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The Canterbury Tales
605 Words - 3 Pages

.... medieval society, where people were very religious, illiterate and superstitious, the Friar was respected as God himself. The Friar’s job in the church was to help people, who committed crime, by giving them a guide to pray for a certain time so that they can receive absolution. But the Friar in was not honest and dedicated in doing his job. He abused his position by taking money from people who came to confess. He told them that they would get absolution if they pay him and thus broke the vow of obedience because it is against the Catholic Church. He broke the vow of chastity by having adulterous relationships with other women. By wearing expensive clothes, spending h ....


Red Badge Of Courage-henry Fle
973 Words - 4 Pages

.... battle and would have a direct impact on the outcome of battle. When Henry arrives for his duty in the military he begins to second guess himself. Henry begins to think that he will not fight but he will run from battle like a coward. In Chapter Three Henry is tested in battle for the first time and stays and fights like a man should. This is the first time that Henry sees a realistic viewpoint of war. Henry begins to become angered for his government sending him on this deathmarch, then he realizes that he had enlisted voluntarily. Henry still had an idealistic thought of war and told himself that “a man became another thing in battle.”(Ch. 3) This fight ....


Catcher In The Rye: Holden Portrayed As A Troubled Young Man
910 Words - 4 Pages

.... and change. The more you grow, the closer to death you find yourself and death is the ultimate change. Reveling in innocence, perfectness, and being untouched by change is the most comfortable pattern of living for Holden: "In chapter 5 when Holden is waiting for Ackley to get ready to go to town, he looks out of the window of his room, opens it, and packs a snowball from the snow on the window ledge. He begins to throw it at a parked car, but doesn't because the car "looked so nice and white". Then he aims at a fire hydrant, but stops again because that also looks "too nice and white". Finally he decides not to throw it at anything and closes the ....


Blakes London And The Chimney
931 Words - 4 Pages

.... He explores this point of view particularly in two of his poems “London” and “The Chimney Sweeper” both from “The Songs of Innocence”. He voices his disapproval over these injustices caused by humankind primarily through the use of irony, imagery, symbolism and a clever choice of language. Through a set of literary devices such as imagery and language, Blake protests against various forms of oppression resulting from humans in his poem “London” which speaks about a slice of life in London in his times. Blake believes that an individual’s state of mind enslaves itself. Therefore, he refers to the Thames and ....


The Deerslayer: View Of The Native Americans
2277 Words - 9 Pages

.... Indians. Marius Bewley has said that the book shows moral values throughout the context of it. He says that from the very beginning, this is symbolically made clear. The plot is a platform for the development of moral themes. The first contact the reader has with people in the book is in the passage in which the two hunters find each other. "The calls were in different tones, evidently proceeding from two men who had lost their way, and were searching in different directions for their path" (Cooper, p. 5). Bewley states that this meeting is symbolic of losing one's way morally, and then attempting to find it again through different paths. Says Bewley, "when the ....


Lord Of The Flies 5
781 Words - 3 Pages

.... this, he creates rules and a simple form of government to achieve this order. Ralph understands that the boys have to be given respect and must all be treated equally. He acknowledges that he is not superior to any of the other boys, which makes him a better leader. His leadership provides peace and order to the island. Under Jack's rule, the boys become uncivilized savages. They have no discipline. The meetings that Ralph calls restore a sense of order because the boys have to wait until they hold the conch to speak. Ralph says, "I'll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he's speaking." (Ch. 2, Pg. 36, Line 24-25). This quote proves tha ....


Morality In Frankenstein
746 Words - 3 Pages

.... angrily says to Frankenstein, "I can make you so wretched." (pg. 162) . If the good doctor does create a companion for his first creation he may be endangering others. "The miserable monster whom I had created," (pg.152) says Victor upon looking back at his work. If there is another monster, there will be twice the power and possibly twice the evil, which could hurt or kill his family. "With the companion you bestow I will quit the neighborhood of man,"(pg 142) promises the morally corrupt monster to the doctor upon the completion of his partner. When the doctor, if and when he, finished his first creation's mate there is a chance that the monsters will not keep the ....


Frankenstein: Effects Of Alienation And Isolation
700 Words - 3 Pages

.... friends and loved ones. He often writes letters to his sister describing things that happen to him along his way and express his feelings of loneliness. The effects of his separation from loved ones are seen clearly in his letters. Walton explains that he “desires the company of a man who could sympathise with me”(Shelley 4). When Walton rescues Victor Frankenstein, his hopes of a new friendship become reality. He writes to his sister that his “affection for my guest increases every day” and his guest “excites at once my admiration and my pity to an astonishing degree”(Shelley 11). With Walton’s change in attitude, it is clear that he has a need to be cl ....



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