hunters for help. They immediately
assumed that his father had smallpox, and he wanted nothing to do with Huck or
his father. Thus, he had saved Jim, and actually felt good about it. Further
along in the book, Jim becomes a slave again. ....
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A Rumor Of War
555 Words - 3 Pages.... that had him tried for two counts of premeditated murder.
Caputo was like many of the other soldiers, in that he just wanted to get the war over with and be home alive. He does not seem like the kind of person that would intentionally kill innocent civilians. When Caputo gave the orders to kill Le Du and Le Dung, I don’t think that he knew that were not Viet Cong. During war, innocent people are killed all the time in trying to win the fight. I do not understand how action is only taken on selective occasions. I am sure that many innocent women and children are killed when bombs are dropped unexpectedly, I do not see how this is any different. The sole aim of this war ....
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Midsummer Nights Dream
1857 Words - 7 Pages.... magic and therefore not seeing with true eyes, he seems a bit imbecilic laughing at the acted "lovers" in the play. He doesn't realize it, but he is in a play of his own. Likewise, as with the other characters, what happens to him is far more interesting than the sort of character he is. I.Demetrius' unwelcome deceit and shrewdness and what is discovered A. Since Demetrius only has two lines throughout the entire first act, it shows that he can't stand up for himself, likewise, this lack of speech displays his lack of self-confidence and image: Relent, sweet Hermia, and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. (Demetrius, 1.1.93-94) Demetrius believes that ....
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