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Brave New World - Compared To Fahrenheit 451
1548 Words - 6 Pages.... something that all classes are conditioned against from birth. In the very beginning of the novel we see a group of infants who are given bright, attractive books but are exposed to an explosion and a shrieking siren when they reach out for them. This thus prevents them from wanting the books and causes them to scream and shrink away in horror at the mere sight of the books. In reference to the accomplishment of this conditioning, the director said, "Books and loud noises...already in the infant mind these couples are compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. What man has jointed, nature is powerles ....
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Go Ask Alice
1454 Words - 6 Pages.... Reems, a student that Alice hoops to marry.
Babby, Tom, young people that Alice meets in the mental hospital.
2. Alice is a member of a middle-class family of the western part of America.
The names of the towns the live in are not mentioned. The story takes place in the 1960's.
3. Jill Peters, an old friend from school, invites her to a party. At the party Alice is given a Coke with LSD in it, and for the first time she takes a "trip". That's the way she started using drugs.
4. On the first page of her diary, Alice writes about life at school. She feels unhappy about Roger, a boy she likes very much, pays no attention te her. He asked her to go out with him, but he ....
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The Use Of Animals To Portray
1212 Words - 5 Pages.... Macbeth doesn't want Banquo to be in any part of his life, that's why why he killed him. Now that he's come back as a ghost (he's trembling/scared that Banquo will never leave him alone)
the use of these fierce creatures compared to Banquo shows that Macbeth may be regretting the murder of Banquo.
Shows he's not as strong as he portrays himself to be, he's a coward inside, he can't face up to what he's done.
b) "... As sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion."
(Act 1, Scene 2, Line 39).the soldier is speaking of Macbeth and Banquo.
just as an eagle easily defeats the sparrow or the lion easily defeats the hare, Macbeth and Banquo defeated their opponents.
this is por ....
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Traits Of An Epic Hero
438 Words - 2 Pages.... thunderstorm. He also had to hold his men down so they wouldn't eat the honeyed plant because then they would forget about home.
Not only is Odysseus strong he is also very intelligent. He knows when to do the right thing at the right moment. He carved beeswax from an enormous cube to give to his men to put in their ears so they didn't have to listen to the Siren's songs. Since Odysseus didn't have any leftover beeswax for his ears, he had to resist the temptation of hearing the songs. Secondly, he tricked the Cyclops and got away in time before he was killed. Third, Odysseus sends just two of his men, instead of the whole group, to find out about the songs. If he sen ....
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The Ice Storm Book Vs. Movie C
2635 Words - 10 Pages.... around Wendy and the events that take place during the their thanksgiving in the 70s. The story is pretty simple and is about family strife. Wendy is a typical adolescent exploring her sexuality. At the same time her parents, Ben and Elena are having marital differences. Ben is cheating on his wife with Janey, the wife of his close friend Jim. The irony comes up with Wendy who is has sexual relations with Janey and Jim’s son Mikey and his younger brother Sandy. Wendy’s older brother Paul who goes to boarding school returns home and is sexual inexperienced he desires to be with a girl named Libbets. The story centers around a key party that both the HoodR ....
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The Use Of Symbolism In "A Jury Of Her Peers"
930 Words - 4 Pages.... very significant in the story.
The women in the story are not given first names, and are referred to only
as Mrs.Hale and Mrs.Peters. The role that society has cast upon them is
defined by their husbands. Mrs. Peters, who is married to the sheriff, is
viewed in those terms. Mr. Peter, the county attorney, says "for that
matter a sheriff's wife is married to the law"(glaspell 168). She
reinforces that identity until she is faced with the brutality of what John
Wright did to Minnie. She says "I know what stillness is. The law has got
to punish Crime, Mrs. Hale"(glaspell 167). The difference is she is
talking about the crime committed against Minnie, not the murder of John ....
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Ordinary People
1319 Words - 5 Pages.... in an orphanage, seems anxious to please everyone, a commonplace reaction of individuals who, as children, experienced parental indifference or inconsistency. Though a successful tax attorney, he is jumpy around Conrad, and, according to his wife, drinks too many martinis.
Conrad seems consumed with despair. A return to normalcy, school and home-life, appear to be more than Conrad can handle.Chalk-faced, hair-hacked Conrad seems bent on perpetuating the family myth that all is well in the world. His family, after all, "are people of good taste. They do not discuss a problem in the face of the problem. And, besides, there is no problem." Yet, there is not one problem in thi ....
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Flowers For Algernon - Review
762 Words - 3 Pages.... reader experiences would be the plot. In the story, Charlie, is subject to an experiment which increases his intelligence in hopes of knowing more in the soul purpose of impressing people to gain friends. Unfortunately some of his anticipations were not met.
The main characters in the novel include Charlie, Alice, Algernon, and Fay, a character who did not make much of an appearance, but in my eyes believed, that she played a very important part in Charlie's involvement in trying to sort out his past and figure out his present and future plans. Charlie is a mentally retarded person who has impressing people and gaining friends as one of his top priorities. He then hears of ....
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