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The Great Gatsby: The American Dream
... famous statement would probably have to be "'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!'" Gatsby is the American self-made, or self- invented man. He believes in and wants the American Dream of success, which Nick also refers to as "the orgastic future." Over the course of this novel, he temporarily realizes this dream with Daisy Buchanan. This temporary realization occurs over the period of time when Daisy is visiting him at his home. He confuses it with her, because as time goes on, Gatsby is in love with the idea of being with Daisy, not actually in love with Daisy. Fina ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Twain's Development Of The Theme
... and
acts mean towards Huck, even though Huck is his own son. Not only is Pap
mentally abusive toward Huck, but he is also physically abusive toward him.
"But by and by pap got too handy with his hick'ry, and I couldn't stand it.
I was all over welts"(24). The way that Pap treats Huck shows the
inhumanity of man toward other men and helps to develop the major theme of
the novel.
The dishonesty of the King and the Duke toward the Wilkes girls
also help to develop the major theme of the novel. The Duke and the King
take their cruelty to another level because they steal and lie to the
Wilkes girls, who are left al ...
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Frank Norris' "McTeague": The Three Major Themes
... strong survive longer
than the weak. The theme that connects most of the conflicts together is
that of greed.
Greed is one of the three major themes in the novel "McTeague".
McTeague shows the dangers of greed and how it can get the best of you.
This novel shows how money can make you from a caring person into a evil
person. Zerkow was greatly obsessed with gold and riches. The same
obsession for money was in all of the characters. Zerkow was viewed as a
"lost" soul and Trina as a proper young lady, yet they were both almost
exactly alike. Here are some quotes on greed. "Miser, nasty little old
miser. You're wors ...
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The Awakening 3
... to live a life of servitude or to pursue one’s greater happiness. Immanuel Kant stipulates that the more people cultivate their reason, the less likely they are to find happiness. He states that “everyone is/should be aware of his/her duty, or how one ought to act.” Everyone has a goal within himself/herself, and it is his/her responsibility to reach for it and achieve it. In “The Awakening,” Edna does not take responsibility. She tries her entire life to fit in the prescribed mold that her husband set for her. She invests so much time into duty and responsibility that she loses ...
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Dollshouse
... borrow money. Torvald treats Nora like a doll. He calls her by all manner of names: squirrel, silly child, lark, songbird. The names he uses directly relates to how Torvald feels about her at the time. He tends to treat her views and opinions as less than important or trifling. Torvald doesn’t want Nora spending too much money at Christmas. Nora wants to borrow against his upcoming promotion and subsequent raise in salary. Torvald states on page 1565 ‘Are your scatterbrains off again? What if today I borrowed a thousand crowns, and you squandered them over Christmas week.’ On the rare occasi ...
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An Analysis Of The Yellow Wallpaper
... something new to write about.
The wallpaper really represents the society. Those bars, which she
sees in front of the wallpaper, represent freedom. It is the boundary that
woman wants to break open of. Women image behind the bars, tries to
escaped from the control of men will eventually be twisted up. The lights
that shined through the window present the dominant of men. The wife
observes that patterns of the parts where lights shine right at it is the
non-active parts. It symbolizes women are more settle when men are
watching over them. Under their pressure, they don't dare to rebel against
them. H ...
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Millennium: Winners And Losers In The Coming World Order
... about technology. In “Nomadic Man” he depicts humans in the “hyperindustrial” age, equipped with technological tools that enable them to be productive and mobile. They become privileged nomads, roaming the globe attached to cellular phones, portable fax machines, and waistband computers. Many people work all the time because they can’t get away from all the high tech paraphernalia, which he refers to as “Nomadic Objects.” “Microchip-based technologies, such as the transistor and the computer, have already opened the way for the unprecedented industrialization of service-from communication to educatio ...
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An Analysis Of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": The Wife Of Bath's Tale
... viewed in the context
of this society and by Chaucer himself.
During the period in which Chaucer wrote, there was a dual concept
of chivalry, one facet being based in reality and the other existing mainly
in the imagination only. On the one hand, there was the medieval notion we
are most familiar with today in which the knight was the consummate
righteous man, willing to sacrifice self for the worthy cause of the
afflicted and weak; on the other, we have the sad truth that the human
knight rarely lived up to this ideal(Patterson 170). In a work by Muriel
Bowden, Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, ...
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden And Reznor
... and the novel The Catcher in
the Rye, by J.D. Salinger show that Holden Caufield is not the only person
that experiences these feelings.
Throughout the novel Holden undergoes countless suffering from his
peers, strangers, and his own mind. Throughout the song, Reznor suffers
from everything. As said in the song, "I hurt myself today, to see if I
still feel," Reznor is accounting all the suffering that he has experienced.
He tries to explain that all the terrible things that have happened to him,
all the terrible things he has seen, with a nonstop chronic beat, has made
his soul numb. He has lost track of realit ...
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Adolescence Depicted In The Od
... to him. In the beginning of the book, although Telemachos is eighteen, he is still a child. Telemachos's childhood was, for the most part, without a father. Because of this, he feels it is his duty to protect his mother. In my opinion, that is just a delusion of grandeur. What does his mother need protection from? Anyway, Telemachos lacks the resolve to expel the suitors and he doesn't completely think his actions through.
However, when Athena comes to him in the form of Mentes, everything suddenly changes. Athena acts as a catalyst to propel Telemachos into the next stage of his life. This is where his adolescence ...
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