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Things Fall Apart
... in many different ways. The novel is told through the story of Okonkwo, a distinguished member of the Ibo society. This society has cultures and religion that has been passed down from many generations, but the culture and religion and are not able to stand up against the whites and their religion. When the missionaries first come to the village, the people, who are still secure in their own religion, are confident that the tribal village will destroy them. When this does not happen, the villagers become convinced that the new religion has some sort of magical power, and this weakens their confidence in thei ...
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Jane Eyre: The Maturing Of Jane
... each day she spent at Gateshead. Jane states: "…I
hate to live here." This quote proves that Jane hated Gateshead and she
was determined to find a better place.
The place Jane found was the Lowood Institution for orphans. It
was not a better place but it helped Jane stand on her own feet. Through
the help of Helen Burns, Jane has learned to love, forget hatred and live
her life in happiness. Helen states: "Life appears too short to be spent
in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." These words shows that Helen
is more mature and experienced than Jane. Jane observes: "Miss Temple is
full of goodness…" ...
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Short Story - Red Dress: How A Girl's Home And School Environment Determined Her Attitude Towards The Dance
... that is given would make
one sick. It is said that she did not take care of herself in the house,
and exposed her lumpy veins to the in-house public. This probably made the
narrator think that she is also ugly because she came from this disgusting
creature. This makes her attitude towards the dance understandable. When
Mason Williams comes to dance with her, she describes dancing with a
`nobody' like her was "as offensive to him as having to memorize
Shakespeare."
The narrator's school life was just as bad if not worse. She would never
be sure of herself when she is called up to the blackboard. Her "hands
beca ...
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The Crucible John Proctors Cha
... becomes feared. He has almost signed his own death warrant, by committed sins which are recognized by the community. Some of the sins include not attending church, tending to his crops on Sundays, and committing adultery. John Proctor is a independent man, who is loyal to his family, but has been adulterous in his past. John Proctor has been characterized Independent, only because of his Independent actions. In
Act One, he independently went to Rev. Parris’ house to fetch his servant Mary Warren, he could have asked his wife or sons to accompany him but does not. Also in act one he attacked the Puntnam’s ...
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The Animal Farm
... there will be corruption. Orwell portrays this by permitting the farm animals to nominate the pigs to be in charge of the farm. The pigs left in charge are Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball. Napoleon and Squealer both have evil intentions by turning the dogs after Snowball, in other words, killing him. Napoleon would make the other animals work long hours and give them little portions of food, while he and Squealer would feast on large meals. Napoleon and Squealer took advantage of their role as governor and ate all the food, drank beer, and lived in the owner’s house. However, to the farm animals, they ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Society And Nature
... where he meets new people such as the scheming duke
and king and the Grangerson family, and also reunites him with old friends,
such as Jim, the runaway slave. The river can also represent a sanctuary to
Huck as well. It is a place for him to run to, to escape the life he doesn’
t want. It is a safe haven from his father who wants nothing but his son’s
money. The reason Huck turns to the river in the first place is to escape
from his drunken abusive father. Huck finds much more happiness on the
river than with his father or at the Widow’s home, where he is supposed to
be living. On the river, Huck is fr ...
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Othello - Injustice As A Theme
... He is cunning, decisive, and able to take advantage of any set of circumstances. He molds the people around him and his surroundings to suit his own “peculiar” ends. And best of all, Iago appears to be a good and honest person to all involved parties until just before the close of the play. Everyone is his willing dupe. Every master villain attempts his level of excellency.
Iago, to achieve his revenge, makes Othello wrongfully suspect his wife of infidelity, and makes him insane with jealousy, enough to kill her in his rage. Othello is the general of the city of Venice, and a foreigner, a dark-skinn ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Prejudice
... a little girl growing up in a small
Southern town, tells the story of her childhood, when she witnessed the
trial of a Negro falsely accused of raping a white woman. The Negro's
lawyer is Scout's father, Atticus Finch. He defends the Negro vigorously,
though he expects to lose the case. As well as being the story of childhood,
it is also the story of the struggle for equality of the American Negro.
To Kill A Mockingbird can be read as the story of a child's growth and
maturation. Almost every incident in the novel contributes something to
Scout's perception of the world. Through her experiences she grows mor ...
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Inferno
... and hunger. Later in the poem, those major sins described by the author in the circles of hell. Betrayal, the most serious sin that the person can commit, is represented by one of the three beasts. Dante puts sinners of that kind in the last, most horrible circle of hell. A lion is a symbolic creature for this sin. Each beast, like everything else in the poem, displays precise meaning of each sin by its nature. The second by its significance is hunger, which is represented by a she-wolf. This beast is the symbol of all the cravings such as sex, food and money. However, the first beast that Dante sees is a leop ...
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The Awakening
... the dissatisfaction that women felt in their lives. Because of the roles that society has given them, women are not able to seek and fulfill their own psychological and sexual drives. In , Chopin uses Edna Pontellier to show that women do not want to be restricted by the roles that society has placed on them. Because of the time she lived in, Edna felt oppressed just because she was a woman. Being a married woman and a mother made her feel even more tied down. By looking at the relationship between Edna and her husband, Leonce, we see that men treated women as if they were nothing more than possessions or property. ...
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