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Canterbury Tales - A View Of T
... it is the people from a society who make up the church....and those same people became the personalities that created these tales of a pilgrimmage to Canterbury.
The Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England was to take place in a relatively short period of time, but this was not because of the success of the Augustinian effort. Indeed, the early years of this mission had an ambivalence which shows in the number of people who hedged their bets by practicing both Christian and Pagan rites at the same time, and in the number of people who promptly apostatized when a Christian king died. There is certainly no evidenc ...
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Candide By Voltaire
... that I find more base
Than specious piety's dishonest face.
In Candide, Voltaire makes use of several characters to voice his opinion mocking philosophical optimism. On page 1594, Candide is asking a gentleman about whether everything is for the best in the physical world as well as the moral universe. The man replies:
...I believe nothing of the sort. I find that everything goes wrong in our world; that nobody knows his place in society or his duty, what he's doing or what he ought to be doing, and that outside of mealtimes...the rest of the day is spent in useless quarrels...-it's one unending warfare.
By ...
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Brave New World
... people have many lovers. Despite the scientific breakthroughs, the people of the future believe that there is no God; instead, Henry Ford is worshipped as the god Ford. Bernard Marx has unorthodox viewpoints and is outcast as an eccentric. He likes being alone, but in this society being alone is discouraged. His isolation from society has made him very different from everyone else. His only friend is Helmholtz Watson, an accomplished intellect who writes government propaganda. Watson has grown wary of life as it is, and his supervisors have him under close watch. Two co-workers are discussing Lenina Crowne, another ...
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Grapes Of Wrath: Summary
... him, "We got a sick ol' lady. We got to get her to
a doctor. We can't wait." The inspector bought the story and let them pass on
their way to California. Even then Ma didn't tell the family that grandma was
dead, instead she laid there next grandma's dead carpus until they got to
California. "She looked over the valley and said , Grandma's dead."
She keeps the family together when they want to split up. The first
time that this was showed in the book when they pulled over to help the Wilsons
with the car. Tom suggested that him and Casey stay and fix the car while the
rest of the family go's on to Baker ...
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Cahill's How The Irish Saved Civilization
... the masses of people, but literature, the content of “classical
civilization.” (Cahill, p. 58) One reads of the time from Rome's fall to
medieval times learning through the stories of the characters, most notable
Augustine and Patrick.
Augustine, his faith based on Roman Chrisitanity, “looked into his own
heart and found the anguish of each individual.” (Cahill, p. 115) Patrick, the
slave turned Christian, escapes only to return to convert the Irish. He was the
first missionary to the barbarians beyond Greco-Roman law “who looked into the
hearts of others.” (Cahill, p. 115)
Cahill notes Irela ...
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Lord Of The Flies Theme Analys
... when the tribe is hunting Ralph. Matters had become quite out of hand by this time. Even the naval officer who saves the boys knows their society has become savage.
Yet Golding’s last comment in his press release criticizes not only the boys on the island but also the society of adults in which the officer lives. Golding asks— while the ship saves the boys from killing each other, who will save the ship from killing other ships or being killed? In this way the society of the outside world mirrors the island society on a larger level. Remember that the novel takes place during World War II. Golding got ...
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Homesteading By Percy Wollaston
... he stated that this "was nothing much, probably not worth the trouble of reading." Percy was born in Madison, south Dakota in 1904. In 1909, his dad sold all their belongings and they traveled to the "land of promise."
This memoir as said in the foreword, written by Jonathan Raban is "unforced, unsentimental, often dryly funny, it has the ring of experience itself insisting of making itself manifest in writing. It tells the story of what now must seem a tragic episode in American history, but it tells it with artful reticence, withholding the tragedy, yet letting it impinge, by suggestion, on the narrative." Th ...
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Native Sun: Society's Responsibility
... of how the pressure and racism of the American environment affects black people, their feelings, thoughts, self-images, basically, their entire lives.
Many of Native Son's earlier scenes serve Wright's purposes in showing how America's white racism affects Bigger's behavior, his thinking and his feelings. His sense of confinement in this world is obvious. The unfocused, yet detailed, fear that the white world has influenced Bigger’s actions takes over when he is in Mary's room and in danger of being discovered by Mrs. Dalton. This internalized social oppression literally forces his hand when he holds the pil ...
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Old Man And The Sea, Santiago
... a tragic man because of his capacity for suffering, sense of commitment, and refusal to surrender.
The tragic man has a high endurance for anguish. He believes strongly in what he is doing, feels guilt and guiltlessness at the same time and therefore, he suffers. He attempts to justify his behavior but does not convince himself. Santiago believes in killing the giant marlin but he knows the fish is his brother. He struggles over whether he should kill him or not. He decides to kill. " 'I'll kill him though,' he said. 'In all his greatness and his glory.' Although it is unjust, he thought." The tragic man ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
... Prejudice can be observed throughout the novel by the way the
other characters treat Huck. Twain portrays Huck as a average boy of his
time, being mischievous, adventurous and funny. The society Huck lives
in labels him "uncivilized" because he has an abusive, drunk father.
"... by and by pap got too handy with his hick'ry and I couldn't stand
it. I was all over with welts." Here the reader can observe the
ultimate failure of an uncivilized person. Pap is an alcoholic, a dead
beat and a racist. Nevertheless, society also considered Huck
"uncivilized" because he did not wear shoes, did not always ...
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