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Symbolism In Camus' "The Plague"
304 Words - 2 Pages.... "Why be moral?", "Why live if we are just going to die?", and
"Why hope?".
Camus contends that there are human values that are good in themselves;
it is just good to be moral. In this essay I plan to connect the characters,
symbolism, and my personal feelings and values with this idea. Such evidence as
people being good to a neighbor in time of need or people volunteering to adopt
a family for the holidays are many times based on a desire to simply do
something good, not a necessarily a desire to please a god or receive a reward.
Finally, without a god (or even with a god for that matter) Camus says
that we need to be responsible and create our own hope. By looking careful ....
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The Red Badge Of Courage 2
2243 Words - 9 Pages.... friends with two other soldiers,
John Wilson and Jim Conklin. Wilson was as exited about going to war
as Henry, while Jim was confident about the success of the new
regiment. Henry started to realize after a few days of marching, that
their regiment was just wandering aimlessly, going in circles, like a
vast blue demonstration. They kept marching on without purpose,
direction, or fighting. Through time Henry started to think about the
battles in a different way, a more close and experienced way, he
started to become afraid that he might run from battle when duty
calls. He felt like a servant doing whatever his superiors told him.
When the regimen ....
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Edna's Suicide In The Awakening
1707 Words - 7 Pages.... art, serve as Edna Pontellier’s options, they represent what society
views as the suitable and unsuitable woman figures. Mademoiselle Ratignolle
is the ideal Grand Isle woman, a home-loving mother and a good wife, and
Mademoiselle Reisz as the old, unmarried, childless, musician who devoted
her life to music, rather than a man. Feeling that neither of their
lifestyles were suitable and lacking the ability to create a model of her
own, Edna in the closing of The Awakening commits suicide by walking into
the ocean. Perhaps if there had been a more well rounded woman figure in
Edna’s life, she wouldn’t have felt the life she craved was, “...an
undefined, unexpres ....
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Catch 22
1020 Words - 4 Pages.... Daneeka's two assistants failed ever to find anything wrong with him, which deeply perturbed him. The war also caused Doc Daneeka to lose his wife after his "death." The war that was imposed on Doc Daneeka ravaged his life and terminated all of his chances to become a normal, practicing doctor. Before the war arrives on Doc Daneeka's doorstep, it appears to have benefited him. Doc Daneeka was making a nice sum of money from various illegal means. He received kickbacks from drug stores in the area that ran an illegal operation. He also utilized beauty parlors to perform two or three abortions a week to bring in more revenue. When the war begins, Doc Daneeka's practice starts t ....
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Comparison Of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" And Dali's "The Metamorphosis Of Narcissus"
1120 Words - 5 Pages.... landscape, seems to be limitless in detail. Dali rendered
every detail of this landscape with precise accuracy, striving to make his
paintings as realistic as possible.
In Greek mythology, Narcissus was a beautiful young youth, who fell
in love with his own reflection, and then drowned while trying to embrace
himself. His body was never recovered, but a flower, which was named after
him was. The left side of this painting shows the kneeling Narcissus,
outlined by the craggy rocks of what could only be Cape Creus's. On the
right side of the painting, the scene has morphed into a more idyllic and
classical scene, in which the kneeling Narcissus has become the statue
of ....
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray: Evil
905 Words - 4 Pages.... to draw his portrait in order to preserve his
beauty and youth. Dorian recognised that as long as he remained young he
would be handsome. He dreaded the day that he would age slightly and start
to form wrinkles and such ugly (in Dorian's opinion) ugly things. He
believed that that day would deprive him of triumphs that would result in
him being miserable.
The degree of evil within Dorian increases as the plot develops.
By trading his soul for his youth, Dorian rids of the good inside of
himself. The plot proves to us that evil does actually lie within an
individual. From the moment that he becomes forever young he begins to
deteriorate. Even once he reached his e ....
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Gulliver's Travels
769 Words - 3 Pages.... of
presentation, one need only observe the development of the work's central
character, Captain Lemuel Gulliver, as Swift has designed his novel in such a
way that, as his aspersions harshen and intensify, so do Gulliver's actions and
attitudes.
For instance, in book one, "A Voyage to Lilliput", when Gulliver finds
himself lost in a world one-twelfth the size of his own, he proves himself to be
quite naive and impressionable. Although he is simply too large to perceive
them in detail, Gulliver judges the country's inhabitants he meets to be as
perfect and innocent as their toylike appearances. He refers to the Lilliputian
emperor, a being not even six inches high, as ....
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Black Like Me
901 Words - 4 Pages.... However, after he changed back to a Caucasian, the attitude of everyone had immediately turned, and they treated him well. Mr. Griffin felt bad, and he told everyone about his experiences by writing books and attending press interviews. Throughout these hard times, one can read this book and find out the characteristics of the author, how he saw the light bulb, and the truth that he wanted people to understand.
Mr. Griffin was a middle age white man who lived with his wife and children. He was not oriented to his family. He decided to pass his own society to the black society. Although this decision might help most of the African Americans, he had to sacrifice his ....
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