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Heart Of Darkness
1399 Words - 6 Pages.... enlightenment, he alone, with Kurtz, have realized the importance of a name and therefore deserve to have one attached to them, as they are really the only people of actual importance and meaning. As soon as Marlow reaches the coast of Africa, he realizes a difference in the perception of certain events by him and his comrades on the boat. As Marlow’s boat pulls up to the Outer Station, he sees a man-of-war shelling the continent, which is quickly clarified, by a pilgrim, to be a front against "a camp of natives - he called them enemies! - hidden out of sight somewhere" (Conrad 78) Marlow felt a "touch of insanity" in the whole concept of shelling the ....
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Lord Of The Flies 2
512 Words - 2 Pages.... not noticeably darker than when he dropped in, but the shock of black hair, down his nape and low on his forehead, seemed to suit his gloomy face and made what had seemed at first an unsociable remoteness into something forbidding." Roger was an authoritative big'un that didn't seem to care about the consequences of his actions. Not only was his appearance gloomy, but his personality tended to be as well. "Roger, uncommunicative by nature, said nothing." His physical appearance led the reader to believe that Roger was a completely corrupt character, inside and out.
Roger seemed civilized near the beginning of the novel. Even though he was civilized, he still had the tendency ....
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray 2
870 Words - 4 Pages.... about her is that she is more than an individual. ¡§I (Dorian) have seen her in every age and in every costume. Ordinary women never appeal to one¡¦s imagination. No glamour ever transfigures them¡¨ (59). By imagination that Sibyl has the power to arouse, she can be of any characteristics.
Art has no set form, but the purpose of art is to give form to feeling. Now, Sibyl is a person that is able to provide all kinds of feelings that Dorian wishes to experience. Dorian finds extreme pleasure in experiencing through all the sentiments that Sibyl gives. Being a spectator to the different lives and stories amuses Dorian: one evening Sibyl is Juliet, next evening she is I ....
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Conflict
659 Words - 3 Pages.... As such he is expected to follows the orders given to him by his superiors. "And you will deliver this fellow to Tinguit".(pg 49) Daru is expected to follow orders and conform to the French ideal. Although loyal to France, he has a strong sense of morality. "That man's stupid crime revolted him, but to hand him over was contrary to honor". (pg 56) Daru holds true to his morals even though he may be held accountable for his disobedience. Like Daru Balducci is very loyal, but this loyalty often pushes aside his good judgment.
Balducci's characteristics are introduced through his reactions to adverse conditions . Camus illustrates Balducci as a loyal yet cowardl ....
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Fallen Souls In "The Inferno"
772 Words - 3 Pages.... fallen
souls of the Inferno. The Inferno is the place we call Hell. It reeks
with bad smells and bugs and fire along with the many other hideous things.
The Inferno has many Cantos and Circles, each for a different sin or wrong
doing towards another. In each circle and Canto there are different
penalties to pay but it is for sure that each forbidden soul in the Inferno
will live forever in eternal suffering.
Our first soul to discuss is eternally locked in Canto V, Circle
Two: The Carnal. This man, Jason, became king of Cornith by committing
adultery against his wife, Medea, with the king of Cornith's daughter,
Glauce. Jason returns to Medea and tells her that she and ....
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Robert Frost - Ideas
591 Words - 3 Pages.... grass wet, and it needed to be scattered for drying. The phrase turning
the grass refered to the scattering of the grass for drying.
In ³The Tuft of Flowers,² the speaker has gone out to turn the grass.
Whoever did the mowing is already gone, for there are no signs of his
presence. The speaker is alone. Then, a butterfly catches the speaker¹s
attention, and leads his gaze to a tuft of flowers, which the mower
chose to leave intact. The patch of beauty left by his fellow worker
causes the speaker to feel that he is no longer alone. There is a sense
of understanding between the speaker and the mower, because an
appreciation of beauty unites them. ....
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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
1358 Words - 5 Pages.... Lee Younger does not do either one of these things. Walter doesn’t show up for work regularly and he certainly has no intentions of playing by the rules to get a business licenses.
Walter Lee is a man stuck in a dead end job that he sees as demeaning and he becomes desperate to free himself from the bonds of poverty, oppression and racial discrimination. Walter Lee feels that with money he can change the hegemony’s view of him as a poor, stupid, black servant. The hegemony’s social construction of reality about blacks as being lesser and the hegemony’s ethnocentric perception of being superior, is corroborated in an article titled "The Colour Bar ....
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Hiding From The Truth
775 Words - 3 Pages.... were many things that could be considered to be hidden truths in the reading. There were just a few that stuck out with ease. One of the hidden truths would be when the wife Louise Mallard is thinking about the news she was just told, she is sitting in a "comfortable roomy chair," comfort and roominess are relaxing and fun. The reason the writer uses comfortable and roomy is to show that the wife, Louise, was happy and relaxed when she heard the news and thought about it. She was pretty much happy with the result. Another easy hidden truth was when Louise was saying, "free, free, free" and "free, body and soul free." These phrases would, in reality, show that she wa ....
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