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- 10391: Pride And Prejudice - Marriages And The Age Of Reason
- ... ability to make out people’s personalities. Now, she realizes that all this time she has been ignorant, biased, and prideful, therefore driving "reason away"(171). Reason, which is the main theme of the Enlightenment World View, is clearly the most important characteristic to have. Emphasis is placed in the stable, reasonable man and woman. Up to this part in the novel, we have believed that Elizabeth was the ideally rational ... the second time around. Elizabeth can not be happy until she sees that her sister is happy once again. This time, Jane and Bingley are successfully engaged. The Bennets became the "luckiest family in the world, though only a few weeks before, when Lydia had first run away, they had been generally proved to be marked out for misfortune" (282). Mr. Collins observes that "Lydia’s sad business has been so ...
- 10392: The Tell Tale Heart: The Labovian Theory
- ... passionless crime undone by the heart incorporates the Labovian components. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a masterly written narrative, full of subtle nuances quick to deceive the senses. Poe sends the reader spinning into a world of symbolism, questioning the art of madness, and fearing the depravity of reason. The "The Tell-Tale Heart" is, at a glance, seemingly about a man plotting to kill another man in cold blood. Looking ... the ability to have complete control over them. The narrator uses reason to overwhelm the morality of his actions. His obsession takes over his whole being, thus bringing on the madness which over powers his world. The focus of the abstract is first seen as the narrator describes his idea as, "haunting him day and night"(226). Only an obsessed person could let something get to the point where they cannot ...
- 10393: Lord Of The Flies - Primitive
- ... pig. Other members of Jack’s team felt compelled by the mask to hunt, and took this event especially seriously out of fear. One key feature of primitive religion is its emphasis on the irrational world, in contrast to modern society’s accentuation of the rational environment. This is most likely attributed to the lack of boundary in the primitive civilization. There is no line of demarcation between the human mind or ego and occurrences in the surrounding world. Similarly, an absence of boundary is apparent between the spiritual and natural worlds, and between full consciousness and hallucination. In each example, the two worlds coalesce, creating an atmosphere which does not distinguish between truthful ...
- 10394: Virtual Communities
- ... might be something entirely new in the realm of social contracts, but I believe they are in part a response to the hunger for community that has followed the disintegration of traditional communities around the world. (p. 4) ? Virtual community can be liken to a neighborhood salon or coffee shop where one visits friends for conversation, whether idle chat or spirited debate about philosophical or political issues; for gathering information on ... events that become landmarks in a community's life. And in the end, it is this spirit the type of fundamental human regard that so often appears to be in short supply in the "real" world that may prove to be the most exhilarating and empowering aspect of this evolving technology. (p. 175) Although CMC offers some advantages over face-to-face communication, e.g., no preconceptions of another person based ...
- 10395: Sandro Botticelli
- ... style. First, wealthy families such as the Medicis funded most of his work, which was typical of works of the renaissance. Botticelli’s style was developed through apprenticeship. Being a Neoplatonist, Botticelli separated the spiritual world from the world of senses. In this case he portrayed a young man without giving him any emotions. In addition, Botticelli represents the style by trying to create a more realistic view of the subject, unlike his northern ...
- 10396: Pride And Prejudice
- ... time, his reaction to her is quite different: "he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness.(pg.22)" I find it hard to believe that his impression of Elizabeth could change so drastically within a matter of days. Elizabeth, on the other hand, has ... family’s reaction is not one that would normally be expected. As unrealistic as the book seems, it may be that The Victorian Era in which the book was set, is so different than the world today, that short of becoming a historian, there is no way that I could fully understand the characters and their motives.
- 10397: Pride And Prejudice
- ... Believe me, my dear Miss Elizabeth' to 'not fail of being acceptable'. Discuss the passage in detail, commenting on its comic aspects, and what the chapter reveals about the characters and the social environment or world of the novel. At first glance Chapter 19 is just another cog in the story of Pride and Prejudice, but upon closer inspection it reveals a great many details. Obviously the comical aspects of Mr ... proposal as to how "elegant young females" act and gives a good many reasons as to why he is not worried about Elizabeth's rejection of him. Mr Collins is a reflection of the social world of the novel; he prostrates himself before Lady Catherine as he feels is proper to someone of her station. All of his views and opinions seem to be those that society has stamped upon him ...
- 10398: The Ingenu
- ... Ingenu then learns of persecution from Gordon, the Jesuit, which is a total shock to him. Confused about all that he has come across, The Child of Nature takes on reading and learning of the world from different authors' perspectives. He throws out all of the previous knowledge he had attained, and starts on his own "blank tablet". By the time he is released due to Mademoiselle de Saint Yves, he ... to all the happy gifts which nature had showered upon him, and a ready sense of what is proper was beginning to dominate in him"(Voltaire, 249). He has learned of the horrors of the world. He shares in on the radical views of the time. After all of his adventures, big and small, he comes to the conclusion that "an ill wind blows nobody any good"(Voltaire, 255). The Child ...
- 10399: Selena
- could you Imagine what it would be like to grow up as a performer in a world that didn’t even except female Tejano singers? Can you imagine how much courage and work it would take to make it to the top? That’s was Selena Quintanilla Perez had to go through ... Texas. Her outstanding success, concerts, and now boutiques attracted many fans, including Yolanda Salvidar, who would have a big effect on Selenas life later on. Toward the very end of 1994 Selena signed a major world wide English- language crossover album recording contract. "Dreaming of You" was released in February 1995. With sales booming and Selena holding a record breaking concert at the Houston Astrodome where over 61,000 fans attended ...
- 10400: A Reflection On Herman Melville's Accomplishments
- ... apparent in all of his works and letter that Lima made a greater impression. "Lima was a city in whose whiteness and beauty was a latent horror."(Pg. 71, Arving) Melville began to think "the world's one Lima." Melville's homeward voyage on the United States, which Melville started to call the Never-Sink, became the situation where Melville made a new friendship with a sailing mate named Jack Chase ... but never new of it success, because he was to die on September, 28th of 1891, quietly in his bed, and "would be gratified to know that his death went all but unregarded by the world."(Pg. 292, Arving). For the last thirty-five years after Melville's, The Confidence Man. Melville had led a quiet unremembered life. After his death all that was written was a small obituary in the ...
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