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Lord Of The Flies
1934 Words - 8 Pages

.... island, Jack's actions are the most blatantly driven by animalistically rapacious gratification needs. In discovering the thrill of the hunt, his pleasure drive is emphasized, purported by Freud to be the basic human need to be gratified. In much the same way, Golding's portrayal of a hunt as a rape, with the boys ravenously jumping atop the pig and brutalizing it, alludes to Freud's basis of the pleasure drive in the libido, the term serving a double Lntendre in its psychodynamic and physically sensual sense. Jack's unwillingness to acknowledge the conch as the source of centrality on the island and Ralph as the seat of power is consistent with the portrayal of his ....


An Analysis Of "Heart Of Darkness"
1341 Words - 5 Pages

.... one view it is an exposure of Belgian methods in the Congo, which at least for a good part of the way sticks closely to Conrad's own experience. Typically, however, the adventure is related to a larger view of human affairs. Marlow told the story one evening on a yacht in the Thames estuary as darkness fell, reminding his audience that exploitation of one group by another was not new in history. They were anchored in the river, where ships went out to darkest Africa. Yet, as lately as Roman times, London's own river led, like the Congo, into a barbarous hinterland where the Romans went to make their profits. Soon darkness fell over London, while the ships that bore "ci ....


Amory Blaine's "Mirrors" In Fitzgerald's This Side Of Paradise
1475 Words - 6 Pages

.... in order to get by in life. He has been endowed with brains, but it takes him years to learn how and when to use them. Amory spends his late high school and college years frolicking with his peers and debutantes. By constantly associating with others Amory creates an image of himself that he maintains until he becomes bored or finds a new personality to imitate. Amory does not know who he really is, what he truly feels, or what he thinks. He merely cultivates his personality du jour depending on how he believes he would like to be. Essentially, Amory is shopping at a personality store, trying each one on until he can find one that fits. This personality imitation began ....


The Catcher In The Rye: Unreachable Dreams
1054 Words - 4 Pages

.... that this goal is quite unachievable. Holden wants to be the Catcher in the Rye, then realizes it is an unreachable ideal. Holden begins his story misguided and without direction. After flunking out of the Pencey School, Holden decides to leave early. Before he leaves, though, he visits his teacher, Mr. Spencer. Mr. Spencer and Holden talk about his direction in life: “‘Do you feel absolutely no concern for your future, boy?' ‘Oh, I feel some concern for my future, all right. Sure. Sure, I do.' I thought about it for a minute. ‘But not too much, I guess,'” (14). After leaving Pencey, he checks into a hotel where he invites a prostitute up to his room. He ge ....


Macbeth 2
1084 Words - 4 Pages

.... in her mind. Only the death of the king would allow the witches's predictions to come true. King Duncan's visit to Inverness would be his "fatal entrance" (1.5.35). "Unsex me here" (1.5.37) and "make thick my blood" (1.5.39) Lady Macbeth would say, wanting to have the courage and strength of a man. To have power, she must win the "golden round" (1.5.24) and become queen of Scotland. Lady Macbeth craves for her husband's success so much that she would "dash the brains out" (1.7.58) of her own child in order to achieve her goal. The strong ambition within her makes it seem as if she had no conscience or human feeling. Supernatural incidents are what mainly motivates ....


Young Goodman Brown: Everyone Is Capable Of Sin
470 Words - 2 Pages

.... and former catechism teacher. After Goodman goes off among the trees, the devil and Goody have a conversation. Instantly, Goody recognizes him as the devil. Then Satan says, ‘“Then Goody Cloyse knows her old friend?”'1 The conversation later reveals Goody is a witch and is on her way to the Black Sabbath. Shortly afterwards, as Goodman was resting, Deacon Gookin, Goodman's other spiritual advisor, walks by with a minister. He and the minister are talking about missing a church ordination dinner to attend the satanic gathering. The deacon says,'”Besides several of the Indian powwows, who, after their fashion know almost as much deviltry as the best of us,' ....


A Tale Of Two Cities: Dr. Alexandre Manette
603 Words - 3 Pages

.... Dr.Manette. As I said before Dr.Manette loves his daughter. Lucie Manette is his driving force. Dr.Manette wants little except for his daughter to live a full and happy life and himself to be a part of it. His desire to be a part of Lucie life makes it hard for him to give her up to Charles Darnay. After the wedding Dr.Manette says “Take her, Charles. She is yours.”2 He does so with a quite sadness. A huge portion of the story revolves about Dr.Manette's past suffering in the Bastille. The Doctors Bastille time is pure hell. Ever after being freed he still mumbles crazy things such as “It is a lady's shoe. It is a young lady's walking-shoe. It is in the presen ....


Lord Of The Flies: The Evil & Primitivism In Man
1289 Words - 5 Pages

.... character represents different types of people in the world. Jack is the dictator who uses force to show his thoughts and feelings. Therefore he is the destructive side of man. He is the type of person who would rather have fun and gratification over work. On the other hand Ralph is the believer in democracy and fairness. He is the voice of hope, and the responsible type of person. The boys on the island, allegorically show what the human civilization is like. Ralph stands for order and conduct of society. Each chapter begins with order, which means that Ralph has control. Ralph uses the conch to show order and the right to speak. By the end of each chapter there i ....



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