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- 14291: Pride and Prejudice: What's Love Got to Do With It
- ... about her ability to marry well; thus after her marriage to Mr. Collins, she spends all of her time avoiding him. Charlotte knows that even though she wants to marry more than anything in the world, she does not expect love to come about; thus, she decides that it is probably even better if you don't know a thing at all about the person you are marrying. While Charlotte is ...
- 14292: Song of Solomon: Milkman Dead - Respecting and Listening to Women
- ... name, and believing that he cannot act independently (120). The first lesson his father teaches him is that ownership is everything, and that women's knowledge (specifically, Pilate's knowledge) is not useful "in this world" (55). He is blind to the Pilate's wisdom. When Pilate tell Reba's lover that women's love is to be respected, he learns nothing (94). In the same episode, he begins his incestuous ...
- 14293: Kate Chopin's The Awakening
- ... and the literal reality in which women lived during the early nineteen hundreds. Tone, like style, helps the reader understand the characters and what they represent. It helps Chopin to express her concerns of the world through the characters. As in the example given in the beginning of the book when Edna is arriving back from the beach, the reader gets a first impression of Mr. Pontlierre in his tone, representing ...
- 14294: MDMA
- ... MDMA, or methylenedioximetamphetamine. To many of the younger generation, it is dubbed as Ecstasy or XTC. MDMA is a powerful stimulant and mood changer that accelerates your body system and modifies your perception of the world. It is not a drug created from nature, but from laboratories and garages. It can produce stimulant and psychedelic effects by flooding the brain with the neurotransmitter, serotonin. Some therapists believe that it helps people ...
- 14295: Marriages
- ... lonely in a close relationship is much scarier than feeling alone on a mountaintop. In the confines of sharing a toilet, a fridge and leftover artichoke dip, people sometimes compensate by withdrawing into their own world. A mate who pursues the other to share everything can be invasive (a penny for your thoughts, five bucks for the whole brain). The result can be the erection of more mental fences and less ...
- 14296: Gulliver's Travels
- ... he luckily did not object to. Then, once they had developed a somewhat symbiotic realationship with him, Gulliver was basically forced to abide to their whims and fancies, and ultimately to be their tool in war. At any time, Gulliver could have escaped their grasp, but instead, he opted to stay and observe and oblige to their customs. He was a very agreeable guest. He did tricks for them, he saved ...
- 14297: Frankenstein: Victor
- ... of making the female he stopped, realizing what could happen if he finished, and destroyed his work. This angered the Monster so greatly that he swore to make Frankenstein the most miserable person in the world. He murdered Frankenstein's best friend Henry Cerval, and nearly has Frankenstein executed for the murder. He waited for the wedding night of Victor and Elizabeth and murdered Elizabeth that night. Victor's father was ...
- 14298: The Great Gatsby: Forces of Corruption
- ... Fizgarald's depiction of the corrupt American Dream. Another force of corruption responsible for Gatsby's fate is his obsession with a woman of Daisy's nature. Determined to marry her after returning from the war, he is blind to her shallow, cowardly nature. He is unable to see the corruptiion whick lies beyond her physical beauty, charming manner and playful banter. That she is incapable of leaving her brutal husband ...
- 14299: Marriage. A Sociological Conce
- ... understand how important marriage is to society. This is evident by all of the popular literature about maintaining life-long marriages. Today, permanence and commitment in marriage are seen as fading values in a changing world. The rising divorce rate is cited as the death knell of the institution of marriage. The stability of a society is often determined by the stability of its marriages. Marriage is one of society's ...
- 14300: Fahrenheit 451
- ... hands. Mrs. Phelps, one of his wife's friends asked him if he was reading up on fireman theory. He was so frustrated with her because of her expression of false views that night about war, husbands and children that he finally spilled it. He wanted her to understand that books were a good thing and that they could teach you to be more objective towards society and its beliefs. "Do ...
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