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- 8281: The Black Cat - Symbolism
- ... make a radical alteration for the worse. He grows moodier, more irritable, and more inconsiderate of the feelings of others. This change for the worse caused by alcohol, ends in the narrator’s waiting on death row for the murder of his wife. The symbolism of the first black cat (Pluto), the second black cat, and the white spot illustrate the narrator’s expanding capacity for evil and perverseness. The most ...
- 8282: The Bell Jar
- ... when Esther's father died when she was nine. "My German speaking father, dead since I was nine came from some manic-depressive hamlet in the Prussia." (Sylvia Plath page 27.) Esther's father's death had showed that she was in need of a father figure for love, support and to act as a model for her life. Esther grew up with only the one influence of a parent, her ...
- 8283: The Bean Trees
- ... Estevan to Oklahoma. Before she makes this decision too, she knows there is much risk involved. If she does not help them move on from Arizona they are likely to be deported, and could face death in Guatemala. But she is breaking the law by taking illegal immigrants out of Arizona. Yet her conscience and her heart are involved. She cares for these people, and must take them to where they ...
- 8284: The Beak Of The Finch
- ... again the book tells of individual variation among finches. The average person would not notice these differences. The Grants noticed. Some of the subtle differences in bill thickness could mean the difference between survival and death. The Fortis finch, the main subject of the Grants' study, with a slightly narrower bill had an advantage in good growing years because the more general bill could eat a variety of available seeds. One ...
- 8285: The Awakening - Personality Developments
- ... Edna’s mother passing away. This passing away led to her taking on more of her father’s characteristics and being less womanly as compared to the other Creole women. Another would be the Freudian "death instinct", wherein one feels that life is hard and has a subconscious wish to escape or die. This was shown in the foreshadowing of Edna looking to the sea for an answer numerous times. Another ...
- 8286: The Awakening
- ... had over estimated her power. ¡§Once she turned and looked toward the shore, toward the people she had left there. She had not gone any great distance¡Kshe made no mention of her encounter with death and her flash of terror, except to say to her husband, ¡¥I thought I should have perished out there alone.¡¦ ¡¥You were not so very far, my dear; I was watching you.¡¦¡¨(48). This shows ...
- 8287: The Awakening
- ... s depression, from the beginning of the novel and all the way to the end when she commits suicide. If there had been someone who had seen this, Edna might not have been driven to death, but she felt that no one could understand her wanting to be on her own. She thought of Doctor Mandelet, that he might have understood, but it was already too late, she was too far ...
- 8288: The American
- ... they have made me do!...of all the follies and stupidities I have committed for them I would not have missed one!" (99). It is these follies and stupidities that eventually cause the downfall and death of Valentin. He was so enchanted by Noemié Nioche that he takes part in a duel for her. Before this happens, he ironically had said to Newman, "A pretty woman is always worth one’s ...
- 8289: The Allegory Of The Cave
- ... M.S. Beagle in the Eastern Pacific and dropped anchor on the Galapagos Islands. Darwin found a wide array of animals. These differences in animals sparked Darwin on research, which lasted well up to his death, culminating in the publishing of The Origin of Species in 1858. He stated that had not just appeared out of thin air, but had evolved from other species through natural selection. This sparked a firestorm ...
- 8290: T.S. Eliot
- ... Longman). He was thought to have suffered from a nervous condition, but was found out later he had ‘alboulie’. While in the sanitarium Elliot finished his finest work ever published "The Wasteland". After Eliot’s death people drew upon the conclusion that the "The Waste Land" was a mirror of Eliot’s life (Litz, 61). After Eliot’s short lived career as a school teacher, he took a job in a ...
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