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Fahrenheit 451
763 Words - 3 Pages

.... today would think of as "outrageous laws". The most apparent law shown in the novel is that citizens of the country are unauthorized to own any type of book, or medium that expresses knowledge or the opinions of people. Although that this law is very well known in the land, it is often broken by those who refuse to give up reading books for entertainment or religious purposes. What the modern world's definition of a Fireman is today does not match the definition of a Fireman in this novel. Firemen in are employed with the sole purpose of starting fires as opposed to putting them out and saving lives. The fires started by these Firemen are provoked by reports that the owners ....


The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism
1126 Words - 5 Pages

.... baby (Matthiessen 104). She is a baffling mixture of strong emotions with a fierce temper and a capacity for evil. With Pearl, Hester’s life became one of constant nagging, and no joy. The child could not be made amenable to rules. Hester even remarks to herself, “Oh Father in heaven – if thou art still my father – what is this being which I have brought into the world” (Hawthorne 89)? Pearl would harass her mother over the scarlet “A” she wore. In time, Hester was subjected to so much ridicule from Pearl and others that she was forced into seclusion. Pearl represents the sins of both Hester and Dimmesdale. Pearl is said to be the direct consequence ....


Women In Julius Ceasar
387 Words - 2 Pages

.... She kneels in front of him and speaks to him in third person. She pleads with Brutus to reveal the identity of the masked men who appeared at her door in the middle of the night. She even stabbed herself in the thigh. Yet, Brutus refuses to divulge any information, and says nothing to her other than to go to bed. From her dialogue with Brutus Portia reveals, that Brutus is indeed, a pompous self-centered man and that they have an un-pleasant relationship. Calpurnia plays a similar role in the story. She reveals an un-clear part of Caesar. Calpurnia shows Caesars' vague suppositious trait. Until the conversation with calpurnia, Caesar never directly admitted to being sup ....


Macbeths Character
831 Words - 4 Pages

.... a prosperous life and becoming king is just unthinkable. This gets Macbeth thinking about what they mean. At the start of the play the audience hail Macbeth as a hero but as he begins to think about murdering the king the audience feel he isn't so heroic after all, and they begin to dislike him. We learn from Lady Macbeth, the person who knows him best that he is too nice to be able to kill anyone especially the present king: "is too full o' th' milk of human kindness, "says Lady Macbeth. She then devises a plan to kill Duncan while he is staying with them. Duncan has arrived and is having dinner. Macbeth leaves and decides not to murder Duncan. Lady Macbeth accuses him o ....


You Just Don't Understand: The Differences In Men And Women
1355 Words - 5 Pages

.... not successful in opening the screw, so he showed her how she can take pictures without the light meter (64). In this case, Tannen's source is herself. This could have a great effect on the interpretation and create a bias. One can not know what was going on in the salesperson's mind. By providing her own evidence in an example, Tannen limits some of her open-mindedness and replaces it with bias. The context of this example can affect the interpretation because the reader knows nothing about the salesperson except for his profession. The man might have feared the thought of losing his job if he had not known how to fix Tannen's camera. The man's boss might have been ....


“Tintern Abbey” And “Intimations Ode”: Natural Peace
326 Words - 2 Pages

.... 14).He also mentions how nature is unchanged. Suggesting the landscape of nature is rich, green, and peaceful, advocating that it has solitude. Wordsworth also implies in lines 105-110 of the mind not only receiving sensations from the outside world, but it also half-creates them. In Wordsworth, a sensation is formed by imagining his childhood in a series of stages in the development with nature. The sensation is based on nature but is also shaped by the poet’s mind. The thought revolves around the serenity that nature has brought to his life. In “Intimations of Immortality” Wordsworth states “Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might” (line 89) as to pe ....


A Great Heron
360 Words - 2 Pages

.... advice and let him go. This teaches us that when we try and squeeze someone too hard they have a better chance of sliding through our fingers. Harris' stories made you laugh at the end but at the same time left you with a little more wisdom. #5 Jewett begins by describing a girl who is driving a cow that is a "valued companion" (text). This shows us that the girl can trust her rural friend while urban people cannot. Later the girl's past is shown to us and we can see how she is much more comfortable in nature. This is confirmed when the boy appears. Sylvia is terrified of him but later is interested in him because of his kindness. Because of Sylvia's bad urban history, sh ....


Abbey, And His Fear Of Progress
1417 Words - 6 Pages

.... In this frame of thinking "progress" kind of contradicts it's self. The most detrimental aspect of progress is the automobile. "'Parks are for people' is the public-relations slogan, which decoded means that the parks are for people-in -automobiles." People come streaming in, driving their cars. They are in a hurry because they are trying to see as many parks as possible in their short vacation time. They have to deal with things such as: car troubles, traffic, hotel rooms, other visitors pushing them onward, their bored children, and the long trip home in a flood of cars. Many of them take tons of pictures, possibly so that they can actually enjoy the park without ....



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