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- 7961: Cultural Inheritances In Polyn
- ... the land because of the settlers damaging it, he desribes the land s retaliation in the form of a Maori myth: that of the god Ruamoko: I am the land the womb of life and death Ruamoko the unborn god rumbles within me and the fires of Ruapehu still live. (p101) Further, In the poetry of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, there are also reflections of Polynesian cultural inheritances of mythology. Throughout ...
- 7962: Indian Camp
- ... has compassion for his son. The fact that he feels bad that his son had to witness the dead man means that he is sensitive towards his sons’ feelings. Also under extreme situations, the mans death, his father reefers to him as Nickie not Nick as in the rest of the story. This also shows compassion. On the other hand, Nick’s father can be seen as insensitive, uncaring, and not ...
- 7963: Character Analysis Macbeth
- ... just to make sure that MacDuff would stay away from him. When MacDuff found out he said," Behold where stands the usurpers cursed head." MacDuff has just shown proof of and told about MacBeth's death. All of MacBeth's bad deeds had just been caught up. MacBeth's part in the play shows that what goes around comes around. In the beginning, when he treated people loyaly and when he ...
- 7964: Henry James Book Report
- ... is not a strong enough person to cope with life's hardships, and her intense need for 'a brief bath of oblivion' due to lack of sleep and utter emotional exhaustion lead to her untimely death. Isabel is a much stronger person than Lily and chooses to live with the consequences of her mistakes even if that means being miserable and unsatisfied with her life. Both characters strive for independence, but ...
- 7965: Heart Of Darkness
- ... die and were then thrown to starving dogs or devoured by cannibal tribes." (Meyers 100.) Conrad's "Diary" substantiated the accuracy of the conditions described in Heart of Darkness: the chain gangs, the grove of death, the payment in brass rods, the cannibalism and the human skulls on the fence posts. Conrad did not exaggerate or invent the horrors that provided the political and humanitarian basis for his attack on colonialism ...
- 7966: Heart Of Darkness
- ... chose the middle of the two extremes. While aboard the Nellie, Marlow tells his comrades that "I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie...simply because it appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies..."(44). Towards the end of the novel, Marlow is invited by Kurtz's fiancee to go to her house to speak of her beloved Kurtz. Upon her asking Marlow ...
- 7967: Heart Of Darkness
- ... You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie." He does not think he is better than the rest of the world. Lies simply appal him. Marlow feels there is a "taint of death, and a flavor of mortality in lies." Lying makes him feel "miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do." Since he feels this way, he would only tell a lie in extraordinary circumstances. The ...
- 7968: Hard Times By Dickens, Structu
- ... provide, and is shown obvious through Dickens' use of the plot. The downfall of the educational system in Gradgrind and the exposure of Bounderby displays the utilitarian convictions destructed. Sissy's endurance and Stephen's death leave them as the heroine and martyr for the novel. It is now evident to the reader that Dickens' attempt at exposing the evils of the Victorian Era through the plot, characterization, and structure of ...
- 7969: Comparison Of Mark Twain And W
- ... in. From one perspective, we can say that Pierce Inverarity, Oedipaˇ¦s dead ex-boyfriend, serves to unite the respective quests of the reader and Oedipa. The estate that Pierce Inverarity leaves behind at his death are clues which may lead to his identity. Oedipaˇ¦s job is to ˇ§bestow life on what had persistedˇKto bring the estate into pulsing stelliferous Meaning, all in a soaring dome around hereˇ¨ (p ...
- 7970: Curiosity
- ... children, chill all dinner tables with tales of their nine lives.” (ll. 27-30). Cats feel like the dogs live boring lives, but the speaker believes that the cats are just “curious to see what death was like, having no cause to go on licking paws, or fathering litter on litter of kittens, predictably.” (ll. 2-5) The dogs, the other symbol used for people, are the ones afraid to break ...
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