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- 13901: Frankenstein
- ... the feet of their father attempting to do harm to the helpless elder. "Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore [the creature] from his father, to whose knees [he] clung..." Felix's action caused great inner pain to the monster. He knew that his dream of living with them "happily ever after" would not happen and with the encounter still fresh in his mind along with his first encounter of ...
- 13902: Frankenstein
- ... instead of all of man kind. "Begone! I do break my promise," (pg. 162) states the doctor angrily. Not thinking about himself but the world unselfishly breaks his promise to the monster. Possessing such a great mind the doctor is able to realize that a greater evil will be realesed upon the earth then upon himself. "Your threats cannot move me to do an act of wickedness,"(pg. 162) says the ...
- 13903: Frankenstein
- ... place. After the cottagers that he has grown to love shun him, he curses his creator and questions his existence: "Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live?" (982) These feelings that accompany the abandonment offer great insight into the emotions that humans feel when abandoned by the people that are supposed to love them most. Often adopted children feel this same hatred toward parents and question why they were brought into ...
- 13904: Frankenstein
- ... her narrator, Robert Walton, is typified by his belief in his God given right to have ultimate success in Arctic explorations. He writes to his sister Margaret asking, "do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose?" (Shelley 17) This attitude continues as he tells Victor that he would sacrifice anything, including mens (presumably other mens) lives for the success of his polar expedition and for "the dominion I ...
- 13905: Frankenstein
- ... He felt love for the cottagers, whom he helped. "I remember, the first time that I did this, the young woman, when she opened the door in the morning, appeared greatly astonished on seeing a great pile of wood for the family fire, and during the night I often took his tools, the use of which I quickly discovered, and brought home firing sufficient for the consumption of several days." The ...
- 13906: Greek Tragedies
- ... after the god Dionysis spirit was passionate and communal. By contrast, the Apollonian after the god Apollo is orderly and individualistic. Dionysian art is music, Apollonian, sculpture and painting. Ultimately they are combined in the great tragic plays of the Greeks, which include Julius Caesar and Hamlet, and there is also a sort of development from Aeschylus through Sophocles. Nietzsche is a theoretical man, fundamentally anti-Dionysian, whose "illusion" is "that ...
- 13907: Gregory
- ... the slightest bit of betrayl sensed on the behalf of headquarter's, the executioner would have been one his own "delicate assignments". Throughout the story, the executioner made it quite obvious that he cared a great deal for Gregory. He not only shared food out of the same bowl and drank out of the same tin as him but he also listened to him explain his life stories and could easily ...
- 13908: Gullivers Travels 3
- ... he could have easily crushed and killed these little people. Gulliver is also very eager to be able to interact with the creatures and this is evident when in a few weeks he made a great progress in learning their language (68). He is also quite helpful and there are two definitive cases of Gulliver displaying this helpfulness in the country of Lilliput. The first occurs when he obeys the orders ...
- 13909: Native Son: Characters
- ... becomes a game to Bigger, a game of logic and wills, of playing the stupid negro, and telling the man exactly what he wants to hear. The game Bigger plays during the interrogation shows his great intelligence and ability to think quickly on his feet. Bigger also displayed his intelligence in the creation of the ransom note. Using the situation to his advantage, Bigger wrote a ransom note to extort Mary ...
- 13910: Flying Home
- ... who wants to be fully integrated into white society. The folklore used in the story was also probably common to Ellison. Clearly, Ellisons personal experience translates into "Flying Home". A meaningful story from a great writer, "Flying Home" ties culture in with folklore in a symbolic, meaningful manner. Ralph Ellison, a distinguished thinker and true voice of the African-American population here in our country, has created a lasting impression ...
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