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- 13841: The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
- ... explain why he describes Capitalists as heartless cheats, and describes working people as oppressed heroes. The Jungle is, however, more than an advertisement for Socialism. It describes the horrors of the meat packing industry in great detail. People were forced to work from before sunrise to after sunset. In the meat preserving plants, the floors were never dry. The workers would catch horrible foot diseases, causing them to loose toes and ...
- 13842: The Hound Of The Baskervilles
- ... Doyle 158) More importantly though, Doyle's time in medical school at the University of Edinburgh and the time he spent as a doctor greatly influence this novel. The character of Dr. Mortimer shows a great deal of knowledge about medicine. He was the one who took care of Sire Charles until the last minute and diagnosed his problems. Also, Dr. Mortimer was a specialist in skulls. Throughout the novel, Mortimer ...
- 13843: Heart Of Darkness - Racism
- ... says, "[The earth] was unearthly, and the men were-No, they were not humans. Well, you know, that was the worst of it-this suspicion of their not being inhuman" (62). But, even in the great demoralization of the land, Marlow's work, piloting and repairing the steamboat distracts him from such thoughts. Kurtz, the fabulously successful chief of the Inner Station who has come from Europe to civilize the natives ...
- 13844: The Good Earth
- ... novel The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck depicts a humble farmer and his obedient wife O-lan. The Nobel Prize winning classic, set in late eighteenth century China, begins with Wang Lung going to the "Great House of Hwang"(49) to collect the wife that was betrothed to him by his father. Wang Lung lived with his father, wife, and five children, one of whom is mentally retarded. Although Wang Lung ...
- 13845: The Eleventh Commandment
- ... and selection process of societies masses. Mustapha Mond, Resident Controller for Western Europe, and the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning, oversee the conditioning of embryos. Their powers and control over these particular jurisdictions gave them great power, and with that the ability to manipulate others. "'You ass'... said the Director,... 'Hasn't it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon heredity ...
- 13846: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Nathaniel Hawthorne The 19th century had many great achievements happen within its 100-year time period. From the building of the Erie Canal, to the steel plow being invented. From the invention of the telegraph, to Thomas Edison creating the first light bulb ...
- 13847: The Bluest Eye By Toni Morriso
- ... to societies norm her story does. Cholly was a misunderstood Blackmale adult. He was a part of the generation that started the Black community in the north. For Cholly, the responsibilities of that were too great and he therefore needed to withdraw from society. Pauline was representative of the part of the Black --- that tried too hard to conform to the White culture. She found what she was looking for and ...
- 13848: Heart Of Darkness
- ... Kurtz. Firstly, "kurtz" means short, yet to Marlow, the man appears to be "seven feet long" (Conrad 135). Likewise, when the uncle and the nephew talk about Kurtz, who Marlow has heard to be a great and remarkable man, they only refer to him as "that man" and "scoundrel". By not referring to him by his name, they do not refer to him as a human being with abilities and dignity ...
- 13849: Heart Of Darkness
- ... says, "[The earth] was unearthly, and the men were-No, they were not humans. Well, you know, that was the worst of it-this suspicion of their not being inhuman" (62). But, even in the great demoralization of the land, Marlow's work, piloting and repairing the steamboat distracts him from such thoughts. Kurtz, the fabulously successful chief of the Inner Station who has come from Europe to civilize the natives ...
- 13850: Heart Of Darkness
- ... ignorance, as well as their innocence which provokes them to say "Try to be civil, Marlow"(57). Not only are they oblivious to the reality which Marlow is exposed to, but their naivetι is so great, they can't even comprehend a place where this 'so called' reality would even be a bad dream! Hence, their response is clearly rebuking the words of a "savage" for having said something so ridiculous ...
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